The 'U'and the Peace Corps Seventy-First Year. EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN here Opinions Ae Free UNDER AUTNORITT OP BOARD TN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Truth Will Provail" STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. TOPICAL SENTENCE: University Senate Contribuies to Progress Y, FEBRUARY 15, 1961 NIGHT EDITOR: FAITH WEINSTEIN Rep.ghWalter Hailed AsFih ter, uman itarian [E ASSEMBLY of Captive Nations recently honored Rep. Francis E. Walter of the se Committee on 'Un-American Activities the immigration subcommittee for his "ef-. s on behalf of displaced persons," the As- ated ress reports. This group hailed him as ighter and humanitarian." Mr. Walter is a humanitarian, he certain- s not much of a fighter-the committee he ds is not famous for humane treatment of more recalcitrant interviewees. His role as ghter is even more ambiguous and question- a his speech before the "exiled European. resnen gathered to honor him," Walter onnced American educators-those Ameri- educators, that is, who have criticized the ration of his committee. 'mn just doing a job," he declared, "and' a stinking job, one I don't relish. And one lie things that makes it more difficult is the osition of those who have more at stake his fight than anyone else." 3AT MR. WALTER recognizes he is doing a stinking job is heartening. That he realizes cators, who have much to lose as young ds are lost to Communism, are'opposed to methods is encouraging. Instead of simply' ismitting this fact to an audience, instead lefensively translating protest into obstruc- i of a necessary effort from criticism of an ctionable way of going about things, why 't Mr. Walter take a searching look at this :e might learn the nature of his opposition. Not absent-minded professors, learned yet naive, speaking from the ivy-tangled security of an artificial community of scholars. For these teachers as well as any remember the Red scares of the early 1950's-the threat which- penetrated every academic ivory tower in the country. Whatever their ages, men who are willing to sign petitions, buy newspaper advertising space' and speak publicly against the operations of the House Committee are deliberately putting their future job security on the block. The axe is suspended-for the time being. WHY, THEN, DO THESE MEN risk their fu- tures to oppose an effort Mr. Walter be- lieves is in their best interests? Walter said American citizens "will find themselves where these people (refugee states- men) are today unless they all participate in the Cold War." When leading politicians in America become committed to fighting a war, cold or hot, they shift a vital emphasis from the value of peace to the value of war-winning. Once again, Mr. Walter: can this country afford such values? And.as for educating young minds-children' have to learn by doing, Mr. Walter. You can't teach defense against something unless you do) more than name the something; unless you teach what it is in its own terms. In this effort, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.k -JEAN SPENCER Editorial Director Free Minds and The Bomb IVTER SEEING T:HI FILM "Operation Abo- lition" in the House chambers in Lansing rly, this week, I started discussing its pros id cons with other spectators. One man was dite militant in its support. In his defense of the film, he commented tat since we are at war with the Communists, irtailment of the rights of "liberals" were gal. A young boy standing next to him added nee we are in a democracy, if, the majority ishes that no liberal thoughts be voiced, it tould be the rule. He also believed -that if a ajority wanted to revoke the Constitution, id constitutional rights, totally, they have the ght. After close to 30 minutes of similar com- ents, the man asked: "If I were a Commu- st, what would I do to most completely sub- rt the American way and undermine effec-' ye programs against Communism?" When I plied that I would distribute "Operation Abo- ion"' and start fanatical anti-Communist oups, his only answer was a smile and know- g looks at the other members in his group. PERHAPS A BETTER answer would have been merely to quote from Lenin's essay "Left- ing Communism, and Infantile Disorder" (an say in Marxism Strategy and Tactics): .. .The millionaires of all countries are now behaving on an international scale in a way that deserves our heartiest thanks. They are hunting Bolshevism with the same zeal as did Kerensky and Co.; they are. moreover, "overdoing" It and helping us just as Kerensky did. When the French bourgeoisie makes Bolsheviks the central issue at the elections, and abuses the com- paratively moderate or vacillating Social- ists for being Bolsheviks; when the Amer- ican bourgeoisie, having completely lost its head, seizes thousands and thousands of people on suspicion of Bolshevism, creates an atmosphere of panic and broadcasts stories of Bolshevik plots; when the British bourgeoisie-the most "solid".in the world --despite all its wisdom and experience, commits acts of icredible stupidity, founds richly endowed "anti-Bolshevik societies," creates a special literature on, Bolshevism, and hires an extra number of scientists, agitators and priests to combat it-we must bow and thank the capitalist gentlemen. They are working for us. They are helping us to get the masses interested in the na- ture and significance of Bolshevism.