Sefwy-bdrd TeAW EDITrED .ANDnM-AGEB-rSiuensof EU NIER~srrT or MiicGAN UNDER AUTHORRT cF BOARD Dx COwROL OP STUDENT PUBICATIONS "Where Opinions A e STUDENT PUBucATIoNS BLDc., A" ARBOR, MrcH., PHONE o 2-3241 Truth Will Prevail" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors This must e noted in all rehrints. SIDELINE ON STUDENT GOVERNMENT: The Making of The President, 1963 kTURDAY, MARCH 23, 1963 NIGHT EDITOR: BARBARA LAZARUS Might Doesn't Make Right But, It's A Good Substitute THE OFFICE of Student Affairs often makes platitudinous statements about the import- ance of students taking part in responsibile activities, but then -OSA officials take actions 'which leave all but the most naive students shaking their heads at the hypocracy of it all. The most recent case in point is a- statement of policy on chaperones at student social af- fairs. It was contained in a letter from Vice- President for Student Affairs James A. Lewis to Student Government Council responding to a motion SGC passed some time ago asking the elimination of mandatory chaperone forms. After hearing the letter, one Council member summed it up in one word, "farcical." Lewis noted that by recognizing a student organization "the University acknowledges that group as a worthwhile segment of the Uni- versity community. This acknowledgement im- plies a concern for the maintenance and foster- ing of a standard of excellence within the organization." HE WENT on to add that "Direct correlation exists between the presence of older per- sons and a good social finction," and that the OSA "works toward excellence in social func- tions of all student organizations. The sub- mission of chaperone forms is an aid to this end." The letter also listed some examples of comments chaperones turned in on events they attended. One report said, "We were treated courteously and observed nothing in- consistent with good conduct." A second pro- claimed, "A grand group-so energetic! I sup- pose our power seemed so very great too. We all should have this opportunity-many times. Very well mannered." The third asserted that "The decorations were very cute and quite good. The decorum at the party was above reproach. As a pointer to the social chairman, though, I would suggest that they schedule more than dancing and one or two contests for an entire evening." The above comments speak for themselves. They are not contributions to the quality of the social event; they are the reports of people who are more watchers and policemen. And despite what was said about student groups as a worthwhile part of the community, it indicates a basic disbelief in the ability of college students to plan and run a social event without adult supervision. THE RATIONALE for the SGC motion gave the reasons for getting rid of the chaperone forms but emphasized the wrong ones. One of these was that the policy was loosely enforced and therefore "by eliminating the rule we would just be recognizing the lack of substance in a ghost." Yet this is bad, because laws should not be advanced or withdrawn on the' basis of whether they can or cannot be en- forced. Force is not the determiner of social standards. The rationale also cites the difficulty in find- ing chaperones as a reason for eliminating the forms. The above reasoning applies here also, laws aresnot passed because they can be con- veniently enforced. The real mention for the elimination of the forms,'which the rationale mentions briefly, is that it is an insult to college students to say they need policemen at social functions to make sure that they follow approved behavior. The OSA probably likes the chaperone system because it keeps administrators informed on what goes on at parties and also because there would probably be a ruckus from parents and alumni if they were eliminated. The reason- ing that sees them as contributing to the quality of the social event is spurious; the stu- dents are the ones who can judge best. Ques- tioning of affiliated students revealed that most of them did not know the 'chaperone was around. It also stands to reason that if students can't plan their social events by themselves it is about time they learned. The report also brings out the fact that the forms discriminate against the affiliated sys- tem because apartment parties are not chap- eroned. One is forced to wonder whether the University's concern for the quality of student 'social events is limited to those students living in University and affiliated housing or whether feasibility of enforcement has something to do with it. Lewis' letter makes the point that the OSA was, not carefully considered prior to the form- ulation of the motion by Council and this is a valid complaint. But it is hardly justification for the rejection of the motion and even less for a letter that was almost insulting in the