Seventy-Third Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG., ANN ARBOR, MIcH., PHONE NO 2-3241 "Where Opinions Are Free Truth WiUl Prevail" 1' ' r4 ,1Jrit t Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. IDAY, MAY 10, 1963 NIGHT EDITOR: GERALD STORCH /, sr " "4 1 Calendaring Mess Hurts G&S ONCE MORE the Gilbert and Sullivan Society is on the brink of a financial and aesthetic crisis that may signal the death of G&S operettas on this campus. Observors at the Student Government Coun- cil meeting last Wednesday night heard the first echoes of the death knell for the student musical group. At that time, Council voted to calendar the fall 1963 G&S production for the weekend of Nov. 21-23, two weeks later than the group had requested. The date not only conflicts with the fall concert of the Men's Glee Club but also occurs at a time when the show's director will be attending a symposium in Wyoming. Council's action was an ostrich-head-in-the- sand solution to a complex calendaring prob- lem. Its refusal to recognize a fundamental principle of the theatre-that a show must have a director-may seriously impair the quality of next term's G&S production. Coun- cil's refusal to recognize just how serious the present financial status of G&S is, and to calendar it accordingly, may well mean the beginning of the end for G&S. G&S WILL ENDEAVOR to put on another show next term. It can be done, with care- ful planning. The project will be, at best, difficult. Thus far, the Society has been able to produce aesthetically superior shows with little or no money in its treasury. But it can only operate on a financial deficit for so long. It is doubtful that the Society could withstand another major financial crisis. Just such a crisis may occur next term, if G&S attempts to compete with the fall con- cert of the Glee Club, as scheduled by SGC. The Glee Club is serious competition which has little difficulty in selling out all of Hill Aud. It will, in all probability, draw large numbers of students and members of the community who might otherwise attend the G&S show. Financially, G&S cannot afford this kind of competition. Aesthetically, it cannot stand the demoraliz- ing effect that a poorly-attended production will have on members and prospective members of its cast. SGC COULD HAVE easily avoided all these dire consequences for G&S by scheduling its fall production for the weekend the Society originally requested. As it was, Council awarded the G&S-preferenced date to MUSKET, the Michigan Union-sponsored-and subsidized- musical show. SGC awarded the date to MUSKET on the grounds that there would, in all likelihood, be no MUSKET were it given the Nov. 21-23 date. There could be no MUSKET on the latter date, according to Union President Ray Rusnak, '64, because the Michigan Union Board of Directors would refuse to grant funds for an event which would conflict with the Glee Club Concert. The rationale behind this sounds the note of the absurd. MUSKET, which undisputedly enjoys greater popularity with the student body, would prob- ably suffer little financial set-back in com- petition with the Glee Club. Whatever finan- cial deficit it did incur could be' easily written off by the Union. Surely, the Union Board would not even have to worry itself with the thought of taking a loss on the MUSKET show. There is ample room for two major productions in one weekend. QGC's ACTION in calendaring G&S at an inauspicious time is not to be completely condemned. MUSKET did have a certain mount of priority in that it was the first group to request the theatre for the dates wanted. However, G&S was first to request calendar- ing by SGC. The rule is that groups submitting requests to Council firstare given priority over later ones. Thus, even in interpreting the letter of the law, Council was not entirely accurate. It is unfortunate that Council did not look at its own rule book more closely, and failed to view G&S's supplications more realistically and with a certain unstained quality of mercy. -LOUISE LIND MAY FESTIVAL OPENER: Biggs, Ormandy Shine In Varied Program THE 1963 MAY FESTIVAL got off to 'a most auspicious start last night as Eugene Ormandy led the Philadelphia Orchestra in a program which ran the gamut from the Baroque to the 20th century. The opening work, the suite which Sir Hamilton Harty arranged from Georg Friedrich Handel's "Music for the Royal Fireworks," has long been a favorite of concert-goers, although Handel's original scoring (including 12 side drums) is even more imposing than Harty's. The performance of Harty's arrangement left little to be desired, with a special word of praise due the woodwind players who did the Bourree so flawlessly. THE PHILADELPHIANS next turned their efforts to excerpts from Alban Berg's opera "Lulu," based on the charming old tale of Jack the Ripper. There was much to the work: plenty of percussion, weird harmonies and once in a very long while