Seventy-First Year -. - EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ions Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS 1112 Prevail" STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. " Phone NO 2-3241 als printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. Thismust be noted in all reprints. SOCIAL ACTION: 'U' Officials Eschew Judgment AT RACKHAM: Baroque Trio x 14 : -I AY, FEBRUARY 22, 1961 NIGHT EDITOR: JOHN ROBERTS Study, Bureaucracy And the Battle of Angell MCES OF Light and Darkness (in rm of Study and Bureaucracy) are' heir traditional way through the halls this year. beginning, there was a study hall on floor of Angell Hall. This was a fine it allowed students who didn't want heir way to the/ UGLI for an hour classes to save fifteen minutes of good 1e, or the chance to write a letter, ,or illence. It was a decent, large, quite, 't have a chance. The counseling ser- ch have been doggedly trying to take entire floor (the Associate Dean's ay be next) stretched their effective tual tentacles into this sanctuary of ESULTS WERE appalling. Within a three quarters of the old study hall taken over by secretaries, telephones, typewriters, and agonized juniors and seniors. A hasty partition was thrown up about half- way to the ceiling-screening the view, but not a bit of the sound of the office from the study hall. It is now slightly more noisy in the Angell Hall 'study hall than In the average Haven Hall office. Now all of us are interested in people. But the very vocal problems of the Teacher's Certificate candidate, who has to drop her French course because of her problems with her fiance, but who wants to take Russian Lit in translation, tend'to'interfere with absolute concentration or% 'Paradise Lost. There is something strange about a room with 20 students in it who are vainly attempt- ing to study with their fingers in their ears. Maybe it's a good thing they stuck the study hall sign around the corner, .so that no one can find the place if they don't already know' where it is. It seems the Power of Darkness has won. -FAITH WEINSTEIN 'U' Band A rEEN THE LABO1 unions (who should w better) and. Mother Nature (who are less), the touring University Sym- Band has its troubles. nded by an airline flight enigineers' it Detroit, the band was delayed some rs before the union condescended to- erican Airlines fly in a couple planes anada, which promptly got fogbound in al, thus arriving late at Willow Run.- nd finally took off 19 hours fate. instruments meanwhile went on ahead freight on Saturday all by themselves, ey managed to get grounded in Buf- :appily however the bit was resolved he band and their wayward paraphen- re reunited at Idlewild in New York, they promptly got fogbound together ther 9 and a half fhour delay. ,rsity Vice-President Lyle M. Nelson. te nice to the strikers. He congratulated or making the. band late not in excess yours, and there is no.report about any s for Mother Nature. EANWHILE, THE STATE department ex- pressed concern over the delay at Detroit, for they said that they considered the tour to be of the greatest importance. However, we: note no move on their part to rout out one of the many military craft which lurk about at numerous strategic points, or to aid the band in their departure. We can only hope, since. the band did not arrive at the Moscow Sports Palace by 7:30 pin. Russian Standard Time (noon our time) Monday, that all will be well. The State. Department has indicated that the Russians do not understand such delays (after all, even the Russians don't put up with strikes). . And so it seems that the cold war,.for a moment at least, focuses on the University, and Russo-American relations, for a moment at least, are her concern. No other University can make that state- went. --MICHAEL HARRAH By JOHN ROBERTS Daily Staff Writer ' DIRECT, SOCIAL action by stu- dents has, in recent months, assumed the proportions of a ma- jor movement, and the Univer- sity has been not far from the middle of it. Response to the youth corps proposal in large measure originated here, and Voice politi- cal party is now playing an im- portant part in the national Food for Fayette campaign. Other stu- dent action here has included picketing of stores and beaches to protest discrimination, demon- strations against armaments and civil defense, and an increased at- tention to the Cuban problem. To date, however, the University ad- ministration has given no indica- tion of an official policy toward social action, either of- support or opposition. To determine if there is, in fact, a. University position with respect to the student movement, I re- cently interviewed President Har- Ian Hatcher, Vice-President and Dean of Faculties Marvin Niehuss, and Vice-President for Student Af- fairs James Lewis. We sought to ascertain the administration's view of social action, its relation