Seventy-Third Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY 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. SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 1963 NIGHT EDITOR: MICHAEL HARRAH CONTEMPORARY FESTIVAL: High Quality Music THE SECOND CONCERT of the current Festival of Contemporary Music sponsored by the School of Music featured chamber music for strings and piano and one string quartet. The entire concert was outstanding for the generally high quality of the music and the ex- cellence of each performance. The opening work was Benjamin Britten's Sonata in C major for Cello and Piano. The five movement work upheld Britten's reputation f' Bills Take A Breather While Committee Thinks Q, 4 4kt~ ,i f 11, - I: THE ADVOCATES of the University-branch plan for Delta College have found a clever way to retire their unpopular brain-child quiet- ly-while at the same time keeping it alive for next year. The branch concept has had a rough two weeks. As the rival "piggy-back" plan moved through the House, a resolution backing the branch-plan vegetated in the Senate Business Committee. The state's other college and uni- versity leaders blasted it at a Michigan Co- ordinating Council for Higher Education meet- ing. Then Gov. George Romney administered the final coup by letting it be known that he didn't want any sort of final action on the Thumb- area school's expansion until his pet "blue-rib- bon citizens' committee" made some decisions about the future of Michigan's whole state- college system. BUT FOR .the bedraggled branch-plan, the Governor's roadblock was a blessing in dis- guise. Not only did it slow down the "piggy- back" plan (which probably will pass the House and then pass into obscurity for the rest Follow Up IN THE WAKE of the fair housing fracas, University President Harlan Hatcher recent- ly established a three-man committee to study the Ann Arbor fair housing ordinance before City Council and to discover its implications for University personnel. The president's action is commendable but final judgment must wait until all University persons can see tangible results of the presi- dent's concern. President Hatcher said yesterday that "I have been much concerned to know what the specific problems are as they relate to the students and what effect the ordinance would have on them." Furthermore, the president in his recent statement to the Human Relations Board ex- pressed both his and the University's deep con- cern with the problem of discrimination in housing. This committee, composed of Professors Don- ald Pelz of the Survey Research Center, Luke K. Cooperrider of the Law School and Samuel Eldersveld of the political science department, is a positive and concrete step toward translat- Ing the president's stated concern into action. HOWEVER, the final action is not in the hands of the committee members. The com- mittee, after it has compiled its data, will sub- mit its findings to President Hatcher. From then on it is up to him. We would hope that the creation of the study committee is not merely a political move to quiet the protests and pressures from student and faculty members. Keeping in mind Presi- dent Hatcher's clearly stated good intentions, we would hope that the concern over securing fair housing for all Ann Arborites does not die down and that the University follows through its stated concern. -M. BRAHMS -J. TENANDER of this year's session), but it also gave the pro-branchers a pretext for discreetly with- drawing their ill-starred resolution. And better yet, they substituted for it a new proposal which would allow the University to keep its foot in Delta's door while the Romney group mulls the future. The new resolution would urge the University and Delta "to con- tinue their plans of cooperating in the estab- lishment of a degree-granting program as a branch," then, for the benefit of Romney and the anti-branchers, adds, "and to work in har- mony with the Legislature in designing an ar- rangement modifying or changing or cancelling the cooperative effort to conform to recom- mendations of any study approved by the Leg- islature." More specifically, the resolution's authors (mainly Delta people and pro-branch legisla- tors) seek the go-ahead to start a junior there next fall: under Delta-rather than University auspices, financed by the private local contribu- tions which everyone confidently asserts will be forthcoming. All this would be done with the help of the University-whatever that means- and would be cheerfully abandoned if the blue- ribbon gang and the Legislature ultimately de- cide againstthe branch idea. IT LOOKS QUITE NEAT: the Thumb-area gets a quick start on the college they need so badly, the University helps get it on its feet -and yet the final decision can be postponed until the state decides which educational paths it wants to pursue. But it's quite unlikely to work out that way. In the first place, the thinking behind the