Seventy-First Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN >inions Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Will Prevail" STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. ANN ARBOR, MICH. " Phone NO 2-3241 orials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. INTEGRATION: Freedom Ride-Hopes, Trials Y, MAY 17, 1961 NIGHT EDITOR: JUDITH OPPENHEIM SMichigan House Plan, Needs Tho ughtful Revision. MICHIGAN HOUSE PLAN, basic philos- hy of the University's residence halls, is to be rewritten. But whether or not this n will be successful will hinge largely on i factors. The revisers should spend some pre-writ- me in sounding out new ideas in light periences during the past 20 years.'. They must reexamine the objectives in the ice halls. The people attending the Uni- y today are in many ways a distinctly ent group than the 1941 contingent at the of the plan's formulation and have differ- Kpectancies of dormitory life. They should take a good hard look not only' er plan itself but at whether or not the nce hall system has failed to fulfill the still sound objectives. letempsyehOsi.s BOARD in Control of Student Publica- ons has seen fit to keep the 'Gargoyle" ae University campus. e dull thud of their abrupt action has d across the nation where a small group irageous Iarvard students have comment- a Camrbidge's counterpart to Garg, the yard 'Lampoon." e students said they have "no objection{ e Lampoon"; they "just feel that Harvard a humor magazine." Can it be that they have a. humor magazine which in the of our publications board is "not humor-; HAPS SO, for this inconspicuous group students has decided, to take action which i their words, "provide the dense sobrie- the Harvard community with a means of e provisional president of the group, Al- Goldberg, announced that they will pub- s new humor magazine in Cambridge to ce the void occupied by the 85-year-old describes the new publication as a crea- -a creature which "looks out on the world , grins, and occasionally sticks his tongue Indeed it does stick its tongue out, for the, zine will be named "Gargoyle."' -F. KRAMER THE RECENT Scheub report and conference on the quadrangles provide: different but useful approaches to the research aspect of the job. Another survey might be useful; but it is doubtful that it could be accomplished quickly enough or that it would really reflect student attitude if it were to be prepared in such a limited 'amount of time. The last quadrangle conference did not pro- vide -a great deal that would be of use in the rewriting; but a similar conference, perhaps during the early fall, with well-formulated questions whose answers are directly pertinent to the plan could provide a meaningful reflec- tion of opinion. Without either of these devices ,the rewrit- ing could simply be the isolated incorporation of the ideas of several individuals. There must not be an intellectual isolation. More than this, however, this student opin-, ion must be contrasted with the studept opinion incorporated into the original work. The stu- dent body has changed; and with this change, there are new hopes, ,demands,, expectations and needs. This has been shown broadly by the changes in student government, organiza- tions and activities. For example, the present house plan gives almost no importance to student government in the residence halls, Perhaps the student government of 1941 was a failure; perhaps it was only in a germinal stage. But, Interquad- rangle Council, House Councils, , quadrangle councils and judiciary have a far more signifi- cant role in the residence halls of today than the plan allots them. Certain other questions are arising in the light of experience. How about co-educational housing? What about the construction of smaller rather than larger units in the future? FINALLY, it must be taken into'account that the rewriting of the Michigan House Plan is not a panacea. There are places where the residence halls have failed in fulfilling the plan. The plan specifically says that dormitory food should not be the conventional institu- 'tional food. Yet, labeling dorm food institution- al is a common rationalization for the quality of meals now served. Errors and shortcomings cannot we washed away simply by revising a plan. But, if effec- tively rewritten, the Michigan House Plan will provide a realistic goal for the University's residence halls. -DAVID MARCUS EDITOR'S NOTE: Following are paraphrased excerpts from letters written by Francis Bergman, a Congress of Racial Equality member from Michigan. Miss Bergman, whose husband is a former Uni- versity professor, Is currently par- ticipating in Freedom Ride, 1961-a massive "test case" of segregation bans. on public facilities serving inter-state commerce.) By IRIS BROWN Daily Staff Writer. MAY 9-- We left the warm friendly atmosphere of Fellow- ship House in Washington