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' _.