to overall education, and the role which the University should play. * * * PRESIDENT HATCHER said that, In contrast with most Eu- ropean universities, the typical American school .takes an active interest in the student's life out- side the classroom. This interest is typified by the doctrine of in loco parentis, by which a univer- sity acts as legal guardian of the student under twenty-one in ab- sence of his parents, he said. The basic function of the Uni- versity is academic discipline. But in addition, he indicated, students should acquire a growing sensitiv- ity to the outside world and an awareness of their role as pri- vate citizens. It is in their ca- pacity as citizens of the world, rather than as students per se, that they engage in social action. The "student" movement, accord- ing to President Hatcher, is in fact a social movement undertaken by citizens who are students only incidentally. It is not a matter calling for institutional state- ments, pro or con. The University hence takes a position of "toler- ant detachment," neither' endors- ing nor discouraging student ac- tion as long as it is within the law. If an underaged student has legal difficulties as a result of his involvement the University will assist him. But, Hatcher indicated, this is done as guardian and does not imply sanction of the action itself or the cause toward which it was directed. Whether the Uni- versity would support students who deliberately violated laws they consider unjust depends on the specific circumstances, he said, al- though cases do arise in which the social situation is out of. harmony with what is right and proper. President Hatcher agreeddthat the role of the administration in the social movement is as guardian of the student rather than part- ner. Nevertheless, he added, non- interference is a form of endorse- ment. VICE - PRESIDENT LEWIS pointed out that the establish- ment of the Office of Student Af- fairs indicates the importance the University attaches to develop- ment outside the classroom. While academic pursuits must remain paramount, his administration re- gards student activities as an in- tegral part of total education. The only question is whether leaders are responsible and action is law- ful. When such is the case, Lewis said, the University will stand by the right of students to press for social reform, and encourages con- sultation of students with his of- fice. For example, initiators. of last spring's picketing of local stores i conferred with Lewis and the po-. lice department before undertak- ing the demonstration. And Lew- is, under some outside pressure at a meeting of the Human Relations Commission, defended the right of students to so demonstrate. I asked Mr. Lewis whether this implied University endorsement of the movement itself. He explained, that the University endorses the right of students to work lawfully for social causes, but makes no Judgment of the issues involved. He declined to commit himself on the matter of civil disobedience, saying that his position would de- pend on circumstances; he would not, for example, discuss endorse- ment of the Southern sit-ins, with- out more knowledge of the cir- cumstances and laws involved. 4' * * VICE - PRESIDENT NIEHUSS, by far the most candid of the three, was not even sure there was a student movement. New situations inviting action have presented themselves; they would have excited similar interest if they had appeared five years ago, he said. There is no stated Uni- versity policy toward student in- volvement of which Niehuss is aware. but there is a tacit position analysis is undertaken by the Uni- versity results in action. Involve- ment is a personal, not an insti- tutional matter, and results from individual study and conviction. While American students have shown on the whole too weak an interest in current happenings, Niehuss said events in South America, in which universities are closed because of extreme stu- dent action, show that involve- ment and activity can be pushed too far. Niehuss said that the neutral position of the University does not mean the administration has no convictions. But it is impossi- ble to 'express a "University" po- sition because there are wide and irreconcilable differences of opin- ion among members of the fac- ulty, administration, alumni and student body. This neutral posture. should be the policy of a univer- sity, he believes. While contain- ing within it many commitments, many of them conflicting, it it- self has only one purpose: the ad-. vancement of learning and knowl- edge. IN SUMMARY, there has ob- viously been no discussion within the administration on an official policy toward the new social in- volvement. Used to regarding "stu- dent activity" in the traditional pep - rally - and - dance - plan- ning categories, the University leaders are not sure how to han- dle student-action of