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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1962
NIGHT EDITOR: PHILIP SUTIN
Hypocritical Policy
Boosts Book Prices
"R ESOLVED,that it is not and will not be
the policy of the Regents of the Uni-
versity of Michigan to encourage or ap-
prove the establishment of cooperative
mercantile organizations within Univer-
sity buildings or under circumstances that
will give such enterprises special advan-
tages in the way of lower rents, freedom
from taxation or other cooperation on the
part of the University."
Minutes of the Regents Meeting, Dec., 1959
IT IS IN THE spirit of fair competition, or so
it seems, that the University has used the
above rationale for rejecting the concept of
a University bookstore that would sell text-
books to students at a discount. But this Re-
gental policy is hypocritical. It adds to the
difficulty of obtaining higher education rather
than promoting the University's ideal of low
cost education, and has opened the way for
higher than list prices at many bookstores.
The bookstore owner's usual rationale for
his prices is they are fixed by the publisher. If
he varies from the fixed fee, the publisher will
no longer supply him with books. This is bla-
tantly untrue. Fair trade price-fixing agree-
ments between manufacturer and retailer are
null and void in Michigan. It is also against the
law for a manufacturer to refuse to supply a
retailer simply because he discounts. Publishers
seem to feel no qualms about supplying texts
to University owned bookstores that openly
discount. And, if discounting is forbidden in
Ann Arbor, why do the stores offer blanket
discounts to faculty members?
.Clearly, the bookstores hide behind the full
price excuse because they feel the market can
bear it. Actually, it is doubtful that they are
charging only full price. For example, in a re-
cent Daily survey, it was found that "The Com-
plete Works of Shakespeare" edited by Prof.
G. B. Harrison of the English department was
selling for $9.50 at two local bookstores. Ac-
cording to the most recent "Books in Print,"
the standard trade reference on publishers and
prices, the book is priced at only $9.00. Several
similar instances were found.
DESPITE constant complaints of this nature,
the Regents have chosen to hide behind the
policy statement and reject student requests
for a bookstore. At the same time, the Regents
have allowed the University to provide inexpen-
sive medical care and prescription drugs at
Health Service, the Michigan Union and League
cafeteria facilities where students pay no sales
tax and snack bars in Mary Markley Hall and
South Quad. These are all tax free and/or us-
ing University facilities for the conduct of a
business in direct contradiction to the Regental
policy.
The closest thing to a student bookstore is
the Student Book Exchange. This institution,
hindered by inadequate capital, is allowed to
exist because it cannot do much harm. Although
the SBX does get a better price for both the
buyer and seller of books, the seller must wait
several weeks or perhaps months (if he brings
his books in during spring semester exams) to
receive the cash. Because of this limitation,
students tend to sell their books at the local
bookstores where they can immediately receive
the money. This leaves the bulk of the used
book business to local merchants.
Other universities have instituted large and
well-stocked bookstores. For example, Wayne
State University has a store that almost entire-
ly fills the textbook needs of its student body at
a 10 per cent discount. In addition, its custom-
ers do not have to pay the four per cent sales
tax. A privately owned book company manages
to operate rather successfully right around the
corner by catering to the non-academic read-
ing needs of WSU students and filling the slight
amount of textbook business that overflows to
it.
OF COURSE, if a University bookstore were
established, it would upset and likely put
out of business most of the bookstores in Ann
Arbor. There would still be some business in
the field of non-academic reading, but never-
theless, a University discount bookstore would
be unbeatable competition. One solution to this'
difficulty might be to give two or. three year's
warning to the bookstore owners, allowing them
and their employees time to revamp their op-
erations or convert into some other field. Many
of the more experienced employees could prob-
ably find employment with the University
bookstore whose need for personnel would be
great.
Even if the Regents decide not to establish
a bookstore, they ought to rescind their no
competition policy. So long as bookstore owners
and managers feel that there is not any pos-
sibility of discount competition, they will con-
tinue their no discount and above list price
policies. If they feel that there is a real pos-
sibility of competition, they will make greater
efforts at a realistic pricing policy.
But the best answer to book problems is a
fully stocked University bookstore. It is a tru-
ism to say that books are necessary to educa-
tion and that there are a certain number of
them that a student is forced to buy during
the semester. Maintaining high book prices at
a university is like charging for the right to
breathe.
-DAVID MARCUS
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INTERPRETING THE NEWS:
India Faces
Trouble in Nepal
By HENRY BRADSHER
Associated Press News Analyst
INDIA,which is fighting the
Chinese Communists at either
end of its northern frontier, is
heading into trouble at the middle
of its Himalayan border with Ne-
pal. ,
Worsening relations that could
lead India to an open break with
the little kingdom of Nepal has
been foreshadowed by a change of
foreign ministers in Katmandu.
