Seventy-Fifth Year EDITED AND MANAGED Y STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSIrY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORfrY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Each Time I Chanced To See Franklin D. ,._ .. Building Problems in More Ways Than One by H. Neil Berkson 420 MAYNARn ST., ANN ARBoR, MIcH. NEWs PHONE: 764-0552 chigan Daily express the individual opinions of staf f writers ors. This must be noted in all reprints. i i I' TEMBER 20, 1964 NIGHT EDITOR: LAURENCE KIRSHBAUM Lessor in Discrimi n1ation augh t at Some Fratert11tes E FRATERNITIES at Michi- iously enough, I received similar treat- are despicable centers, even ment at another B house that I rushed. tnds, for young bigots. Broth- A houses can be. criticized, also. "Well, isely knit group whose unity we'd take them if they came, but they're much from common .preju afraid and have no real interest in us;" t common interests, says an A brother who obviously thinks ne, primarily because all the religious understanding is a one-way ted did, that. I am of reli-- street. If he would only realize what one :anpus there are two types sentence, comparable to the one follow- aose of religion A and those ing, inserted' in .the fraternity booklet :n A which I shall refer to would do for the fraternal spirit, this houses are the most disturb- would be a different campus. ". . . The rushed B, I was given the members of this fraternity are predomi- y a brother, but he winced nantly A but during rush we urge an'd g the last i ames of myself welcome all B's to see the house and pos- . I was tagen inside to meet sibly help establish the first real 'frater- actives who treated me rath- fity' on campus." a name tag was placed upon . er which I received a rather J MENTIONED BIGOTRY earlier. Imag- n. I was given a curt and ine a typical student who pledges .B. rip around the house and In most eases he was raised without pre- d an invitation to return udice if he had, anything resembling eek. wise parents and clean-cut friends. Now I walked into the docor for he finds himself among a group of :fel- visit at B, a rather polite lows whose comnion denominator is anti- I to see me privately, He had A. His instructions for interviewing; en selected to .perform the rushees are probably similar to this: ".. . .e and embarrassing, yet and if you see an A, try and be polite crament inherent with his but get rid of him quickly. Invite him was, so he said, voted down back and then come and see me." It is eeting during the week and not unlikely that before long he will be fore, look for another. fra- sharing their attitude. :. ~The word "fraternity" m.eans brother- hood; brotherhood inplies equality. What )UT the front door, I passed kind of brotherhood can be learned in >f brothers waiting for new a group based on bias and prejudice? Do departure was greeted by respective members of A and B houses owls and snickers. Since I think they can always live separate lives? t a few of the brothers at If not, the college student is of the ma- , and since I was not out- turity to start the association here at :ious at that time, any legi- school. In all fraternities there are 'ath- sion concerning my poten- letes and bookworms, social giants and Lve to have been postponed hermits. Why not toleration? after my second visit. Cur- ,--ROBERT LEDERER Problems at the Piekricek ) FELT SORRY for Atlanta stole my liberty and property rights that Ldester Maddox when' his were blessings of mine (and yours), prior ie' Pickrick, was shut down to July 2, 1964." Surely there couldn't be ment not so' long ago should a ry eye left in Atlanta after readipg eer to know that his inita- this sob story. t of free enterprise did not " at fateful day. In. fact, like BUT THE BEST is yet to'- come. Now r Phoenix, 'a new and evi- that Maddox has been banned by the rous business has arisen for "Communists" from using the Pickrick. figurative ashes of' his old as a restaurant, he has opened it again, lishmnt. as a base of operations for the sale of{ anti-Johnson books and other inflamma- s w hl recoll, got his pc- tory articles. Just look at the wide range refusal o serve Negroes ihn of souvenirs the enterprising Maddox brought about the closing now offers to the local bigots (and at ant b overnment officials such reasonable prices, too!): ant~ ivfialsh -For hi-fi enthusiasts who have tired ing. the new Civil Rights of sports-car sounds and esoteric jazz, from hisw restaurant cry- there is a long-playing record, "If -I Go. C omunistresinthe United to Jail," by the new recording star Lester' nent had'ruined his "child- Maddox ($2.95), which' he describes .as n dr d sh -"A live reproduction of our news confer- ence of July 10, 1964; 'a short time after thave thopght that that being attacked by the Communist-in- xnd of it, but they reckoned spired racial agitators and just before erseverance. A recent