FEIFFER Bhe Muh~igan Baly Seventy-Sixth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS whe Opinions Are Free 420 MAYNARD ST., ANN ARBOR, MICH. Tnitb W!11 Prevail NEws PHONE: 764-0552 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the inidividual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1966 NIGHT EDITOR: MARTHA WOLFGANG 'Summer Weekend' Student Activism Front \ \) -!J ?a -- YOU ~ 3o PUT _ ' . Mt R P5.: TAE MY MOHER~N CAUS ME 1 f / fT' IHW 10TH - - WHO UA wr HX0UA STUDENT ACTIVISM is not dead! Cyn- ics forecast the demise of any local movement when, a few weeks ago, only a pathetic 15 students showed up to picket President Harlan Hatcher's home, while at the same time hundreds at the Uni- cersities of Chicago and Wisconsin and at City College in New York staged sit- ins to protest sending grades and rank- ings to draft boards. But, as usual, those critics were mis- taken. A new reform group has recently organized with a comprehensive pro- gram for bettering the lot of students. Elaborate plans have already been set forth for their first project - Summer Weekend. Now, some may have gotten the idea from yesterday's news article on Summer Weekend that the project was merely to offer the same asinine type of fun and games characteristic of Homecoming or Winter Weekend. Ah hah, you were de- ceived by the subtlety of the University Activities Center Summer Committee. They cleverly wanted you to think that so that you, disgusted with the usual dirty beatnik picketeer-sit inner visions asso- ciated with activism, couldn't realize that their true purpose is to seek wide-sweep- ing amelioration of campus conditions. IN ONE SENSE the committee's efforts are directed towards relieving the in- creased pressure attendant on students due to the trimester system. Instead of wasting precious time devising their own hi-jinks, students can now more assid- iously devote themselves to concentrated study after they get the necessary "play" out of their system by participating in UAC's few afternoons of organized stu- pidities-like watermelon seed spitting. Now, it might be argued that this will mean a tremendous loss of the campus's creative atmosphere, previously demon- strated by such individualized pranks as passing beer out on Harlan Hatcher's front lawn on Sunday mornings, but think of all the time freed for the writing of creative papers for courses like "In- ter-Group Conflict among Protozoans." An attempt to cement student commu- nity relations at a very basic level was also discussed by the committee, when Editorial Staff CLARENCE FANTO ........................ Co-Editor CHARLOTTE WOLTER ................... Co-Editor BUD WILKIN SON........... ..... .. Sports Editor BETSY COHN. ...........Sppement Manager NIGHT EDITORS: Meredith Eiker, Michael Hefter, Shirley Rosick, Susan Schnepp, Martha Wolfgang. Business Staff SUSAN PERLSTADT .............. Business Manager LEONARD PRATT .............. Circulation Manager JEANNE ROSINSKI.............Advertising Manager RANDY RISSMAN .............. Supplement Manager Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Mich. Published daily Tuesday through Saturday morning. .they considered inviting a local Boy Scout troop to perform Indian dances during summerweekend. They, unlike students formerly seeking economic reform, saga- ciously can see that it's only after you get grass-roots support can the vicious, money-hungry landlords and bookstore owners be taken on. 1 WHEN COMMITTEE members brought up the idea for a hatchet hunt to reinforce the "Summer Uprising" theme, one of them cleverly turned the sugges- tion into one for a "Hatcher Hunt." What a unique plan for pushing for a student role in administrative decision-making! Hatcher may have been non-plussed by VOICE's pickets, UMSEU's invasion and the threatened sleep-in on his lawn. But, the surprise of an onslaught of sev- eral hundred Summer Weekenders, equip- ped with bows and arrows and other ac- coutrements appropriate for Indians,. would be enough to force anyone to ca- pitulate to the most outrageous student demands. THE SUMMER WEEKEND crusaders are also attempting to foment a sexual revolution that would put Berkeley to shame. While the committee was consid- ering games for the weekend, one mem- ber, giggling at her suggestiveness, put forth the idea for a lei-ing party - one in which everyone would participate in a race to make leis, of course. During a ser- ious "brainstorming" session to come up with a theme for the project, someone wittily suggested "Running Bear" subse- quently rejected, unfortunately. In providing for boy-boy, boy-girl, and girl-girl categories for one of its games, the committee should be commended for its liberal stand