71 EnrrmD A N MANAGED BY STUDENTs OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIcHIGAN . - UNDER AUTHORITY OP BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS WFhere Opinions Are 420 MAYNARD ST., ANN ARDOR, MICH. NEWS PHONE: 740552 TIruth Witt Prevai Editorials printed in T he Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staf f writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. IDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1964 NIGHT EDITOR: KENNETH WINTER FEIFFER YOV At) Afl(E1 T eOY ? . Housing Problem Shows SGC Power Failure W ll. L-' BUT Th AT ' N OT- ^f IJ D4O't STQ TT'EflcBY. YOU &OT A !?IFtwr TO 8 LJE fI WIJA7 YouV LOAM-rI JU5- 6T AMP VP PAND BE" CouI~T~P!ie r O s Boa- F ARM6 FoUKS SEA who ' YOU ARE! NOT A- 8U'It T(4Ar AU L.G A $tOy. NJ84o y ,AYS \'OL HAVE To PRAY. w N 5Gcuoo. t... josr. SR 1M G AA ~OTE FRO}M 4UV Mr15IT R, 'St N 4 A FE~W FORM AMPF YO7L- Bu r Ix 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 'U hol ould . 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. -KAREN KENAH m lm 1 RD ICIent i a go g , IT'S OMLY 1HAT I4AV u ORt rIGs too! WERS I oT ASHAM~p TD0 HiAVE GOp (itJ THF. COM5Y~'U-m TfO "3 ARE YoQ , SoY? PL~t~O F Ai-L-EGtAN CE. wE n~or goo IN THE CIVtL RlI&H7~s IL. WE GO T GOp IN E .- ~SPACE PRc\$IAM. £ WARNJ YOU AMP YOuR GON~NA APPOtINT 601) EV RYWN R t114 THIS GDVE'gp.1t Mi A8O1T IN OUR PR!- VAT LIV$? ,1 YOU SOCIlIS TO40OY ' NO8Oryy HASA '' cr {T1Z IN OUR PRIVATE ruv a. °x= -I' I ,, 1 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. $.* * 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. * * * 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' ,.. 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 ron 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- 4 I 4 I 4 "Well, Back To Work" , :. - r r r, p , j J ' . . I 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 it 2c+ nlm n -.1'. .,s a - i i I U 1..AN' ~