a serious na- ture. Nevertheless, a more or less coherent posture of "tolerant de-' tachment'' is tacitly shared by the persons with whom we spoke. The University should take no ac- tion and make no statements en- dorsing or disapproving a given cause. Where action is required, as in the jailing of demonstrators last spring, it is taken in the Uni- versity's role as guardian. While the University approves in the abstract of student involvement,. it makes no moral judgment on a given cause or a given action so long as it is "appropriate." This policy is justified on grounds, primarily, of practicabil- ity. Concensus is impossible in an institution so large and diverse. Even within the administration there is not complete agreement; Mr. Niehuss and Mr. Lewis, for example, differ in their opinions on the desirability of student ac- tivities in general as part of a lib- eral education. It is even more un- likely, then,. that an administra- tion could ever fairly represent the views of faculty, students, alumni, benefactors and the state Legislature-in short, every one connected with the University-in a controversial issue. How can one, express a University conviction? The practicability (or, less po- litely, expediency) of neutrality is philosophically rationalized. Stu- dents are citizens of the world, and the two roles of citizen and stu- dent, while loosely interconnected, must be separated when affected by University policy. The Univer- sity insures the freest expression for all opinions by itself remaining detached, serving as an Impartial. broker in the exchange of ideas. As Mr. Lewis put it, he who gov- erns least, governs best. * * * THE ADMINISTRATION draws a persuasive case for its own neu- trality. Nevertheless there are in- consistencies. Consider for exam- ple the two roles of "student" and "citizen." Student Government Council existsbecause the Univer- sity recognizes that the two roles, at the local level at least, are in- separable. But where does the lo- cal level give way to the national and international? When SGC takes action on discrimination in "local" fraternities, it is unavoid- ably drawn into the national pic- ture. When it -sends letters to Southern governorsntdis obvious- ly involved in national affairs and less directly in world affairs. At a time when local action, national action and the total world picture are inextricably interconnected, does it make sense to try to com- partmentalize them? And if the separation of roles as "student" and "citizen of the campus" is admittedly impossible, is it not equally impossible to distinguish between "student" and "citizen of the world?" The rationale for administra- tive neutrality is very disturbing -not because it is incomprehen- sible, but because it is not unique, If the impossibility of concensus at a university logically Implies that its leaders must be neutral, does not this argument obtain in a myriad other settings? Student, scientist; corporate executive, la- borer--all are part of a larger whole within which total agree- ment is unlikely. Should they too eschew commitment, rationalizingt an unwillingness to brave contro- versy-with the need to remain "of- ficially" neutral? * * * WE BELIEVE THAT ,the heads of a University have a responsi- bility for educational leadership above and beyond their duties of administration and conciliation. If it is impossible to give a "Uni- versity" opinion, it is certainly pos- sible for them to give their opin- ions as University .officials and in-. dividuals. The tendency to hide behind an office is alarmingly prevalent in this society; college administrators should not, by ex- ample, pass it on to students searching for meaning and com- mitment. Issues produce contro- versy because they are complicat-. ,ed, but because they are compli- cated leadership is more than ever required. In an age over much given to empty "objectivism'" col- lege administrators must demon- strate -the value and need for care- ful consideration, independent de- cision, and commitment to prin- ciple. In Late Period Works The Baroque Trio, with members from the Michigan School of Music, gave their second concert of the season last evening in Rack- ham Auditorium. The concert was in conjunction with the Centennial Celebration of The Unification of Italy (1861-1961), and was the opening program in the festivities which will last through June. The music performed was drawn exclusively from the 16th and 17th century Italian Baroque school, and brought to the fore some hitherto little known but certainly accomplished composers: Perhaps the single identifying characteristic' of all eight composers in the program was their late Baroque stlye; a style depicting greater freedom of expressive melody, chromaticism, and novel rhythm arrangement-. quite -apart, I would say, from the certain ascetic melody and, at times, placid stateliness