EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS O THE UNWEJr.rr OF MciGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF SrUDEN rr PUXcATJOs Where Opinions Are FeeSTUDENT PUBLiCATIONS BLDG., ANN ARso, MwCH., PHONE No 2-324] 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. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Betancourt Image Masks Tyranny RSDAY, MAY 16, 1963 NIGHT EDITOR: DEBORAH BEATTIE Liberalization of Hours Only Goes Part Way N THE LIBERALIZATION of worilen's hours has not gone far enough. Vice-President for Student Affairs James' A. Lewis decided to keep weekend hours at 12:30 for all women except seniors. The only improvement is an. added nine 1:30 late permissions and more automatic late permissions for juniors. He also denied juniors the privilege of living outside the dormitory system. These decisions grossly underestimate the maturity of today's Univerwity women. Of course the University must assume some responsibility for the general welfare of its students, and, at this stage, some women's hours are probably necessary. However, Uni- versity women are being unreasonably incar- cerated. They are not being given the educa- tional opportunity to make mistakes. They are not being given the chance to prove to society .that they are capable, mature individuals. This over-protection is stifling the freedom that beloigs to the women as adults. AS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, most women were allowed by their parents to stay out much later than 12:30-and many of them lived in big, "dangerous" cities. It is strange that the University considers it such a risk to let them stay out until 1:30 in a college town. Administrators agree that anything that can happen between 12:30 and 1:30 could just as easily happen before 12:30. By giving an across-the-board extension to 1:30 on both Friday and Saturday night, the time for harm- less recreation would be prolonged, but the probability of immoral conduct would not necessarily be increased. Certainly this fact is recognized by Lewis, for he has granted nine 1:30 permissions for each semester. But why on only certain speci- fied nights? Surely a woman is no more mature on a 1:30 night than she is on a 12:30 night. THE RATIONALE is that there have been extensions in hours on nights only when major campus events are taking place. Lewis seems to be assuming that there would be nothing for students to do on a 1:30 night if organized activity were not going on. On the contrary, though, there are many respectable activities which can be pursued after 12:30. Ann Arbor businessmen might even respond by scheduling entertainment at later hours if later weekend curfews were established across the board. The decision to keep -junior women in the dorms is also backward. By not being granted the privilege to live in apartments, they are being deprived of many invaluable lessons on managing household affairs. Many women of junior-year age throughout the country are married. Surely the juniors at the University 'are no less capable of handling their own affairs. THE PROBLEM has been raised that dorms would meet with a financial crisis if juniors left to live in apartments. However, the space could be put to valuable use for graduate students, foreign students, visitors and Univer- sity staff members. A need for such housing has been voiced by University officials. If the administration is trying to foster an air of moral purity, it is taking a step in the wrong direction. By not taking advantage of this time to announce freer hours, the Uni- versity fails to recognize the maturity of its women students. -KAREN MARGOLIS Underworked Students Need More Classes WHEN I WAS an innocent freshman, I came to the University completely unaware of the meaning of credit hour.. So when some counselor told me that the normal freshman load was 15 hours and advised me to take four. courses, two three hour and two four hour, I did. Now, however, I am ready to graduate and I definitely know the meaning of credit hour. Te Klan? WAYESTATE UNIVERSITY has been at- tacked by a group which equals the John Birch Socibty in its secrecy. This anonymous organization has been protesting WSU's quar- ter system and plans a student strike for to- morrow. Whether or not these students are correct in their opposition to the quarter system, in- augurated at WSU last fall, is immaterial. However, they have been chalking blackboards, passirlg out handbills. and distributing press releases to newspapers. Amid all this publicity, the group's membership remains a secret. Unnamed group spokesmen claim adminis- trative punitive action necessitates secrecy. Perhaps WSU's administration would take dis- ciplinary action against these students if their identities were known. However, if these stu- dents did not choose to work under their brand of "white sheets" this probably would not be the case, THE ORGANIZATION is composed of "in- terested" students who have not bothered to get university recognition. Therefore, all action taken by this group on the WSU campus technically violates university regulations. During this past week there have been charges and counter charges between the group and the administration. However, one must wonder i whether this group is not using its anonymity as a weapon against the. adminis- tration. Does it