a bit of melody. How the latter got in I cannot say, but I will have to admit that despite many interesting passages, the suite left me cold for the most part. Not so the "Concerto in G minor for Organ, Strings and Timpani" by Francois Poulenc, composed only a few years after Berg's "Lulu." Yet the melody which was so conspicuous by its absence in the latter work was present in abundance in the concerto, balancing out the more dissonant parts. Guest organist E. Power Biggs handled its difficult passages with aplomb and agility, and Ormandy was with him every step of the way. If there is one work which is guaranteed to turn any placid audience into a mass of seething tension and call forth from them torrents of applause, it is the Organ Symphony of Camille Saint-Saens. Although generally referred to as Saint-Saens' third symphony, it is in fact his third published symphony. He wrote two others which were eventually discarded. Biggs and Ormandy played this essentially bravura work to the hilt; the finale in particular, with its blaring brass and emphatic organ chords, was given a taut, brilliant perform- ance which left the hearer limp. -Steven Haller GOP CANDIDATES: Rocky Leads the Pack I Nomination Race - SLIMA PK ING S BOND, MILLAGE REJECTION: Schools NAeed Added Funds TEN Geald Storch, Acting City Editor .s. _ __ cam. " L y 4t tk W014, , ' i SOMETIMES the most important things that have to be said are the most difficult to express. When students try to explain just why they are disappointed with their education at the University, they find it very hard to advance concrete reasons which can be readily under- stood by administrators and faculty members. If specific objections are raised, such com- plaints usually, can be countered with other facts or a contention that a few isolated grievances hardly justify a blanket indictment of the institution. So the critics sulk, convinced that they are still right and that no one is perceptive or sympathetic enough to listen to them. Ad- ministrators, in turn, then tend to believe that. there is nothing basically wrong with the edu- cational climate of the University. Yet the dissatisfaction remains-driven un- derground or covered up, perhaps, but it is still there. Despite being swatted down on specifics and despite the outward signs of vigor and achievement on the campus, the dissatis- faction remains. It is a feeling, rather than a thesis-deep-rooted suspicion, rather than ordered and explainable fact. IT IS ABOUT TIME that the University really tried to understand why some stu- dents feel that it is not doing the best job it could. I think the problem can best be attacked by taking a look at the campus and asking some questions. Why do University students actually wish to be relieved of some of the freedoms and responsibilities which have been extended? Why don't students particularly care about which major theyshave picked, or which courses they are taking. In fact, why do many of the most brilliant and most conscientious students make a habit of cutting classes and cramming just enough to do B or C work? Can all of us really be content with our education? Can we really say that the academic experience is one to which we look forward and enjoy, instead of being something that must be routinely passed through and en- dured? DON'T THINK SO at all. There are too iany students who couldn't care less about their classes. They leave the University with a mere sheepskin and no values supporting it. Ideals of education are held shallowly, and given lip service but little real commitment. Much of this is the students' own fault. The freshman who asks his instructor in class whether Tibet is north or south of Manchuria, STEPS TOWARD improving the situation lie, I think, not in any specific policy altera- tions but in changing a pervasive-campus mood that does not recognize this vague but latent dissatisfaction as a problem. In terms of influencing students, professors probably have the most potential. Superior intellectually and competent enough socially, they are the best able to direct academic capabilities and inspire a concern for, the University and ideals of education. Too often, however, the professor himself is an unstimulating, routine conductor of the classroom, doing ,his job, keeping a bare mini- mum of office hours and not trying particularly hard to do anything extra. If professors continually strived to be them- selves rather than play a role, if subject matter were delivered with warmth, feeling and sen- sitivity, then we might be getting somewhere. Students must be imbued with the sense that education and their life at the University are in and of themselves something precious, some- thing worthwhile to take part in regardless of the post-graduation economic and social ben- efits to be deri ved. IT WOULD BE unforgivably irresponsible to distort the present situation, and I do not intend to do that. The University has