reso- lution appears to be, to say the least, incom- plete. There is the question of whether Delta, as a junior college, has any legal business set- ting up a third year at all. There is the ques- tion of whether these potential contributors that are expected to support the pilot-program will really materialize in adequate profusion. There is the question of whether any students or faculty will be attracted to what may well be a here-today-gone-tomorrow institution. And there is the question of just what kind of as- sistance the University can and will give to a program it neither controls nor finances. More important, there is the question of whether the "blue-ribbon" committee can real- ly conduct an impartial study while a new col- lege is simultaneously becoming an accomplish- ed fact over in Midland County. It will no longer .be a matter of deciding between two equally, un-implemented proposals, but of a partially-established program vs. the "piggy- back" plan, still amounting to nothing more than 100 pages of double-spaced type. THERE IS LIKELY to be a considerable pro- pensity on the part of the "blue-ribbon" people to say, "Look: we've got a going concern here. Let's not tear it down now." And this will be reinforced by the well-foundedrexpecta- tion of an uproar in the Thumb-area if the pilot-program were to be aborted. Whether or not Romney's study really is nec- essary, it is going to happen-and conditions should be made as favorable as possible for it. Let's not bias the investigation before it even starts. -KENNETH WINTER a }, 4 f § y } r .,:,. . it '"F .t; . " ". Jr{. ',h tj t11 'k "d for craftsmanship and contained many moments of wit and interest. On the whole it was a pleasant piece, but not a terribly distinctive one. The cellist, Jerome Jelinek, and the pianist, Rhea Kish, performed the work with relish and displayed excellent ensemble throughout. Paul Cooper's Sonata for Viola and Piano was next performed by Robert Courte, violist, and Lydia Courte, pianist. The work is rel- atively subdued and intensely lyric. THE REFLECTIVE middle sec- tion contains some of the most touching music of this century. Following this the viola has a long solo passage after which the piano rejoins it in a splendid dramatic section. The Courtes brought their mar- velous artistrytouMr.hCooper's beautiful work, which resulted in a musical experience both intense and very satisfying-an experience well worth repeating. After the intermission Donald Harris' Fantasy for Violin and Piano was given the first perform- ance in this country. The violinist was Gilbert Ross and the pianist was Wallace Berry. The work ap- pears to be a string of fragmentary sections, which is, of course, in the nature of a fantasy. However, it seemed to me that little was done with any of the material and the work came through in bits and pieces. -Robert Jobe * * * THE FIRST. performance of Roberto Gerhard's String Quartet No. 2, which concluded the con- cert, was an electrifying exper- ience. To judge by audience re- .ction, a repeat performance would be well received. Gerhard's ideas are extreme. If a scherzo should be essentially a rhythmic texture, then let that es- sence be established by striking the wood of the instruments with the bows. Or if an ostinato involv- ing all four instruments should be- gin, let it continue until it does indeed seem obstinate.. Gerhard has achieved -a reson- ance among the instruments. What each does reinforces, and never cancels, the total effect. Conse- quently, at the end especially, four men playing four instruments gen- erated a ferocious intensity that might more believably have come from an orchestra. -David Sutherland EDDIE'S FATHER- Ronny's Bonny THE COURTSHIP of Eddie's Father is a Hollywood produc- tion. Sexy girls, sophisticated New Yorkers, lush apartments, and a freckled child-star pervade the Panavision screen. But, though it has all the trappings, the movie does not fall prey to the medio- crity that one might expect. The mastermind behind the courtship of Eddie's father is Eddie (Ronny Howard). He conducts a personal campaign to find a wife for his recently widowed father (Glenn Ford). The first candidate is a ravishing redhead (Stella Stevens). Eddie is fascinated by her; Dad isn't. The second candi- date is a stunning sophisticate (Dina Merrill). Days likes her; Ed- die doesn't. The third candidate is a bubbly blonde (Shirley Jones). Eddie is crazy about her; Dad's in- different. In the end, the winner is unanimously approved. * * * EDDIE, with his six year old insight, gives the movie its re- freshing vitality. He advises his father how to tell a good lady from a bad lady : "I learned in comic books that the bad ones got skinny eyes and big busts. The good ones always got medium-sized busts and round eyes." But, the prevailing mood is not comic. The movie blends tears with laughter, for Eddie also has the ability to make us cry. The wistful way in which he talks about