N Sewwty-ThIrd Yewr EDITED AND MANAGmD ET STUDENTS OIF THE UNWIERStTY OF MCHIGAN 'UNDM ATHQRT Or BOAD D9 CORMOL Or STUMEN PvsICTONS "Where Opinions Are P'ree STUDENT PucATmoNS BLDG., ANN Aaom. Ml i., PHONE NO 2-3241 Truth Will Prevafil Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This mus tbe noted in all reprints. "What's The Matter? We Don't Say 'Niggers' Up Here" TODAY AND TOMORROW: Clay Report Fails, Sets Unfortunate Tone '4 )AY, MARCH 27. 1963 NIGHT EDITOR: BARBARA LAZARUS Faculty Government Req''uires R evisions G OVERNMENT OF the faculty, for the fac- ulty and by the faculty has been a lot less than a spectacular success. In some ways it is unwieldy; in others, it has been subverted; in still others, the faculty itself has abandoned its power to govern itself. Faculty government can best be seen as a morass of committees. There are departmental, administrative committees, University Senate committees, school and college' committees, committees, inte -college committees, inter- disciplinary committees, advisory committees and committees to study the committee struc- ture. HESE COMMITTEES do not even have a central agency to which they are respon- sible. Every unit from the department on up has its own responsibilities of self-govern- ment. In many areas these powers are shady and overlap one another. ' Under these circumstances, it is easy to see how faculty government has been subverted. Administrtors, if they do not think they can get results from a committee, blithely disregard what that committee is doing 'and on juris- dictional grounds ask another committee for what they want; or they create their own com- mittees. The latter is an especially common device. When the administration decided several years ago that it wanted to have the University go on full-year operation, it found that the Sen- ate Calendaring Committee was one of the main obstacles. This committee reportedly had everypossible calendaring interest represented on it-from advocates of the quarter system to advocates of trimester. The result was that the committee favored maintaining the status quo. QO, THE ADMINISTRATION appointed a special administrative committee to study full-year operation plans. Worse, still, Prof. William Haber, chairman of the economics de- partment, and a highly respected faculty mem- ber, accepted the chairmanship of this com- mittee which was responsible only to the ad- ministration. In the end, the faculty was informed when the plans were already complete. By voice vote, the Senate accepted the trimester plans and gave the administratively conceived and plan-. ned project the appearance of being demo- cratic. For another example take Vice-President for Student Affairs James A. Lewis' reaction to the Student Relations Committee's proposal for a shakeup in the OSA almost two years ago. Lewis simply asked for the creation of another committee whose purpose was to get a broader viewpoint than the SRCs, he said. But actually, it was merely a device for shifting the conflict out of the hands of one, hostile group into a group that would be less hostile. Whose broader viewpoint he intended to get still remains a mystery, since his orig- inal plans for the committee would not even have included students. Only a Student Gov- ernment Council motion and pressure from many quarters got students onto that commit- tee. And, in the final analysis, the committee knuckled under to outside pressure and mod- ified its already moderate report. SIMILARLY, deans are chosen by administra- tive committees, not even responsible to the faculty whose chief administrative officer Koch's Hope: A THE LONG and lively history of former University of Illinois Prof. Leo Koch, fired three years ago for his outspoken views on sex, has finally reached a resting point. Last week the powerful "Committee A" of the American Association of University Pro- fessors made a proclamation on the firing, terming it "outrageously severe and completely unwarranted." The action taken against Prof. Koch is damnable for two reasons. First, it implies censorship by the university administration of the views of a faculty member on non-academic subjects, expressed through a medium outside of the classroom-the student newspaper, The Daily Illini. Second, and more important, there is the question of academic due process. The AAUP committee charged that Prof. Koch was not given a proper hearing before he was fired, implying that academic due process had been violated.' THE REASON Prof. Koch was fired is directly attributable to a letter he wrote to The Daily Illini. In it he said that "with modern contraceptives and medical advice readily avail- able ... there is no valid reason why sexual intercourse should not be condoned among those sufficiently mature to engage in it without social consequences and without vio- the committee chooses. Even the President of the University is not selected by a committee re- sponsible to the University community; in President Harlan Hatcher's case, he was se- lected as one of a panel of possible candidates by a committee with