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FRIDAY, 12 FEBRUARY 1965 NIGHT EDITOR: JEFFREY GOODMAN
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Finding Willow Run
A Place in the University
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FACULTY DISCONTENT and uncer-
tainty with respect to the role of the
Institute of Science and Technology's
Willow Run Laboratories need to be re-
solved. Since unofficial sources indicate
that a new director for Willow Run will
have to be selected soon, a chance will
be provided to review the labs' relation
to the University and define their role
more explicitly than it has been.
Of the different paths which Willow
Run can follow, the movement up to now
has been toward integration with the
teaching and research programs of the
rest of the University through the IST
organization headquartered on North
Campus.
This goal has a great deal to recom-
mend it. Willow Run's access to Defense
Department research money and its ac-
cumulation of talent and facilities could
make great contributions to the Univer-
sity's research and teaching efforts.
BUT THE OBSTACLES have been num-
erous and many very serious problems
and conflicts have arisen in attempting
to implement a Willow Run-IST-Univer-
sity integration program. The process has
been greatly complicated by the prob-
lems and confusion that have come about
as the rest of the IST organization has
attempted to define its own place in the
University.
Rather than expect the leadership of
IST to continue to struggle with these
issues, a faculty advisory committee com-
posed of representatives from IST, Wil-
low Run and interested departments
could address itself to the problems of
Willow Run.
SOME OF THE DIFFICULTIES requiring
consideration are:"
-The physical location of the labs at
some'distance from the University's main
campus makes contacts with students,
faculty and administrators difficult to
maintain. This means that student and
faculty participation in Willow Run pro-
grams will tend to wither and die unless
it is strongly encouraged. It also means
that the IST administration is put at a,
disadvantage in trying keep in close touch
with what is happening at Willow Run.
-The extensive security systems at
Willow Run are inimical to a spirit of
free, academic inquiry. Guards posted at
every door to every lab at Willow Run so
that entry can be closely supervised play
havoc with the free flow of information
so necessary to a University's function
and spirit.
-If Willow Run is to become truly a
part of the University, it cannot be in
overt competition with private research
corporations. The $4 million infrared tele-
scope being built by IST in Hawaii should
not have been undertaken unless the
work could make contributions to basic
research and education programs within
the University.
-The quality and type of work done at
Willow Run have come in for criticism.
The research and education done there
need to be evaluated. It is quite possible
that the Willow Run programs are not
in accord with the research and educa-
tion goals of the University as a whole. If
they cannot be adjusted, a successful
program of integration would be impos-
sible.
POSSIBLE LONG-RANGE solutions the
committee might consider -are trans-
fer of as much Willow Run work as possi-
ble to North Campus; transfer of lab re-
sponsibilities to faculty members; or the
setting up of another campus at Willow
Run for graduate study (another North
Campus).
If the advisory committee feels that
complete integration of Willow Run with
the rest of the University is impossible,
its next task would be to survey what
place the labs should occupy within the
University.
The labs could be disassociated from
University functions in the same man-
ner as MIT's Lincoln Labs or Chicago's
Argonne National Laboratory. That is,
the University would assume the respon-
sibility for running Willow Run, but the
labs would be administered as a separ-
ate enterprise. But whatever direction
it is decided that Willow Run should
move in, the goals and the methods of
achieving them should be spelled out ex-
plicitly now.
AN ADMIRABLE and heroic job has been
done thus far in the attempt to bring
Willow Run within the University. But
what has been done should be assessed,
and what is to be done should now be
decided by a committee of concerned fac-
ulty and researchers. Willow Run is too
big and too valuable to be a victim of a
policy of non-policy.
-ROBERT JOHNSTON
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TODAY AND TOMORROW:
Interpreting the Lesson
Of the Viet Cong Attack
By WALTER LIPPMANN
IT IS HARD to believe that the
raid on the American instal-
lations in South Viet Nam was
not closely related to Prime Min-
ister Kosygin's visit to North Viet
Nam.
It is hard to believe, too, that
Kosygin would have picked the
day after his arrival in Hanoi to
touch off the raid. He was in no
position to help the Viet Cong
carry out the raid, nor to protect
North Viet Nam against American
retaliation.
