Slim trdtgan Batil Seventy-Fi f tbYear EDITE AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS or THE UNIVE.xuTY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Each Time I Chanced To See Franklin D. There Could Be a Cure for 'Berkeley Crises' by II. Neil Berkson Sopinions Are Fe 420 MAYNARD ST.; ANN ARBOR, MICH. rut~s Will Prevail NEWS PHONE: 764-0552 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. WEDNESDAY, 3 FEBRUARY 1965 NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT HIPPLER Resident Scholar Offers What 2200 Others Can't AT FIRST GLANCE, the proposal to es- tablish a scholar-in-residence here for three weeks in 1965 may sound absurd. The University invests over $25 million annually to maintain 2200 scholars-in- residence working on a year-round basis to stimulate and develop the adolescent mind. What can one man, operating with- in the confines of three weeks, add to the honor roll of scholars and teachers and writers already here? But, on second thought, the proposal to bring Louis E. Lomax, writer, philosopher and humanitarian, here for lectures, pan- els and informal discussions offers an in- vigorating prospect. It will cost more than $4000 for hous- ing, travel and honorarium, but if the purpose of the residence program can be realized, the money will be well invested. THIS PURPOSE was outlined in a letter dispatched to major student organiza- tions and relevant academic departments by Elizabeth Sumner of the Office of Religious Affairs. Based upon discussions with Lomax, she suggested that the orga- nizations and departments - including philosophy, American studies and jour- nalism-plan and finance the visit. For a theme, Lomax proposed to analyze the growing schism between America's sacrosanct heritage of religious, ethnic and economic freedom and the depressing realities of separatism, bigotry and pov- erty. But the beauty of the in-residence pro- gram lies not just in the theme but in its format and impact. THE FORMAT, unlike the classroom's organized structure where the teacher dispenses prepared material to submissive students, would be geared to interchange. It would be planned jointly by students and faculty. The arrangenents would call for Lo- max to spend time in a centralized place where students could come and chat. He would, of course, lecture and address classes, but even here the student could sift the material for his personal benefit -rather than for regurgitation on the next examination. As an outgrowth of the format, combin- ed with Lomax's dynamic personality, the force of his ideas would be far greater than the impact of the average scholar- in-residence. Lomax, although he has dis- tinguished himself through publication, would be here to teach. He would not be burdened with all the petty details in- volved in performing research, handling committee assignments and administrat- ing classes which handicap the average professor. He would not have the same ties to the University hierarchy. Since he would be sponsored by a grass-roots group of faculty and students, Lomax would not need to please department chai'rmen or administrative officers to gain promotion. If anything, his time and obligations would be set by people interested in stir- ring controversy; armed with topics such as religion and race, and limited by time, Lomax might well oblige. JN SHORT, the proposal for a three- week scholar - in - residence program makes very good sense. But it will require student and faculty support in terms of time and money. Academic departments and student organizations, whether or not they have been solicited thus far, should move quickly to support this program. It could provide an educational dimension here which the other 2200 scholars can't. -LAURENCE KIRSHBAUM pHILADELPHIA-The most unfortunate aspect of the Berkeley protest has been the distorted picture drawn by the commercial press, and, more surprising, within circles of higher education. The press, which usually analyzes events from its own preconceived view, only looked deep enough to scratch a lonely American Communist daughter in the ranks of the Free Speech Movement. Ironically, the closer a paper was to the scene, the more its perspective seemed to suffer. Concerning educators themselves, there is currently a rumor circulating that the University of California administration sent a confidential memo to twenty-five presidents of large universities declaring that "outside elements" caused Berkeley and were planning similar spring disturbances across the country. Whether or not the memo actually exists, two points are clear: --Presidents of a number of universities are aware of this claim (some of the more responsible ones have tried to check it out independently); -Some administrations are extremely worried about the possibility of "spring riots." THIS ATTITUDE, which apparently verges on panic in some cases, is ill-founded and dangerous. In the first place, certain aspects of the Berkeley situation do not exist in the same combination elsewhere. Students were faced with arbitrary rules upheld by an arbitrary, confused, administration. Moreover, the Berkeley educa- tional community includes a large number of drop-outs who were able to devote