At irt t Seventy-First Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN )pinions Are Pm UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS I Will Prevai" STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG, * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 itorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This mus t be noted in all reprints. ', FEBRUARY 28, 1961 NIGHT EDITOR: SUSAN FARRELL SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT: Faces Multiple Charges Do Foreign Students Share the Rights of Man? T IS TOO EASY for the United States gov- ernment to gag the free political expression the foreign student in this country. From btle threats to direct action, the immigration rvice has pressured many student aliens with portation for a number of loosely construed ubversive" activities. The most recent example .of this kind of essure was last week's "suggestion" by the ternational Center that foreign students not ke part in the demonstrations in Detroit ainst the death of Patrice Lumumba. But is action has a substantial precedent, both .re and across the country. Several years ago, according to Robert Kling-_ Head Counselor of the International Center, veral African students wanting to protest hru's attitude towards aparthied in South rica were warned that their action might be iisconstrued," meaning investigated. Nothing er came of their plans.- A few months ago, me foreign students wished to join the Fair ay for Cuba group on a trip to survey condi- ins in Cuba. They were warned by the Im- gration Department through the Internation- Center that this trip might provoke in-, stigation as a communistic venture. It is ie that the two foreign students who went re not bothered, but it is equally true that veral were scared off by the warning. Last ek came the Lumumba demonstration affair. HE BASIS OF THESE "warnings," is a law, Sec. 241(a) paragraphs 6 and 7 of the Im- gration and. Nationality Act, most recently vised in 1952 in the middle of the McCarthy ,sterla. This law, in part threatens deportation to y alien who "advocates the economic, inter- tional, and governmental doctrines of world mmunism. . . either through their own utter- ces or through any written or printed publi- tions issued or published," which covers a etty wide area. It also forbids aliens to "write publish, or cause to be written or published, who knowingly circulate, distribute, print or ;play ., anything communistic, fascist, or archistic. Nor are aliens allowed to belong to y organizations which do or advocate any of e above things. This law brigs up the very basic issue of e4om of speech-one that has been fought d re-fought over the past few moinths. But, ice it concerns foreign students in America, brings up an other equally important problem are freedom of speech and freedom of peaceful political expression given to a person as a part of his citizenship, or are they basic human rights, with which no state and gov- ernment has a right to interfere? THE LATTER SEEMS TO ME the only stand appropriate to a free society. Freedom of political "expression is an individual human right, no matter what country happens to be his homeland. It does not comfort me when Mr. Klinger says that a student could sit on the platform of a Communist rally without arousing gov- ernmental wrath, because he quickly added that the student could not speak with immunity. No country based on a constitution which holds freedom of speech as a basic tenet has the right to take this freedom away from any- one. The argument which Mr. Klinger advanc- ed, is untenable. He says, "the foreign student in America is like a house guest-he has the. 'right to privately disagree with the hosts in- terior decorating but no right to bust up his furniture." Of course not. Sabotage is not permitted to the citizens of this country as a basic right. But freedom of speech, and freedom of peace- ful demonstration, is. A foreign student, who wants to blow up the Belgian Consulate has no right to do so-nor would an American in the same position. But if he wants to picket in front of it till hell freezes over, this is perfectly with- in his rights, as a human being. T HE STAND THAT FREEDOM of political ex- pression as a basic human right is not, in practice, an easy one to take. If you say that foreign students should have the right to examine conditions in Cuba with a group which may or may not be communistic, you must also say that the German students here in the late '30's had the right to agitate for Hitler. You must say that of foreign students should be permitted to picket the Belgian Consulate in Detroit, you must also say that a man like the neo-Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell has the right to speak in Washington Square, and to be protected while doing so. The road away from McCarthy hysteria has been a long and hard one. But not until, the serious and restricting laws limiting the ac- tivity of foreign students In America have been revoked will we be able to say, once again, that we are a free society. -FAITH WEINSTEIN (EDITOR'S DOTE: This is the second of a three-part series on the sheriff's