It is most probable, therefore.
that the affair was ordered and
directed by men who intended to
spoil Kosygin's mission in South-
east Asia and to interfere with
his role as a principal power in
bringing about a negotiated setrt,!-
ment.
MOST PROBABLY, then, the
gambit was directed against both
the Soviet Union and the United
States, which happen to have a
parallel interest in preventing a
big war in Eastern Asia and of
containing the expansion of China.
The administration is no doubt
right in interpreting the raid on
Pleiku as a test of American will.
Had the United States refrained
from retaliating, the Chinese and
their supporters in Asia and else-
where would have called it a dem-
onstration that the United States
is a paper tiger and that, there-
fore, the Soviet policy of peaceable
coexistence is unnecessary and
absurd.
The other side of the calcua-
tion was that if the United States
reacted, as in fact it did react,
it would demonstrate that in Asia
the Soviet Union is a paper tiger
unable to defend its clients.
From the Chinese point of view
the gambit worked successfully.
It showed on the one hand that
the Americans are highly vulner-
able on the ground in South Viet
Nam; it showed on the other nand
that the Soviet Union has no
power to protect East Asia against
the United States.
MUCH DEPENDS on what les-
sons are drawn in Moscow, Peking,
Hanoi and Washington from the
the affair.
We have had a very clear dem-
onstration of the strategic reality
in Southeast Asia. The American
Army at Pleiku was unable to
protect itself against a compar-
atively small guerrilla attack,
against a force estimated officially
at about two squads and one
platoon. The American forces got
no warning of the attack from
the Vietnamese people in the
nearby hamlets where the raid
was prepared.
In fact, when asked at his Sun-
day press conference whether the
United States could not protect
its own forces in South Viet Nam,
Sec. Robert McNamara replied
that he did not "believe it will
ever be possible-and I think when
I say this I reflect the views of
our own joint chiefs-to protect
our forces against sneak attacks
of that kind."
BUT THAT IS only half of the
lesson which was demonstrated
this past weekend. The other part
of the lessonis that the U.S. fleet,
standing 100 miles offshore, is
capable of inflicting devasta ing
and unrequited damage on the
A ian mainland. There was no
power in South Viet Nam to pro-
tect our own forces or to retaliate.
But at sea there exists an enor-
mous American power which is
quite independent of our forces
on the mainland.
For us, the meaning is that the
commitment to participate in the
land war in South Viet Nam is an
entanglement, is a hostage to
fortune, which exposes us to de-
feats and humiliations. The best
that the more convinced believers
in the commitment can say is that
if we stay there long enough and
accept the losses which they re-
gard as "tolerable," the Chinese
and North Vietnamese will even-
tually grow tired and become in-
different. For myself, I would not
count too much on American pa-
tience being greater than Chinese
patience.
THE MEANING of the affair
must not be missed in Moscow,
Peking and Hanoi. Let them re-
member that, reduced to its fun-
damentals, the situation is that
the United States possesses para-
mount sea and air power _in the
far Pacific, and no one can count
on such a degree of restraint in
the use of that power that it will
never be used.,
The United States is not a
paper tiger. That phrase reflects
the greatest delusion on which
our adversaries could possibly
gamble. The truth is that Presi-
dent Lyndon Johnson profoundly
desires to avoid war, but his power
to do that is not unlimited, nor
can he be counted on not to be
provoked if the provocation is -on-
tinual and cumulative.
(c). 1965, The Washington Post Co.
To the Editor:
REALIZE that The Daily has
a conservative approach to re-
porting the news and is continu-
ally looking for ways to conceal
blemishes on the public image
of the University-regardless of
the fact that most of The Daily's
readers are students and faculty
who are already only too aware
of the existence of these so-called
"taboo" subjects.
However, when events occur that
could conceivably affect about
one quarter of the student body
(i.e. the co-eds) I feel that they
should receive front page atten-
tion.
The image of the University
should not be an all-powerful cen-
sor through which all potential
publication must pass before
printing. Rumors are a poor
ource of facts, but if there are
no other sources how are we go-
ing to know what is happening in
the University community?
SINCE I started this letter 30
minutes ago, two more victims
have been added to the collection
of rumors begun this semester.