-And they cannot act otherwise; for they have already failed to stifle Bolshevism by si- lence.". AND SO THE QUESTION is ,answered, this time by a Communist. But then again, the spectator I talked to probably won't believe Lenin, for he says, "They may ask for peace,' but they really have only one aim-complete domination. You can't trust them at all. You' must use any and all means to destroy them, including nuclear war." If this is the case, it seems that the only way we can save ourselves is by complete destruction of the world. seems sad. -KENNETH McELDOWNEY . Associate City Editor (EDITOR'S' NOTE: The following is the first of two articles on the University, the peace corps and international education programs here. Tomorrow's article will focus on academic and service programs of the 1University in this area.) By FAITH WEINSTEIN Daily Staff Writer AN UNOFFICIAL committee spends a few hours thinking up Peace Corps projects; a number of professors re-examine their de- partments with an eye to -future training programs; a group of students head for Washington and the NSA-sponsored Peace Corps conference. The local drive to- wards some kind of University participation in the corps begins. It has begun in a jumpy and sporadic manner-the University has been very cautious and un- willing to commit itself to a program still so tentative, still so uncertain of success. When the Americans Committed to World Respnosibility began their crusade for a peace corps, they received. no official University support or recognition. Once launched, the University took its usual sit-tight attitude towards the idea, waiting for the government to come to' them. When word trickled back from Washington that University faculties and facilities mightbe used for a. corps program the wheels began, veryslowly, to grind. * * * SO FAR, THREE faculty mem- bers have proposed three extremely conservative projects for the peace corps-an English Language In- stitute short program for teach ing English as a foreign language, a public health training program to be attached to the World Health Service, anid a community devel- opment program which would be attached to UNESCO. These three programs have several things in common. They are easily formu- lated out of existing facilities, they are not especially new and daring, and they show the basic distrust the University has for the peace corps as a program, if not as an ideal. Dean Harold Dorr, who is run- ning the ad hoc committee on the Peace Corps, takes a dim view of Peace Corps-created projects. "We hope they will ,work through already established organizations," he said, a little fearfully, and then inquired into the motives of 'the students who are applying for the corps. * * '*. THESE PROGRAMS WILL be technical training projects, or will' become so as soon as possible. Corpsmen will be pulled in, run through the ropes and shunted .out again-technicians prepared to train more technicians., And here the University apparently" wants to finish its role. The first set of programs will probably be rather sketchy-because of lack of experience in this specific field, and because of the short-term programs. The second, set will be more expanded, Prof. Albert H. Marckwardt, head, of the ELI, hopes-giving the future teachers a chance to learn something more than the very basic essentials 'of linguistic problems. These pro- grams will be makeshift at first, and narrow always, but they will serve their purpose. They will get several- thousand working corps- men into the field with enough knowledge to' be useful, and enough training to apply what they know. But the peace corps will need a more complete program for future corpsmen if they expect to improve the quality of their work. And the heads 'of the peace corps realize this. - IN A MEMO sent out for the guidance 'of colleges in developing training programs, Sargent Shri- ver sets out the following objec- tives for the ideal program:' 1) A command of the language of the area in which they expect to serve, as well' as knowledge of its culture, history and political institutions. 2) Training in application of skill in the specific project as- signed. 3) Training to achieve readiness, physically and psychologically, for the conditions in which the peace corps personnel will find them- selves. The last will apparently have to include the elements of sanitation and special food growing and pre- paration in difficult areas. This is what the Peace Corps wants. The question is, how should the University respond? We can stick with the extremely conser- vative, sensible approach-train people only to train others in work within established areas, and for established organizations. * * * WE CAN JUMP madly on the bandwagon, set up a Peace Corps Center (the center idea is ex- tremely popular these days), hire or draft. an appropriate faculty, and ask for 500 . corpsmen in training. who will be hpused and trained in Mary Markley, which will be taken out of the women's residence hall system. This example is not as far- - . .a .'L.. - - would just not be practical. We just don't have the housing for them." * * * A FULL SCALE program would probably be neither feasible or desirable. Freeing Mary Markley for corps- man housing would entail all kinds of interesting modifications in women's apartment permission rules-or