no responsibility to anyone but the Regents and former President Alexan- der Grant Ruthven. Clearly, if the faculty is going to play an effective role in the University, administra- tively appointed committees should be abolish- ed immediately. They serve no purpose except to undermine the intentions of the Regents bylaws in setting up committees dealing with matters that ought to be considered by the faculty. The present unwieldiness of the faculty gov- erning structure does not help the situation very much. .Some matters very obviously be- long. in the individual units or departments. The separate units have the right-and com- mon sense as well as Democracy gives it to them-to determine academic standards for their own students and determine other in- ternal matters. BUT THE DIVISION-of powers can be used to play one group off against another. For example, in the recent rejection of a Senate- approved proposal to set up a University-wide Commission on Faculty Excellence was jus- tified on the grounds that the individual units objected. Yet the proposal had been passed by a majority of the entire faculty. The Regents Bylaw clearly says that there is an obligation to implement it. The administration and the Senate Advisory Committee on University Af- fairs do not have the right to overrule it. Yet it was overruled by some mysterious and still unexplained process. The opposition of the individual units was no excuse. FINALLY, it is the faculty's fault for allowing these things to happen. Often it is said that service to the University is unrewarding, that individuals who undertake to participate in faculty government are penalized when pro- motions and pay raise time comes around. Service to the University interferes too much with normal academic life. This is not really true. There have been cases of professors who will admit that their aca- demic status has been enhanced by their com- mittee work. In all fairness, the diffuse structure of the Senate and faculty governing bodies in general makes the flow of information difficult. How many faculty members know, for example, that Vice-President for Academic Affairs Roger W. Heyns sits on his own advisory committee? The vastness of the system makes it difficult for the faculty to be informed or mobilized. At present, the Committee on Academic Free- dom and Responsibility is considering a re- organization of the Senate along lines that would make it a far more effective body. Hopefully, some broader considerations will be taken into account. Hopefully, the committee will work for th 'abolition of administrative committees. Hopefully, it will also wrk for more flow of information to the faculty. Hope- fully, it will work for a faculty government on a University-wide basis through which all im- portant concerns flow rather than just the ones the administration chooses to allow there. --DAVID MARCUS AUP Vindication - to anyone willing to consider a mature ex- pression of opinion. ' Unfortunately, the populace of Illinois and the nation is not known for its clear and rational attitude toward sex. Existing as it does in the midst of a nation wallowing 'in moral hypocrisy, the University of Illinois was flooded with letters protesting Koch's views. President David D. Henry, later .supported by the Board of Trustees, succumbed to public pressure and Prof. Koch found himself without a job. WHILE THESE VIEWS may be morally re- pugnant to some people, the expression of them was not sufficient cause for the action taken by President Henry. Both he and the board of trustees were not justified in firing Prof. Koch on the basis of a letter to the editor. No case of violation of academic freedom is clear cut; it is possible that Illinois was seeking an out, a reason to fire Prof. Koch, and he himself provided it. That the issues were cloudy is testified tot by the lengthy inquiry of the AAUP. However, people concerned with protecting the rights of faculty members to express their views should be disturbed by the steps taken at Illinois three years ago. +r - ' .. - s; '- -. R} - , ; tf T, .. =. J tit " ;:r ', jT ~ : .'< xy. hY s w C 4 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:- Sociologists Discuss Ordinance By WALTER LIPPMANN THE CLAY REPORT on foreign aid deals with an immense sub- ject in a few pages. For that rea- son alone it will not furnish the general public, which includes most members of Congress, with enough material for that serious reappraisal which has become so necessary. The report mentions most of the questions which have to be asked, but what it gives are its answers and not the facts and the reason- ing by which its conclusions were reached. As a result, the ordinary reader receives little more than a bundle of declarations as to what ought and ought not to be done. He gets little help toward an en- lightened debate. There is an explanation for this. The committee, which consists of 10 eminent men, was appointed last December "to advise the Presi- dent, the secretary of state, the secretary of defense and the ad- ministrator of the Agency for