"We Must Eliminate Foreign Influences, Such As Voting By Cubans" Seventy-First Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ere Opinions Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS ruth Will Prevail" 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. MAY FESTIVAL: 'Joan of Arc' Unbalanced ARTHUR HONEGGER'S "Joan of Arc at the Stake" is somewhat of a modern anomaly. It is a modern oratorio, every bit as grand as any that Handel of Bach composed and the forces that the composer calls for utilize all the resources of modern musical expres- sion. Last evening, the Choral Union and the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Thor Johnson, proceeded to show that the work is too overwhelming in its demands fore an amateur chorus with inadaquate MAY 6, 1961 NIGHT EDITOR: HARVEY MOLOTCH The Panty Raid: Two Appraisals L Proposal... UST AS LITTLE) LEAGUES have given or- ganization to a traditional sport, it is now ne that the Dean of Men and Women fol- ved their example and organized panty raids )perly. The spontaneous demonstration is bdated; such events should be handled just all other University functions are handled. .ey should be calendared by SGC, refresh-. :nt booths should be set up on the spot, and ey should be scheduled at regular intervals. the advantages of such a change are many. 'st,. the proper scheduling would 'eliminate' nflicts with other events of importance. No iger would the Legislature be considering the iversity budget concurrently. No longer would ily reporters have to race across campus the slightest rumbling. No longer would am study schedules be interrupted. No longer uld housemothers cower during the week ter Spring Weekend. URTHER, much greater participation could be obtained. It is ridiculous to hold panty ds with only 15 to 25 per cent of the crowds ring part while the rest are simply onlookers., shows an improper use of crowd psychology. e present disorganized system somehow fails create much enthusiasm. Panty raiding uld not be, a spectator sport. Everyone ruld be able to say he participated in one ring college. Also, participation would be much more sat- actory to the individuals involved. Perhaps e administration could even budget a small ,n for undergarments to be dropped mechan- fly into the-crowd. They could even make the men (or men) vacate one house of the dorm, ving a window screen loose, so that the: ters could storm through the residence hall a controlled and orderly manner without ing judiciary action later. HE NEW SYSTEM -could also provide equal opportunity for both men and women. Cer- nly the Dean of Women could have no ob- tion to an orderly expression of tension. This uld also be fairer to the men, since they uld not have to walk to the Hill as often. It uld also spread around the cost of window akage. And finally, there would be enough of an erva- between raids to keep them important nts on campus. This week's two raids in a days takes the edge off them. If such ctices are continued, people will no longer end. They will not be a relief from boredom; y will not even be good study breaks any re. SCHEDULING SYSTEM would, in short, save the Mary Markley grass, insure better" endance and participation; save face for the versity by not occurring at awkward mo- nts, and be more rewarding for the partici- its. The Dean of Men and Dean of Women uld certainly consider this as a possible and gressive step which will aid in keeping the iversity's reputation as a center of experi- nt and change. --DAVID MARCUS DELINE ON SGC: Stupidity... PARTICIPANTS in the panty raids of Wed- nesday and Thursday nights must be com- pletely condemned for their actions. An objection to these riots raised by Vice- President for Student Affairs James A. Lewis was that "the participants are easily excit- able." Property damage or personal injury are real possibilities' in such situations, of course, and this alone makes the raids a serious campus problem. t And the riots can be censured for their very nature-infantile and stupid, exhibiting char- acteristics which should be buried with adoles- cence and which raise serious doubts about the maturity of parts of our student body. HOWEVER, there isimore than a, feeling of" immediate shame in this situation. Rash actions can have unfortunate results long afterr the initial effects have worn off. The administration must respect the stu- dent body as a group of responsible young citizens, if student leaders are to have any chance of getting desired changes in Univer- sity policy, Panty raids can greatly impair this necessary image of the student body. And at a time of crisis in the history of the University, when financial or policy decisions in Lansing may eradicate this institution as we know it today, we need the best possible reputation in the state and nation to safe- guard the University's future. Panty raids can only have negative effects on public opinion., Springtime frolics are natural and desirable on campus, but when they reach riot propor- tions and take such a mundane level, they are silly, unfortunate, and potentially dangerous to the desired ends of the student body as a whole. -RICHARD OSTLING preparation. The chprus plays ax herself. They are required to speak as one voice, one person: the People' of France. WHAT CAME ACROSS in per- formance was a musical and dra- matic disunity, the chorus stumb- ling on many of the poetic phrases of Claudel's: translated text, and producing a pallid, small-scale sound for their great numbers. They rose to the heights demanded only during the sweeping, lyrical. sections of the work. Many of the more dramatic sections were in- audible. The