com- pletely spoiled, sure that the world is all sweetness and light. The pos- sibilities of arrest or even of in- cidents seemed most remote. I understand that a letter was sent to the President and to the Attorney General notifying them of our plans. Neither was at the bus terminal to see us off, but as we travel on it becomes more ap- parent that some of their boys (or maybe bus company boys) are keeping an eye on us. . * c * AT THE OUTSET we divided into two groups. Group A started on Greyhound, but have since switched to Trailways and we shall be changing off and on as circum- stances dictate. - Recently we have been forcing integration within the bus by hav- ing Negro members of the group sit toward the front alone so that white passengers boarding when the bus was full would be forced to sit with Negroes or stand. This has worked out very well. Inside the rest-stops and at the the terminal we operate in pairs, white and Negro, with one person as observer. In case of arrests the observer is ready to call the New York office, take the bags of the arrested person and then speed, on by the next bus to catch up with the group. S* S * WHEN WE ARE NOT travel-' ling, we are eating (often for pur- poses of testing); when we are not eating, we are meeting. It takes time to get 17 people-this in- cludes observers, cameramen, writ- ers, and reporters-sorted out each night for sleeping quarters. We finally fall into bed at about one a.m. Our first stop was Fredericks- burg, Va., less than two hours out of Washington. We were jolted out of our dreams of a peaceful, beautiful world to find that even this close to the Capitol rest- rooms are segregated. The refresh- ment counter was a stand-up af- fair for everyone, and the test team was served without incident. In Richmond the test teams were served-whites on the Negro side, and whites and Negroes on the white side. There was surprise and curiosity, but there were no inci- dents except that' a cameraman was told to stop taking pictures. At Richmond we were first aware that we were expected and were being watched. For my part I am glad we are-especially now that we are in "enemy territory" -although it is an uncomfortable feeling to have bus attendants gathering and pointing and snick- ering. * : s AT VIRGINIA Union University we had an opportunity to talk with students. It is amazing as we move on how many people have been involved in direct ac- tion; it is certainly apparent that the press has been keeping this news from the public. * * '* IN CHARLOTTE, N.C. we had our first arrest. Joe Perkins (CORE field secretary and former Ann Arbor Direct Action Com- mittee member) was arrested for trying to have his shoes shined at the terminal. His trial was sched- uled for this morning, but was postponed until tomorrow-to wait until we are out of town, we think. An arrest this early, sort of caught us off guard. By now we feel that we are surrounded by "enemies" and plainclothesmen. This has its lighter aspects, how- ever. When we left Greensboro the "dick" we had spotted boarded a bus we were lined up to take. Then we discovered that we were to take a later bus. So the bus rolled off with our friend frantically trying to get off-but too late. Frankly I am scared; but if I feel this way, how must the Negro members of the group feel? We are all so different in back- ground, yet we meet on this com- mon problem and work as one. * * * MAY 10-When all the stores in Winnsboro, S.C. were closed to observe Memorial Day (Confeder- ate) two of our members were arrested and I had an experience that will forever remain with me. Hank (Henry Thomas 'of St. Augustine, Fla. and the Washing- ton, D.C. Nonviolent Group) and Jim (Jim Peck, editor of the "CORE-lator") were seated at a counter. A woman, apparently the head waitress, went in back of the ticket window and kept saying, "Don't serve 'em." She then told Hank to "get over to the other side." Hank said he would not- that he wished to be served. Im- mediately a man in plain clothes stepped up and said, "you're un- der arrest." When Hank asked what the charge was, he received no answer. Then I asked why they were taking him to jail. "For being where he had. no business to be," the plainclothesman said. I said that we were interstate passengers and court rulings say all facilities should be open to all such passen- gers. When Peck stepped forward and said, "I am with this young man. Are you, taking us both?" the officer said yes. After trying to locate a tele- phone, I found- out where the po- lice station was. I cleaned out my purse of "damaging notes"-- names and addresses (oh, the land of the free) and deposited same in a trash can. Later, I spoke with the police chief. He asked if I had been or- dered out of the restaurant. "No, but my friends were and were ar- rested, and I'm concerned about them." He asked which one I was interested