Seventy-Third Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Where Opinions Ar cPM 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 be noted in all reprints. 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 t -i '7t. Jr+ "" $~.. I ~ ~~- - - - . 'y. ' 4 s ~& i he' ' ' a~" / y t . , t . . ld . . .^ . X } "ive It To Me Straight, Doce. . . How Long Have I Got?" LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Fair Housing:'ACiy Decision TODAY AND TOMORROW: Fan fani Coalition Likely To Continue THIE LIAISON .. A':v~r:X:::t":":":t4:ti Q~;::'} 4.. :: : isc. ,"'.. f . c % ;1 Ot.}r-;. , ": ?^. t.-; 4>r::'=i : : -a::as;.: .:<, r 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- Editorial Staff MICHAEL OLINICK, Editor JUDITH OPPENHEIM MICHAEL HARRAH Editorial Director City Editor CAROLINE DOW ................Personnel Director JUDITH BLEIER..............Associate City Editor FRED RUSSELL KRAMER .. Assoc. Editorial Director CYNTHIA NEU. .........C-Magazine Editor HARRY PERLSTADT........... Co-Magazine Editor TOM WEBBER ......... .... Sports Editor JAN WINKLEMAN...........Associate Sports Editor 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 I "Ah, Yes--The Murder Of That Hiker Was A Dastardly Act" - SJ //W-- -- A rem i A A4 :.