Seventy-Fifth Year EDITED7 AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIV ERSITY OF .MICHIGAN UNDER AUT{ORITY OF BOARD N CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Where -Opn ion AreFree' 420 MAYNARD ST., ANN ARBOR, MICH. NEwS PHONE: 764-0552 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staf f writers tOr the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1964 NIGHT EDITOR: JEFFREY GOODMAN Eachi Time I Chanced To See Franklin D. Towards God Motherhood and Apple Pie by U. Neil Berkson 1 The Political Game: Played for High Stakes AMERICANS seem to have a knack for turning almost anything into enter- tainment. Politics, for example. If the proverbial objective-but-unin- formed Martian landed in the United States today, he would have trouble dis- tinguishing the presidential campaign from, say, the Rose Bowl race. In both cases, most people pick a team, for to- tally non-rational reasons, well before the contest starts. From then on, one's loy- alty to Candidate or Party X is no more susceptible to reasoned counter-argu- ments than is one's loyalty to Michigan's football team. (Those who don't choose sides apparently find the political game as dull as does a person with no football team to root for. Witness the numerous studies which demonstrate the incompe- tence and apathy of the "independent" voter.) With sides chosen, everyone then set- tIles back to watch the game. We cheer when the Good Guy wins someone's en- dorsement and we hiss when the Bad Guy says something nasty about the Good Guy. And the pretty cheerleaders and other hoopla keep us fired up. ALL OF THIS would be lovely, were it not for one fact: in politics, not just a trophy and some prestige are at stake. The outcome of this particular game happens to be a life-and-death matter for thou- sands of people, and of considerable im- portance to millions. Perhaps the most tragic irony is that so many serious students have been taken in by the entertainment mania, and have contributed to it thinking that they were doing something worthwhile. Paramount among these is the game of predicting elections-a practice somewhat analogous to, and no more worthwhile than, the pre- dicting of football games--which is play- ed by social scientists and journalists and viewed as serious, public-spirited activity. In this light, the Survey Research Cen- ter's announcement that its study of the 1964 elections will analzye, not predict, voter behavior is refreshing. It's good to see that the University's scholars have not fallen for The Great American Game. -KENNETH WINTER Managing Editor HEY! Guess what's happening today. It's the SGC election. You know, Student Government Council. Student Participation. Six candidates for six seats. Write-ins galore.- Remember to vote. It's basic to the democratic process. DEMOCRATIC PROCESS! FIFTEEN YEARS after the issue of Greek discrimina- tion was first raised on campus, it has finally settled on Trigon fraternity. The situation is ironic, for Trigon is the only house which has a religious clause for religious reasons. The group has a strong Christian orientation, conducting its own services, for example; its constitution quite naturally limits membership, there- fore, to Christians. This is quite different than the "White Protestant" clauses that have been buried in many other fraternity constitutions. Nevertheless, the issue is larger than Trigon's good or bad intent. The question is not whether or not a group with common convictions can live together, prac- ticing its beliefs, but whether this group can be part of the University's social fraternity system. Should it, for instance, have the same rushing privileges as other houses when it does not offer the same bill of fare as other houses? The painful answer has to be no. Suppose the New- man .Club or Hillel were to gain living quarters. Wouid they then qualify as members of the fraternity system? Chances are, they would not. WHEN LAST YEAR'S IFC President, Cliff Taylor, established the membership comnmittee, he had 'Trigon particularly in mind. He thought the situation could. be cleared up quickly. But Trigon has no intention of dropping its restrictions, and the next weeks of hearings will be full of tension. If IFC finds Trigon guilty they will probably appeal the case to the courts. If the verdict is not guilty, SGC's own membership committee has no choice but to step in. * * A GROUP of Young Republicans has been distributing a most fascinating document on the Diag. Entitled "A Businessman's look at Communism vs. Capitalism," it could well prove the most profound statement ever issued on the subject. Exerpts: "I hope to prove to you that you can beat the Communist menace and preserve your future, and also make money doing it. While making money was not the original intent, Knott's