International Development." Quite evidently, that is exactly what it has done, and done, it appears, with profit to the administration. The report is not really a public document meant to clarify a pub- lic discussion. It is, so to speak, an inter-office memordandum for the insiders of the administration and is no doubt highly significant and intelligible to those who have taken part in the conferences which are not reported in the re- port. BECAUSE. it is the kind of 4ocu- ment it is, it will, I am afraid, provoke unfortunate reactions abroad. It is peppered with criti- cisms which, because it is anony- mous and not specific, could apply to some or all of the recipients of foreign aid. No country would be able to tell whether it is or is not being criticized. Furthermore, the report contains a sweeping criticism of all our allies, including Canada, for what they do or do not do in foreign aid. IF THE REPORT was to a pub- lic document, and of course it had to be, it should not have declared only its conclusions. It should have argued them persuasively. In my, view, this was entirely practicable since the main theme is sound. Thus, it is quite true that "we are trying to do too much for too many too soon, that we are over- extended in resources and under- compensated in results and that no end of foreign aid is either in sight or in mind." It follows, rightly enough, that we should not try to give aid to the 95 countries and territories which are now receiving it and that we should, instead, focus our aid so that It is enough to do the job in key countries. We must find a way to stop diluting and diffusing it allover the globe. Let the bridges we have to build be fewer, but let all of them cross the river. * * * WHEN IT comes to Latin Amer- ica, the report shows little evi- dence of a serious knowledge of the actual problem of.inducing the Latin peoples to emerge from their primitive past into the modern age. In fact, there is a consider- able ideological confusion in that the report seems to say that the only alternative to Communism is the American form of private en- terprise. That is not true. There are many forms of a mixed economy- some of them very successful in Europe-which are quite different both from Soviet communism and American capitalism. I feel that I must say, also, that the report itself exemplifies one of the principal reasons why, though since 1946 this country has spent some $100 billion in for- eign aid, it is so much disliked in so' many places. A persistent theme is that we should be giving and withholding favors, which mean so much in human terms, in our own interest. There is in this assumption of superiority which is abrasive in the kind of world we are living in-for the most part very poor and for the most part of some other color than white. WITH OUR great wealth and power, there should go humility, not pride. Thirty years ago, this country had not only the respect and the trust, but also the affec- tion of the underdeveloped world. Yet it had no foreign aid program. Why? Because 30 years ago, the country was struggling with its own desparate economic problems and with the rising menace of fascism. Because we had grave economic problems of owni our, we were not proud and self-satisfied, and we gave the effect of being in the same boat with the rest of mankind. That was when we had friends all over the world. We shall not have them again un- til this country becomes possessed once again, as it surely will when the political seasons change, in the high enterprise of making a good society. (C) 1963, The washington Post Co., FRATERNITIES-* Intimate A ssociation matters of discrimination: they represent the 'undeniable and ad. mitted right of.~ all citizens to select their associates. "The above principle is especially true in reference to a, national college fraternity or sorority. A collegiate chapter is in reality and purpose the home of its members. Both in theory and in practice, one of the fundamental objects of . our Fraternity has been to make the chapter house have the sim- ilitude of the American home and surely no one should be prepared to deny the right of men to com- plete freedom in selecting their most intimate associates and so- cial companions. "In reality a fraternity Is an association of congenial persons who will be drawn together for many years in many places. This association is intended to be in- timate, enjoyable, lasting and mu- tually helpful. "A FRATERNITY is not a poli- tical organization; it is a social organization whose activities and membership must be the expres- sion of personal choice or else the purpose of the organization fails. As a distinguished American has stated: 'A fraternity brother-ideal- ly is a man you are willing to live with, to have eat and sleep In your home, toy have become inti- mate with members of your family. Not all of your brethren will meet your ideal, you won't seem ideal yourself to a lot of them, but' certainly every man should be capable of meeting these specifica- tions.' "As probably our most distin- guished of American