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DAY, MAY 3, 1963 ACTING NIGHT EDITOR: DEBORAH BEATTIE
Indiana Subversi*on Law
A Relic of MeCarthy
A QUESTIONABLE Indiana anti-Communist
statute is in for its first test of constitu-
tionality.
The trip to the Supreme Court began yes-
terday when three Young Socialist Alliance
'3 orrowTers'?
APPILY, University students are showing
.extraordinary enthusiasm, and determina-
tion in pursuing research activity. In fact,
they have gone as far as stealing books from
University libraries to- accomplish their noble,
intellectual ends.
First, the Bureau of Government Library in
Rackham Bldg. has reported that several "very
important" books-all having to do with legis-
lative reapportionment-are missing. Second,
nine newly-purchased copies of "The Politics
of Reapportionment" by Malcolm E. Jewell,
highly recommended for apportionment re-
search, were taken from the open reserve
shelves of the Undergraduate Library.
The Jewell books were purchased for two of
the more advanced political science courses, but
disappeared soon after 300 students in Political
Science 110, unknown to the UGLI staff, were
assigned a research paper on legislative ap-
portionment.
A stolen library book cannot be compared to
a stolen fir coat or jewelry. Only one person
is the loser if jewelry is stolen. But hundreds
of students are being hurt because of these
stolen books. When a thief takes jewelry he
derives pleasure in using the money he gets
by selling it. The book thief, once he has ex-
tracted the information And ideas from the.
book, no longer needs it.
If this book stealing reaches larger dimen-
sions, preventive measures which will incon-
venience everyone, will have to be imple-
mented. Perhaps the libraries will enforce
stricter searches as a person leaves. Or per-
haps the open shelves will be closed to students,
who would be forced to sign for books and then
have library personnel fetch them. This would,
to the dismay of many, eliminate browsing.
Thievery is unjustified under any circum-
stances, but it seems ironic that students have
engaged in such defiance of rules while study-
ing political science, which concerns itself in
part with the rule of law.
It's time for some soul-searching. The thieves
should return the books to the libraries at once.
As it is, the guilty ones have no right to look
back on their respectable grades on their
papers with any assurance that their marks
were deserved.
-KAREN MARGOLIS
student leaders at the University of Indiana
were indicted for violating the state's 1951
anti-subversion law.
Charges grew out of remarks made by na-
tional YSA organizing secretary Leroy McRea
at a meeting sponsored by the group in a
university building March 25. He asserted,
"we will use either violence or non-violence
to achieve our aims." He told the group, "We
are for fundamental change and identify our-
selves (Negroes fighting for civil rights) as
national socialist. We want political power.
Those who have political power have denied
us our Frights. We will achieve this power one
way or another.
THIS IS clearly a violation of the law, which
forbids advocating the "doctrine that the
government of the United States or of the
State of Indiana should be overthrown by force,
violence, or any unlawful means." Therefore,
if the existing law is enforced there is very
little doubt that the three will be convicted.
Prosecutor Thomas A. Hoadley is aware
that this is the first case to be tried under the
1951 statute, and he must also be aware that
there would very likely be an appeal by the
Indiana Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the
three if they were convicted. "I am convinced
that the law is constitutional, and prepared to
try the case before the Supreme Court, if
necessary," he said.
Howevet, before Tuesday's indictment he
had expressed reluctance to prosecute. "I would
have prefered that the school handle this
affair."
THIS IS rather strange talk coming from an
attorney. There is no University of Indiana
regulation against what the students have
done. But there is an applicable Indiana sta-
tute. It is also strange that McRea was not
prosecuted, in light of the fact that the state's
case is based on his talk.
These two facts are explained by the fact
that Hoadley knows about a recent Supreme
Court decision which declared an almost iden-
tical Pennsylvania law unconstitutional.
The Indiana law is poor. It is a reflection of
the frantic "shoot anything that wears pink"
sentiment of the McCarthy era. It has no
place in an intelligent society.
Recent Supreme Court rulings indicate that
the Indiana law as it stands is very likely
unconstitutional. The high court has taken the
position that advocacy of a position is legal
until it involves urging to an illegal action.