his mother deeply touches us. A large part of the movie's suc- cess is due to MGM's faithful reproduction of the novel by Mark Toby. The warmth of the charac- ters has been preserved through a fine job of casting and consistently good acting. Above all, Ronny Howard is ap- pealingly convincing as Eddie. The tenderness of the story has not been victimized by Hollywood's familiar devices. -Kathlyn Deutch -Joan Boykoff NUT OR~. £oM~cTwi4'&'' W",kT ARE \IDU --SOME VAP ov UNDERSCORE: UN Must Have Power j Mutiny on The Bounty By MALINDA BERRY DISARMAMENT MUST come through the United Nations. But before the UN can become an effective instrument for peace it must be strengthened in all its areas. Executive power, enforcement power, financial and spiritual power must be increased to make the UN the supreme force behind peace in the world. Most individuals would like to see the executive power of the entire institution increased. But rather than have the existing of- ficials and other interested people attempt to work their reforms through the entire UN, it would be better to pick a specific area in which to bolster authority, and use this as a starting point. In spite of the measures which are periodically introduced into the General Assembly and the Security Council, the prestige of the world body is diminishing. Most frequently these attempts at reform are used as vehicles for disarmament proposals. Instead they should be made independent of any disarmament questions. This would not only facilitate dis- armament, but start the wheels of needed reform. THE ORGAN of the UN which has the most respect and standing in the world community is the International Court of Justice. The members of the world court have primary allegiance to the United Nations which insures their international character, and re- moves from their discussions the mmediate demands of nationalism. The authority of the world court should be increased. This would emphasize the prime im- portance of the rule of law. If civilization is to continue law must reign supreme. Global respect will be given the World Court if its members can achieve a university of opinion and spirit. However, before this high po- sition of worldrrespect can be achieved, aside from the organiza- tional mechanics which must be worked out, it is vital that the Court members exhibit a dedica- tion to the ideal of world com- munity which completely over- shadows stifling concerns of na- tionalism. IF ONLY the executive power of the International Court of Jus- tice could be increased, this would be the first step. But executive authority is contingent upon en- forcement power. No authority is worth the paper it's been printed on without the force to back it up. Measures will have to be initiat- ed for the establishment and de- velopment of a cogent UN peace force, recruited and supported by the UN. This peace force would form the basis of an international security force. Again, as with the members of the World Court, these soldiers must be convinced that their primary allegiance would be directly to the UN. This force must be thoroughly convinced that it is truly international and serv- ing mankind, not a specific coun- try or ideology. Admittedly, this difficulties since its inception. It has two alternatives: It can either demand that all member nations must contribute forces and money to projects, even those not unanimously accepted. Or it will have to work out a system of con- tributions, based on a percentage scale, for those who support the proposed action, and penalize the delinquents. Pragmatically, not as im- portant as the financial indepen- dence, but basically vital to the full development of the UN as a force for peace is its spiritual power. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Gratitude to The Union ONE OFTEN HEARS of "man's inhumanity to man," but it takes a mighty strong stom- ach indeed to put up with the inhumanity this insufferably egotistical being inflicts on "poor dumb animals," of which inhumanity, one of the vilest examples, is the bounty system. It seems strange that in a supposedly civilized state such as Michigan we should find $250,000 being extracted from hunting and fishing li- cense buyers every year to pay some grizzled old mountaineer for bashing in the skulls of a litter of fox pups at $5 a head, when one con- siders the many useful and infinitely more human uses to which this money could be put. But what is far more strange is that a hand- ful of selfish Upper Peninsula bounty hunters could have so much "pull" with the supposedly integrious members from that area in the House of Representatives that two current bills to outlaw such cruel treatment of our state's wildlife should be in danger of dying in committee through their efforts. The bills in question passed the Senate with- out any problems back on March 5. But in the House, it is apparently quite a different mat- ter. According to one member of the House