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'URDAY, MAY 4, 1963
NIGHT EDITOR: PHILIP SUTIN
'U' Press Policy Change
Warrants Criticism
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WpTO LAST YEAR the University Press had
been publishing scholarly books, designing
and marketing them attractively, winning
prizes and acclaim, and losing money. The
University fully expected to subsidize it and
no one was visibly upset.
Last year the financial administrators of the
press decided to make a profit and changed
all past policy. They made a mistake. If the
press could maintain high content quality and
high sales level, and at the same time make
a profit, there would be no problem.
However, the press found out that it can't
do that: it made a profit last year by reducing
operating expenses which in turn reduced sales
volume. In this situation sales varies inversely
with profit.
A university press has a public responsibility
to publish a maximum number of high quality
books for a maximum number of people. Pro-
fits are not a proper aim; such presses are
deliberately labelled non-profit.
MOST OF THE reduction in operating costs
was in promotion. The press published
more titles last year than the year before,
but by spending less on advertising and related
activities it sold 15 per cent fewer books. The
press is no longer expanding as it has in
recent years. Sales volume is the measuring-
stick of a press'growth, not profit or number
of titles, simply because the works it publishes
have little value unless they are read by as
many who could benefit as possible.
The press bias refused to admit a mistake.
The administrators claim that it was becoming
too large to be manageable and that the cut-
back keeps it at a proper size.,
The situation has become more and more
confused by an interesting assortment of per-
sonalities, ,accusations, charges and counter-
charges, denials, contradictions, threats and
secrecy. To call the situation unhealthy is to
understate the problem.
HIGK UNIVERSITY officials have issued
'statements that reflect the role of a uni-
versity press and very obviously refute the-
policy change.
Regent Eugene B. Power of Ann Arbor em-'
phasizes that "the Regents: want the press to
grow and expand." He adds that the role of
a university press is to publish scholarly works
"whether profitable or not."
Alexander Ruthven, University president
from 1929 to 1950, writes in his memoirs,
which will be released June 3 in a University
Press edition, that "liberal financial support
of a press should be considered legitimate uni-
versity expense. A university, press. which is
compelled to operate as a money-making de-
partment even to the extent of being self-
supporting should be given some other name
than 'university'."
Although the press made a profit for the
first time last year, it is impossible to tell
whether the trend will continue. Past losses
have been caused by large initial investments
in growing press that should begin to pay off.
Recent profits include money that would nor-
mally be reinvested in the press and could
cause losses in coming years.
ON THE SURFACE everything seems reason-
able enough until one starts to ask ques-
tions. When, faced with additional charges,
various officials continually act as if there
was more to the situation, which they are
hiding.'
The past director of the lress who led it
through the expansion period resigned last
year, at leat partially because control had
been taken out of his hands and a "retrench-
ment" policy had been forced upon him.
The principal sales representative began
complaining about the policy change and had
his contract terminated. Impartial -observers
reported that he had done an "excellent" sales
job.
A new director was appointed who is ruling
with a'nervous hand. He refuses to release pub-
lic financial information about the press or
explain his reasons for refusal.
AFTER MUCH HAGGLING back ani forth,
thepress finally released complete finan-
cial figures that support most of the retrench-
ment arguments. There is a limited retrench-
ment policy for the. sake of profit-although
administrators alternately admit it and deny
it.
Why the policy has been changed is a ques-
tion no one will answer. However it is evident
that various University officials are watching
the press very closely. The administrators are
new and must be given a chance to prove
themselves, Regent Power has explained.
Whether or not their time runs out depends
on what happens in the next few months.
The proper emphasis of the University Press
is quite apparent. It is unnecessary to echo
the sentiments of Regent Power and former.
President Ruthven. The press must reverse
itself quickly before a few heads, already
visibly sweating, begin to roll.
By refusing to explain itself, the press has.
opened its policies to much warranted criticism.
It has filing cabinets full of criticism, which it
has so far ignored.
The University has the responsibility to
publically investigate the policy change at the
press and once and for all correct a badly
confused situation that does not appear to be
improving.
-RICHARD KELLER SIMON
"I Keep Hearing Bells. First They Peal, And Then They Toll."
ATHLETIC NEEDS
Field House Se tup Unsuitable
SIDELINE ON SGC:
Direct Vote Endeavors
To Revitalize Interest
Evangelists . .
