U iliatBaly Seventy-Fifth Year EDrrn D MANAGED By STUDENTs OF THE UNriERsITY oPIMICHGAN VND)EW AUTHORrITY OF BoARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICAnoMS Each Time I Chanced To See Franklin D. "Mm" _ : . . .... ' ': i i The Student: Fogotten Part of the University Where Opinion Are ee.420 MAYNARD $T., ANN ARBOR, MICH. Truth Winl 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, 13 JANUARY 1965 NIGHT EDITOR: LAURENCE KIRSHBAUM by H. Neil Berkson ~- Selection of Ray Bliss Portends Republican Revival THE REPUBLICAN PARTY is in search of a leader. Not until the 1968 national convention will a person be designated again as GOP spokesman. Until then the party must muddle along with a multi- focal leadership. Gerry Ford will be heard from the Capi- tol, as will Everett McKinley Dirksen. From the governors' mansions across the nation periodic pronouncements will em- anate from the lips of the Scrantons, Romneys and Evans. And from the wilds of Arizona, a certain former senator will try to make his voice heard above the static through a thrice weekly column of fact and fiction. EVEN THOUGH no one will be THE spokesman for the Grand Old Party, someone should be minding the store at Republican National Committee head- quarters. Until yesterday the relevant question was not whether. Dean Burch would be replaced, but when and by whom. As Sen. Hugh Scott pointed out, no man can be an effective national chairman if his par- ty is divided against him. Both questions have now been answer- ed.Ray Bliss, the experienced state chair- man of Ohio, will replace Burch this spring.. Bliss is acceptable to all wings of the badly split party. He is noncontroversial. He is willing to devote full time to the task of rebuilding a badly demoralized GOP. In short, he is a professional who will leave the limelight to elected offi- cials like the party's congressional and gubernatorial leaders. BLISS' DESIGNATION signifies the be- ginning of a period in which ideology will be divorced from the national com- mittee's functions, except insofar as it de- cisively affects the prospects of victory. He is a technician who carries out the policy of others. Bliss is an organization man of proven ability, having led Ohio Republicans to victory in six out of eight elections dur- ing which he has been chairman. Ohio was the only large, industrial, Midwest- ern state that Nixon carried in 1960. With Ray Bliss as national chairman the Republican Party will have the foun- dation of a solid organization for its comeback attempt in 1966. With his or- ganizational leadership the Grand Old Party will make significant strides in the direction of again becoming a viable com- petitor for the Democrats. ONLY UNDER a victory-oriented pro- fessional like Ray Bliss will the Re- publicans be able to play their role as the loyal opposition and play it effec- tively. --CAL SKINNER, JR. LAST FALL'S ISSUE of Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, was devoted entirely to "The Contemporary University: U.S.A." Ar- ticles examined university administration, the role of foundations, the politics of the research establishment, continuing education and various divisions of instruction. Everything came under a microscope except the student. Higher education seems to be forgetting him. The widespread debate about the direction of the American university is primarily a business discussion. Issues of finance and organization are significant, but when they outweigh educational issues the university might as well close its doors. Today's student-particularly the undergraduate- finds himselfalienated fromtheuniversity experience. In many cases he is the product of a sadly jaded background-one which teaches him to be "on the make" -but the university is reorganizing to support rather than challenge him. ONE ADMINISTRATOR calls this university "de- cadent." Why? Because the heart of the University-the curriculum-is retreating to standards of mediocrity. In too many instances' professors run superficial courses with a minimum of preparation, a minimum of creative assignments and a stifling reliance on exams as the sole standard of measurement. This is unfair to some professors who do care about communicating with their students. They are not the rule, however. The bulk of the faculty pays homage to the status quo-rarely revising the procedure or content of courses. Revision is not a self-evident value, but the curricu- lum is currently so out-of-touch with its students that revision is necessary. The curriculum is at least two years behind: freshman-sophomore