Originally, the story was that two
girls had been criminally assault-
ed in Ann Arbor, now the rumored
total has risen to 14. The safety
of many women at the University
depends upon their knowledge of
the facts inthese cases: someone
has the responsibility of inform-
ing the students of precautions
which could prevent further at-
tacks.
The Daily must not ,.nsider
the image of the University m:e
important than the safety of the
students. As the main source of
information, The Daily should feel
justified in printing the faets
which might easily prevent a
spread of panic caused by dis-
torting the truth. "An ounce of
prevention is worth a pound of
cure."
Is The Daily going to give the
student that ounce by printing
relevant information, or is Uni-
versity Hospital to be held in ac-
count for the pounds of cure? If
we have to gather news by lis-
tening to rumor, The Daily is not
fulfilling its function as a stu-
dent publication and is ignoring
its responsibility to the students
of the University.
-William Chapo, '66
EDITOR'S NOTE: While you lab-
elling of our news policy has prob-
ably done much to reassure our
board, The Daily never has been
and never intends to be the guard-
ian of the university's image.
We do, however, happen to be
somewhat concerned with fact.
There's no electronic tote board at
The Daily tabulating the number of
rumors concerning rape attempts
because they are far out of propor-
tion to the deed. As our story of
two days ago declared, there is no
supporting evidence for the rumors
which have been going around cam-
pus. This means:
-University officials flatly deny
them.
-The hospitals have no record of
treating any assaulte4 women with-
in the time span of the rumors.
-The Ann Arbor. police have
recorded three assault attempts in
the last, three months and none in
the last three weeks. They have
checked all rumors and have bee
unable to substantiate any of them.
Furthermore, The Daily's own in-
dependent investigation has failed
to unearth a single individual with
concrete knowledge concerning the
"rapes." 'those we have talked to
have amitted the' information is
rumor to them, too.
If you know anything to the
contrary, Mr. Chapo, I'd be glad t
talk to you.
--HN.B.
Diag Rally
To the Editor:
I DEMAND a public apology and
retraction from The Daily to
the effect that they falsely re-
ported I led "20 pickets from the
Young Republicans and Young
Americans for Freedom," in a re-
cent anti-anti-government dem-
onstration on the Diag, I and
others who carried signs were
acting entirely as individuals who
were deeply concerned with the
critical Viet Nam problem and
felt that the decisive action of
President Johnson would prevent
a war and a Communist take-
over in all of Southeast Asia.
The McCarthy-like 1
falsely 'associating my
other demonstrators w
group, without even app
me when I am allegedly1
er, shows the low qualit
porting in The Daily. If '
wishes to identify us as
of the groups to which
us belonged it could als
the Young Citizens for
ACLU, NAACP. CORE,!
Institute of Chemical E
fraternities, housing u
Clearly we did not .repr
viewpoint of these gro
more than we intended t
resentatives of YAF or Y
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FURTHERMORE. I did
this group. I am flatt
Daily thinks I did lead
the group was well organ
orderly, but this is not s
To try to associate me
Young Americans for
is a malicious misreprei
since, as mentioned, no
The Daily asked me w
represented, and to all
from spectators my reply
we represented ourselves.
-Alan M. Sag
EDITOR'S NOTE: sorry,i
apology, no retraction. T
stands by its story.
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tactic of
self and
ith any
proaching
the lead-
ty of re-
The Daily
members
some of
o include
Johnson,
A in IN TALKING about the test
engineers, ban treaty, he noted that we must
nits, etc. not always believe the Russians.
esent the He pointed out two other times
)ups any when the humanitarians believed
o be rep- what the Russian Communists
R's. said. Logically, he then went on
to give three good reasons why
Inot le we should believe them now.
it since I am sure that anyone who was
nized and fooled one of the other times
o. could have come up with half a
0.h h dozen good reasons. But it was
with the still a mistake.
Freedom He said that the treaty involved
nt fton Soviet acquiescence to U.S. super-
heofrom tority. As far as testing goes, they
on we
inquiries have conducted more advanced
was that tests than we have. If' anything,
the treaty benefits them.
He also said that since the
er, '65L Cuban crisis the U.S. and Russia
Alan. No have been friendlier than ever. He
he Daiy overlooked the dues in the UN,
-.N. he incipient Soviet aid to North
Viet, Nam, and the periodic de-
parture of Russian embassy per-
,singer sonnel at the recommendation of
the FBI
pride to the graduated income tax
and government regulation of
business.
