Seventy-Third Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE TUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN w UNDER AUTHORITY OF ]BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS "Where Opinions Are Free STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG., ANN ARBOR, MICH., PHONE NO 2-3 241 Truth Will Prevail" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1962 NIGHT EDITOR: DENISE WACKI ET r R SGC Considers Reforms; Postpones Sorority Hearings ALTHOUGH STUDENT Government Council If Council would have passed only one motion at Wednesday legal advice earlier, not night's meeting, three important topics were avoided much meaning considered: judicial reform, sorority hearings would have saved the and the Office of Student Affairs Advisory barrassing delay. Committee. On the judicial question Council took the COUNCIL HAS striven initiative of establishing a committee to in- of responsibility. It] vestigate the entire University judiciary system sororities and fraternitie as a whole. student organizations. It Even though Joint Judiciary Council and the picture of a slow-m Women's Judiciary Council are implementing pared body. Wednesdayr isolated policy changes in the next few weeks, of delay with all its v a comprehensive review of judicial machinery, gone a eng way to dsp working toward consistent decision-making paredness. along lines of due process of law is of primary One SGC nets its lega importance to the University community. ahead in a dynamic man the stigma of having left The question of whether ONLY AN impartial, but informed, body out- stepped its bounds or was side the sphere of the present judiciary sys- so has come to light. tem can properly evaluate the present structure I and policies. Since the judicial system involves In view of the fact th the rights of students, it is reasonable that selection practice statem students should play the dominant role in to be a closer contact with analyzing the system. Aff airs. Recognizing these two points, SGC set up a SGC has been asked1 study committee consisting of six students and OSA Advisory Committee four faculty members with the director for ulty to the extent of send student organizations and discipline sitting in gates. However, no matte a non-voting ex-officio capacity. This com- members would be chose] mittee will report its findings in March which entirely representative of will give the body ample time to evaluate the dent community.a- present system as well as the effectiveness of Robert Ross and Daily the new changes. Inick introduced a motio The problem of student rights and responsi- since SGC defines itself a bilities will not be defined or solved by October between University pol 1 when several new judicial policies go into and the University stude effect. Only through persistent studies, recom- whole Council should ac mendations and demands will a judicial policy the committee. evolve that will be compatible with the edu- cational and not administrational goals of the S- SHOULD particip University SGC HUDprcp committee as a unifi adequate student repres SGC CAN BE commended for keeping the ball size of such a committeeN rolling towards judicial reform by planning discussion of informed, i extensive research on the total problem. Council cannot affordt Certainly, this committee will help alleviate pate. Although some SGC a common trend in Council procedure-open- tical about serving on a ing a discussion with a lack of information which they fear will not sl about subjects under consideration. In a pros- Council owes it to the st pectus on Council offered Wednesday night by a try. If it is found that SGC President Steven Stockmeyer, it was serving student interest a pointed out that "many times Council debates a guise to make OSA deci for hours matters which could be decided in cide with student views, ( a short- period of time if members would only would act as a forceful e: take time to inform themselves, not only tunate situation. about the University and student concerns in Were Council to refuse I general, but about immediate areas of legisla- committee, it never woul tion before the Council." thing useful could have b The irony of this criticism became flagrantly apparent when Council emerged from a two- EVEN THOUGH Lewis h hour executive session, held to consider legal- would like the commit istic problems posed by Prof. Robert J. Harris an advisory capacity, the of the law school on proceeding for penalties to note consensus would or hearings for seven sororities. These sorori- formal voting procedure ties failed to submit adequate membership se- would in no way life fro lection practice statements by the established sponsibility for