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IDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1964 NIGHT EDITOR: KENNETH WINTER
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THE CURRENT HUSING problem put
Student Government Council to the
test as an organization representing the
student body and it failed. "Issues!" SGC
members have cried. "If only we had an
issue, to prove our power, to rouse stu-
dents from their apathy, to get their sup-
port."
What better issue possibly could ever
present itself than that of protecting a
student's right to live under the condi-
tions he chooses within the range offered
by the University community? It is im-
portant, all pervading, imminent, a per-
feet chance to develop the power of
SGC...
Or, unfortunately, to prove that the
body has no power at all, outside of that
of arranging for the birth and demise of
other smaller organizations. -For the
Council has done little to pressure the;
administration into action to truly re-"
lieve students. SGC President Tom Snith-
son has civilly discussed the problem with
representatives of the administration and
has extended congratulations to the or-
ganizations that have more directly con-
cerned themselves with the problem. That
is not enough.
COUNCIL IS TOO CIVILIZED to be pow-
erful; it trys to be legal and to main-
tain cordial relationships ,with the Uni-
versity. Because of the vast difference in
power between the student and the ad-
ministration it then' degenerates to the
position of ragged sycophant wheedling
morsels from its benefactor. Pitiful, pet-
ty, useless, even disgusting; for on it sit
18 fairly intelligent people who have
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forgotten their responsibility to their con-
stituency in consideration of their re-
sponsibility to their overlords.
But the University exists for the stu-
dent, to train some, to educate some, to
offer to some the opportunity to mature.
Students cannot learn crushed into
rooms. The Council's responsibility is to
protect their opportunity to learn, and if
it has to become less civilized it must. It
cannot afford to beg; it must demand. It
cannot send prettily worded messages
which get lost between Lewis' desk and
the Regents' meetings; it must send peo-
ple who will force action, and quickly.;
If Council cannot work effectively with-
in the administrative framework of the
University-which is obviously the case-
it must work outside of'it. Then it would
not have to wait months for negative
replies to the eloquent letters. It could
be an instrument sponsored, not by the
administration, but by the students to
represent them when necessary and to
organize them for mass action protest if
mere representation proves ineffective.
A PROBLEM such as the current hous-
ing problem is not of the type that
can wait the necessary months for the
bureaucratic machine to laboriously bal-
ance all the books and grind out a com-
promise. It needs action now, however
irrational or expensive. SGC is responsi-
ble to the students to force that action,
not to feebly point out to the University
that which it already knows.
SGC is not fulfilling its responsibility.
It can; it should.
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EUROPEAN COMMENTARY:
Reviewo f NaziTria l s:
Germans Seek Jusc
VIETNAMESE WAR:
Conflict iseNoble' not Jirty'
Lossing's dousing UPter
By ERIC KELLER
BILTHOVEN, Holland-For the
last few months continental in-
formation media have been inun-
dated with reports about Nazi
mass murders. On television hor -
ror spectacles are s -shown- docu-
mentaries filmed by Nazis of their
own acts of cruelty, their own
man-created Hell of execution.
And in courts all over .West'
Germany, day to day accounts are
given of atrocious cruelties. Chil-
dren taken by their feet and
smashed head-first against walls,
cigarettes extinguished on the
skins of prisoners, sex aberrations
of former guards, along with ac-
counts of anguishes lived through.
by those who had :seen death in
its most despicable forms fill the
front pages of newspapers.
Many Germans wonder why
they have to go through all this
again. Is it not possible to call a
final halt to these memories and
the dark past?
* *
TODAY most Germans no long-
er entertain any more feelings of
guilt about their past. Those who
were. guilty are often retired by
now, anc those in power were not
or were scarcely above the age of
youthful irresponsibility at the
time of World. War II. But the
overriding German sense of right
demands full support of legal ac-
tions.'
The slackening of overt legal
action during the late fifties was
due to a reorganization of prose-
cuting procedures. Just after the
war, the occupation forces did
most of the prosecution and execu-
tion of Nazi criminals. The most
prominent of these trials was the
Nuremburg trial of top Nazi lead-
ers. About 15,000 sentences are
believed to have been given t(the
:Russian figures are estimates).