on homosexuality. I must, however, question: Why no single girl or single boy categories? As long as we're going to open ourselves to attack for rec- ognizing and approving hormosexuality, why neglect hermaphrodites and their highly individualistic approach? MOST IMPORTANTLY, though, Sum- mer Weekend is aimed at combatting that omnipresent bug, "alienation," the multiversity's impersonal, factory-like at- mosphere, or whatever you want to call it. Not only will undergraduate solidarity be cemented, with the students feeling they are "really a part of the University" after engaging in the mass frenzies, stu- dents will also be reminded of the bond of their common historical heritage by the "Indian" theme. AGAIN, THE UNIVERSITY Activities Committee is to be commended for its dedication to solving student problems. But, say, why not stick some pot in the peace pipes? -SHIRLEY ROSICK -x By J First o Colle OSEPHC bright y beautiful, a ber he was foot, two-m posed sailin Indies. Early thi dinger was official U.S "At appr January 4, a preinduc Township,F of an uno third floor examining Boston Arm red from p ville Select and was o undergoing tions." DIDINGE hardworkin terests. He Marine; he garage me years he wo section of Pennsylvan He had b sylvania Sto had stayed father, a1 who himse Penn State Place is toc than in my son asked h questions.I logic andv school he evening cla was alway He asked a IT IS N that colleg drugs, sex,E is now also dents, man emotional P of them en Suicidei Suicide on Campus:* Primary Causes 3. MARK LONO cause of death among American DR. W. D. TEMPY at Harvard which followed his slit-wrists sui- even if it were the way d a two-part series male college students. A survey of has reported that the rate of cide attempt. His parents were my hair. She almost dr giate Press Service 209 deaths occurring at Yale Uni- completed suicides there is three going through divorce proceedings my grave. By the ti C. DIDINGER was a versity between 1920 and 1955 persons for every 20,000 students. after years of an unhappy mar- came I was a nervou oung man married to a showed that 92 students had died That would indicate that for every riage, and each parent tried to didn't even know as m alert girl. Last Decem- in accidents and 25 had committed actual suicide there are at least enlist the boy's support against name anymore. busy readying his 45- suicide. 50 students who have more or less the other. After four years in "I went home right'be rasted yawl for a pro- The belief that only introverts serious suicidal tendencies which college he was coming close to the for a weekend. Then it ig venture to the West are suicide-prone was dispelled at do not end in tragic death. challenge of starting a career. the worst it had ever t Yale-10 of the 25 held student Dr. Dana Farnsworth of the These new responsibilities obvious- came the sleeping pi s January, Joseph Di- offices, six were athletes, and 10 Harvard University Health Serv- ly scared him. His prospective in- aspirins and a razor bl s the subject of an belonged to fraternities, ices estimates that "a suicide can laws did not seem to like him. . army statement: At the time they died, eight be expected somewhat more often At Fairfield University one THIS GIRL seemed oximately 9:30 a.m. on were having financial trouble, five than once yearly in a student body member of the class of '66 stabbed most of the reasons1 1966, Joseph Didinger, had had their marriage proposals of 10,000." himself to death. That same year which the Cornell stud :tee from Thornberry refused, and one was a practicing The record shows that in 1962, a freshman had to be coaxed from common among studen Pa., fell from a window but remorseful homosexual. Al- about 550 young people between a dorm roof. One student wrecked 1) A desire to dest ccupied office on the though the well known Yale Clinic 15 and 19 years old took their own his room and left. All were said to selves because they can of the armed forces was established in 1925, only 11 lives be under heavy academic pres- tolerate the discrepan and entrance station, of the 25 were undergoing any sures. how they appear to then ny Base. He was refer- kind of professional treatment," WHY SUICIDE? "Things are how they would like to' reinduction by Somer- tough all over" is the traditional A COED WROTE a personal ac- 2) A need to punish ive Service Board 22 A MORE RECENT study, "Sui- observation of the cynic, so why count of her attempted suicide hurt them. ne of 266 preinductees cide Tendencies Among College does emotional crisis center on for the University of Wisconsin. 