Clearly this is not the sentiment of the
Indiana law. Clearly the law should be judged
unconstitutional. Clearly this would be healthy
for America.
-CARL COHEN
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Fair Housing:'ACiy Decision
TODAY AND TOMORROW:
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By David Marcus, Acting Editorial Director
(EDITOR's NOTE: This is the first of a regular
columh to be written by the acting senior editors
of The Daily. 'It will appear twice weekly with all
the acting seniors writing alternately with the
exception of acting Daily Editor Ronald Wilton,
who will have his own weekly column appearing
every Sunday.)
STUDENTS, like the proverbial chicken sans
head, are running around yelling for stu-
dent-faculty government. Student - faculty
government is suposed to be the ultimate
panacea. Unlike the panaceas of past years, it
will not just cure student apathy, a lack of
issues and Student Government Council's lack
of prestige; it will bridge the gap and create
a true community of scholars where everybody
works selflessly for the good of everybody else.
Basically, the idea of student-faculty gov-
ernment is good. At the same time, SGC and
students in general, have not asked the critical
question: what practical consequences can
student-faculty government have?
The success or failure of student-faculty
government ultimately depends on what the
students and faculty expect from it. For faculty
government, like student government, has very
definite limitations. The new structure of com-
mittees that parallel but are not a part of
similar faculty committees is doubly limited.
FOR EXAMPLE, students will not gain much
power. For the most part, the faculty com-
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mittees will function in an advisory capacity.
Their recommendations and those of the Uni-
versity Senate do carry with them the prestige
of the faculty. But the hard fact is that com-'
mittee and Senate recommendations have been
overruled, returned for revision or simply
buried. The faculty does not run the University.
Furthermore, student participation will not
extend into areas where the faculty really does
have power. The faculty has its strongest say
in the affairs of the individual schools, colleges
and departments. The parallel committee struc-
ture does not extend into these areas where
the faculty can and does act.
The parallel committee structure will not
even succeed in creating a better-informed
student body. Faculty committee deliberations
are held in secret. One would expect that if
the student committee members want to know
what their faculty counterparts are doing, the
students will also have to observe the same
secrecy.
THESE PROJECTIONS make the future of
student-faculty government look much more
pessinistic than it actually is. Students can
begin to create a small but knowledgeable
group of activists who will at least extend stu-
dent knowledge beyond the Office of Student
Affairs. The parallel committee structure will
also give the student participants an opportun-
ity to gain a' broader perspective on their own
education.
But faculty-government is not going to be
a cure-all for what ails SGC and students in
general. The new committees will have to
create their own role. Students will have to
convince wary faculty members of their ability
to make useful contributions. The students
will have to create rapport with the faculty
members on an entirely new footing if the
students expect to participate meaningfully.
To the Editor:
HE STORY in Tuesday's Mich-
igDaily ocrigthe con
tent of the report on the fair
housing ordinance which Profs.
Eldersveld and Pelz and I pre-
pared at President Hatcher's re-
quest conveys an impression that
is, in some respects, inaccurate.
The report does not, for instance,
as the story implies, "criticize" the
ordinance for not attempting to
control the sale or rental by the
majority of homeowners of their
private residences. Nor does it
"recommend the regulation of
brokers" (your language, n o t
ours).
We did make the observation
that the ordinance does not do
either of these things, for which
reason it will have relatively little
effect upon the situation of the
person who wishes to rent or pur-
chase a used single residence. The
report then states:
"How far the ordinance should
go in an effort to remedy this
problem is a decision which the
University cannot make for the
community. In our opinion,
however, the need for oppor-
tunities to purchase used hous-
ing must be a substantial one
insofar as University employees
are concerned. If it is intended
that the ordinance should serve
this need, regulation of the
practices of brokers is a device
that has been tried elsewhere.
It seems to offer some promise
of assistance to the prospective
buyer without interfering with
the home owner's power of
disposition.