issue being sued by little bobby (sic)." a newspaper reveals that -For those who prefer curling up by opened a new business in the burning cross with a good book, Mad- building, a business which dox offers "A Texan Looks at Lyndon" by igoted attitude even more Evetts Haley, "None Dare Call It Treason" hi former actions did. by John Stormer, and "American Patri-, ots" by. that dramatic new a'uthor Lester |RTISEMENT, Maddox in- Maddox. Also available are various poll- hin range of his words to tical cartoons (including one entitled Pickrick, saying, "I can't "Bobby and The Gestapo at The Pickrick. of the wonderful Pickrick Door"), American flags (50 cents apiece) re free to do in the past, and Confederate Flag Auto Tags ("Mark-; sent to show you through ed, 'I stand with Pickrick' "). Rounding utiful Pickrick restaurant out the line of Maddox products ;are d by the ungodly and un- "Pickrick Drumsticks" (in other words, Civil ,Rights Act of 1964, axe handles) in three convenient sizes:_ sported by the bloody and Daddy Size ($2.00), Mama Size ($1.50) and mists, .enacted by my U.S. Junior Size ($1.25). (Make clubbing Ne-' igned into law by my Presi- groes over the head with axe handles a# game the whole family can play!) .f n take a look at the more ired chairs and tables, tens WHETHER MADDOX'S new line of work of dollars in equipment, is also marked by disc-iminatory prac-# Les, building and property tices is not clear in the advertisement.3 r lifetime of toil and strug- Hopefully, if the local Negroes wish to clared dead and rendered buy, the latest Lester Maddox record or Civil Rights Act of 1964 a Confederate Flag Auto Tag, Maddoxz w by my President) that will not bar their way. Perhaps he will, even let them buy axe handles at his low # discount rates so that they can hit eacht f t1 J flj , other on the head if they want to. It is sincerely to be hoped that Mad- 1L BERKSON, Editor dox will not hesitate to allow Negroes R ARD HERSTEIN to buy his new line of hate merchandise. AS AN 18-story building begins to rise over South" University St. and Forest Ave., multiple housing in Ann Arbor suddenly becomes an urgent problem. It is disturbing that the project's developers have tried to cover the problem with a public relations' gloss. They have tried to establish the phony impression that the University is thoroughly familiar with their plans and hearily approves. They have tried, on the one hand, to make us believe that. parking won't be a problem because most of the building's tenants won't have cars,. and, on the other hand, that the city, the University and the chamber o"f "commerce are in .close commnunication concerning this problem. Neither is true. BUT UNIVERSITY SOURCES say the Milwaukee- based firm is a reputable one, despite the dubious state- ments of its Ann Arbor representative.They will prob- ably build to standards above building code requirements. Nevertheless, three issues are raised which the city of Ann Arbor and the University must begin to consider or they will invite pure chaos. -The greatest of these is parking. A conservative estimate provides the building's potential 800 occupants- with .200 cars between them. Because the building has Central Business District zoning, 'it does not have to" provide off-street parking for these cars. This is an intolerable situation in a commercial area which already has heavy traffic. And every time another "highrise" goes up (one'is already rumored for across the street) the problem will get worse. -The building's rents (estimated at $60-$70 per person) and apartmentlayouts (efficiencies, one and two bedrooms) will place it in the same catagory with other housing in Ann Arbor. It will be primarily directed at. undergraduates, doing nothing to solve the shortage of low-cost housing for married couples and "graduate' students.' -This structure will not' be unique. If it succeeds it will bring more and bigger buildings in its wake. While I 'have nothing against "high-rise" housing per se. I frankly wonder if the Central Campus area should be dotted with such buildings. SOME QUARTERS would like to condemn the Uni- versity for not "using its influence" to stop this building- from going up. This attitude is mired in wishfulness- "high-rise" has hit the rest of the country and it's not going to avoid us. 