Seventy-Third Year -EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNWElRSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHoITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS "Where Opinions Are Free STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG., ANN ARBOR, MICH., PHONE NO 2-3241 Truth Will Prevail"'' Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must b- noted in all reprints. "You Stay Out Of This!" .1, t ' UNDERSCORE: Alliance Needs Latin Leaders NDAY. MARCH 10. 1963 NIGHT EDITOR: DAVID MARCUS (7 r'= bLAaQTam L ,t* The SGC Candidates.. . BELIEVE that Student Government Council provides students with the means to channel their ideas and educational con- cerns into specific and constructive programs. 'SGC must stand for and strive to attain thoughtful and meaningful student participa- tion in the formation of University policy. SGC candidates should realize the necessity for student-faculty government of University affairs, be thinking of structures best to ful- fill these aims and stand ready to suggest steps to implement such a government. SOC must use its full resources to guaran- tee students the opportunity to maximize their educational growth. This means insistence on the creation of a climate where students may express their opinions freely, through publica- tions or political action,. and listen to which- ever speakers interest them. A Council candi- date should be pledged to work for guaran- tees of academic freedom and substantive and procedural due process in all judicial hearings. 5GC SHOULD REALIZE that a student's edu- cation is impaired when he is pevented from associating with other students of differ- ing backgrounds and beliefs. This, plus a clear mandate from the Regents to end discrimina- tion within the University, gives SGC both the right and the responsibility to eliminate as quickly as possible racial and religious discrim- ination in student social organizations. Council candidates should stand for the elimination of all such discrimination. Members of SGC should also have a compre- hensive understanding of the structure of the University-one which acknowledges that the campus is more than the Office of Student Af- fairs and that the problems of the OSA are re- lated to more general problems which exist in widely diverse areas of the University. EVALUATION of SGC candidates should in- clude both the individual's vision of student government, and his capacity to translate ideas into specific and concrete action. After an. Open House,, personal interviews and examination of the platforms of the 13 candidates, we find seven whose conceptions of student government include advocacy of great- er student responsibility, assured student rights and an understanding of the Council's relation to the academic program. FOUR OF THEM display the necessary con- sistency of thought, logical development of ideas and apparent ability to turn their con- ceptions into effective programs to be elected to Council. They are: EDWIN SASAKI is an articulate and intelli- gent past president of Graduate Student Coun- cil, impressive in his ability to relate SGC is- sues to a broader philosophy of higher educa- tion. Though not a militant liberal, Sasaki calls for full academic freedom and an end to restrictive paternalism. He does think that rules such as women's hours should be legislat- ed over the women who desire them. Sasaki would give to the Council a much needed ma- turity; an educational framework to work within; and many contacts with graduate stu- dents, important faculty and administrators. KENNETH MILLER has great knowledge of the Council from his year's term and valuable experience (within its structure) as former ad- ministrative vice-president. He is one of the ,few SGC members to approach issues with an open mind, listen to all sides of argument and reach an independent conclusion. Unfortunate- ly, this has meant that he vaccilates on im- portant issues and is unwilling to put an order of precedence over conflicting principles. He will implement several action programs if elected SGC president and in this position might be able to rally student support to press for necessary reforms: If he fails to become president, however, he is most likely to slip into inaction and obscurity. He deserves to be elect- ed president more than he deserves to be re- turned to Council. HOWARD ABRAMS deserves re-election. He works harder for Student Government Council and the Michigan Region of United States Na- tional Student Association than any other Council member. He is familiar with the prob- lems of the University and can give traditional liberal and jargonistic rationales for them. His policy positions are based on thought and he can defend them with coherence. Abrams' dif- ficulty, however, is in his ineffectiveness as an SGC member. More concerned with speak- ing the blunt truth (as he sees it) than in passing motions, his untactful and sometimes irrelevant debate often alienates both sides. MARY BETH NORTON hasserved a rather undistinguished year on SGC as Assembly As- sociation president, sponsoring only one mo- tion. With a year of experience and without the burdens of another office, Miss Norton could become a hard working and effective member of Council. She has thought through the student political issues and answers tough