SThg Aidhijan Baity Seventy-FifthYeor EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSIrY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Union Explains Rockwell Financial Arrangements 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. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1964 NIGHT EDITOR: JOHN BRYANT Passage of Proposition 14: Tyranny of the Majority ON ELECION DAY, Californians ap- for its constitutionality in court. Of proved by a two-to-one margin Propo- course individuals will claim that they sition 14. This proposition stipulates should be able to rent their property to that any property owner can "decline anyone they want. Yet, on the other to sell, lease or rent residential real hand, members of various ethnic groups property to any person as he chooses." will claim that they are entitled to the The passage of Propositian 14 repealed dignity of being able to rent the same the Rumford Act of 1963 which made it living quarters as their fellow man. illegal for a property owner to base trans- The question arises of whether a gov- actions on race, religion, or creed. ernment has the obligation or even the Apparently discrimination in America right to intervene on the behalf of min- is not limited to the South. Rather, the ority groups if the majority condones a approval of Proposition 14 documents the measure. permeation of discriminatory beliefs throughout our society. II IS. LEGITIMATE to say that in a democracy the majority should prevail. THIS SORT OF discrimination is not However, thde United States is not a new to the West Coast, the breed- democracy in its purest form; rather it ing ground for such organizations as the is a constitutional or limited democracy. Sons and Daughters of the Golden West Through an intricate system of checks and the John Birch Society. The history aund balances the power of any given of discrimination against Asiatics there, element in our society is restricted. Just notably during World War II when 110,- as trranny by a minority is not tolerated, 000 Japanese were imprisoned in what the courts must prevent the tyranny of Supreme Court Justice Roberts called the majority as exemplified by the pas- "concentration camps" is infamous. sage of Proposition 14. Proposition 14 will probably be tested -BRUCE WASSERSTEIN EUROPEON COMMENTARY Welcome Johnson's Victory r P l J l 1 I 7 To the Editor: T HE UNION would like to answer Mr. Rapoport's editorial of last Friday. Mr. Rapoport re- lates that Dr. Fred Schwartz, president of a group known as t h e Christian Anti - Communist Crusade, passed on information regarding George Lincoln Rock- well's financial support. The editorial quotes Dr. Sch- wartz as saying: "Rockwell re- plied: 'The universities back me,' and proceeded to rattle off a list of universities whose speaking fees are keeping the American Nazi Party alive." The editorial ends with the faintly-dramatic, "We are one." The fact is that we were not one. Our financial arrangements with Rockwell included only trav- eling expenses: no accommodation expenses, no incidentials, and def- initely no speaking fee. We would have been more than happy to have given Mr. Rapoport this in- formation if he had taken the trouble to contact us before writ- ing his article. -John W. Warren, '66 Chairman Special Projects Committee Michigan Union EDITOR'S NOTE: What Rockwell meant when he said, "we are one of his university backers," is open to conjecture. However, to some ex- tent traveling expenses help to keep Rockwell and the American Nazi Party alive.-R.R. Brother Program To the Editor: J WAS VERY SORRY to read in in the Nov. 3 Daily that the Union is consideringtdropping its International Brother Program. I participated in this program last year, and made many good friends through it. I found my "brother" to be a very interesting person, and gained many new insights from him. All in all, I found the program to be worth every bit of the time that I put into it. The Union states that they are considering dropping the program because of apathy on the part of United States students. To some extent this is true. Many students never heard of the program, and most of those who did just were not interested. But I would sug- gest that the Union use those people who did show an interest. * * K I SIGNED UP for the program early in the year. After about two weeks, during which time I re- ceived nothing from the Union. I went back to check on why I had not been contacted. While there I filled out another form and was told that I would definitely be contacted within a week. It has been nearly a month since my last visit and I have still heard no- thing. There may be apathy among United States students, but the Union is not helping matters by ignoring or losing applications from interested students. -Dennis R. Braddock, '67 Sororities To the Editor: IF PEOPLE would realize that sororities are merely smaller housing unts-not elite social groups-there would be no prob- lem of any house having to go off campus. Unfortunately, indi- vidual houses and the sorority system as a whole havetacquired a stigma through publicity. Each year many girls go through rush with no intention of pledging, merely bent on get- ting a closer look at such a con troversial subject, and end up being some