many great qualities: a top-notch, highly-respected faculty, a crew of excellent educational ad- ministrators and a student body which cer- tainly ranks in the top 10 in the country. I also have no idea how widespread the discon- tent is, though I'm sure it is felt among more than just a few students. But the University has a regrettable tendency to use its great attributes as a crutch to cover up or explain away its faults. What's wrong with you, it asks the questioning student; how can you complain when -such a wonderful faculty and blue-chip group of student peers are on hand? The answer, of course, goes back to the in- tangibles, to the nagging notion that some- thing is lacking in our education, that no mat- ter how often we are informed of the great- ness of the University that something is 'wrong with it and not us. You can't convince some- one to like beer, and there are limits to per- suading students that yes they really are getting the best education possible when they sincerely believe otherwise. THOSE MEMBERS of the University com- munity who are in a position to wield real authority ought to begin to understand the' essentials of a lot of students' disappointment. It is not something which is turned on and .r _ _. __ _ _ J ._.. . ...17. . . 7; . ...vv.. . r. . By ROBERT SELWA AS A RESULT of Tuesday's school millage vote, Ann Arbor schools face a future that could become increasingly grim. The voters turned out in record numbers to reject the millage pro- posal by a margin of 2300 votes and a $6 million bond issue by a fair-sized margin of 900 votes. The millage proposal would have reinstated the two and one-half mills that expired in December and would have added five more mills of taxation. The seven and one-half mills would have been in force for ten years. The refusal means a gradual future cutback in the schools. Rev- enues are to stay; at the same lev- el while student 'enrollment rises. And , since the cost of living is gradually rising, the same level of revenue will be able to finance less and less facilities for more and more students. SPECIFICALLY, new instruc- tors will not be hired to teach the additional students who en- roll. The ratio of students to present teachers will increase, and this will mean less individual help to students. Special instructional areas, such as art, music and phys- ical education, may be reduced. Remedial programs in reading as well as programs for the retarded and the handicapped will be put increasingly in jeopardy. The schools have a projected in- come of $6.8 million for next year to carry out a program budgeted at $8.8 million. If the books are to balance, there will have to be a cutback of almost 25 per cent at at time when enrollment will increase by an estimated 900 pupils. That's how bad the immediate picture is. Approval of the seven and one- half millage proposal, on the other hand, would have meant that these programs would continue, that more teachers could be hired, and that better teachers could be at- tracted to Ann Arbor since most of the five mill increase would have gone into raising teacher salaries. ** * APPROVAL would have meant continuing a good school system in an age and a country that re- quires the best of schools; rejec- tion of the millage means rejection of the needs of modern society. Why, then, the rejection? Perhaps it was partly the con- fusion. The Board of Education asked for a five mill increase but said it would need only four mills the first year. The Board at first included the expense of free text- books in the proposal but after op- position arose reversed itself, de- claring that this expense shall not be included-at least not until a referendum which will decide that issue in June. Does this sound a little confus- ing? Apparently it was for a lot of voters, and voters, when they are puzzled and distrustful, tend to stick with the status quo or what they think is the status quo. Perhaps the rejection-the vote was 5,476 to 7,737 on the millage (5,514 to 6,384 on the bonds)- was partly due to the fact +t taxpayers by an ad hoc group that called itself the Citizens Com- mittee for Better Education. This group used telephone appeals, mailings, spot radio announce- ments and fliers to get across its points. And it inserted boldly dis- !played ads in the Ann Arbor News lwarning readers about the possi- bility of free textbooks. "Ann Ar- bor School Taxes Up 58 Per Cent," another Committee ad declared. "Vote No on Proposal No. 2." The sensationalism and drive of the Committee seems to have in- duced many persons to vote No on proposal number two, the millage. There was little difference, only 38 votes, between the Yes vote on the millage and the Yes vote on the bonds, but in the two No votes there was a sharp difference. The millage had 1,353 more than the bonds. . * * OF COURSE, only property owners could vote on the bond is- sue. Usually one would expect the opposition to a millage