'But more important, the presumed "influence" does not exist; initiative here must come from the city. This is, first of all, Ann Arbor's problem. The :city" council has .been curiously reluctant to make any long-range study of multiple housing and,- particularly, the parking question. If such studies were initiated,' many things might be done. The-zoning code could be changed to keep predominently residential units out of commercial areas. The same requirement-to provide off-street parking-which applies to multiple housing in residential areas might be made to apply in commercial areas as well. Each of these suggestions involves complex issues.; Tht point is that the city cannot wait any longer to examine the effects of "high-rise" housing. Office of Academic Affairs figures .predict 36,000 students here in four years--an increase of 6000. Chamber of commerce' figuers show that each thousand students brings double that number of University and non-University personnel and dependents to Ann Arbor. The time to examine the. ramifications of these figures in terms of housing, parking and traffic is now. * * * * S TEPHEN SPURR, the new graduate school dean, has :been marked as a "comer" ever since he began work- ing under the University's answer to the New Frontier -Roger W. Heyns. Besides heading the natural resources school, he has effectively coordinated the University's move into full year operation., Mentioned as the new dean of the graduate school as early as last year, Spurr later became rumored as the next vice-president for student affairs. It was always clear that he would move up in the administration. WHILE Vice-President Heyns contends that there will be no major changes in graduate school operations, the fact remains that Spurr is assuming the job on a full-time basis. His predecessor-Ralph Sawyer-was only part-time. The school is an odd one-it has no faculty or .curriculum of its own, existing as an admin- istrative unit and funnelling Horace Rackham's generous endowment to various other schools and departments of the University. There has been some talk of establishing University- wide standards for graduate students and quotas for the different departments, turning the graduate school into an admissions office. Currently, each department sets its own requirements, and while quotas. exist, they are loosely administered. Spurr may move in these areas; he may move in others. He is certainly going to meet with opposition. The graduate school might become an interesting place. * 4. *, - * ; LITTL. E NOTICED in President Hatcher's welcpme to freshmen .last month was his first public endorse- ment of the recent direction of the Office of Student Affairs. The President was not just talking. As he seeks a successor to the outgoing OSA vice-president, James A. Lewis, it is obvious that he wants to underscore the University's move away from the paternalism which marked former years. In this vein, President Hatcher met with both students and faculty last week to discuss desirable qualifications for Lewis' successor. The tenor of both meetings was apparently the same: the OSA is structur- ally adequate at the present time; what's needed is a highly respected academic man who can check the grow- ing split between classroom and extra-classroom life at the University. / SINCE THE CANDIDATES most prominently men- tioned for the OSA post all fit this criterion, and since all of them-Deans Robertson and Lehmann and Prof. Cutler-have worked actively and 'well with students in the past, the University community should wind up very satisfied with President Hatcher's selection. One unfortunate footnote to the student meeting involved the absence of such people as Union President Kent Cartwright and International Student Association President Yee Chen. For some inexplicable reason they were not included on a list drawn up by SGC President Thomas Smithson. The Union's involvement in campus affairs far outweighs that of SGC, while the question of better programming for foreign students should be one of OSA's major concerns. 1 4 PUBLIC EMPLOYES SUFFER: Balancing French Budget Doesn't Solve Problems By DEBORAH BEATTIE Associate Editorial Director AST WEEK French Finance Minister Girard d'Estaing made the astounding announce- ment that the French government has achieved a balanced budget for 1965--something that hasn't happened for 35 years. According to d'Estaing, it is a "sincere" as well as a balanced budget and is a continuation of the economic stabilization plan be- gun September 12, 1963. Although a balanced budget may' be pretty effective campaign ma- terial for de Gaulle and his men, about to face.municipal; and Sena- torial elections in the spring and. summer as well as the presicen- tial election at the end of next. year, it won't be a blessing, for those: already oppressed by the stabilization plan-mainly gov- ernment-salaried workers and farmers. *1 * * IN THE BUDGEt presentation, d'Estaing and Premier Georges Pompidou stressed that social wel-, fare would not be slighted, but also announced that employes of state-run concerns will not be given wage increases equivalent to those attained in private sectors. Unfortunately social welfare ac- tivities won't apply to state em- ployes, whose incomes will be dis- astrously low as the gap be- tween government-paid and pri- vate incomes widens. The French economy under the s abilization plan was in some ways too successful. Industry flourished and the employment rate was high. The