questions with relative ease. However, she has done little thinking about the relation and responsibility of SGC to the academic process. THREE OTHER CANDIDATES share a some- what similar point of view on the direction Council should be going, but lack experience, and knowledge to translate their opinions into action. They display inconsistency of thought and anprficiil eamination o fmanoft hr + any of his stands if he encounters opposition from those in power. He would sacrifice free speech to pacify the state Legislature and would not go beyond the naive approach of humble requests of the administration. Although THOMAS SMITHSON is one of the more experienced quadrangle candidates to seek an SGC post in recent years, his actual knowl- edge of the University outside this one area is small.'He supports direct action to accomplish progress in student economic welfare with emphasis on a cooperative book store. He fails to see, however, any direct relevance of student government to the academic experience and has no idea of how to implement student- faculty government. His stand on discrimina- tion in student organizations is archaic, holding that they are essentially private groups and should have some exemption from the Regents bylaw prohibiting racial or religious bias. HENRY WALLACE offers new ideas and original thinking on old ones, but the ideas are often better suited for other bodies than SGC and he is often tripped up by "liberal dilem- mas." His platform shows a mixture of con- cern for engineering education, student-run bookstores and a new program to show the University to underprivileged children from Detroit and Ann Arbor in an effort to give them an appreciation and aspiration for higher education. He is ignorant of the Council's structure, resources and problems and overly concerned with social programming and dat- ing patterns of University students. ,T HE FIVE remaining candidates offer a philosophy of SGC which differs remark- ably from those outlined above. As a group they have a slower, more cautious approach to prob- lems, one which doubts the competency and maturity of students and shies away from in- creasing the decision making power of stu- dents. They tend to value the pragmatic argu- ment over the democratic or moral one, and support the short practical resolution over the broader reaching, more idealistic ones. OF THESE, two appear to present the capabil- ity of potential of becoming adquate Coun- cil members, able to articulate an implement their view of SGC. They are: JOHN RUTHERFORD is an intelligent con- servative with an enlightened attitude on pa- ternalistic extra-classroom regulations and SGC's responsibility to take sides on educa- tional and academic freedom questions arising on other campuses which are of national con- cern. He admits a lack of competence to for- mulate new issues and displays a lack of con- fidence in the ability of the student to make wise political decisions. Advocating a "hands off" position on mem- bership selection, Rutherford sees "education" as the only ,method of combatting prejudice in the affiliate system. He would not take any action other than issuing a warning to a student organization admitting that it dis- criminated on the grounds of race or religion. Though purporting to be a conservative, SHERRY MILLER refuses to adopt any over- all philosophy of student government. While other candidates view student-faculty govern- ment as the panacea for SGC's problems, she puts emphasis on the districting plan as a cure- all. She believes "responsibility" must be dem- onstrated before freedom is given to students and tends to evaluate issues from the admin- istration's interest and not the students. She has had much experience in the SGC commit- tee structure, however, and has shown that she is willing to work hard in researching a project and examining all sides of a question before taking a stand. THE LAST THREE candidates have neither the knowledge nor imagination to serve as effective representatives of the student body. They are: MICHAEL MARSTON has avoided taking a stand on ex-officios, the main issue of an essentially one-issue campaign. He offers no new ideas for Council consideration or any specific proposals for implementing standing policy. Though in his fifth year at the Univer- sity, he knows surprisingly little about it and has attended only one SGC meeting. For a regional officer of a fraternity, however, he has a surprisingly progressive position on member- ship selection. Though claiming to be in "gen- eral agreement" with the Voice platform, he differs with it on many substantial specific issues. FRED RHINES makes it quite clear that nothing in his program is new and that his election wouldN be based simply on his stands on present issues. While professing a tolerance of several individuals of minority groups and an opposition to bias, Rhines asserts that a fraternity working on a majority vote can dis- criminate on racial or religious grounds with- out being penalized. He cannot defend his stands on various other issues with any adept- ness and in at least one instance could supply no reason at all for his opinion. He switches stands when pushed on some points, but has one or two notions on how to implement some present Council policies. MICHAEL KNAPP puts his emphasis on "cooperation" with