women (Mrs.. Eleanor Roosevelt) has said: 'So- bial equality to me is what you have among friends and I don't see how you can legislate about social equality." -Sigma Nu National Standing Committee on Jurisprudence . To the Editor: SOCIOLOGISTS engage in the business of studying social trends and discovering the ways in which communities seek to at- tamn their goals. Since the four, of us have been particularly engaged in the study of race relations in our professional work, we have prepared this summary of what seem to us to be the facts on the subject of fair housing. * * * RESTRICTIVE HOUSING is an economic and social burden to the minorities involved and to the community at large: Restrictions on housing opportunities inflate the rental and purchase costs of housing for minority families who can least afford to pay them in view of their low incomes. As a result, minority housing tends to be over-crowded by families squeezed into small apartments or subletting their space to roomers. High population densities com- bined with depleted financial re- sources for property maintenance result in property deterioration. For the occupants involved they increase interpersonal conflict and provide an inadequate environ- ment for family life, driving adults and children alike out into the streets. Owners of property rented to minorities have a captive market and therefore lessened incentive to keep property in good condition. Property deterioration in turn de- pletes the residential tax base of the city and raises governmental costs for fire protection, police protection, and welfare services. Housing segregation also produces segregation in elementary schools and other public facilities. LEGISLATION'is an increasing- ly common and effective means of alleviating the problems caused by restrictive housing: In recent years an increasing number of cities and states have established human re- lations commissions and provided them w~ith tools'for action in the form of legislation relating to pub- lic accommodation, employment, and housing. Although the num- ber of laws dealing specifically with housing is not yet large, new laws in this field are being passed every year and the trend of Ameri- can official judgment is clearly in this direction. Not only are more laws being passed but weak laws are being strengthened by extending their coverage to additional segments of the housing market and by broad- ening the responsible agency's powers of initiating action, of investigation, of injunctive protec- tion to the plaintiff, and of pen- alties for violation. In practice, fair housing legis- lation has been especially effective in permitting educated and high- er-income Negroes to secure adg- quate housing in previously re- stricted neighborhoods. Some of these new opportunities have been opened up through direct inter- vention of the human relations commissions involved. However, fair housing legislation also cry- Laurenti on "Property Values and Race" has indicated that adjacent white property values do not us- ually decline when a Negro family moves into a neighborhood. "Block-busting" scare tactics of unscrupulous realtors sometimes weaken property values temporar- ily levels are usually recovered thereafter. The research of Deutsch and Collins on "Interracial Housing" shows that white attitudes toward Negroes generally improve as Ca result of the actual experience of living in integrated apartment houses. Such legislation has not forced businessmen to accept all minority applicants indiscriminately. In- deed it has protected realtors and property owners against false charges of racial discrimination where potential customers were re- jected on the basis of legitimate criteria applicable to the majority group as well. Nor has such legislation gen- erally been administered ina pun- itive or harrassing fashion. The vast majority of complaints brought under these laws have been settled amicably to the satis- faction of both parties involved. Commissions have found their con- ciliation procedures almost uni- versally effective in solving prob- lems quietly behind the scenes. However their work has not been' effective in the absence of ulti- mate enforcement provisions in housing legislation. Although such powers are seldom invoked, many persons refuse to listen to coun- sels of moral persuasion unless en- forceable legislation makes amic- able settlement seem personally desirable and seriously intended by the community. In this regard,, real estate oper- ators have often resorted to delay- ing tactics to make their cases moot before conciliation could oc- cur. Out of this experience it has become clear that provision for injunctive relief is necessary to make fair housing legislation meaningful. -Prof. Robert O. Blood, Jr. -Prof. William A. Gamson -Prof. Leon H. Mayhew --Prof. Albert J. Reiss, Jr. Homosexuality ... To the Editor: ALTHOUGH in Philip Sutin's re- cent editorial concerning the archaic approaches to homosex- uality he demonstrated some of the problems involved in helping the homosexual achieve a more compatible