decisions s deadline last May. the ultimate choice. If his Judging by the public statement, concerning with student opinion, he u Council's decision to postpone the hearings ing vote of support from t until SGC obtained adequate legal counsel, ever, when Lewis' decisio one might assume that Council has made a mittee concensus, lack of blunder of a very serious nature, because would place an informal Council did not "take the time to inform (itself) to explain his rationale. Ce about immediate areas of legislation." in the student's right to kn This motion was pos THE STATEMENT indicated that SGC Wednesday's meeting tov wished to "postpone its consideration of the the role and composition c procedure for adequacy hearings until such tingent. Hopefully, Council time as adequate legal counsel and guidance that will fairly represent s has been obtained." The Hoodlum Champ gotten comprehensiv only might it hav ess discussion, but i body from this em to build a reputatio has tried to impres s with its power ove has attempted to pain oving, thorough, pre night's announcemen gue implications ha ell this aura of pre ) counsel, it may mov nner, but not withou itself open to doubt 50C has already over- on the brink of doing at SGC may have to riding the membership ents, there may have the Office of Student to participate in an of students and fac- ing five student dele- r which five Council nthey would not be the University stu- Editor Michael Ol- n which states that s the "official liaison icy-making agencies nt community," the tively participate on ate on the advisory ed entity to assure entation. The mere would not hinder the nterested students. to refuse to partici- members are skep- powerless committee way decision-makers, ident body to give it the committee is not nd is being used as sions appear to coin- Council's resignation xpose of this unfor- nitially to sit on the d be known if any- een gained. as indicated that he tee to act solely in easiest way for him be to establish a for the body. This m his shoulders re- since he must make decision is in accord vould have a stand- he committee. How- ns contradict com- committee support pressure upon him rtainly, this is with- ow. tponed until next work out details of of the student con- will adopt a motion tudents. -GAIL EVANS FROM THE ACADEMY: The Mind and the Head at Michigan State e e :1 t i- t ,s e. t .r CENTER OF CONTROVERSY-Beaumont Tower stands in the center of the main campus of Michigan State University at East Lansing and marks the site of Old College hall, the first building in the world built expressly for the teaching of scientific agriculture. The Tower stands as a landmark of the campus attacked by a former MSU professor and defended by its current president. Hannah Answers Kirk (EDITOR'S NOTE: Russell Kirk's column in the Aug. 28 issue of the National Review magazine deals with "The Mind and the Head at MSU." The Daily Invited MSU President John A. Hannah to reply. Kirk's col- t umn and Hannah's response are printed here.) To the Editor: SOUR letter of September 12 in- forms me that because of in- terest on your campus in Michigan State University, you intend to re- print in The Daily Russell Kirk's most recent article in "The Na- tional Review," and you invite me to respond to it. . First I believe that if you will investigate the factual background of Mr. Kirk's charges, you will conclude that his diatribe is not worthy of space in your paper. Mr. Kirk has been using the col- ;umns of "The National Review" for the past several years to cas- tigate me and to criticize Michi- gan State University. * * * I WOULD not be honest if I did not say that I have not been pleased by this acrimony. Up until now. I have not dignified it by any notice or response. A president of a public univer- sity learn early that he had better develop a thick hide and a calm spirit, or life could become rather unpleasant at times. I would certainly defend the right of Mr. Kirk, or that of any other, to appraise me as a person, my shortcomings and imperfec- tions as an administrator, or in any other capacity, as he sees fit. Every person in any public posi- tion must always expect to be ex- posed to scrutiny and comment. I have sometimes felt that certain personal criticisms were unfair and unwarranted, but on the oth- er hand I have often been given credit far beyond what was mer- ited. WERE WE concerned now only with Mr. Kirk's references to me as a person, I would respond by saying only that one of his reputa- tionand self-esteem shouldmake a little more effort to adhere to facts than he often does in his references to me. As an example, in response to his personal refer- ence in the August 28 article: I was