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OCTOBER 9, 1964 NIGHT EDITOR: JOHN BRYANT
Whaop TProtest: Key
Pjroblem -for the, SAL
9ME WEEK'S~EVENTS in Berkeley and
Ann Arbor have underscored both the
potential and the prblems of organized
student action aimed at improving higher
education. Definitely the most important
moral is that grievances must precede
action-not vice versa.
They did at Berkeley. Students there
were faced with a clear case of adminis-
trative tyranny. The California adminis-
tration had cut them off from several ac-
tivities-recruiting, fund-raising and pub-
licizing-which are essential to the sur-
vival of student political activity. And
such activity, the pious proclamations
of the university's president and the
state's governor notwithstanding, is a le-
gitimate and vital ;part of education-
more valuable in many respects than that
which takes place in classrooms.
What' to demand was an equally easy
question: demand that the privileges be
returned.
IVEN THESE CONDITIONS, the ques-
tion of how to press the demands was
not immensely difficult, either. Had a
student government been used, matters
undoubtedly would have been tied up in-
definitely. The argument for mass ac-
tion was clear: the administration had
hushed political activity in an attempt
to improve its public relations image;
the tactic needed was one which would
make ithe repressive policy harder on
public relations than the free policy. The
mammoth headlines the demonstrations
prompted ir, the bay area far outweigh-
ed any embarrassment the prohibited po-
litical activities might have caused:
The Ann Arbor protests - whatever
their faults-have also demonstrated the
viability of the mass, extra-institutional
method of action. Despite the willy-nilly
way in which the movement has evolved
so far, it has already managed to get
two audiences with the University's Presi-
dent, contacts with other officials, pub-
licity -across the state and even some ac-
tion from Student Government Council.
This is more than has happened on this
campus in quite a while.
BTT UNLIKE BERKELEY'S demonstra-
tions, the campus project has gotten
no concrete results. And the reason is
clear: unlike the Berkeley movement, the
local protest started out as protest for
its own sake rather than as a reaction
against some intolerable evil here. As
a result, it has been fragmented, disor-;
ganized and, most importantly, doesn't
really know what it wants.
Because of this, the protestors have
appeared quite ludicrous several times.
They blustered over to Hatcher's house
Tuesday, and were easily deterred by Mrs.
Hatcher's invitation to the next day's
open house. (Where the President in-
formed them that tea and protest don't
mix. It's interesting that at these open
houses, which are proclaimed as President
Hatcher's way of keeping in touch with
students, students aren't supposed to ar-
ticulate anything but niceties.)
Wednesday's mass meeting still found
the protestors unsure of just what there
was to be unhappy about, and their mem-
bership reportedly dwindled frdm 100 to
30 as the meeting stumbled on.
ALMOST TOO FRIGHTENING to con-
template is the leaders' forthcoming
confrontation with the President; at this
point none of the protestors could last
two rounds with him in a debate over
concrete University policy. All of which
makes the protestors look like crybabies
-people who simply like to stand on the
Diag and moan about random issues they
don't understand.
This-is unfortunate. For there are legi-
timate grievances on this campus, and
there are practicable alternatives to many.
H. NEIL BERKSON, Editor
KENNETH WINTER EDWARD HERSTETN
Managing Editor Editorial Director
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of the current policies. And the "action"
method - independently-organized stu-
dents using the weight of their numbers
to wrest changes from a legally invulner-
able institution-is far better than a "le-
gitimate" student government weighted
down with procedural trivia and apathetic
constituents.
THE STUDENT ACTION LEAGUE should
fall back and regroup. It should, first
of all, call off the session with President
Hatcher. The President is to be com-
mended for agreeing to the meeting, but
given the students' present state of un-
preparedness it will be a waste of his time
and theirs. They have little to offer in the
way of ideas, and will be unable to deal
critically with.the defenses of the status
quo the President presents.
Then the group must sit down and
think about its "grievances," deciding
which of them it really feels aggrieved
about and which are merely excuses for
complaining.
It must decide which of those that re-
main really have feasible and desirable
alternatives. Does SAL really want higher
wages if the result is higher rents and
tuition? Does it want "campus democra-
cy" at the cost of the red tape, incom-
petence and inefficiency which would re-
sult? Just how is the University suppos-
ed to push for lower costs in Ann Arbor,?
Or de-emphasize research?
THIS DOESN'T MEAN the group's de-
mands need be "moderate" in the
sense that they require little change. Nor
need it work out plans in minute detail.
