$4Ml~rhtgau Haagy Se-v enty-Fifth Yeor EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OFD STUDENT PUBLICATIONS I {ri?~ Each Time I Chanced To See Franklin Do The Governor's Budget Recommendation by IM. Neil Berkson ere Opinions Are Free, 420 MAYNAitD ST., ANN Aiit, MICH. Truth Will Prevail e 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. SUNDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 1965 NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT JOHNSTON Where Lies the Blame For the Education School? WHEN THE President of the University issues a special statement concerning the governor's budget recom- mendations he's either extraordinarily pleased or extra- ordinarily worried. Mr. Hatcher isn't pleased. If Governor Romney doesn't revise his recommenda- tions, the ensuing battle before the Legislature will be the bitterest and most critical of the last ten years. President Hatcher is clearly correct when he declares that the $50 million proposed budget for 1965-66-$5.7 million less than the Regents requested-"implies serious conse- quences to the present and future of an institution of the character and status of the University." TRIMMING THE University budget requests has become standard in recent years. Few people realize that prior to 1957 the legislative and executive branches of the state approved the University's requests virtually in toto. The state's financial crisis began in that year, however, and higher education was one of the first areas to suffer. The University underwent seven consecutive seriously restricted budgets until last year, when a substantial budget increase halted the trend. The worst year was 1958-59: the University eliminated 207 faculty and staff positions even though enrollment rose by 800. According to AAUP statistics, the University's faculty pay scale has dropped from 4th to 29th in the country since 1957. But there is a significant difference between the earlier budget problems and Governor Romney's latest action. In the late fifties and early sixties the state was in a financial tailspin-everyone suffered. Now the governor actually has a budget surplus from last year-he has made a conscious policy decision to provide the Univer- sity with less money in proportion to other schools. (The total budget for the 10 state schools and colleges averages out to a 19.4 per cent increase per school. The Univer- sity's increase was only 13.7 per cent.) THE MOST disappointing aspect of the governor's recommendations is the admission by one of his aides that "head counts" was the primary factor in determin- ing allocations. The University has argued for years that sheer numbers don't determine costs, but it has appar- ently' had as little success as the Council of Economic Advisers has had in convincing the Congress that Keyn- sian economics do indeed work. No educator disputes the fact that for every dollar spent to educate freshmen and sophomores, $3-4 must be spent on juniors and seniors, $5 on M.A. candidates and $6-8 at the graduate-professional level. The reasons for this scale are obvious to everyone but the governor: a smaller teacher-student ratio at the higher levels, more expensive equipment involved, greater use of the ,li- braries. Seventy per cent of the University enrollment is at the junior level or above including 40 per cent in graduate work. Michigan State-the only one of the 10 state schools and colleges with a larger total enrollment and the only other one with "significant" graduatepro- grams-has a 50 per cent freshman-sophomore enroll- ment. Its budget increase was $1 million larger than ours. If the state wants to change the character of the University it should say so because a university of a dif- ferent nature certainly could run on a $50 million budget. But if only the gamesmanship of the governor's aides has been involved, then President Hatcher is right in calling for "more thoughtful and sophisticated appraisal than appears to have been given in this recommendation." Perhaps Governor Romney ought to stop running so hard for other office and start worrying about the state. OVER THE YEARS many a grave verbal injustice has been done to the educa- tion school. It has been said that quality instruction and course material have been seriously lacking. There were even rumors a year or two ago concerning a possible loss of accreditation instigated by a visit of the national board of accreditation. That the education school is not all it should be considering the size and quality of the University in general is a state- ment of fact. But what are the reasons for this deficiency? In keeping with the recent budget con- troversy monetary considerations are of prime concern. The education school has a total of eight classrooms alloted to its exclusive use. It has no buildings. Admin- istration offices are located on the sec- ond floor of the South University branch of the Ann Arbor Bank. And the teach- ing aids, available are woefully inade- quate. IT WOULD SEEM that today with in- creasing pressures for more and better teachers education school appropriations should receive prime consideration. How- U111o1n Movies PERHAPS AS PART of the anti-Butter- field theatre effort, the Michigan Un- ion and Women's League have begun to show movies of fairly recent vintage in the Anderson Rm. of the Union Saturday nights for 25 cents. Any effort to provide the campus with both more variety and lower cost enter- tainment is commendable. But not so commendable are the titles these movies will be shown under.. All.the movies are part of an "Academ- ic