King Mahendra of Nepal re-
placed the man known for friend-
ship with India with a man re-
garded as toughly anti-Indian.
* * *
REPLACEMENT of Rishikesh
Shaha with Dr. Tulsi Giri Satur-
day was accompanied by renewed
accusations that India was allow-
ing attacks to be launched across
the border in Nepal.
Shaha said there had been 138
raids in which about 100 persons
were killed from the time King
Mahendra abolished parliamen-
tary government in December,
1960, until Sept. 11.
The raiders are seeking to un-
dermine the king's authority and
force him to restore a representa-
tive government.
* * *
THE INDIAN government claims
it has issued orders for local auth-
orities to prevent raiding and gun
running across the long open bor-
der. India says the trouble is in-
ternal unrest in Nepal.
But there is no evidence of any
Indian determination to carry out
such orders. And independent ob-
servers in Nepal have found little
sign of internal opposition in the
country of illiterate, isolated peo-
ple whose attitude toward their
government is usually apathetic.
There are, however, indications
that the Indian government is se-
cretly advising and aiding a Ne-
pali exiledgroup in India that
claims credit for the raids.
INDIAN Home Minister Lal Ba-
hadur Shastri, Prime Minister
Nehru's right-hand man, is known
to have been in regular contact
with the exile leader.
Nepali accusations of Indian
support for the raiders, voiced by
Foreign Minister Giri last spring,
brought relations between the two
countries to a strained point.
King Mahendra visited New
Delhi for talks with Nehru and
later replaced Giri with Shaha as
a sign of conciliation.
But after a brief pause, the
raids intensified. Then Shaha
came to New Delhi in early Sep-
tember.
NEHRU later said in April he
had urged that the king seek re-
conciliation with the exiles, but
instead the king became harsher
on them, sentencing some to pris-
on in absentia and confiscating
property.
The Indian attitude now is that
unless the king restores full civil
liberties, removes penalties on ex-
iles and provides a legal form of
opposition to his rule, trouble can
be expected to continue.
Shaha is believed to have re-
ported back to King Mahendra
last week an impression that India
intends to support the raids until
the king liberalizes the regime or
until his government falls.
* * *
INDIA probably would favor an
elected government for Nepal,
with a prince raised to figurehead
position of king as a unifying
symbol for the nation.
Shaha's report presumably faced
the king with the choice of defying
Indian pressure or of changing
from the personal rule he claims
has popular support.
In these conditions, the king
removed Shaha and put back Giri
as a symbol of determination to
resist Indian pressure.
WITH NEPAL poised between
India and Communist China, any-
thing there that goes against In-
dia is likely to be considered in
New Delhi to be pro-Chinese.
Giri is sometimes regarded in
India as favoring China, although
he has spoken of the Chinese
threat to Nepal and says he is only
a nationalist.
Nevertheless, continued trouble
between India and Nepal can only
benefit China. For this reason,:
some Nepalis fear a swift Indian
effort to bring the raids to the
conclusion of forcing out King
Mahendra.
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%.ep 11
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Counter-Criticism
Fairer Trial
TIE ANNOUNCEMENT of the probable re-
structuring of the Woman's Judiciary sys-
tem and the abolition of Women's Panel are
generally in line with the recent overhauling
of the Office of Student Affairs. With the end
of the dean of women's office the composition
of Panel is disrupted, since the dean represent-
ed the administration on this body. Basically
these changes will alter the woman's line of ap-
peal slightly and will add a new screening com-
mittee ' to determine where cases, especially
those *of a more serious nature, will go.
This screening body will probably be com-
posed of a member of the Office of Student Ac-
tivities, the chairman of Women's or Joint
Judiciary Council and a representative of eith-
er affiliated or independent housing.
This committee, which is to serve as a mere
fact-finding agency, can become an effective
body for channelling more serious cases to the
proper authorities. It is extremely important
that this body maintain its strictly objective
nature and not pass any value judgments or
hints of opinion to the body to whom it directs
the case.
With the chairman of either Woman's or
Joint Judiciaries present at this hearing, the
screening committee could easily impart an ad-
ministrative opinion to the court which will
eventually try the case.
