"Here, Little Boy, Pull The Nice Horse In With You" ;I I r ir1 t t' iIJ Seventy-First Year r EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN pinions Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Wil Prevail" STUDENT TUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. " Phone NO 2-3241 orials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staf writers' or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. SIDELINE ON SGC: Amendment Games: Intent to Subvert By PAT GOLDEN Daily Staff Writer RARELY DOES A MAJOR motion come through a Student Govern- ment Council meeting unscathed. There are arguments about se- mantics and there are amendments that clarify or pinpoint meaning. Wednesday night's meeting demonstrated a new and deplorable technique: the amendment to subvert. Several attempts were made to attach amendments to the motion condemning "Operation Abolition" which would have substantially altered the intent of the action. Per- sons who opposed the motion completely, instead of debating against ARCH 10, 1961 NIGHT' EDITOR: MICHAEL BURNS Union Board Should Define 'Undesirable' In Future p CURRENT CONTROVERSY about the' esirability of conditions in the Michigan Grill raises some quite delicate issues nt to the University community. er some months of thinking 'and discus- Union officials have indicated a dissatis- n of sorts with the aura, clientele and oning within the MUG. They have em- I the ambiguous terms "unpleasant" and sir'able" have been used to describe all of individuals and/or incidents-card- g, conversation, studying, activities and , legal and illegal. Recently, the Union ecome involved in a survey in connection -he faculty to determine the "best use of . facilities." They have' held it is their io determine the acceptability or unac- bility of individuals using Union facilities. have avowed that any person is welcome the facilties properly, so long as he or >es not "disrupt" the service to students, ti and other members of the University r, and guests. [HIS POINT, hackles have begun to rise: ho was the Union out to get? Who were idesirables? Clarification was sought, but ag very helpful was forthcoming. The had placed itself in a difficult situation s reference to MUG atmosphere but, y for security reasons, would go'fo farther explication. now, in the midst of all the mystery and various members of the community wait- r more accurate information from' the 1 groups' assigned to research the "at- ere" question for the Union, it has been ed that Union General Manager Frank ;el has asked- four persons to leave the n the last two weeks-because they were atdents, and excessively utilizing time and in the MUG. They can return for meals rently) but not for excessive periods of T OBVIOUSLY the expulsions are linked the study of "undesirables," "unpleasant- "best possible . atmosphere," etc. This so, it must also be true that the Union y has a pretty clear conception of at brme of the goals it is seeking-the goals which it has been so ambiguous, the which the research is supposed to define. r so much reticence to communicate- ' and precisely-these goals to the Uni- '? The Union and its Grill are integral of this educational community and, as have obligations to be exact about the of contributions they want to make. Do want a MUG atmosphere conducive to conversations, long, personal interactions n persons of all kinds? Do they want G* atmosphere which fosters more haste 'ficiency, which emphasizes primarily the of meals-the business function of the THERE IS ONLY ONE EXCUSE for secrecy of operation or ambiguity of purpose-it is legitimate if the Union wishes to apprehend persons engaged in illegal activity within the Grill. But it seems probable, unfortunately, that the Union is using the term "undesirable" to indirectly mask intentions far broader than its intention to dispose of whatever actual crim- inals may be in the Grill. If this is the case, then the Union is facing a somewhat ominous organizational dilemma that the whole Univer- sity ought to consider. On the one hand, the Union (or any other adjunct of the University) ought to be committed to policies of complete openness of its facilities to absolutely anyone, and, it ought to organize its facilities and operation in a manner consistent with the broadest educational ends of the University. More bluntly, it is ridiculous to argue that Un- ion facilities should be primarily open to stu- dents and "life members"-such a position is ritual and tradition-oriented and not at all consistent with the conviction that a Univer- sity ought to promote freedom, equality and openness and set up its facilities accordingly. It is also ridiculous to argue that the Grill is just an eating place-it is one of the few en- virons around this University conducive to the personal kinds of association so vital to the process of education. On the other hand, the Union is faced with, a practical problem-certain persons apparent- ly behave in an undesirable and sometimes il- legal way, thus alienating prospective cus- tomers, enraging alumni and disturbing local police. Now the question of desirability is some- thing which ought to be handled quite delicate- ly: if the Union thinks someone undesirable, they ought not abridge his right to eat, think, talk in their Grill, even though they have a legal right to do so. The Grill is not simply a private restaurant and ought not reflect, tle private restaurant's arbitrariness of customer selection. PROBABLY THE UNION Board of Directors will not agree with the outlook expressed here. This being the case, communication, that is, frank concise communication, is much needed as the Union continues to pursue ques- tions which are by now relevant not only to its own internal operation but also to the best operation of the University