The administration is very good at this;
the SAL will not be better. What the SAL
must do is to work out its demands to
the point where it is positive that it
really wants what it says it wants.
From this list, it should pick a reason-
ably concrete objective (junior apartment
permission for women, for example), and
stick-at least for a while-to that. Hav-
ing cut its teeth on a specific issue, it
can then move on more ambitious mat-
ters such as research vs. education and
democratizing the University.
WITH A CLEARLY desirable and clear-
ly defined demand, the SAL must
next plan a rational drive to get it met.
Before doing anything else the group
should map out its entire strategy, so
that any setbacks it meets will not leave
it paralyzed. The strategy would progress
from the mere presentation and discus-
sion of demands, through verbal protest,
to some sort of mass action if the admin-
istration remained unresponsive.
When actually implementing its ef-
fort, the organization must present its de-
mands to the right people. Many de-
mands, for example, shouldn't go to Presi-
dent Hatcher; in a decentralized Univer-
sity such as this he would have to turn
tyrant to implement policies which are
handled at the college or department
level.
And finally, the protest must keep its
perspective, remembering just what it
basically is after and, why. This will en-
able the leaders. to modify their posi-
tion, in the face of good counter-argu-
ments, without capsizing completely.
THE STUDENT-ACTION movement born
this week is in danger of falling into
the same pit student government occu-
pies. It is in danger of becoming a vested
interest, an organization which exists
only for its own sake. A student govern-
ment can limp along having no purpose
but itself; a student action group pannot.
-KENNETH WINTER
Managing Editor
Wizard of Ooze
HURRAH FOR OLD EARTHY, eloquent
Ev Dirksen!
You may disagree with practically
everything he says, but his way of say-
ing it is so marvelous and endearing you
c/n almost forget the nonsense he utters.
His dulcet mellow tones ooze with his
voluminous vocabulary. His repertoire of
funny, folksy stories seems limitless. He
is one of the few great orators left on
the American scene.
What a shame it is to see the Dirksen
kind of nolitician slin from the scene. We
By JEFFREY GOODMAN,
HE GOAL is a vehicle for
' fast, informed and represen-
tative faculty action" on Univer-
sity policy-making. The means-
as envisioned by a group of pro-
fessors - would be restructuring
the University Senate, the facul-
ty's primary forum for such ac-
tion.
Among the minority of the fac-
ulty who seem to care, whether the
Senate ought to be reformed is a
controversial issue. Some feel the
body's existing structure already
permits the faculty an adequate
voice in University-wide affairs.
Others feel the present system,
no matter what is done within its
bounds, will never be a sure-fire
mechanism for .the professors to
express their opinions. Some go
so far as to intimate that the
faculty should be running the Uni-
versity.
* * *
HOW THE BATTLE-LINES are
drawn will become a little
clearer next Wednesday, when the
Senate Subcommittee on Univer-
sity Freedom and Responsibility
holds an open discussion on its
proposal.
The plan's basic postulate is
that the present Senate - which
usually attracts about 150 men
to its once-a-semester meetings
even though it is open to all 1200
faculty members, deans and cen-
tral administrators-has been an
ineffective means of expressing
faculty sentiment.
if faculty feel they cannot quickly
and decisively translate their re-
actions to policy alternatives into
participation in choosing among
those alternatives, if the recom-
mendations of Senate subcommit-
tees are too seldom taken seri-
ously in the administration be-
cause they actually represent the
opinions of only a dozen or so
men-if these are the problems
which faculty perceive, then some-
thing can be done.
NOT SO FAST, conservative ele-
ments warn. In general, it is be-
yond the natural realm of fac-
ulty to be running the University;
professors neither have nor should
take time to acquire the expertise
needed. If some do want to par-
ticipate, they have a much more
appropriate-and more effective
-voice at the department and col-
lege level and through the Sen-
ate's subcommittees. The members
of an Assembly cannot be any
more interested in their work
than those who fill the ranks of
the committees.
Furthermore, the existing struc-
ture can be strengthened. Already
at least four new advisory com-
mittees to University vice-presi-
dents have been formed. With the
more frequent appearances being
planned for the Senate's newslet-
ter, "Senate Affairs," faculty in
general will be much more fa-
miliar with the work of these and
all other committees.
Proponents of restructuring
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clause is taken to mean, no similar
clause exists in the Regents' by-
laws, under which the Senate now
operates.