buying power of private salaries greatly, in-' creased. But. to halt inflation, which persists in spite of in- numerable government precau- tions both psychological and tech- nical, the government inflicted its economic severity on those whose incomes are most easily controlled' by the state. Prices of agricultural products were limited and the an- nual wage rise of state employes was blocked.. CONSEQUENTLY the buying: power of those with private sal- aries became three times that of government .employes-of which. there are many in France. It ap- pears that 'in 1965i the inequalities of income wil continue to increase, further injuring those who were already economically disadvantag- ed. The government can insist over; and over that wages in private in- dustry, are rising unreasonably and not according to the Plan, but unhappy public employes will not be assuaged with words. After the prolonged miners' strike in 1963, the government agreed to give a catch-up pay to close the gap between public and private wages, but this is insuf- ficient. France is still plagued by periodic cessation of electricity and gas supply, telephone and postal' services and transportation. All , of these are state-operated concerns. As' the economic situa- tion becomes increasingly grim for public employes, strikes in vital service areas will probably become" longer and more frequent. * * , NOT ONLY the public em- ployes are hard-pressed, their' children who want to continue their education beyond the sec- ondary level are suffering too. Among the demands put forth during the student strikes last fall was a request for student salaries. Although tuition costs are prac- tically nonexistent in French' higher educational institutions, young people cannot afford to be studying instead of working, 'be- cause their families are unable to support them. Unless public em- ployes' salaries are increased the hopelessness of the situation. will be perpetuated .as many of their children will be forced to abandon their education . Perhaps the situation would be more understandable or forgivable if the French economy absolutely could not provide more money for public emloyes. But this is not exactly the problein. Essentially the funds are there..-But Presi-; dent de Gaulle has chosen. to di- rect these funds into a ridiculous atomic force which the economy probably will not be able tomain- tain, and into an unreasonably large foreign aid program. * * * BREAKING TRADITION with a balanced budget has little value 'for the average Frenchman unless government expenditures are re- directed as well. A boom in private industry, the prestige of nuclear weapons and financial benevo- lence 'for .Communist China are lowering the living standards of public employes. Wine and French bread alone are not conducive to contentment. C The Week in Review The Regents Bring a Bang ; DYLAN CONCERT:, Carryi.ngth e Weig ht of The Worl d'sProbl emrs.. THAT THE MANY-SIDED personality that is Bob Dylan remains an enigma-perhaps even to himself-was amply; demonstrated last night when this uncommonly hung-up kid played guitar and harmonica and sang to an overflow crowd--estimated as being about half .high school students at Ann Arbor High. Emphasizing that "I don't write songs, y'know ... just write verse and set it to music and a tempo I like . . .," Dylan dispensed liberal doses of his acidic and characteristic gripes against mid-twentieth century society to a highly receptive audience. Nearly as random as some of his more esoteric "verses" was his. delivery on this occasion-obvious to those who had heard the angry. lad previously-certainly not at the peak of its potential. But some- how, the unabashedly monotonous. guitar style--not always in tune,. either-the unsophisticated and occasionally sloppy harmonica work, and the pinched nasal voice (that only Bob Dylan could get away with. consistently and still remain a popular performer) only served to throw the weighty content of Dylan's musical polemics into shocking sharp relief. GRANTED, MOST OF us take issue with much in the course of recent history and contemporary social and other trends, it is only too. clear that Bob Dylan has concerned himself with these problems to the extent that the burden may be about to knock him flat. Committed to his grand sense as deeply as he is at thispoint, Dylan conveyed the feeling through his material, his arrangements, his "technique," and his strangely worn and tired appearance that he is ". . . tired of blow- in' words at a stone wall... .," that he is frustrated at the reception oft his "message," and that he doesn't give a damn about that flat G- string, the missed chord, the monotonous chanting of familiar verses. By JOHN.KENNY Assistant Managing Editor ' and, LOUISE LIND Assistant Editorial. Director, in Charge of the Magazine SLOW TO START, this week at the University ended not with a whimper but a bang. The