Conservation Committee, which is now consid- ering the legislation, "Right now, if this came to a vote, I don't think the committee would release the bills." Opponents of the bounty system have a strong case for their side in the fact that the system is plainly a waste of money; the num- ber of predators slain under its auspices has shown to be not sizable enough to justify the expenditure, nor have the numbers of game species been greatly increased. Gov. George Romney favors repeal of the bounty system, as did John Swainson and G. Mennen Williams These same individuals are now high-pressur- ing their local legislators into fighting repeal of the bounty system on the grounds that it would be better all the way around if the ani- mals most often attacked-foxes, bobcats, and the like-were annihilated. Preferring to make a little pocket money by killing wildlife need- lessly, these Upper Peninsula residents seem to be excusing their actions by claiming that they are doing the state a favor. They are mistaken. In using such a feeble excuse to apologize the heartless slaughter they would condone, these "honorable" men are doing more harm than good. Not only do they exaggerate far out of proportion the number of game animals and livestock such animals as foxes and bob- cats actually kill, but they intentionally over- look the far greater good done by these preda- tors in destroying rodents. THE OTHER-and perhaps even more impor- tant-reason for doing away with the boun- ty system is that, as a recent statement of the Michigan Humane Society points out, "Abolition of the system would save hundreds of animals from unspeakable torture." Probably the aver- age blas6 city-dweller, not giving a hang! about what goes on in the wilds of the Upper Peninsula to begin with, would consider such a statement to be somewhat exaggerated; but no person who has seen a fox caught in the painful vise of a bounty hunter's trap, his life slowly ebbing away through starvation or loss of blood or both, could shrug the sight off-- unless he were about to remove the dead ani- mal from the trap and cash it in at the nearest bounty office. Even if these animals were killed in a more n.- - - h --nlini +h f 4 1- To the Editor: TN REPLY to Steven Hendel's re- cent castigation of the Michigan Union, I should like to relate an experience which does not bear out his charges. Recently the Student Relations Board of the Develop- ment Council sponsored a Jazz Concert featuring Dave Brubeck. The entire proceeds of the con- cert are all committed to a scholarship program of the Stu- dent Relations Board to recognize outstanding student service to the University. The Union does not share in the proceeds. Yet, in a most commendable and unselfish manner, the Michigan Union cooperated with the Stu- dent Relations Board in handling all of the arrangements and work that goes into making the affair successful. It does so out of a spirit of cooperation and service to students and other student organ- izations. We would like therefore to take this opportunity to express publicly our gratitude and appreciation to the Michigan Union for its splen- did assistance. We are pleased to have been included as a part of its Creative Arts Festival. -Stanley Saeks, '63 Chairman, Student Relations Board Development Council Culture .. . To the Editor: TN RICHARD SIMON'S deroga- " tory editorial on the Culture Club heappears to have over- stepped himself. If he had taken the time to find out the facts about the Culture Club, he would have discovered some interesting information. It is true that the Culture Club "is an expansion of the original Culture Club (form- erly the Jazz Club)." However, it has "expanded" into a slightly dif- ferent area. At this time one group is al- ready working with students in Ann Arbor elementary and high schools, tutoring them in subjects where they need help. The second group will work with foreign stu- dents in improving their English. I am sure Mr. Simon's statements were not the result of any mali- cious intent, but rather of ignor- ance on the subject. agency to find interested students someone to work with. This, we admit, is a valuable function, but we just wonder whether it jus- tifies the comment that the pro- gram " . . . helps draw high cali- ber students to the medical school, as few schools in the country offer this research opportunity to in- terested students." Considering the liberalized cur- iculum changes recently instituted at several other medical schools, it must be realized that the Uni- versity's Medical School is some- what less than a hotbed of educa- tional reform. To quote an anony- mous medical school faculty mem- ber, "One is looked upon with suspicion if he tries to change things too rapidly at a midwestern medical school." -Lewis J. Kleinsmith, '66Med -Howard Kutchai, '66Med Proud . . To the Editor: IT APPEARS to me that readers of The Daily might be interest- ed in knowing that the University