AS OF YET, it has not been decided whether
a student will be allowed to appear before
the screening committee to hear the facts of his
case presented. It probably would not hurt the
Editorial Staff
MICHAEL OLINICI, Editor
JUDITH OPPENHEIM MICHAEL HARRAH
Editorial Director ,City Editor
CAROLINE DOW..... ..........Personnel Director
JUDITH BLEIER.................Associate City Editor
FRED RUSSELL KRAMER .. Assoc. Editorial Director
CYNTHIA NEU.................. Co-Magazine Editor
HARRY PERLSTADT ............ Co-Magazine Editor
TOM WEBBER....................... Sports Editor
DAVE ANDREWS ............Associate Sports Editor
JAN WINKLEMAN ...........Associate Sports Editor
Business Staff
functioning of this body if the student were
allowed the right to be present and perhaps
even give a few words of explanation if he has
any to offer.
This might assure the defendant that the
facts of his case have been fully and completely
presented. If this board is rigidly to maintain
its set purpose, then the student should be al-
lowed to hear the preliminary considerations
about his case.
It has not been decided either, whether the
student will officially have the right to counsel
and witness at his judiciary hearings. If the
student were allowed witness and some form
of defense counsel, it would help to crystallize
and formalize the judicial proceedings. The
student would feel that the case was being care-
fully considered, and that he was given the
fairest chance to present his case.
()HI0 STATE University has tried the "stu-
dent defender" method whereby a defend-
ant may get a law school student to present
the facts of his case. The obvious difficulties of
this method are that the law students have ex-
tremely busy schedules, and it is often diffi-
cult to get them to cooperate. Perhaps if such
a defender could be paid a small fee, the
chances of the plan falling apart would be less-
ened.
Another possible method is to have a mem-
ber of judic body trying the case represent the
student's defense. This would be a rotating
job, and each member of the judiciary group
would handle different cases.
This could also give the judic members a
chance to take on the defense-side of the pro-
ceedings as well as the judicial position. In
any case, the right to both witness and counsel
in some form should be open to the defendant
to choose if he wishes it.
The abolition of Panel and the directing of
Women's appeals to the faculty Sub-Committee
on Discipline marks the beginning of the end
of no longer considering women on campus
as a separate species.
NOW ALL CASES which are appealed from
either Joint or Woman's Judic will go to
the sub-committee. Before this change, cases
from Women's Judic were sent to Panel. Wo-
men's rules will now officially form a part of
To the Editor:
ALTHOUGH I had resolved not
to comment on Editor Olinick's
misinterpretation of my role at
this summer's NSA Congress held
in Columbus, Ohio, the additional
--but this time insidious-thrust
from Stockmeyer and company
have prompted me to enter the
discussion of the matter.
Olinick argues that I "spread
myself too thin"; I suppose this
means I tried to do too much. In
an aside, however, he writes: "Ross
did accomplish quite a bit . . .
debated effectively, wrote the ba-
sic policy declaration on higher
education in the cold war." No
wonder, then, I "slept through
several morning plenary sessions.
While Olinick-along with Stock-
meyer and his entourage - were
getting their beauty naps, other
delegates were earnestly trying to
do the writing, planning, and yes,
the politicking, that are essential
in a Congress of over 1,500 persons.
That I was up to four, five or six
every morning, I take as proof of
the seriousness with which I took
my responsibility as a University
delegate to the Congress. And any
barely informed person knows that
it is the informal processes of such
a large meeting which are crucial
for those with a genuine concern
with its direction and content.
As for the meetings during the
Congress which I allegedly missed,
let me say this: the only crucial
decision I missed voting on while
on the National Executive Com-
mittee during the Congress was
which health insurance plan the
Association would endorse. That
evening I was considering whether
or not to run for an office to which
I had been nominated, and con-
sidered the responsible course of
action that which most prudently
weighed the advisability of run-
ning for office. I did not but I
spent a solitary evening making
that decision.
* * *
NOW, Stockmeyer's criticism is
a different one. He and his follow-
ing are concerned about the fact
that I did not honor them with my
"presence and counsel." Also, they
have concern for my absence from
"many"~ votes - actually three
crucial ones out of some 15. Con-
sidering the attendance record of
the signers of the letter, the re-
mark is ludicrous. However, I
would again argue that I was ful-
filling my responsibility more ade-
quately and forcefully by attempt-
ing to influence people and events
in the manner which I chose, than
I could have by mere mechanical
attendance.
But Stockmeyer and his bedfel-
lows should not be let off so easily.
As acting chairman of the Michi-
gan Region of NSA, I chaired a
number of regional caucuses. Thb
attendance and attitude of the
signers of Sunday's letter were
casual to say the least. And they
did not have my "counsel" not be-
cause I did not offer it: it is well
known that trying to convince
Stockmeyer of anything not 100
per cent Republican-Romney is
like trying to bring the Republican
Party into the twentieth century-
a contradiction. by definition. The
same goes for his comrades in let-
ter-writing.