But beneath the debate on how
the faculty might become more
effective is an even more basic
disagreement on whether it should
at all. More than the other is-
sues, this question defines the
tension between the conservative
and liberal thinkers on the facul-
ty.
Isn't it more appropriate and
ultimately more beneficial to the
University, the more conservative
men ask, for faculty to limit their
concern to their academic disci-
plines?
Doesn't a huge institution like
the University require bureaucrat-
ic organization-specialists paid to
perform specialized functions, all
the way from teaching fellows to
presidents-and isn't the present
bureaucracy already rationally or-
ganized?
* * *
WITHOUT NECESSARILY im-
puting motives to the proponents
of restructuring, Senate reform is
one of the most exciting sugges-
tions to date for countering just
that bureaucratic fragmentation
of men's lives into specialized dis-
ciplines, from which neither an
appreciation of nor participation
in the larger world is possible.
Not only does the traditional
concept of professional competence
now require greater and greater
specialization, but the rapid growth
of the University makes each per-
son, each department, each col-
lege increasingly remote from all
the others and from the adminis-
trators who are running the whole
show.
To say that faculty should no
seek every means possible of in-
volving themselves in community
concerns is to acquiesce to the
powerful forces which are widen-
ing the gaps between men.
* * *
THE EXPANSION of institu-
tions like the University will, of
course, affect various men differ-
ently. But even If the professor is
not limited to his discipline, in-
stead concerning himself with de-
partmental or college affairs, he
is a much smaller man than if he
acted as part of the whole com-
munity of which he is a part.
Nor is the effect of these forces
limited to the occasional admin-
istrative decision which sparks
violent dissent and the frustra-
tions of powerlessness to change
that decision. Most important is
the inability of any one person
to be a whole human being.
GENERAL as such a trend is,
it is directly relevant to the re-
structuring of the University Sen-
ate.
For even if the present commit-
tees of that body come into closer
contact with administrators an
communicate more frequently to
Senate members, the number of
men involved in the ongoingbusi-
ness of the whole University is still
limited.;
Even if a member of the As-
sembly must spend some extra
time outside his classroom boning
up on administrative matters so
he can speak knowingly, how much
does 'he lose? If one of the glar-
ing shortcomings of today's class-
room education is its unrelated-
ness to the world at large, won't
student and teacher alike benefit
from the broader perspective and
specific experience which faculty
bring to their lectures and dis-
cussions?
AS THE PROFESSOR -partici-
pating in or hearing of the delib-
erations of the Assembly - gains
a deeper understanding of how
different factors are weighed and
priorities established in decisions
which directly concern him - and
there is no doubt that decisions
beyond classroom, departmental
and college confines affect him-
perhaps he will more readily rec-
ognize how the concerns of his
discipline must be weighed against
those of other disciplines and how
significant is the task of estab.
lishing priorities.
As he evaluates the perform-
ance of administrators, or hears
others' evaluations, perhaps he
will gain a better understanding
of other men. Perhaps -he will
lend some creative insights to the
University community.
Not that faculty should be in-
volved in all the minutae of ad-
ministration. That is unnecessary
as well as undesirable; they need
only break away from the false
conception, held by many oppon-
ents of Senate reform, that ad-..
ministration involves very little
beyond minutae.
* * *
YET AREN'T THOSE who call-
for reform and a broadening of
the faculty's scope the same men
who are already too busy with pro-
fessional activities to spare time
for more participation in the Uni-
versity? Opponents claim it is the
men who call for action who will
not serve on the committees.
Perhaps they will not serve sim-
ply because they are already ac-
customed to the ineffectiveness of
committees which can speak only
for themselves. In any case, it is
generally the busiest men who are,
of necessity, the most efficient
and the most capable of becoming
even busier.
* * *
WHAT THE restructuring would
do, therefore, is counteract frag-
mentation and frustration by pro-,
viding meaningful channels for
faculty participation in wider
areas of concern. It is not simply
that the 65 sitting in the As-
sembly and the numerous others
working on committees would
themselves become more directly
involved. The real point is, pre-
sumably, that people will take an:
active interest in administrative
affairs only when there is some
hope of actually influencing those
affairs.
The administrator who claimed
recently that Senate meetings have
been attracting a decreasing pro-
portion of the faculty because
professors aren't interested in the
University is only partly right.
Faculty do not come to meetings
because it has become for easier
-and by default, more rewarding
-to sit in their offices. It will
remain easier until there is a fac-
ulty forum which offers some hope
of being worthwhile.