department.) By RICHARD OSTLING daiy Staff Writer CHARGES WERE hurled at the Washtenaw County sheriff's department-before the eras of Lil- lie and Petersen. Late in 1957, Sheriff Erwin L. Klager's department received con- siderable criticism, from the press and the public about fixing of traf- fic tickets and employees' washing and servicing of their cars in the County Jail Garage, eating meals in the jail kitchen, and helping themselves to gas at the expense of the county. Klager died early in 1958, and new sheriff Robert E. A. Lillie es- tablished the following standard policies which raise serious doubts as to the quality of the depart- ment formerly: Definition of minimum stand- ards for employment,, a file on personnel performance and his- tory, and daily written activity re- ports. Definition of individual duties, accountability for clothing and equipment, uniform traffic viola- tion and accident report forms, weapons security regulations, con- trot of vehicle operation, and ac- countability for all cash handled by department members. ** 4 ABOUT THE TIME these changes were made, an auditing firm studied the records of the department and concluded "No record of cash receipts was main- tained . . , cash disbursements were not recorded. It is impossi- ble to determine what portion of total disbursements are accounted for." And this in a department which spent over a quarter of a million dollars of tax money annually. Despite the sloppy bookkeeping, the firm established that fund set up by deputies for picnics, funer- als, and hospital flowers had $1,- 804 accounted for. The audit covered the period when the late Erwin L. Kager was sheriff, and the "flower fund" was the responsibility of KMager, for- mer undersheriff Charles W. Shaw, and George Petersen, who is now the sheriff of Washtenaw County. The sheriff at the time of the audit, Robert E. A Lillie, had fired Petersen from his force Just two months before the money showed up missing. The firing was clear- ly a political move against Peter- sen, who had announced he was going to run for sheriff against Lillie, but if Lillie had waited un- til the audit he would have had a more legitimate excuse for dis- crediting Petersen. THE FLOWER FUND was one of the chief issues in the election that year, in which Petersen de- feated Lillie to gain the office to which he was re-elected just a few months ago. An inventory conducted at the same time was another interest- ing commentary on the use of pub- lic money. Missing in this inventory were a five-door refrigerator, micro- phone and cable, two bullet-proof vests, an electric fan, four step ladders, eleven chairs, a portable radio, a waffle iron, a shotgun, 15 revolvers, and ten pairs of hand- cuffs. Perhaps the quality of the books reflects a general personnel prob- lem in county law enforcement. AT THE LAST Board of Super- visors meeting, a county legislator said he had received a number of calls from constituents complain- ing about loose dogs. When he referred them to the sheriff's de- partment as the proper agency to handle the problem, the people told him that the personnel at the sheriff's department had told them to call the supervisor. It was an amusing interlude in the meeting, but it raised serious doubts as to the calibre of coun- ty law enforcement men., And other doubts have been raised about the morale in the sheriff's department. In the after- math of the 1957-58 disclosures, sheriff Lillie reported that morale was at a "low ebb," but indications are that the problem may still remain three years ?later. Jerry H. Holtz, who had resign- ed nine months before as a depu- ty, charged during last year's campaign that contrary to pres- ent sheriff Petersen's claim that morale "was never higher," morale "among the officers was never lower" than when he left the force. Klump, who was Petersen's op- ponent in the campaign, has stat- ed privately that morale was very poor. * *' * RETIRED DEPUTY Broderick said that "if morale in any of my Marine Corps outfits had ever been as low as it presently is among the deputies, there would have been a mutiny." One dubious method of raising morale was documented by Holtz in his charges-the fostering of "distrust, suspicion, and an un- healthy rivalry between (the sher- iff's) own officers and Michigan state police troopers." Holtz said that Petersen pushed 'the rivalry theme to his depu- ties and obtained a radio to in- tercept calls from the Ypsilanti trooper post so that sheriff's men could race to accident or crime scenes before the trooper car could arrive. If allegations of interference in ticketing by the sheriff are also true, this could work against de- partmental morale. And hampering the process of officers' giving information to the press could be detrimental, as is Petersen's desire to keep deputies' names out of crime stories because it makes them conceited. PETERSEN TOLD ME that there is no more turnover in the force than usual. "However," he said, "if someone doesn't work, is a deadbeat, and doesn't pay his bills, I don't want him on \my force." "When a deputy wants to run the County, it's time to get rid of. him. I'm still the