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EURDAY, MAY 11; 1963
NIGHT EDITOR: GAIL EVANS
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Citizens' Committee
Excludes the Citizens
I
THE "BLUE-RIBBON" Citizens Committee on
Higher Education, that would-be saviour of
Michigan's college system, has slammed the,
door on the public.
Conceived and organized by Gov. George
Romney, the 50-member group is supposed to
study the state's colleges and universities and
come up with a master plan for future educa-
tional expansion and policies.
Its first meeting was held last month. Dur-
ing the meeting, one of the members, noting
the presence of reporters from two state papers,
asked the three chairmen to consider whether
press and public should be admitted to future
sessions.
Their answer, released a few weeks ago, was
a lat, unqualified no. If the committee rati-
fi s the chairmen's recommendation, both press
and public will be locked out; the committee
will release only what it wants, wheh it wants.
The argument advanced by the chairmen is
that closed sessions will permit free exchange
of ideas, that open sessions would keep mem-
bers from advancing speculative or unpopular
thoughts for fear of possible damage to their
reputations. Yet they refuse to accept even a
compromise policy, in which papers would re-
port only what issues were raised, without
mentioning any names or attributing any
opinions.
WHAT SEEMS MORE LIKELY is that this is
a publicity maneuver. Apparent at the first
meeting was the desire of many committee
members that the final report be unanimous,
that all decisions be made before the public is
let in on anything, and that the committee
present a united front to the public. Apparent-
ly, then, the chairmen are more interested in
seeing their report implemented than in let-
ting the public know and consider the issues.
NEEDLESS TO SAY, such a policy is repug-
nant to many ideals to which the'citizens"
themselves would undoubtedly pay lip service.
It smacks of "managed news" without the need
for military security to justify it. It contra-
dicts the principles of an open society, of de-
mocracy, of the public's right to information,
and so on.
Unstructured
AWAKENING FROM its usual apathy, Fra-
ternity Presidents Assembly overhauled the
rush system Thursday night with remarkable
intelligence.
The most encouraging development of the
evening was that FPA, normally a rubber
stamp for Interfraternity Council Executive
Committee, acted at all. In fact, it pushed
through its wishes over those of the executive
committee subcommitte on two major issues:
bidding restrictions and women attending rush
functions.
FAR FROM APATHETIC was the body that
wrangled for an hour over districting and
another over bidding restrictions. FPA finally
muddled through the horrors of parliamentary
procedure to get what it wanted-the demise
of districting, the retention of bidding restric-
tions and the ban against women.
The executive committee also acted intel-
ligently in presenting the recommendations
as those of the subcommittee and not its own.
It remained neutral throughout .the squabble,
allowing FPA to settle the issues itself.
The subcommittee recommendations were
aimed at forcing houses to use their own ini-
tiative while still helping the weak chapters as
much as possible. FPA agreed with the aims
but like Kennedy and Nixon, could not agree
on methods.
V'H E MAIN, ISSUE was whether or not to
keep a structured rush. Nobody really want-
ed the present districting setup. Nor was every-
one ready to see a return to the old unstructur-
ed rush. Phi Kappa Psi President Jack E.
Matthias expressed the dismay of many presi-
dents that the subcommittee had presented
only the two alternatives of districting or
unstructured rush.
Some suggestions popped up spontaneously
but unfortunately could not be considered in
one meeting. The best suggestion-one which
IFC should study for possible use next spring-
was for strong houses "to adopt" weak houses
Editorial Staff
MICHAEL OLINICK, Editor
JUDITH OPPENHEIM MICHAEL HARRAH
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When we pull this idealism down to earth, it
materializes into real-life, practical reasons why
this policy is unnecessary, unwise and unjust.
The committee's study is an important one.
"It will have more effect in shaping the fu-
ture of Michigan than any group that will be
organized in the next two years," the Governor
has said. In other words, the committee report
will have great impact on the lives of the
people of Michigan,/yet they will have no part
in shaping the report; yet they will not be al-
lowed to know what the committee is really up
to.