Berry Farm, Coast Federal Savings, Richfield Oil Company and many others have discovered that anti-communism attracts customers and raises employe morale." "I began buying Richfield gasoline a few weeks ago. I enjoy driving into a Richfield station and saying, IT want some anti-communist gasoline.' I enjoy watching the attendant's face light up with pride in his company." "Anti-communism builds sales and raises employe performance," "Those who in truth are in need and cannot produce for themselves are provided for under the Judeo- Christian principle of the 'Good Samaritan.' No one has ever starved or was in 'need' in the United States for lack of a Good Samaritan who recognized his need and helped him." Communism is "a' wonderful hope and promise for the misfits, the impractical 'intellectuals,' the idealist dreamers and those who feel discriminated against, such as the homosexuals, the insane, the criminals and the juvenile delinquents." * * * * AND SPEAKING of juvenile delinquents, Panhellenic Presidents Council held its annual retreat Sunday to discuss serious matters affecting the sorority system- over a keg of beer. NEW YORK POLITICS: An Influential Senate Race LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: New Slant on UMSEU 4 r Carrel Catastrophe SUBWAYS are for sleeping and librar- ies are for studying and carrels are for graduate students. And I'm all for studying and sleeping and grad students and carrels, However, what's going on in the gen- eral library is ridiculous. You couldn't sleep there even if you were a post-gradu- ate and wanted to;A gleeful team of han- dy men with hammers and drills are romping and stomping through the stacks, floor by floor, putting handles on the fence-like doors they've been installing all month. They seem to take special de- light in whistling lightly as they saw away at their metal rods about one inch from your elbow. IT SEEMS 'TO BE another move in the plan to keep the undergraduate out of the. general library stacks. Day and night most undergraduates study innocu- ously in the carrels. Certainly there are occasions when personal property left in the stacks is damaged or taken, and cer- tainly many a dirty look has escaped the undergraduate when asked or com- manded to surrender his seat to its right- ful owner. And certainly this vandalism is bad. Whether the frequency of these Crimes merits such a drastic retort is the ques- tion. If books and papers are disappear- ing from the carrels, lock up the books and papers on the bookshelves. But is it necessary to spend over two months and how-much-money individually enclosing each table and chair to the tune of "Yan- kee Doodle" or "How Soon Till Lunch?" -ANN GWIRTZMAN Personnel Director By CAL SKINNER and HAROLD WOLMAN THE NEW YORK senatorial race between former, Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy and incumbent Republican Sen. Kenneth Keating has captured the attention of the American people more than any other senatorial race in recent years. The importance of this election, both to New York state and to the nation, well justifies this extraordinary interest. First consider what this elec- tion will mean to the Democrats. NewaYork, with its great metro- politan areas, its multitude of religious and nationality groups, and its "strong labor unions has a large Democratic registration ma- jority despite the existence of a strong upstate Republican vote. In this situation the Democrats should be expected to carry the state easily and certainly Lyndon Johnson wil have no trouble doing that this year. ** HOWEVER, surprisingly enough, New York state currently has a Republican administration headed by Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, and its two senators, Kenneth Keating and Jacob Javits, are both Re- publicans. This situation can be traced partially to the factionalized state Democratic Party. New York Democratic leadership has con- sisted of a curious amalgamation of feuding big city bosses, such as Charles Buckley, Adam Clayton Powell and Carmine DeSapio, each carving out his own little empire; upstate patricians, ex- emplified by Franklin Delano Roosevelt; and liberal, issue- oriented, reform Democrats (many of whom actually belong to the Liberal Party) best personified by the late Sen. Herbert Lehman and Eleanor Roosevelt. Presiding over this uneasy alliance is New York Mayor Robert Wagner, who allied himself with the reformers to oust Carmine DeSapio and the bosses from control of the party. INTO THIS SITUATION came Robert Kennedy, carryihg with him the explicit blessing of Charles Buckley, who, to the reform Dem- ocrats, personifies the bossism which they abhor. A close friend of Joseph P. Ken- nedy, the cagy Bronx Irishman had barely escaped ceifeat in a stiff primary battle two years ago, even though