children's chorus in the latter part of the work performed' fearlessly and audibly, save for the boy soprano soloist who could not be heard due to his placement at the rear of the stage. The soloists were generally ex- cellent, though their placement at the rear of the orchestra made it nearly impossible for' them to easily, and adequately penetrate the thick orchestral texture. Fran- cis Greer and David Lloyd gave especially beautiful performances. '* * * ' THE DRAMATIC ROLES of Brother Dominic and Joan of Arc are of equal importance in this Honegger-Claudel mystery play. Unfortunately, Vera Zorina saw to it that such a balance was ren- dered electronically impossible. She accomplished this stroke of genius by the use of a microphone that projected her voice through the public address system of acous- tically perfect Hill Auditorium THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION utilized in this performance wors effective when audible, which was not too often, unfortunately. The speakers performed with dramatic impact, attempting vain- ly to recoup some of their losses at the handsof the vacuum tube. Jerrold Sandier was especially' forceful' in his', many character- izations. Nancy Heusel contributed to the performance. Thor Johnson conducted with a notable lack of vigor. His handling of ensmeble balance was shoddy. and resulted in a total loss of Honegger's fragile musical bal- ances. The Philadelphia Orchestra, working under such a handicap, performed with usual business- like precision. David M. Schwartz role no less important than Joan CINEMA GUILD: 'Swan~ T HE SWAN, stripped of its half- hearted plot and stock charac- ters, would have made a striking series of color postcards. Towering castles, sky-blue * wa- ters and lush green meadows flash on and off the screen in a beautiful panorama. Unfortun- ately,, the attempt to add .a story line ends in dismal failure. THE PLOT and its eventual out- come are in doubt for no 'more than five minutes. Prince Albert, heir to the throne, is coming to court young Princess Alexandra. playedby" GraceKelley. In the same castle, however, is a young tutor portrayed by Louis Jourdan, who spends his time instructing Alexandra's young brothers and exuding charm and good looks .. and if you haven'tfigured out the rest by this time you deserve to -sitthrough the film to see it for yourself. The movie was evidently design- ed to blend a pleasant romantic comedy with a satiric look at the ways of royalty in early twentieth- century Europe. Due in great measure to a disinterested por- trayal by Miss Kelly, however, the romance is second-rate soap opera and the satire has the edge of a rubber razor blade. Her perfor- mance, plus a painfully obvious script, effectively bury a, clever characterization by Alec Guinness who at least appears to be trying. * * THE FILM'S most amusing se- quences are the ludicrously over- done love scenes between Miss Kelly anoi Jourdan. Its most ted- ious episodes are those in which washed-out wit is limply tossed back and forth in the comedy scenes. To commit a cast of such po- tential excellence to a film like The Swan amount to wanton ex- travagance. The whole production wastes money, talent and two hours of the viewer's time. -Ralph Stingel x CITYSCOPE: Liquor Si, Next Door No! Men, Monlkeys, 0 Machines ASTRONAUTS Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shep- ard are no heroes. There is a great distinc- tion between then and the Magellans, Colum- buses, and Lindberghs with whom the space men have been compared-the latter group piloted their own ships. What was done by Shepard has already been done better by a monkey. But few people have any compassion, for, monkeys, although they undoubtedly under- went the same risks and discomforts as their human counterparts. Monkeys don't have beau- tiful wives and freckled children. Monkeys don't wind up on the cover of Life Magazine. The government made a major error in al-' lowing its spacemen to gain so much notoriety. The sight of our fair-haired boy being blown to bits on a Florida launching pad in front of a coast-to-coast television audience would far outweigh Vostok as a blow to American "prestige." -H. MOLOTCH The Daily Motion By MICHAEL HARRAH Daily stall Writer HOW FICKLE are some people in Ann Arbor. First they give their approval to a proposal for liquor by the glass, and then whey, scream like a stuck pig the minute anyone tries to erect a business dispensing this liquor. The latest offenders of civic virtue, according to some 200 or more residents of Lakwood Sub- division, is a motel chain. It seems these people want to erect a million dollar motor hotel on the outskirts of Ann Arbor, across the street from the Lake- wood subdivision. The property they desire is zoned for com- mercial, so they are not seeking to change the zoning ordinance. However, regardless of how they voted on the proposal, the resi- dents in Lakewood do have a right to object, ridiculous though ob- jection may seem. Yet, it is in- teresting to note that they waited almost three months before breathing a word. * * * ON OR ABOUT the first of February,,the news of the Coming motel reached Ann Arbor, with no little fanfare. Leaders of all groups pointed out the benifit of such an establishmen to the local community. Everyone seemed happy. On the first of May the Holiday Inn petitioned the Ann Arbor City Council for a liquor license. (After all, a hotel without a cocktail lounge is somewhat akin to a leopard without its spots.) Assuming that everyone had had sufficient time to voice objections and the the liquor by the glass proposal was mandate enough, the Council