WHEN IT COMES out with its recommenda-
tions, the committee will ask the legisla-
tors, the educators and the taxpayers of the
state to accept them. But no one will know for
sure how the recommendations evolved, what
important controversies have been overlooked,
or how many minority opinions have been sup-
pressed in the final report.
One of the avowed functions of the commit-
tee members is to return to their home areas
after the report is done and sell the commit-
tee's position to the people. Yet what, in effect
will they be saying? "Here, neighbors, is what
you should do with your college system. You
were too stupid to help or even listen to the
process by which these conclusions were for-
mulated. So we took it upon our superior selves
to decide these things for you.Here is our
final, polished, unanimous report, purged of
any controversy which might confuse you.
Take it from those who know best: it's great."
THIS, THEN, is what Romney's highly-touted
principle of "citizen participation" has come
to mean. The "citizens" are not all the people,
but rather citizens in the ancient Roman sense
-the patricians, the upper class, the "power
elite," who lock themselves in their ivory tower
and pass upon the fate of the lowly plebeians.
Hopefully, the members of the committee
will see the hypocrisy of their chairmen's rec-
ommendations and let the public back in. If
not, the plebeians of Michigan still have the
right to reject the words from the ivory tower.
-KENNETH WINTER
Rush Requires
Initiative
and refer some rushees to them. A similar
system operates informally through Hetorians,
a Greek honorary, but a formalized program
could work if handled diplomatically.
Bidding restrictions stayed because without
them houses would be left to their own initia-
$ive. After a year of IFC paternalism few
houses are prepared to accept a totally un-
restricted rush which would compel them to
compete more actively and make more decisions
on their own. Early bidding would most benefit
the houses with the best rush, both open and
formal. It seems many houses feared this
competition.
But the issue is not that clear-cut. ActiVes
in large houses cannot become familiar with
every rushee before the last day of rush, if
they can at all. In this light, bidding may be
seen as a small house advantage to which the
large houses refused to concede.
WOMEN AT RUSH was universally distaste-
ful Allowing women would have made rush
a social rat-race, expensive and annoying.
However important social life may be in the
fraternity system, a rushee's ability to get
along with the house is more important and
this can be determined only at an all-male
rush.
Allowing contact between affiliates and non-
affiliates during Orientation Week was another
move to make rush more natural. It is im-
possible to enforce the non-contact rule, and
undesirable as well. Houses may now conduct
open rush, including social functions, before
sign-up for formal rush begins. Again, the house
with the best program will profit, so all chap-
ters will be encouraged to compete and develop
inventive programs.
FPA's move to send rushing and pledging
judicial cases directly to IFC instead of through
the Office of Student Affairs is an equally
realistic move. Furthermore, it grants students
more freedom by rembving administrative con-
trol-an invariably admirable result.
Still another stab at phoniness was dropping
the rule that pledges falling below a 2.0 average
for two consecutive semesters be depledged. In
practice such long-term' superpledges would
be depledged and then repledged, causing every-
one involved unnecessary bother. If a house
really needs a man desperately enough to carry
him indefinitely as a superpledge, it should be
allowed to do so.
An excellent, although indirect, result of
most of the changes was a greater emphasis,
on open rush. Open rush allows the rushee and
the house to iieet in natural situations vary-
ing from alumni dinners to informal date
nartie. T dos more than a week or so of
To The Editor:
HE ARTICLE written in yester-
day's Daily describing the
University Young Republicans'
withdrawal, from the Midwest Fed-
eration of College Young Republi-
can erroneously attributed'a state-
ment to me. which incorrectly
stated one of the reasons for the
club's action; and cast an unde-
served shadow upon another Uni-
versity organization. The mis-
quote intimated that one of the
reasons for the withdrawal was
"highly questionable campaign
activities carried on by the Young
Americans for Freedom dominated
organization." I did not make this
statement.