During that time, German courts
were restricted to cases of state-
less persons and those who had
committed crimes to fellow Ger-
mans. It was not until 1955 that
West German courts could proceed
against other Nazi criminals who
had not been tried by the occupa-
tion powers.
EVEN THEN, West German
prosecutors faced two more main
problems. One of them was the
law. that permitted no further
prasecution .against persons who
had been tried for other Nazi.
crimes by the Allies. Several of
the most prominent offenders
escaped prolonged prosecution this
way.' .
Other difficulties lay in the-or-
ganization of investigations car-
ried on after 1955. Each West
German state had its own inves-
tigation team working with the
evidence collected in that particu-
lar state.
Therefore, a central coordinat-
ing agency was set up in October,
1958 which since has been process-
ing all evidence for the current
wave of Nazi trials.
About 500 major cases have
been tried as. a result of these
investigations. Around 5©0 more
trials are expected to be held dur-
ing the next five to eight years.
SOME CRIMINALS, of course,
will never be punished. Some have
fled to South America, some to,
Africa, and some are believed td
have become residents of the
United States. Despite. this, it may
well be assumed that Germany has
done all in her own power to rid
herself of the Nazi spell.
Some of these revivals of Nazi
cruelties on, television have had
an educational effect on the
younger German population. Be-
fore this current wave of revival,
in 1959, it was found that teen-
agers did not know the barest
elements of what really happened
during the Nazi years. Teachers
and parents alike had been too.
reluctant to tell their young gen-
eration anything about that period
which was still too vivid in their
minds.
But now, five years later, it
seems that Germany has regained
her balance.
To the Editor:
IT WAS with so much pain that
I heard Evelyn Sell call our war
a "dirty war" (in her talk on
September 3 at Ann Arbor High,
School),, when every day Viet-.
namese soldiers are dying hero-
ically, fighting for democracy and
freedom, contributing an ' active
part in defending the free world.
t What she called a "dirty war,"
we call a "noble war," because we
are fighting for our. freedom. and
idealism, as we do not want to
have to accept the totalitarian
regime of the Communists and
because we do not want. to be,
forced to.live under a regime
where people must obey a single
party.
We never can accept a regime
where you are sure to be led to
jail if you oppose any opinion of
the government, asrEvelyn Sell
has done in Ann Arbor.
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WHATEVER THE COST would'
be, we are fighting and will con-,
tinue to fight until we will die or
we will win. If the United States
were to withdraw its troops, as
Evelyn Sell wishes, we would fight.
alone, as we did so many times
against Chinese invaders and
French colonialists.
Without support we would die,
but would keep our honor safe.
It is so shameful to give up while
we still have the capability and
the opportunity to fight.
Why should we give up when we
have been fighting for so many
years against Communist and
other forms of dictatorship. One.
proof of our love of freedom is
that we were successful after many
attempts in our revolution of 1963,
in which we overthrew the Diem
regime. Now, we are ready to over-,
throw any other dictatorship.
Our recent student demonstra-
tion in Viet Nam against the gov-
ernment is a proof of our concern
for democracy, and those demon-
strations are also proof of our
freedom-a privilege that stu-
dents in North Viet Nam have
never had because demonstrations
in North Viet Nam Are always:
INTER-FRATERNITY COUNCIL Presi-
dent Lawrence Lossing recently made
the University an excellent offer. He
made available space to allow many of
this fall's fraternity pledges-those above
the freshman level-to move out of their
dorm rooms 0nd into their fraternity
houses as soon as they pledge.
Lossing's' proposal would help alleviate
crowded dorm conditions, it would help
the pledges, and it would help the frater-
nities. The University, which is now con-
sidering the offer, has no grounds for
turning it down.
The University is dealing out a heinous
injustice to hundreds of students this-
fall by cramming them into rooms de-
signed to hold one less occupant. Scores
of singles and doubles are being "convert-
ed" into doubles and triples-that is, ex-
tra furniture is being shoved into the
rooms along with the extra students. As
a result, hundreds of students appear.
doomed to suffer out the rest of the school
year under perhaps the worst living and
study conditions in quad history.