boss around here." Explaining procedures by which complaints from within the de- partment are handled, Petersen explained that he and some of his assistants "sit down and iron it out" with the man involved. I asked, "What sort of things do you do to keep high, morale and discipline among the men?" "I expect them to obey orders. We have no trouble. If I do find some I'll stop them quick." "These morale charges are made by jealous outsiders." OF COURSE, any turnover at all in a department is wasteful, be- cause experience is lost, and this is particularly important in a de- partment which depends so strong- ly on on-the-job work as a train- ing mechanism. In fact, there is no regular training program for county law enforcement agents, in startling contrast to the practices of the Ann Arbor police department and most other agencies aware of con- temporary criminological meth- ods. In 1958 sheriff Lillie instituted "progressive training in the use of equipment and firearms includ- ing participation in training facili- ties made available through Mich- igan State University, the Uni- versity of'Michigan, and the Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation." The present sheriff explained that new recruits "must make a formal application and have a twelfth grade education." He looks for "background, experience edu- cation, and health" in men he hires. Some of them, he noted, are ,ex-policemen. * * * THE PRESENT TRtAINING pro- gram amounts to handing raw re- cruits' guns and cruising cars with little background. Although they are sent to "any school which comes up," the train-, ing consists in having new men work in teams with older men on the force for 90 days. "By then. they should know what they're doing," Petersen explained. The dangers in such a program are enormous even if the men have formerly been part-time dep- uties. Petersen admitted that his men handle more serious cases in general than policemen, yet there is no systematic training program. Not only can modern methods be ignored and malpractice be hand- ed from generation to generation under the present plan, but there is danger to the deputies and citi- zens alike in mishandling of cases. For instance, former deputy El- mer Klump told me that last fall deputies answered a call on a man lying on the ground in the Whit- more Lake area covered with blood. The deputies were heard to say that it was almost time for the new shift to come on. They left the scene purportedly to find the attacker of the man. "They didn't call an ambulance and they never came back," Klump said, and no report was written on the incident. Neighbors waited awhile and then called the state police who took the victim to the hospital, where he received 22 stitches in the head. The person who infilct- ed the wounds was arrested for felonious assault, and was in a condition requiring psychiatric treatment. AT THEW STATE: Fever' FOR THE past several years the major efforts of Warner Bro- thers have centered on their popu- lar and profitable ventures into the realm of hour-long television series. In the process of develop- ing these series, the studio has created a legion of stars known on the airways, but unfamiliar to the moviegoer. But, now Warners has brought two of its most popular video heroes, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. (77 Sunset Strip) and Jack Kelly (Maverick) face to face in a me- dium budget epic "Fever in the Blood," currently holding forth for brief inspection at the State Theatre. "Fever in the Blood" is a melo- drama of politics, morals and mur- der of considerable interest, until the final minutes when an attack of Hollywooditis leads to a horse race conclusion of previous com- plexities and a sugary finale that pales Mother Goose. * * * THE FEVER of the title refers to human lust iin general and hunger for political power speci- fically. The film is centered on the triangular battle for the governor- ship of a nameless state between an uncorruptible, aristocratic judge (Zimbalist), the District At- torney (Kelly), who has fought his way to the threshold of success from the depths of poverty, and the old professional politician (Don. Ameche), the incumbent senator. The three men are pitted against each other in terms of ideals or rather the lack of them' as the struggle for the nomination. To complicate matters, there is a lengthy murder case in which Kel- ly is the prosecutor, Zimbalist the judge, Ameche the political in- truder, and the defendant, the ex- governor's nephew. Had the black sheep nephew been played by Edd (Kookie) Byrne, the hack situation might have been more like a circus for the Twelve Angry Men involved and less of a trial for all con- cerned. To add still another dimension to the film is the romantic rela- tionship between the judge and the senator's wife. (Angie Dickin- son). The film has a certain freshness resulting from- the relative unfa- miliarity with the leading players and the professional direction of Richard Sherman. This film will not be long remembered, but it beats a great number of the films now forced on the public market. -Harold Applebaum ONCE: Festival of New