THOSE OPPOSED
tions argue ver
a part of The Colle
be singularly abhor
of misled fraternit
Those supporting i
soundly: initiations
Life. And this life m
--in spite of the c
complainers-as a v
issue is obviously we
Since no one is
the only justificati
initiations is that
upon their followers
befell them. Sour-
not have the right t
ments of The Coll
One quite oftens
the protectors of
of the downtrodden,
man's inhumanityt
superficial college a:
NO DOUBT a wo
ther to rail aE
duck -walking, mud
tree-tearing which
which are instead
But I am not be
plainers have anot
membership to an
hurt among those le
full force or theirI
dents who are tapp(
those who are not t
However, those wl
initiations should be
invective. Not onlyi
thereby justifyingi
complaining-but in
The College Life by
suffered by initiat
status quo: honora:
tinuing their initiat
plainers can babble
ISwo$niiatio:Two Views
Law and Order ...
) to men's honorary initia- A SIZABLE CROWD looked on yesterday,
y soundly: initiations are drooling in anticipation, as 20 all-but-
ge Life. And this life mustn
red-in spite of the claims naked knaves clung to a tree to receive a
y men-as a false image. thorough coating of wet red mud at the hands
nitiations also argue very of a group of somewhat flabby braves. The
are a part of The College occasion was the tapping ritual for the noblest
nust be singularly respected honorary of. them all, Michigamua.-
wlaims of neurotic, chronic The braves showed no mercy toward the
worthwhile institution. The. initiates, grabbing them in a tight headlock
v-defined. aand subjecting them to worse treatment. Nor
oeededhur-or contnn did they hesitate to make sure their audience
ionntiae wishctinfict was wide awake by letting a little mud or
initiates wish to inflict smoke come that way. '
the same indignities which
grapers who complain do Ask any member of the Tribe and he will
to assert their value judge- undoubtedly tell you that it is an honor to
ege Life on others. be desecrated as these young bucks were. But
hears invectives voiced by a far better statement was provided by their
humanity, the guardians faculty adviser, Walter Rea, assistant to the
the great crusaders against vice-president for student affairs. He announc-
to man, the uncoverers of ed to the mud-soaked initiates, "It's not what
antics. you have already done but what you should be
doing." What the braves should have beenj
)nderful selflessness drives doing is cleaning up the unsightly mess they
gainst indignities such as left on University property.
-slinging and limb-from A O
are not felt by them bu CCORDING TO REA, University authorities
suferedn by the, are not in favor o64such rowdy goings-on.
ing completely fair; com- But he has a ready explanation for the prepon-
Cher issue. By restricting derant lack of attention to the situation on
honored few, feelings are their part. He says that if officials were to
ft out. And now comes the clamp down, the complaint might arise that
two solid argunents: stu- the offenders are, after all, university stu-
ed do not want to be and dents, and they should be left to discover the
apped do want to be. error of their ways on their own. In effect,
ho wish to complain about either we have rowdyism where there should
allowed to continue their exist instead a truly meaningful and prideful
do they receive pleasure- ceremony or we succumb to "in loco parentis."
the harmless practice of Surely this attitude is quite, the wrong one
their own way they add to for any University official to take. No univer-
amplifying the indignities sity can exist without a basic system of au-
es. I am defending the thority, but the student body must display a
ries are justified in con- true sense of responsibility for it as well. The
ion procedures, and com- fact that this responsibility is not yet at
on if they wish, hand is evident from the way things got out
-MICHAEL SATTINGER of hand yesterday. Replacing a few onlookers'
muddy garments is not the answer. The point
is that those people supposedly in charge
should not be content to excuse the braves'
J more maicioius actions arnd let themn Rn with
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first
of a series of nine articles on the
editorial and sports pages analyzing
the most pressing problems of the
University's athletic plant.)
By DAVID GOOD
Acting Sports Editor
LIKE JACK BENNY, Yost Field
House is 39 years old. But un-
like Benny, the comedian-violinist
who can stay 39 as long as he
wants, the field house is getting
older; it will reach its fortieth
birthday later this month.
When it was constructed in
1922-23, this was the first and
finest sports building of its kind
in the country. Conveived by the
man whose name it bears, former
Athletic Director Fielding H. Yost,
the field house was the only build-
ing capable of holding competition
in virtually any intercollegiate
contest, including football practice
in bad weather.