*w*w *
THE PRESIDENT asked us to
describe the interest which the
University as an institution may
have in the Ann Arbor housing
situation, and to assess the extent
to which that interest may be
affected by the ordinance under
consideration. This is all the re-
port attempts to do. It therefore
represents, an assessment of the
coverage of the ordinance from
this particular point of view. Nat-
urally other interests must be
weighed in the balance along with
that of the University, and the
report makes no attempt to draw
the end conclusions for the com-
munity.
The conclusions which the re-
port does reach are fully stated
in Tuesday's edition of the Ann
Arbor News. Your readers would
be well advised to consult that re-
port and draw their own conclu-
sions from it. The Daily's attempt
to reorganize and restate the
thoughtsthereset forth expresses
a quite different orientation from
which was adopted by its authors.
-Prof. Luke K. Cooperrider
Delta .. .
To the Editor:
THE RECENT editorial com-
ments by David Marcus on
Delta College's attempts to gain
four-year status are based on
either lack of information or ir-
responsibility.
To itemize his errors of fact and
conjecture may be lengthy, but I
will attempt it:
1) Initially, he indicates that
side of the political spectrum.
However, Bay County's Republican
Committee in February endorsed
all efforts of Delta's trustees to
obtain an upper two years for the
college.
3) LATER, still attempting to
portray parochialism, he refers to
Delta's refusal to renew the con-
tract of a controversial instructor.
He fails to note, however, that
this dispute arose well after at-
tempts to put Delta at a four-
year level had been put aside for
this session of the Legislature.
4) He concludes by saying that
neither the area nor the. trustees.
"have shown themselves ready to
build and run a good college."
Even if his shaky reasons -were
based in fact, Delta's history and
development preclude such an un-
warranted conclusion.
The voters of Bay, Saginaw and
Midland counties voted to form
the community college at a site
in Bay County accessible to all
three cities, to replace the ad-
mittedly second-rate Bay City
Junior College. In a short period
of time, an outstandingly-designed
physical plant arose on the site
-a site which has more growth
space than virtually any college
in Michigan. Containing the most
modern teaching facilities, Delta
opened in September, 1961, after
having retained only the best of
BCJC's faculty and attracting
good instructors from other col-
leges.
PROBLEMS regarding which
path to four-year status arose
last fall. Delta trustees, University
officials and the bulk of the popu-
lace supported a merger. However,
a legislative study committee rec-
ommended a separate upper two
years and the state's other col-
leges frowned on the merger pat-
tern being established.
Despite the heat generated, this
was basically an honest difference
of opinion among persons, all of
whom had the goal of a four-year
Delta at heart. While it could be
considered a tactical error for the
Trustees to support a program not
endorsed by the Legislature, it is
clear that all persons involved
acted responsibly according to
their convictions.
Marcus would be wise to re-
search his work more completely
in the future. If he did, it is
unlikely that he would find a
populace and Board of Trustees
interested and active enough to
found an outstanding two-year
school would be undeserving of a
degree-granting institution.
-Michael J. Gillman, 61
Apathy...
To the Editor:
THERE ARE several comments
I would like to make about
Andrew Orlin's recent editorial
concerned with student awareness
in the United States as compared
to other countries. I agree with
Mr. Orlin's central thesis: that
American students are devoid of
the social and political awareness
that characterizes their counter-
parts in other parts of the' world.
I disagree with Mr. Orlin's analy-
of its international counterparts
are except in totalitarian coun-
tries.
American education arises out
of the tradition of educating
people to fulfill clerical roles as
contrasted to the European deriva-
tion of a band of scholars inde-
pendently seeking knowledge. This
is still the major posture of Amer-
ican education.
* * 4,
THIS IS accomplished by a
narrowing of the legitimate spec-
trum of opinion within American
educational institutions. The sta-
tus quo is not challenged but ac-
cepted. The student or faculty
member who questions it too deep-
ly is in a precarious position.
The Universities are under con-
siderable pressure from their ma-
jor 'sources of income to remain
bastions of the entrenched or-
thodoxy. State legislatures, busi-
ness, and the Defense Department
are scarcely likely to encourage
questioning of the status quo. It
is this rather than "ivory tower-
ism" that makes American Uni-
versities impotent social institu-
tions.