approved the request, and Mayor Cecil O. Creal said that he felt "all speed was necessary in this matter, for this establishment will bring great benefit to Ann Arbor." Democratic Councilman Lynn. W. Eley inquired, and rightly so, whether or not the residents of Lakewood Subdivision had been consulted in the matter. Creal said that this matter had been public knowledge for three months, and assured Eley that communications had been made with representa- tives of Lakewood, and that they had not objected. Lo and behold, two weeks later, half the population of Lakewood was up in arms. They asserted that they had not been given ample notice of the pending li- cense, that liquor served by the glass so close to a residential area was incompatible, and that the exits from the motel would creat an extremely undesireable traffic pattern. COUNCILMAN ELEY again rose to the occasion, and said that he had been under the impression that the citizens of Lakewood had been informed. He then asked the Council to reconsider its action. Mayor Creal, took a firm stand and said that the Council was not in the habit of delegating its powers through public hearings. He pointed out 'that three months notice was really amnle time. and However, in this case, the Coun- cil approved the license for the Holiday Inn, since there ap- parently was no objection and since.-it was a welcome addition to the community. s s s IT WAS A SILLY and needless- controversy and quite beneath the dignity of an elightened com- munity such as Ann Arbor. The people of Lakewood cast a bad blot on the community with their obstructionism. Councilman Eley did an extremely commendable job of standing up for their rights. making his motion for a public hearing three times and never being able to receive a second. But the Lakewood people should not have put him on the spot in this matter. They should have taken it upon themselves to ob-. ject before everything was settled. They had plenty of time. Shortly the "Council will con- sider the Kales-Manikas request for a similar license on Packard Street. Councilman Henry Aqinto (R) has already indicated that there is some concern about hav- ing this establishment within his constituency. The Lakewood Con- troversy will not be an isolated case. It all boils down to the fact that the people of Ann Arbor seem to want liquor by the glass, as long as its poured in someone elses yard. Unfortunately, that isn't the way it works. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: CLuba.Sweden Comparisan ous' HE GREATEST possible disaster at next week's Student Government Council meet- would be to have the discussion of The ly's alleged irresponsibility turn into a se- :of vindictive charges, countercharges and onalizations. f consideration of the issue is to serve any pose, Daily staff members and heads of er student organizations must emerge with learer understanding of each other's objec- s. In the interest of reaching such an un- standing, certain points must be conceded both Daily supporters and. supporters of motion before debate begins. IERE SHOULD BE no question as to the propriety of SGC's discussing the issue it- The Daily has in the past vigorously de- ' led SGC's right to consider any issue of rests to students. This topic obviously falls that category. The fact that The Daily's r legal responsibility is to the Board in Con-- of. Student Publications does not in the t prohibit other groups from commenting its policies and activities. ames Yost, '62, proponent of the motion, Michigan Union President Paul Carder, who defended it at the Wednesday night ting, must be aware that The Daily is not, ublicity agent for the University or any of brganizations. 'The fact that comment on quadrangle problems following publication he Scheub report caused parents to ques- the quality of the quads is a healthy sign, rather than an instance of irresponsibil- ity, as Carder calls it. IF THE CHARGES made against the quads or against any other group are defamatory and untrue, they constitute libel and as such are subject to prosecution, not discussion at the. Council table. If they are true, however, the fault lies with the University. The Daily in publishing them is simply reporting news and describing a deplorable situation which certainly must be brought into the light and rectified. The Daily is not responsible for maintaining the University's reputation by suppressing news which might make the administration or alum- ni uncomfortable. It was never intended to do so, Supporters of Yost's motion must realize that vague allegations to editorials and news ar- ticles will not suffice in discussions of a mo- tion as serious as this one. Individual para- graphs and statements must be cited and compared directly with specific sections of The Daily's Code of Ethics. Once again, the fact that certain articles may reflect badly on in- dividualsor groups is not a valid criticism as long as the articles themselves are true. ONCE THESE GROUND RULES are acknowl- edged, the Council is free to begin an investigation of specific instances of irrespon- sibility. It' is undoubtedly true that in certain cases The Daily has shown less care and good taste than it might have. It is also possible that several individuals who have been criticized in To the, Editor:. COMING FROM Washington, D.C., last fall, I considered my- self a political liberal. Ranked beside that of a recent editorial in The Daily, my liberalism pales in comparison: One of the favorite editorial topics in The Daily is the defense of Fidel Castro and ,he attempt to saddle the United States with almost the entire blame for Cuba's move toward