Music; Complex to..Excellent SOMEONE TOLD ME he was disappointed in Friday's ONCE concert because there was no riot. I find it hard to be annoyed that an Ann Arbor audience could be sophisticated, courteous o just curious enough to sit through a concert of music for the most part unfamiliar. In any case, the only walkouts were not until the last composition played Saturday night, Robert Ashley's "The Fourth of July." The organizers of the ONCE festival picked well when they asked the Luciano Berio Ensemble to come. Berio is one of the leading European composers, a fine performer and a connoisseur of new music. Besides Berio, who played piano and celesta, there were flute, harp, a whole battery of percussion instruments (with two players), and Kathy Berberian-a native of New York and wife of Berio. * * * * THE MOST INTERESTING piece on the first half of the program, perhaps the best of the evening, was "Frammento" for soprano and piano by Silvano Bussotti. Those who attended David Tudor's recital here last year will remember the same composer's "Five Piano Pieces," by far the best thing on that program. Bussotti, a musician, painter, actor and puppeteer from Florence, arranged the text of the "Fram- mento" from parts of Armenian proverbs, lines from a Genet novel, and heaven knows where else-the fragments make no sense, I am told, even if one understands the twelve languages they are sung in. The mechanical peculiarities of the music- the pianist slams the lid of the piano to get sympathetic vibrations from its strings-give a super- ficial impression that it is 'avant-garde'. 4 Miss Be.rberian sang the "Frammento" admirably. She has a beautiful voice, a wide range and almost incredible techinque. It is a little hard to see why Debussy's "Syrinx" was put in a concert of contemparary music, but Jacques Castagner proved it can still sound good when a good flutist plays it. Edgard Vares'e "Density 21.5" is even better, and Berio's "Sequenza". is undoubtedly the best thing ever written for solo flute. BERIO'S "CIRCLES" is a very complex work for soprano, harp and percussion. The text is three bad poems by E. E. Cummings. The soprana-with voice, with gesture and with movement-controls the instrumentalists The choreography did not come off too well, perhaps because of the small stage, but the music was impressive. The composition by Boucourechliev that Bero presented was written for his American tour and that is hard to beat for contem- poraneity; most of the works played Saturday, , however, are even more recent and have at least one additional value: we can now see for ourselves that local 'far out' composers stand up very well beside prominent Europeans. The Dramatic Arts Center deserves most praise for making this comparison possible. Incidentally, I understand one of next Saturday's offerings is still in progress. Robert Ashley performed his own "Sonata," Gordon Mumma's "Suite for Piano" and Donald Scavarda's "Groups for Piano." It is a good thing that Ashley is a first rate pianist, for all three of these are severe and technically difficult. In the "Suite," where composer Mumma has given at times alternate possibilities of pitch and rhythm, Ashley has generally preferred the most complicated arrangement. ROGER REYNOLDS' "Continuum" for viola and cello, like his earlier "Situations" for cello and piano, begins with a banal statement and develops in unbelievable directions. The alternation of set and improvised rhythms needed a-little more delineation by the performers, Elizabeth Lichty and Arthur Follows, otherwise excellent. "The Bottleman," fragments of an unfinished film by George Manupelli, was projected on two screens from two projectors and when complete will take four screens. The obvious advantage of multiple projection is that one can see more than one aspect of an action at one time. The completed film should be well worth seeing. Manupelli is also responsible for the fabulous statue called "Lincoln Forms his Cabinet" on display outside the church entrance. "The Fourth of July" by Robert Ashley, is already rather famous. Milton Cohen used it as background for part of his recent show "Manifestations in Light and Sound" and it got as mixed reactions then as it did last ;Saturday, when several members of the music faculty left before it was over. "THE FOURTH OF JULY" begins with sounds apparently re- corded at a large party. Gradually, purely electronic sounds creep in and then take over completely. The structure is as much dramatic as musical; it has been criticized as too long, but shortening it or removing any. of its false endings would affect the drama. Part of the subject matter is boredom, but boredom formalized, until it be- comes interesting. It is the work of a great imagination, in perfect control. Friday night the ONCE festival will continue with the pianist Paul Jacobs. At the last concert, Saturday, Wayne Dunlap will conduct. a chamber orchestra in works by local composers. Nothing of the scope and intention of ONCE has been heard before in Ann Arbor or prob- ably ever will be again. After all, what would we call it? --BERNARD WALDROP I 14 Furor Quiets, Issue Persists