community. Hopefully the research being done will pro- vide some insight into community sentiment. In the meantime, there are people who want to know now, and have a right to know now, what the Union Board of Directors has meant-in full-by its language, particularly "undesirabil- ity," and its actions, particularly the curious and very vague expulsion of these four "non-; students." --THOMAS HAYDEN Editor WALTER LIPPMANN: The President and the People: it and registering their complaint by voting against it, tried instead to make it senseless. The section of the motion con- cerning a statement on academic freedom by the United States Na- tional Student Association orig- inally urged students to see just the film. IT WAS AMENDED to include listening to the unedited tapes of the San Francisco hearings and a recording based on the tapes, and reading other relevant mater- ial. The motion then would have read, "SGC holds that the film 'Operation Abolition' unfairly ac- cuses students of subversive ac- tivity . . . SGC urges all students to view the movie . . ." which would have been asking students to'make judgments without a two- sided presentation of the issue. Another proposal amendment said, in effect, that SGC realized it didn't have the factual infor- mation to'offer an accurate opin- ion on the issue, but had made up its mind anyway. Fortunately, Council members were quick to see that one very sel- dom has all of the relevant infor- mation, 'and that on this particu- lar issue no one, including the House Committee, had the full pic- ture. This was much of the point: HUAC, either intentionally or through ignorance, was making an' accusation not supported by fact and evidence PERHAPS THE MOST prepos- terous of the defeatist amend-. ments suggested was the removal of the sentence, "SGC holds that the film 'Opertion Abolition' un- fairly accuses students of subver- sive activity." Removal of that sentence would have radically al- tered the substance of the mo- tion. The point of an opinion motion is the expression of a specific opin- ion. People who don't like the opinion should vote against the motion. They make fools of them-' selves and the Council as a gov- erning and policy-making body if instead they play games with amendments. In contrast to the petty politick- ings two amendments were added to the original ,motion which greatly clarified and expanded' SGC's position. * C C , ONE, ADDED at last week's meeting, clarified the point 'that SGC did not condone violence ion, the part of the students. Wednesday, that statement was expanded into what it probably the most important policy state- ment in the entire motiot DAIDLY OFFICIAL The Daily Official Bnuetin i n 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 3518 Administration Building, before 2 p.m. two days preceding puhlication. 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Sigma Nu, Sigma Phi, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Tau Delta Phi, Theta Chi, Theta Delta Chi, Theta Xi, Trigon, Van Tyne House, South Quad, Wenley' House, West Quad- rangle, Zeta Beta Tau, Zeta Psi. Sunday,'March 12-Phi Delta Phi Summary of Action Taken''by Student Government Council at its Meeting of (Continued on 'Page 8) SGC Exploits Confusion C NIGHT'S SGC meeting demonstrated phically how confusion on the part of a ative body can be exploited to achieve. I. dacity, appeasement, compromise - in all the trappings of vituperative partisan s-were the order of the day. Center of was a motion to condemn Operation on, a film on the San Francisco student strations against the House Committee -American Activities last April. The film g circulated by the House Committee. CONTROVERSIAL part of the motion illy read, "SGC holds that the film Op- 1 Abolition unfairly accuses students of sive activity, C endorses the right of individuals to ully and legally protest the activities .istence of the House Committee on Un- an Activities and SGC expresses concern ossible inhibition of such activity. e students, in so far as they participated ue breaches of order, were not acting in with the precepts of democratic non- e. SGC cannot condone the actions of students. Nor, however, can it condone ion of the committee which in its distri- of a distorted film has also failed to act ing to the traditions of honest analysis ie process which are necessary to the inctioning of a free society." TIONS on the issue, which were initially mn-cut and diametrically opposed, para- ly grew more entreched as information ilated and both sides went through the s of give-and-take. One 'faction, which e described as "conservative," originally iat the film was legitimate 'propaganda part of a well-meaning group acting in st interests of thinking Americans. The faction, known as "liberal," b6elieved the !pres ente,,a ilful a+ mnt fa.hat tended over a two-week period, the "conserva- tives" conceded that the film was distorted- but that the degree of this distortion placed it outside the right (nay, the responsibility) of the House ,Committee's mandate could not be proved to their minds. -,n THE "LIBERALS,' however, made concessions. on a far more crucial point: they made what seems to me a fundamentally untenable distinction between Berkeley students who pro- tested the House Committee's activities on May 13, 1960 and individuals who may wish to protest such actions, "peacefully and legally." This distinction helped their cause but dam- aged their position. They attempted to separate the issues of the San Francisco incident and the validity of the'film-a specious distinction, since the question of the film's validity rests, entirely on the facts of the San Francisco matter. Members of the "conservative" opposition, however, were vocal in their disturbance over the actions of the Berkeley students, whose