N~e trVian Waig Se'venty-Third Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN _ - UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS "Where Opinions ArFe STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG., ANN ARBOR, MICH., PHONE NO 2-3241 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 WACKER FROM THE ACADEMY: The Mind and the Head at Michigan Stat( SGC Considers Ref orms; Postpones Sorority Hearings ALTHOUGH STUDENT Government Council passed only one motion at Wednesday night's meeting, three important topics were considered: judicial reform, sorority hearings and the Office of Student Affairs Advisory Committee. On the judicial question Council took the initiative of establishing a committee to in- vestigate the entire University judiciary system as a whole. Even though Joint Judiciary Council and Women's Judiciary Council are implementing isolated policy changes in the next few weeks, a comprehensive review of judicial machinery, working toward consistent decision-making along lines of due process of law is of primary importance to the University community. ONLY AN impartial, but informed, body out- side the sphere of the present judiciary sys- tem can properly evaluate the present structure and policies. Since the judicial system involves the rights of students, it is reasonable that students should play the dominant role in analyzing the system. Recognizing these two points, SGC set up a study committee consisting of six students and four faculty members with the director for student organizations and discipline sitting in a non-voting exofficio capacity. This com- mittee will report its findings in March which will give the body ample time to evaluate the present system as well as the effectiveness of the new changes. The problem of student rights and responsi- bilities will not be defined or solved by October 1 when several new judicial policies go into effect. Only through persistent studies, recom- mendations and demands will a judicial policy evolve that will be compatible with the edu- cational and not administrational goals of the University. SGC CAN BE commended for keeping the ball rolling towards judicial reform by planning extensive research on the total problem. Certainly, this committee will help alleviate a common trend in Council procedure-open- ing a discussion with a lack of information about subjects under consideration. In a pros- pectus on Council offered Wednesday night by SGC President Steven Stockmeyer, it was pointed out that "many times Council debates for hours matters which could be decided in a short period of time if members would only take time to inform themselves, not only about the University and student concerns in general, but about immediate areas of legisla- tion before the Council." The irony of this criticism became flagrantly apparent when Council emerged from a two- hour executive session, held to consider legal- istic problems posed by Prof. Robert J. Harris of the law school on proceeding for penalties or hearings for seven sororities. These sorori- ties failed to submit adequate membership se- lection practice statements by the established deadline last May. Judging by the public statement, concerning Council's decision to postpone the hearings until SGC obtained adequate legal counsel, one might assume that Council has made a blunder of a very serious nature, because Council did not "take the time to inform (itself) about immediate areas of legislation." THE STATEMENT indicated that SGC wished to "postpone its consideration of the procedure for adequacy hearings until such time as adequate legal counsel and guidance has been obtained." If Council would have gotten comprehensive legal advice earlier, not only might it have avoided much meaningless discussion, but it would have saved the body from this em- barrassing delay. COUNCIL HAS striven to build a reputation of responsibility. It has tried to impress sororities and fraternities with its power over student organizations. It has attempted to paint the picture of a slow-moving, thorough, pre- pared body. Wednesday night's announcement of delay with all its vague implications has gone a long way to dispell this aura of pre- paredness. Once SGC gets its legal counsel, it may move ahead in a dynamic manner, but not without the stigma of having left itself open to doubt. The question of whether SGC has already over- stepped its bounds or was on the brink of doing so has come to light. In view of the fact that SGC may have to move more carefully regarding the membership selection practice statements, there may have to be a closer contact with the Office of Student Affairs. SGC has been asked to participate in an OSA Advisory Committee of students and fac- ulty to the extent of sending five student dele- gates. However, no matter which five Council members would be chosen, they would not be entirely representative of the University stu- dent community. Robert Ross and Daily Editor Michael Ol- inick introduced a motion which 'states that since SGC defines itself as the "official liaison between University policy-making agencies and the University student community," the whole Council should actively participate on the committee. SGC SHOULD participate on the advisory committee as a unified entity to assure adequate student representation. The mere size of such a committee would not hinder the discussion of informed, interested students. Council cannot afford to refuse to partici- pate. Although some SOC members are skep- tical about serving on a powerless committee which they fear will not sway decision-makers, Council owes it to the student body to give it a try. If it is found that the committee is not serving student interest and is being used as a guise to make OSA decisions appear to coin- cide with student views, Council's resignation would act as a forceful expose of this unfor- tunate situation. Were Council to refuse initially to sit on the committee, it never would be known if any- thing useful could have been gained. EVEN THOUGH Lewis has indicated that he would like the committee to act solely in an advisory capacity, the easiest way for him to note consensus would be to establish a formal voting procedure for the body. This would in no way life from his shoulders re- sponsibility for decisions since he must make the ultimate choice. If his decision is in accord with student opinion, he would have a stand- ing vote of support from the committee. How- ever, when Lewis' decisions contradict com- mittee concensus, lack of committee support would place an informal pressure upon him to explain his rationale. Certainly, this is with- in the student's right to know. - This motion was postponed until next Wednesday's meeting to work out details of the role and composition of the student con- tingent. Hopefully, Council will adopt a motion that will fairly represent students. -GAIL EVANS 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- umn and Hannah's response are printed here.) To the Editor: YOUR 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- tion and self-esteem should make 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 purple", 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. Ial- 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 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 enrolled 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 saidaor 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 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 agricultufal 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: somedpeople 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 diss'rta- 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 The Hoodlum Champ 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 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." LETTERS to the EDITOR i f ?A 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 theconsum- 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" 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 "farhily" 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 D 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 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.