mir4ijan Baly Seventy-Sixth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Outreach': Learning Everyday Life - . . Trut Wiere Free 420 MAYNARD ST., ANN ARBOR, MICH. 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. SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1966 NIGHT EDITOR: MEREDITH EIKER Grosse Pointe Integration: It Had To Happen Sometime iT HAD TO HAPPEN sometime. The spearhead of integration has thrust its way into Grosse Pointe, Michigan. And this upper class community previously invaded only by Negro maids is up to the hilt in moral controversy. Now the nation will see how the so- called "open minded" segment of Grosse Pointe (to whom the fact that Grosse Pointe is all white wasn't its appealing quality) will react to having a real-live Negro neighbor. . GORDON WRIGHT is his name, and he is the midwest director of the U.S. Commerce Department's Economic Devel- opment Administration. This prestigious job could both help and hinder him. As a native of Grosse Pointe I can say that some 4ill have respect for his posi- tion and accept him into their society. But, because most racial bigotry is based on fear and jealousy, many will resent him even more. On often heard anecdote in Grosse Pointe is: "Personally, I wouldn't mind if a nice Negro doctor moved in next door. But after all, I have to think of my land values, And I have to think of my chil- dren going to school with them little Negroes." THE GROSSE POINTE image of Negro children is five screaming, hungry, future juvenile delinquent-race rioter children all sleeping in the same room. And the Image of the Negro home is a dirty, run-down, three-story six family dwelling. This is partly the fault of the Negroes themselves, who have failed to project themselves as a caste-system society with an upper class just like the white society. This is mainly because many educated and successful Negroes fear rejection by their own race if they imitate the middle- class white. The paradox of the situation is that the middle-class white society is just what they long to be a part of. The Negroes who reject their conforming brethren are basically the ones who for a variety of reasons are not educated enough or are too poor to become a part of it. THE MAJORITY of Grosse Pointers are not Edsel Fords, Anthony Giacalones, or racial bigots. They live in Grosse Pointe because of the quiet atmosphere, the na- General Ky To Find a I EVEN THOUGH late evaluations show that supply lines from North to South Viet Nam weren't significantly dismantled by "tactical" bombings near Hanoi and Haiphong, the United States can still save military face by racking up the usual large numbers of dead and captured Viet Cong for press reports. However, the recent public relations foul-up will be hard to offset. The differences between the U.S. and U.S.-supported local Saigon leadership, headed by Gen. Ky, over the relative mer- its of invading the North have been well- documented by the press for the past sev- eral days. That Washington could have let the ar- gument volley so publicly would be un- derstandably typical if there were some other puppet ready to groom for Ky's position. But, as It is, there has emerged no other strong local personality that could figure as a successor-except for Buddhist leaders, who would never do, since they want the U.S. to get its sticky capitalist fingers out of their country. Editorial Staff LEONARD PRATT .. . ...,............. Co-Editor CHARLOTTE WOLTER................Co-Editor BUD WILKINSON ............ Sports Editor BETSY COHN .... ., .... Supplement Manager NIGHT EDITORS: Meredith Eiker, Michael Helfer, Shirley Rosick, Pat O'Donohue, Carole Kaplan. Business Staff SUSAN PERLSTADT ............ Business Manager tionally-known public schools, and the social prestige. They earn $14,000 a year at an honest PR or advertising job, pay taxes, donate to charity, and hold only normal prejudices. These are the people who will spell suc- cess or failure in Grosse Pointe's moral and ethical struggle against its citizens' consciences and convictions. These people, I believe, have the moral fortitude to overcome their petty preju- dices. The reaction so far has been one of complacency among the majority of people. The common saying has been: "Well, it had to come some time." The topic has not become the over-the-fence chain conversation at all. In fact one resident said it was only mentioned to her once in the week since Mr. Wright moved in. An attitude which could hurt the sit- uation is the belief that Mr. Wright moved in only to integrate. But the belief among the majority is that, being used to upper echelon society outside Washington, D.C., he naturally moved to a similar communi- ty when his job required a transfer. THE TRAGEDY of the situation, if it comes at all, could come when Mr. Wright's three children, aged five, seven and nine, start school in the fall. It is the job of Grosse Pointe parents to teach their children to live in har- mony with their three Negro school- mates, and better yet to set an example by living in harmony themselves with their black neighbors. -MICHAEL DOVER Register Now YOU ARE 21, you have been around Ann Arbor all summer, you have registered to vote at City Hall. You are concerned about urban renewal, the war in Viet Nam, aid to higher education, defense spending. Detroit Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh