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MERCHANT OF VENICE:
APA Interpretation
Fresh, Imagiative
DIRECTOR Richard Baldridge's version of "The Merchant of Venice"
manages to out party, dazzle, and shock Fellini's "La Dolce Vita"
(which supposedly influenced this production) and still present a fresh,
although questionable, interpretation of Shakespeare's comedy.
The staging of the production is intensely colorful. The party mob
of twisting dancers, shouting merry-makers, and torrid love-makers
nearly spill over into the audience in their enthusiasm.
Unfortunately, Baldridge's party is true to Fellini's filmed one, in
that it lasts longer than the audience's interest and nearly degenerates

AY, FEBRUARY 21, 1963

NIGHT EDITOR: MALINDA BERRY


Subversive Squad:
The Hidden Menace
ALivOST TWO YEARS ago, the state police evidence" of "the Communist cons
"subversive activities squad" erupted briefly action"; and a "God, Mother and
into the headlines as its chief, Sgt. Stanley moderator to add the final patriotic t
Olczak, announced that it had the names of These meetings ranged from po
300 Michigan Communists-including some of strainted gatherings with emotional u
the state's professors-and hinted that the to downright patriotic orgies (remi
names might be released. the two minute hate sessions in
Simultaneously, Police Commissioner Joseph "1984"). People came to the meeting
Childs authorized the group to stage showings about the controversial film they
around the state of "Operation Abolition" and about; many went home frightened1
"Communism on the Map," two films which, tant, and began looking under their
in Olczak's words, "alert the public to the Communists.
dangers of the Soviet menace in Michigan." In all likelihood, the monsters coi
Dramatic announcements-especially at a at these gatherings persist in ma
time when the Communists seemed to be gain- today, stimulating violent fears an
ing power all over the world and constantly toward anything labeled "Commun
frustrating our foreign policy, wing," "Socialist," and sometimes e
eral," eliminating the possibility of c
N RETROSPECT, what actual facts did these rationally any question even remotely
dramatic announcements give us? cumstantially linked with the unpi
The "exposures" hinted in the first an- ternal Communist "menace."
nounceinent never panned out. Childs said
Wednesday that none of the names were ever MEANWHILE, apparently oblivio
,released, "by us, at least"; and University part in creating the storm, thes
Executive Vice-President Marvin L. Niehuss squad went back to its original 'fun
says the University has heard nothing from cretly checking out reports of poss
the squad in the past two years. The two films version, trying "to identify people tha
were procured by the squad, but Gov. John good reason to believe are disloya
B. Swainson ordered that the highly con- country," and keeping files on them
troversial film not be shown under police of preventing sabotage in case of w
auspices. Childs says the squad attempts t
The story, one might expect, would end here, the rights and reputations of the peo
with the announcements written off as false affiliations it investigates by keepin
alarms. quiries and files private. If so, hop
But this was only the beginning. False alarms "300 Communists" business of 196
or not, the announcements 'fueled-up the un- slip-up that won't be repeated.
official subversive-hunters across the state. Whether or not Communist-hunt
"The Governor, with 300 saboteurs in our necessary or legitimate function ofa
midst, has prevented his subordinates from ment agency is, of course, another
alerting the people to this menace! We must The point here is, if the police are
take up the banner!" continue to do it, they at least sho
promoting emotionalism, and stick t
7HE AMERICAN LEGION, various civil de- hig "facts" they are willing to su
fense groups, other organizations, and' as- fully.
sorted free-lance anti-Communists put their The subversive squad case illustr:
show on the road. The show consisted of "Coi- little it takes to wind up America's
munism on the Map," purportedly demon- patriots. One wonders how much of t
strating that the Soviet bear was at our ing about the invisible internal "m
door (if not already inside); "Operation Aboli- based on "evidence" such as this.
tion," a doctored movie showing "documented -KENNETH W
Non-Implementation
NN MIDNIGHT ACTION taken two weeks ago, in a request for a place on the a
Student Government Council surprised the closing afternoon session.
everyone with passage of a motion to partici- The- failure of SGC representative
pate in the spring Regental elections. mote its views before the party conv
a good illustration of the wide gap
The first step of an implementation plan, as the passage of a motion, and its s
outlined by the Committee on Regental Elec- implementation.
tions, called for the drafting of a statement of One opportunity has been lost; the
criteria for selection of Regental candidates, others to come. As outlined by Dai
and its presentation to party conventions. Michael Olinick, the next step si
Council acted too late to dispatch emissaries SGC interviewing of candidates, a
to the Democratic party convention, but Pan- appearances before campus-wide asse
hellenic president Ann McMillan and SGC students.
president Steven Stockmeyer volunteered to
put Council's case before the Republicans, con STUDENT GOVERNMENT Council
vening in Grand Rapids last weekend. tend invitations to the four cand
come before one of its Wednesday nig
ings. Arrangements have not been n
STOCKMEYER CALLED efforts "not success- all-campus speechs. Campus political
ful." Distribution of statements of criteria ganizations, the Young Democrats
was ineffective, and talks with harried dele- Young Republicans might cooperate w
gates left them disinterested. Miss McMillan in this phase of the project.
and Stockmeyer, who also went to the con- Initial efforts at implementation
vention on personal business, are not to be Olinick motion have proved a failur
entirely blamed for the failure. The political fully, those responsible for that imp
convention's overloaded agenda does present tion have learned a lesson from this
problems. More importantly, a lack of planning experience. Hopefully, concerted effor
thrwarted the 'U' case. made to bring the four Regental cand
Advance mailings to delegates -would have Ann Arbor, and so to carry out thei
provided an important pre-convention personal a motion which aims at increasing
contact. In Grand Rapids, student representa- awareness of the role of the Regents.
tives should have been moving from caucus to be a great shame to pass up this impo
caucus, speech-making, and distributing the portunity for meaningful student ac
drafted criteria. SGC might also have put -GLORIA BO