He should have gone to .the
trouble of defining a "free" econ-
omy. If he means "free" as op-
posed to Communism, then he is
right; but if he means "free" in
the sense of "free," then he isn't
and it isn't.
To the Editor:
A RTHUR SCHLESINGER, JR.
almost gave a good speech
Saturday night. Almost. I would
like to comment briefly on a few
of his assumptions and contra-
dictions.
Quoting President Kennedy, he
said that our foreign policy was
based on the "acceptance of di-
versity." In the same 'breath he
found fault with what he called
the policy of "isolationism" that
our government followed until a
generation ago.
It seems that up until a gen-
eration ago, the U.S. government
insisted on keeping out of for-,
eign entanglements. But at the
same time American businessmen
were trading all over the world,
and the country was accepting
hundreds of thousands of immi-
grants a year, at least up until the
end of the last century. This
seems "internationalism" at its
finest.
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BUT THEN we made the big
change to official "international-
ism," better called "interven-
tionism." We have made more
alliances than we know what to
do with, most of them meaning-
less, and have become involved
in local quarrels that were none
of our business. At the same time,
our tariffs are as high' as ever,
and the immigration quotas are
almost as low as ever.
it seems that the policy
Schlesinger criticized so welt was
a lot closer to his ideal than the
second-rate substitute.
But what does the "acceptance
of diversity" mean? ifKennedy
believed in it, why couldn't he
leave the Congo alone instead of
lending our planes to the UN to
impose a type of government on
the people of Katanga that they
obviously didn't want?
Did the "principle of diversity"
give him permission to destroy the
Diem government in South Viet
Nam? On the home front, does the
"principle of diversity" allow the
people of the North to tell the
people of the South how to run
their businesses?
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WHAT DOES the "principle of
diversity" mean? Or does it mean
anything? On the other fronts he
gave the usual diatribe against
laissez faire. Pointing to the ad-
mittedly rough working conditions
of the last century, he blamed
them all on the free economy.
Maybe it has never occurred to
him that if it had not been for
laissez faire, these poor souls
would not have been working at
all.
He consistently called our pres-
ent economy a "free" economy. At
the same time, he pointed with
The Writer-in-Residene
LIKE ALL the other great
minds, he was really down on
Soviet censorship In this coun-
try we call it "managed news"
and, since Kennedy practiced it,
it must be all right.
He blames the conservatives for
wanting to impose our type of
government on other countries.
This is a common illusion, but
totally at variance with the facts.
Which side supported the UN
action in the Congo? Which side
insists on sending out billions
every year in a vain effort to get
nations on our side? Which side
sends out the Peace Corps to con-
vert the world to our way?
The conservative insists on force
and money in foreign affairs only
when our interests are at stake.
It is the liberal and the statist
that insist on government action
to convert the world to our sys-
tem of Peace and Justice aid.
HumanitarianisI and . all the
other goodies.
INDEED, if Schlesinger 'means
by "acceptance of diversity" that
we should allow other nations to
go their way, then he has the
only basis for international friend-
ship and goodwill.
But if it is just a piece of
rhetoric, as it seems it is, then
his speech was what he said it
would be, "clish after clish after
clish."
-Walter W. Broad, '66E
Trimester
To the Editor:
T HAS BEEN i nteresting to ob-
serve the rise of the trimester
issue until it has gained entrance
into that exclusive circle of such
perennially favorite topics on your
editorial page as the definition
of liberal education and the role
of the student at the University.
The .privilege of membership in
this elite group is. that editorial
writers, after a platitudinous title
like "Facing Reality Will Make
A Meaningful Trimester" (Feb. 2)
and a few paragraphs of intro-
duction, can launch into a diatribe
against any and all of the world's
ills under the aegis of a title that
has already brought all red-
blooded all-Amedican students to
their feet.