In explaining the nature of the
Midwest Federation I informed
the writer of this article that in
recent years the officers of the
Federation had enjoyed the sup-
port of conservatives and YAF
members. Much later in the inter-
view I explained that one of the
reasons for withdrawal was that
the size and nature of the Federa-
tion lent itself to questionable
convention campaign practices.
IN WRITING the account, the
reporter fused these two isolated
sentences to make it appear that
YAF was responsible for the ques-
tionable activities. I did not in any
way state that this was the case
or that this was one of the rea-
sons for the action. This was in
no way the basis for the action
taken.
I a pologize to the YR's and to
the YAF members for not having
checked after the article was writ-
ten to insure that such an error
was not rmade. I hope that this,
will clear up any misunderstand-
ings that may have resulted from
this mistake.
-Douglas A. Brook, '65
Chairman, University
Young Republicans
Demoralization .. .
To the Editor:
WHAT THIS CAMPUS needs is
some vernal rearmament. In
The Daily, Prof. Kenneth Bould-
ing remarks that only moral de-
termination will save us a square
foot from our exploding popula-
tion; Kenneth Winter hopes that
a current conservation conference
may "help America the Beautiful
to make the best use of what
little beauty she has left"; and
from my window I see a professor,
a man in a lab coat and three
students file blissfully down the
widening brown path across the
lawn.
This is the first spring, at least
of my 13 here, that this has hap-
pened. The dike has really broken.
About 10 years ago, I admit, a
few trails started, but the Uni-
versity plowed and sowed, and a
service fraternity drove signs say-
ing "Please" in the paths, and we
had a decade of green grass.
But suddenly things are really
bad. Has the weight of numbers
finally broken the hedging? Per-
haps. But this minute I see an
from one shut eye and a waggle
of weed. A cigar steams lazily for
an hour in the faculty meeting
(another first) as the acting dean
looks out past the red "No Smok-
ing" sign. Pages and volumes dis-
appear from the library. The stu-
dents smoke and giggle in the
stacks. The butts accumulate on
the carpet of Aud. A, the holes in
the upholstery, the beaten dust
on what was once the lawn. And
every hour the campus shows more
graphically how little we care.
Perhaps if the student body,
tightens up, the professors will
find courage to throw the merry-
makers out of their classrooms. Of
course, the professor could then no
longer be the good fellow he really
is; he would have to leave the
sweatshirt at home and break out
the old necktie again. And we
would lose a great deal of fun-
particularly the sociable haze of
whisper and flaring match, of
bummed smoke and borrowed
light, that hangs over the dull
lecture like a dream.
Or the professor may just con-
tinue to follow the freshman
through the hedge and across the
obliterated lawn. We can all go
sit under a tree. But we'd better
hurry. Next week the dust will
choke us.
-Prof. Sheridan Baker,
English Dept.
Creativity? ...
To the Editor:
IN HER BURST of creativity
Miss Margolis has completely
forgotten the issue at hand: the
purpose of exams. With the aid
of an exam a teacher can evaluate
the student's knowledge in a cer-
tain area, what he has absorbed
from the course, and how he is
able to present it. Exams are not
outlets for the creatively oppressed
student who wishes to empty his
mind of miscellaneous facts or
ideas. Miss Margolis states:
"A well-prepared student who
interprets to his own interpre-
tation should receive full credit.
On second thought he should
receive extra credit for creativ-
ity."
I too am in sympathy with the
student who spends three hours
propounding an idea which, alas,
is wrong. But it is ridiculous to
say that this student should be
commended and given extra credit
for his error. Mistakes are a part
of learning and if the student
errs, creatively or not, he must
be made aware of it, not be given
a pat on the back.
Contrary to Miss Margolis, I
have found that most teachers
do consider how a student answers
a question-not "rather than if
he gives the intended answers"
but justly evaluating both the con-
tent and the presentation.
--Joan Price, '66SM
Literature? . .
To the Editors
THE SOURCE of the general Ir-
responsibility and lack of criti-
cal perception\seen in Generation
this year can now be traced to
the editor, John Herrick, in his
recent comments in The Daily.