to be strongest among property owners. If property ownership were the only factor, then the statistics would indicate that the reverse were true, or at least that non- property owners also strongly ob- jected to the millage. The Citizens Advisory Commit- tee in supporting the two pro- posals tried to combat the Better Education Committee's propagan- da. It attacked the anonymity of the Better Education Committee, which listed only one name in its advertisements, Secretary Jean- nette White. "Let's} look at the opposition," the Citizens Advisory Committee said. "Well, no, we can't quite do that because we don't know who they are. We never heard of any- thing called the Citizens Commit- tee for Better Education until it popped up in newspaper advertise- ments, radio spots and a brochure the other day. Where were they when the school board was think- ing about these things, making these decisions . The Citizens Advisory Commit- tee stated its worry about apathy -a groundless worry as it turned out. The Committee also tried to' point out that the question of the future of University High School and the free textbook suggestions were not involved in this vote. "There will be a special-and sep- arate-vote on that issue (free textbooks) in June. It simply isn't part of tomorrow's package." With one committee for better education battling another com- mittee that claimed to be for better education, and with each side presenting only its own side, the reason for the increase got frayed. When a debate gets hot, neither side presents a fully balanced picture. * * THE CLOSEST THING to this ideal was a long editorial in Mon- day's Ann Arbor News. The edi- torial reviewed the host of facts, the side issues, and the arguments for and against the proposals. The News admitted that it was not "enthusiastic" about urging a Yes' vote-"but we do urge it because there is no reasonable alternative. Ann Arbor's schools are outstand- ing, and it is important that they be maintained at present levels or even improved.. ." This voice of reason could hard- ly be heard in the excitement of the contest, could hardly be un- derstood in the confusion about unrelated issues, and could hardly be strengthened by the alarm and fears people have about rising tax- es in general and about the city's property assessment re-appraisal in particular. City taxes will go up one mill, with the new city budget. The helplessness ofthe Ameri- can faced with rising costs and rising taxes in general causes him to take what seems at the moment to be an easy way out, to vote No. * * * YET SOME KIND of millage is needed-if only a two and one- half millage levy to maintain the level of taxation of the past few years. And the next millage pro- posal should not be one to last ten years, because this length of time frightens some citizens who would otherwise vote for a large increase knowing that they would get a chance to vote on it again in the not-distant future. For the present, the Board of Education should ask the voters again for a millage-this time, of only two and one-half mills, to last only one or two years. There is sufficient support in Ann Arbor for a moderate millage, and a moder- ate millage is better than none at all. By EDWARD HERSTEIN THE GRAND OLD PARTY will have a grand old time selecting its standard bearer in the sum- mer of 1964. It will be faced with the unenviable task of choosing an opponent to President John F. Kennedy in the next Presidential election. Provided that no new face sud- denly twinkles on the horizon, Re- publicans will have six possibile choices. They are, in rough order of likelihood: Gov. Nelson Rocke- feller of New York, Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, Gov. George Romney of Michigan, Gov. William Scranton of Pennsylvania, Sen. Thurston Morton, of' Kentucky, and former Vice-President Rich- ard Nixon. At present there is little doubt that Rockefeller is the front run- ner. He will command the largest state delegation at the conven- tion Along with Goldwater, Rocke- feller is the most widely known candidate. He and Goldwater will be able to muster more support from delgates outside their own states than any other candidate. Furthermore, the Republicans at previous conventions have turned away from the more conservative candidates in their party, and have chosen those presenting a more moderate front. There is a widespread feeling that "a con- servative can't win" shared by Republicans and Democrats alike. Thus Rockefeller, who projects as liberal an image, as Kennedy, has a considerable advantage over "Goldwater, the conservative image personified. * * * GOLDWATER, however, com- mands strong support in the South and West. His backers claim that he could carry the entire South and over 200 electoral votes in he 1964 presidential election. Then too, there is a growing feeling that "aconservative should be given a chance" to run. Until a short time ago, the Republicans