courses generally belong in the high schools; junior-senior courses would be good at a lower level; an upperclass student who wants a challenge will usually look for a graduate course. This inertia is partially a function of the size of the University, but it is the least-studied problem of size. Yet no area of University shortcomings (there are many, as there are many successes) has such a direct connection with the shortcomings of its students. If the student cannot find meaning in the classroom, the University most likely has failed him. THE STUDENT has been reduced to a product, and in some cases, a byproduct, of the great academic institutions. That his role has become ambiguous-some people argue that the University should eliminate under- graduate education-is understandable; higher educa- tion at all levels is in a stage of redefinition. But, perhaps because of his transience, he is getting the least attention. He shouldn't be. It's time to examine the problems of education from a student point of view. THE LITERARY COLLEGE is now patting itself on the back for a singular show of benevolence: the faculty voted unanimously Monday to raise the number of class-free days before exams from one to two. The added 24 hours won't do much to take the pressures out of trimester. The three-term calendar was wrong from the start and will continue to be wrong until it no longer exists. The faculty opted for this calendar in opposition to an administration preference for quarters. The reason: an unwillingness to accomplish the thorough revision of courses the quarter system would require. If the University must operate year-round, the quarter system deserves re-examination on a better basis than befor.e. I LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Reader Hits Attach on Sorority Rush in Story "Uh - Don't Start Reading Any Continued Stories" E * ;, The Reel Story at Notre Dame NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY, best known for its exploits in football, recently gained nationwide attention for two events off the gridiron. The first took place on November 14 after the Notre Dame-Michigan State football game. A band of Notre Dame stu- dents attacked the Michigan State Uni- versity Marching Band, causing over $700 in damage. They dumped a shot put into a baritone, broke clarinets and ripped uniforms in an orgy of destruction. More recently Notre Dame made the front page for gaining an injunction against a new 20th Century Fox movie, "John Goldfarb, Please Come Home," be- cause the film allegedly would cause "im- measurable and irreparable injury" to the school's name. The movie is about a U-2 pilot named John Goldfarb who crashes in an Arab country ruled by King Fauz (Peter Usti- nov). Fauz is angry with Notre Dame be- cause his son didn't make the football team, so he forces Goldfarb to coach his football team, which is to play Notre Dame the next day. The night before the game the Notre Dame players are weak- ened by an orgy of food, drink and belly dancing. They lose the game 34-29. S THERE A CONNECTION between the Michigan State Band fiasco and the injunction on "John Goldfarb, Please Come Home?" H. NEIL BERKSON, Editor KENNETH WINTER EDWARD HERSTEIN Managing Editor Editorial Director Subscription rates: $4.50 semester by carrier ($5 by mall); $8 yearly by carrier ($9 by mail). second class postage paid at Ann Arbor. Mich. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday morning. Notre Dame's protest about the movie doesn't seem logical. After all, none of the Notre Dame players depicted in the film fall into mortal sin. As the 20th Century Fox officials put it, "The film is just an innocent satire." Then why did the Notre Dame adminis- trators get an injunction from the New York Supreme Court and follow with a suit claiming exploitation of the Notre Dame insignia? The explanation is that Notre Dame wanted to cleanse its public image, tarn- ished by the Michigan State Band fiasco. HERE WAS JUST the break the motion picture executives were looking for: a suit would be great free publicity and in- sure a profit on the $4 million movie. Everyone knows that a book banned in Boston is sure to be a best seller every- where else. A film banned in New York will be a hit in the rest of the country-- once 20th Century Fox's lawyers success- fully appealed the absurd decision. Notre Dame went to court and the re- sults couldn't have been better for the university or for Fox. In his decision up- holding the ban, New York State Supreme Court Justice Henry C. Greenberg called the movie "ugly, vulgar