Com- munism. Naturally, this is getting more difficult as it becomes :-= creasingly clear, partly by Fidel's own admission, that he was headed that way all the time. But there are still those who ,must try, re- lying on ever more irrational ar- guments, to make their point. Mr. Harry Perlstadt's editorial. in The Daily of May 4, reaches a new height of absurdity, and serves, I feel, to show an appalling ignorance or distortion of the facts. The. writer has had the enormous effrontery to lump Cuba and Sweden by inference into one almost homogenous group. * * * CUBA'S "SOCIALISM" stands. far closer to Russia's "socialism" than it does to Sweden's "social- ism". The Swedish government, comparedto ours, has more control over its nation's economy, utilities, transportation and communica- tion, including its state-run, but free radio. However, speech and the press is absolutely free. More than 90 per cent of Sweden's in- dustry is privately owned, and stimulated by favorable tax al- lowances. The farm land is almost entirely privately owned by the farmers who work it. Lastly, and most important, the Swedish people, by the ballot, can move politicailly in any direction they wish. IN CUBA, on the other hand, the state owns almost all the land. At the end of its first year, the Cuban National Institute for Agrarian Reform, or INRA, re- ported that it had given only 567 plots of land, of 67 acres each, to the peasants, plus promises of about 6,000 more, out of the more than 14,000,000 acres which they had taken over. Add to this that Castro is nationalizing almost all industries in Cuba, allows no free-' dom of the press or radio, to say nothing of free speech, and the, comparison with Sweden becomes ludicrous. The last straw in the editorial, noting that Castro has called off all elections, is the remark: "ut Castro could probably win any election held today acid would havewon any- election held pre- vious to his May Day proclama- tion." Following this kind of reasoning, whenever we have an apparently popular president, and election time comes around we should simply skip having the election' because he would win any- way. Perhaps an indication of his popularityhcould be by his appear- ing on the White House balcony on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November before a large crowd, preferably of his party, and asking them in a loud voice if they needed to have an election. -Kingsburg Marzolf, Grad Wagner, Ormandy To the Editor: HAVE HEARD it said that the one drawback of our society's inclination and desire to iddntify itself with the middle class is that this encourages mediocrity. This can be an especially irritating characteristic in the 4ield of art. After hearing some raves from people greatly impressed by Thurs- day night's Wagner concert, and upon hearing an alleged state- ment by one, of the University in- structors in music to the effect that "You haven't heard Wagner. until you've heard the Philadelphia Orchestra," I am forced to voice a dissenting opinion.' S, , . THERE IS NO DENYING that the Philadelphia Orchestra is one of the world's greatest orchestras, perhaps the greatest. An, that any- one was greatly impressed with the sound from this ensemble Thurs- day night is understandable. But, except for Miss Nilsson's iragni- ficence, the performance was not great, and considering the musi- cianship of the orchestra, this was inexcusable. Besides a general lack of in- spiration throughout the c'r. cert, with the exception of the final selection, the performance suf- fered especially in the quieter pas-e sages from a lack of delicacy and intonation of which the musicians. themselves are so capable. My main criticism is that the performance didn't seem, to have any depth whatever. To those who are still impressed' with Thursday night's perform- ance, I suggest they listen to some Wagerian recordings by Klem- Beards * To the Editor: WE ARE GRATEFUL to the Daily for calling our atten- tion to the attitude of the Sum- mer Placement Service Director (Mr. 'W. Peterson) in the matter of employing- bearded -students. Unfortunately, your rather brief account of the matter suffers for lack of detain-one might readily suspect that Mr. Peterson's post- tion is an arbitrary or unfair one. Actually, there are several aspects of this question which deserve further discussion, and one can easily show that the current anti- beard posture is the only one which the Placement Service should properly, assume. For example, there is consider-, able evidence in the medical an- nals to show that beards spread disease by acting as "carriers" for lice and other vermin. Of course this problem could be avoided, by spraying each job applicant's1ace with a good strong insecticide, .but such a procedure in a public in- stitution would smack of socialized medicine, or even fluoridation.' More to the point, bearded men even clean-bearded men fail to merit job acceptability on two critical tests: those of loyalty and wholesomeness. * * * IT IS AN incontrovertible his- torical fact that the "barbudos," as they are known today, have been responsible for the emergence and spread of world Communism; here we can cite, for example, Marx, Lenin and Trotsky, and who can forget that an unkempt Cas- tro has established a Red beach- head in the Western Hemisphere, 90 miles fro Florida's shore. Also, we all know (though seldom men- tion) that Tchaikovsky was a homosexual, , bearded Judas be- trayed his Master for 30 pieces of silver, and Ghenghis Khan (who wore a small goatee) strewed the skulls of murdered' captives along the whole length of the Gob:. 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