quite a bit of time to organized protest. Nevertheless, a university could make no worse mistake than to head-off a "rebellion" by "clamping down." The relationships between students, faculty and administration have serious deficiencies, but the one area in which students will take only so much is rules and regulations. The University, while overly concerned about Berke- ley (i.e., there is too much obsession with the threat of riot, too little concern for some of the underlying educational issues), has not reacted negatively. MORE IMPORTANT, the University appears to be drawing the right lessons from its California rival's problems. This University, or any institution of higher learning, must draw more students into the academic policy questions. The greatest problem large universities face is their atmosphere of anonymity. Breaking down this atmos- phere means involving students in the decision making process. The advantages are two: -By opening lines of communication with more students the administration will increase campus-wide understanding of its problems; -In many cases a student perspective will provide solutions which otherwise might not have been con- sidered. Indications are that the administration and faculty here want to bring more students into the planning and decision-making process. The residential college is one example. The action-oriented group of ten students and ten professors being formed under the sponsorship of the Senate's Student Relations Committee is another. In the absence of a useful student government, ad hoc student groups should undertake their own exam- ination of University problems. One such group is al- ready in formation. ANY STUDENT INVOLVEMENT in policy forma- tion must be accompanied by thorough research. Our fond counterpart of the FSM - the now-forgotten Stu- dent-Action League - failed miserably because its de- nunciation was not grounded in evidence Policy ques- tions around here have a long history in many contin- gencies. They require much more homework than most classes. The results of considered student participation, how- ever, would make Harlan Hatcher look much better than Clark Kerr. r If I SIX-YEAR CAMPAIGN: AMA Faces Defeat in Anti-Medicare Battle I By HAROLD WOLMAN DESPITE strenuous efforts to prevent passage of Medicare, the organization reputed to have the strongest lobby in Washington is now faced with impending de- feat. In fact, the very strength which the American Medical Association has demonstrated in preventing passage of any bill may now deny it any influence in shaping the legislation which is now certain to pass. The AMA has based its anti- Medicare campaignasince 1958 on a concept of total opposition. Dur- ing most of this time it has re- fused to acknowledge the neces- sity of any new legislation, claim- ing that the Kerr-Mills Act was sufficient to handle the medical .needs of the elderly. However, the Kerr-Mills Act, which gives matching federal grants to states setting up their own programs of medical care for the aged, has not been well utilized by most states. Even the AMA now admits this. BUT BEFORE it changed its opinion of the Kerr-Mills Act, the AMA mounted a massive cam- paign designed to prove to both the American public and Congress. that Medicare was really an in- vention of the devil. And with the devil there can be no compromise. -It Looks Like Rigor wuelitis" - z CP , 00t The Education of Trigon THE INTERFRATERNITY .Executive Committee took a deep breath last week and announced that Trigon would have to amend its bylaws, ritual and pledging ceremony by Sept. 1 to comply with IFC's anti-discrimination law. The announcement was the latest and most definite step in an artificial crisis created by Trigon's failure to understand the political and ethical position of IFC and to differentiate between public prin- ciple and private practice, as American society has done for years. The ruling followed months of care- ifully conducted hearings, designed to prove what most people had known all along: that Trigon, originally a Meth- odist men's club, had religious wording in its ritual, which, according to IFC's mem- bership committee, "may be repugnant to persons of many religious faiths." TRIGON NOW FACES the choice of al- tering its procedures or expulsion from IFOC. On the surface the situation is unfor- tunate; it places IFC in the position of either punishing a fraternity which em- phasizes high, if religious, ideals or toss- ing its progressive anti-discrimination by- law out the window. However, the entire question becomes a little ridiculous if one looks at the entire Greek discrimina- tion situation on this campus. In the past few years, a half-dozen or H. NEIL BERKSON, Editor KENNETH WINTER EDWARD BERSTEIN Managing Editor Editorial Director ANN GWIRTZMAN.............Personnel Director BILL BULLARD .... ...........sports Editor MICHAEL SATTINGER .... Associate Managing Editor JOHN KENNY...........Assistant Managing Editor DEBORAH BEATTIE..... Associate Editorial Director LOUISE LIND ........ Assistant Editorial Director in Charge of the Magazine TOM ROWLAND..............Associate Sports Editor GARY WYNER......... ....Associate Sports Editor STEVEN HALLER ................ Contributing Editor MARY LOU BUTCHER .......... Contributing Editor J'AMES KWSON ............... Chief Photographer NIGHT EDITORS: Lauren Bahr, David Block, John Bryant, Robert Johnston, Michael Juliar, Laurence Kirshbaum, Leonard Pratt. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: William Benoit, Bruce Bigelow, Gail Blumberg, Michael Dean, John Mere- dith, Barbara Seyfried, Judith Warren. Business Staff JONATHON R. WHITE, Business Manager SYDNEY PAUKER... . ...Advertising Manager more fraternities and sororities have come under fire for having "bias clauses" in their constitutions. In each of these sit- uations, some accommodation has been made which supposedly clears the accused organizations of the bias charges. Yet no noticeable change has come over any of the accused units after its sup- posed redemption. The changed rules didn't seem to affect practice to any great extent. WHY NOT? The answer lies in the fact that there is very little real problem of rush bias at the University. The num- ber of non-whites rushing fraternities is extremely small, and most houses give them a polite rush and wait for them to leave of their own volition. The Christian- Jewish problem is alleviated by the exist- ence of a group of predominantly Jewish fraternities which are as strong, if not stronger, than the predominantly Chris- tian ones. Thus very few complaints of rush dis- crimination ever reach the stage Where action is taken. The problem has re- mained a theoretical question, not one of compelling urgency. Trigon is but the latest in a series of accused Greek units. However, instead of conforming to the society around it and changing its written procedures, it chose to stand on principles and use moral ar- guments to convince IFC and the general public that Trigon's practices were right and ought to be allowed to remain in writing. Unfortunately, Trigon failed to realize that IFC, having taken the responsibility of keeping its own house clean in the area of discrimination, has both a moral and political obligation to eliminate writ- ten "discrimination clauses." For Trigon to expect IFC to practice public hypocrisy, by allowing a member fraternity to flaunt an IFC bylaw is ridiculous. HOWEVER ONE DOOR remains open to Trigon if it wishes to perpetuate itself in the form in which it exists today. If IFC will not practice hypocrisy in public, Trigon can practice it in private, follow- ing the course of a host of other affiliate units by amending its written procedures while continuing to use the old methods. One ennt imnzoin TWF's memhrshin In 1958 the AMA hired an ad- vertising firm to advise it on how to defeat Medicare. It has made full use of television and news- papers to bring its message to the American people. It also has de- voted great effort to mobilizing its own members in the battle. Doctors are often opinion leaders in their communities; moreover they are regarded by many with blind faith as experts in medical matters. Strategically the AMA has con- centrated heavily on showing the demerits of the legislation to members of the House Ways and Means Committee, the committee which the legislation must pass before it can be considered by the whole House. One of he AMA's most effective tactics has been putting congressmen on these committees in touch with doctors in their districts (including, at times, personal physicians) who are opposed to Medicare. * * * THE AMA has been successful mostly because of an alliance they were able to form with Wilbur Mills (D-Ark), chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. Although Medicare has been considered by the Senate three times (and passed once), it L'as never been voted out of Mills' committee in the House. Therehas always been reason to suspect, however, that the Mills-AMA alliance was uneasy at best. Despite its opposition to Med- icare, Mills is not a stereotype of of the Southern conservative. A graduate of Harvard law school (he ranked his class), the Ar- kansas Democrat has always been a strong administration supporter. Last year, according to Congres- sional Quarterly, he voted in ac- cordance with the President's po- sition 77 per cent of the time, compared with 71 per cent for the average Democrat and 61 per cent for the average southern Democrat. * * * MILLS' OPPOSITION to Medi- care has been based on the pro- posed financing arrangements. A strong proponent of the social security system, he has expressed fear that adding Medicare to the social security tax would ultimate- ly.bankrupt the entire system. This is because hospital costs, he claims, will rise faster in the next decade than will the revenue taken in with additional social security taxes. The social security system, which has always been self- financing, would then go into debt. However, late last year, Mills let it be known that he would not be opposed to a system of financ- ing operating on the social secur- ity principle as long as the Medi- care fund was kept administrative- ly separate from the present social security fund. This announcement by Mills was a severe jolt to the AMA to whom such subtleties are largely irrelevent. According to a member of the Ways and Means Committee, in- terviewed last month