really untenable crowd- ing. It would require an expan- sion of faculty, which means money, or a relocation of a great many teachers which would mean inadequacy somewhere. It is very likely that the Univer- sity will be chosen for some sort of Peace Corps program. "I would be extremely disappointed if train- ing which the Peace Corps volun- teers will undergo bypasses exist- ing area facilities," Prof. John Hall, chairman of the Center for Japanese Studies said. "It is in- conceivable that the Unversiyt would not beconsidered-espe- cially for training in the teaching of English," James Davis, head of the International Center con- curred. It would probably not be desir- able because the University has a limited number of international specialties, limiting automatically the number of corpsmen who could or should be trained here. BUT THIS DOES not absolve the University from great respon- sibilities -both as 'a center of education and as a public institu- tion-to aid and contribute to the ideals of the Peace Corps. It cer- tainly has the academic potential to set up a solid general program with some fine specialties - in areas like language teaching or public administration. Niehuss agrees that this would be possible. "You would have to find out how many of our own people who would be interested in working on a peace corps pro- gram, land find and hire whoever. else we would need. "We would also need a com- pilitive supervisor - someone wh could direct a program like this." Most important, Niehuss real- izes that the University is likely to be called "I would think if they were going to work through the universities that the Univer- sity would be a logical place to start." HE IS NOT sure, however, that the University is the best place to do peace corps training. "It is entirely possible that the best person to train others in parctical, vocational areas would be the person who has worked in the field, he said. The scholarly ex perts may not be the ones to do this kind of training." There are several arguments against this. One is the simple fact that universities are running and staffing service projects for private organizations all over the world. The University itself has an ELI unit in Southeast Asia, and staff members ran a public ad- ministration project in the Phil- lipines a few years ago. Apparent- ly scholars can train as well. According to Shriver's report to the President on the peace corps: "Universities offer several advan- tages: They are able to recruit on the spot, from their own students, tDAILY OFFIC The Daiy Official Bulletin is an official publication of The Univer- sity of Michigan for which Th Michigan Daily assumes no editorial responsibility. Notices should be sent 4n TYPEWRITTEN formt to Room 3519 Administration Building, before 2 p.m., two days preceding publication. SATURDAY, APRIL 15 'E~vents Concert: The music of William Schu- man will be presented as the second event of the Festival of Contemporary Music on Sat., April 15, 8:30 p.m., in RackhamLecture Hall. In addition to commentary by Mr. Schuman, the Forum for New Music String Quartet, of Detroit will perform and the Uni- versity Women's Choir and Michigan Singers, directed by Maynard Klein, will sing. Open to the public without charge. Placement overseas Teaching Opportunities - Ceylon schools are interested in em- ploying American teachers of English and/or Science at the secondary level. Contracts would be for one year with transportation to be paid by the teach- er. Applications must be in by April 20. For additional information and appli- cation blanks contact the Bureau of Appointments, Education Division, 3528 Admin. Bldg.,'NO 3-1511, Ext. 489. ENGINEERING PLACEMENT INTER- VIEWS-Seniors & grads, please sign schedule posted at 128-H West Engrg. Bldg.- APRIL 19- Fairchild Camera & Instrument Co., Syosset, LI., N.Y., & Clifton. N.J.- BS-MS: EE, EM, ME. BS: E. Physics. Res. & Dev. General Foods Corp., Post Cereals Div., Battle Creek. Mich.-BS: ChE, IE & ME. Production & Ind. Engrg. APRIL 19 (a.m.)- American Metal Products Co., Engrg. Science Div., Ann Arbor-All Degrees: ChE. S.-MS: EE. ME. & Met. MS: In- using their own knowledge of the students as a basis for selection. They are able to provide the tra- ing either over a four-year period or in special sesions after gradu- ation. They can provide faculty as supervisors overseas. They can develop area studies and research programs which assist their Peace Corps volunteers and which also benefit from the the returning volunteers have learned.' * * * THE UNIVERSITY can be the center for an educational and technological process which can, ideally, unite the world. It has the intelligence, the protection and the responsibility to fulfill this role. Has the University the right to neglect or short-change this goal? WITH HONORS: Publish- Or Perish THERE'S MUCH TALK about how colleges are setting up "honors programs" for bright stu- dents. But these programs mean extra teaching loads, 'and profes- sors duck them-not because they don't enjoy them but because they can't afford to take the time from research. For the old rule still stands: Professors who don't pub- lish don't get promoted. John Hicks, executive secretary of the College English Association, reports on a year's study of hon- ors programs around the country: "I ATTENDED an honors class in literature at a