manner in which it dismissed the students' complaints. If might doesn't make right, the news has not yet reached the OSA. -RONALD WILTON By GLORIA BOWLES STUDENT Government Council went to the Hootenany in the Union ballroom Wednesday night and began its regular Wednesday night session at 10:50 p.m. Council members put in an ap- pearance at the concert, but most of them .were thinking of other things: they were to elect Coun- cil officers that very evening, and thus bring to an anti-climax a week of political maneuvering that had begun with SGC elections on March 3. The presidential election, with Thomas Brown and Kenneth Mil- ler vying for the top spot, was up in the air until about 6:30 Wed- nesday evening when IQC presi- dent Kent Bourland sat down to dinner alone and made his vote decision. EVERY OTHER Council mem- ber had declared either for Brown or for Miller by then. Brown could count on nine votes besides his own, from Administrative Vice- President Charles Barnell, Pan- hellenic President Pat Elkins, Treasurer Russel Epker, Inter- fraternity Council President John Meyerholz, Sherry Miller, Fred- erick Rhines and Michigan Union President Raymond Rusnak.. Eight votes were assured for Mil- ler: Howard Abrams, Gary Gilbar, Assembly President Mary Beth Norton, Daily Editor Michael Olin- ick, Michigan" League President Margaret Skiles, and newly elected members Thomas Smithson and Edwin Sasaki. Bourland, who came to the Council as the new president of Interquadrangle Council found himself, in a position that he did not relish: the last man to make a decision, he could tie the vote for president, and take the Council into a second ballot. On the other hand, his vote could assure Brown's election. WELL-VERSED in quadrangle affairs, but admittedly "green" when it comes to Council politics, Bourland had been stewing over his position for two weeks. In a conscientious effort to make up for some of his inexperience, he conducted a series of informa- tional interviews with candidates, constituents and interested parties for the last two weeks. He was in his office until 6 p.ni. on the day of elections, with seven appoint- ments that afternoon. Representa- tives of both Miller and Brown were trying to convince Bourland of the advisability of a vote for their candidates. Bourland, who says he is a liberal, and voted with liberals on basic policy issues including wo- men's hours changes only a few weeks before, finally concluded that moderate Brown "would make the better president." He is unable to explain the reasoning behind his vote, but contends that a "total view" gleaned as a result of his rounds of talks ed him to the decision. The enigmatic Bourland pro- fesses a liberal philosophy, but voted for a moderate for SGC president. The IQC president "fed on all the data" he could in a two week consideration of the presidency vote but finally came up with a subjective evaluation. BOURLAND seemed somewhat confused by discussion at the LETTERS to the EDITOR To the Editor: THE ATHLETIC plant at the University is in . disgraceful condition. Yost Field House, Uni- versity Skating Rink, and the In- tramural Building were all built prior to 1928 when student enroll- ment was less than 10,000. The student activities fee at the University is still $5 per se- mester. $10 per year-by far the lowest in the conference. It is $35 at Michigan State, $40 at Illinois, $45 at Ohio State and $40 at In- diana. In addition, most of the conference schools charge students for tickets to athletic events and practically all of them receive sup- port from university funds. The Athletic Department at the University has built intramural facilities such as the women's swiming pool and it pays out every year $100,000 to maintain these facilities. For 1961-62 the Athletic Board received in student fees a net of about $150,000; it paid back to the University about $125,000 in tuition fees for grant-in-aid students. Other schools are financing new intramural and athletic facilities with student fees. We are so far behind it will take long time to catch up. A long overdue revision of our inadequate token student fees to the level of other confer-, ence schools should be made at once. --Frederick J. Vogt, '25 Director at Large, Michigan Alumni Association Praise ... Council table which centered around the role of the President of SGC, particularly implementa- tion by the president of motions passed by Council. The president may follow several courses to carry out the mandates of Council mo- tions, the chief method being im- plementation by writing letters. Letters of implementation gen- erally go to the Office of Student Affairs, which has a veto over all Council legislation, and .vhich accepts recommendations from Council on policy making directly effecting students. SOutgoing Council President