Seventy-FifthYear EDrrED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNrVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Each Time I Chanced To See Franklin I}D What Makes College Students Turn Inward? by H. Neil Berkson Where Opinions Are Free, 420 MAYNARD ST., ANN ARBOR, MIcH. Truth Will Prevail NEWS PHONE: 764-0552 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1964 Nj(HiI 1'Ii0R: J tk'i (WMAN The Record Shows Romney Should Be Reelected F ONE characteristic defines today's college student, it is his increasing tendency to turn inward. To. examine this event from an historical perspective is perhaps senseless. The structure of higher education has changed radically; the numbers involved take the heart out of any concept of an academic community. Specialization and quantity place the contemporary student in a position foreign to his predecessors. To examine it in a sociological context is to pre- suppose differences which do not exist. The student is not in> a unique situation. Rather, he is manifesting a symptom rampant in society. Everyone seems to be more and more concerned with.less:and less. NEVERTHELESS, we have always expected more from education, and we have a right to wonder what is happening. We have a right to wonder why we have little compassion, little desire for an awareness and understanding of the human problems which surround us. Everyone has their own bogeyman; mine is the "system." I find neither concrete sources for the blame, nor do I see any remedies, but it is clear that the ma- jority of college students today are looking merely for a resting place between the time high school gradua- tion ends and responsibility begins. Proof? Educational Testing Service happened to pro- duce convincing evidence of this development just last week. In a comprehensive survey of 13,000 freshhmen at 26 private and public universities and colleges they found the following to be true: -A staggering 50.5 per cent went to college for pure- ly "social" reasons; -Another 26.5 per cent for purely "vocational" reasons; -18.5 per cent for "intellectual" reasons; -4 per cent wanted to "rebel." Nearly 80 per cent, in other words, had no interest in a liberal education as freshmen. They were in college for the wrong reasons. NOR IS THAT figure likely to decrease once students have been through the University. Two pressures here are simply too great. The first is toward conformity and relates, I suspect, to the 50 per cent of the student body here for social reasons. The University is loaded with all kinds of status symbols - the "wise" student will quickly learn to do homage to those symbols. He will conform to middle-class values both inside and outside the class- room. The second pressure is primarily one of time. Both society and the University are demanding too much every single day. The more I study the learning process, the more I am convinced it must go at its own pace. Education cannot be measured by X credits, Y semesters, Z years. Every student is a different human being. Ideally, each should be able to develop in his own fashion, ac- commodating his own problems on his own time. I have never yet understood why everyone must be launched by the time they are 21. AS LONG AS THE pressures reign, students will .con- tinue to reflect only on themselves. Concern for their security and a deep fear of failure must necessarily combine to produce deadening apathy. Menacing forces in society threaten the existence of all of us, but, ironically, our pre-concern for ourselves may keep us from recognizing and meeting these forces. IN THE PAST 21 MONTHS Michigan has made more progress, solved more prob- lems and made greater preparation for the future than any other state in the nation. A look at the record shows not only that this is true, but that the ad- ministration of Gov. George Romney is responsible for it. Congressman Staebler maintains that Michigan's economic growth is purely a result of national prosperity. He ignores and denies any part that the Romney administration may have had in this growth. Governor Romney himself has admitted that "it would be inaccurate to say that Michigan has made it out of the economic woods on its own." How- ever, it would be equally inaccurate to say that the state's economy automatic- ally moves in step with the national econ- omy. In the 1950's, Michigan's percentage of unemployment was consistently greater than the national average. Since early 1963, Michigan's percentage of unem- ployment has been consistently below the national average. Today it is 2.9 per cent compared to 5.2 per cent for the nation. Between 1050 and 1961, Michigan's im- provement in personal income was 47th among the 50 states. But since 1963, Mich- igan's improvement in personal income has been number one in the nation. DURING THE 1950'S, industry was mov- ing out of Michigan. So far this year, there has already been over $1.5 billion worth of plant and business expansion announced. Non-residential construction in the state is up 49 per cent over last year; the national increase is 8 per cent. Michigan's increase in this type of con- struction has been six times that of the whole country. Why? Those who make plant-location decisions say it is because of "new con- fidence" in Michigan. These decision- makers have a faith in Michigan today that they did not have 10 or even two years ago. No act of Congress decreed that the new Ford