Seventy-Fifth Yea
EDTrED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS
.:
x;
;'f ;;.
?;3
f
-:
Each Time I Chanced To See Franklin D.
November 22, 1964: 365 Short-Long Days
by H. Neil Berkson
_ = _.:
W therOpinions A rey420 MAYNARD Sr., ANN ARBOR, MICH.
NEWS PHONE: 764-0352
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 22, 1964 NIGHT EDITOR: MICHAEL SATTINGER
Civil Rights in Ann Arbor:
The Slow Process of Law
FEW OF US CAN maintain a continuing sense of time.
Events of either personal or general impact soon fall
out of perspective. Thus it is that 12 months after
President Kennedy's assassination the reaction is two-
fold: disbelief that 365 days already separate his death
from our lives mingled with a suspicion that it must
really have happened long ago. Because the assassina-
tion far outshadows any other single event in the past
year, it seems like "only yesterday"; because it no longer
evokes an emotional response, it seems very distant.
The most bewildering thing about the assassination
was the confusion itcreated. Peopledid not know how
to respond. It took the University 20 hours to decide
whether or not to cancel a football game. As a matter of
fact, the athletic department originally announced the
game would be played in what must go down as an
incredibly tasteless statement: "We feel that it is in
the best national interest and tradition to carry on,
feeling that in so doing we are carrying out the wishes
of our late President, whose deep interest and concern
for the physical training and welfare of our youth is so
widely known."
THEATRES REMAINED open, drawing crowds. By
Monday, however, Ann Arbor was silent. At noon on the
25th, as the funeral proceeded, there was barely a person
or car moving on the city's streets.
The "money-grubbers" were quick to sense their
due. Soon after the assassination they were on the
market with an array of junk passing as memorabilia
which would have done Chaucer's pardoner proud. The
women's and scandal magazines came through as well.
They succeeded in tinging the assassination with the
commercial elements of a freak show.
OF COURSE, THE low-level institutionalization of
President Kennedy is matched by a high-level attempt
to deify him. The turth about the President may soon
be lost in his legends.
Chicago Sun-Times columnist Charles Bartlett, who
knew Kennedy long before 1960, sensed what would hap-
pen. "It is ironic," he wrote, "that a man so dedicated
to tangible deeds is destined now to be remember,:iess
for his accomplishments than for the intangible quali-
ties of his spirit and character. He disciplined himself
to be great in order to do great things, and the waste of
his death is that his greatness so far exceeded his time
for achievement."
Kennedy "could not have regretted, if the assassin's
bullet left him any moments of reflection before death,
any wasted time or missed opportunities. He could only
have felt a deep sadness that he would not live to
achieve his high hopes for his term of office," Bartlett
added.
A YEAR LATER, memory of Kennedy is fading, his
sense of purpose forgotten in the landslide achievements
of his successor. The loss seems to have little meaning,
which perhaps makes the crime all the greater.
ANN ARBOR'S attempts to alleviate dis-
criminatory housing practices have
been well intended, but somehow, wheth-
er by circumstances or general ineptness,
they haven't succeeded.
The Parkhurst-Arbordale Apartment
situation is a farce. Apartment manager
C. Frank Hubble was charged with viol-
ating the city's Fair Housing Ordinance
last spring for allegedly refusing to rent
an apartment to a Negro. He then did
the only logical thing for a person in his
position to do-he questioned the legality
of the ordinance, thereby delaying the
trial of his own case.
HUBBLE'S STRATEGY paid off when
Municipal Court Judge Francis O'Brien
declared the ordinance invalid. He ruled
that the creation of the State Civil Rights
Commission under the new state consti-
tution preempted local ordinances. The
charge that Hubble violated the ordi-
nance was then void since the ordinance
was invalid.
City Attorney Jacob Fahrner is now ap-
pealing O'Brien's decision in Circuit
Court. So far there have been two pre-
trial hearings but no concrete action. The
trial date is slated for later this month.
BECAUSE OF THE slowness of the court
system, the question of whether the
More Than
Memomry
BECAUSE JOHN KENNEDY'S mortal life
has ended does not mean he is dead.
America has not forgotten him.
I am not talking about the church serv-
ices, books, magazine articles, newspaper
editorials, and television shows that com-
memorate his life.
He is still alive because this country
has seen fit to enact the programs he
thought would make it a better place in
which to live.
Recently passed legislation like the civil
rights bill, tax-cut and poverty program
illustrate that what he stood for has be-
come a part of this country.