Film Supplement." The first movie, "Advise and Consent," is "Part 1" of the supplement - "Political Science." The trouble is, who wants to necessarily con- sider that going to a show constitutes an "academic supplement?" Even more, why must every film fall into an academic de- partment? Surely there are things to learn outside of these departments, and surely not everything in life must be de- partmentalized. OR HAS THE IVORY TOWER enclosed us all? -E. HERSTEIN' ever, such is not the case. Much of the blame for the state of the education school has been placed on the faculty and staff. This blame in part should be transferred to the 2200 stu- dents enrolled in the education school. A recent study conducted by the University has shown that the median intelligence of education school students is slightly low- er than that of University students in general. Whereas this in itself is not significant, it would be wise to consider the motiva- tions of education school students. Many University students who have.nodefi- nite. goals after graduation, no special field of interest, no creative drive in any- thing, find their way into the education school. Seventy per cent of all Univer- sity education school graduates never teach. What could be more demoralizing to an instructor than the knowledge that he is wasting his breath on 70 out of every 100 students? MANY OF THE education school's prob- lems can be traced directly to the literary college. Counselors often discour- age highly motivated potential teachers from entering the education program be- cause of its "bad reputation." The average grade for elementary physics in the literary college has for many years been a D. This, of course, is indicative of poor teaching, but because of it many potential education majors in physics become discouraged and switch to another major. In the five-year period between 1957 and 1962 the University graduated only two qualified high school physics teachers. The corrective paths open to the edu- cation school are limited. One possible solution is to stiffen admission require- ments and screen all applicants carefully to determine motivation. However, this hard-line policy would not only weed out the 70 per cent dead wood but would also eliminate some of the 30 per cent of pros- pective teachers. PERHAPS A BETTER solution would be for the literary college to purge itself of some of its personal prejudices con- cerning the education school. If this were done and increased funds made avail- able, the education school might begin to take the offensive in its hitherto defen- sive battle against ignorance. --MICHAEL BADAMO C IS THERE A WAY TO END THE WAR? Washington's Changing Views on South Viet Nam By CLARENCE FANTO INDICATIONS are mounting in Washington and Saigon that a major United States policy change involving Southeast Asia may be in the making. A series of apparent coinci- dences help reinforce this notion. McGeorge Bundy, the President's assistant on national security, is in South Viet Nam conferring with General Nguyen Khanh. At the same time, Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin is talking with North Viet Nam's leaders in an apparent bid for greater Soviet influence in the nation. Although these high-level con- ferences are not directly related, they indicate that major moves are under way by the two leading powers to unravel the increasingly chaotic Southeast Asian situation. KOSYGIN'S BID for increased Soviet, influence is both -an at- tempt to offset Communist China's domination of North Viet Nam and an attempt to keep tensions in the area below the boiling point. 'His visit to North Viet Nam has been coupled with Soviet "feelers" for a possible exchange of high-level contacts with the United States leading to a sum- mit meeting late this year. Up to now, Communist China has been the major supplier of military assistance to North Viet Nam. Russia has shown increasing signs of restiveness over Chinese belligerence in Southeast Asia. Mao Tse-tung's long-range. am- bitions in the area were under- scored by the recent reports that a "liberation" front has been openedr inThailand with Red Chinese support-the first move in an apparent attempt to topple the pro-Western Thai regime. Russia seems likely to offer economic and military aid North Viet Nam in order to counter Red China's influence-but another purpose of this aid may be to prevent an escalation of the Viet Nam war. Russia has given every indication that it would dread a direct Chinese-American or So- viet-American confrontation in the area. Kosygin thus may at- tempt to convince Ho Chi Minh, North Viet Nam's fiery leader, that a negotiated settlement of the Viet Nam problem would be in the Communist interest. * * * 'CONCURRENTLY there have been indications that the United States is becoming more receptive to a possible negotiated settle- ment of the conflict-as long as the settlement takes into account American interests. The official reason for Bundy's trip to South Viet Nam has not been announced, but there has been growing senti- ment in Washington in favor of a face-saving method for U.S. withdrawal from what is basically an untenable position in South Viet Nam. Several influentialrsenators- including Sen. Albert Gore, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee-have issued cautiously-worded s t a t e m e n t s supporting the concept of a ne- gotiated settlement. Sen. Mike Monroney, upon returning from a trip to South Viet Nam, declared that a face-saving withdrawal would be in the best interests of the United States. Several