of an earlier German period. * * * * WITH THE EXCEPTION of a troublesome oboe, the group produc- ed their artistry in the usual flawless manner; a manner, however, which must not be taken for granted. Music of the Baroque era is of an intense nature, and ultimately demanding of the performing group. It is at the same time appreciated by a group of listeners quite apart from the usual concert going crowd, and as such the possibility of a filled auditorium is at best remote. The Trio, accompanied by Clyde Thompson on the double bass, included four numbers for tenor solo as sung by Richard Miller. While a bit harsh in the upper range, Mr. Miller otherwise displayed excellent control and ennunciation in the lyrical style of the traditional Italian school. --Roger Wolthuls [DAILtY OFFICIALBULLtETIN (Continued from Page 2). ington (girls), Mich.-Mr. & Mrs. Tom- Unson & Mr. Jaenicke interviewing Thurs. from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m. Camp Chi, Wia Coed Camp-Bernard Scotch from Jewish Community Cen- ters of Chicago interviewing Thurs. aft. from 1:30 to 4:55. FEB. 24- Camp Lawrence Cory (boys), N.Y. - W. B. Hester interviewing Fri. from 9:30 a.m. to 4:55 p.m.; :Detroit Area Bopy Souts' Camps -- Fred Leist interviewing men counselors, nurses, & secretaries for jobs all day Fri. For further information go to Sum- mer Placement Service, D 528 SAB. Open daily from 1:00 to 4:55 p.m. and Friday all day. 4021 Admin., EXxt. 3371 for further in- formation. Part-Time Employment The following part-time fobs are available. Applications can be made in the . Non-Academic Personnel Office, 1020 Admin. Bldg., Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Employers desirous of hiring part- time or temporary employees should contact Jack Lardie, at NO 3-1511, ext. 2939. Students desiring miscellaneous jobs should consult the bulletin board in Room 1020, daily. MALE 1-Experienced switchboard operator (Saturday 6 p.m.-12 midnight, and Sunday 8 a.m.-1 p.m.). 1-Arts and crafts supervisor (Friday evenings 7-10 p.m.). 44-Psychological subjects, two 11, hour periods, total time. 1-Experienced camera repairman (min. 20 hours per week). 8-Psychological subjects (hours to be -arranged). 7-Psychological subjects (Tuesday afternoon, February 28)., 1-Translator, German technical arti- cals intorEnglish. 4-Experienced radio and TV repair- men, hours to be arranged. 6-Social photographers, mostly week- ends. 2-Dark-room technicians, afternoons and weekends. FEMALE Personnel Requests PERSONNEL REQUESTS: Arkansas Civil Service-Psychologi- cal Examiner TRAINEE. M.A. in Psych. or its equiv. in grad. trng. in applied psych. PMonitgomery Watd, Denver Mail Order' Plant - Administrative Accountant - man (Exper. preferred) & Accounting Supervisor-WOMAN. Both req. B.B.A. In Acctg.' U.S. Air Force, Control & Command .Dev. Div., Bedford, Mass.-Grad. physi cists, physical chemists, aerodynamicists for Electromagnetic Radiation Lab. of Cambridge Res. Labs. Chas. Proper Co., Ann Arbor-Recent grad. or possibly grad. student with general knowledge of business ;proced- ures as Office Assistant-to help set up office procedures; some acctg. involved.. Mich. Civil Service-Latest listing of current openings posted on bulletin board outside Bureau of Appts., 4021 ' Admin. Please contact Bureau of Appts., OTHER CAMPUSES: ?eviews Ar ticlIe on Pressures' 1--Experienced switchboard operator (Saturday 6 p.m.-12 midnight, and Sunday 8 a.m.-1 p.m.). 10--Psychological subjects (21 or over, for. drug experiments). 1-Arts and crafts supervisor (Friday evenings 7-10 p.m.). 1--bul-time typist for two -weeks. rTEN ON CAMBRIDGE snowbanks, they, y, is the message, "Dr. Binger lies." It is 'but if you read his article in the current i expecting an explanation of the pres- college puts on girls, you will be dis- ted. If Binger thinks the problems of rying to find love are especially acute dents, he has some proving to do, and if he thinks that "an identity crisis ... at some time and in varying intensity ctically every girl during her career in is news, to a culture saturated with y and crises. not so important that social and aca- crises occur as that the problems implicit her education for women become very ant when things are not going well. It s very much, therefore, that a girl faces; is between academic achievement and ife, that she seeks a connection between he is doing and her future life, and that' ademic world pressures her to intellec- all experience. er observes that women seek husbands in college, and that this aim is so ant that girls conceal it not only from but from themselves. And he proceeds to the effects of young ,men's failure to the security and approbation the girls he ignores the evolution of women's edu- since the time when participants were d to be pioneers making their own place ty, and apparently does not see that the g popularity of higher education for has destroyed the sense of a frontier t creating places in society for educated herefore does not observe that if girls o get married and see no relation be- their education and their futures, col- comes a ritual, a pointless set of hurdles vercome, and an utterly artificial invest- Editorial Staff THOMAS HAYDEN, Editor AN MARKEL. JEAN SPENCER City Editor Editorial Director 'H McELDOWNEY,.......Associate City Editor DONER... ................Personnel Director S KABAKER.. . ........ Magazine Editor APPLEBAUM.. Associate Editorial Director 3 WITECKI.................Sports Editor' L GILLMAN;........ Associate Sports Editor: Business Staff ment of emotion into classes of activity with little significance to the girl. He does not tonclude that this unreality might be the reason that so many girls seem to be grinds, interested in grades because they never find greater scope or meaning in education. He also does not recognize the dilemma of intelligent girls forced to compete academic- ally with men who, on the whole, are not as bright. Too, the need to once to succeed and to seem not to work creates a real tension for many who must work hard to do well. But Binger is not concerned with these pressures, primarily, it seems, because he sees crises in terms of interpersonal relations rather than institutional conflicts. And even though he never says very much about the effect education should have on its victims,; he shows an acute sense of the defects of any solution a girl may find. For half a page he explores .the hazards of steady relationships, then he says, The foregoing description is of one kind of behavior, but of one only ... There are, of course, "popular" girls who have a dif- ferent date every night, and like to keep lots of boys on the string; idealistic, old fashioned girls, perhaps with 'a religious upbringing, who want to keep themselves pure for the great love to come; shy, im- mature girls who do not date . His suggestions have an almost pathetic air. He wants girls to have a chance to talk to "reasonably mature adults." But almost every therapist and educator alive thinks this would be good-how is it to be achieved? Elsewhere he informs us that, "We have no sure formula to prevent the kind of depression I have de- scribed in this article... But we can encourage self-acceptance and a sense of identity." His approach becomes doubly unfortunate when he says, "It seems to me that educators have at least the responsibility of looking facts in the face. If they relax parietal rules suf- ficiently to permit girls to go to boys' rooms and remain there until late, then they should realize what the consequences are likely to be." He sounds like a prig, but'I do not think that he intends to suggest that the need for emotional engagement will vanish if the most obvious opportunities are removed. Rather, he is speaking for tht mental health movement that maintains the necessity of treating emo- tional problems as part of education, and he seems to be trying to say that the college must be directly responsible for the psychological effects of its actions. Because I am deeply sympathetic with this outlook, I find the failure of his article to present an analysis of the real pressures exert- CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING: Urbanites Bid For Equalty (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the final article in a two-part analysis of unequal representationinathe U.S. House of Representatives and the state legislatures.) By HARVEY MOLOTCH Daily Staff Writer THE UNITED STATES House of Representatives was designed to be as a tool of the populace and to reflect as perfectly as pos- sible, a cross section of America. In order to secure this aim, federal law requires that after every ten year census, the number of representatives each state sends to Congress must be readjusted to conform to population shifts. Every ten years, the states must split the 435 member Congres- sional body along new lines. But since the actual division within a state is usually left up to state legislatures, the equity of American congressional district- ing is hampered by the same poli- tical gerrymandering which af- flicts state legislative districts. It. is a tactic which has been used with great 'success by both poli- tical parties at various times and in varying regions of the nation. Thus James Roosevelt's Cali- fornia constituency winds And twines through urban and sub- urban Los Angeles, picking up on its way the Mexican, Negro and Jewish communities. All are load- ed into a single Democratic zone, thus assuring Republicans in other districts that -the Democratic- voting minorities will not be able to tip scales in their areas. STILL ANOTHER SOURCE of inequality arises from the fan- tastic inequality in the size of Congressional districts. In the eighty-seventh Congress, James