never employed at any time as a "desk clerk" or in any other capacity by the Student Un- ion. I consider such employment, however, to be entirely honorable and not of a nature to necessarily bar one from other types of later activity. I do not subscribe to the theory that education should be aristocratic in nature or limited to those "born to the parple", economically, socially or in spirit. I was Secretary of the Board of Trustees and Secretary of the Uni- versity many years before I mar- ried the daughter of former Pres- ident Shaw. If there was any re- lationship between my wife's fath- er and my present position, this could be attested to only by the members of the Board of Trustees at the time I was appointed presi- dent more than 20 years ago. I al- ways appreciated Mr. Shaw's rec- ognition during the 10 years that I was a member of the staff of the College of Agriculture and his recommendation to the Trustees that returned me from a leave of absence in another capacity to the secretaryship of the University in 1934. I never felt that he was par- ticularly impressed with me as a prospective son-in-law. In any event, I am very, proud of and grateful to my good wife for hav- ing endured me as a spouse for some 24 years and regret that Mr. Kirk spews her with his spleen. * * * IN RESPONSE to Mr. Kirk's criticism of Michigan State Uni- versity and its administration, its academic status, its educational was right would make no differ- ence." Michigan State University is what it is. Accusations that it is something else will not change the facts. Whatever it is, it is a much better educational institution in every way, by any standard, than it was when Mr. Kirk enkolled as a freshman in 1936, and than it was when he resigned as an assistant professor in September 1953. Michigan State University is a respectable and generally respect- ed university. It is willing to be ap- praised by persons competent to appraise it objectively at any time. It has a distinguished faculty, a proud history, and a bright future of service to Michigan, the nation, and the world, and nothing Mr. Kirk has said or can say Will change those facts. * * * I REGRET very much that Mr. Kirk has now seen fit to impugn the important work of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. For five years under two presi- dents, I have had the honor of serving as chairman of that Com- mission. I believe it has made not- able contributions to forwarding the important work of lessening discrimination and discouraging the denial of civil rights to Amer- ican citizens because of race, creed, color, or national origin. Mr. Kirk accuses me of declar- ing that criticisms of me and of Michigan State University by Dr. Griswold and Dr. Hutchins were because of my chairmanship of the Civil Rights Commission. I have never made any such statement or declaration. Here, Mr. Kirk resorts to a base type of in- nuendo, guilt by association, and distortion. I have known Dr. Gris- wold and Dr. Hutchins for many years and consider both of them to be personal friends. I know that they are as much interested in the civil rights issue as I am. The feeble reed Mr. Kirk clutches for is a critical statement some months ago by Dr. Griswold and Dr. Hutchins decrying what they con- sidered to be an undesirable trend in higher education by the inclu- sion in curricula of technical courses at the expense of the fun- damental educational disciplines. In the publication, Dr. Hutchins used an erroneous five-year-old report copied from an out-of-state newspaper purporting to describe a Michigan State University pro- gram financed by a manufactur- ers' association. The decision to discontinue this program had been made long before the statement. Those interested in the facts should refer to an editorial in "The Detroit News" of December 14, 1961. In any event, Dr. Griswold and Dr. Hutchins did not criticize or comment on the quality of the doc- torates conferred by Michigan State University as stated by Mr. Kirk. Yale University, of which Dr. Griswold is President and of which Dr. Hutchins is a distin- guished alumnus, grants degrees in many technical fields, including such subjects as engineering, for- estry, and the like. These activities do not in any way or manner de- tract from the reputation or sta- tus of Yale as one of our truly dis- tinguished and outstanding uni- versities' * * * NOW AS to the charge that Michigan State University is less than perfect in its treatment of American Negroes, which I as- sume is calculated to feed fuel to the fire of criticism that many ad- vocates involved in the civil rights controversy are long on preach- ment but short on performance: Mr. Kirk makes