in Wash- ington, the alliance between Mills and the AMA has never been a particularly comfortable one for Mills. The spokesman, one of Mills' appointees and close to the chairman, remarked, "The AMA is a pretty arrogant crowd. No group which is as completely un- realistic as they are can be too effective around here for long. Besides they embarrassed many Congressmen favorable to them with their vocal activities on Goldwater's behalf during the election." * * * ACCORDING to this source, Mills will not attempt to continue to delay consideration of Medi- care. Instead, taking cognizance of the large number of House liberals in this Congress, it is likely that the wily Arkansas rep- resentative will take the lead in rewriting the bill which will ul- timately come out of his com- mittee, so that he will be certain it is favorable to his views. And what about the AMA? It has been left out in the cold by Mills' manuevering. As Mills' as- sociate commented, "The AMA has never worked for compromise. It has just shown blind, solid oppo- sition." On the Senate side, another staff member working on the Medicare legislation commented on the AMA's current position. "It has no complaint coming at all. Any time the members wanted to they could have walked in and discussed the bill with us. They haven't-and now they will have to accept what comes out." * * * ONLY WITHIN the last month has the AMA proposed any sug- gestions sfor Medicare legislation which it considers acceptable. Rep. Thomas Curtis (R-Mo) has introduced its plan in the House, but little is expected to come of it, nor is it expected to have much influence. For the AMA, it may have been a case of winning battles for six years only to lose the war because of the way it fought its previous battles. I 1' I t .9 t 0 I I -964 T-+ii74O<5r LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Three- Week Writer-in-Residence Is Unrealistic 4 4 To the Editor: THE PROPOSAL outlined in Tuesday's Daily, to bring a writer-in-residence, strikes me as both ill-thought and ill -mannered. Basically though, it is in keep- ing with American tradition-that of reducing artists to commodi- ties, things, and pragmatically "using" them to the fullest. Now, I don't mind listening to a fine writer, poet, musician, artist, but I think a few points should be kept in mind before well-inten- tioned groups rush off spending money like water. FIRST, what can reasonably be expected from any "artist-in- residence?" It cannot be supposed that he is an eternally-flowing of university or college confron- tation precisely because their in- dependence, their integrity if you will, is subverted the moment they sign the contract. In this morn- ing's paper I find Donald Hall's anecdote pertinent: ". . . when a new 'University president came in the '20's and asked Frost in what capacity he served here, Frost was too proud to tell him. He resigned because of his pride." I cite the example of Katherine Anne Porter, a novelist and short story writer of genius. When she came to the University many years ago as a writer-in-residence, she nearly killed herself trying to do all the things everyone demanded. She taught classes, gave lecturers, seminars, discussions, "chat-ses- sions." and was hounded by every tive Arts Festival and other such events. But the premise on which this program and its gross funds are proceeding is wrong, wrong, wrong. An artist can prepare a lecture, a one-night stand. But it takes time. For someone like Arthur Miller at the Hopwood Lecture, it was obvious that weeks had gone into an hour lecture. I doubt if he wrote much after that lecture. For poet or artist, the situation is the same. They cannot "be brilliant" for one week, two weeks, or any such ridiculously limited time period. I AM suggesting that those eager people concerned do what they should have done-think about what it is they want and your money's worth); or that you have someone in residence say, for a year-but that unreasonable demands upon time and patience are not made. I know the celebratedand suc- cessful Norton Lectures at Harvard are only six in number- the resident is then free to do what he wishes. An artist should be free. If he wants to give a read- ing, teach a class, give a lectu:-e, engage in dialogue, "chat-session," all right, but give him the free- dom to decide. Contracting him to a sweat-session of creativity is both unrealistic and devoid of good taste. -George Abbott White, '65 Editor of Generation and the New Poet Series their well-oiled heels to the tune of Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture. Now it turns out, the whole blast- ed campus is beginning to look like a Red Army barracks (or maybe Lady Snobbingham's Rid- ing Academy for Well-Bred Young Women). If you've ever scanned the mag- azine covers in the stores around town, you'll notice a fairly com- mon phenomenon. At least one cover out of five depicts a half- clothed, sadistic, whip-in-hand female tormentor leering merci- lessly at a defenseless, captive G.I. And what is she wearing?-main- ly slick, leather, knee-high boots! If this trend keeps up, the male population is in for a rough time. (What next men? pink-trimmed brass knuckles? peter pan collared F t 1.