major state uni- versity. The professor was excit- ing and well-informed . . . The students were keen and were re- warded by the course. When I had coffee with this professor after class . . . he complained that he would have to stop honors teach- ing. His department was disap- pointed with the sacrifices of re- search and journal publication that he was making. His profes- sional standing was being endan- gered ... "The director of one of the larg- est honors programs n the nation . told me about the struggle he had to keep and secure promotion for two of the most creative and scholarly teachers serving his stu- dents. Only the intervention of a high administrative officer saved them against the disapproval of their departmental committee on promotions-.. . "ON STILL ANOTHER campus the director of honors programs told me that he himself would have to get out of the work, pre- cious as it was to him . . . His book on a minor historical figure was being delayed-along with his salary increase-by his devotion to the education of superior stu- dents." The spread of honors programs, says Hicks, "could be the most blessed development for good teaching that has happened in higher education in this century." But after seeing the trouble they were in, Hicks reports that he was left "a little heartsick for my pro- fession." [AL BULLETIN. 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Part-Time Employment T HAPPENED that one of our forward - looking colleagues glanced upward as well as forward while approaching Angell Hall one day and noticed, for the first time in several years, the sentence em- blazoned above the portico. He paused to refresh his memory: Religion, morality a n d knowledge being necessary to good government and the hap- piness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged., "Northwest Ordinance," he thought; "1787. Going on one hundred and seventy-five years old." He mulled over a sense of dis- satisfaction arising within him.' "There have been advances in nearly every technique of scien- tific and humanistic inquiry since that sentence was written," he murmured. "A great modern uni- versity should wear on its mar- moreal face a statement free from the taint of archaism." HE SHARED HIS dissatisfac- tion, when 'fully formulated, with an entire University Senate. "The amorphous abstractions 'religion' and 'morality' are no longer meaningful," he pointed out. "They are relics of a belief, now largely exploded, in the de- terminate characterof merely conceptual notions." In the main, the Senate was. disposed to share his discontent. "There is an element of dog- matic assertion in the statement," agreed a professor of religion and ethics. "It would license the di- rect and uncritical transfer ofYre- ligious and moral ideas to the stu- dent." "The word 'knowledge'," added an assistant dean, "while perhaps less indefensible than 'religion' and 'morality,' does not of itself recognize the diversity of skills, versity" of our several curricula" chimed the assistant dean. "I like the part 'in terms of happiness goals'," said the profes sor of education. "It's so child- centered and so scholarly." "It will contribute to a forward- 'looking public image," said an emissary from University Rela- tions. "Perhaps the old statement might remain on Angell Hall for the sake of alumni sentiment. But the new one could be engraved in some truly central position, like the front of Health Service, where more and more students would meditate on it each year as the University continues to grow in rich diversity." --Senate Affairs LETTERS: Eichmann Co mment To the Editor: IN REGARDS to the recent edi- torial on the Eichmann Case, I would ike to make several com- ments. On the matter of commer- cialization, I believe that the au- thors are somewhat unrealistic. It is inevitable that in this news- conscious Western world, report ers are going to flock to the trial. If airlines, movies, etc., are over- commercializing, we must realize that we are living in a world of commercialization, and for good or bad (r agree- that in Many cases here it has exceeded certain bounds) it will still take place. Secondly the authors feel that Eichmann's crimes are "against humanity and thus should be tried by an international body.' The fact is that Eichmann was for the duration of his career in charge of the final solution of the "Jewish" problem, and was thus only con- cernedkwith exterminating Jewry. I do, nevertheless, agree with the authors In saying that Israel does not have the right to speak for all of ;world Jewry. However,Is0it not historically Ironic that one of the reasons that Israel game into existence as a State is due to Eich- mann's -failure in completing his job? Here again I believe the au- thors are not being realistic, for it seems evident that "humanity and international bodies" were not so interested in bringing those im- portant Nazis still alive to justice, but instead, the job was left to Jews in Israel to trace, capture, and bring Echmann to trial in Israel. The idea of an "nterna- tional body" trying him is also unrealistic as there is no interna- r tional criminal court in existence. Germany did not request him. Is- rael thus has no chokce as a sov- ereign state but to try him. The authors claim that revenge is Is- rael's sole motive, yet if it is only revenge, why did the Israelis who