the administration and "step by step" progress, though he sees no un- By MALINDA BERRY THE DICHOTOMY in Latin America between the glitter and wealth of the great. cities and the poverty, disease and hunger of the slums and hinterlands is being aided little by the ambitious plans outlined for the Alliance for Progress. The violence and instability of political conditions have increased the misery of the majority of the 200 million Latin Americans who go to bed hungry each night. The chaos produced by the rapid flue- tuations of power have made for- eign investors hesitant about pour- ing capital into the heavily en- dowed but lightly built-up con- tinent. The social unrest which plagues the countries carries the threat to investors of confiscation of private capital by politicians and revolu- tion. It is against this background of paralyzing poverty and fear of investors that American business- men and American officials have been exploring the question of what to do. * * THEIR FIRST answer was to pour $100 billion into the econ- omies of the Latin American coun- tries over a 10-year period. The U. S.taxpayers would put up $11 billion of this at the rate of $1.1 a year. American companies and other outside investors were to provide about 900 million a year to total about $9 billion. Latin Americans themselves would put up the remaining $80 billion. This original plan is now in its second year of testing. The biggest problem has been that while American taxpayers have been pouring in their money, but mostly to build up collapsing currencies, Latin American inves- tors have been drawing money out of their own countries to have what they have. The program has bogged down for this very reason. * * * IN ORDER to investigate ttie problem there has been establish- ed a Commerce Committee for the Alliance for Progress. It is com- posed of 25 U. S. businessmen whose firms are active in Latin America, and was established by the U. S. government. The COMAP report to the Whtte House calls for more aid to pri- vate investors from the govern- ment. It says the best way to en- courage more extensive investment by U.S. firms is to reduce the risk and increase potential re- turns. A group of dissenters in COMAP favor not increased expenditures and guarantees by the government. but rather a "get tough" policy. They suggest that U. S. aid be limited to!countries which show iniatative and a willingness to help themselves. They further sug- gest that aid be withheld from countries which hold back and fail to take needed actions. BOTH COMAP proper and the dissenters within the group agree on a few basic points. They feel that the plight of the Alliance for Progress is based in part on the ill-health of the business climate and that sources of private capital -both foreign and local-are dry- ing up. Both reports stress that present aid is too small as well as veiwing the program as involving "gov- ernment deficits, support shaky currencies, and keep countries from going bankrupt." BUT THIS accomplishes very little. It's like constantly putting gasoline into a car with a hole in the tank. The government ap- parently thinks that it can pour enough gasoline to negate. the hole-but it can't. Much of the blame has rested with the Latins themselves. The Alliance was based on the premise that Latin Americans would help themselves to underwrite a social revolution which would diminish the gap between rich and poor. The wealthy men agreed to offer a somewhat better life to the workers to stave off Communism. But nobody who has any money has conceded a dime to the work- ers. The wealthy of the countries on the South American continent have them so fimly in their hands that little can be done. Most of the countries have no income taxes --or if they do they tax only the poor and middle classes. A few countries, under intense Alliance prodding, have dabbled in tax and land reforms, but this has been the exception rather than the rule. THIS SLUGGISHNESS of re- form combined with the minimum of $10 billion in personal fortunes that Latin Americans have tucked away in Europe and the United States rather than invested in their own countries where capital is desperately needed, points up that the long-range effectiveness of the Alliance depends upon some changes of attitude in the Latin American rulers themselves. If the nominal gains-in new schools and better-fed children- can be expanded, then there is hope .for dLatinAmerica. But if the Alliance fails then the con- tinually nagging hunger of Latin America's millions will erupt, and our empty promises will be swept away by the tide. Dialectics? 