he had the strong support of the late President. This spring Buckley was decisively de- feated by a reform Democrat in the congressional primary battle, and reformers feared he would attempt a comeback by allying himself with the political fortunes of Robert Kennedy. Mayor Wagner also was ex- tremely wary of the Kennedy can- didacy, for a victory for the for- mer Attorney General could well mean a challenge to Wagner's state leadership. * * * DESPITE THIS LACK of en- thusiasm with which certain fac- tions of the state party greeted Kennedy's candidacy, there was no denying him the nomination. Democratic Party leaders who were wary of his candidacy were placed in an unenviable position, because it was - readily apparent that Kennedy was- the only man likely to defeat the popular Sen- ator Keating. Upstater Samuel Stratton was the other serious carididate, but he waserelatively unknown, and it was feared he would not run as well as a Demo- crat must in New York City in order to win. Also, any attempt to deny the nomination to Kennedy would have run afoul of the enthusiastic support given the late-President's brother by a large portion of rank and file Democrats across the state. Faced with this situation, Mayor Wagner was not disposed to test his prestige in a state con- vention battle to deny Kennedy the nomination, and he reluctantly endorsed him. * *a * ' SIHO LD bKENNEDYemerge from the brewing intra-par~ty struggle as the dominant figure in the state party, repercussions would also be felt on the national level. For if Kennedy is able to win and, in the process, gain some semblance of control over the octupus-like New York Democratic Party, he will have created for himself an extremely strong power base of moving toward the Presi- dency in 1972. Many detect thendevelopment of a nationwide Kennedy machine which oould cotnrol by sheer weight of votes, the next open Democratic convention. Besides New York, Kennedy could depend on Massachusetts where brother Teddy holds sway, and probably California wherenPierre Salinger, the late President's press secre- tary, seems likely to win a Sen- ate seat and establish himself as a figure to be reckoned with in California politics. Kennedy has already strongly hinted at his Presidential ambi- tions in a speech at Rochester, and to many New York liberals (as well as to those of similar persuasion across the country), the prospect of Kennedy making a strong chal- lenge for the Presidency is not a comforting one. Many of these people do not trust Kennedy and look to Hubert Humphrey as the logical successor. This no doubt small but also influential group may well desert their traditional Democratic allegiances to vote for Keating this year.' NOR IS ALL HARMONY within the New York Republican Party where senatorial candidate Ken- neth Keating has refused to en- dorse his party's Presidential can- didate, Barry Goldwater. In New York, the Republicans must run liberal candidates if they expect to win on a statewide basis, and the electorial successes of Rocke- feller, Javits, and former Gov. Thomas Dewey attest to the work- ability of this strategy. Keating is a prime example of the metamorphisis traditional Re- publicans must undergo if they seek statewide office. As a member of the House. of Representatives, Keatingsaneupstate New Yorker, was known as a conservative, but as a member of the Senate he has become progressively more liberal. In view of the realities of New, York politics, Keating had no choice but to disassociate himself from the conservative Sen. Gold- water, but in doing so he met with other problems. Henry Paloucci, the New York state Conservative Party candidate, is running in or- der that the Goldwater point of view have some recognition in the campaign. « * * RELATIONS are also strained between the Goldwater-Miller or- ganizations in theistate (mostly citizen's organizations) and the state organization. New York state Republican candidates reportedly have already been urged by Gov. Rockefeller to disassociate their campaigns from that of the na- tional candidate, and reports of noncooperation have been heard from both groups. State chairman Fred Young frankly characterizes the relations between his own organization and the Goldwater- Miller people as "crummy." Keating's fate has also assumed great importance in terms of na- tional political considerations out- side of New York state. His role in the Republican convention and his renunciation of Goldwater have made of him a symbol of moderatedRepublicanism. The de- feat of Keating would likely be seen by many, however unfairly, as a defeat for the entire moderate cause. A Keating victory, on the other hand, could mean an in- crease in the influence of Nelson Rockefeller in the council of Re- publican moderates. Rockefeller, who gained respect