actually fear reprisals by the dean of students or is it attempting to in- timidate that office? The answer to this question will remain unknown. But the group's method during this past week leave the field open to question. Vanishing Zorro's have no place in mature student concerns. They should be relegated to movie screens and television tubes. IF STUDENTS disagree with administrative decisions, they should act in an open man- ner and if necessary take the consequences of their actons. o-A. ORLIN c4k'At tg 1au hiti Editorial Staff MICHAEL OLINICK, Editor JUJDITH OPPENHEIM MICHAEL HARRAH Editorial Director City Editor CAROLINE DOW...............Personnel Director This semester I am taking 18 credit hours. And to my mind this should be the minimum credit hour requirement for students at the University -be they freshmen or seniors. The caliber of students admitted to the University is well known. If they are in-state students they were in the top quarter of their class. If they are out-of-state students they were in the top ten per cent of their class. Their academic ability is high; they are top students in a highly selective, top institution. There are students who can and should be challenged by their studies. Yet for the first year of their, educational experience they are allowed to take 14 or 15 credit hours spread out among four courses; they are given light loads. This had its merits to be sure. The fr'eshman must adjust to an away-from-home situation and to college life. BUT BEYOND the first semester what is the justification for such a light load? For the liberal drts student there is none. As I see it, they are free from an exorbitant amount of required class hours. Fifteen hours a week in class, if one is not a : science major with numerous labs, is a small portion of time in relation to the total amount of time in a week. Students who work their way through school or students who spend much of their time working on student activities still find time to study. As a matter of fact some informal surveys have shown that students occupied with student activities maintain averages equal to or higher than the all-campus average. THE POINT IS not a pitch for student ac- tivities or working one's way through school. The point is that the time spent on these activities by some students can be used for study by others who are not participating. Thus a student who does not spend 15 to 30 hours a week working, in one form or another, is able to take more than the minimum, pablum digest of courses. When a student becomes a junior or senior he is usually forced to tAke five courses in order to total fifteen hours. And he manages it, often quite well. Why -can't he do this in his sophomore year? Or his second semester? Only because he is not being pushed. By the time a student has adjusted to col- lege life and. learned what a bluebook is, what ja final exam looks like and what an instructor expects from a college student he is ready to plunge deeper into the well of knowledge. He should have learned how to study ef- ficiently and thus he can expand his scope of knowledge by increasing the number of courses that he takes. There is no reason for a person working not to take five courses and one who is not working to take six or even seven. The latter course of action is frowned on by most counselors. But this, seems only to be a result of a lingering idea that students cannot man- age so many courses. YET EVERYWHERE you turn you can find To the Editor: SUNDAY, APRIL 12, The Daily carried a magazine story on Venezuela written by Ronald Ken- yon, "a prospective political an- alyst." To somebody not aware of the tragic events happening in Venezuela, Kenyon's "masterpiece" would sound like nothing short of tropical paradise. From our point of view, Betancourt's gov- ernment has succeeded very well in only one aspect, and that is to create in the eyes of the unin- formed foreigner the image of a democrat falling only a little short of our liberator, Simon Bolivar. The task. of this letter is to point out some lesser known facts outside Venezuela, which somehow have not been published in the mass media of this country. Since Betancourt assumed the presi- dency, unemployment has only in- creased to 18 per cent of the labor force. Much is made out of the fact that he has been able to stay in power for an unprece- dented term of four years. But what most people outside Vene- zuela ignore is that his noble ef- fort has only been possible through the sheer use of repression. ONLY WITH the combined ef- fort of the armed forces, seven secret services and an irregular band of organized thugs has Betancourt survived throughout this period. If Himmler were alive, he would be happy to see how his practices are a common thing in our country. Torture, two concen- tration camps, over 10,000 "politi- eal" prisoners, total disregard for human rights and principles go hand in hand with misery, exploi- tation, nepotism and corruption. This may sound strange to some people, but if you don't believe these facts, only check some of the appeals sent by different Vene- zuelan organizations to the Secre- tary of the United Nations to re- quest his good office to help stop this daily dance of bloodshed. Concerning the guerillas, we only ask the following question: Why, if they don't exist as the government