THE MOST IMPORTANT aspect of Los-
sing's offer is that it would help allev-
iate the plight of those in the dormitor-
ies. It is at present unclear how many
pledges the fraternities would be able to
take-Lossing is currently surveying the
space available and plans to show the re-
sults to University officials next week.
But the exact space in the fraternities is
a minor matter; the students in the dorms
would without a doubt appreciate any-
thing the fraternities could do to make
their conditions less severe.
A secondary aspect of Lossing's offer
is that it would help both the pledges and
the fraternities involved. The pledges
would probably rather live in the frater-
nities they have chosen than in the jam-
med dorms. And as Panhellenic Associa-
tion President Ann Wickens-who noted
she would have offered a plan similar to
Lossing's had the sororities had any ex-.
tra space - has commented, the plan
would "help the pledges acquaint them-
selves" with their fraternities. In addi-
tion, the fraternities would welcome the
opportunity to become better acquainted
with their new members and to use. fully
the facilities they have available to house
the pledges..
THE RESIDENCE HALL Board of Gov-
ernors has the power to let the pledges
above freshman level out of their con-.
tracts. It can waive the prohibitive $45
fee students usually have to pay for
breaking the contracts. But Vice-Presi-
dent for Business and Finance Wilbur K.
Pierpont and Vice-President for Student
Affairs James A. Lewis will decide on the
proposal. Under the rules, the Board of
Governors will decide on their recom-
mendations, but in practice, it will prob-
ably rubber-stamp them. Pierpont and
Lewis thus bear the responsibility for the
action on Lossing's offer. They have no
excuse for refusing it.
-ROBERT HIPPLER
organized by the government in
order to support the government.
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IT WAS IRONIC that Mrs. Sell
said, "The Viet 'Cong are the
people and theh people are the Viet
Cong," considering that in 1954
there were nearly one million
people who, after many years of
living under the ommunist re-
.gime, fled to'the South.
They left their property and
accepted a new risk' ina new ad-
venture in the South. They were
not seeking merely better living
conditions, but primarily the op-
portunities to liberate the country
from the totalitarian Communist
regime.
It was mere naivety to mention
the "National Liberation Front"
and to involve it in political dis-
cussion, because everybody in
South Viet Nam knows that this
so-called front is merely a puppet
organization made by the Viet-
namese Communists. Even tie
pro-Communist persons ,in South
Viet Nam do not want to use that
as a means of propaganda for the
Viet Cong, because this so-called
front is only effective in fooling
foreign and naive people who have
had no contact with it.
.* * *
IT WAS certainly an error to
believe that we, Vietnamese people,
do not want free election for
unity of our country. We would
like it, but we know, throughmany
experiences with the Viet Cong,
to be wary of them. Since they
never carry out their agreements,
we are wary of their dishonest
manner of acting if the election
were held.
I just mentioned above that
there were almost one million
people who left the North in 1954.
There would havebeen many more
who would have j fled if the Viet
Cong had allowed "a free choice"
as they agreed in the 1954 Geneva
Agreement. .
We would like the unity for our
country, but we do not want to
have the same situation as laos
today.
FOR THE above reasons I dis-
agree completely with Mrs. Sell.
Being a Vietnamese student who
has lived many years under the
Ho Chi Minh regime and aso
under the nationalist regime, I
know that Mrs. Sell's ideas are
based on a quite erroneous con-
ception, which may be due to the
lack of understanding of our coun-
try,
-Nguyen Thi Tuyet, Grad
Ex-Officios
To the Editor:
I, FOR ONE, support the removal
of the Daily editor's ex-officio
seat from Student -Government
Council. However, I do not base my
decision on the spurious argu-'
ments presented by Editor Berk-'
son.
He said that he was unable to
write' objectively about action in
which he took part on Council,
and from this drew the conclusion
that every othr Daily editor, past
and 'future, would have the same
problem. I think that this is an
improper conclusion, and that if
Berkson simply doesn't feel that
he is capable of such' objective
writing, he still has no real basis
for assuming that 'other Daily
editors would have the same prob-
lem. Indeed, if past editors had
been in this predicament, I'm sure
they would have spoken up at the
time.
