Seventy-Fifth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Each Time I Chanced To See Franklin D. The New Vice-President for Student Affairs by H. Neil Berkson Tuhe*Oii "reFee 420 MAYNARD S., ANN ARBOR, MICR. 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 25, 1964 NIGHT EDITOR: JOHN BRYANT The Fate of Romne Programs In the Legislature They Will Pass ... MICHIGAN VOTERS gave Gov. George Romney an obvious popular mandate in the recent election. However, while the governor has received strong support from the electorate, he is .less assured of cooperation and support from the pre- dominantly Democratic Legislature in Lansing. Democrats realize that Romney cannot be beaten at the polls, so they will un- doubtedly try other ways to beat him. Romney must be prepared, then, to face a negative or obstructionist Democratic Legislature-a situation similar to that faced by former Michigan Democratic Governor Williams and the Republican Legislature of those years. HOWEVER, THE PARALLEL is not com- pletely valid, since under the new state constitution the chief executive has more authority than Williams ever had. The power delegated to the governor in the constitution puts him' in a powerful negotiating position. In both the House and the Senate, the Democrats are short of the two-thirds majority necessary to override a veto from the governor. With the support of Re- publican legislators, then, Romney could still maintain ultimate control; Republi- cans would hold a valuable "trading stock" which could not be ignored. Moreover, Romney has had considerable experience in dealing with political op- ponents, both within his own party and among Democrats. Romney's consultation with Republican legislators led to the passage of significant appropriations in such areas as minimum wage, mental health and higher education. And in the past two years considerable bi-partisan consideration has been given to such measures as workmen's compensation, tax reform and the constitution. As a result of Romney's efforts, areas such as civil rights have been removed from the par- tisan arena, while they still plague poli- tical leaders of other states. ROMNEY has further reason to be op- timistic, as legislators have revealed mutual concern in the major policy areas. Romney recently outlined eleven major areas of concern for the Legislature; newspapers commented that Democrats agreed with ten of the eleven areas. Thus, Romney and the Legislature will have a common meeting ground as they work in joint areas of concern. Certainly, there will be differences of opinion as to technique and approach. But members of both parties must realize that the. ultimate important thing for Michi- gan is that some action be taken in the major problem areas. Indications are that this action will be taken. MANY OF THE MEASURES Romney will want are measures Democrats will want too. It is merely a matter of shar- ing the credit. The Republican tax re- form proposal, for instance, is similar to that proposed by previous Democratic governors. If Democratic legislators block everything Romney wants they will only be defeating themselves. Democratic legislators will undoubtedly try to push their programs through be- fore Romney's. But Romney has time on his side. He has the opportunity to make proposals before the Legislature even con- venes in his state-of-the-state message in January. Outlining his programs in the beginning, Romney will be in a stra- tegic position and his proposals will have the advantage of headline impact. THE LEGISLATURE will probably have a slow start this session, as there will be many new, inexperienced lawmakers. Newspapers may be overly critical of the preliminary hesitation and conflict. But with the governor and responsible legis- lators of both parties agreeing on so many areas of mutual concern, much of the legislation which Romney advocates should ultimately be passed. PHYLLIS KQCH H. NEIL BERKSON, Editor KENNETH WINTER EDWARD HERSTEIN Managing Editor Editorial Director They Won't Pass .*. * GOV. GEORGE ROMNEY, major Repub- lican survivor of the November 3 debacle, is going to have the most diffi- cult time of his political life in the next two years. Even though Romney obviously has the support of the people of Michigan, he will have to contend with a 73-37 Democratic majority in the House of Representative and a 23-15 Democrat-Republican ratio in the Senate. The Democrats of last year's Legisla- ture opposed Romney's fiscal reform pro- gram by over a 3-1 margin while the plan was going down to defeat at the hands of a Republican-controlled Legis- lature. The fact that the Democrats op- posed Romney's fiscal reform program on purely political grounds then suggests that the same sort of partisan opposi- tion will occur come January when the new Legislature convenes. And, working along purely partisan lines, it is obvious that since there will be more Democrats there will be more opposition. Even though the moniker "obstruction- ist" will probably be applied to the Legis- lature because it doesn't want Romney to profit politically from whatever legisla- tive action will be taken, applying the name is