in. "Both," I said. When I thenn asked what they were charged with, he said he refused to talk to "my kind," and told me to "git outa town fast's you kin." The atmosphere was hostile, A cab drove up. Instead of wait- ing four hours for a bus, I dashed out and made a deal to taxi to Columbia. * 1* * AY 11 AND 12-Sumter is a different world and a sicken- ing one. If Negroes picket or dis- tribute leaflets or parade (ten people walking down the'street is a parade) they are arrested. No people living in a totalitarian country could be more oppressed. I felt that we made a tremendous contribution here. We brought them home-unbelievable as it seems in the United States in 1961. At a meeting in the evening at Paine College, Augusta, Ga. I was again impressed with the feeling'" that we represent new hope. The students' singing was the most thrilling part to me. A people who can sing after years of oppression. Amazing. -Daily-Larry Vwili AT LYDIA MENDELSSOHN: Marriage-Go-Round Lots of Laughs LAST NIGHT the Ann Arbor Drama Season opened its five-play se with the performance of Leslie Stevens' "The Marriage-Go-Rou The play opened in a promising manner with the unusual device of two major characters speaking to the audience from podiums at prosceniums. One felt that this was going to be an interesting different production. Unfortunately, the rest ,of the play was not c sistent with the imaginative quality of the opening: too much c seemed like something we had heard before, and the plot was hi predictable. The play centers around one comic situation: what will the hap married professor do about the shapely young woman who has dec HUAC by Any Other Name.. 0 [EN, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for a person to perform et or issue a declaration in order to insure his freedom and his pursuit of happiness, altogether fitting and proper, that the' tion and its rationale be made known to world in order that the transgressor may a full and ample opportunity to redeem elf for his wrongdoings. r this reason, it is necessary to declare a 0 dissatisfaction with the integrity of the e known as "Operation Abolition" as pro- I by the House Un-American Activities mittee. hough this movie only shows students nstrating against the committee's inves- on, and "Communist agents" demonstrat- against their being investigated, the pic- and narration repeatedly attempt to link two groups through both theii common ion, i.e. San Francisco; and their common t, i.e. the House Un-American Activities mittee. e film is thus condemnable in itself-even, de the fact that the very idea of even hav House Un-American Activities Committees mpletely repulsive-contrary to the Ameri- ideals of free; speech and thought, and an apt to replace a government which pro- the people with one which supervises the le. must be noted that coincidence of physical ion does not demonstrate coercion, a com- target does not show common ideals and nale for dissent, and simultaneous attack not prove cooperation. EN if it could be shown that the group f aggressively anti-committee students and group of defensive chaos-causing Com- d~w Silggau&zi. munists were acting in the same way, at the same place, at the same time, and for the same reasons, another question arises--who was the leader? Was it the Communists who were leading the students, or were the Com- munists' actions merely gratifying the wishes of the students, or were the Communists hop- ing to dupe the HUAC into branding some of the students as Communists and thus drive them from the ranks of democracy? HE HUAC must change its position and alter its activities. If democracy is unable to survive as democracy with freedom, it does not deserve to survive under the name of demo- cracy at all. Should the American ideals be incapable of their own defense and perpetua- tion, it becomes merely an academic question as to which group will be the ones to destroy. liberty; which group will establish a dictator- ship and reign of terror. Hopefully, it will not be done, but if free- dom is supressed the name of the supressor is irrelevent. Perhaps the USSR will do it; per- haps the Chinese will do it; or perhaps the HUAC will do it. The group's title doesn't matter. -FRED ULEMAN i NEW BILL: .Painless- Taxat ion For Capitalists -By MICHAEL HARRAH Treasury come out? Boston's Daily Staff writer United Business Service conserva- HE LIBERALS won't like it, tively estimates that American in- but Rep. Earl Wilson (R-Ind) vestors in corporate stocks now has introduced a bill in the House have over $200 billion in unrealized wheih presents a new and rather capital gains, much of which they. unique look at reforming the refuse to invest because of' the capital gains tax. high current ,long-term rate on Rep. Wilson, claims that his bill capital gains. They can--and many will benefit both the taxpayer and do--hold these securities until the