The Peace Corps which he vigorously
promoted and the nuclear test ban which
he worked diligently to attain stand as a
further part of the John Kennedy that
remains alive.
IT IS TRUE that if the United States
had chosen not to follow the path he
laid, John Kennedy could be dead today.
But the nation has shown that it be-
lieves that John Kennedy should con-
tinue to live among us. His successor was
reelected to the presidency by the largest
majority in history.
John Kennedy is more alive in America
today than he has ever been.
-ROGER RAPOPORT
state has sole jurisdiction on questions
of civil rights will probably be a long
time being answered.
No matter what the outcome of the
present Circuit Court case, it could still
be taken to the State Supreme Court.
Some have speculated the case could be
tied up for two years.
Meanwhile, the ordinance is in a sus-
pended state and the Negro over whom
the controversy started may never get his
opportunity for justice. The actual ques-
tion of civil rights may forever be lost in
a jumble of legality.
OTHER GROUPS working to further the
cause of civil rights have been equally
befuddled.
Since the Hubble case, two other inci-
dents of alleged discrimination have oc-
curred at the apartments.. The Human
Relations Commission feels the owners
of the building should be notified of Hub-
ble's actions.
There is only one fly in the ointment:
the names. of the owners are available
but their addresses are not. HRC Director
David Cowley is in the process of trying
to track them down. Meanwhile the own-
ers may be oblivious to the entire situa-
tion.
WHETHER THE MEETING will take
place at all is questionable. If it did
would it do any good? Is a word of censor
going to affect a man who has been
charged with three cases of discrimina-
tory action?
Hubble is sitting pretty and can look
forward to a lengthy period of relative
quiet while his case is suspended in le-
gal jam.
The University holds the mortgage on
these apartments, but it too is powerless
unless payments are delayed or not made.
The Negro involved in the original case
is a graduate student; ironically the Uni-
versity is supporting discriminatory ac-
tion against him, but they have no re-
course.
THE COURT SYSTEM is set up to ad-
minister justice. Justice, however,
seems to be lost in a jumble of legal-
ity. The city's HRC and the state CRC
are set up to help end discrimination. Yet
someone bent on discriminating is playing
upon both the legal system and the agen-
cies to frustrate this end. Even the Uni-
versity, mortgage holder of a property
that discriminates against one of its
own students, can do nothing.
It is unpleasant to know that discrim-
inatory practices can be carried out in
Ann Arbor and that nothing can imme-
diately be done.
BUT THIS is an inevitable product of
American justice; neither city nor
state officials are to blame. Until the
courts resolve the constitutional issues,
one must be patient.
-JULIE FITZGERALD
The Week in Review
A Near Pasadena and Two Far-Reaching Decisions
By JOHN KENNY
Assistant Managing Editor
and LOUISE LIND
Assistant Editorial Director
ROSES AND Pasadena aside,
two decisions made at the
University this week will have
far-reaching effect on the under-
graduate student. The first orig-
inated at the monthly meeting of
the Board of Regents; the second,
at a meeting of the League Board
of Governors.
The Regents, at their meeting
Friday, voted to convert the Uni-
versity's interdisciplinary program
in communications science into a
full-scale literary college depart-
ment. They also established a
Center for Human Growth and
Development, the 71st such in-
terdisciplinary study area within
the University.
The communications science de-
partment, to offer both under-
graduate and graduate training,
will absorb the teaching and re-
search functions of the Communi-
cations Science Laboratory. It will
encompass s u c h far - reaching
fields as information processing,
theory of digital computers and
studies of neural mechanisms.
The establishment of the de-
partment means that the program,
now accommodating 62 graduate
students, will be enlarged and ex-
tended into the undergraduate
curriculum.*
COMMUNICATION sciences is
a challenging and relatively new
area of study. The University's
interdisciplinary program in the
area was only set up in 1958. Its
concern is with understanding on
a theoretical basis the communi-
cation and processing of informa-
tion by both natural and artificial
systems.
In this age of the explosion of
information and the concomitant
complexities involved with its
classification and analysis, the
merits of the study of communi-
cations sciences need hardly be
enumerated. It is understandable
that the University would want to
expand its program in the area.
It is commendable that the Re-
gents voted to do so.
* * *
WORKING TO coordinate re-
search, to generate new research
problems, to provide new advanced
training programs and to provide
a constant communication of
ideas, the n e w ly established
human growth and development
center may be an equally chal-
lenging area of study.
A decision which may have a
greater effect on the total student
body, however, was that made by
the League Board of Governors
Thursday when it voted to endorse
the proposed merger of the stu-
dent wings of the Union and
League.