'THE SAN FRANCISCO Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced plans to picket a high school musical production of "Huckleberry Finn," because Negro students are playing the roles of slaves," an American Civil Liberties Union publication, "Fea- ture Press Service," commented. Do they think that picketing will negate history? --Ellen Silverman 'I I HOUSING ORDINANCE: Effective Action Necessary By MICHAEL SATTINGgR THE RECENTLY proposed fair housing ordinance reaches first reading tomorrow night at the Ann Arbor City Council meeting. The real issues to be considered concern the form the law will take, rather than the passage in any form. The idea of an ordinance is ac- teptable to just about everybody. The Republican party, in its plat- form for the April elections, sup- ports enactment of fair housing legislation this year. And of course the Democratic party continues to conduct a vigorous fight. But "effective" is the key word in describing such legislation. The word has different meanings to different people. With reference to discrimination, Mayor Cecil O. Creal this summer said, "I don't think Ann Arbor has this problem. Ann Arbor is a broadminded town. Everybody here is a first-class cit- izen." TO THOSE who hold Creal's viewpoint, any legislation would effectively control discrimination in Ann Arbor. Then, the only re- maining legal problem would seem to be whether a proposed fair housing ordinance respected people's alleged innate property rights. Creal has used this premise as his given reason for trying to re- duce the proposed fair housing legislation to impotence, even though the premise is patently false. At the council work session which considered the proposed or- dinance, Creal objected to the sec- tion which dealt with discrimina- tion by financial institutions. Creal said that he had never en- countered or heard of discrimina- tion in a financial institution. There is even a disadvantage in the section, he said, in that fi- nancial discrimination might be mistaken for racial discrimination. So he suggested that the section be removed as it was unnecessary. In fact, he termed it "just a harrassment." * * * HOWEVER, the section provides the missing link in a complete fair housing ordinance. Whether or not there is discrimination by finan- cial institutions, the fact remains that such units could become the one obstacle which would negate existing fair housing laws by pro- viding an "out" for real estate agencies. The Ann Arbor - Washtenaw County chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union recently sent a letter to Creal urging that the. section, pertaining to discrimina- tion by financial institutions, which it called a "key provision," be retained. Their stand represents the idea that the fair housing or- dinance should be complete. Financial institutions should not be allowed to discriminate. They shouldnot be the exception to which real estate agencies could resort to escape the juris- diction of an ordinance with the financial section removed, as Creal wants. In the working session, Creal further proposed that there be an addition providin a cutoff in the vent any conduct tending to ren- der ineffectual any steps that the commission or the court might take. to bring about compliance with this chapter in the event a court shall later determine that a violation did occur ..." Creal's fear is that in having one's property put under an in- junction, ardefendant might un- dergo a great deal of financial loss. The possibility of the case remaining in court for such a long time is nill. And the proposed ordinance, like those operating in other cities, is basically a "no- fight" law. Almost all cases are intended to be resolved by the conciliation-oriented Human Re- lations Commission. furthermore, the. circuit court seldom sets a permanent injunc- tion. It has the power to stop in- junction as well as start it. The decision to end an injunction should lie with the court rather than with an inflexible addition to the ordinance. ON THIS ISSUE ACLU has no- tified Creal that it wants to see the portion which details injunc- tion procedure retained intact. The positions of the City Council mom- bers on the advisability of adding Creal's suggested amendment have not yet become apparent. They may come out at first reading, un- less, as some predict, the council delays controversial discussion u- til later. Let us hope that the council decides in favor of the acceptable existing section. But despite present efforts to weaken the fair housing ordinance, there are areas which definitely need strengthening. The first lies in the difinition of a :nultiple housing accommodation as con- sisting of five housing units. Under this definition, only about 20-30 per cent of rental units and housing is covered. A multiple housing accommodation should be defined to consist of three housing units. Then the ordinancehwould cover more of the city. Areas out- side the territory of the Univer- sity and the central district should also become open to minority groups. ANGELL ELEMENTARY school has remained virtually segregated without change for the last quar- ter-century. Lowering the defini- tion to three units would help the school board break down the existing segregation. Also, the choice of five units as constituting a multiple housing accommodation would be a gross inconsistancy, as pointed out by ACLU in its letter to Creal. Un- der the city zoning ordinance, a multiple housing unit accommo- dation is defined as consisting of three units. The council should not let this inconsistancy pass. It should sub- stitute a definition using three units as the criterion. * * w ANOTHER AREA of weakness in the proposed ordinance is that it nowhere specifically prohibits, discrimination by real estate agents. When the ordinance was first read in the working session, however, the ordinance was inter- preted to mean that no real estate real issues are in which form the ordinance will take. * * * WILL THERE BE omision of financial institutions? A cutoff in the