I hold as worthless Berkson's
argument that as a councilman he
was exposed to newsstories he
wasn't free to print ,because f
some obligation to the Council.
I am sure that Berkson has taken.
part in off-the-record interviews
in the nst .nd that' h ncold
Why I do support the removal
of the Daily editor for Council,
then, relies 'not on the preceding
arguments, but rather on the one
argument that he doesn't really
fit in with my conception of what
an ex-officio should be.
Five of the ex-officio members
of Council specifically Inter-,
F±raternity 'Counici, Inter-Quad-
rangle Counci, uanhellenic Ass-
ciation, Assembly Association and
International Students' Associa-
tion, represent specific groups f
students on-° campus. The other
three ex-officios, tliat is the presi-
dents of the Union and the League
and the Daily editor, do not. On
this argument alone do I base my
suport for the removal of not only
the ex-officio seat of the Daily
editor, but also those of the Union
and League presidents,.
-Thmas:R. Copi,'67
LAUGHS:
TwO 'New'
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At the Campus Theatre
THOSE WHO HAVE been wait-
ing wearily for e new movie-
any new movie-to come to town
for a change will be 'relieved to
know that two new (more or less)
foreign flicks have just opened at
the Campus. Undoubtedly, how-
ever, their relief will be some-
what tempered by the realization
that one of the movies, with the
original title of "In the Doghouse,"
stars all those lovely folks from ,
"Carry On, Teacher" and similar
second-grade British pictures.
Actually, "In the Doghouse"
isn't too bad, since it features an
excellent supporting cast: what
moviegoer with a drop ,of ruddy
sentiment left in him 'could .ie-
sist a basketful of kittens, a chim-
panzee, and a full-grown lion nam-
ed Mr. Tibbs? The human actors
do their best, but it is gratifying
to see the animals upstage them
every time. If I must sit'thzrough
a picture filled with animals, I'd
much rather they be kittens than
Beatles.
The other picture on the Cmpus
twint-bill is an. Italian .comedy,
"Love and Larceny," starring it-
torio Gassman. In contrast to "In
t~ie Doghouse's" more obvous
touches (an understatement) of-
slapstick, "Love and arcency" is
more, dependent on requally time-
honored tricks such as flashbacks
and the expressions on the actors'
faces,*
AND OF COURSE, being a typi-
cal foreign-film-with-English-sub-
titles, moments of comedy are
provided when someone in the
theatre bursts out laughing at some
remark which nobody bothers to,
translate on the screen.
Neither movie boasts a realy
fine plot, but "Love and Larceny",
has the clear lead in this respect.
Gassman turns in a fine perform-
ance as a con man who recounts
his past history of connivery to a
man who has just tried to. pull a
badger game on him for a change,
--Steven Haller
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GST UNFORGETTABLE,at
leash in Europe, is :the fact'
that de Gaulle is the man who
took power from the hands of the
militnv at the axnanse of nar-
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A Bursting 'Block M'
OFFICERS of the Wolverine Club have
recently announced that success of
the "Block M" football card section has
far exceeded their hopes for this year.
Membership in the block is more than
double that of last year and there are
still so many applicants for the section
that the Wolverine Club office was open
Wednesday and Thursday afternoons to
accept them all.
Several things account for this. Fore-
most, of course, is the University's im-
proved team, a team that has been ranked
as high as third in the nation. A second
factor is the great improvement in seats
being provided for the block. The seats
assigned to these freshmen are better
than many seats being given to sopho-
mores..
Third could easily be 'a simple fac-
tor of spirit created , by the other two.
People just like to be members of a yell-
ing crowd on the winning side, one of
the greatest spectacles in football.'
STRANGELY ENOUGH, the block could
turn out to be a self-fulfilling proph-
ecy. Writing about how a team needs a
crowd to win has been done so often that
it '*seems trite even to think about it.
But just because it is trite on paper does
not mean it is not true in fact..
The extra enthusiasm that can be pro-
vided by an organized cheering section of
Block M proportions is so noticeable that
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