Why is it, for example, that
Miss Butcher does not once use
the word "trimester" in the second
half of her editorial except in the
final clause, which, in well-
schooled journalistic style, para-
phrases the title to emphasize the
unity and cohesiveness of the
work? If anyone can show me how
the problems of the competition
between' graduates and under-
graduates for professors' time, the
unenlightened grading system, dis-
tribution requirements, the credit-
hour system and "a community of
scholars rather than of students"
are peculiar to or products of
the trimester, I would be very
appreciative.
THERE ARE several points to
be made concerning the trimester
when it is considered in the proper
context, that is, in the context of
schedules which eliminate the
waste of overhead costs of Uni-
versity facilities during the sum-
mer months,
The main "bug" in the new sys-
tem was the failure on the part
of professors to properly adapt
their materials to a shortened
calendar. This problem already
has, with very few exceptions,
been eliminated. I much prefer
the trimester to a quarter system
which necessitates the waste of
half again as much time on :Id-
ministrative procedures such as
final exams, registration, coun-
selling, orientation, adding and
dropping courses, and buying
books.
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I"SkIAftD TO EXPLAIN why student
groups are rallying behind Elizabeth
Sumner's proposed writer-in-residence
program and equally hard to understand
the reluctant support by certain segments
of the administration.
While words and praise often flow eas-
ily, purse strings are loosened with great-
er difficulty. Nevertheless, student groups
such as the Women's League and SqC
were so impressed by the thought of Louis
Lomax serving as a faculty member for
three weeks that they generously dipped
into their own funds to support the ven-
ture. The individual academic depart-
ments, although less wealthy, are consid-
ering lending a financial hand and want
to help coordinate the program.
BUDGET PROBLEMS or not, it is a
strange state of affairs when students
have to pay money in addition to their
tuition payments for an opportunity to
get a complete college education. True,
many organizations have their own
speaker programs in which they bring
characters like George Lincoln Rockwell
to campus for a two-hour dissertation in
Hill Auditorium.
But Lomax's appearance would not re-
senible such a lecture series. He would
stay here for a three-week period and
would be available for seminars, private
consultation, public addresses and talks
and discussions in individual classes.
Rather than just appealing to a very
small group of students, his comments
would be pertinent to courses in English,
history, American studies, journalism, po-
litical science, sociology, economics, phi-
losophy and psychology. Thus in effect
he would be an at-large member of the
WHILE THE ADMINISTRATION'S lack
of action is most disheartening, this
is no time to display dissatisfaction.
Theoretically there is no reason why stu-
dents should have to shell out the money,
but, since they are willing to do so, one
can examine the unique advantages of
such a system.
First, Lomax will not be subject to any
restrictions or time infringements from
the administration because it will not be
running the show.
Even more important is that the pres-
ent arrangements would mean that the
faculty and students would be working
together. Without official help, they are
raising the money and planning the ven-
ture together. This represents somewhat
of a milestone in curriculum organiza-
tion.
Thus, it might seem that things will
be better without the administration.
And perhaps the necessary cash can be
collected without its support. But while
the administration may not be vital to
the success of the program, it would be
an even more meaningful affair with its
participation.
RECENT RELATIONS between the ad-
ministration and the student body
have not been extremely cordial. The
writer-in-residence program is something
the students obviously want and some-
thing the administration can help them
get. But it is more than just a case of ce-
menting relations. The project really
should be the responsibility of the ad-
ministration, and the least it can do is
supply the money still needed.
The Office of Religious Affairs, one
branch of the administration, conceived
ONCE FESTIVAL:
Way-Out Spectaculars Highlight Concert
HE ONCE FESTIVAL opened last night with a bang at the VFW
Hall.
Gongs were caressed, crashed.
Paper posies were destroyed.
Rock 'n' roll ruled the roost.
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GUEST PERCUSSIONIST Max Neuhaus provided a high spot of
the evening with his rendition of-three percussion work, Surrounded
by an incredible battery of instruments, he sensitively refused to
create sensational effects. In the third; piece, he packed up every last
instrument carefully, throwing each to produce abundant resonance;
and departed with four locked trunks.
The Jelloman stalked the stage.
Guitar strings twanged.
Cotton candy and karate flowred freely.
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THE SENTIMENT. of the evening' centered in "My Piece," by
Richard Waters, in five picturesquely titled movements. The ONCE
Theatre Ensemble performed mutely behind a wall of polyethylene.
Prepared pianos and sopranos let loose.