Unted States Treasury, (no death, and no capital gains can small feat), but "equality-through- be realized. taxation" proponents still won't Wilson's bill would encourage like it. these people to sell their invest- The essence of the proposal is ments, thereby realizing capital this: . gains that would have been un- * * * realized before. The government TONG-TERM capital gains would therefore has the use, for five be non-taxable if the proceeds years at least, of funds they never are promptly re-invested in a pro- would have had access to before. posed new issue of United States The taxpayer can free some of his Capital Gains Bonds. These bonds investments without having to would have five year maturities- suffer a capital gains tax. issued at par-and carry an in- * * * terest rate of two per cent or less. SO EVERYONE comes out Inother words, instead of pay- ahead. The government sells more ing a tax of $250 on $1,000 capital bonds, and the investors have more gains, the taxpayer would buy a ready capital for investment. Both $250 capital gains bond. This would types of investment stimulate the give the government the $250 and" growth of the' economy, whereas also, give the taxpayer $250 plus neither would have been realized interest. before. If the bondholder wants to re- The fact that the government deem 'his bond before maturity, does not collect- in taxes the such redemption would be carried amount invested in bonds matters out at a progressive discount. little, for under the present system, If the bonds are held to matur- the government would not have ity, the bondholders would avoid received any money at all. the capital gains tax by ac epting Certainly everyone will agree a "below-market" interest rate. that the present capital gains tax * * * is inadequate. The Wilson Proposal SO MUCH for the capitalist- may well suggest a major im- now how does the United States provement. she wants to be his mistress? This situation is stretched as far as possible and milked of all comic possibilities, and the joke becomes progressively thinner as the situa- tion becomes thicker. What saves the play is the witty dialogue (many of the lines are hilariously clever) that only infrequently de- scends to the coy self-conscious- ness common in modern bedroom- farce, and fine comedy perform- ances from the cast. FAYE EMERSON is most charm- ing as the professor's wife, and proves herself to be a most com- petent comedienne. John Baragrey is extremely funny as the profes- sor, and plays the role for every laugh he can get. Lynne Forrester is appropriately voluptuous as the "other woman" and makes her improbable character believable. Stephen Elliott is very funny in a too-small role. John O'Shaughnessy's direction is also an asset to the production; he finds every comedy point in the script and makes the most of it, which is all for the best. The play needs good direction if it is to sus- tain interest all the way through. As a frothy' farce, then, this production may be rated a success. It is not the best light comedy seen here recently; from the point- of-view of the script it is only fair;. however, the good comedy direc- tion and fine performances in this staging of the script overcome most of the )flaws. Miss Emerson has never been more charming, and her fans are sure to be pleased. Though the play is not without its faults, it is good for, lots of laughs, and if laughs is what you're interested in, I can give this production a qualified, recommendation. -John Smead LETTERS to the EDITOR. . .A DAILY OFFICIAL"BULLETIN in Gobs of Praise. 'To the Editor: RICHARD OSTLING'S editorial last Thursday, labeling gobs of unqualified praise on the Chor- al Union concert series and the May Festival ,admirably expresses the provincial satisfaction which afflicts professional musical life in Ann Arbor. To state that these "cultural offerings" are superior to those of New York and Chicago because "variety is greater," and to add that "musicians in Ann Arbor can program what they wish without. losing the interest of its sophisti- cated patrons," suggests simple ig. norance of metropolitan life, and of what a concert series ought to look like at a great university. IN FACT, Choral Union concerts are unbearably stuffed with or- thodox, trite or dull programs. Restatements of the standard masterworks must, I suppose, take' up most of the season. $ut why is there such pathetically little new- er music of geuine merit? A dil- gent Ann Arbor resident could have attended Choral Union con- certs for decades without more than a whiff-if that much-of . Bartok, Shoenberg, Webern, Berg sr post-1917 Stravinsky. The mu- seum-like atmopshere which per- vades these concerts chokes off the ultimate excitement of great music past or present; veriera- tion of the familiar has degener. ated into ritual. But the programs are dull even in ,terms of the past. In recent