captured. Eichmann not kill him on the spot. Instead in the inter- ests of justice, Israel kis going through the expense of this trial. ** * THERE IS also a reference In the editorial to the authors now thinking less of "idealistic" Is- rael. Unfortunately the miscon- ception of many is evident here, i.e., the feeling that Israel is dif- ferent from other countries and 'that more should be expected of her. We should all realize that Is- rael is a country like any other, and to set her upon a pedestal is an error which cannot help but lead one to disillusionment. Finally, the authors feel that it is an error to remind the world of the sub-human atrocities com- mitted by the Nazis. I strongly feel that this is not an error. The world to a great extent has for- gotten. (The words. "six million" have become .simply words with little more meaning. It is a gen- erally accepted fact that the soci- ety which produced' these mass murderers have today produced a youth--totally ignorant of 'what Nazism stood for or of the vast crimes it perpetrated. This trial will, if nothing else, at least re- mind the world of the horrible ex- tremes which prejudice can take, and if, each of u$ who hears of this trial, will do{ some re-examin- ing of our own beliefs and prac- tices, the world can become a bet- ter place.' -Alvin K. Berkun, '61 Unsupported. . To the Editor: mEDITORIAL about Eich- . mann' by Judith Oppenheim and Michael Olinick was one of the few well-organized editorials that has appeared in The Daily. But there was at least one 'part that facts' will not support. The couple stated as an example of the horrors of prejudice and -in- tolerance the attitude of Egypt (presumably, they mean the UAR) toward Israel. Probably they have not heard about the prejudice and intolerance of Israel toward the Arabs. Probably they have not Paternalism Strikes Again UHE UNIVERSITY of Delaware is having trouble. Several of its faculty members have esigned, ,and only one would give a public eason why. He claims that the administra- on, under the power'of John A. Perkins, Pres- lent of the university, is 'too authoritarian nd will brook no compromise, criticism or sug-, estions. The evidence would seem to corroborate his. atements. Controversy is raging presently 'at elaware over whether or not students should e allowed to have cars on campus, as up to his point there has been a ban against them. rofessor Richard S. Tankin, Assistant Prof. f Civil Engineering, has been highly outspoken a favor of opening the campus to student ars.. "Tankin has been informed that his Editorial Staff THOMAS HAYDEN, Editor NAN MARK EL JEAN SPENCER City Editor Editorial Director ENNETH McELDOWNEY......Associate qty Editor yDITH DONER...,..............Personnel Director 'OMAS KABAKER........,.........Magazine Editor AROLD APPLEBA"M .. Associate Editorial Director HOMAS WITECKI........................Sports Editor contract will not be renewed after, this school year," the New York Times reports. PROF. PAUL BOCK, an Associate Profes- sor of Civil Engineering also, made three charges of student publications censorship and, general violations of academic freedom by the administration. He requested an impartial off- campus board to review his assertions; however. a three member executive committee of the, board of trustees was commissioned to do the investigation. They completely upheld the ad- ministration. One of Bock's major charges was that the student newspaper, the .Delaware Review, had been restricted from printing a special issue de- voted to airing the car-on-campus controversy, and further had been ordered to drop the sub- ject entirely. The committee returned with the decision that the paper had commented on the affair quite extensively already, so that the administration had committed "neither an abuse of discretion nor an objectionable inter- ference with the students freedom to express themselves." PROF. BOCK IS NOW a very quiet man. Be- fore he would even talk about the,, issue he insisted that he not be quoted on what little information that could be gathered froi him. His only comments were that he still .ea-o fha .a..a.Or..101Ma ua nri +ha h nam techniques, methodologies and subject matters to which a great, modern university is hospitable." "We in education like the part . about encouraging education," said a professor of education in faint demurral. "But I ' can see where the sentence isn't very child-centered." * * * . THE SENATE voted to remand the offending utterance to an ad, hoc committee, and the commit- tee, called into session for the, spring of next year, parceled it out among the interested depart- ments, phrase by phrase, for re- vision. The whole, having been reassembled and turned upon the anvil of round-table discussion, presently read as follows: Since the phenomenologies of religious and of so-called "ethical" behavior are fit sub- jects of systematic inquiry, and since other disciplines by means of which the several subject - matter areas are structured involve research in- to the values postulated in lo- . cal, national and internation- al politics and into the suc- *cessful integration of the in- dividual in terms of happiness. goals, schools and the, means . of education shall forever be encouraged. * * INITIAL RESPONSES to the revision were chiefly favorable. 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