The Union-League merger pro-
posal, in the planning for two
years, had previously been ap-
proved in its final form-the 1964-
65 Union-League Senior Officer
Merger Committee report-by the
League Executive Council and the
Union Board of Governors.
* *
THE PROPOSAL now lacks
only the approval of the Regents
and the members of the Union
before it takes effect. Endorse-
ment by these two groups should
be forthcoming.
An earlier plan for the merger
was rejected in part by the Re-
gents. That report, the Robertson
Report, had advocated union of
the complete Union and League
structures; the Regents endorsed
oply the plan to merge the stu-
dent activities branches of the or-
ganizations, not the business
wings.
The present report advocates
just such a partial merger. It pro-
poses to establish a University
Activities Center solely responsi-
ble to the Union Board of Gov-
ernors. If approved, the merger of
the two activities organizations
would become effective next
spring.
The Regents will consider the
report at their December meet-
ing; the members of the Union,
in a referendum in January or
February.
** *
IMPLEMENTATION of the pro-
posed merger seems imminent. It
should be--so that sexual bias
can be structured out of the two
largest activities groups on cam-
pus. The comment made by the
committee which drew up the
Reed Report, a 1962 study of the
University's philosophy on stu-
dent affairs, sums it up:
The committee believes that
the young people who enroll in
the University are primarily
students seeking to learn, seek-
ing to develop not in isolation
as men or women but together
as equals and collaborators.
* * *
MEANWHILE, a faculty sub-
committee of t h e University
Senate this week recommended re-
vision of faculty pay scales in the
trimester system. The report of
the Subcommittee on Economic
Status of the Faculty advocates
that professors working half the
coming spring-summer term be
paid the same amount they would
be paid for working half a fall or
winter term.
At the same time, the subcom-
mittee asked that pay for the fall-
winter session, reduced from nine
to eight months in length, remain
the same.
IT IS INTERESTING to note
that, by asking for more money in
the summer and the same pay for
a shortened fall-winter session,
the subcommittee is asking, in
effect, that the faculty have its
cake and eat it too.
But the administration, in its
latest report on faculty salaries,
recommended that faculty work-
ing half the summer term be paid
about 88 per cent of the amount
they would be paid for half a fall
or winter term.
The administration, now revis-
ing its own recommendations, will
probably maintain its basic prem-
ises, Associate Dean Dick Leabo of
the business administration school
and chairman of the committee,
stated in the report.
* * *
TWO OTHER state - supported
institutions this week made an-
nouncements of importance to the
University. At Wayne State Uni-
versity, Owen Thomas, university
vice - president a n d treasurer,
Tuesday announced that Wayne
will seek additional funds from the
Legislature to accommodate an
unexpected 11 per cent enrollment
increase.
WSU originally requested an in-
crease of $5.78 million over their
1964-65 budget. The new increase
is $2.76 million above this figure.
If granted, the additions would
give WSU- a total appropriation of
$31 million for the 1965-66 operat-
ing year.
The University, faced with a
similar unexpected enrollment in-
crease, decided earlier this year
not to ask the Legislature for in-
creased funds.
Michigan State University in
October requested an additional
$1 million from the Legislature
for enrollment reasons.
THURSDAY, M S U President
John A. Hannah announced that
MSU will not be able to open its
controversial two - year medical
program this fall as planned.
Three reasons were cited for the
delay:
-Building construction and re-
modeling for the program are
some three months behind sched-
ule due to a jurisdictional strike
on the sites;
-Negotiations f o r exchange
programs with Lansing hospitals
have not yet been completed; and
-The medical staff for the op-
eration has not yet been hired and
would probably not be large
enough for the planned fall open-
ing.
MSU Provost Howard Neville
noted that "reasonable progress is
beingmade. We expect to open on
a new schedule as soon as
possible."
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Reward!
$10 for the
Gomberg Dirty Shirt
To the Editor:
IT WAS WITH concern and
trepidation that I read your
article in The Daily concerning
the "Gomberg Dirty Shirt." If
thispractice of wearing dirty
shirts were to spread throughout
the campus it would ruin the
laundry business in Ann Arbor.
In order to nip this insidious
practice in the bud we are offer-
ing a $10 reward for the Gom-
berg Dirty Shirt, dead or alive.
It must be brought to our office
as our drivers refuse to have it
in their trucks.
We will launder the shirt and
return what's left of it to the
Gomberg House.