and former Gov. G. Mennen Williams have shown where they do and do not stand on these and other issues all summer. Sen. Robert Griffin, while not in a pri- mary race, has positions of his own. Your vote is the major way you can exert your influence in the Senate, where it counts. On August 2, next week, vote. -N. H. BRUSS It's Harder leplacement BUT, KY'S CALLS for invading the North may become more vociferous, in dis- regard of U.S. officials' cautions against "escalating to a wider war." And, Ky may have to be removed-for fear that he would push on independently to that wid- er war. It may also have to be done be- fore anti-war mongers indict the U.S. not only for failing to act in accordance with the wishes of the general Viet Nam populace but also for failing to even act in accordance with the aims of the "legi- timate" local government it claims to sup- port. However, the sprouting of a coup, even a bloody coup said to crop up spontane- ously amongst dissatisfied military of fi- cers, will be hard to pass off as locally- inspired, since internal opposition from even the remotest possible contenders for Ky's position has been rigorously silenced. AND, WITH NINE other local U.S.-sup- ported leaders quickly come and gone, it would be fairly difficult to find anyone else around who wants the job anyway- except Henry Cabot Lodge, maybe. Who knows? Johnson might even have to resort to allowing free elections. -SHIRLEY ROSICK Parking, Anyone? BEGINNING WITH the fall semester, student parking will be limited to spaces located on North Campus and in the vicinity of the ice rink (near Hoover and Fifth Streets). Buses will be pro- vided to transport students from their cars to central campus. IN A UNIVERSITY that lately has been brimming with ex- citing new educational develop- ments, one of the most imagina- tive is one which grew out of the experimental organization of in- troductory social psychology last semester, called "Project Out- reach." The special importance of "Proj- ect Outreach" is that, if its bas- ic approach is coupled with de- velopments in computer science and teaching machines, it may be the beginning of the teaching methods of the future-that is, letting the machines do the bor- ing work of impartingsthe factual basis for an area of study while students and teachers are freed to go on to more interesting work. THE COURSE that fostered the idea of "Outreach," Psychology 101 -psychology as a social science- was under the direction of Prof. Richard Mann. Mann was in charge of an immense lecture, given in Hill Auditorium, with over 1200 students. The situation obviously was not conducive to an exciting study of phychology. Consequently, the course sylla- bus for theiWinter Term, 1966, began like this : "There will be no general lec- ture in Hill Auditorium on Tues- day as indicated in the time schedule. Instead, as part of the introductory psychology course offered at the University of Michigan this year, all of you reading this ... have an oppor- tunity to elect one of a group of work-oriented projects in areas such as mental health, civil rights, cultural enrichment and education within the Ann Arbor- Detroit area." The course announcement also described the philosophy behind the "Outreach" experiment in this way: "We feel that there are many involvements in 'the laboratory of everyday living' which would not only bring alive the student's comprehension of a number of the abstract content areas dis- cussed within the framework of a course in 'Psychology as a Social Science" but who also can deepen, extend and expand the student's awareness and un- derstanding through meaningful contacts and experiences with others." THE "OUTREACH" syllabus then 'goes on to describe each of the various projects in which stu- dents may participate, including work with mental patients at Northville Hospital, with delin- quent boys at Boys Training School, with children in Ann Ar- The Associates by Carney and wolter bor's experimental nursery school, The Children's Community, on a project analyzing "the college ex- perience," on another on psychol- ogy and the law, or on an indi- vidual study of the student's choice. Students will, in addition to their project work, meet with in- dividual instructors in small groups to discuss their work on a more theoretical level. The grad- ing of each student's work is some- what informal-based on reports from the projects' supervisors - resting ultimately with his instruc- tor. One of the best aspects of the new Psychology 101 course is that, in the words of Prof. Mann, "it might seem that upwards of 30 or 40 different introductory courses were being offered under the same title." And, the advantage of this system, in addition to offering numerous alternatives to each stu- dent, is that it allows the teach- ing fellow, still unsure of his teach- ing abilities to deal with those areas which he knows best. "PROJECT OUTREACH" will not remain exclusively a psychol- ogy department project. Already plans are being made to apply this method to many other, courses in the University. Last week, many of the instructors involved in the original Project Outreach heldha seminar for instructors in all fields on the methods of Outreach. Again, the main theme was the use of "the laboratory of every- day life" in teaching a course. Eventually, those involved in the