USNSA, as a national union of
students in the United States,
must operate within the American
context. It is impossible to have
student activism without students
who are first aware and concern-
ed. Thus the major thrust of
USNSA is in the form of educa-
tional activities through confer-
ences, seminars, speaker series,
etc.
* * *
FURTHERMORE USNSA is lim-
ited by the autonomy of its mem-
ber schools. It is impossible for
them to act on any campus with-
out the active cooperation of the
student government and/or the
student press on that campus.
Membership is based on the in-
dividual campus to prevent US-
NSA from becoming a single fac-
tion group that would have no
legitimate claim to representivity.
It is only sad that USNSA must
operate in a context that is apa-
thetic toward students and stu-
dent responsibility.
--Howard Abrams, '63
By WALTER LIPPMANN
THE ITALIAN elections must be
regarded as not quite decisive.
For much depends now on what
happens this summer at the con-
vention of Nenni's Socialist Party.
There are the Socialists who used
to be affiliated with the Com-
munity Party, but since 1962 have
been supporting the coalition led
by the Christian Democrats.
There is a crisis in the making
on the question of whether the
Nenni Socialists will divorce the
Communists completely or wheth-
er they will continue to collaborate
with them in regional politics.
There has long been a bill pend-
ing in the Italian parliament to
grant what we would call states'
rights to each of the 19 regions of
which Italy is composed. There
are, however, two regions, Emilia
and Tuscany, where the Commun-
ists and the Nenni Socialists com-
bined would have an absolute ma-
jority. The Fanfani government is
not likely to pass the states' rights
bill unless the Nenni Socialists
promise not to form a governing
coalition with the Communists.
The critical question is whether
Nenni can make this promise and
still hold his party together. If
he cannot, the Fanfani coalition
government will be in grave dan-
ger.
WHILE the outcome is not de-
cisive, nevertheless it is true that,
while the Fanfani coalition has
lost some seats in the parliament,
it is still, very considerably
stronger than any other combina-
tion which could be put together.
If, for example, the Nenni Social-
ists were excluded, either of the
other conceivable combinations
would have only about 53 per cent
of the seats as against the 60 per
cent which these elections have
given to the Fanfani coalition.
A somewhat closer study of the
vote shows that there has been a
general movement to the left.
Starting with the Communists on
the extreme left, we see that they
gained about a million votes. Pre-
sumably the Communists gains
come from those Socialists who
disapproved of Nenni's arrange-
ment with the Christian Demo-
crats. Yet, curiously enough, the
Nenni Socialists held steady.Their
share of the popular vote is only
one-third of one per cent lower
than in 1958. If, indeed, they lost
a million votes to the Communists,
they must have gained about that
many from the Christian Demo-
crats.
Moving another step to the right,
the Saragat Democratic Socialists,
who have never collaborated with
the Communists, gained over 'half
a million votes. These, too, must
have come from the Christian
Democrats. All in all, the Chris-
tian Democrats lost a little more
than a million votes, and the bulk
of them must have gone to the
parties on the left. It is true that
the Conservative Party, which in
Italy is called the Liberal Party
and is comparable with the Eisen-
hower Republicans in this country,
made big gains. But these appear
to have been at the expense of the
Monarchist Party on its own right.
The Conservative Liberals gained
over a million votes, while the
Monarchists lost over a million
votes.
* * *
PARENTHETICALLY, it has
been said that the Communist
gains must have come from the
1,750,000 young people who are
the new voters. The figures do not
bear out this conclusion. The elec-
torate for the Chamber of Depu-
ties begins at 21 years of age.
The electorate for the Senate be-
gins at 25 years of age. The new
voters, therefore, were in the elec-
torate of the Chamber of Deputies
and not in that of the Senate.
If it was these young people who
swelled the Communist vote, there
should have been a greater Com-
munist gain in the Chamber of
Deputies elections than in the
Senate elections. In fact, the con-
trary is true.