influential newspapers such as the New York Times and the Washington Post have edi- torially suggested the possibility of negotiations which would end the armed conflict but guarantee South Viet Nam's political inde- pendence. The papers admit, how- ever, that this goal may be dif- ficult to achieve. They remember the collapse of a similar arrange- ment in Laos two years ago. * * * A RECENT public-opinion sur- vey revealed that 90 per cent of the Americans familiar with the situation are highly dissatisfied with U.S. policy on South Viet Nam. While less than a third of them advocate expansion of the conflict, there is a distinct ma- jority in favor of some kind of nonmilitary compromise settle- ment.. On the other hand, U.S. Army officers stationed in South Viet Nam feel that the U.S. still has a chance to win the war against the Viet Cong. "The military po- sition is not so poor that we need to accept an unfavorable nego- tiated settlement," an official told the Associated Press. The Khanh regime in South Viet Nam, influenced by the pow- erful Buddhist population may be highly receptive to suggestions for a negotiated settlement. The Buddhists have long contended that negotiations between North and South Viet Nam, with an eye toward possible reunification of the partitioned nation, would be highly desirable From Paris have come persistent reports that contacts are already under way between North' and South Vietnamese officials. How- ever these reports have been de- nied by President Johnson and the State Department. * * * OFFICIAL United States policy still frowns upon the idea of withdrawing gracefully from South Veit Nam. "The administration sees no basis whatever for a negotiated settlement under present condi- tions. It concedes the situation is chaotic and frustrating and that much of Congress and the country is fed up with pouring money and men into a war which the United States not only cannot seem to win but cannot even control," high officials ' told Associated Press special correspondent John High- tower. At the same time, the impres- sion is growing among well- informed Washington officials that the Red Chinese and North Vietnamese are convinced they are. approaching victory, a con- quest which would give them much greater power and influence throughout Asia. These officials say the Communist insistence that the United. States should pull its troops out of South Viet Nam would amount to a U.S.-South Vietnamese surrender, a condition which would make a negotiated settlement unacceptable. * * * NEVERTHELESS, the growing sentiment among congressional leaders and the public that the U.S. is involved in a losing cause in South Viet Nam may well lead to a reappraisal of American policy in Southeast Asia. The U.S. is still determined not to leave a strategic area which also includes Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and Burma , open to Communist en- croachment and eventual domina- tion, but it seems to be realizing that its present policy may lead to defeat and humiliation. Things More Important Than Honor at the Academy "WHAT IS HONOR? A word. What is in ;thatword honor; what is- that honor? Air.... Honor is a mere scutcheon." At the Air Force Academy scores of cadets have been sacrificed for that airy word which Shakespeare's Sir John Fal- staff so thoughtfully ridiculed. From the information which has been' pried out of the secretive academy, it seems clear that many cadets were forced to resign because they had heard rumors about exam stealing and had not report- ed those rumors to proper officials. They H. NEIL BERKSON, Editor KENNETH WINTER EDWARD HERSTEIN Managing Editor Editorial Director ANN GWIRTZMAN..............Personnel Director BILL 1ULLARD.................... 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 JAMES KESON .. ... 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 JUDITH GOLDSTEIN ........... Finance Manager BARBARA JOHNSTON .. Personnel Manager were caught in the machinery of honor. THE AIR FORCE public relations men, who since the last war have outdone those of every rival service in grinding out rosy propaganda, are faced with a mammoth whitewashing job, but they ap- pear to be equal to the task. Much of the editorial comment up to now has lauded the Air Force for ridding itself of all taint connected with the cheating. But the image of the academy is of far less concern than the reputation of those who were sacrificed to public opinion be- cause they had an inkling, but didn't "spill it." They are not the ones who rifled the exams and then sold them. They are not the ones who bought the stolen tests. They are the cadets who by chance brushed against the evil and didn't snitch. Their obligation to comrades overwhelm- ed the academy's idolatry of honor. And they are-ruined with the rest. Honor keeps the system together but murders many inside it. The Air Force Academy applied the knife to its cancer and removed the identifiable malignancy. How much benign tissue went with it for the sake of concept, 'a concept which says a man should turn in his friend- and himself-for the sake of the system? Hail to the organization, the group, the corps. Forget the individuals who com- prise it. IF THERE IS A HERO in the sordid Air "c... Blti * %ta'f?. Thio. In The Face Of Sap rito Forces, Brougit Down A President, Three Cabinet embers .And . .. I 'TWO ON A GUILLOTINE': 1. SINCE CONNIE STEVENS left "Hawaiian Eye" her public has not seen much of her. So Warner Brothers has whipped up a little flick to remedy the situation, namely "Two on a Guillotine." Clearly