Fair Housing Platform

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into pointless partying for party-
ing's sake.
The opening night audience was
fortunate in that the projection
machine which is meant to throw
scenes of contemporary Venice be-
hind the unit stage did not work
during the first half. However, it
flickered through the second half
destroying the beautiful back-
drops which the audience's imag-
ination urged on by Shakespeare's
words had created during the
early section.
Rosemary Harris as Portia, the
single ray of hope in a "naughty
world" of homosexuals, capitalists,
and bigots, was charming in her
quivering declarations of love and
believable as a girl with the in-
telligence to solve the Venice
court's most pressing problems.
With her control and under-
standing, Portia makes a more
optimistic ray of light as she in-
volves herself in her decadent
society than Fellini's virgin did as
she waved from the other side of
the river.
* * *
AMONG THE customary fine
APA performances, Paul Sparer's
Shylock is comparable only to
Eva LaGallienne's Mrs. Alving
during the APA's Fall Season.
Once one has seen him it is im-
possible to believe that an Eliz-
abethan clown in a red wig could
have played the same role.
On the whole Baldridge's mod-
ern interpretation is if not "pure
genius" at least highly imagina-
tive and intelligent. The sugges-
tion of Antonio's unsavory attach-
ment for young men (Bessanio
having been perhaps one of them)
tends to reduce the magnitude of
the play by making what are nat-
ural affections of human beings
for one another to unpleasant
psychological holds, even black-
mails, which do not reflect general
human experience. While Shake-
speare could capture highly indi-
vidualized human emotions (as in
Shylock), he never made the
characters' motivations so unique
or unsavory as to remove them
from the experiences and under-
standing of his audience. It has
long been maintained that this
universality is what has made
these particular Elizabethan plays
live for five centuries.
-Milan Stitt.