Ste- ven Stockmeyer was sometimes ac- cused of sending out mild letters of implementation for Council- passed measures that he did not, personally favor, and giving more of a push to those proposals to which he felt especially committed, The Stockmeyer approach to the Presidency never directly entered' into discussion at Wednesday's meeting, but both Miller and Brown had Stockmeyer in mind as they clearly delineated their views as to the role of the president. * * * BROWN asserted he would im- plement each measure passed by Council with equal efficiency and as quickly as possible. He said "this does not mean that I do not have a program as a member of Council," but he does not see the president playing a major ac- tivist role in support of legislation. Miller, however, pledged to im- plementation of measures passed by Council, said the president' could implement these measures "with more or less enthusiasm." Miller would have put the power and prestige of the president's of- fice behind Council propositions he considered particularly worth- while. His approach would differ from Stockmeyer's: in fact, Miller has been highly critical of the presi- dency in the last semester, and was also the first member to raise his hand in officer's time to ask the president: What has become of this motion? What is being done about that? Have the letters been sent out yet? Has the presi- dent made personal contacts with the parties involved? Miller, for example, would have' taken advantage of his wide con- tacts among members of the fac- ulty to explain, and back the student-faculty government mo- tion. Miller would have made as many person-to-person contacts as possible in an effort to gain sup- port for the plan. In general, Mil- ler would not have been a quiet, behind the scenes president who saw himself a guide to the Coun- cil, but rather an active and in- volved president. HOWEVER, Bourland had made up his mind before this discussion and before he entered the Council room at 11 p.m. He was among the last to be seated. The Council room at the top floor of the Stu- dent Affairs Building was crowded, all constituent seats being occu- pied. Everyone had come to see who Council would choose as its next President, to take a look at the "new" Council and to get a last one at the outgoing Council. Steve Stockmeyer sported a pink carnation in his lapel for the oc- casion. He also announced that he couldn't hand over' the gavel, be- cause he didn't have. it. The presi- dential gavel-along with a fifth of scotch-had been taken from his hotel room at the Young Re- publican convention a, few days before. YRs at Michigan State have the gavel now; it is waiting to be claimed. Robert Ross, who used to sit at the other end of the Council table across from Stockmeyer, hopped around the Council room, pulling SGC members out into the halls in a last-minute effort to influence votes, and thus pull a coup for Miller. * * * BARNELL, seen by Miller forces as a possible vote only a few days before, nominated Brown. He as- serted that a "Council in transi- tion" needed a Council president who would subscribe to the role. of the president known in pre- vious years. He thought Council needed "the continuity"' Brown could give, and also noted that Brown was "a more logical and acceptable person" to deal with the Harris report and its implementa- tion. Daily Editor Michael Olinick spoke longer on Miller's behalf, and said Council was not in tran- sition but "in a rut." Olinick thought that the days of the "pas- sive, good-hearted" Council pres- ident could be no more, and that a more activist role was necessary to give meaning to those motions passed by Council. He noted that Council has passed "some pretty important and serious things, but not done mucl to get them done." Olinick was referring to pro- posals for SGC participation in Regental elections and the plan for student-faculty government, two of' the best motions to come out of Council for many months, but which have not gotten off the ground after passage by Council. He also noted that action on bias procedure should have taken a few ;weeks instead of an entire year. * * * BROWN AND Miller both de- livered acceptance speeches and answered questions from Council members. It was in this discussion that each candidate delineated his views on the role of the Council president. As expected, Brown was elected on the first ballot by a 10-8 vote. He received Bourland's support. During members time, the un- predictable Bourland, in a flash of emotion, looked across the Council table at Miller, pointed his finger at the twice-defeated presi- dential candidate and said, "There sits integrity." Bourland may simply have wanted to deliver a tribute to a young man whom he "respects as much as any one on this campus." pr Bourland, who finds it dif- ficult to