3) An urge to repent physical examina- Students," was conducted at Cor- the university? Daily Cardinal. Her comments sin. nell University by Drs. Leif J.. iwere blunt: 4) A cry for help-" ER WAS 22. He was a Braaten and C. Douglas Darling. Mamtdoesn't centerathere"sr cue me. Don't leave e lg man with varied in- The two men studied 134 students all. Emotional difficulty, and even "I was sick of social pressures was in the Merchant fo the general student patien suicide, is usually a pretty per- which said that you must act THE PROBLEMS th built boats; he was a population at Cornell. son'l thing, and accurate infor- this way or that so that you will on the student don't chanic. And for two mation about its prevalence among be accepted. I was sick of the the direct fault of the candinde arfooks~ They found that 81 of these 134 different social groups may never feeling that I was accepted for tedietfuto h orked in the rare books students had at least occasional be available. In the meantime, a reasons having nothing to do really self. Dr. Marshall Pe the University of thoughts of suicide; 23 of these disproportionate amount of the with me, but from the home or Los Angeles Suicide ia library, had fdequent thoughts and an- attention will be focused on the parents I came from. I was sick Center said that "no een a student atbPenn- other 16 actually attempted sui- classroom fishbowl, the research- of the idea that you had to be problems experienced there onlyr year. His cide. Other findings of the study er's habitat. rich, sleep with everyone, and kiss vc there onlyonea ryear.meHisa toe.e sity." Philadelphia architect A girl at Stanford who attempt- everyone's royal American to be Rather, he said, thes if was graduated from --There seemed to be a definite ed suicide was discovered to suffer someone. I only wanted to be my- are the result of the explained why:g"The trend toward more suicide ten- under domination from her moth- self but that never seemed to be early lifeand his re big now, much bigger denit es t among undergraduate stu-e e, who selected the girl's friends enough. drn hspro i days, and I think my dents than among students at the and her school. In the hospital "My parents hounded me about teachers, clergymen. is professors too many graduate level, after her suicide attempt, the girl my grades to the point that I Dr. Peck did ac He was fascinated by -No general relationship was said: "I don't know who I really spent more time worrying than I though, that the univ when he was in high established between suicide ten- am, what I really want, or where did studying. The idea of failure "massive trigger" whic used to take special dencies and sex, nor between sui- I'm going. I think things and was the worst thing in they world the worry and incites t sses in the subject. He cide and marital status. worry and when I feel things I that could happen. There was no originally caused by pre s searching for truth. -Suicidal tendencies were more can only cry. I can't say yes or no chance to begin over; if you failed terpersonal situations. lot of questions." often found among the better stu- -I'm like a puppet." After the the first time that was it. The factors which * * * dents. incident, her mother "took over." student to suicide-men 4O LONGER a secret -Most of the students who at- Without manifesting any emo- "MY DORM MOTHER was a career, identity, socia es have problems with tempted suicides did so twice. tional responses she fired off in- horrible woman-sweet to your same problems anybody and thievery. The word Only three of the 16 left suicide structions about covering up and face but stabbing you in the back it is during the college getting out that stu- notes. The methods of attempts, repairing the damages. all the time. I had to go to a head they all come together, y students, have serious in order of frequency, were: poi- shrinker some years before and on. roblems, and that some sonous drugs, motor agitation, THE ROSTER of problems suf- she found out about it and that d in suicide. jumping off a cliff, shooting, cut- fered by a Cornell senior was re- was the end. She wouldn't let me Tomorrow: What Col is the second greatest ting, choking, and car "accident." vealed during the hospital sessions alone. I couldn't do anything right Doing To Hed I combed [rove me to me exams s wreck. I uch as my fore exams happened, been. Then lls-75-125 lade." to possess for suicide dy said are its: roy them- no longer cy between mselves and be. others who from some Please res- alone." at gang up seem to be e school it- ck of the Prevention ne of the n the uni- the univer- e problems e student's elationships th parents, cknowledge, ersity is a h activates the anxiety ecollege in- bring the ntal, sexual, 1-are the faces. But years that often head leges Are p I Vi I I- --*-.EAVE "j & Co?4; I '.' O , ' , ''O NTAG~ry ,.' ROM PL. t f~ J CSA . 