stamping plant-the biggest ever built by Ford in this coun- try-with its thousands of new jobs, be located in Michigan instead of Illinois. This is Michigan's progress, not the fall- out of national prosperity, and the ef- * Fairy Tale HERE'S GOING TO BE an Anti-Com- munist Rally in Ann Arbor this week. Herbert (I Led Three Lives) Philbrick will speak on "Should Known Communists Be Invited To Speak on College Campuses?" Dr. Fred (Christian Anti-Communism Crusade) Schwarz will discuss "Com,- nism, Fascism and Extremism." "Patriotic, devotional and anti-Com- munist songs" (to quote from the press release) will be sung by Janet Greene, "a former star of the program 'Cinderella and Her Friends'." Maybe she still is. -E. HERSTEIN 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 all other matters here are also reserved. Subsription rates: $4.0 semester by carrier ($5 by mail); $8 yearly by carrier ($9 by mal). Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Mich. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday morning forts of state government in the past two years have helped to create this un- equaled record of Michigan progress. How? Primarily by putting an end to anti-business state government, and b maintaining fiscal integrity. Specifically, the economic expansion program has in- cluded: 1) a new Department of Eco- nomic Expansion; 2) greater state help to local communities in attracting new industry; 3) a Community Industrial Fi- nancing Act; 4) additional research funds for state universities and colleges; 5) specific legislative steps such as better tax equalization practices and an im- proved State Securities Act. CONGRESSMAN STAEBLER maintains that Governor Romney thinks people are numbers. But Romney's record refutes this view. In the areas meeting human needs-health, education and welfare- the Romney administration has paced the nation in improvements in the past two years. The percentage of state aid to local schools declined steadily from 1950 un- til 1962. In the last two years, the Rom- ney administration has increased state support for local school budgets by $52 million and reversed the declining per- centage of state aid. Local special educa- tion programs for mentally and physical- ly handicapped have also been strength- ened by $21/2 million in state matching funds. Romney has instituted new ways for school districts and community colleges to set up area education programs of vocational and technical training to help meet the drop-out problem. Romney has also gotten the state a new constitution which provides a new Board of Educa- tion with the responsibility to plan, co- ordinate and budget all education-kin- dergarten to university. IN THE AREA of higher education, the recommendations of Romney's blue rib- bon committee on educational needs led to a 20 per cent increase in operating funds for state-supported colleges and universities-the largest single year in- crease in the history of Michigan. This 20 per cent increase provides catch-up funds for faculty salary increases, equip- ment and book purchases, and general costs increases. Also under way is a gi- gantic college building program - $100 million on a "pay-as-we-grow" basis which saves Michigan over $50 million in interest. In the social welfare field, more changes and more progress have been made in the past two years than in any other period since the present system of welfare programs was established 25 years ago. A new juvenile-delinquency program, for example, was established for youths released from the Boys and Girls Training Schools, including 18 new positions and $25,000 for special foster home care for girls released from GTS. Furthermore, new facilities have increas- ed capacity 80 per cent in three years in BTS. THE BASIC POINT is this: Michigan government in the last two years has been a pro-people, public interest gov- ernment, and it will continue to be pro- people, public interest as long as the people of Michigan re-elect Gov. George Romney as the head of their state. -PHYLLIS KOCH I TEXAS SENATORIAL RACE: State Democratic Party Control Rests on Outcome ByHAROLD WOLMAN and CAL SKINNER, JR. A BIG UPSET could be in the making in Texas where lib- eral Democratic Sen. Ralph Yar- borough is being challenged by conservative Republican George Bush. Bush, who trailed by 15 per cent early in the campaign, is now running neck and neck with his Democratic opponent, accord- ing to latest polls. Bush, a wealthy oilman and son of the late Prescott Bush, former Connecticut senator, is known as a strong proponent of the Goldwater brand of Repub- licanism. The strength of his effort is all the more amazing since barely five years ago, Texas for all practical purposes did not have a Re- publican Party. In 1961, the first breakthrough, was made by the GOP when John Tower, another Goldwater Republican the Senate. However, Tower's due more to the split of his opponents thar strength. ConservativE candidate Williaml strenuously opposed who feared that heN warded with an imp mittee assignment if e of these liberals act for Tower, hoping t their wing of the p hold the committee, another, more liberal, BUT THE 1958 SPI an incident in the pr in -which liberal and Democrats have been one side is the popu John Connally, who le servative faction oft cratic Party. On t Ralph Yarorough, w i, was elected tered the Senate in 1957. In the middle is the President of the election was