define his political philos- ophies and has shown ambivalence and inconsistency in recent weeks, may have felt a twinge of un- certainty as to the vote he had just cast. In either case, Bour- land did not think about what he was going to say to Miller; he reacted to a situation and said what he wanted to say. * * * VOTES SHOWED a consider- ,able shift after the presidential election, with Edwin Sasaki elected executive vice-president over Rus- sell Epker by an unofficial vote of 9-8. (Because voting is con- ducted by secret ballot, none of the exact tallies are "officVi," or published in SGC minutes. How- ever. Council members revealed their choices, and ballot counters released tallies, thus providing sources of reliable and accurate information.) . . The "mandate of the people" was ignored as Michael Knapp, who ran first in Council elections with a surprising 681 votes on the first ballot, was turned down by Council members on two occasions for a Council office. Knapp was defeated by Thomas Smithson for the administrative vice-presidency, and then again by Frederick Rhines for the treasurer's job. In the race for administrative vice- president, Knapp wasndefeated by a 12-5 bte with one abstention and was then knocked out in a try for the treasurer's post of a 12-3-3 split. Conservatives thus switched over to elect Sasaki, a liberal, for the second Council post and four con- servatives forsook Knapp to vote for Smithson. The great shift came in the last vote when Rhines, elected by the campus on the final ballot with 590 votes, defeated Knapp for treasurer by a large margin. . ALL-CAMPUS elections which, showing a majority of conserva- tive votes, were followed by SGC officer elections that put two liberals-Sasaki and Smithson- and two conservatives-Brown and Rhines-on its executive board. Brown is the only veteran, and he will be fighting executive board inexperience for weeks to come. Besides that, Brown will guide. Council through a spring whose prospects for success look pretty grim: he has moved over from the executive vice-president's of- fice next door to the president's office. It' is a move that Brown has been wanting to make for a long time. When he gets done wrestling with student-faculty government, the Harris report, Regental elec- tions, women's hours, dress regu- lations, rebel boards, the Office of Student Affairs, an inexperienc- ed Council, and an apathetic stu- dent body, he may wish he was back in the executive vice-presi- dent's office typing agendas. EEC OUTLOOK: Cher? By WALTER LIPPMANN IT IS NECESSARY to take a closer look at the bland and cheery words of the President of the European Economic Com- munity, Dr. Walter Hallstein. When he was in Washington re- cently, he asked us to be pa- tient'" and assured us that Britain would be admitted ."eventually," perhaps even within two years. Considering this, we are bound to ask what can happen in two years to transform the Anglo-Saxon oceanic islands of Britain intoba qualified European state capable of playing an equal part with France an Germany in European affairs? I think I know what Dr. Hall- stein means, having' heard him say when I was in Brussels at the beginning of 'December that the British'.application had come too late-the British had refused to join at the beginning in 1957- and the application had now come too early, for in the "Europe" which the six founders are making, "the bones are not yet hardened." * * * WHY, we must wonder, will the bones have hardened in two or three years? The answer to this question is the key to much that is happening. This is the year 1963, and fol- lowing Article 8 of the Treaty of Rome, the six are in the second year of this second of the three "stages" prescribed in the treaty. During this second stage, the veto, ,which might have delayed the ending of stage one, can be used only to prevent delay. During stage two, the six, hav- ing agreed on the broad principles of agricultural policy, are putting the power to work out the terms of he agreement on Dr. Halstein's commission. In effect, it becomes a Federal European Ministry of Agriculture. The critical fact is that internal agricultural prices will be set in this period. The height of the Common Agricultural Tariff is determined by the in- ternal prices, since it is a variable levy calculated to protect Euro- pean products. * * * WE ARE now in a position to see why we are advised to be patient for two ,years. During these two years, the agricultural policy of the Common Market, with France the main beneficiary and West Germany a lesser bene- ficiary, is to be formed without the British being present. The British absence are the argicul- tural tariffs and levies. which will penalize America, the Comnion- wealth and the Latin-Ameican farmeds in favor of French and West German farmers. The real question