of the strongest ad- vocates of the system. They find that a house has the advantages of an apartment in that girls mu- tually choose their own living companions. But there is an ad- vantage of size in the larger num- ber of girls with whom one can exchange ideas and broaden her scope. Moreover, such a living unit is in reality a pooling of resources for purposes of efficiency. Col- lectively, small amounts of money from each individual pay the wages of a cook and provide nour- ishing, tastily prepared food, saving time for the individual members to do other things. Fur- thermore, here is an opportunity for individuals to develop and contribute their talents. Some play guitars and sing for enter- tainment and relaxation. Schol- astically, some act as tutors- and a look at the statistics shows that the overall average for af- filiated women is considerably higher than that of unaffiliated. Economically speaking, this type of housing unit offers other advantages. Some cut hair, somA make minor clothing repairs or do major overhaul jobs, either free of charge or for nominal fees, and thereby contribute fur- ther to domestic tranquility. Others are aesthetically or cul- turally oriented, and act as stimu- lants and teachers. In this res- pect the sororities encourage the members to be well-rounded indi- viduals, and if this all-over de- velopment makes them seem sim- ilar to one-another, is this a negative quality? COLLEGE is a time of discov- ery of powers, of contemplation and evaluation of self. Living alone in apartments or in iso- lated singles or doubles of large dorms encourages one to be more introspective. This is bene- ficial to a- certain extent, but harmful when carried to such degrees that the person feels con- tinually depressed and alone in a world void of love or purpose. Suicides are virtually non-ex- istent in such housing units where people are brought out of their own self-centered worlds and en- couraged to help and be con- cerned about one another. In short, smaller housing units including scholarship houses, co- ops, smaller, more personal dorms and sororities and fraternities all serve the same purpose and offer similar opportunities. Unfortun- ately, the significance of the Greek letters, originally intended merely to differentiate among some of the different housing units--not stigmatize and set apart the entire Greek system- has been twisted and contorted and publicized as a plague to in- dividuality and personal identity and set aside as markers to so- cially stratify the campus. * * * THIS need not be. Everybody has the ability to make friends. If the names were taken away, and each group rushed without any identity to a particular house, and with numerically equal forces, there is a good chance that the units would take in equal numbers of new members. If during rush period next se- mester, other women's housing units besides sororities could have open houses and freshmen could be free to meet and talk with the members and discuss with the in- dividuals what each unit has to offer, they could decide and evaluate freely and rationally, then the sorority system would not be set aside as a snob group, but rather would be merely an- other type of housing unit, all of which are established for com- mon ends-development and op- timal welfare of the individual. Mary Jane Spencer, '66 Talkathon To the Editor: TODAY I survived another Poli- tical Science 100 lecture; I am finally convinced that the lecture system is not the appropriate way to teach-at least this course. I don't know what the original purpose of lectures was in the educational scheme, but I'm sure whatever it was, my poli sci lec- ture today didn't come anywhere near fulfilling that purpose. The professor talked at the 700 or so students for fifty minutes, seem- ingly as fast as he could. He even made a jocose remark in the middle of his talkathon to the effect that maybe hercould set .some sort of record for material covered in a single class period. This is ridiculous, unnecessary and wasteful. FIRST, a lecture should not be delivered so fast that the students have no time at all to consider "I- A ~Fellow Vim oTook le LMintig W here The Albatrosses Were" .. .f 4 and weigh what is being said while it is being said. Secondly, a main function of a lecturer is to clarify some point that he sees he is not getting across to the students, by pre- senting an example that would perhaps clarify his statements. This lecturer, on the other hand, couldn't have known if he was getting through, because the stu- dents didn't have time too look up from their notebooks for even. a moment. Perhaps the lecturer need not even cover material that would be on tests, but rather give the students some perspective on the material by drawing on his own greater knowledge of the subject. FINALLY, the bulk of this lec- ture was covered in the texts as- signed for the course, and con- sisted mostly of dates and facts. I wonder if it wouldn't save time for both the lecturer and the students if lectures, such as this one, which are loaded with facts that the professor presumably wants to emphasize, couldn't more simply be mimeographed and pass- ed out in the recitation sections. In this way the lectures could be reserved for further explana- tions of difficult