not realistic since the Legislature is only trying to obstruct Romney, and not progress for the state. A FACTOR contributing to further op- position is that Romney apparently has more political aspirations than he did last year, as evidenced by the role he is playing in attempting to unify the national Republican Party. Although he is apparently the same old Romney (re- fusing to be drawn, as the New York Times says, into a discussion of specifics), he has been casting himself more and more into the national limelight since the Republican convention. It is now common knowledge that the Democratic legislators realize the posi- tion they are in. A plan proposed by Democratic Rep. Robert Traxler of Bay City, for example, is designed to upstage Romney in January in the presentation of legislative programs. T HEDEMOCRATIC legislators are just as concerned as Romney with the wel- fare of this state. However, they will want to pass their own legislative pro- gram and not Romney's. This is not be- cause there will be any great differences in the programs, because there won't be --but because the political duty of a Democratic Legislature includes opposing the Republican governor, especially when he has the national political aspirations of a George Romney. -THOMAS R. COPI Happy Day SURVEYS OF NEWSPAPER readers have shown 'that the majority of them are more interested in the comic section than any other feature in the newspaper. In fact, the only reason they read the front page before the comics, according to the surveys, is because they have to look at the front-page index to find out where the comic section is. The American public's penchant for en- tertainment in any form whatsoever has dominated publishers and editors think- ing in putting out newspapers. The pub- lishers know that entertainment is want- ed and entertainment means a higher circulation and more money. So the pub- lic is given more family features, more lovelorn advice, more news from Holly- wood, more stories of violence and more comic strips. And it is not just the aver- age business man home from a hard day's plight at the office who' wants to relax with his paper and not be upset with the latest United States blunder in the Congo or Viet Nam. WHAT IS COMMONLY believed to be the intellectual core of the country- the college student-spoke out the other day at a local restaurant. The newspaper strike hadn't been settled yet, but one student had dreams of what the first Sunday papers would be like: "Just think," he said, "the papers will WHEN THE UNIVERSITY reassembles after Thanks- giving vacation it will have a new vice-president for student affairs-Richard Cutler. His appointment, to take effect December 1, should signal a new era for the OSA. The naming of Cutler was expected. More important, it was eagerly anticipated by most concerned observers of student affairs. The new vice-president has all the right tools: an excellent academic background, in psy- chology; administrative experience in governntent agen- cies and a nonpatronizing attitude of deep concern for the individual. He is young and on the move; as long as he doesn't let his ambitions get in the way of his values, he should easily maintain the respect of both students and faculty. CUTLER'S TASK is no less than to transform the OSA from a directionless, lethargic institution into an agency which acts rather than reacts, an agency which is thoughtful and productive rather than arbitrary and haphazard. The OSA has not begun to understand a university of 30,000; it has yet to acknowledge (in some notable cases) the maturity and pseudo-maturity of the current college generation. These two facts are essential to any future effective- ness of the GSA. Vice-President Cutler must analyze them in an effort to eliminate the combined atmposphere of fear and apathy under which many students operate. HE WILL ASSUME office faced with both short- and long-term problems. -Dormitory housing is overcdowded with little relief in sight for two years. Aside from crowding, dormitory living leaves much to be desired. OSA thinking in this area has been both inflexible and contradictory. -More students are looking for University involve- ment in off-campus housing. -Discrimination remains an issue in both fraterni- ties and sororities, but may well be eclipsed by the question of local autonomy. -The Union-League merger appears heading for a jurisdictional dispute. Even if the groups settle their own squabbles, their desire to be free of University control conflicts with their heavy University subsidies. -Academic pressure is becoming a major threat to student activities. Ways must be found to reconcile classroom and extra-classroom life. APART FROM the issues, the amount of criticism leveled at various OSA personnel in the past is neither secret nor unjustified. Cutler may find both obstinance and an inability to comprehend his programs. Nevertheless, if the office most needs a sense of direction, Cutler should provide it. If it needs admin- istrative skill and an ability to make clear-cut decisions, he should be up to the job. He is certainly a welcome addition to the GSA. THE FACULTY