life, his. classification of homosexuality as a "mental disease," while certainly more ac- curate than labeling it as a crime, does not rightly describe it, nor does this help to solve the prob- lem. To obtain the "new approaches" that he requests, it is imperative that people become acquainted with the true manifestations of this too often surpressed and un- studied problem.. The first step in achieving this should be the removal of all forms of disease or crime conotations from this par- ity a more accurate label would be socially deviant behavior., -Kent Woodbury, '65 Buses, To the Editor: 1QUS TRANSPORTATION in Anni Arbor is about to die. We are told that there fare basically two reasons: not enough people want to ride the buses; and the drivers want too much money. Maybe there is an even more important reason. Maybe Ann Ar- bor isn't really interested in hav- ing people ride buses. For example, there are over 27,000 students and faculty at the University. At least half of them travel from three to seven blocks, two to four. times a day. Bicycling is dangerous and driving is a nightmare. What bet- ter conditions could a bus system ask for? To be sure, many buses pass by the campus, but they arrive a half hour before classes start and leave five minutes before classes let out. Moreover the fare is ridiculous. For people going to the University Hospital from Pittsfield Village or Miller Avenue, a 25 cents fare is probably reasonable. But 25 cents is outrageous for the three to seven block rides that the Uni-' versity people want.- So perhaps Ann Arbor's Bus Service isn't failing because of the- drivers or the lack of riders. Per- haps it is failing because it has been trying to provide shoppers, for the downtown merchants rath- er than meet the community's transportation needs. -Henry M. Wallace, '64 Elections .. To the Editor: AT A TIME when there is much talk of expanding the powers of Student Government Council, it must be pointed out that the Council seems to have much dif- ficulty in fulfilling the assign- ments which it has already under- taken. We are specifically referring to the inability of the elections committee to conduct a proper senior class election, a job for which they are paid by the senior board. Having encountered a problem last year due to the fact that the ID cards have no positive means of ascertaining the school year, SGC failed to correct the situa- tion this year. The results of this incompetency was a nullification ,of the business administration election, a move which seriously hinders the efficiency of senior board. (Contrary to the report in The Daily, last year's literary col- lege election was not entirely void- ed because the Faculty Subcom- mittee on Discipline overruled Joint Judiciary and validated the election of the president and sec- retary.) Those unfamiliar with SGC's previous blundering might con- strue their recommendation of nul- lification of the business adminis- tration election as done by SGC-- that "Watchful Champion of Stu- GUZOWSKI BEHEST: New Righ Wing Films By ROBERT SELWA THE PUBLIC should be alerted about a pair of films that are being shown in Hamtramck at the behest of Rep. Richard Guzowski (D-Detroit). Indications are that the films are providing the kind of distortion for which "Operation Abolition" is infamous. According to Guzowski, one of them, "The Price Is Youth," deals with alleged Communistmparty ac- tivities on college, campuses in the United States and throughout the world. He says the other, "Communist Encirclement, 'deals with "how. the Communist party has been able to take over" much of the world. * * * THE HOUSE Un-American Ac- tivities Committee recently Spon- sored "Operation Abolition" which contained all sorts of unfounded charges that' Communists led the student demonstrations against HUAC in San Francisco four years ago. Like HUAC, Guzowski is a force for those elements that see conspiracy everywhere and that injure Constitutional rights of speech, assembly and due process. volved in "The Price Is Youth," Student GovernmentCouncil has a duty to look into the situation. Two years ago, when "Operation Abolition" began making the rounds, SGC got a copy of that movie, showed it at a Council meeting and then made a judge- ment on it. This would be a good procedure for handling "The Price Is Youth," and this is the pro- cedure outlined in Kenneth Mil- ler's motion for Council tonight. SGC should also mandate its ad'. ministrative vice-president to write to the Hamtramck school board to find out just what is going on. SINCE THE schools of other De- troit communities besides Ham- tramck might be hit by the films, educators in the area should be alerted. If the films are good, they should be shown more widely in the interests of education and of greater discussion about Comnmun- ism. If the films are bad, if they contain lier rw unfair inferences, then people should put pressure on the filmmakers to correct the wrongs. At any rate, when con- troversial movies ilke "The Price Is Youth" are shown, they should hp. frl11reuib a ea ~te be~tweeAn