B. Utt of California will represent' 1,007,140 voters, while John B. Bennett of Michigan's Twelfth district in the Upper Peninsula, will represent 175,968. In Bennett's case, the small size of his district is the deliberate pro- duct of a Republican legislature which has squeezed large numbers of nemoc rtsirtn am nwS.ern Southwestern Wayne County where the population is 803,456. SUCH A SITUATION is not only inequitable and undemocratic, but plainly foreign to the intentions of the framers of the Constitution. It exists because of the powerful GOP-farm-conservative block in the state legislature and because of a tendency even among the urban public to glorify the north- ern region and its rough and tough pioneer citizens. This latter position is consistant with the American "agrarian myth" which equates "being close to the soil" with all that is glorious and virtuous in American society. Perhaps if these citizens would. substitute the word "dirt" for soil," public pressure might en- hance the chance for more equit- able districting. The idea that pine trees, lakes, and trout need rep- resentation in the United States ICbngress obviously needs some critical thinking. Such an opportunity ;now pre- sents itself in Michigan. As a re- sult of the 1960 census, Michigan will pick up an additional seat in the House. The new 19th district can either rise out of the northern woods and thus so dify the exist- ing inequalities or can be carved out of a heavily populated area to provide more accurate representa- tion, * * * ONE SIMPLE SOLUTION would. merelydivide Wayne County's 16th district, but since this would re- sult in another Democratic Con- To Th. Editor -~~ gressman. it is sure to be downed by the GOP. Rep. George Mont- gomery has come with a minch grander plan which would redraw boundaries of every district to guarantee that the largest des- crepancy between any two con- stituencies would be 72,333. But 6ain, this plan. would hurt the Republicans. Montgomery has been' admon- ished by the press because of his lack of "compromise." It is point- ed out that the Republican legis- lature will never assent to such a -scheme and that the Democrats, if they back Montgomery, will only strangle all redistricting legisla- tion. But the newspapers do not real- ize that the "compromise" they request is one between inequity and democracy - a compromise which should not have to be made. IF THE LEGISLATURE fails to act before the 1962 Congressional election, the new Congressman will be elected at large, and most ob- servers predict that this would result in a Democratic victory. Thus, pressure is on the Republi- cans to provide a measure which will not hinder their party, but at the same time will escape Gover- nor Swainson's possible veto. Com- plicating the GOP's task is the fact that any attempt to redraw district lines is bound to meet with resistance from the repre- sentatives involved. When a Con- gressman's constituency is chang- ed, no matter how small the ad- justment, new people mean less political security. Yet the dilemma which the Michigan legislature faces is not nearly so great as the problems of states which have lost population. New York and Pennsylvania must redistrict away two and three seats respectively, or face the alternative of electing all Congressmen at large. SUCH A DEVELOPMENT would require time-consuming and ex- pnsaiu mnaans fnenr,. esneoan- Rebels in Search .. To the Editor: T TUESDAY'S recital by Mr. Szeryng in Hill Auditorium two men stationed in the corridor be- hind the second balcony per- formed a vocal duet which dis- turbed many ticket holders during three movements of a Beethoven sonata. Since we pay to hear music, not conversation, I hope that something will be done to prevent such a disturbance at future con- certs. Should an usher not be commissioned to silence both those whose behavior contradicts their mature appearance, as well as any noisy students? -James Toy, Grad. Best Fishes . * * To the Editor:' CONGRATULATIONS ON THE Daily's being named winner in the Overseas Press Club competi- tion, It is indeed grntifving tn Discouraged . To the Editor: I FIND IT discouraging that the heretofore great University of, Michigan has been reduced to a state of slavery; for you surely are no longer free; your silence has enslaved you. In an article in the Saturday' Review -(Feb. 18, 1961, p.6) an incident occuring in TThompson; Michigan is reported. It reports a school teacher fired from his job and arrested because he permitted his students to read "The Stran- ger" by Camus. State police, call- ed in by the school board, search- ed his classroom and home, and destroyed "Crime and Punish- ment"-a dangerous book indeed! * * * HOW HAVE THE people at the University of Michigan responded- to this? If not by silence, at least not in a voice loud enough to be heard as far away as West Vir-- ginina