well-deserved, favorable comments about Prof. David'Dickson of our English De- partment, who is a distinguished Negro scholar. Then Mr. Kirk available to most young whites. Over the years, the lack of job op- portunities for Negroes has dis- couraged them from acquiring the degrees and the educational exper- iences that would fit them to com- pete evenly with well-qualified whites for academic appointments. The result is that even at a uni- versity as dedicated to fair treat- ment as Michigan State Univer- sity is, there are too few Negro faculty members. * * * MICHIGAN State University has long subscribed to the policy that it should not employ a person be- cause of his color or religion, but neither should it refuse to employ him for those reasons. It is felt that the University should be blind on the issue of race, creed, religion, or national origin. Neith- er Mr. Kirk's accusation nor my defense will change the facts. They stand as they are. We are neither proud of our record nor do we apologize for it. We intend to con- tinue to try to do what is right. Now, finally, as to Mr. Kirk's disparagement of two doctor's de- grees granted in the field of phy- sical education: He bases his crit- icism on the titles of the doctoral theses. I know nothing of these two specific theses or the research projects that generated them. I would only comment that I often find myself involved in commence- ment exercises at other universities as well as our own, and I note that a popular pastime engaged in by faculty members and others is to surmise on the meaning or signifi- cance of the work back of the pub- lished titles of the doctoral theses. Dr. Henry J. Montoye, who in 1961 left the Michigan State University to become Professor of Physical Education and Supervisor of Phy- sical Education for Men at the University of Michigan, was in 1960 the faculty director for one of these theses and was on the faculty committee which approved the other. I believe that the College of Edu- cation and all other Colleges at Michigan State University are as scholarly in their demands of de- gree candidates at all levels as are the colleges and departments in the same fields in our most re- spected American universities, but I will leave debate on this topic where it belongs -- in the hand of our faculty. * * * HARRASSMENT by gnats, mos- quitoes, and flies buzzing about one's head can be very trying and unpleasant, but is seldom if ever fatal. I suspect Michigan State Uni- versity will continue to survive the buzzings of Mr. Kirk. -John A. Hannah President, Michigan State University By RUSSELL KIRK AS REGULAR readers of this page may just possibly have observed, now and again I cast an eye toward Michigan State University, East Lansing. I know something of the place, being an alumnus and having resigned from the Michigan State faculty in 1953, in protest against the deliberate lowering of academic standards. Also Michigan State today - once a good agricultural college, with some commendable associated schools - is a prime example of the damage done to the higher learning in America by the em- pire-building university president, bent upon quantity and positively hostile to quality. It is the perfect type of the phe- nomenon that has become known as "the waist-high university." THE energumen at MSU is a gentleman who once was desk- clerk in the student union, mar- ried the president's daughter, was appointed secretary to the college's board of trustees, and in due course was invested with the hereditary majesty of the MSU presidency: Mr. John Hannah. Recently Mr. Hannah and his empire have been candidly criti- cized by all sorts of people, from leaders in the Michigan legisla- ture to President Griswold of Yale and Dr. Robert M. Hutchins. Some have gone so far as to compare the Hannah administration with the now-dissolved regime of the unlamented "Curly" Byrd at the University of Maryland. Apparently somewhat uneasy at such lese majeste, not long ago Mr. Hannah (whose doctorate is honorary only) declared that these criticisms of his regime occurred only because he has been chair- man of the Civil Rights Commis- sion - under both Eisenhower and Kennedy. (Doubtless it will please Dr. Griswold and Dr. Hutchins to learn that their ob- jections to the sort of doctorates conferred at MSU were motivated by their detestation of civil rights.) As a matter of fact, no critic has paid any attention to Mr. Han- nah's Commission post-in which, anyway, he is a species of wooden Indian. BUT THE point which Mr. Han- nah raises here is of some interest. Apparently he desires to be known as a champion of the rights of col- ored people: well and good. But how many Negroes are members of the faculty of