United States, Lyndon Johnson. in the ranks For many years Johnson was n to his own allied with Connally in an attempt e Democratic to get rid of Yarborough. While Blakely was Senate majority leader, Johnson by liberals refused to grant Yarborough a would be re- seat on the prestigious appropria- ortant com- tions committee, despite the fact lected. Many that Yarborough was in line for ively worked the post according to the seniority o strengthen system. arty and to seat open to As Vice-President, Johnson saw Democrat. to it that patronage went to Con- nally rather than Yarborough; the name of the liberal Texas senator LIT was only was also excluded from lists of olonged feud senators meeting visiting dignitar- conservative ies and attending other important engaged. On functions. lar Governor eads the con- texas' Demo- AS A RESULT of this feud, he other is President Kennedy made his ill- 'ho first en- fated trip to Texas last November hoping to heal the split which appeared to be endangering his chances for reelection. Connally and Yarborough were both in the W motorcade at Dallas, but had re- Sfused to ride together in the same car. As a result, Connally rode with the President and was ser- ion built up iously wounded during the assas- .e reason be- sination. After Johnson assumed the ;ht complain Presidency, he suddenly had a n 's distract- change of heart about Yarborough, who was one of the strongest handled and supporters of the administration's technique is program. When Connally tried to hroughout the run one of his men in the pri- k is adequate mary against the liberal senator, Johnson intervened, protesting that Yarborough was necessary for few technical the success of his legislative pro- is a success- gram. vestigatior of Connally acceded to the Presi- t versus fate" dent's request, but since then he rmne human has -rendered no assistance what- soever to Yarborough's reelection K. Simpson efforts. In fact, several of Con- Connally and Yarborough: To the Victor .. . 'FATE IS THE HUNTER': 'Fact Vs. Fate' Well L At the Michigan Theatre THE AFTERMATH of a plane crash; who was at fault? Was it an engine failure? Was it the irresponsibility of the playboy pi- lot? Was it the misjudgement of the flight engineer? Or was it fate? Glenn Ford is the airline exc- utive whose job and best friend's reputation depend on finding the reason for the death of 53 people aboard the ill-fated flight. Ford does an excellent job in creating the tension, frustration and sheer determination of the young execu- tive he portrays. Rod Taylor does a commend- able job as Savage, the pilot whose reputation Ford is left to defend. In the flash-backs Taylor shows multiple facets of the characer of Savage. At each new encounter Taylor succeeded in creating a more complex character than our initial impression would lead us to expect. BASICALLY, the movie deals with the question of fact versus faith, a question which it cleverly avoids answering. On one hand, the audience is presented with an incredible number of factual pos- sibilities which are eventuaily narrowed down to - one. But on the other hand, there seems to, be a reason and pattern to these events outside human control. The ultimate decision is left to the viewer. Technically, "Fate is the Hunt- er' is well done. Opening with the event creates an immediate in- terest w h i c h is maintained through the ensuing list of credits. This "teaser" technique permits the audience to recover from the initial impact of the crash and prepare for the tens in the pursuit of th hind it. However, one mig that this interruptio: ing. Settings are well the "flash-back" skillfully employed ti film. The sound trac but not outstanding IN SPITE OF the difficulties, the film ful, tension-filled in' the question of "fac in events which dete life and death. -Mary' nally's men including former Gov. Allan Shivers have openly sup- ported Bush. Should Yarborough lose, it would leave Connally in clear control of the Democratic Party and in good position to run for the Senate against John Tower in 1966, an election it is quite likely Connally would win. YARBOROUGH meanwhile is relying upon a strong showing by the President in Texas, hoping to sweep in on his coattails. He also hopes to pick up needed votes when he campaigns across Texas with President Johnson this week- end. Yarborough's vote in favor of the Civil Right's Act (he was the only Southern senator to vote for the bill) is being used against him in eastern Texas, which is the area where most Texas Negroes reside. However, Texas has a strong liberal element, particularly in the southwest, where the Demo- cratic senator will pick up a huge offsetting vote. Another factor being used against Yarborough is his alleged involvement with Billie Sol Estes. During the primary, Gordon Mc- Clendon, Yarborough's opponent, charged that the senator had ac- cepted a large campaign contribu- tion from Estes, and he Dioduced four substantiating witnesses. Yarborough promptly denied the storyand the accounts of two of the four "witnesses" were quickly disproven. Later the other two admitted they had been lying. However, Bush has renewed the charge, and the two witnesses now say they were not lying-and they have taken lie detector tests to prove this. BUSH, FOR HIS PART, is prov- ing to be an attractive candidate and an excellent campaigner, as even his opponents readily "admit. Despite his conservative ideology, he has followed the example of his more liberal brethren in the North and avoided too close an association with Sen. Goldwater. In Texas, as almost everywhere else, observors are predicting a Johnson sweep. 