r APPEARS that controversy over the free- dom of the press has died clown on the rkeley campus of the University of California. Members of the senior editorial board who re-. ned in October have ceased publication of the -campus rebel paper, the Independent Cali- 'nian. The board resigned en masse, protest- K censure from the executive committee of e Associated Students of the University of lfornia over the paper's endorsement of a adidate in student government elections. Also, the interim staff, which operated the per after the resignations, has been replaced a staff ofilcially appointed by the new con- .tative board. OPEFU LLY, uneasy relations between the Daily Cal and Ex Com were smoothed over the creation of the consultative board, which der the bylaws is to "replace" Ex Com in its atrol of the paper., The formal structure of the 11-man board .s for one student representative each from- lependent and affiliated housing, the foreign dent association and the graduate division. idents must petition and are chosen by the ups they represent. Also on the board are a member of the ad- nistration and a professional journalist, referably an alumnus of the University," both pointed by Chancellor Clark Kerr. Two "students at large" and on independent mmuting student, appointed jointly by the fly Cal editor and the president of ASUC, d two faculty members named by the Aca- mic Senate also hold seats on the board. LTHOUGH THE consultative board was cre- ated to replace Ex Com in its authority, the ard is to be "rubberstamped" by Ex Com, rry Timmins, present editor of the Daily Cal d in a recent phone interview. 'The clause was a device to take away per- aal difficulties between Ex Corn and the Daily 1," Tinmins added. Under closer observation, Editorial Staff THOMAS HAYDEN, Editor NAN MARKEL JEAN SPENCER however, this Ex Corn "rubberstamp" reflects much more executive power than has been ad- mitted. The consultative board can recommend a senior editorial board, taking into considera- tion the recommendations of the retiring senior board. Appointments, however, are subject to the final approval of Ex Com. The consultative. board can recommend coverage and expansion and amendments to bylaws, but again action is subject to Ex Com authority. The only absolute executive power that the consultative board holds is the power to remove a senior staff member with a two-thirds vote. OF A MUCH MORE nebulous nature are the functions of the board to "examine cover- age and review day to day policy." The editorial policy of the Daily Cal requires signed editorials reflecting individual opinion, no criticism on the basis of race or creed, and adherence to "concepts of truth and fair play." In addition, there is the restriction that the Daily Cal express no preference in ASUC elec- tions prior to the October affair. Nonendorse- ment had been a tradition but had not been specifically included in the statement of edi- torial policy. This is very important because it means that at the time of the mass resignation there existed no written authority under which Ex Com could censure Daily Cal endorsements. In spite of the reviewing functions of the consultative board and the control still vested in Ex Com, Timmins maintained that "the Daily Cal has "complete editorial freedom." .There is no Ex Com control over editorials , before they are printed, Timmins said. "Any re- prisals which might come would come after- ward and would be discussed through the con- sultative board." FORTUNATELY for the Daily Cal, there have been no reprisals since the staff appoint- ments, although several editorials have differed with Ex Com opinions on campus affairs. The principal issue remains, however: the existence of final authority in the hands of Ex Com, coupled with Timmins' admission of the possibility. The consultative board, with its theoretical assumption of control, is little more than a public relations cushion between the Daily Cal and Ex Com. FX COM EXERCISED vague powers in Octo- !i SDAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of The Univer- sity of Michigan for which The Michigan Daily assumes no editorial. responsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3519 Administration Building, before 2 p.m. two days preceding publication. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28 General Notices College 'of Literature, Science; and the Arts, and Schools of Business Ad- ministration, Education, Music, Natu- rai Resources,' Nursing, 'and Public Health: Students who received marks of I, X, or "no report" at the end of their last semester or summer fsession of attendance will receive agrade of "W" in the course or courses, unless this work is made 'up by March 13, 1961. Students wishing an extension of time beyond this date should file a petition with the appropriate' official° of their school. In the School ofcNurs- ing the above information: refers to non-Nursing courses only. National Defense Education Act Loans Applications are now available for the school year 1961-62 in 3011 Student Ac- tivities Building for students currently enrolled. 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