Herrick's statement that "What
makes a work 'good' is'impossible
to define. In the end, our personal
taste must make the final judge,
ment," is a probable source of
Generation's literary standards.
Does Herrick realize that even in
the greatest literary revolutions
(Joyce's "Ulysses" and Eliot's "'The
Wasteland") there is always an
adherence to certain critical stan-
dards which go back to Homer's
"Illiad" and transcend personal
taste. Without standards any-
one can call anything literature
(which Generation does) and fall
back on the weak criterion of per-
sonal taste. Obviously, there is
some other, standard than a pro-
found inner voice.
It is evident in reading Genera-
tion that Herrick has decided his
personal taste and literary tradi-
tion have nothing ip common. I
entirely agree.;
-Eric T. Cheyfitz, '64
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
YAF and Young RepVublican's
"AND A LITTLE CHILD shall
lead them": grave irony when
the path they travel leads directly
to Hell. The two children in "For--
bidden Games," playing at Cinema
Guild today and tomorrow, follow
such a path in a movie so power-
ful in theme, so masterful in pro-
duction and so beautiful in effect
that it can only be labeled a minor
masterpiece.
It is June, 1940, and panic-
stricken crowds mob the roads at-
tempting to flee the invasion of
Paris. Planes strafe and bomb
them in a hideous game of hide
and seek. A small girl, left or-
phaned and clinging to her dead
puppy, is befriended by a young
farm boy. Together the two in-
nocent children attempt to under-
stand death. Undertaking the
burial of'dead farm animals, they
begin the forbidden games.
"Forbidden Games" is both a
prophecy and an elegy for man-
kind. Its theme is pessimistic, cyn-
ical and horrifying; nowhere in
the film can life succeed and
death always holds the winning
hand. Love is perverted and
thwarted, religion opulent and
smug and innocence deceived and
misled. Thus the playful puppy is
killed attempting to flee the
crowds, the 'peaceful pastoral;scene
demolished' by petty and sense-
less feuds; meanwhile wisdom,
that seasoned combination of pa-
tience and understanding, remains
old and feeble, blinking helplessly
down at. the children. The children
MAY FESTIVAL:
Choral Union Shines
In New Finney Wr
TE CHORAL UNION was outstanding in the premiere performance
of Prof. Ross Lee Finney's "Still Are New Worlds." This work was
undoubtedly the high point of last night's concert. Prof. Finney's
composition was unique to this May Festival audience, utilizing a
tape recorder as an addition to the percussion section of the orchestra,
a ,speaking voice and sections of whispered text by the chorus.
The chorus had obviously been well prepared under the leader-
ship of Lestgr McCoy and displayed excellent technique and artistry
in its performance. The chorus parts were laden with large intervals
and unfamiliar dissonances, especially between the soprano and bass
parts. Both aspects were well executed.
Finney made use of Schoenberg's twelve tone system "because of
its chordal chzaracteristics and usefulness in vocal writing together
with rhythmic elasticity and structural inventiveness," Prof. Glen
McGeoch of the music literature department said. The text was
selected from quotations by poets, scientists and philosophers and is'
concerned with man's attempts to understand the world around him.
* * * *
WHEREAS THE Verdi "Te Deum" lacked enthusiasm and articu-
lated care, the "Still Are New Worlds" exemplified a sterling musical
performance by the Choral Union.
Anyone who attended the concert will have no doubt that Grant
Johannesen has a masterful command of pianistic technique. He is not
a performer, but a musician. It is only too easy for a pianist to trans-
form a Liszt work into a display of egotistic virtuosity; this Johannesen
refrained from doing in the Schubert-Liszt "Wanderer" Fantasy
Johannesen seemed to have a thorough knowledge of both the
Fantasy and Riegger's "Variations for Piano and Orchestra," knowing
which notes to emphasize in the inner voices for both melodic and
harmonic reasons. His control of dynamics was very successful.
Johannesen's tonal production was smooth and clear. His extreme-
ly adequate keyboard facility permits him a tone which is, at the
same time, bell-like and pianistic.