claims, has Betan- court made use of Article 66 of our constitution forbidding any news- paper, radio station or television station to print or talk about the guerillas and the FLN? The much talked about agrarian reform is and has been a farce. It has been the most expensive such program in the world and the least productive. These results can be checked in the memoirs of the Central Bank of Venezuela. SINCE BETANCOURT came to office, the economy has been sag- ging. The external debt which by the time Betancourt assumed the presidency was very small, nowa- days is well into the billions' of dollars, and no other trend is seen for the near future. Overruling our Congress, Betancourt lavishly sold the exclusive right over our aluminum to Reynold's Aluminum Co. for a fifty year period even though a Japanese corporation had offered much better condi- tions and was willing to sign a 10- year contract (Alianza para el Progreso?). The construction in- dustry is now at a standstill, hav- ing contributed 150,000 persons to the pool of the unemployed. The only positive achievements of the regime have been in the construction of schools, but how can a student, go to an ultra- modern classroom when he has no food or shoes? Politically, Betan- court has been able to remain in office because of the armed forces and 'other "democratic" institu- tions. Economically the regime has not fallen, thanks to the "dis- interested" emergency loans of the United States plus the advance taxes paid by the oil companies. RONALD KENYON concluded his article by saying, "We here in the United States should con- tinue to support the ;efforts to create a genuine democracy in Latin America and encourage the new president in his efforts to continue the job Betancourt has so admirably begun." If this con- tinues to be the policy, then we can only conclude by saying, "Do not let inevitable future develop- ments surprise you." -Maulio Rodriguez, '63E -Jose Moron, '63E -Stephen Nube, '63 -Jesus Armando Glaterol, '63 -Antonio Nagen, 3E Birmingham *. * To the Editor: IN AN EDITORIAL on Sunday, May 12, entitled "Negroes Ap- ply' Economics: Integration or Bust," Mr. Edward Herstein con- trasts the recent demonstrations in Birmingham with the sit-ins, freedom rides and voter registra- tion drives of the past. He claims that the Birmingham demonstra- tions succeeded, where all of the previous demonstrations have fail- ed, because of the use of "mass rioting" and "mob actions" in Birmingham. It seems to me that his argument is based on a dis- torted view of both sides of this alleged contrast. First, the unqualified statement that the earlier non-violent action 7' r ..r ohnv ail faile d-imnli demonstrations as if they were completely discontinuous with the earlier ones. It is true that they have involved larger masses of people, and also that they led to some violence on the part of a small proportion of Negro by- standers who (unlike the partici- pants in the demonstrations) had not been trained in the techniques of non-violent action. Nevertheless, the Birmingham demonstrations are much more clearly in the tra- dition of non-violent action than they are in the tradition of the rioting mob. I feel it is important to call at- tention to this two-fold distortion because it encourages a glib analy- sis that fails to take into account the dynamics of non-violent ac- tion and the role of this movement in producing change in American race relations. -Prof. Herbert C. Kelman Psychology Department Amazed .. To the Editor: I HAVE BEEN somewhat amazed at the absurd editorials that have been appearing in The Daily recently concerning the Birming- ham situation. I find Mr. Sutin's mutterings about Christ and Pon- tius Pilate representative of the edit page's funny criticism of the demonstrations. For the first time in the deep South thousands of Negroes are actively protesting for their rights, which regardless of the steps of the Senior Citizens, Negroes don't have. Over two thousand somewhat oppressed ci- tizens (including children who be- ing born black cannot always af- ford the luxury of absorbing them- selves in cowboy boots and dolls) decide to march to downtown Birmingham; why should they be stopped? Should they be stopped to take part in the frustrating process of being given some of their rights sooner or later? We cannot continue to pat the im- patient Negro on the head and consolingly say, "All things take time, son." It's very nice that the Birm- ingham Chamber of Commerce was planning to upgrade Negro workers-that's mighty white of them. The American Negro has liv- ed with the tokenized progress made through these means. He should stop demanding the rest of his rights because he's got some? The situation is simple: the Negro is a second-class citizen; if he wants his status to change he must rely on himself to change it; the Birmingham demonstrations point out vividly that the Negro wants to work for immediate change. Until the Negro has achieved first-class citizenship, mass protest demonstrations de- serve our complete support. -Martha Presod,'65 Generalities.. To the Editors: THIS IS INTENDED as a re- sponse to Mr. Mike's criticism of the "Contemporary European Painting for Purchase Exhibition." I assume Mr. Mike, and interested parties, read the introductions in the show's catalogue. No more explanations or