among moderates for his per- formance at the Republican con- vention, has staked his prestige on a Keating victory. For both parties, the 1964 New York sena- torial race could greatly influence Presidential politics of the next decade. To the Editors: PROTEST the inaccuracy and slant of your news article con- cerning the UMSEU-University meeting Thursday. Your reporter has very badly misinterpreted what occurred at that meeting. First, we did not meet with a "sharp rebuff." That may be Nancy Stein's opinion, but it is certainly not the union's, nor do I believe it is the University's. We believe we accomplished a great deal: we presented our proposals, we discussed them in general, we gained University agreement to study them, wengainedtUniversity agreement to "negotiate" or "dis- cuss" them with us regularly in the future, and we gained equal status with other employe unions on this campus. Second, your reporter has mis- interpreted the significance of the "negotiation" issue. Mr. Allmand, to preserve University prerogatives, prefers to call the meetings we will be having "discussions." We prefer to call them "negotiations." No matter what terminology is used, the results will be the same: we will meet with the University, we will argue the merits of our proposals, we will receive reasons for University positions, we will present reasons for our positions, we will investigate means of fi- nancing with .the University, and this process will continues untilwe have achieved a satisfactory solu- tion or the union is forced to make the urgency of its proposals more clearly known. If this is not "negotiation," what is it? The fact of the matter is that your reporter has twisted a problem of semantics into a "sharp rebuff,"srather than recog- nizing that what we set out to accomplish byedemandingsnego- tiations has been accomplished. MORE IMPORTANT than these major inaccuracies is the slant of your ar~ticle. Again your reporter has interpreted what actually oc- curred in favor of the administra- tion. First, your article contains con- stant references to things "All- man said." Surely, since we were at the meeting, our views of what took place merit at least mention- ing. Second, your reporter places ex- cessive emphasis on University prerogatives. The University will "investigate the possibility of a wage increase," but we also are doing the same, and will be meet- ing with the University to con- sider both sets of results, not simply to listen to another edict from Mt. Olympus. The problem of priorities is the crux of the matter, but the University will not be the only body making recom- mendations concerning them, but rather will be meeting with us to consider their recommendations and to hear our recommendations. Your reporter has failed to men- tion at all our role in this process. * * THIRD, your statement that our proposals followed the Resi- dence Halls Board of Governors proposal to raise wages is inac- curate and misleading. Our pro- posals-have been known and pub- licized for nearly two weeks. Rather than following some other group's lead, our actions have stimulated the Board of Governors to make its recommendation, the Michigan Union to raise its stu- dent wage rate, and the University to begin a comprehensive review of its student wage policies. The UMSEU has been and will continue to play a significant role in this whole process, inasmuch as it has been recognized as an of- ficial employes' union with equal rights and access to that which the full-time employes' union now possesses. --Dave Salmon, UMSEU Vice-President C arrels To the Editor: THE UNDERGRADUATE has a problem when he wants to find a quiet place to study. But, so does the graduate student. The carrels are one of the few "luxur- ies" available to the graduate stu- dent who does not have an office somewhere on campus and often lives much farther away than the undergraduate. Even then, these carrels are available only to a minority of graduate students. Instead of being unrealistically envious of graduate students and their carrels, undergraduates and graduates should join in applying persistent pressure for better aca- demic surroundings. FINALLY, the faculty have just as much at stake in providing stu- dents adequate study space as do students themselves. Teaching and learning are, after all, a single process. One way for students to stim- ulate the faculty to deal with the problem more actively, may be for them to speak to their teach- ers very persistently about it, both in and out of class. -Gottfried Paasche, Grad I 4 A Vote for Evil WRITE IN THE NAME of Harry N. Ga- lanos in today's Student Government Council election. He is a junior in sanitary engineering who was induced to run by a large group of rabid supporters who feel that his political philosophy has yet to be repre- sented on this campus. H. NEIL BERKSON, Editor KENNETH WINTER EDWARD HERSTEIN Manlaginig Editor Editori Director ANN OWIRTZMAN ............... Personnel Director BILb BULLARD ....................... Sports Editor MICHAEL SATTINGER .... Associate Managing Editor JOH3N KENNY........... Assistant Managing Editor DEBORAH BEATTIE......Associate EditorialDirector LOUISE LIND ........Assistant Editorial Director in Charge of the Magazine The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited to the newspaper. All rights of re-publication of ail other matters here are also reserved. The Daily is a member of the Associated Press and Collegiate Press Service. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Mich. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday morning. Subscription rates: $4.50 semester by carrier ($5 by mail); $8 yearly by carrier ($9 by mail). Galanos likens the University to an exotic vacation spa. He feels that the most critical campus issue is the outrage- ous lack of water sports facilities. He urges the creation of a large artificial lake, to be formed by damming the Huron River and. to be heated year round-all at horrendous expense. A SELF-PROCLAIMED egomaniac, Ga- lanos claims divine right. He is un- principled, unclean and arrogant, and refuses to take prisoners. He is a con- firmed alcoholic, nasty and a heavy smok- er. He is selfish, ignorant and prejudiced against most minority groups. Galanos hates the football team and thinks we are buying our victories. A liar and cheat, he is working his way through college by diverting social security funds from his dying grandmother. Galanos is offering the student body a meaningful choice in the SGC election. Write in his name on your ballot and help ring the death knell of truth, justice and the American way. -DAVID BLOCK GENERATION: A Gap Between Artist and Audience FEIFFER X WIAS A MA5 HIT? AS AB CUW K' A A iTO'CDl). L)(cK(AS A l V1MK. SAiP SMARt' -rf G~S. £V''IODP 1.0 V(A M . - - t WAS A FA1LR A' v f?( FA1 LOTS CE I I' MAQ A J AltIQaW GDM BACK AS ,4 IAU- . WtAW H AIR. G0P DAM C R. ~° SOTS OF 6R&' . CAR DS. fAKe Ny SI$OCf tAJGA1 KS., j[2 MY V~ ( 1. WA A GO.P AS A b1%et. LO5T . S , ACENTURY AGO in his preface to "Les Fleurs du Mal" Charles Baudelaire confessed a by-now notorious predicament of modern art, "the appalling uselessness of explaining anything at all to any- one at all." The problem is not new or local, but must "Genera- tion" appear to rest so at ease with it? True, omr campus arts quarterly aims at "excellence and diversity," and the current issue exhibits some of both qualities. But it also declares its ambition "to bridge the gap between artist and audience." Why, then, is "Generation" so reticent in pro- viding even the minimal informa- tion that might assist its audience in building a bridge from its own side of the stream of communica- tion? The reader will find that con- tributors to this issue are not identified (though a oamparison of the table of contents with the THE ANSWER is not self- evident. Certainly the current is- sue gives signs of energy and ad- venture as well as of a degree of artisanship that is generally im- pressive. The art works are most immediately appealing, in parti- cular the poetic screening of planes of vision in Robert Golden's eight atmospheric studies. Re- grettably the delicate and indeli- cate wry fantasy of Sam Scott's cover is subdued by the drab- toned paper. The fiction is varied and expert- ly delivered: Jeff Mitchell's sur- realist fable of a winged tree, essentially a prose-poem; Eliza- beth Meese's "Smoky," a Green- wich Village vigette with an un- dercurrent of imperfectly realized pathos and excitement; Paul Bernstein's disarmingly straight- forward improvisation on the theme of a campus romance; and - n, i'a I-jra r,it- c n nia j'ain ii' to portend, at least locally, a no- ticeable forsaking of what may be called the contemporary tradition of English, American, and French "academic modernism." It is true that the rather "clas- sical" imagistic free verse of George White, Patricia Hooper Everhardus, and Lynn Knight owes much to William Carlos Wil- liams. But the translations from Guillen, by Garcia and Rosen- berg, the phantasmagorical evoca- tion by Gatsos (freely rendered, it would seem, by Konstantinos Lardas), and Badanes' "Passage" display more radical, romantic, more "Mediterranean" intensities of rhetoric, imagery, and theme. Such rhetoric is apt to be forced too hard, becoming shrill and spasmodic, especially in some of Badanes' lines. Yet the poetry in this issue witnesses to the vigorous condition of "Generation" as it starts its sixteenth year. NAT -"NH C0M ACtC ACS. MAV M0M'l .-Y, IOS MIJY toiWYER DIED., K195' iel3 Uw.7 rn~civ21 'LA1F M . I N.- EXCITnJS tIJwv CFMV AGK. i a i 1 YI"r0t 1 ZI I /