and tawdry." Better yet, to the joy of Notre Dame officials anxious to win back the school's good name, Greenberg said, "An educa- tional institution which has won large public prestige by hard effort and at high cost ought not, against its will, have that prestige diluted by the commercial use of its name." SO NOW Notre Dame's image is restored, and 20th Century Fox will make a sub- stantial profit on the film. A real Hollywood ending. -ROGER RAPOPORT To the Editor: WITH A SNEER on his lips and sarcasm on his mind, Laur- ence Kirshbaum takes pen in hand and prepares to attack sorority rush which began Friday night. Maybe he begins a year in ad- vance, maybe an hour before press time, but the result is the same: an article including times, dates (second set, by the way, began on Tuesday, not today) and a few cryptic comments on the side. The article appears on sched- ule. It has front page, not edi- torial, billing in The Daily cn the first day of mixer parties. Question: What have you gain- ed, Larry Kirshbaum? -Judy Rote, '66 'U' Expansion To the Editor: HEAR! HEAR! to Kenneth Win- ter's editorial of January 10 on the dilution of general educa- tion with expansion at the Uni- versity. Reprint this article at regular intervals (perhaps once daily would be enough), and some ac- ti on may be the result. -Edward L. Medzon, Department of Microbiology Movie Price hike To the Editor: IT IS an acknowledged fact that prices in a college community are higher than those in most other cities. However, the recent increase in the admission to Ann Arbor theatres seems entirely un- justified and directed solely at taking advantage of a lite:aily captive audience. In other communities where the price of movies is $1.25, first-run, double-feature movies are offered. We realize that in a community like Ann Arbor double features would be impractical, but we can see no valid reason for a price increase like that which took place over the Christmas holidays. We feel that if our opinion is shared by others, some action should be taken again>t the But- terfield monopoly. -John Gleysteen, '68SM James Ritchie, '68 Dale Flook, '68E Brian Melzian,'68NR Sam Chappel, '68 Double-Take To the Editor: I'VE SPORTED MYSELF to two movies over the past couple months: one during Thanksgiving vacation ("The Outrage") and one tonight ("Rashomon"). They were the same story. "The Outrage" was set in the American Southwest and the bad guy was Mexican sotherwiseuthe two movies had the same sequence of scenes (the rainy outpost, the trial, the woods), the same characters in all three scenes and identical end- ings. Even the details about the knift with a stone-studded hend'e were common to both. I'm mildly curious about who borrowed from whom: West frmn East or East from West? -Bryant Avery, Grad EDITOR'S NOTE: West borrowed from East. In the early fifties, the Japanese film director, Akira Kuro- sawa made "Roshomon." It won many awards, much critical praise and opened the cinematic eyes of the West to the unrecognized artis- tic progress in motion pictures that had been taking place in the East. Hollywood director Martin *Ritt admitted in making "The Outrage" that his film was an English language version of the Kurosawa success and was intend- ed to be so from its first concep- tion. Scientists' A ttitudes 'THE POST-WORLD WAR II years have seen not only a change in the public image of the scientists, but an equally profound change in the scientist's attitude toward himself and his work. The soul-searching among scientists of the Manhattan Project, as that endeavor reached its culmina4ion, is too well evidenced in subse- quent events to need retelling. There has been a marked willing- ness in recent years to enter the public service, sometimes even at a considerable personal sacrifice. What is now emerging, I believe, is an era in which the scientist will achieve increasing .;tature as a human being because he is will- ing to look beyond the immediate results of his scientific endeavors to their social consequences. He recognizes that even though he cannot presume to advise man- kind with finality on the vaues that are most acceptable for our world, at least he may be able to help point out the probable con- sequences of pursuing alternative courses according to one or an- other set of values. And he re- alizes that he, in common with men generally, will be deeply af- fected by the course that is chosen. -Glenn T. Seaborg Chairman, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, in Chemical and Engineering News ,. 