years, the May Festival has pre sented three large-scale choral works: a tired oratorie ("Elijah"), a fifth-rate opera ("Samson and Delilah"), and a dated, overblown piece of .Hollywoodana ("Joan of Arc at the Stake"'). Wat about Berlioz's "Requiem," "'nfane du Christ," "Romeo and Juliet"- to name underplayed choral works by only one great com- poser? * * * IN TERMS of performance, Mr. Ostling's praise for the May Fes- tival in particular is especially undeserved. Rather than being "inevitably sharper than on a one- night stand," the Philadelphia Or- chestra often plays with a coarse- ness, stylistic indifference and listlessness which' it would not dare to inflict on, the musical. public of a metropolis.Perhaps it is merely reflecting the thick com- placency It encounters here: lush and familiar sounds are sure to bring enthusiastic applause in Hill Auditorium. The audience is chal- lenged neither by new sonds nor by dedicated performance. Furthermore, the musical pub- lies of New York and Chicago are not insulted by being asked to pur chase tickets when only the ar- tists, and not the programs, are known-as though we are chiefly interested not in musical content, but in star performers. Perhaps it' is this assumption that exlains the appearance of soloists at every May Festival concert. * * * THE CHORAL UNION is not the only offender. We might equal- ly wel ask those who control the opera series at Lydia Mendelssohn to desist from the standard reper-- toire. a while, and give us the chance to hear operas like Mon-. teverdi's "Orpheus" and "Poppea," Berlioz's "Beatrice and Benedict." (Continued from Page 2) transcript without grades for the cur- rent semester, you are urged to call in person at 515 Admin. Bldg. not later, than June 2. *-Doe not apply to students in, Engr., Law. Approval for the following student- sponsored activities becomes!effective 24 hours after the publication of this Old MacDonald Has, a Farm I-t In excusable. SOMEHOW, lines of communication have broken down between the rest of the cam- pus and Assembly Association. This became ap- parent when the Residence Halls Board of Governors considered coeducational housing. The subject had been scheduled for discus- sion at the Board's April meeting, which As- sembly's President attended. There had been, consideration by Inter-quadrangle Council. There had been an editorial and articles in The Daily. However, it came to light during the dis- cussion, the aim of which was only to set up a study committee, that Assembly Association as a whole had not even considered the matter. If Assembly intends to remain an effective liason between the administration and stu- dents it cannot allow itself to be behind, rather than in the midst of, issues. There is no excuse for its non-consideration of this pertinent and timely subject, especially since meetings are held weekly. If Assembly continually misses 4c - ,, tillt- -- A 4 +-A n A3 .vi e notice. Al publicity for these events must bem. withheld until the approval has become. effective. May 17 Democratic Socialist Club, speakers James Boggs and Daniel Neu- som, "The Negro Movement: where is' it nowW? Where is it going?", Union, 8:00 p.m.. Events Wednesday Research Club Meeting: Wed., May 17 at 8 p.m. in the Rackham Amphithea- ter. Papers to be presented are: "El 'Greco,' Artist and Humanist" by Prof. Harold E. Wethey, and "Immunological Principles and Their Possible Applica- tions to Spontaneous Regressions of Cancer and the Treatmentofnthis Disease" by Prof. Walter Nungester. Election of officers. Doctoral Examination for John Thom- as Mickel,: Botany; thesis: "A Mono- graphic, Study of the Ferm Genus Anemia, Subgenus Coptophyllum," Wed., May 17, 1139 Natural Science Bldg., at 9:00 a.m. Chairman, W. H. Wagner,' Jsr. Events Thursday Lecture by Professor Ralph Hammett,. Department of Architecture, T'hurs., May 18, 4.15. p.m., Architecture Aud. on "Architecture of the Halleluiah Age- Early 18th Century-Germany and Aus- tria." Aeronautical and Astronautical Engi- neering: Prof. M. S. Uberoi, Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical En- gineering, will talk on "Nn-Catastro-I phic Mass-Ejection From Stars," Thurs., May 18, 3:00 Ap.m., 1504 East Engineer- ing Bldg. American Chemical Society Lecture: :Thurs., May 18, 8:00 p.m., 1300 Chem- istry Bldg. Dr. Dal Nogare,DuPont Co., will present a talk on "Gas Chromatog- raphy." Illustrated Lecture:, "The Regional. Master Plan for Delhi, India: A Pioneer- ing Effort" will be discussed by Albert, Mayer, Architect, Engineer and author: .~ on Thurs., May 18 at 8 p.m.: in the Rackham Amphitheater. .e Editorial Staff THOMAS HAYDEN, Editor, AN MARKEL City Editor' JEAN SPENCER Editorial Director Business Staff KITH NICHOLSON. Business Manager F BLUESTEIN...Associate Business Manager GUSTYN .................Finance Manager IDERWOOD..............Accounts Manager ..