it was never intended to be a cinemagraphic masterpiece. However, as a mit of "pre-chewed" entertainment it is fairly successful. It does not challenge anyone, but if you just want a lite light horror to take your mind off those fast approaching midterms, "Two on a Guillotine" can be somewhat enjoyable. The story concerns a magician, Cesar Romero, who swears he will return from the dead. To facilitate this little feat he leaves every- thing to his only living relative (who is supposed to be more in tune with him than anyone else, or something). This relative is his daughter, played by Connia Stevens, whom he has not seen in twenty However, to get his $300,000 estate she must stay in his booby- trapped old mansion for seven nights during which time he "will contact her." So with the help of a friendly reporter, Dean Jones, she moves into the "haunted" house. Naturally there are many "spine-tingling" moments as Jones and Miss Stevens wander through the poorly lit old house night after night. AS MIGHT BE EXPECTED, technically there is nothing excep- tional in this movie. Camera work, costumes and so on are all run- of-the-mill. The picture is even in black and white. Aonvemt oe tphinn$ 30,0m eite wel the actin is enerayv By JOHN KENNY Assistant Managing Editor and LOUISE LIND Assistant Editorial Director GOV. GEORGE ROMNEY sub- mitted a record $788.5 million general fund budget to the Legis- lature this week-and set off a flurry of excitement among edu- cators, lawmakers and S t a t e Board of Education members. The controversy centered in the governor's $168.6 million request for higher education-a figure many officials consider too low. The governor asked a $50 million appropriation for the University- $5.7 million less than the Univer- sity's original request. The governor's budget made no provision for expansion of the University's branch at Flint. In addition, Romney advised against the opening of a two-year medi- cal school at Michigan State Uni- versity and the establishment of a four-year branch of Michigan TechnologicalUniversity at Sault Ste. Marie- UNIVERSITY President Harlan Hatcher revealed serious concern over Romney's recommendations for the University next year and said he would carry his case to the Legislature. "This recommendation . . . im- plies serious consequences to the present and future of the institu- tion of the character and status of the University," the President charged. He declared that the University's projected 13.7 per cent increase in funds (compared to an average 19.4 per cent for all 10 state schools and colleges) would leave it ill-equipped. at the graduate-professional level and would disrupt year-round oper- ations plans. T_- ..v _.4- -- - -.,- Senate floor leader Basil Brown (D-Detroit) noted shortly after the budget was anounced that the Legislature will probably make additional appropriations from the state's surplus funds rather than cut the governor's request as is the usual practice. The cut in recommended appro- priations for the University was attributed by a Romney education aide, Charles Orlebeke, to the "challenge of numbers." * . * A RISING number of students "has to be provided for in the state's higher education system, and consequently, the governor gave fund priority to those insti- tutions doing the most to absorb them," Orlebeke said. Of the 13,- 000 more students which will flood the state's higher education system next fall, the University anticipates adding only 1800." Members of the State Board of Education have condemned this "heat count" system for deter- mining higher education appro- priations, saying that consider- ations such as the higher cost of graduate and professional pro- grams should be taken into ac- count as they have in the past. A former Regent has described the "head, count" method as "crude and inaccurate." Certainly there must be better ways to determine apropriations for the state's schools and col- leges. With a $100 million gener- al fund surplus in state monies, Romney ha.s no cause to call for an austerity budget for higher education. Hopefully, state legis- lators will revise the education budget upwards and prevent what might well be cause for a second tuition hike at the University in four years. * * * The Week in Review The Appropriation Fireworks Office of Religious Affairs. The writer-in-residence would bring Louis E. Lomax, -scholar, writer and humanitarian, to the campus for a three-week period next year. The expense would run over $4000. Several student groups have already made pledges toward absorbing the cost of the program. Lomax would deliver several major speeches, appear in classes where requested and spend the re- mainder of his time in a central location accessible to students for informal discussion. THREE organizations - the Office of Residence Halls, Assem- bly House Council and IQC - are working to prevent another overcrowding crisis in the fall of 1965 comparable to the one expe- rienced last year. The groups are warning students in advance about the possibility of overcrowd- ing and are assessing residence hall rooms to find the optimum capacity of each. SGC, investigating the condi- tion of off-campus housing, voted Wednesday to recommend that the University agree to enforce the terms of a student rental agreement no longer than the academic year of a student- tenant. In most cases this would mean that leases would be en- forceable only for an eight-month period. LETTERS: Butterfield To the Editor: I WOULD LIKE to congratulate the management of the Butter- fiel1 Theatres thev're a smart I