about the two- year delay in admitting Britain,, and the reason why it is not easy to be cheery about it, is that the two years may be used to make the European Economic Commun- ity restricted, exclusive, largely self-contained and, with varying accompanying military and politi- cal agreements, a closed commun- ity under French control with German assistance. Whether the United States has the means to combat the move- ments of Europe into restriction and exclusiveness is not yet clear. We have much at stake, and the real issues should not be hidden from us by bland and cheery words. (c) 1963, The washington Post Co. Bias Is A Way of Life IT WAS gratifying to see that all the can- didates in the Student Government Council election voiced their opinions on the problem of discrimination in membership selection. All the candidates declared they were against discrimination, which is indeed an admirable stand. Way back into the decades preceding written history, candidates have included this issue in their platforms. At the University, it has become a prerequisite of running for office. One sentence and possibiity two in a candi- date's platform statement must be devoted to the problem of discrimination and specifically discrimination in membership selection. Judg-, ing from what was written and said during the campaign, not many Iof the candidates have bothered with the actual implications of the problem. REGENTS BYLAW 2.14 states that the Uni- versity shall not discriminate and that no organization which is associated with it shall discriminate. SGC has been extremely vigilant of the membership clauses of various groups which have come before it for 'recognition. Much work has been done concerning dis- crimination in fraternities and sororities. Currently, five sororitiesi have not submitted statements on their membership procedures to SOC. Of course this makes a beautiful issue for knocked kneed liberals. But the problem goes much deeper. The issue of membership selection on this campus has had a very long life. From all in- dications it will continue to live on for years to come. Candidates for student offices will continue to come out against discrimination as candidates for public office come out for, GOD, country and American motherhood. A FEW of the candidates in the recent elec- tion have realized that the problem of dis- crimination cannot be legislated out of exist- ence. In the past, this is the type of action Editorial Staff MICHAEL OLINICK, Editor JUDITH OPPENHEIM MICHAEL HARRAI Editorial Director City Editor CAROLINE DOW..................Personnel Director JUDITH BLEIER .............. Associate City Editor FRED RUSSELL KRAMER .. Assoc. Editorial Director CYNTHIA NEU.................Co-Magazine Editor HARRY PERLSTADT ...........Co-Magazine Editor' TOM WEBBER...... ............... Sports Editor that SGC has taken aaginst discrimination in fraternities and sororities. It has made these organizations remove bias clauses from their charters and file reports on their membership. selection procedures. The remainder of the candidates fell into one of two categories. In the first, were those students who although supposedly against dis- crimination were also against the meddling of SOC into the sacred selection procedures of fraternities and sororities. Therefore, while they opposed discrimination they also opposed the implementation of actions designed to end it. In the second group are those students who favor further action but action of the same type that SGC has taken in the past. Hence they favor more legislative measures which, no matter how numerous, will not effect any real change in the existing situation. The problem of bias clauses is or soon will be a dead issue. Fraternity stipulations of this sort are too flagrant to stand up against Uni- versity regulations. However, there are latent methods which are much more effective. These methods cannot be combatted and defeated as easily as bias clauses. On the top of the list are the so called "gentlemen's agreements." Fraternities and sororities ban together and secretly agree not to pledger members of a certain race or religion. No written agreements are involved and therefore this method is usually hard to detect. But on occasion, these understandings come to light, and when this occurs, other methods are resorted to. A silent consensus among the members of a fraternity and a sorority is probably the most effective means of discrimination. It is almost impossible to detect and prove. 