project say, Outreach could be es- tablished as a student-operated organization complete with offices in the SAB. The student-run Out- reach would operate like a Free University withinthe University of Michigan (or like a similar set- up currently in operation at San Francisco State) complete with credit hours for courses taken in the project. AT THE CENTER for Research on Learning and Teaching another education experiment is current- ly being developed and tested. This is the use of computerized proc- essing of information, and the computerized study carrel. The carrel utilizes technology already developed, yet assembled in a new way to facilitate learn- ing. The student has before him a television screer and instruc- tions for selection of the material he wishes to study. He may wish to listen to a lecture at another university hundreds of miles away, or he may wish to read some ma- terial from the Library of Con- gress. All this can be projected on the screen. If he wishes to'have a copy of the material he has been reading, he can get one im- mediately by just pressing a but- ton. The connection of this machine, currently being developed at CRLT with "Project Outreach," is in an- swer to the question of how the students will 'receive basic edu- cation in psychological principles. While the work of the knowledge- able instructor should be to en- gage the student in challenging discussion, this obviously does not leave much time for lecturing on the "hard stuff." And, this is where the concept of a teaching machine comes in. It will fulfill exactly this func- tion of providing the strictly fac- tual basis. WITH THESE TWO pioneering projects being conducted simul- taneously at the University, and the basic work nearing completion, we can safely expect increasing educational innovation in the next few years of benefit to both stu- dent and teacher. The Causes of the Cleveland Riots To the Editor: OVER THE JULY 4 weekend I had a most interesting conver- sation with an official in the Cleveland Urban Renewal Project. He is a young, liberal and dynamic man, who, because of the frustra- tions of urban renewal in Cleve- land, may take a job in Washing- ton. Both Clevelanders, though from the suburbs, we chatted for several hours abou the prospects and plans for meaningful change in Cleve- land. I submit the essence of that conversation, for it gives insight into he long run causes of the riots and also a prediction of what will happen in Cleveland. MY FRIEND began by describ- ing the morale of the urban re- newal staff and remarking at its high turnover. The causes lie both in personality and politics at the top; young liberals find it diffi- cult to communicate with firm- ness-leader types of the Cleveland variety (Scotch bankers perhaps). "Steady as she goes and don't rock the boat" has led to the situation in which "we have more money than we know what to do with," my friend remarked. The relationship between the City Administration and the ur- ban renewal staff is cordial, but hardly constructive. But more dis- tressing is the recent fact that the staff openings which were previously filled as the young took off and the ambitious took their crack-the bright young men are becoming more difficult to at- tract. I may interject here by own casual observation that the well educated young men and women of my generation are not return- ing to Cleveland to find jobs, bring up families etc. Over this past Christmas, a job conference aL the Statler-Hilton in Cleveland found many local graduates being almost begged to take a job with a Cleve- land-based firm. Among those I knew, this was viewed with some amusement. OF COURSE, the problems of Cleveland's urban renewal pro- gram and the flight of its educat- ed do not explain the riots; they are, however, symptoms of some things more basic. Cries for more leadership in a nation where each is his own leader sounds silly. Yet the lack of leadership is a real problem in Cleveland, and will be the stumb- ling block for many years to come. My non-Cleveland friends always say, "But what about Celebreeze? He was a good mayor, wasn't he?" Yes, he was apopinted H. E: W. chief, but Kennedy needed a prom- inant Italian. And prominance, I need not belabor, has little to do with excellence. The fact that he took the position shows the sort he was-did you hear anything about H. E. W. under his tenure? THE PRESENT MAYOR, Loch- er, got in as his predecessor's choice and with the backing of both newspapers, both times. The second time around was impor- tant because he just beat Stokes, the Negro candidate, by a few thousandvotes.dWithout one of the paper's support, Locher would have lost. It is difficult to point out Locher's mistakes, for this local, less than Eisenhower, has been careful to do little. Locher has had the blessings of both papersbecause he was safe, and in this truly provincial city, safe- ness counts plenty. In other clities where City Hall has been inept and reluctant to act, other groups have brought pressure to bear andheffected con- structive change. Labor, manage- ment, and religious groups have not done so in Cleveland. Nor have any of the less likely, but poten- tial power centers pushed for real slum clearance, sensible street planning, recreation facilities, im- provement of the atrocious city schools, really integrated housing and the rest of the usual urban