ideas or prin- ciples that could be difficult to understand simply from reading them in a textbook. Or, in a course like Poli Sci 100, where there are really very few such sticky ideas, perhaps the lecture could be dis- pensed with entirely. I'm sure most of the students wouldn'tmind not having to go and sit through the lectures twice a week,, risking writer's cramp at every turn, and the lecturer could also probably put his time to better use, perhaps giving a real lecture to a higher level course where it could conceivably do some good. BILTHOVEN - "United States policies that concern Europe are in better hands with Johnson." This opinion voiced by one local Dutch newspaperman best represents the gen- eral European reaction to the Johnson victory in the presidential election. Satis- faction, relief and regained confidence in the U.S. consituency were most rep- resentative of opinions voiced on the day after the election. This campaign and election were given very conscientious coverage for the Euro- pean public. Television and radio pur- posely went out of their way to bring facts and faces closer to more Europeans than ever before. From the New Ham- shire primary to the Hawaii election re- turns, these media did an admirable job of bringing and interpreting the U.S. election news to the European public. REASONS FOR THIS special interest were manifold. Mainly, of course, the Kennedy legacy of grief persists in Euro- ope. The tremendous sympathies which the former President had on this con- tinent were not readily transferred to the new President; but through his clear stand on equal rights and through his generally successful continuance of Ken- nedy foreign policy, President Johnson has earned the respect of the European observer. When Senator Goldwater started to make inroads into the heretofore respect- ed system of democracy (which was the way most Europeans interpreted the out- come of the Republican party conven- tion), observers here began to doubt the U.S. constituency. As I could measure from a random sample of "men-on-the- street" I took in the city of Utrecht, some people were actually scared to death by the possibility of a Goldwater win. His stand on "brinkmanship," among other well-known Goldwater campaign pledges, had a particularly negative influence on many older Europeans, for whom war is still much more real than it is to most Americans. PEACE, and the search for peace, is in- deed a central problem for many of the Dutch political laymen. This is also the point onwhich most critical com- ments about President Johnson and his foreign policy hinge. His Southeast Asian policy of a hold-out against Communist guerrilla forces has come under heavy attack from European observers. Not only do the French insist on neutralization, but also unofficial Dutch, British and German voices try to make Washington realize how futile such a hold-out is. One aspect involved in the Southeast Asian dispute has received little publicity, H. NEIL BERKSON, Editor KENNETH WINTER EDWARD HERSTEIN Managing Editor Editorial Director but nevertheless succeeded in shocking a few Europeans. It could not be under- stood how foreign warfare can be made dependent upon the outcome of a presi- dential election while there is actually a war going on. It is reasoned that if Johnson would have pulled out of South Viet Nam dur- ing the last few months instead of re- maining there for political reasons, the Hoa incident could have been eliminated. Thereby American lives could have been saved; as it was, they apparently died for a lost cause. It is inexplainable to Euro- peans that lives must be sacrificed for a campaign. ONE UGLY ASPECT of the campaign which received much publicity in the U.S. was practically unnoticed here. The Jenkins case, like most other "cases," was received stoically in Europe. It caus- ed some shudders because a complete election turnabout seemed possible, but then it was quickly forgotten. Part of the reason for such nearly in- different reaction was that Johnson's personality has always suggested to Euro- peans a shrewd and skillful politician, rather than a statesman such as Presi- dent Kennedy. Thus, a certain amount of financial give-and-take was expected of him, thereby attracting such specula- tors as Bobby Baker. The jump from there to moral laxity was no wider. Nevertheless,the incident was regretted. THERE IS SOME regret also for the fate of the GOP. Back in July, a British newsman commented to me that he had no fears whatsoever for Johnson, but many for a healthy opposition. Es- pecially in Europe, where one-party rule at its worst is still in living memory and where most countries have governments with not one, but two, three or four major opposition parties to reckon with, a complete Democratic take-over seems highly undesirable. The Michigan gubernatorial result drew comment in Holland. In fact, the rebuild- ing of the opposition party along moder- ate lines is seen to have started with the victory statement of Governor Romney. It is hoped that he, along with Governor Rockefeller of New York, Governor Scranton of Pennsylvania and other party moderates will bring the GOP back by 1968 to what was for Europeans the respectable level of 1960 by 1968. THE OUTLOOK for Europe-U.S. rela- tions under a renewed