CIVIC THEATRE:
Threepenny
Exeitig
ONE OF THE MOST successful
"operas" of recent times, "The
Threepenny Opera" was opened
by the Ann Arbor Civic Theatre
last night to run through Satur-
day night.
There most definitely are things
lacking and faults in the produc-
tion, but who cares. This is one of
the most fascinating and enter-
taining pieces of the modern thea-
tre. And none of this fascination
or entertainment is lost.
The Civic Theatre has drawn on
the talents of townspeople, the
music school and the threatre de-
partment in order to produce this
masterpiece and, all in all, have
come up with the most successful
production this reviewer has seen
them give in three years.
* * *
MACHEATH, Mac the Knife, is
the character around whom this
discourse on society revolves. The
character is given life and humor
by Michael Robbins in one of the
best characterizations seen in the
Civic Theatre productions. Roger
Wertenberger is also excellent in
the role of Mr. J. J. Peachum.
The worst aspect of this produc-
tion is the mediocre directing by,
Mort Achter. Blocking is often
stiff, and it is not rare enough
that one actor is blocking the au-
dience from seeing any of the oth-
er characters.
But the script, and the music
are irrepressible, and with the help
of many fine voices and the act-
ing of Michael Robbins, combine
to form an interesting and ex-
tremely worthwhile evening of en-
joyable theatre and music. It may
not have the polish of the APA, or
the University Players. But then
again neither of these two groups
are producing "The Threepenny
Opera," and the chance to see this
rare nd unique masterpiece is not
one to be passed up.
-John Herrick

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't\O\ TRY To LOoK INSCRUTALE ."
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
ACLU Supports Ordinance

To the Editor:
THIS LETTER is written by the
undersigned in his capacity as
Chairman of the Ann Arbor-
Washtenaw County Branch of the
American Civil Liberties Union, in
order to communicate to you a po-
sition taken by its Board of Di-
rectors.
The provision of fair access to
housing for minority groups is a
major problem in the fulfillment
of our democratic ideals, as is evi-
dent from the fact that it is re-
peatedly pressed upon your atten-
tion. We urge that you receive the
proposal for a fair housing ordin-
ance to be presented by the Ann
Arbor Human Relations Commis-
sion and schedule an early public
hearing on it with a view to
prompt action.
# *#
IT IS IMPORTANT in a demo-
cratic society that on significant
controverted matters there be an
opportunity for full public discus-
sion and debate. What is done
should be done in the full light of
day. We are anxious that both the
proponents and the opponents of
fair housing legislation have an
opportunity to state their cases.
If the latter are reluctant to op-
pose such legislation openly, they
should be adjudged in default and
a decision reached against them.
A public hearing should be not
only an opportunity but a chal-
lenge, a challenge to justify a posi-
tion by reasoned argument.
In our view there are complex
problems in this area. Privacy and
individual self-determination are
also values worthy of protection.
Ordinarily, private acts of dis-
crimination are subject only to
indirect control, through educa-
tion. But when these acts occur
on such a scale that in the aggre-
gate they deprive large groups of
citizens of fair access to adequate
and non-segregated housing, or
when organizations, and especially
those that in some way command
a share of the public power, lend
their weight to discrimination, le-
gal control becomes necessary and
justifiable.
ANY ORDINANCE drafted and
passed should take into account
the sometimes conflicting values
involved. Thus due process must
be accorded to those against
whom action may be taken under
the ordinance. And private deci-
sion-making should be interfered
with as little as possible. But these
difficulties of drafting an ordin-
ance that balances the divergent
values involved are not insuper-
able and should not lead the
Council to be reluctant to under-
take the task.
Members of this organization
and other interested citizens in
large numbers stand ready to help,
as individuals, on request. Our or-
ganization itself will, of course,
express its views on the merits of
any measure proposed, from the
total civil liberties standpoint. We
shall be concerned not only with
the production of a fair housing
ordinance that will be effective,
but also with one that protects the
rights of persons accused.
-Prof. Spencer L. Kimball,
Chairman. Ann Arbor-