apologies are therefore in order. However, if Mr. Mike wishes to attack not the substance of a particular exhibition but the idea of a purchase exhibition, an ex- hibition that is necessarily limited to available works in American galleries, then why doesn't he do so? Controversy on this subject could serve some purpose. OR DOES Mr. Mike take serious exception to a European show? I believe he might have scored a point there. However, I am dis- appointed that all he could do was to imply that the University had been victimized by continental confidence men. As criticism this bit should have been datelined 1913. Instead of being nasty-nice about a reporter and trumpeting sophomoric generalities ("The his- tory of painting is a history of heresies.") Mr. Mike should have offered some coherent and con- Structive criticism. -Prof. Victor H. Miesel History of Art Department Rigamarole .,.. To the Editor: THIS RIGMAROLE of signing in and out of the women's dormitories is an annoying waste of time. Surely it was initiated to serve some purpose, but whatever its function was at that time, it has little, if any, now. Are we trying to keep track of the where- abouts of the girls after 8 p.m.? Eight out of ten sign-out slips read "campus" in answer to this query and the other two, probably written by a particularly thought- ful or original student undoubt- edly say "out." Are we, then, attempting to protect the morality of our Uni- versity women by forcing them to pull a slip out of a box upon re- turning to their dorm so that they may be duly accounted for as hav- ing been safely returned to the fold? This is a noble goal, but highly unrealistic. Any girl who wishes to stay out all night can phone a friend and ask her to pull her slip. Or she can walk in and pull it herself when the lobby is unguarded, and walk back out again. Or she may just not bother signing out at all. IF IT IS morality we are con- cerned with, why not dispense with this hypocrisy of treating University women as adults and initiate room checks or at least more frequent fire drills? Of course these would have to occur at about 3 'am. in order to catch the girls who prop back doors open or climb out windows after hours. And they must occur on weekends and during bad weather in order to take the girls by sur- prise. Fire drills and room checks might be an extra bother for tired or busy students and huse mothers-,particularly at 3 in the morning-but certainly no more of a bother than filling out in- numerable slips and worrying about Didn't Sign Out or Didn't Sign In. And with all possible precautions taken, perhaps the girls might almost all be kept in the dorm between 8 p.m. and 7 a.m. Of course the University can- not be expected to extend its pro- tection through the morning and afternoon. Or are sign-out slips used for purposes of assigning late min- utes to girls who come in after hours? Since they have to ring the doorbell in order to be ad- mitted anyway, it would appear quite simple to take their names and assign late minutes as is done now. As for freshmen who must be in by 11, they can, at present, 'quite easily sign out on a 12 per pink slip and success- fully, in some cases, evade notice. * * * WHY IS SIGNING OUT such an annoying as well as a useless pro- cedure? Because it seems to me quite ridiculous to have to' plan my day each morning when I leave the dorm for my 8 a.m. class. I may decide to skip lunch and eat dinner on campus, and then study at the UGLI from 7 to 12 p.m. Do I have to decide all this at 7:45 in the morning? And if I did plan my day this way, I must sign out at 745 a.m. to return at midnight. Ignoring the fact that my slip in that case would probably be completely il- legible, what if I should decide during the day that I cannot af- ford dinner out and return to the dorm in the afternoon? Since I am not accustomed to signing out at 7:45 a.m., I would probably forget to take my slip out of the box, and would be wakened from a peaceful sleep at 12:05 a.m. by a housemother in- forming me that I neglected to sign in. Then I must go down- stairs to the lobby where I sign my name again to the slip and receive a half hour of late minutes as a penalty for 'signing out in the first place. And what about the numerous dimes spent or wast- ed by a student who has decided in the afternoon not to returnsto the dorm and is trying vainly to con- tact a friend who will sign her out? SINCE I HAVE great faith in the stability of established institu- tions, I am sure that there is a' well-defended argument against these common complaints. Maybe it should be reviewed. I'd like another chance td dispute it. Un- less, of course, the psychology de- partment is conducting some sort of research on what percentage of their evenings University coeds spend in the dorm. If this is so, I withdraw my case and humbly bow before the unintelligible mysteries of science. -Carol Ann Coon, '64 Science... To the Editor: THE DAILY of May 7 devoted considerable space to an inter- view with Prof. Boulding on the "dangers of population growth." Concern over population growth is a dangerous diversion at a time when the survival of mankind is in doubt. Even though the leader concept has proven, historically, to be dangerous to society, Amer- cans have been conditioned to rely on "words of wisdom" from and sensible actions by