4 The Week in Review Cutler Appointment Highlights Dutll Days, By JOHN KENNY Assistant Managing Editor and LOUISE LIND Assistant Editorial Director DESPITE THE appointment of a new vice-president for stu- dent affairs and a variety of events in the area of student non- academic concern, post-midterm sluggishness prevailed at the Uni- versity this week. Replacing James A. Lewis as vice-president for student affairs will be Prof. Richard L. Cutler of the psychology department. His appointment is effective Dec. 1. Lewis, who held the post since 1954, asked to be relieved of his duties to return to teaching in the education school. He an- i FEIFFER nounced his retirement this sum- mer. * * * CUTLER WAS a member of the University Senate's Student Re- lations Committee which in 1962 criticized the structure and policy of the OSA. That committee re- port prompted a full student- faculty - administrative investiga- tion of the OSA headed by Prof. Reed of the Law School. The Reed report urged the abolition of the office of the deans of men and women and a restructuring of the OSA along functional lines. Lewis and the Regents accept- ed the recommendations of the Reed Committee and reorganized the OSA into offices of financial aid, student activities and organi- zations, and housing. In the fall of 1962 Cutler was named chairman of the Senate's Student Relations Committee and helped Lewis implement the new OSA structure. THAT STRUCTURE has re- mained essentially the same since the 1962 shakeup. Serving under Cutler will be Walter B. Rea, di- rector of financial aids, J.ohn Bingley, director of student activi- ties and organizations and Eu- gene Haun, housing director. The OSA is also responsible for the International Center, current- ly under criticism for its unimag- inative program for foreign stu- dents, Health Service, the Bureau of School Services and the Bu- reau of Appointments. In addition to his work in the psychology department, Cutler has done extensive research in the field of mental health. Cir_ ea dvnamir.individua selection methods and the actual wording of its membership clause. The deadline for submitting statements came yesterday with about 20 statements still unfiled. Membership committee chairman William Burns, '65, said some statements were not filed because of oversights. Some statements al- ready submitted are incomplete, Burns said. Some affiliates which have not filed may be experiencing difficul- ty with their national chapters over disclosure of membership cri- teria. If some groups fail to submit their membership statements after a reminder by the commi t- tee, the committee will probably turn the case over to SGC's Mem- bership Tribunal for judiciary action, Burns said earlier this week. SGC could ultimately 'withdraw recognition from these affiliates, if it decides to do so. Withdrawal of recognition would demand much courage from the recently inactive Council. * * * THE SIMULTANEOUS deactiv- ation and reactivation of the Uni- versity's chapter of Acacia fra- ternity manifests both tragic and comic overtones. Former Acacia President Bruce Larson, '65, (he's now been de- moted to the status of alumnus) called the national organization for help. During fall rush they sent a field advisor here who realized Acacia wasn't going to get any pledges. So the field secretary called in a "rush specialist" who grabbed some guys and conducted inior- mal rush with them. But this by today, The national orgasniza- tion generously supplied them with a list of available housing in Ann Arbor. The tragedy here is that some members had to be sacrificed for the sake of appearance to keep the University chapter. The Acacia case seriously questions again the existence of local af- filiate autonomy. ACCORDING TO figures re- leased Friday by Director of Hous- ing Eugene Haun, 116 students are currently overcrowding the University's dormitory system. An unexpectedly large enroll- ment this fall forced over 450 extra persons into the residence halls. The relief for many of them came from several sources: Some students quit school; some pledges moved into fraternity houses; some junior women were given apartment permission. These last two groups, however, were re- quired to pay a $50 fee for break- ing their dorm contracts with the University. Significantly, dormitory crowd- ing will be even worse next year. More students are expected - about 1800 of them. But no new housing facilities will be built. Housing officials may be forced into granting all junior women apartment permissions simply to alleviate further crowding next fall. * * * WITH A NEW cooperative a state-wide educational effort, the state's 10 tax-supported institu- tions are working together to submit a total state education budget to the state Legislature next fall. This year's requests have already been submitted and 4 WAMT6t2 OF AZr TI6*iX HARR AT (MG t4't .:: ! ." WORKED HAD AT WJe MY( P R50m. AWP I WORKED1 HARP AT 96VEtJt- I' MY CAR O THAT EVCM IF I PINT RNAVE" MULCH OFA MIMP OR A P R N~AI Y TV? VAV6EFMWR AQP THCY'P HAVE To FAY ATT6PTOM! .-. AKQP AFTER 6MN TO IAOVc up-TU Lt FROM TfHC C6KCR f~OF THE1 I44;? -flIi tn NOW CAM' A -MAN OMTI[- FuAuVT ADDI KNE -kelTHAT WJITH A I-ITThE MRE " TH6M I i