'It is this method that is now in use at the Univer- sity. Because of this fact, one former member of SGC jokingly said; "The only way to get rid of discrimination in fraternities and sorori- ties is to get rid of fraternities and sororities." A WHITE Anglo-Saxon Protestant fraternity may wish to keep its inner sanctum pure of other races. No legislative enactment or bylaw can alter this situation. Discrimination is a frame of mind against which it is very difficult to legislate. How do you legislate bigotry out of the minds of people? It is pretty near impossible. A fraternity or a sorority is only the aggre- gate of its members. Wipe out the discrimina- tion in each affiliate and the problem will be no more. Of course, this is much easier said than done. However, trying to wipe out dis- ......,........r...,_,. FANTASY DIGRESSION-Sigmund Freud (Montgomery Clift), cigar in hand, pauses to consider the inner implications of his impending actions. His earlier trials and tribulations are currently depicted on the screen of the Michigan Theatre. Freud Uneven; Clift Questionable N FILMING "Freud," John Hus- ton has re-shuffled the chon- ology of Freud's discoveries, and reconstructed a rudimentary fac- simile of the early theory (to 1897) which can make some sense when presented serially. To make it palatable, and a "dramatic pro- duction," the psychoanalytic struc- ture is fitted out with episodes in Freud's life, both real (though anachronistic) and fictional. Granting this power of recon- stitution as a dramatic premise, I must review the picture from two aspects, since it claims to be both a movie and a textbook, and be- cause these two never quite merge successfully. As an introduction to psycho- analysis the film is at once good and bad. Good because most of .the crucial concepts are presented, if only with brief lip-service, and the progression from one to an- other flows logically; the only really difficult gaps to bridge being why free association was better than hypnosis and just why, at the point when it is presented, the theory must be based on infantile sexuality. Bad because of the misleading hypnotic techniques, and, ironic- ally enough, because' of an over- zealousnessrto squeeze in every last bit of relevant material, which results in, what I suspect is, a presentation that is confusing to the layman and offensively insub- stantial to the psychiatrist. * * * FAR MORE interesting is a, onnsideratinn of the mnvie as a fectly appropriate to the movie's theme, and immediately access- able (the clitoral mother in the womb-cave, for instance). This is the kind of symbolism some authors dream of but don't dare to introduce as superfluage. The gradual unfolding of flashback technique, since "Marienbad" seems to be here for good. The fidelity to history is uneven. Montgomery Clift looks quite a bit like Freud, Susan Kohner looks just like his wife. Charcot and his clinic are straight out of that popular etching, and Freud's bed is covered with that terrifying afghan. Larry Parks, on the other hand, neither looks like Breuer nor acts like anyone you ever saw. As Al Jolson he was admittedly hitting his stride hard, as Breuer he is still a sort of bearded Al Jolson. Miss Kohner is a fine actress, easily outdistancing Susannah York, who plays Cecily, a com- posite of Freud's, and others', pa- tients. CLIFT DOES his role adequately, but it is the wrong role. He is coarse and bug-eyed as Freud, who was so immensly and subtly cul- tivated that any comparison be- tween Clift's Freud and the real thing is best left unmade.rItris sufficient to note that in the con- text of Clift's Freud, the rail- road station dream, with all its intellectual and cultural trappings, looks strangely out of place; es- cargot on a plate of corned-beef hash. FROM ANOTHER CAMPUS: Students- and Power (EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from the editorial page of the Cornell Daily Sun.) STUDENTS can be justly proud of the Academic Integrity Code which will soon come up for final approval. It is a radical proposal for complete unification proce- dures dealing with cases of aca- demic fraud. Perhapscmore im- 'portant, the proposal comes from the students and gives them some part in determining university pol- icy. But the proposal is plagued by a final inability to give the, students real responsibility. The code, which has been wal- lowing in faculty bureaucracy for nearly a year, provides for one judiciary body to consider all cases' of cheating. This plan will end' he plans to take action in his own sphere of jurisdiction. THE FACULTY should recon- sider one point in the code. The code as it presently stands pro- vides for five students and five professors to sit on the committee which will judge guilt and mete out punishment. But the students will- not be able to vote on punish- ments. The justification for this is that if a suit were brought against the committee and the university in a specific case, the student could be hurt. First, no suit has ever been brought against the university in a case of academic misconduct. Second, why shouldn't students share the responsibility for their