professors, pun- dits and politicians. If Americans had not been so concerned with an easy way out of the mire of unemploymentand war, they would, not have over- looked the easiest solution which a scientific study of .society and government reveals. Instead, how- ever, Americans have too generally swallowed the astrological bait put out by self-interested capitalists and equally self-interested bureau- crats of the "iron curtain coun- tries." * * * THE PROVERBIAL Diogenes would search American schools and colleges for scientifically bas- ed courses about society and gov- ernment more futilely than he, in the days of old, conducted a search for an honest man. If Americans are really interested in achieving the full benefit of their industrial and cultural potential and in re- leasing the full capabilities of the individual, they will make as scientific examination of society and government as they have of the physical world. Those that make such an examination will discover that the very structure of industrial society demonstrates that political government is ar- chaic and is also inadequate to cope with either "internal" or "ex- ternal" problems. They will also discover that the private ownership (capitalist own- ership) of the instruments and means of production is incompat- ible with the interests and require- ments of society. Having made those discoveries, Americans will also learn that an American pro- gram for an orderly, peaceful, and democratic resolution of the causes of unemployment and war has been scientifically arrived at by the Socialist Labor Party. When Americans meet the current crises with science and good sense to the end that the capitalist and pseudo-communist causes of war shall have been eliminated, the social filth which capitalism and pseudo-communism have spawned can be' eliminated in less than "100 years of agony." The ques- tion of population growth can then be dealt with sensibly. -Ralph Muncy Humiiity To the Editor: WHILE READING the recent is- sue of Gargoyle, I was rather disturbed by the story "A Tribute of Sorts to Benny." It seems to me that the author has made an unwarranted attack on a man who is trying to do his job in a sin- cere and friendly way. This man is the crossing guard at the corner of South University and Washtenaw for the children of Angell School, a job which would, I'm sure, take more humil- ity than some students possess. Each noon I pass the corner where this man works, and I have always been greeted with a smile and a pleasant hello and have never seen any of the antics' which were described in Gargoyle. I have also asked some others who pass this corner their opinions, and they felt this man to be friendly and also to take his job quite seriously.' THE STORY is, I imagine, sup- posed to be a satire. Well I ap- preciate good satire, but I fail to see anything satirical in a man helping children across a street or attempting to be friendly. The author appears to be critical of the somawhat different ways of an older person, but this story is writ- ten in such a manner that it would seem that it would hurt the person about whom it was written. We as students are undergoing a learning process which will hope- fully make ;us better' citizens. Part of this process should be to learn to respect the rights of others, namely in this case those of our senior, citizens. This story In Gar- goyle appears to me to be a step backwards in this learning pro- cess. -Richard Ankli,'65E AT THE STATE: 4 Study Break KIM NOVAK fans of the world, unite. At the State Theatre through Saturday, Miss Novak is appearing with sundry admirers in two movies that have not im- proved with age:,"The Eddy Duch- in Story" and "Picnic." In the first film, Miss Novak is a sophisticated society post-debu- tante who falls tenderly and breathlessly in love witi swash- buckling Tyrone Power.The trag- edy of Eddy Duchin, 'America's favorite piano player, is a senti- mental tear-jerker: a poor story but emotionally fulfilling. Adequate performances were given by both Miss Novak and Power but the only outstanding portrayal was that of Peter Duch- in, Eddy's son. Given the depth of the roles, however, Miss Novak and Power cannot be condemned. Filmed in the more attractive and plush sections of New York City, "The Eddy Duchin Story" comes off as a restful two hour study break. The costumes add to the feeling of wanton carefreeness in the blazing '20's - tempered only by the recurring tragedy that made Duchin's life a shambles. * s " .* Out, Out, Brief Candle! Life's But A Walking Shadow . ALTHOUGH "Picnic" is one of her most famous moyies, Miss No- vak is unconvincing as a too pretty, simple, stupid small town girl. Her seducer, William Holden, was at his brawny worst. Stilted performances were turn- ed in by the two leading perform- ers. The stereotyped situation was relieved only by the fine perform- ances of veteran Rosalind Russell as the old maid school teacher and Susan Strasberg as Milly, the younger sister. Both added depth to what was otherwise a shallow story of a poorly developed love affair. BOTH PICTURES were tech- nically marred by poor splicing and old age. Although the splicing did not delete anything essential to the plot, it was done poorly and left a few actors with their mouths open, saying nothing. In "The Eddy Duchin Story," particularly,