ills. Those potential power cen- ters are the newspapers, and local and state party officials. THE NEWSPAPERS deserve special remark for they have had the most effective power in Cleve- land for as long as I can :emem- ber. Louis Seltzer was until two years ago, editor of the evening Cleveland Press, and the most powerful man in town. It's the Scripps-Howard paper which dis- tinguished itself so in the Sam Shepherd trial. And, it is doing the same thing again with the grand Jury investigation of who caused the riots. They claimed to have the in- side word that it was organized and plastered this on the front page; the grand jury is .nean- while beginning to investigate. Seltzer incidentally, is head of the grand jury. The Press is little better than a tabloid; it admits its writes for eight graders, and has a wonderful batting average for getting in its editorial choices for office. "BUT WHAT ABOUT the Plain Dealer?" a friend recently asked. The P. D. was a respectable Re- publican morning paper six or seven years ago. Then young Tom Vail, out of Princeton and glowing with conservative edicts, took over. The paper has deteriorated since. Vail is a man of angry pladitudes, and he has recently taken himself very seriously. He exhorts but does not use the pressure he has; a gentle editorial nudge is but words on paper. A threat of not backing Locher next time around or else might be more to the point. Yet that doesn't happen, scuttlebut is that Tom, with his Buckley plus "Speaking from the Right" edi- torial page, has senatorial am- bitions. The P. D. is nota pulp newspaper, but is directed by a contradictory man who in the end really believes that pushing for change in Cleveland is his business in words only. Vail's at- titudes are those of what one might call the Cleveland establish- ment. "THE CLEVELAND establish- ment," my friend remarked, "is the most distressing part of the picture." There are potential power loci among them, but they don't use it." I suppose in the end each feels, in the great American tra- dition, that it's none of his busi- ness, for after all he's not the major. Yet, the fact that their support, tacit or active, got this bland man Locher in, and the attending responsibility and power eludes them. Until .recently, race relations in Cleveland were thought to be basically sound. The establishment was sure of that. I suspect the general reaction to the riots was bored disbelief from the lazy suburbs. Cleveland is geographically a large town, and it is ethnically a very tight one. Italians, Poles, Hungarians, Jews, Wasps etc. have their own sections and keep to them. My friend at urban renewal related to me his experiences try- ing to get the Poles and Hun- garians to peacefully attend a neighborhood carnival. The lines of population expansion are clear to the point of being geometric. Each group moves out toward the suburbs or the countryside in clearly predictable paths. Rarely mixing, keeping to themselves, Cleveland's ethnic groups have hostilities beyond the obvious Ne- gro-versus-the-rest. I DO NOT understate the in- tensity of the grace problem. I take it that the riots spoke for them- selves; yet there are other prob- lems which if not appreciated will make solving the race problem in its many dimensions impossible. A rich community may well be a more harmonious one than a poor one. Cleveland may have been rich, but tothis observer, it's living off its interest. Cleve- land's banks are successful, but rumor has it they do most of their investinig outside the general area. The past president of Cleve- land's industrial planning commis- sion is the president of Standard Oil of Ohio. Several years ago he was in the unfortunate position to announce that Standard's new installation would be built in To- ledo rather than Cleveland be- cause it lacked adequate industrial site space. The slow growth rate of St. Lawrence Seaway trade through Cleveland in comparison to other ports on Lake Erie is but another indicator of Clevelaid's bumbling, sluggish economy, MY FRIEND remarked on the quietness of the downtown area. The courts, Reserve Banks, and local banks, and law offices keep the streets populated at lunch hour, but in general things are quiet. All the large retailers long ago set up huge stores in Subur- bia, with the result that subur- banites rarely make the trip down- town. The recent pride and joys of the core city are the under- ground convention hall and the rising Erieview skyscrapers. But the latter, an office building, is not half filled. Acres of buldozed slums await redevelopment, but indicision and lack of commercial developers keeps the rubble there. MOST RECENT NEWS is that of the proposed Cleveland State University. The city is interested in turning the Western Reserve-case area into a huge research park, and expanding Fenn College into a sort of M.S.U. towards the cen- ter of town. ThelNegro community has angrily reacted; the meaning- ful slum clearance, low-cost hous- ing etc. will not occur if the re- search park is built; Cleveland State would be nice but again is largely beside the point. A dual economy has developed in Cleve- land, and while this is not unique in U.S. cities, the most recent economic news seems to point to- wards a widening of the economic gap between suburbia and city. LACK OF LEADERSHIP, un- willingness to admit a problem exists, hostile