climax of the week came with the appointmient oaf Stephen Spurr to the graduate school dean- ship at Friday's Regents meeting.' The selection of Spurr should mean closer cooperation between the graduate school and the Of- fice of Academic Affairs. Spurr worked part-time in the academic: affairs office, under Heyns, since October, 1962. He was responsi- ble for coordinating the shift to the tri-term.: This total academic perskective should enable Spurr to understand the difficulties and pressures ex- isting between the graduate school and the undergraduate colleges. Some administrators contend the current student-teacher ratio, in the graduate school can be lower- ed to benefit the ,quality of un-' dergraduate education without hurting graduate studies.- It is interesting to note that. . the dean of one of the Univer- sity's smallest schools should be- come head of one of the nation's' largest graduate schools. _ * * * WITH THE APPOINTMENT of Spurr, only one important cam- pus post remains to be filled-- the vice-presidency of student af- fairs. After 10 years in the OSA job. James A. Lewis is anxious to retire and return to teaching in the education school. s Last Tuesday's discussion be- tween student leaders and Presi- dent Harlan Hatcher over quali- fications for the student, affairs. vice-president is in itself signifi- cant--the mere fact a meeting oc- curred is encouraging. Those talkE -and another President Hatcher Another important student-fac- -ulty discussion this week - this time .on the residence college to be built near. North Campus-cen- tered on the'type of housing ac- commodations this living-learning unit should contain. Nothing. wa.: decided at this first meeting-and this is good. Thorough planning requires the 11 students involved to discuss and disagree frequent- ly enough to arrive at a workable' plan for . the college's housing units., THE REGENTS met Friday with .seven members instead of the usual eight. The seat of the late Regent William McInally, who died Aug. 22, will be filled by appointment - probably within a few days. Gov. George Romney', appointee will fill Regent McInal- ly's term 'which expires Dec. 31, .1968. . 19ansing sources predicted earl- ier Romney would name McInal- ly's successor before Friday's meeting.; Now it is believed Rom- ney waited until yesterday's Re- publican state convention picked a lieutenant'-governor candidate. ' The state convention last night nominated Sen.., William Milliken of Traverse City as the Republi- can candidate for lieutenant gov-' ernor, ruling him 'outof the race. Allison Green, nominated for sec- retary of state, was also elimi- nated from the running.,' Other contenders for the seat include former Republican state chairman Lawrence Lindemer; Ink White, a Clinton County pub- lisher who ran unsuccessfully for the board in 1963, and Robert Briggs of Jackson, a former Uni-, versity business and finance vice- president. * * * THE ONLY REAL BIT of dis- cussion at the Regents meeting. was sparked wheh Regent Gar' Birablec of Roseville questioned the acceptance of a $500 scholarship for Negro students. Regent Brab- lec wondered if such a scholar- non-discrimination because it at- tempts to bring aid to an area which needs help." He defined "implicit discrimination" as 'the deliberate attempt to exclude cer- tain persons from receiving aid. * * * THE TROUBLE with this defi- nition is that it is, vague. The first scholarship in 'the Univer- sity's scholarship booklet is re- served to "Caucasion, Protestant women of American parentage who need financialaassistance." Other scholarships are available only to Oriental women, Jewish students, "needy Protestant stu-' dents," and "worthy young white men or women." The University has attempted to contact scholarship donors and persuade them to change discrim- inatory clauses i1 the scholar- ships. Yet the clauses and the scholarships still stand. Where is \the line being drawn? It is encouraging that Regent Brablec publicly questioned the nature of the Negro scholarship. The unfortunate action was the 6-1 voteto table the motion. This means the issue of discriminatory scholarships will be discussed and decided privately by the Regent: and voted on in an upcoming meeting. Custom apparently pre- vents public disagreement among the University's governing board. DEVELOPERS 'of an 18-story apartment building under con- struction on South University St. drew sharp criticism from members of the Office of Stu- dent Affair's off-campus housing office this week. OSA housing per- sonnel denied claims by Robert Weaver, local representative of the Milwaukee firm planning the project, that the University was "satisfied" with plans for the building. Mrs. Elizabeth Leslie claimed only "peripheral" contact with de- velopers and expressed concern over lack of parking facilities. At Wednesday's SOC meeting Weaver tried to brush off student con- 1 t 4