4rJY -a / r 5 ,lH~ ' ' , The Summer Menace of the Salesstudent By JOHN CRUMB, JR. IT'S SUMMER, the time when students, victimized for a whole schoolyear by local commercial pirates, turn from sporadic shop- lifting and petty thievery to more legitimate vices, to pad depleting pocketbooks. The less ambitious and bitter students are content to work for neighborhood enterprizes, to vent their spite in little ways. But the really riled align themselves up The Death Of Art ART IS ONLY a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is over- looked not only by the public, but very often by the artist him- self. In becoming an end it defeats itself. All art, I firmly believe, will one day disappear. But the artist will remain, and life itself become not "an art" but art, i.e., will definitely and for all time usurp the field. In any true sense we are cer- tainly not yet alive. We are no longer animals. but we are cer- with remote discount houses, and organize massive campaigns which swoop down from the campuses ot terrorize suburban America. They have become magazine salesmen. JUST COMING from a harrow- ing encounter with these people, let me clue you in on their style. Then you can recognize them too. I was naievely walking home, admiring the green grass and the blue sky, when I heard a distant rumble. I discerned that it was not thunder, for the firmament was clear of cloudy blemishes. Nor was it horses, for livestock is not allowed on State Street. And I had just eaten. Quickly, but too late, I whirled about; I had been rushed from behind by two salesstudents. "WILL YOU VOTE for us?" said salescoed No. 1. "No one has ever voted against us," said No. 2 with a soft English twang. From London, south of Picadilly, she was. "What?" said I. "I'm from holy Scotland and if you vote for me, we can get stu- dent visas and go to school at U.C.L.A," said No. 1 with a flutter in her voice. "And I'm from the U. of Wash- ington, an' you look like a nice sand more votes to stay in Amer- ica." "What do I do?" stammered I. "Just buy magazines from us an' that's how you vote," said No. 1. "Be a good bloke." She was holding my hand. , "I'm not carrying any money, just' a checkbook," said I, per- plexed. "Oh, that's fine," whispered No. 2 into my ear. "WHAT'LL I BUY?" asked I. "How about 'Better Homes and Gardens' and the 'Farmer's Al- manac' with astrological charts and for only thirty-five dollars a year," said No. 1. "Good," said I, noting her English accent. "That'll be separate checks, payable to * * * and * * ," said No. 2. "But I don't have any money in the bank." "Just write the checks with to- day's date and we'll hold them as long as you want," said No. 1. "I live just around the corner with five other, guys," I said. "Would you like to have a cup of tea with me?" "With the other blokes?" said No. 2. "Do you have ice tea?" "No," I said. "Do you use tea bags?" said No. 1. "No." "That's all right," said No. 2. "We'll come anyway." I guess the other guys had more sales resistance. When no sale was made after five minutes, they declared my tea soapy and walked out. WHILE ILLUSTRATING the sales approach of salesstudents, this also shows two reactions not to be taken by the prospective student customer. First, since this is another stu- dent protest against high prices on campus, we should sympathize with the activists. They cannot be ignored, though a healthy "no!" would be the appropriate response to their demonstration. Second, by no means should we take their subscriptions, however much we sympathize with them. For that would be to take money from the students, i.e. ourselves, pockets, a large percentage of which would go to the magazine merchants. I'm certain that do- nations to support the movement would\ be welcome, however. The best reaction, short of giv- ing donations, would be to lead the girls to the doorstep of some town merchant, or draw them a map showing how to leave the campus area via Barton Hills. CHECKING MY RECEIPTS, I note in large red print "this order, once signed, is NONCANCELL- ABLE." Alas! It also tells me I've only paid the first installment. 4 Picnics on the Grass, Alas By WALLY IMMEN Special To The Daily SAIGON-A round-the-clock bar- gaining session attempting to salvage plans for the Annual Duc, bout 12 miles southeast of Saigon. "THE TROUBLE all began with the menu," stated Wan Trak Mind, committee chairman at a news rnnrpnr to+xl.in <-the dPCseionn the Catholic's original plan to bring in the Navy's Blue Angels was thwarted when the precision flying team was shot down in a dog-fight over Selma, Alabama. The Buddhist proposal was not notlined. but it was anarently p * t r R IC 11: : \\ ,