* * *
SPEAKING GENERALLY, the
Italian elections show that a ma-
jority of the Italian voters are left
of center. If it happens this sum-
mer that the Nenni Socialists can-
not detach themselves success-
fully from the old collaboration
with the Communists, the govern-
ing coalition of the parliament will
have to move from the center-
left to the center-right.
In all likelihood, this would
bring about a renewal of those
weak governments which Fanfani
has sought to overcome by draw-
ing the Nenni Socialists away from
the Communists.
(c) 1963, The Washington Post Co.
G&s:
Gondoliers
Sal
GIVEN ONEof Gilbert and Sulli-
vansmost tedious productions
to work with, the Gilbert and Sul-
livan Society last night served up
"The Gondoliers" with spirit and
aplomb.
Handicapped perhaps by the
presence of not one, not two, but
nine leads in one show, the cast
of 52 worked hard in presenting
a balanced production that unfor-
tunately sometimes resulted in a
terrific jam. Despitea few ragged
beginnings, the exuberance of the
cast flowed forth to fill the stage
of Lydia Mendelssohn.
However, even though Gilbert
wrote"TheGondoliers" with the
intent that no 'roles be dominant,'
several performances last night
were easily the center of atten-
tion. It can be safely said that the
comic leads-the Duke and Duch-
ess of Plaza-Toro (James Brown
and Lois Alt) and Don Alahambra
del Bolero, the Grand Inquisitor
(John Allen) -carried the per-
formance smoothly and hilarious-
ly over the long drawn out se-
quences that the romantic leads
would have been unable to spark
alone.
AS IS THE CASE with many of
the later Savoy light operas, "The
Gondoliers" is too long. Except for
a pair of numbers by the comic
leads neither the music nor the
lyrics are outstanding. Gilbert, by
this stage in his partnership with
Sullivan, was running out of new
ideas and the somewhat complex
Gondoliers plot is little more than
a rehash of their previous suc-
cesses.
As the scene opens, the Duke
and Duchess have arrived in Ven-
ice with their daughter Casilda
(Dolores Noeske) in search of her
childhood husband, the infant king
of Barataria, who was spirited
away by Don Alhambra in the
face of an anti-royalty, Methodist
inquisition. The Don sent- the
young king to live with a Vene-
tian gondolier and his son, to
await the day he would return to
his throne.
It has become somewhat vague,
however, just which son is which,
and besides, neither boy realizes
that he is potential royalty. To
complicate matters further, both
have married, making one, quite
obviously, a bigamist. Thus hope-
lessly emeshed it takes G&S two
and one half hours to get out of
the snarl.
THOUGH judicious' cutting in
several spots throughout the show
might have been undertaken, no
one segment really drags, and sev-
eral potentially monotonous scenes
were well rescued by good per-
formances from a generally well
polished cast.
Daughter Casilda is secretly in
love with her father's drummer-
boy Luiz (James Martin) and is
quite distressed when her parents
reveal that she had been betroth-
ed to another. Both Miss Noeske
and Martin turned in charming
portrayals. Martin's facial expres-
sions and comic exchanges with
the Duke were particularly capti-
vating.
Miss Alt and Brown, however,
stole the show. They, along with
Allen, the Don, made every mo-
ment on stage exciting, and left
the audience wishing for more.
THE PERFORMANCES by the
two pairs of romantic leads, Giu-
seppi and Marco (Richard Haz-
zard and Henry Naaskd) and Tes-
sa and Gianetta (Jan Hurshberger
and Karen Emens), were adequate.
It was particularly in their scenes
that the ragged edges of both the
leads and the chorus became ap-
parent.
Naasko, although improved from
his performance last fall in Prin-
cess Ida and endowed with a good
singing voice, has little dancing
ability and stage presence which
marred many of the Gondolier
scenes. Hazzard, on the other
hand, is able to carry off the role
of the naive, Republican Gondo-
lier with much more success.
Vocally the entire cast outdid
themselves, responding to the able
musical direction of Rosella Duerk-
sen, who's "no sluoch" at con-
ducting an orchestra either. The
choreography staged by director
Gersham Clark Morningstar for
such a large group in such a small
area can best be described as
amazing. Especially captivating
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