ethnic groupings, an all but exciting economic situa- tion, and the flight of the young and capable-these were my friend's key points that came out of that conversation. The circu- larity of these problems has driven him to some very dim conclusions about Cleveland's prospects. He puts real change 20 to 30 years in the future. As for himself, he has been with urban renewal for better than a year. It is about to undergo an- other well-publicized reorganiza- tion, and while he will probably be offered more money to stay on the sheer frustration of running around these paradoxical circles will probably drive him to Wash- ington. -Robert D. Strauss, '66 . , "WhO'S Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" By ANDREW LUGG WHATEVER Time magazine says, "Who's Afraid of Vir- ginia Woolf" is an important play, in spite of and not because of the "four-, five-, and six-letter- words." Edward Albee is one of our best playwriters. Thus when it was decided to film "Virginia Woolf" Warner Brothers were embarking on something very new to them-serious cinema. This in itself would have not provd too difficult for one of the most technically proficient film- making units in the world. How- ever, there was an added difficul- ty-the translation of a well- known play which is "static" into cinema which is "dynamic." Al- bee's play is carried by the lan- guage, by the dialogue and by the intense interaction of the charac- ters. In order to obtain filmed-thea- tre with the dialogue paramount, the plasticity of the film space must be strictly limited. My only criticism of "Virginia Woolf" is that Ernest Lerman's screenplay attempted to transpose Albee's play into standard cine- matic conventions and this tend- is superb; the camerawork is ex- cellent and Alex North's music is well above the average turned out by Hollywood. George is an associate professor of history and the film opens with him and Martha returning to their home from a faculty party. Now in middle age, George and Martha are at daggers drawn. They bick- er and nag, each denying the oth- er any honest or sincere action. They conduct a verbal fight which degenerates on one occasion into the near strangulation of Martha by George. But this is in no way a climax, the insults continuing after the fight just as before. MARTHA and George have cre- ated a hell for themselves with a whole series of games, in which they abuse and disgust one an- other. The games consist of ver- bal invective or plain childishness as, for example, the intellectual version of "who's afraid of the big bad wolf." However, George and Martha bothappear aware of the nature of their games. In- deed Martha says "There is only one man who made me happy; who can keep learning the games as quickly as I change them; he is my husband." The games are drunk and George is none too pleased with the idea of guests. THE YOUNG COUPLE are not aware of the "game nature" of ex- istence. But as the "party" grinds on they too become part of the "hell." All four of the partici- pants become more and more drunk and through this the bases for their respective "hells" are laid open, not only for us, the spectators, but for the young couple too. Not, however, for George and Martha since they already know the nature of their lives and for them it is just a re- assertion or re-emphasis of the terror of living. For Martha and George the stimulus for creating their hell is Martha's father, president of the university, whom George can nev- er emulate. Forever he will be "in the history department as op- posed to running the department." For the young couple, it is the wife's naievete and stupidity and fact that the husband was lured into marriage. "I married her be- cause she was pregnant.' Hysteri- cal pregnancy, we learn. Before marriage "she went up" and aft- erward "she went down, puff." THE INTENSITY of the games, how the two couples vie one an- other with abuse, lends to great theatre. The film brings most of this out. It might have been even better, as we have suggested, but, for all of that, the content is so pungent that the film must be classed as one of Hollywood's bet- ter manifestations, Only Chuckles from Thurber By BETSY COHN FROM A CARTOON backdrop of poster-paper trees, darts a pert puppet-like figure who en- thusiastically narrates a tale about "The Night The Bed Fell." All the characters are whimsical creations in the world of James Thurber, which is currently being sketched by the Quirk Theatre at Eastern Michigan University. "THURBER CARNIVAL" is an attemnt at humor which leaves The fault does not lie with the EMU players. The caricatures which they depict are the tradi- tional nervous little stickfigure men; the raving hair in the air housewife-shrew and the timid taunted delusioned Walter Mitties. These characters have been re- vived with such skillful absurdity that the most mosquito bitten visi- tor to the outdoor Quirk is guar- anteed at least to smirk. THE FAUT o f the lanL-iid There are moments however, when a half smile becomes com- plete and raucous chuckles break out from the audience. "The Sec- ret Life of Walter Mitty"; through a combination of the Thurber wit, which edges into man's most in- timate daydreams, and the fine "split" performance of Dale Bel- laire who plays the muffled hen- pecked hubby living a life in de- lusions of grandeur is a main attraction of the "Carnival."