-John P. Paup, '41
Kyer's Laundry
Republican Collusion
To the Editor:
IN THE DAILY of November
20, John Conyers, Negro Demo-
cratic congressman fromDetroit,
suggests that the Freedom Now
Party was "in collusion with the
Republicans during the recent
gubernatorial campaign, 'siphon-
ing off' Democratic votes."
This suggestion is his rational-
ization for the Democratic failure
rto deliver fully what it has prom-
ised for 30 years. What has really
happened is that the Freedom
Now Party has taken up the Dem-
ocrat's old appeal to block voting,
while the Romney Republican
Party in Michigan has appealed
to the Negro as an individual
member of the community.
THE NEGRO, whose block vot-
ing pattern has assured Demo-
cratic victories in many elections,
is tired of being taken for granted
by the Democratic Party and has
turned to individual Republicans,
such as Governor Romney, or to
an all-Negro party to find better
vehicles of expression. Clearly it
did not take "collusion" for Gov-
ernor Romney to attract Negro
voters.
The failures of the Democratic
Party nationally to provide equal-
ity of opportunity, education and
jobs offer the Republican Party
a chance to show Negroes across
thecountry that today it is still
the party of Lincoln. By keeping
faith with its image as the cham-
pion of the individual, the Re-
publican Party, through a grass
roots effort, can attract the Negro
voters necessary to become the
majority party.
-Kenneth Yeasting, '67
'Becket' Review
To the Editor:
I FIND myself in almost complete
agreement with Bob Zalisk in
his review of "Becket. However
I take issue with his analysis of
t h e performance of Richard
Burton.
to a spiritual realization, he must
fall back upon his "remarkable
voice" and the eyes that mirror
the torment that his search for
honor demands.
O'Toole can rant about the
sniveling cretin who becomes
Henry II, the harping shrews of
his family, and gentlemen who
have better things to do than to
think. However Burton has a
deeper sense of his destiny which
he realized is foretold as soon as
Henry proposes his elevation to
Canterbury.
* * *
IT IS NOT a "blurred mask"
that shows on the countenance of
Burton; but a clear vision through
penetrating eyes and expressed by
controlled modulation of his "re-
markable voice" of the fate of the
man of God who will oppose his
friend and king in his realization
of honor. The part of the martyr-
to-be demands an almost fatal
resignation that would be violated
by great outbursts of animation.
-Michael Rosenberg, '66L
4
Opera; Say It with English
AT 2:30 THIS AFTERNOON, the New
York Opera Company will present
Franz Lehar's operetta, "The Merry Wid-
ow," in a specially-prepared English
translation. Undoubtedly this will please
the vast majority of those who go to hear
it.
But at 8:30 this evening, the same
troupe will present Charles Gounod's
opera, "Faust"-in the original French.
Considering the type of audience that
generally attends these productions, it is
questionable whether more than a third
of those present will understand what
they are hearing well enough to really
have a good time.
WHETHER OR NOT an opera such as
"Faust" should be given in its orig-
inal language is a question which will
probably remain forever unsettled. But
under the circumstances which will sure-
ly apply tonight, there is no point in re-
taining the original French.
Granted, any opera not written in Eng-
lish will lose something in being trans-
lated: call it whatever you will, the opera
really won't be the same. Granted also,
those in the audience who are familiar
with the original language have a legiti-
lated into English, which may be a for-
eign tongue to them.
NEVERTHELESS, the fact remains that
this production of "Faust" is to serve
a vast campus including many perennial
ticket-holders and Ann Arbor residents.
Many of these people will be bringing
children who undoubtedly will find it
hard to find anything interesting in an
opera they can't understand. For every
dowager who shows up in her plush finery
just to be seen and who really doesn't
care about the opera itself, there must
be many more in the audience who do
care and who would like to be able to
understand what they are hearing.
The only plausible solution is to offer
the opera in the language of the majority
of the audience (in this case, English).
A French-language production of "Faust"
would be quite welcome coming from a
French touring company in flawless dic-
tion from singers who probably would not
know much English upon coming here; or
perhaps a special production using the
original language could be planned. But
for the regular subscription series of
concerts, a more familiar language than
French is preferable.
Fraternity
Prophet?
HE AMERICAN radical right
is strongest of all on propa-
gandists, some of whom use the
techniques of research well enough
to consider themselves intellectu-
als. Such a man is William F.
Buckley, editor of the National
Review. His brand of reactionary
philosophy for collegiate minds
has made him the culture king
of the fraternity houses.
These institutions of snobbish
and segregated stupidity-banned
in many liberal universities --
I
",f r Y. ,f tl h.?l K 1 ,. 3 . , . . _.. . y . . * r' _.