is apparently rather glum about its latest proposal to the administration concerning salaries. After they passed a resolution in the University Senate calling for summer pay to be 50 per cent of fall- winter pay: -Associate Dean Dick A. Leabo of the business ad- ministration school, whose committee drew up the pro- posal, refused comment on it; -Prof. Harvey E. Brazer of the economics depart- ment, a member of the committee, refused comment; -Prof. Morris Bornstein of the economics depart- ment, a member of the committee, hung up on a reporter. * * * * IN PASSING, a Thanksgiving compliment to Prof. Sheridan Baker's revised Michigan Quarterly Review. If the first issue is any portent, the Quarterly should draw attention both within and far beyond Ann Arbor. "In The Words Of That Great Anti-Imperialist Chinese, Rudyard Kip Ling: 'East Is East ..."' - I' 14E _ 1t EUROPEAN COMMENTARY: Dikes and the Dutch Today LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Second Rate Cinemas At Ann Arbor Theatres To the Editor: THE FOLLOWING FILMS have recently appeared in Ann Ar- bor: a re-run of "Lili," a third- time re-run of "So Dear to My Heart," "Kitten with a Whip," "Behold A Pale Horse," "Station Six Sahara," and "Pajama Party." The list, sorry to say, goes on and on. On the other hand, these films, American and foreign, have yet to appear in Ann Arbor: "The Seven Faces' of Dr. Lao," a weird fantasy. "The Troublemaker," an off- beat comedy produced by members of the Premise. "The Cool World," about juven- ile gangs and filmed in Harlem. "The Thin Red Line," from the novel by James Jones. "The Brig," as originally per- formed at the now-defunct New American Theatre. "Monkey in Winter," selected by Newsweek as among the ten best films of 1963, a French comedy. "Muriel," again picked by most critics as among the ten best films of 1963. "Zazie," another French com- edy which Dwight MacDonald raved about. "The Bandits of Orgoloso," an Italian realism film. "A Woman is a Woman," French and much-debated comedy. "Kapo," a Yugoslavian film about German war camps. "Girl with Green Eyes," starring Rita Tushingham and produced by Tony Richardson ("Long-Distance Runner," "Tom Jones") "Weekend," a Swedish film about loose-living young middle- class people. - "Nothing But the Best," a bitter English comedy of social manners. "Disorder," an Italian "odyssey of contemporary moral chaos." * * * AND WHAT lies ahead on the cinema horizon for Ann Arbor? More English comedies at the Campus, another re-run of "Quo Vadis" at the Michigan and the latest Elvis Presley, "Roustabout," at the State Theatre. Meanwhile, how long must Ann Arbor wait to see "Woman of the Dunes," "All These Women" (the newest Bergman), "The Pumpkin- Eater" with Anne Bancroft and the highly praised Canadian film, "The Luck of Ginger Coffey?" Even "Mary Poppins" isn't to ar- rive until mid-January. Why is this so? Why must Ann Arbor, the "Cultural Center of the Midwest," constantly receive sec- ond-rate movies first and "good" movies last, if ever? * * * PART OF the blame belongs to the indiscriminate Ann Arbor au- diences who confuse lack of stim- ulation with relaxation, and sub- stitute banality for entertainment. However, a great deal of the blame lies with the University- supported monopoly of ye olde Butterfield Theatres. From their central office in New York, with meticulous concern for their box office, the Butterfield main office books in the films that play in Ann Arbor. The local managers, in vain, argue or suggest; New York rules supreme. AS A REVIEWER, as a student and as a movie-goer, I am fed up. If the local managers, with all good intent, are helpless to con- vince their New York office that "good films" can make money, and if the student attendance con- tinues to undermine their efforts anyway, what is left to do? So this is a protest and a plea. Why not try it, Butterfield Theatres? Experiment and book new and good films into Ann Arbor. See if perhaps attendance might not rise once the commun- ity becomes used to the idea of quality films that entertain. --Hugh Holland, 65 Fraternity Prophet To the Editor: AFTER READING the article in The Daily of November called "Fraternity Prophet?" I'm not sure whether to be mad at this slander or amused at such a piti- ful default in logic printed as legi- timate journalism. The squib asserts that fraterni- ties have "found their prophet in Mr. (William) Buckley" of the "radical right," and that Buckley is "the culture king of the fra- ternity houses" because "for the first time the playboys of the universities are politically com- mitted" since "for the first time, 'intellectuals' such as Mr. Buckley are talking in the pithy cliches which they understand." The author of the article, An- drew Sinclair of the Manchester Guardian, starts his piece with several preconceived notions that are not, as he might think, self- evident. The first is that the right is incapable of having intellec- tuals, only "propagandists." To use Mr. Sinclair's own words, this sounds a bit "snobbish and segre- gated" (sic) to me. Second, William F. Buckley is called "reactionary" and "radical right" and in