were virtually conceding the Pres- idency to Kennedy for another four years so that they had a "why not?" attitude toward run- ning Goldwater. However, since that time, Re- publicans have become increasing- ly confident that Kennedy can be beaten. This increasing optimism will work against Goldwater. Rockefeller also has his liabili- ties. He was hurt, at least in Republican eyes, by his remarriage to a divorcee, Irene Murphy. Many of his top appointees in the New York state government have re- signed or been fired in a recent scandal over the state's liquor commission. He promised not to raise taxes when he was re- elected governor two years ago; but he proposed a fee and license rate hike which his Republican legislature turned down. OF COURSE, a year is a long time, and by then the public and particularly the Republican dele- gates to the 1964 convention may have forgotten these incidents. It must be remembered that Rocke- feller would have hardly made a candidate for the Presidency at all if he had not remarried. No unmarried man has been elected President in recent history. This is not just a tradition or dogma either, because a first lady is a virtual necessity to carry out cer- tain functions of state. In the likelihood that neither D. Eisenhower. He urges citizen participation in government and shuns party labels. He is not the father image Eisenhower was, nor is he; anywhere' near as well known; but.herdoesproject the role of a sincere, honest leader (not politician) whose aims are those of all good Americans. His primary liability is that he is unknown nationally. He also has not had an opportunity to demonstrate his ability as a gov- ernmental executive. Furthermore -and this will take on increasing 'importance as he moves into the limelight-Romney is a Morman. While he certainly does not prac- tice all the tenets of his religion -for exam~ple poligamy and racial, bias-this factor will work against him much as Kennedy's Catholi- cism worked against him. As Theodore H. White points out, it hurt Kennedy quite a bit. PENNSYLVANIA'S Gov. Scran- ton is in a position virtually ana- loguous to Romney's. He has the advantage of being a Protestant, but he is even less-known nation- ally than Romney. He also seems to lack a certain political app r2 which has made Romney a far more talked about political figure than Scranton. Thurston Morton is probably a little more known to the public nationally than either Scranton or Romney. He is, however, a sena- for and is much better known to the party. He is mentioned as a possible candidate because he lies between Goldwater and Rocke- feller on the political spectrum and because of his, impressive victory over a liberal Democrat in his 1962 senatorial campaign. Per- haps his biggest drawback is that his name lacks the political magic of a Rockefeller, Goldwater or even Romney, and this is a con siderable drawback indeed. Richard Nixon is in the running for the nomination only as a des- peration choice. He still 'maintains some influence and a fair amount of delegate support. However, af- ter beings defeated by Kennedy in 1960 and then by Pat Brown in the race for governor in California in 1962, delegates don't have to be terribly perceptive to estimate his chances to beat Kennedy in 1964. * * * WHO THEN, will the Republi- cans choose in 1964? An objective analysis of each of the potential nominees' chances seems to rule all of them out, and this is im- portant. Both parties in the past have gone outside their ranks to choose their candidates. Witness Eisenhower in 1952. Without go- ing off the deep end, one could foresee Gen. Lucius D. Clay, for example, as Kennedy's opponent in the next Presidential election. But the odds are still with Rockefeller for 1964. If he can avoid future embarrassments in New York the nomination will most likely be his. But should he fumble the ball, it is more than possible that it will be picked up, not by another runner, nor by a spectator at the sidelines, but by someone entirely off the playing field. Studie STUDIES SERVE for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in private- AT THE CAMPUS: Ungodly 'Electra' Fails WHEN GOETHE was told to study the classics, he replied that it is better to "turn your attention.to the real world, and try to express it, for that is what the ancients did when they were alive." Michael Cacoyannis, producer-director of "Electra," should take this advice and stick to modern settings, at least until he is able to translate the heroic stature of Euripides into cinematic, terms.; In reading Euripides, we recognize Electra, Orestes, Clytemnestra and Agamemnon as larger than life. In watching Cacoyannis, they merely seem lamer than life. Cacoyannis made the opposite mistake from that of American and Italian producers who film biblical sexaramas. He avoided the massed millions and crumbling palaces but he still had the problem of creating their godly stature.