MSU, which has the biggest undergraduate college in the nation? Just one: a very able professor of English, Dr. Da- vid Dickson. Dr. Dickson, a grad- uate of Bowdoin, has been a fac- ulty member at MSU for more than a decade, and everyone agrees that he is very good indeed. Why has President Hannah never appointed another scholar of col- or? Does he want only a prize exhibit? Also, Mr. Hannah has contrived to get himself into hot water by his arbitrary discharge of Mr. Charles Rogers, formerly of the Labor and Industrial Relations Center of MSU, because Mr. Rog- ers ventured to suggest that some- thing might be said in favor of management. The senate of the State of Michigan has censured Mr. Hannah for this arrogance, through a special committee; and the Michigan legislature has cut off the appropriation for the prop- agandizing Labor and Industrial Relations Center.(The director of that Center, a Mr. Jack Stieber, a CIO zealot, wanted no less than two million dollars for the Center for the period 1961-1965!) What with these and other in- stances of high-handedness, the Michigan press has grown less and less friendly toward Mr. Hannah. But he has enjoyed one triumph recently: bludgeoning the stu- dents' Conservative Club on the campus. One of the faculty spon- sors has resigned, and the club's membership has diminished under constant assault from the State News, the campus paper that nom- inally belongs to the students but actually -- like most other things at MSU - is directed from the ad- ministration building. Of course, Mr. Hannah and company. are all in favor of complete freedom of expression -- for people who agree supinely with them. * * * YET, PLEASE don't think that culture in East Lansing is only waist-high: some people there are interested in heads, too - at least in the school of physical educa- tion. If, gentle reader, you will turn to your library copy of "Dis- sertation Abstracts," May 1961, you will find therein synopses of two brand-new doctoral disserta- tions completed beside the campus' Red Cedar River. One is by a scholar named John Francis Alexander, upon whom MSU conferred a doctorate in 1960. The subject of his learned researches was this: "An Evalua- tion of Thirteen Brands of Foot- ball Helmets on the Basis of Cer- tain Impact Measures." You can buy this invaluable work, in Xer- ox, for $6.80. "The helmets were ranked according to the lower val- ues for each evaluating measure at each velocity and position. Graphs depicted the mean respon- ses of acceleration, deceleration, and rate of acceleration' for all velocities and positions." Welcome, Dr. Alexander, to the company of the Schoolmen! A worthy colleague of his is one Richard Carroll Nelson, also de- 'voted to educational studies in football. He was awarded his MSU doctorate for a curiously similar contribution to the higher learn- ing: "An Investigation of Various Measures Used in Football Helmet Evaluation." "Thirty-nine football helmets were impacted by a pen- dulum striker at four velocities." Why, Dr. Nelson even went so far as to photograph the impacts with a Polaroid camera. Make way, Thomas Aquinas and Henry Adams! Oh, there's something for every head at MSU - so long as one fresh only about the physical im- pact. Reprinted from: National Review 150 E. 35th St., New York 16, N#Y. CAVEAT EMPTOR: You Wonder Where The Money went CHARLES (SONNY) LISTON became the world's heavyweight boxing champion Tues- day evening. Liston, reputedly the "bad man" of the ring, has been the center of a contro- versy which now seems resolved by his victory. Everyone admires the champ, but before this week's event, Liston was far from an estimable character. In July 1961, he was arrested for the 19th time since 1950. Although Sonny admits that he was a Juvenile delinquent in his younger days, he wasn't con- victed until January, 1950. At that time, he was charged with robbery in the first 'degree on two counts and larceny, two counts. Liston was sentenced to five years in the Missouri State Penitentiary at Jefferson City on each charge, the sentences to run concurrently. He was paroled in Oct., 1952.. SINCE THAT TIME, Liston has managed to remain outside prison bars. However, his, connection with the underworld is a generally accepted fact. According to St. Louis police, John Vitale (arrested 58 times, convicted three times) owns 12 per cent of Liston's contract, Frank Carbo owns 52 per cent, Blinky Palermo possesses 12 per cent, and two unidentified persons control 12 per cent each. Carbo and Palermo are at present in California facing possible maximum sentences of 85 and 125 years respectively for their illegal activities in box- i~ hoodlums in his background, he reluctantly