* * *
FOR THOSE who doubt that
men remain narrow because ex-
ternal opportunities for reaching
out are limited, who postulate in-
stead some inherent lack of con-
cern, the only valid argument
against Senate reform is that
something would be lost.
If SACUA were cut from 19 to
nine, thus placingc10 fewer peo-
ple in the direct contact with the
University which SACUA affords,'
something might be lost. But the
freedom and responsibility group
is by no means committed to this
cut.
Even if it were, if nine men
could do a more efficient job than
19 of making the faculty's voice
heard in the right places at the
right times, if the nine could con-
tinue offering suggestions and in-
sights for Assembly agendas, there
might be adequate compensation
in the greater worthiness of the
Senate as a whole. Only if this-
does not happen would harm be
done.
* * .
BUT IN ALL this discussion of'
broadening faculty concerns, there
remains the essential question of
"How far?" Even the freedom and
responsibility committee is not
sure.
A rather ambiguous and con-
troversial section of the restruc-
turing proposal, left out of the
committee's presentation to the
Senate last spring, is the key
example. It defines general and
specific Senate responsibilities.
Generally, it states, the Sen-
ate should "enable the faculty
to participate in the making of
University policy decisions and in
the appointment of leading ad-
ministrative officers." Specifical-
ly, the section's definition in-
cludes such areas as budget-mak-
ing, directions to colleges on apN
pointments and salaries, campus
planning and review of adminis-
trators.
-* * *
TC SOME committee, members,
this section means simply that
the Senate and its committees
should be consulted for advice,
while actual power remained with
the administration. As such, the
responsibilities section at first
seems to be just a formal state-
ment of powers which already re-
side informally in Senate commit-
'tees.
To others, however, the section
actually asks for faculty votes, for
faculty appointments to adminis-
trative desks.
Probably the latter interpreta-
tion is too strong. Granted that
administration dpes require a
command of complex knowledge
developed over a long period of
time, there is definitely a point
beyond which a professor cannot
broaden his concerns without sac-
rificing teaching. Anyway, the
Regents would certainly be skep-
tical of such a definition of fac-
ulty responsibilities.
' * * *
BUT THE MILD interpretation
is not quite as innocuous or sim-
ilar to present practice as it seems.
For there is. a significant differ-
ence between the voice now exer-
cised by committees alone and
the voice which could be exercis-
ed by committees that could
quickly gain the support of 1200
faculty. Coupled with an alive As-
sembly, the milder interpretation
of the responsibilities section be-
comes much more powerful, still
without going overboard. The fac-.
ulty's voice would no longer be
subject to intimidation, for the ad-
ministration 'neither wants to nor
can play dictator ton1200reason-
ably intelligent men.
The responsibilities section, is,
therefore, more significant as a
prediction than as a demand. And
given the "alleged degree of fac-
ulty dissatisfaction with the force
their opinions carry, the predic-.
tion is a safe -one.
PERHAPS the most interesting
discovery someone thinking about
the restructuring could make is
that even if all the skeptics are
right-even if behavior cannot be
altered by organizational form-
there is still no reason for not
giving the proposed system a try.
Next Wednesday those who still
have hope will gather to debate
the issue. The discussion promises
to be lively and possibly humor-
ous at points. But whateveritis,
it will hopefully indicate just how
much, if at all, faculty sincerely
want a vehicle for extending and
broadening their activities.
If the indication is positive, the
restructuring could be a signifi-
cant step toward creating a true
university.
'STATION 6
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At the State Theatre
WITH THE RELEASE of "Sta-
tin Six-Sahara," it Is ob-
vious that Allied Artists is out to
build up Carroll Baker as "The
GreatestFind Since Jean Harlow!"
Not content to do this merely by
applying an excess of padding in
the usual places, they are flooding
local' stores with stand-up card-
board Carroll Bakersand small
prismatic replicas of C.B. which
change from one pose to another
when moved (wiggle the picture
and watch Carroll: Baker do a
bump and grind right in your hot
little hand!).
In addition to this questionable
sort of publicity, the Hollywood
Touch extends even to the news-
paper advertisements, featuring
Miss Baker in a torn costume and
torrid pose which only appear in
the movie during 'the opening
credits. During the scenes that
follow, the moviegoer is treated to
scenes of Carroll Baker in a towel
(and bath towel at that, not a
dish towel), Can'oll Baker in a
pair of shorts and bra, and Carroll
Baker's nude back (even thisis
not too enticing; nothing here that
will get S. W. Butterfield in any
'trouble).'