this free society the burden of proof rests on the ac- cuser. No proof was offered. BUT ARMED with these as- sumptions a line of utterly un- believable reasoning e m e r g e s: Buckley is unintellectual and re- actionary and Buckley likes fra- ternities; therefore, fraternities, like Buckley, are unintellectual and reactionary. Furthermore, the article calls fraternities "institutions of snob- bish segregated stupidity," which I take to mean that selecting one's friends is snobbery and somehow racial discrimination. I can't un- derstand the mind of a person who thinks that a man who has enough self esteem to Set stan- dards of friendship is a snob and a racist. SINCE 81 PER CENT of my fraternity brothers were Johnson supporters, they and the rest of those reactionary fraternity men- Adlai Stevensn .Robh Dvlan (vf). By ERIC KELLER Daily Correspondent BILTHOVEN, Holland-The old story of the little Dutch boy who prevented the flood by put- ting a finger into the dike prob- ably never happened: yet it is true that the story could have taken place any number of times as late as this century. The art of dike building is an old Dutch craft. But it was a long period of trial and error that made Dutch scientists the world's rec- ognized experts at this art. As earlyzas the twelfth century and as late as 1953, Dutch lives are recorded to have been lost in dambreaks. Dutchmen have be- come a serious-minded, heavy- going people in the constant struggle against the waves.s To ward off the enemy water is the project's main purpose. This is rendered even more imperative by the fact that the country's land level is slowly but continually sinking in comparison to the sea level. PURPOSES other than security are served by thedikes. Land reclamation is probably the best known "by-product" of the entire project. When the present plans for the reclamation of the Zuider Lake were made 50 years ago, this additional land was conceived of as a purely agricultural area. But in the course of this half-century emphasis has shifted from agri- culture to industry; accordingly, industry is now expected to make heavy use of the new "ands for expansion into the so-called pold- ents. New lands in the southern ara the completion of the rest of the polders around 1980 (Zuider Lake project) that the new lands will be completely integrated for traf- fic and full community life. MEANWHILE, the areas are used exclusively for agricultural purposes. As the government operates the whole dike project, all parcels of, new land are only rented to farmers, not sold. But the tenancy situation has not quite fulfilled expectations and the farmers are hard at work to change their status. Yet the government would rather not give up its authority, as it fears that ownership of such lands could enable farmers to split up their lots among their children. This would be a step backwards eco- nomically because the present lot sizes have been determined on their rentability-and are still too small considering the progress in agricultural machinery over the last few decades. To please the farmers, some plans are now in progress to change tenancy to a long-ten lease status (about 99 years) which would answer both prob- lems. THE GOVERNMENT does all the construction work down to the last detail. Whole cities rise from the drawing board; every tab and plug is placed in its right place according to the master plan. This kind of planning accounts for the somewhat too uniform and uninspiring impression given by these new communities. The gov- orn. ,, , f nl - nrm ifih i continue to have enough ground water supply, in contrast to the situation which arose when some early polders adjoining old lands were drained entirely. Navigation to old fishing places and to the port of Amsterdam will be sustained and beautiful new recreation areas will be created. About 550,000 acres of new land will be added to Holland during the century-long project, which is now half completed. FORSYTHE GALLERY: Christmas Group Show Broad and Impressive THE FORSYTHE GALLERY has again produced a show worthy of attention. The Christmas Group Show includes paintings and drawings executed by an impressive group of artists, including Marc Chagall and Ann Arbor's Richard Wilt, as well as representatives from South America, Asia and Europe. , Wilt combines the abstract with the representational in excellent examples of his work. Chagall's painting is charming and sensitive as always, awakening a sense of awe at the aspiration and control of this artist. Many of the works, especially the drawings and smaller paintings, combine with representational elements dashes of cubism, linearism or pure painterliness. Daumier and Dubuffet round out the smaller works quite beautifully. A NATIVITY SCENE by Roberta McClure strikes the tone of Christmas for the show, with paper mache angels, Mary, Joseph and the Child executed more effectively than is usual. Such a degree of tenderness together with a joyous gaiety seldom encountered in contemporary depictions of this scene. The effects of the works vary from monumental to delicate, from abstract to representational. In a few, color reigns; in others,