dress, posture and ideas elicited pejoratives. On the other hand, "conservatives" were ready to concede the right of more judicious, clean- cut, moderate students to pass on the methods and mandate of the House Committee-they did so several times in the two-week debate. With this before them, "liberals" begged the question and made the distinction, without de- fining the terms involved. THE MOTION passed 10 to four. Both sides, all individuals concerned, .probably think they acted responsibly as political entities. If politics implies clouded issues euphemistically termed reasonable compromise, delay and ob- structionism ostensibly in the interest of fair consideration, neglect in information-gathering by SGC members in favor of heated factional verbosity, then all acquitted themselves grace- fully. And the end was achieved. W HILE President Kennedy's popularity, as measured by the Gallup Poll, is high, he is still a long way from having behind him a reliable and effective ma- jority. The narrowness of the elec-: tion is still registered in Congress, particularly in the House, and the general upsurge of good feeling in the country has not yet crystal- lized as practical support of his program. One might describe 'the public mood as one of growing good will and confidence without the excite- ment and enthusiasms of a crisis. This will do very well for a time. But while the Kennedy mission is not to resolve a crisis such as confronted Roosevelt in 1933, his mission, as he made amply clear in the campaign, is to arrest and reverse a decline in American power, influence, and progress which could over a period of years produce critical and dangerous re- sults. If the excitements of a crisis are uncalled for, a convic- tion of national purposes and necessities is for the long run in- dispensable. AS OF NOW, there are many more people who like John Ken- nedy, and his appointments, and his style of operating in office, .than there are people who under- stand and believe in what he is committed to doing. He will have to close this gap: he will have to persuade the large majority who like him that they must also be- lieve in him. Until this is done, the important construction measures of his administration are headed for serious trouble in Congress. .For Congress is not now feeling the pressure of a large convinced Kennedy majority, Such a majority cannot, I ven- ture to think, be rallied wholly or in the main by personal popu- larity, As measured by the Gallup Poll, Mr. Kennedy probably is about as popular as was Gen. Eisenhower after his first month in the White House. But his situa- tion is radically different from Gen. Eisenhower's. He is com- mitted to positive programs that require new laws and new appro- priations and perhaps new taxes. His predecessor was primarily in- terested in undoing rather than in doing. High personal popularity with a passive and negative pro- gram make for an easy life. But personal popularity is not enough 'to carry with it an active and innovating program. * * * THE PRESIDENT will have to find ways of communicating his own convictions to a working ma- jority of the people. Is he not do- ing that? Not adequately, so it seems to me. There is a missing element in his press conferences, his speeches, and his public ap- pearances, and for lack of it he receives much approval without creating sufficient conviction. That missing element is, I think, the willingness to take the time and to take the trouble to explain, to expound, to describe, in a word to teach. John Kennedy is already proving himself to be an extra- ovrinrv Chief Exeutive He has himself understood because he has explained himself, has not, yet shown itself in the President. I say not yet because I have no doubt th~at this instinct to teach is in him. It is in every man who has deep convictions and a pas- sion to realize them. * * * HIS PRESS conferences illus- trate what I am trying to say. They are conceived on the 'as- sumption that the use of a Presi- dential press conference is to pro- vide spot news. The President makes announcements and the correspondents ask him questions in order to get stories, Perhaps even scoops, that have not yet been published. This Is I believe a basically false conception of why it is worth- while to have the President submit himself to questions from the press. It adds nothing to the spot news to have the President, rather than Mr. Salinger, announcing it. As for the hidden stories and scoops, there is never enough time to go deeply into any of the back- ground which make them signifi- cant. As compared with what To the Editor: BY NOW IT should be clear that the recent formation of a com- mittee by the Michigan Union to study ways and means of chang- ing the atmosphere of the Michi- gan Union was not the disinterest- ed investigation it was made out to be by statements attributed to the Directors, but instead it was the beginning of a campaign to discriminate against certain in- dividuals. I will not go into a dis- cussion of events which, are no doubt reported elsewhere on these pages, nor will I consider hair- splitting questions of who has the technical right t do what. Suffice it to say, that without so much as, an announcement of the com- mittee findings, the Union Board of Directors has acted-and acted in such a manner that certain in- cidents, perhaps innocent in them- selves, when taken together make one a little uneasy about the at- mosphere on this cafpus. Some months ago, a friend of mine who sports a full red beard was approached by a union official and interrogated as to why his "kind of people" come to the union and warned that "we are going to get rid of you people." A few weeks ago, the Michigan Daily printed 'a photo of some people in the Michigan Union Grille right under a headline about "undesirables." * * * A LIST HAS been compiled and is in the hands of, the above men- tioned union official. These people are beng told that they may no longer come to the Union. No one knows the full contents of this list nor the reasons for putting any ndividual on it. None of these people have been warned the sins of guilt by association,-de- famation of character, star cham- ber proceedings and aborgation of the right to face one's accuser, in- dividual persecution, summary ac- tion without explanation or warn- ing, strong-arm police state tech- niques, and racial prejudice, might perhaps be going a little too far. One can only button up one's coat against the winter that is still here in Ann Arbor and look hopefully ahead to the spring. -Ed Dubinsky Instructor Mathematics Department Persecution . To the Editor: THE DRIVE ON the part of the Michigan Union management' to rid the Lunch Room of "unde- sirables" is typical of the proce- dure commonly used in our society to curtain the actions of certain individuals deemed undesirable by the power structure of the com- munity. This procedure consists of taking a law or regulation "on-the books" which is very rarely, if ever, enforced in relation to'the general public and using it against a cer- 'tain individual. A sociologist would consider such a law (such as that of the state of Michigan which prohibits people under the age of 21 from smoking) as being quite antiquated and a result of "cultural lag." He would not consider such a law a current societal norm (for to be a norm, a law must have universal accep- tance and enforcement). However, since the law, antiquated or not, is still on the books, it can still be used or enforced in specific cases, against a specific individual when anyone who knows anything about the situation can clearly see that such a regulation is not and could not be (short of financial disaster) universally enforced as to mem-r bers of the general public. If this rule was so enforced, this would mean only full-time male students and, life members (and their guses) would be allowed to use Union Grill facilities. The fact is that hundreds of non-members use these facilities every day (vis- itors to the campus, high-school students, faculty members, Uni- versity empolyees, and members of the general public), and to think of uniformally enforcing such a regulation is ridiculous. Therefore, it is unjust and unfair to the in- dviduals who ar being persecuted' by the specific application of this rule, and I sincerely hope that the steps now being taken to correct this injustice are successful. -John Erfurt, Grad. , :Defeatists To the Editor: IT HAPPENED *o be my misfor- tune to be present Wednesday afternoon during the Harrison in- cident and although my acquaint- ance with Mr. Harrison is 'slight I do know him as a responsible member of ' Ann Arbor's middle class society. He is active inDemo- cratic politics both at the local and state level and is a property owner and taxpayer as well as a respected businessman. Possibly I was in error when I" assumed the Daily's past observa- tions' regarding "objectionable" characters in the MUG were di- rected at non-conformists (as to dress and appearance) but it is my feeling that ,-Wednesday's ac- AT To the Editor: S A 100 per cent loyal Ameri- can, I have deep reservations about criticizing the Fathers of our Republic, but I think that even the staunchest patriot will agree that the authors of the Con- stitution showed a considerable lack of foresight when they in, cluded those provisions regarding religious freedom and equal op- portunity. Iam certain that they did, not realize thxat a group of radicals would pervert those clauses and use them to destroy Christian morality. I am sure that the sympathies of everyone are with the members of Alpha Tau Omega, a group of Christian gentlemen, working to- gether to'help each other live the most virtuous Christ-like lives, who are being forced to contamin- ate their group by accepting a non-believer. They do not object to a member being Jewish, but only to the fact that he has not fully embraced the Christian faith. THE RIGHTEOUNESS of their positions is 'undeniable. An ATO has always been, and must con- tinue to be the very epitome of Christian manhood. Never have the lips of an ATO uttered a woid stronger than "Golly," or tasted a drink stronger than root beer. We can be sure that the letter writer complaining about the scene in front of Markeley at closing time was not, talking about ATO's. It is heart warming, indeed, to know that there is one nouse on this generally atheistic campus that does not maintain an exam file or engage in any activity that might conceivably be construed as cheating, that has never had an rmight be done with the President's- brief time before the television caneras, a very large number of the questions are a waste of time., Moreover, unless I am greatly mis- taken, the use of the, time to dig out hidden news and to reach for scoops is not endearing the Ameri- can press to the American public. The real use of the Presidential press conference is to enable -the President to explain his policies and, if necessary, to compel him to explain them. In any event, ex- planation, not announcements or scoops, is wanted in this extremely public but also very intimate en- counter between the President and the public. HOW THE PRESIDENT'S press conference can be reformed or transformed, or whether it should be supplemented, are questions which can be answered only after some experimentation. But these questions need to be answered. For President Kennedy with all his political genius is not yet in full effective communication with the American people. (c) 1961 New York Herald Tribune, Inc. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: What Are Union Undesirables'?