length of time of an in- junction? A definition of mul- tiple housing accommodations as consisting of five housing units?' A lack of specific statement pro-a hibiting discrimination by real estate agents when acting for other people? Let us hope the an- swers to all of these questions are no, no, no and no. In answering them; council must spend long hours hashing the con- ditions and issues. Some have pre- dicted that the final decision on the ordinance will be delayed until after -the April 1 elections, when it would be strategically conven- ient and possible to bury a strong ordinance. The council should act as soon as it can on the legisla- tion while giving full considera- tion to the criticisms given by ACLU. A major step in ultimately. put- ting the legislation into effect will take place at tomorrow night's regular session, when the ordi- nance is expected to pass first reading. The ordinance would then go to a public hearing scheduled for March 19. THE COUNCIL should show that it stands for a fair housing ordiance which can solve the exist- ing problems in discrimination against Ann Arbor residents and University students. Creal and those like him who believe that Ann Arbor does not have a discrimination. problem should not be allowed to suffocate legislation which would help those who, through experience, have learned differently. 'DIAMOND HEAD' No Plot, but .Boring LIKE A SICK. COW grazing across the cultural wastelands of the really far west, "Diamond Head" (a vivid glimpse of modern Hawaii) concerns the tragic decomposition of a man, a way of life, and a movie. This movie has everything. To begin with, it faces squarely virtually all of today's leading moral dilemmas: integration, birth control, abor- tion, the money-honor problem, pre-, post-, extra-, intra-, inter-, quasi-. semi-, and para-marital relations, political uncleanliness, and so forth. The film doesn't do anything with these dilemmas, but it faces them squarely. THE BEST WAY to understand how one movie can deal so ef- fectively with all these issues and LETTERS TO THE EDITOR : Voice Misunderstood To the Editor: AFTER READING Robert Sel- wa's article expressing his dis- satisfaction with several points in the Voice Platform, we feel there is a definite need to define certain Voice positions more ex- plicitly. As Selwa stated, "Voice is com- mitted to increasing the political dialogue both inside and outside the University." Potentially the: Michigan Union Reports might be one area where political dialogue could and should be increased. Voice does consider it desirable for the members of the Union staff' to have an organ through which they can express their per- sonal political ideas. However, it is one thing for a group of in- dividuals to publish its ideas, as Voice does In its platform at its own expense, and quite another for the resources of the Union to be used to put forth political idealogy when all University men must support it through their tuition. AS SELWA STATED, the six page Voice Platform does not enumerate "all other possible safe- guards" when referring to stu- our platform..Our platform states opposition to "any and all Uni- versity regulations which limit freedom of expression beyond the limits imposed by state and na- tional laws." This means that if, the University had no speaker re- strictions beyond those imposed by state and national laws, it would in effect have no speaker policy of its own. As stated in our introductory pamphlet, Voice calls for "an end to our restrictive, hasty approach to civil liberties during the Cold War, abolition of the House Un-American Activities Committee and other laws or agencies which either implicity or explicity set unjust limits on free-- dom of political action and poli- tical expression. Therefore, Voice also opposes the laws limiting free- dom of speech. Tuesday Voice is co-sponsoring a speech by Herbert Aptheker, editor of "Political Affairs": Theoretical Organ of the Com- munist Party. This will not be a direct test of the new speaker restrictions but it will be a test of the spirit in which the new bylaw was past. * * * yet not have to resort to the use of a plot or any ether such low theatrical device is to notice who the stars are: Riding herd over the rest is Charlton Heston, who owns a $20 million plantation, plunders, kills, runs for United States Sen- ator, and in his spare time prac- tices smiling like he just came from the orthodontist. Then there's Yvette Mimieux (whom you loved in, uh, what was it?) who keeps offering, for rea- sons best known to herself, to take her clothes off. She spends her time seducing every /good looking Hawaiian' around, and his brother too. I'm speaking of James (sic) Darren and George (sick) Cha- kiris, who, in a flash of casting genius, plays a doctor. Somebody once commented on the transcendental qualities of the Oriental mind, and they, too, are present, embodied pleasantly in France Nuyn, who bears Mr. Hes- ton's illegitimate son. AS FOR special features, the, movie offers a vision of the landed gentry known best only to a few Hollywood writers, and a vision of Miss Mimieux throwing her flat little chest around the big screen, doing a native Hawaiian dance known best only to a few of this country's lesser burlesque queens. There's even a nude bath- ing scene. All these Hawaiian hi-jinx end