In fact, the whole discussion has
been revolting. Perlstadt's first ar-
ticle on NSA was a pretentious and
pompous frill, written with an
holier-than-thou attitude. Olin-
ick's was too busy being ironic to
be adequately analytic or insight-
ful. And Stockmeyer's delicate
bludgeon was marked by crude,
partisan prejudice, and marked, I
might add, with typical reaction-
ary overtones of censorship of the
press.
The only thing Men of Good
Will have left to do is to come to
Thursday's VOICE meeting and
plan to make the world safe for
each other.
-Robert Ross, '63
Member, SGC
Chairman,
VOICE Political Party
Testing...
To the Editor:
IN THURSDAY'S Daily, I was re-
ported to have voted against the
NSA resolution on nuclear testing
because I agreed "in principle"
with the resolution, but felt that
NSA had no business taking for-
mal action on such a subject.
While this is true, my principle
reason for abstaining went unnot-
ed. This was what I felt that we,
as students, ought not to condemn
our own government for taking
steps to resume nuclear testing
when these steps were necessary to
our own defense.
I would have preferred to see
the National Student Association
take a firm stand in redressing the
Soviet Union for acting in ways
that made American resumption
of nuclear testing necessary. Were
the Association to have done this,
I believe it would much more
closely have represented American
student opinion, and is this not
what the Association purports to-
do?
-Robert F. Finke, '63
t President and Chairman
of the Board,
Michigan Union
Ida...
To the Editor:
IN REFERENCE to your other-
wise fine article in Sunday's
Daily concerning the Gilbert &
Sullivan Society's forthcoming
production of "Princess Ida" I
think I should point out that it
was our 1946. not 1956, production
which was put together for the
incredibly low cost of $150.00. This
production, "The Mikado," was
the Society's first. It was financed
entirely by the contributions of
the members of the group and did
not actually reach the boards un-
til 1947.
--Gershom Clark Morningstar
Director,
Gilbert & Sullivan Society
THE MIRACLE WORKER:
Memo rab le Moments
IT IS meaningless to regard "The
Miracle Worker" as a segment
from the lives of two remarkable
women. Instead, it must be con-
sidered as the drama of taking a
small child, cut off from the world
by her lack of sight and hearing,
and transforming her into a hu-
man being.
Thus the movie does well not to
go into or even hint at Miss Kel-
ler's later role as a symbol of what
the blind-deaf can achieve. The
film's limitation of scope gives it
a dramatic coherence that a pure
screen biography often lacks.
The plot concerns Miss Keller
at about the age of seven. Anne
Sullivan, herself once blind, be-
comes Miss Keller's teacher. In
the course of the film, Miss Sul-
livan is able to communicate with
the child, control her rather un-
ruly temper and finally teach her
the rudiments, of expressing her-
self to others through a form of
sign language.
* * *
ANNE BANCROFT gives an ex-
cellent performance as Miss Sul-
livan. In a role where the soap
box opera formula, might be "fall
in love with the child for affection
cures all," Miss Bancroft exhibits
a properly hard surface making
the character all the more plaus-
ible.
When Helen throws food around,
Miss Bancroft, acting in a fashion
that would do pride to the keeper
of a Dickens school, forces the
child to eat with a spoon and fold
her napkin. One does not, at the
end, feel that Miss Bancroft has
fallen in love with the child; rath-
er, she has done for Helen what
is best for her.
Patty Duke also renders an ex-
cellent portrayal of Helen. The
animalism of the young child, cut
off from all human contacts for
nearly all her life, appears vividly
in Miss Duke's wild temper tan-
trums, food throwing and sulking.
Miss Duke manages to handle
very well the transition of Helen
into a member of the human race.
Her role is made all the more diffi-
cult because she has no lines. The
entire character is created through
gestures, expressions and reac-
tions. And Miss Duke makes con-
vincing use of the limited tools
available to her.
VICTOR JORY and Inga Swen-
son, unfortunately, do not do as
well as Miss Duke or Miss Ban-
croft in their roles as the parents.
They vaccilate too much and seem
as though they do not know what
they want for Helen. At the mo-
ments when they oppose Miss Sul-
livan's program or behavior, one
feels that the producers were
afraid to put out a picture with-
out a, villain.
Andrew Prine, Helen's older
half brother, is an indefinite char-
acter. Except for purposes of his-
torical accuracy, it is difficult to
understand why he is included in
the film at all. He serves no dra-
matic purpose.
Overall, "The Miracle Worker"
is a picture well worth seeing. It
is not a great film; but it is one
with at least several memorable
dramatic moments. It is certainly
far above the level of inane soap
opera into which such plots easily
degenerate.
-David Marcus
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