Club of Washington, D.C. present- ed another very successful annual Congressional Dinner at the Na- tional Press Club in February. The turnout of local Michiganders was most gratifying, as was the turn- out of many significant persons in government, including what seemedtonbehalf of the Congress. President Harlan Hatcher was the principal speaker, and, need- less to say, presented many impor- tant ideas in a thought-provoking manner. But special honor, I think, must go to four members of "The Friars"-Brook Stanford, Ronald Jeffers, Roger Sergeant, and Ralph Helzerman. These men came all the way from Ann Arbor to en- tertain us in the best Michigan manner. Certainly their perform- ance made all of us very proud of the glee club and of our Univer- sity. -Peter L. Wolff, '59 Feet ... To the Editor: ONE INDIGENEOUS custom practiced by students in the undergraduate library that has become increasingly annoying is that of using chairs as footstools. Anyone not arriving before By this is meant the awakening consciousness among men and wo- men all over the world, that their complete destruction is imminent because of a potential nuclear war. They must see in the UN their main chance for survival. Mankind must move from the era of look- ing at individual countries as the final hope for progress, and rec- ognize this hope in the UN. If the UN can achieve this moral following, people will see that their common concern for survival ties in the world-mindedness which centers around the United Na- tions. and clothes over a number of chairs and desks assures space for his late arriving friends. An- other practice is to park one's books in a choice spot early in the morning and leave them there all day while one is at class or eating, etc. The result of all this activity is that free places are difficult to find even though rarely are there students sitting in half the avail- able spots. -David A. Olson, Grad Hiss .. . To the Editor: I DISAGREE both generally and specifically with Rashel Le- vine's recent conclusions regard- ing the lecture hall hiss. Generally, the spirit of open examination in which hissing is nurtured is to be encouraged. Edu- cation is not merely the learning of skills. Education consists of a series of value judgments. The well-placed hiss is a healthy sign the student is rejecting the judg- ment-of-the-moment as: 1) objectionable in terms of the student's philosophy, or 2) insufficently explained and thus incomprehensible. It is only the unhealthy society, the society that refuses to examine its values, that condemns hissing. Specifically, the hissing in chem- istry 106 is not personally directed at the instructor. Rather, it is directed at the pedagogues who refuse to accept the principle of self-determinism in course selec- tion. To their minds freshmen are still of a "tender age." Force-fed chemistry courses will not lead us to the happy state of logic- trained minds and/or a Rickover- ian paradise. Personally, I have always held the greatest suspicion of departments whose existence depended upon the requirements of a college catalogue. Miss Levine feels that hissing is gross. Yet a greater grossness is practiced by those who unhissi- tatingly accept. the professorial pronouncement. The greater bar- barians are those who silently run the channel of required courses dug for us by the academic plan- ners. We can well afford gross- ness of the former variety; gross- ness of the latter sort poses the graver danger. -Elmer White, '64L DANCE CONCERT: Moving Symbolism., ]PIE UNIVERSITY d ancer s made their contribution to the creative arts festival on Friday and Saturday in Lydia Mendols- sohn Theatre. Of all the festival events, their concert shows up the cultural difficulties facing creative work. Dancing until very recently lacked a language in which mem- ories can be preserved and trans- mitted; it still lacks a common language in which choreographers can think. Every new creative effort in dance is important, whether it suc- ceeds or fails. It says much that this concert of fourteen pieces produced half a dozen dances with good things in them. Ono of tt em. "Parenthesis," was a strikn first work; another, "Fugue." was a mature wonder. * * * 'FUGUE" IS Bonnie Taylor's desire around a man standing powerfully immobile. Two delightful dances begin well and then get cluttered with too many combinations in the middle. The short "Baluba" by Marianne Livant, to Congolese music, and childrens "Rhymes" by Sandra Diskin. "Baluba," a first dance, shows a strong style re- minding one that gravity is al- ways a r o u n d and working. "Rhymes" is completely charming, verging on the fine edge of pan- tomime. Under the charm, hdv- ever, is perfect control. THREE DANCES from the phy- sical education workshop, "The Bomb," "Perfect" a n d "Stop Pushing," weak structurally, had some good motions, and all had good endings. Something about ending must attract the begin- ning choreographer. Brenda Bo-