Johnson ad- ministration is moderately encouraging. Johnson has yet to prove his complete effectiveness in such relations. From the Dutch side, it is hoped that Johnson will now set out to re-tie the loosening bonds of NATO. It is also hoped that the new administration will show enough flexibility to make the upcoming Ken- nedy round of tariff negotiations a real bargaining session. Thomas Capi, 167 HOUSE CONSERVATIVES: Dnof Conservative Defeat By JOHN BRYANT jOW BAD a beating did Re- publicans take last week? One indication lies in the results of congressional elections across the country, in which Democrats gained 47 seats from Republican incumbents while giving up only nine, seven of them in the South. However, Democrats gained in more than increased party repre- sentation, for the frequency of Republican defeats increased in proportion to the conservatism of the individual congressman, with the probable effect that adminis- tration programs will have much clearer sailing in the House next year. * * * IN ITS LAST ISSUE before the election, the National Review com- piled a list of all Republican con- gressmen, arranging them by the number of times they had sup- ported the Kennedy-Johnson pro- grams. The list ranged from Rep. Seymour Halpern (R-New York) who voted 34 times for the "lib- eral" administration bills to a group of 24 Republicans who fail- ed to contribute a single vote of support, An analysis of election results in light of this liberal-conserva- tive arrangement is startling. Ele- ven of the 24 conservatives men- tioned above were defeated in bids for re-election-a 45 per cent mor- tality rate. In the next most con- servative grouping, 35 per cent were defeated. The two-vote group lost 21 per cent, the three and four-vote groups 33 per cent each, and the five-vote group 18 per cent. A STUDY of the rating sheet of Americans for Constitutional Ac- tion confirms the conservative de- feat. The ACA rating gives 100 points for a "perfect" conservative voting record and no points for a completely non-conservative rec- ord. I The average rating for all con- gressmen defeated in bids for re- election was 79.7. When the non- Southern vote is considered alone, the figure rises to 85, and, with the removal of the two defeated Northern Democrats (in Idaho and California), the figure stands at 87. By comparison, re-elected Republicans had an average rat- ing of 81.7. While the difference between the ratings of elected and defeat- ed Republicans (6.3 points) may not seem overly significant, it does represent the high conserva- tism of those defeated. That the remaining GOP representatives still have a relatively high rating only serves to indicate how diffi- cult it is to effect radical changes in strength under the present gov- ernmental system. A good many arch-conservatives hold seats in almost totally impenetrable Re- publican bastions, such as the districts of Michigan Congress- men Hutchinson, Cederberg and Griffin. . THE ACA RATING of the re- elected Congressmen was 40.3, a seemingly high figure for a House with a supposedly overwhelming Democratic majority. However, this figure does not include the 39 newly elected Democrats. Thus a liberal House seems to be in store for the next two years. Whether it makes any progress will depend less on whether the roll-call majorities are large enough, than on other factors such as re-organization of the commit- tee structure with the possible abolition of the seniority system (as has been proposed by some Democrats) and whether the House leadership and the White House are able to coordinate their legislative efforts. +A' ' ZLLY jIiS s i "1 n n , ' , e r 3: T ; r? yt A p 1 Xr (4u r J)Z' S'( jk' P xr J tt4 o ( r :.}t r t e ! .J t, e Pfdi} 4 x r f YS 1 H f., J { {,Y1 Y} 1Y1 Garb )y' 13[CJ'r s j f J P y y dY. 1tii. Y{} Sf s ztt xtttn t r; t,, t { yr r { Y7 { T- a k{ f t i Q PA R 4l l er 443 rr.jt+ h irA)y P' j7 d. K , PUBLISH OR PERISH: A Table of Contents Can Save a Professor By JACK AUSPITZ and ROBERT HOROWITZ Collegiate Press Service CAMBRIDGE-Two hundred Harvard students staged an angry rally recently to protest the dismissal of several popular young in- structors. Harvard refused all comment, claiming that Pusey was tied up in negotiations for purchase of the Boston Red Sox and could not be disturbed. Thedcontroversy swirls around four teachers in the History of Religions Department who have published little. ONE, AN ASSISTANT professor, taught a popular course in early Christianity, but wrote nothing. On mild days, he habitually shepherded his class to a small mountain for his lecture. Departmental officials charged that the lectures were given in an unscholarly manner and amounted to little more than sermonizing. The faculty was also concerned about the professor's dubious' parentage. When questioned, the professor said only, "They know not what they do." Another instructor, a bearded expert in Jewish theology, has com- posed only ten sentences while at Harvard. Even these, the department charges, were written by someone else. The faculty also dismissed one of the department's more prolific members, whose work includes 95 theses. The department had com- plained that nailing the theses to the instructor's office door did not t S p'Cc .3. :;,:ririiQt't fi' '{3F1'