"This was a visionary thing in
its time," explained former Michi-
gan football coach Bennie Ooster-
baan, who won nine varsity letters
in football, baseball and basket-
ball during the infant years of the
field house.
"People came from all over the
world to see it. Other schools
came and learned from it," he said.
TODAY, as those close to the
situation must admit, people come
and laugh at it. After' the Ohio
State University basketball game
here last February, one of the
Detroit dailies called it "drafty
old Yost Field House" and added
a picture of the record crowd of
9775 with this cutline: "There was
hardly room for the bats that
live in the girders of Yost Field
House."
Those who disparage Yost Field
House were disappointed when a
fire to a wrestling mat failed to
destroy the building last winter.
Instead, the blaze merely neces-
sitated a spray paint job courtesy
of the insurance company-an im-
provement that bespoke an in-
tention of permanence.
Even today, however, despite the
fact that the roof leaks so badly
that insiders call the field house
"Mo'ton Stadium" ("when it rains,
it pours"), the building is ex-
tremely well constructed, as Oos-
terbaan pointed out, and has been
kept up nicely. At any rate, the
general opinion seems to be that
it would cost more to raze the
building than the $400,000-odd
that it cost to construct it.
SO YOST FIELD HOUSE, now
the oldest of its kind in the
country, is definitely here to stay
and, as a sports arena, it is en-
tirely serviceable for many pur-
poses-but not for basketball and
track, the two major sports car-
r ed on within its walls.'
Coach Dave Strack is slow to
complain about the basketball fa-
cilities, but anticipating one of
the best teams in Wolverine his-
tory, he makes it no secret that
he would like his team to play
in more modern surroundings.
The major problem is that the
f,eating capacity is inadequate.
Even in accommodating a, crowd
upon girders overhanging the sec-
ond deck;
4) Or, if they are lucky and
happen to be reporters, scrambling
up the rickety staircase to the
press box and trying to find a
seat there.
* * *
THERE'S NO . TELLING how
many prospective basketball play-
ers have considered enrolling at
the University but turned else-
wherewhen introducedto their
new home-a place that was so
dark and dingy 15 years ago that
an entire new battery of lights
had to be installed to make the
court playable.
If Yost Field House is an un-
happy place for holding a basket-
ball game, it is a house of horrors
for trying to runoff a track meet.
.Although it was supposedly con-
structed to be able to facilitate a
conference track meet, the field
house never has hosted a Big Ten
meet and never will.
Coach Don Canham has been
calling for help so long he has
given up hope.
"Nobody wants to watch a track
meet here and I don't blame
them," he commented. "First, we
can't get any good gate attractions
here because nobody wants to run
in the place. Second, you can't
even see an entire race here, no
matter where you sit."
* * *
MICHIGAN'S indoor track runs
around the basketball court and
underneath the upper stands,
which overhang the backstretch
and homestretch.
Unless a viewer chooses a seat
on the lower bleachers set up in
front of the backstretch, he misses
about half the race. But the fact
that those bleachers remain erect
for meets means that even of-
ficials and competitors at ground
level miss whatever goes on along
the backstretch. From the com-
petitor's point of view, the cinder
track surface is more than ade-
quate and few distance men ever
complain of the conditions they
face in the field house.
It is another matter for sprint-
ers, however. The track runs the.
customary' 220 yards but is more
elongated than most others in
order to keep within the limits
of the building.
This means that the turns ap-
proximate hairpin proportions; ask
the intramural sprinters who in-
variably fall all over themselves
trying to make it safely into the
next straightway.
s , .
IT GOES without saying that
the infield, with the portable bas-
ketball floor left up, is crowded
enough so that competitors almost
have to watch so that they're not
speared by a charging pole vaulter
or hit by an errant throw from
a shotputter.
But there are still a few who
love Yost. Charlie Aquino, the
senior track captain from Nor-
walk, Conn., says "This old place
has atmosphere if nothing else."
But to tell the truth, it loses
for track and basketball.
By LAURENCE KIRSHBAUM
WHILE PRESSING to material-
ize the rather nebulous con-
cept of student-faculty govern-
ment, Student Government Coun-
cil has also come to the realiza-
tion that the ideal of student gov-
ernment itself has never really
been fulfilled on this campus.