shall work for the elimination of
discrimination from non-Univer-
sity sources where students and
employees of the University are
involved."
The Human Relations Board has
received many well documented
complaints of housing discrimina-
tion. However, the Board has been
limited in its effectiveness by the
lack of adequate sanctions. Recog-
nizing this difficulty, the Board
on March 8, 1962 sent University
President Harlan Hatcher a re-
quest that "the University take
further official positive and un-
ambiguous steps in carrying out
the mandate embodied in Regents
Bylaw 2.14." No action was taken.
AT THIS time concerned citi-
zens and students were protesting
the discrimination at Pittsfield
Village. A public statement by
President Hatcher was requested
explicitly stating the University's
position on discrimination in off-
campus housing. No such state-
ment was issued.
In the four years since the pass-
age of this bylaw President Hatch-
er has never made a public state-
ment regarding discrimination
against members of the Univer-
sity community, or in any way ex-
pressed his concern with the prob-
lem. Is this in the spirit with
which Bylaw 2.14 was adopted?
** *
TONIGHT the Ann Arbor City
Council will discuss proposals for
a fair housing ordinance. The Hu-
man Relations Board asked Pres-
ident Hatcher in a letter of -Feb.
13 to take arstrong public stand
urging passage of effective fair
housing legislation and requesting
a meeting with him. This letter
was referred to Vice-President
Lewis who then had a meeting
with members of the Board and
Mr. Radock, President Hatcher's
representative. Mr. Lewis stated
that a public stand would be con-
trary to University policy. Is this
in the spirit of Bylaw 2.14?
In light of President Hatcher's
four years of silence, how shall
City Council interpret the Univer-
sity's position on fair housing leg-
islation?
THE HUMAN Relations Board
feels that the function of a Uni-
versity which claims to educate
students to become leaders in a
democracy includes a responsibil-
ity to concern itself wth issues of
social justice and human dignity.
We expect that an internationally
recognized educational institution
such as the University has an ob-
ligation to lead the way in the
struggle for the realization of
democracy.
We have no recourse but to
make students aware of the Uni-
versity's untenable stand, in the
hope that President Hatcher will
reevaluate his refusal to make a
statement.
Once again we ask that the
President of this University pub-
licly and unambiguously state the
University's position on fair hous-
ing legislation.
-David Aroner, '64
Chairman, Student
Government Council
Human Relations Board

Not all professors hold the same
philosophy of the final exam. Thus
the final may be the one unifying
part of the course or simply an-
other hourly which covers the last
part of the course. If it in fact ties
the course together, it will take
as much preparation as a three-
hour exam, the assumption being
that a student will prepare, cor-
relate, and "tie in" throughout the
semester and will not learn the
course overnight, as many attempt
to do at present.
THE STUDENT who must take
three exams in a row faces a real
problem, and he faces a not radic-
ally different problem even under
the present system. Since the
exam schedule is published in ad-.
vane, he must take this into ac-
count when scheduling his courses.
We would certainly urge that the
exam schedule be arranged to
avoid probable "batteries" of ex-
ams as much as possible.
In sum, the University is mak-
ing every attempt to preserve the
"true traditions of educational
purpose" even under year-round
operation.
-Sherry Miller, '65
Chairman, Committee on
Student Concerns

BUDAPEST QUARTET:
Unfamiliar Program
JOSEPH ROISMAN'S slipped disc filled Rackham Auditorium with
relatively unfamiliar music last night. Though one cannot but
miss the familiar string quartets of Beethoven, we are assured that
he and Mr. Roisman will soon be back in circulation.
The other members of the Budapest Quartet, Alexander and
Mischa Schneider, and Boris Kroyt were poined by Eugene Istomin
in piano chamber music by Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms. Mr.
Istomin will. remain for tomorrow's concert and Friday's. After his
departure for other engagements the concerts will comprise string

trio music. If one's acquaintance is

SPECTRUM LEFT':
Neglected Is sues

rONIGHT, the all-Republican Human Rela-
tions Commission will submit an ordinance
n fair housing to the Republican-dominated
knn Arbor City Council. The possibility for
>assage of this ordinance soon in original or
nodified form has been increased by indica-
ions of a significant change in city Republican
iutlook.
These indications come from discussion and
.ction which occurred last week during the
ublic hearings on the preliminary Republican
>latform. The final version of the Republican
iuman relations plank should and will probably
ontain specific pledges for enacting local fair
lousing legislation this year.
)NE OF the objectives of the hearings was
to decide whether the party would make
pecific commitments or whether it would con-
inue ambiguously to denounce discrimination.
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to be concrete. If we do not set ac
enacting local fair housing legislation
not have said anything that hasn't b
before in past platforms.
"Republicans have been standing 1
Democrats get credit for legislation. It
the Republican party took the offen
supported is own Republican Human R
Commission."
Out of the debate came a motion1
Karl Lamb of the political science dep
urging "platform language which supp
housing legislation this year." A vote wa
and the motion passed, 15-2.
BUT THE MOTION should not be cc
the final word in determining the1
form of the human relations plank
appears later this month. Many of t
powerful Republicans who were abse
tha hpnr.r -mmf dill ,+t +heir .