There were times when the orchestra dynamically overpowered the
piano in places where the piano should have been heard; fortunately
this did not detract from Johannesen's achievement.
-Steven Jones
Jeffrey K. Chase
CINEMA GUILD:
ForTbidden Games
Beautiful Powerful
have chosen to dedicate themselves
to honoring Death.
RENE CLEMENT directs his mas-
terpiece with precision, care and
genius. The action flows naturally
and easily, the development of
the plot beautifully. The photo-
graphy is in line with the general
theme, somber and fearful, ac-
centing the shadowy lives of the
adults with the direct determina-
tion of the children. Certain scenes
such as the death of the older
brother and the refugee station
are so subtle and complete as to
form haunting images.
As for acting, the two children
are without equals: possibly the
finest acting by children that a
movie has ever had.
"Forbidden Games" is not an
easy movie to experience. It does
not intend to please or entertain,
yet it doesn't preach. Instead it
states a view of life that will
shock and worry you because of
the complete possibility of its
reality.
A direct comparison between this
movie and the novel "Lord Of The
Flies" by William Golding is ap-
parent. Just as one wonders who
will rescue the armed sailors who
have saved the castaway youths,
one wonders in "Forbidden Games"
who will lead the children back
along another path. Otherwise the
philosophy that the children have
discovered will prevail: "You have
to kill them to bury them."
-Hugh Holland
TODAY AND TOMORROW:
uClear Plan A Sham
Married Her,
Divorced And
He Did, And Both
All .... "
By WALTER LIPPMANN
ON THE FACE of it, there is
something strange about the
urgency with which the Adminis-
tration has been pushing the
British, the Italians and the Ger-
mans-particularly the Germans
--to accept a scheme for a Euro-
pean nuclear force. Although the
Administration insists that the
United States has a nuclear power
which is quite adequate for the
defense of the West, it continues
to press the Europeans to interest
themselves in nuclear matters.'
Why? The Administration does
not like General de Gaulle's nu-
clear enterprise. It thinks poorly
of the British nuclear effort. Yet
it keeps slogging along toward a
"multi-lateral" scheme which
would bring the Germans into the
nuclear business and, incidentally,
induce them to pay a large share
of the cost.
* * *
THE UNDERLYING motive of
this strange behavior is a fear
that the 'Germans will insist on
imitating the British and the
French, that they will begin to
cry out that they, too, must have
nuclear power because, if'they'are
not a nuclear power, they will be
a second-class country. It is as-
sumed by the medicine men of the
Administration that if Germany
were then refused nuclear weap-
ons, the country could, and prob-
ably would, revert to the militar-
ism of the first world war if not
the Nazism of the second.
The something that has to be
done, it is then argued, is to
make the Germans feel that they
cinate the Germans against want-
ing a nuclear force of their own.
It is, I believe, an amateurish,
naive and deeply unwise project.
The supposedly killed virus in the
vaccine is just as likely to be a
live virus. Moreover, far from this
being a way to treat the Germans
with dignity and self-respect and
as equal partners, it treats them
as an incurably dangerous people.
IF WE MEAN to treat the Ger-
mans as equals, we should begin
with the reason why, even if Brit-
ain and France have nuclear
weapons of their own, the West
Germans must not and should not
have them today. This is not be-
cause the West Germans must be
made to suffer more for the crimes
of Hitler. It is because, as a con-
sequence of Hitler's crimes, Ger-
many was defeated, occupied and
divided.
It remains divided because the
four occupying powers and the two
German states have not been able
to agree on a plan for the reuni-
fication of Germany. As long as
Germany is divided, it is a sick
nation with a grievance. As such,
it must not have the power to
redress its grievance by going to
war. The truth of the matter is,
that Germany is not a normal
European state as long as it is
divided and occupied.
Germany, therefore, can have
full equality only when reunifi-
cation has been achieved and her
grievance removed.
THE RIGHT APPROACH to the
German question, the right way to
vaccinate the Germans. i hv tak-
t