The fulfillment of student gov-
ernment's potential wil ultimately
rely on the relationships between
students and their government
rather than on the relationships
which can be constructed between
their government and the faculty.
It was with the idea of making
the student body more directly
concerned with its government
that SGC unanimously passed two
measures Wednesday night.
First, it approved an election-
changes motion which calls for
the campus-wide election of the
Council president and executive
vice-president on one slate. They
are currently elected by the Coun-
cil itself.'
Second, it passed a motion
which will put the election-
changes motion to a campus ref-
erendum in the fall. If the refer-
endum upholds the motion, it can
then be sent to the Regents for
formal adoption into the SGC
constitution.
* * *
THE REASONING behind the
proposed election chanes was best
expressed by Council member
Sherry Miller, who chaired the
committee which originated the
motion. She explained that rather
than leaving the selection to Coun-
cil the direct participation of stu-
dents, in the selection of their
president will restore campus-
wide prestige to both president
and Council.
Ironically, this point drew no
opposition. It is not that it is
fallacious but simply that the
question of whom should elect the
Council president had been the
crux of earlier discussion on elec-
tion changes held several weeks
ago.
Perhaps the lack 'of opposition
was due to the fact that the same
election changes were embodied
in an alternate motion that Coun-
cil was simultaneously consider-
ing.
This alternate proposal differed
in a minor point of calling for
the president to be replaced as
presiding officer of the Council
CINEMA GUILD:
Old Greats
In Comedy
' T'LL CURL your toes, buckle
your whiskers, palpitate your
heart, electrify your hair and, most
importantly, tickle your tummy.
See cascades of tirades put on
when the world was younger, when
comedy was produced by sight,
not sound, when wit was a foreign
word to ears punch-drunk with
doubled up laughter.
The Cinema Guild's offering to-
night and tomorrow night of
"Days of Thrills and Laughter"
will brighten the May day, lighten
the heavy heart, cheer the sick
sneer, soften the hard disposition
and excite the dull mind. Nothing
like it has the town since the last
silent was shown in some long
forgotten theatre.
See what real laughter is. See
what pleasures your dormant belly
bas missed. Relish yourself rolling
in the aisles to the beat of our
hero bouncing down a hill on
his bottom. Let your belly rip, let
your belly roar and then, after
you are loosened up, get ready for
the taut, suspenseful adventures
of the damsel in distress.
* * * .
BE SURE to watch'"out for the
custard pies, loose lions, wailing
babies, careening, wildly-running
automobiles and assorted other
debris that by no means clutters
up the screen. See Douglas Fair-
banks out-shoot and out-ride the
big bad injuns and get the girl.
See our muscular hero perform
his gymnastic feats with the bal-
ance of a gazelle, the swiftness of
a jaguar and the elan of Tarzan.
See Laurel before he knew
Hardy, Chaplin when he knew the
revolving door of success, Sennett
when he presented his Kops and
bathing beauties and Turpin be-
fore he got his eyes straightened
out.
And the gals are there also.
Ruth Rolland (ohhhhh!) and
Pearl White (that was a woman).
There are no holds barred, no
punches pulled and I'm wagering
that nothing will ever top those
days again.
The recent "Harold Lloyd's
World of Comedy" had better
chase scenes and suspenseful
a v~ g vn efrnriv, ,.lrb.cnnp~ c f
by one of the regular Council
members; he then would be free
to implement policy. The motion
eventually passed kept him as pre-
siding officer.
Council members chose to deal
with these refinements, taking for
granted that since both, proposals
favored the campus-wide election
procedure, this procedure was ac-
ceptable.
THE QUESTION of the proce-
dure's validity remains undiscus-
sed. Members seem fairly confi-
dent Wednesday night that the
referendum will uphold their
changes, but the real doubts were
expressed later as to what kind
of president-vice-president slate
the campus will elect. More im-
portantly, the doubts were about
the kind of criteria the student
body will be using. ,
While doubts remain, Council
has at least for the present turned
its faculty-student government
eyes onto the effort to ,achieve
student government also.
It can only be hoped that in so
doing, it has not created an officer
election system which, if passed by
referendum and Regents, will
produce high school popularity
contest presidents.