bought out Barone and acquired a third man- ager, Georgie Katz. Liston seems to be an enigma even to those who have met and conversed with him. To some he is a shy, withdrawn man who needs love and understanding. To others, he is a brute, an animal with no human feelings who should be locked in a cage. SONNY HIMSELF does little to resolve the puzzle of what he is really like. Granted that he is scarcely literate and has never had an adequate education, the question still re- mains whether he is mentally defective, as has been suggested. However, all these enquiries are now aca- demic since Liston has effectively displayed the only quality he possesses about which everyone agrees, namely his ability to box. Prior to the championship bout, much soul- searching was done as to whether Liston should be allowed to meet Patterson (it seemed to be a foregone conclusion that Liston, with his super- ior strength, would win). The main objection to the bout was typified in a statement by an eminent boxing figure who noted that "He would be a poor example as champion; not only for youth but as an international representa- tive." T'ITSTTAT .TWVhrc T O.imT a,,mv o 9 LETTERS to the EDITOR To the Editor: IT IS APPARENT that the panty-raid, from its first 1951 debut, has degenerated into a mock epic of appalling blandness. The atrocities and heinous crime committed in the early days of civilization have fortunately been quelled by successful administra- tive policies. But the name lingers' on. To the student, and most not- ably the freshman, the panty-raid presents the aura of his first "big stuff." However, at most, the stu- dent gets a hoarse throat, some tissue paper, and essence of panty. By ROBERT SELWA AMERICAN consumers are in tough shape. They are con- stantly being deceived by manu- facturers and advertisers. The con- sumer is a person analyzed, prop- agandized and mesmerized. The exploitation of the consum- er need not continue, however, and may not, once the bill that Sen. Philip A. Hart of Michigan intro- duced this week is passed. Sen. Hart calls it a "truth-in- packaging" bill and hopes that it will remove many of the psycho- logical traps, confusions and de- ceptions facing consumers. He es- timates that the careful consumer will be able to save hundreds of dollars a year in family marketing if the bill's packaging regulations are effective: * * * THE legislation is badly needed., An examination of one type of consumer exploitation-that prac- ticed by the toothpaste industry- will show why. The toothpastes with well known brand names usually offer four sizes: "large" which sells for 31 cents and which has 1.75 ounces net weight of the toothpaste; "gi- ant" which sells for 53 cents and contains 3.25 ounces; "economy" which sells for 69 cents and con- tains five ounces; and "family" which sells for 83 cents and con- tains 6.75 ounces. This is the prac- tice with Stripe, Colgate and Pep- sodent. Here is a deception already: the "large" size is actually the small size. Gleem follows the same prac- tices in weights and prices, but calls the 31 cent version "medium" size and the 53 cent version "large" size. The deception, although not cents compared with smallest size available." The use of the term "large size" implies a greater sav- ing than the consumer actually enjoys. Another deception in the use of terms is that the "economy" size is not the most economical size -- the "family" size is. With Stripe, Colgate and Pepsodent, the "econ- omy" size costs 13.8 cents per ounce, while the "family" size costs less - 12.3 per ounce. * * * IPANA toothpaste seems to of- fer only two sizes, the larger size being labeled "economy" size and containing only 4.2 ounces and the smaller size being labeled "large" and containing 2.6 ounces. The price of the "economy" size is 69 cents, which comes to 16.7 cents per ounce. This is economy? In case you want to check on these net weights, take a magni- fying glass with you, and be ready to search all over the box. The net weight for almost any toothpaste is usually mentioned only once, in type less than an eighth of an inch high and sometimes less than a sixteenth of an inch high. The toothpaste industry is not the only offender, of course, and Sen. Hart's bill aims to get at all of them. The bill, according to qualified sources, embodies - "the most comprehensive legislation ever introduced in Congress in this field." I T W O U L p eliminate the "cents-off" come-on, the "econ- omy-size" sales pitch, and other designations suggestive of a price advantage or bargain which some- times does not exist. It would out- law deceptive illustrations -- un- fulfilled by the contents of the lustrations picturing a product un- :1