'aFMM 4) ,-- lbrr 4 1l -s " , , ;;,; .,4 . ". ii". .. f - a - r s rN? '-IA ' firJ &-O'J 'c, 7 TODAY AND TOMORROW: Growing A nti-A mericanism 1 FEIFFER by WALTER LIPPMAN RECENTLY things have been going badly for us in the Far East and in Africa. Not that they were going well before. The pros- pect in South Vietnam has never peen good except in the official communiques. And the Congo has been going from bad to worse ev- er since the United Nations was compelled for lack of money to withdraw 'its peacekeeping forces. But during the summer, when most of our attention was on the election, the government in Sai- gon, with which we are deeply entangled, began to crumble. In the Congo the Adoula government, which we were supporting, fell apart, and we found ourselves en- tangled with Moise Tshombe, wi o is to allof Africa, except the white minority in the south, like red rag to a bull. THESE two unhappy entangle- ments are the centers )f the in- fection from which spring the fever of anti-Americanism in the non-white world. U.S. information libraries have been gutted and burned in Egypt and Indonesia. Gen. Nguyen Khanh, our most re- cent special favorite and protege in Vietnam, has deemed it to his personal advantage to rake an anti-American line. In the United Nations we have been talked at with a language of violence hitherto unheard of in time of peace. As this article is being written, it is touch and go whether or not there is now an anti-American majority in the General Assembly of the United mat to think that we would be intervening in a Congolese civil war or that we would have armies in Korea and Southeast Asia. Our farthest commitment in the Pa- cific was in the Philippines, and virtually all Americans were hop- ing that the granting of independ- ence to the Philippines would have the happy result of reducing our military commitments. THE SERIOUS trouole we are in today lies in the soft regions where we have accepted responsi- bility since the end if the second world war. These are the soft regions of Asia and Africa where the old colonial systems have col- lapsed-the Belgian, the French, the British (almost but not quite ), the Japanese, the Netherlands. The Portuguese African empire is in great jeopardy. We have let'ourselves be sucked into this vacuum of power on two continents. We have done so with the high- est motives, by allowing the ide- ology of the cold war to take precedence in our minds over our own national interests. We have staked our prestige, a great deal of money and many American lives on the effort to provide gov- ernments which would resist and repel the revolution which is sweeping the undeveloped world. AS A RESULT, we have be- come grossly overextended- i i re- gions where we have no primal y vital interest. We have scattered our assistance to such a degree that we help everybody a little and nnhndv enough Moreover, we being are not involved in South- east Asia or in Korea and never have been. A primary vital inter- est is one which can be promoted and defended by calculated, not suicidal means. By this criterion we have been committed far beyond our primary vital interests and far beyond our military and political reach eince the end of the second world war. We cannot put Africa and Asia in order according to our ideals of order. We are in trouble in these regions because we have over-reached ourselves and are facing issues for which we do not have enough trained and experi- enced personnel. There is no true national support for these ven- tures. IF IT IS said that this is isola- tionism, I would say yes. It is isolationism if the study of our own vital interests and a realiza- tion of the limitations of our power is isolationism. It is isola- tionism as compared with the globalism which became fashion- able after the second world war. What of it? We are clear about our vital interests in Europe and in the Americas. In the outer zones of our post-war entangle- ments it is time to tell ourselves that there is much at stake and that we must be guided not by the hot ideologies, but by a cool ex- amination and calculation of the national interest. (c) 1964, The Washington Post Co. College I5 86W~ w1 CVM6EJCAIL COv)3C1L. weHL? Pur iWe5 IN6 fL~TOR- 1P 6TOUR A' Vo "GV reel- }i HOW" ,s", WNJA1'CAN~ You TL- rHem? 'oU OPCN YOOUR Mo O r 6XPWAI MVl THEY' CALL YWC AMzt- 5E14ET(C. WNAT ROTC NOWODY QO$ NITi- 5EM( TISH AJ HO.~ IT'S PAW. IF WeR APT!- A~J ThW6 1656e GAYS, IT5 NO. "®-° 'C1 t 7WEY NO THEM ?T TO U DIING - EVER rr is THEEt R?. AFT R 1 W5 MV A COR6OF' " ' : I A% f hKul. 11 WIds: P1 ..a--k- Admll& i096k. is I Aff'J" &W%\ A. -Itu tKbm 100 I