LIPPMANN:
Obstacles
To Change
By WALTER LIPPMANN
AS WE LOOK at the revolutions
in Argentina, Peru and Guate-
mala, the elections in Chile, the
tension in Venezuela and the
enormous problems of Brazil, we
come face to face with a very dis-
turbing question. Can orderly and
reasonably -progressive govern-
ments endure through the long
period of time which must elapse
before the promises of the Alliance
for Progress bear fruit?
The alliance is committed to a
radical reform in the social order
of Latin America. We must not
underestimate how difficult and
how unusual is such a commit-
,ient. The governments of Latin
America are in the midst of these
difficulties. If they improve the
standard of living too slowly, they
are threatened from the left; i,
they proceed rapidly, they are
threatened from ,the right.
If the radical reform is to suc-
ceed, it meansthat in each coun-
try there must be a government
which holds the confidence of the
masses on the left and does not
arouse the irreconcilable opposi-
tion of the upper classes on the
right.
THE CRUX of the problem is
in its very nature a long and slow
process, a matter of long years
withbmeager results to show in
the beginning. The main talking
point of the revolutionists of the
Castro type is the disappointing
and uninspiring gradualism of re-
form. And at the'same timeA, the
main talking point of the big
landlords, the rich conservatives
and the military dictators of the
rebellious right is that the re-
formers will be captured by the
revolutionists. To many of the
most benighted among them, all
reformers are revolutionists.
While it is possible to speed up
reform somewhat, it is unavoid-
ably a slow and proasic business.
It takes more than 10 years to
educate and train a professional
and managerial class. It takes a,
good many years to reform ag-
riculture so yas to liberate the
country from dependence on one
or two crops.
Furthermore, the development
of Latin America will require the
negotiation of complex world-wide
commodity agreements and trad-
ing opportunities. It. will require,
also, big measures to relieve the
pressure upon the world's mone-
tary reserves and so to overcome
the deflationary lack of 'liquidity
which is today so big a cause of
instability in the non-Communist
world.
SPEAKING ROUGHLY, the
slowness and complexity of reform
is the real problem, and the prob-
lem would still be there, would
still as a matter of fact .be there
in Cuba itself, if Castro took up
residence in Russia.
The problem that has to be solv-
ed is how orderly and progressive
governments can earn the patience
of the masses by instituting in
stallments of the necessary' re-
forms, and yet not be denounced
as Communists and ousted by the
reactionaries.
(c) 1963, The Washington Post Co.
Identity
MY CONCLUSION is that it is
useless-nay, harmful-to try
to be anything; that is, to strive
for a definite identity. A preocupa-
tion with identity can°lead to
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GARGOYLE:,
Synthesis of Vulgarity,
yand Humor
AFTER AN ISSUE last November which everyone, including its edi-
tor John Dobbertin, called "very unfunny," Gargoyle hit the cam-
pus again yesterday with the publication of the second issue of the year.
The Gargoyle is better in May than it was in November. It hit
such lows last winter that an improvement in the spring seemed inevi-
table.
There are few who would deny the value of a campus humor maga-
zine and many who would support such a publication on principle. The
humor magazine is a fixture of the American campus scene and ex-
pected, particularly at a university of this size.
There are momentary outbursts of laughter in the current issue of
Gargoyle and the opportunity for a few good-hearted chuckles, but
the standard evocation of those who hide themselves behind the blue
cover is a long, weary groan.
* * * *
IN A COLLEGE humor magazine, one almost expects articles, car-
toons and captions bordering on the off-color. But the off-color, in.
the case of this Garg, more often tends to be disgusting than funny.
When one is composing, it is far easier to be somewhat funny if the
subject is obscene; real cleverness comes when a college writer is able
to give humorous treatment to subjects that are not just naturally
laughed at.
Garg would find its job more difficult-and its success greater-if
it were not so out and out blatant and obvious and if it made a larger
attempt to cultivate the subtleties and nuances of good humor. College
audiences are increasingly mature and sophisticated: the rah-rah dayg
are no more and humor mags seem not to be awake to the new trends.
Admittedly, with a potential readership of 26,000 the Garg has a
big bill to fill and a violation of the stereotype of the ribald, below-the-
belt college mag might leave some segment of the campus dissatisfied.-
But the clever spoof of Undergraduate Library socializing, "Have Some
Madeira, m'dear," is effectively understated and an example of more
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