SINCE "Station Six-Sahara"
will hardly prove worthwhile to
Playboy readers who expect to get
plenty of aesthetic pleasure for
their money, then, the unfortunate
fact remains that the movie must
make it on its own merits. This,
however, seems highly unlikely.
The setting, for one thing, is not
exactly picturesque (a pipeline out
in the middle of the Sahara Des-
ert, or whatever sound stage the
producers used, is hardly the last
world in scenic grandeur).
Nor is the plot any great shakes;
the script seems as improbable as
any of those which have been"
turned out in the past to point up
the idea of a glamour-gal stranded
out in the middle of nowhere with
five men and no principles. The
acting is often as wooden as the
delivery of the narrator of the
accompanying travelogue, and the
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The obvious barrier is in the
infrequency of meetings. More
subtlely, even while the handful
of men at each meeting is likely
to be very interested in what is
going on, there is almost inevit-
ably the sense of frustration
which comes from knowing the
mass of faculty is not interested.
And even among 150 or so, mean-
ingful discussion anc positive ac-
tion are extremely difficult; reach-
ing consensus is an arduous task.
WHAT IF ACTION on Univer-
sity policies depended instead on
a 65-man elected Assembly, meet-
ing monthly and authorized to
speak as a representative of the
faculty? If composed of those men
most interested in the total Uni-
versity community-yet open to
any Senate member who wants to
speak-the Assembly could provide
just the vehicle for effective fac-
ulty participation and expression.
At the same time, the 20-odd
subcommittees which have flour-
ished during the Senate's exist-
ence would continue to develop
their specific expertise and to fur-
nish a working contact with ad-
ministrators. Communicating fre-
quently with the rest of the fac-
ulty, these committees would pro-
vide the complex knowledge and
intimate connections necessary to
ensure the Assembly's actions are
respected.
The Senate's executive arm -
the Senate Advisory Committee on
University Affairs -would be
shrunk from 19 members to nine
and would meet weekly instead of
monthly, If it were then empow-
ered tof; speak for the Assembly
between gatherings of that group,
SACUA would be even more cap-
able and even more forceful than
it is now in keeping faculty abreast
of the tempo of University life.
THE RESTRUCTURING pro-
posal is the product of long hours
of thought and debate during the
past three years by the Senate
Subcommittee on University Free-
dom' and Responsibility. The pro-
posal came before the whole Sen-
ate only last spring, at which
time the Senate resolved to hold
the Wednesday discussion.
counter that they don't want to
run the University; they simply
want assurance that the faculty
will be able to speak as a whole,
and before an issue has died or
been d e c i d e d. Administrators
might continue to ignore the fac-
ulty-if indeed this is what hap-
pens-but at least the faculty
would be able to communicate a
unified reaction. And it would be
hard in the first place to ignore
an opinion representing the 1200
men who make a university a place
of learning.
EVEN IF THE 65 comprising the
Assembly were no more interest-
ed and informed than those now
comprising the committees, the
Assembly would still be explicitly
designated as a representative of
the whole faculty. Presently, neith-
er SACUA nor the subcommittees
have or want to exercise such
authority.
In the restructured Senate, not
only would the Assembly be
stronger, but SACUA would be
authorized to "act for the Assem-
bly between its meetings when
there is need. Whatever the
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SPANISH REVUE:
More Theatrical Than Notable
IT IS NOT OFTEN that audiences at the University greet a per-
formance with cheers and shouts of bravo. They did so yesterday f
at Hill Aud. for Antonio and his Ballets de Madrid-a skillfully con-
cocted Spanish revue notable for its enthusiastic performance and:
its flamboyant theatricality.
It is rather disillusioning to think that an audience which prides
itself on its sophisticated taste could be so pleased with a program}
noticeably "jazzed up" for public consumption. s
The program was highly diversified: Spanish folk dances, fla-;
menco numbers and a semi-modern dance-drama. Antonio is a polished
artist with highly competent technique. He had no trouble managingr
the intricate maneuvers of the flamenco dances nor does he lack'
the technique necessary for the classical numbers.
* * * *
IT HIS STYLE which is disappointing. None of his movements
were precise enough-one got the feeling that his feet just happened>
to arrive in a new position instead of being deliberately placed there,
and his control in the flamenco numbers was never strong enough to
produce the slowly growing tension which climaxes in a frenzy of
dance. He produced few subtle movements, and few small ones. This{