MOST OF the talk in America
is irrelevent or embarrassing
in the face of world realities.\
With two-thirds of the world
black of skin, we debate whether
to miscegenate. With many rela-
tively free nations operating so-
cialist or welfare economies, we
fight about whether our society
has any obligation to care for
the porrest and oldest people it
has buffeted for a lifetime. We
puzzle over the relative "vigor"
of Kennedy or Nixon, over the
right of a congressional majority
to act legislatively, over the dif-
ficulty of using our extra indus-
trial capacity to speed our rate-
of-growth above its present rate
of one per cent per capita. The
legitimate spectrum of opinion is
conservative-but the world is in
upheaval.
"Spectrum Left," a journal of
socialist and left-wing views" pub-
lished by Ann Arbor students this
week, is a fresh attempt to ex-
pand the forum of discussion. Un-
doubtedly it is the first such ex-
pression on this campus since
before the McCarthy era. Forty-
four mimeoed pages, it is more
impressive in content than in for-
mat, and its articles range from
excellent to mediocre.
* * *
BY FAR the most important ar-
ticle is "Political Realignment" by
Al Haber. This is a critique of the
stalemated and elite character of
the political party system. It calls
for more issue-oriented respon-
sible parties.
Haber's view, that the two-
narty system must become more

primary or secondary arena of
power in a system which seems
dominated by relatively auton-
omous corporations.
"Women Face HUAC," by Mick-
ey Flacks, is an enthusiastic ac-
count of the appearance of Wo-
men Strike for Peace at an in-
vestigation of "Communist in-
fluence" in the peace movement.
Though humorous and informa-
tive, the article does not address
many controversial issues: for
example, why "all political per-
suasions" should be in the peace
movement, or what is the direc-
tion and potential effectiveness of
WSP as of today.
* * *
HOWARD SALITA'S article on
the McCarren Act is a very use-
ful warning about the same civil
liberties problem which Mrs.
Flacks pointed out: the encroach-
ment of government into the sup-
posedly free political process.
The Student Nonviolent Coor-
dinating Committee and Southern
civil rights are treated by Ralph
Kaplan, Ralph Rrpoport and Helen
Jacobson. Theirs is a disjointed
but interesting summary of what
is happening in the rural South
and how to organize Northern
support. However, the conclusion
that the Southern movement
operates through conventional
channels is both a distortion and
hardly a "socialist and left wing"
analysis.
Other articles: a summary of
the political outlook of Students
for a Democratic Society( the na-
tional organization with which
Voice is connected); an impetuous

primarily through recordings, one
might not associate these artists.
But a few moments were sufficient
to reveal a. confluence of spirit
that was not happenstance. And,
indeed, this group has played
many concerts together, though
curiously, they have never re-
corded.
The opening work was the K.
493 Quartet. This is a strangely
light and insubstantial work for
Mozart at that period, but a
charming quiet work with some
extraordinary humor in the last
movement.
The next work was the Piano
Trio, Opus II of Beethoven, with
which I was completely unfamil-
iar. It was the most interesting
part of the program. The first
movement is a sonata form which
shows more masteryrof that form
than the master's earlier 'excur-
sions in, say, the piano sonatas,
But some of the soaring, dramatic
possibilities are never developed,
as Beethoven apparently learned
to do in his struggles with the
symphonic sonata and applied so
tellingly in the late piano sonatas.
THE SLOW movement was all
right, slow and strong, with al-
most orchestral deployment of
forces. But it was the last move-
mentthat captured the imagina-
tion. The theme and variations
foreshadow the great Diabelfl set:
an almost trivial theme becomes
more and more exciting for a
while, and then suddenly becomes
transformed, enlivened, with a
presentation of unbelievable
rhythmic subtlety (as in the jazzy
section of Opus II). I just knew
he would find something in that
silly little theme and hedid.
It will be interesting to see what
the group will do in the remaining
concerts in this series. The festi-
val continues with performances
tomorrow, Friday, Saturday and