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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1962 NIGHT EDITOR: MICHAEL HARRAH
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New Conservative Voice:
Statements, Distribution
T HE CONSERVATIVE VOICE has found a somethingd
new campus organ in the form of WCBN. to encourag
This conservative voice, however, seems to to run for S
represent not a moderate, but an extreme, to imply th
almost reactionary right wing viewpoint. will become
The conservative voice is quoted in a letter individual r
sent to sorority presidents by Panhellenic As-
sociation. The letter, which deals with the DOERR G
Committee on Membership in student organ- for tho
izations and Student Government Council, ex- someone all
presses the opinions of Harry Doerr, news (in a public
editor of WCBN and vice-president of the that no 'ce
Young Republicans. Yet as a me
treme opini
T HE LETTER was distributed by Panhel as ship? He f
part of a program conducted by Panhel to be libelo
President Ann MacMillan to inform sorority opposite opi
members of the various sides of the SGC and airway
controversies, liberal or c
Basically, Panhel claims to be a non-policy tremes and
forming body, which makes no fundamental trary to on
decisions on various political stands. toward taki
This letter, however, was unmarked as to dividual rig
whether Doerr's reactionary position was purely Doerr als
the opinion of Doerr and not Panhel. It was Greek syste:
simply prefaced by the unassuming title of part of the
"President, point to ponder." Panhel has equat- system has
ed the impact of this editorial letter with a long on thi
similar letter 'dealing with the Williams College believe that
liberal views on fraternities, but these two anymore."
letters are not equal in their influence on The Gree
prospective voters. Miss MacMillan has sub- out of some
sequently sent out a letter clarifying that they should
Doerr's editorial opinion does not, at least should have
entirely, reflect the views of Panhel or its a larger voi
president. However, the damage from this letter resent.
has already been done. Doerr's p
gerated. T
DOERR SAID in his October 19 editorial on system woul
WCBN that if "the Greeks do not retain "the end of
control of SGC and the liberals gain control, than an ed
the work the Greeks have done on Council and sororit
will be for naught, and the Greek system will constitute th
be destroyed." Doerr goes on to say that "they campus, but
(liberals) intend-and this is quite obvious group. The o
from the goals they have been trying to push one to think
through SGC-to eliminate the blackball is in the G
systen. Either that, or they, will force the members.
Greeks off campus. The only saving grace Doerr app
right now is a fraternity-controlled Council." dence halls
Doerr justifies his taking to the air to en- choosing fri
courage fraternity members to run for SGC. students wh
He winds up by trying to change any forward cause, which
progress the SOCCommittee on Membership in but for the s
Student Organizations has made. He wants Since WCB
students to run who are-"not obstructionists present exp
-but conservatives who believe that indivi- halls, this i
duals are not subservient to the state and recognition
that they have rights." He addresses himself tening to his
to members of the audience who "believe you
have a right to choose your friends and that WCBN IS
no organization or law-making body can tell audience
you that you have to take someone as a friend and sorority
if you don't want him." largest audi
WCBN owes
THE COMMITTEE on Membership is not a balancede
t tryinto steal any individual liberties and by Panhel, c
to force fraternities to take members they an audience
don't want. It is trying to form a unified such a mess
membership policy which is at least an out- which claim
wardly fair one. cisions as a
If Doerr had his way, nothing would ever torials which
be done about membership practices at all, and end, it is ju
the Committee on Membership would be self- conservative
liquidated by its conservative majority, turn SGC in
The administration has given SGC power representing
in the membership realm, because it wants
Censorship
N AN EXTREMELY bald admission for a past the pr
public relations man, Assistant Secretary of hearings, pe.
Defense Arthur Sylvester admitted last week story on the
that the Pentagon had used the press "as one ship that tu
voice" as a weapon during the Cuban crisis. put its edito
Later in the week, the defense department loosen censo
tightened up the news flow further by requiring
that its officials must submit transcripts of all HOWEVER
interviews. long as n
On Sunday, the Pentagon announced that a goals and m
central public relations and news office is being they will be
formed. tion. A skept
from accepti
ALTHOUGH the balance between information as dogma a
and security is difficult to maintain, the question edit
current trend seems to favor news manipula- if not by the
tion. This is not the censorship of no news, but in editorials.
a policy of releasing only information the Conveying
Pentagon wants known and nothing else. further help
As expected, newspapers raised a hue and opposition to
cry about Sylvester's admission. However, the ter and ilk tI
press has allowed itself to be Used by the de- Editorial P
fense department but rarely, if ever, raising critically acc
questions about the quality, tone or complete- is quite useles
ness of information that was being disseminat- being the un'
ed. it must'skepi
Newspapers must now press for the con- partment ane
gressional investigation proposed by Rep. John
Moss of California. Long a critic of govern-
mental secrecy, Moss is planning a probe
into the ethics and effects of the government's
press policy during the Cuban crisis. In the
done. It is good that Doerr wishes
'e conservative fraternity members
GC and protect their interests, but
at the Committee on Membership
a repressive state and will steal all
ights is both extreme and unreal.
OES ON to say that he is "looking
se people who believe that when
ows a libelous article to be printed
ation) he should be dismissed and
nsorship' cries should be raised."
mber of WCBN, voicing his own ex-
on, how can he speak of censor-
ails to define what he considers
us and if this merely means the
nion to his. Freedom of the press
s is important for both factions,
onservative, and supression of ex-
defining as libel as anything con-
e's own view is a dangerous step
rg away the very freedom of in-
hts Doerr wants to protect.
o mentions in his speech that the
m has always been the dominant
campus. He says that "the Greek
had things their own way for so
s campus, it is hard for them to
they are not in complete control
k system represents 3000 students
23000 others, and there is no reason
have complete control. The Greeks
their voice on Council, but not
ce than the constituency they rep-
osition therefore is grossly exag-
ie destruction of the fraternity
Id not, as Doerr implies, lead to
the University as anything other
ucational factory." The fraternity
y systems in themselves do not
re only social outlets on the whole
reflect a part of a much larger
overexaggeration of his belief leads
that the only bastion of stability
reek system and its conservative
eals to conservatives in the resi-
to fight for individual rights in
ends. He is attempting to have
o are not affiliated fight for a
i is not so much for conservatives,
pecial interests of a closed system.
V was mainly heard, up until its
nsion campaign, in the residence
s a mere addition to make small
that there are other people lis-
broadcast.'
making a vast enlargement of its
and is trying to get into fraternity
houses. Presently, however, the
ence is in the dormitories, and
it to these students to present
editorial opinion. This letter, sent
id help to bring Doerr's views to
which is directly interested in
age. It is imperative that Panhel,
s to make no definite policy de-
group, always clarify such edi-
are sent to its members. In the
st as important that the extreme
voice does not gain control and
ito a mere special interest group,
a reactionary outlook.
-BARBARA LAZARUS
ess has blandly reported Moss's
rhaps writing a humorous color
absurdities of government censor-
rned up. It has never consistently
rial pressure to bear in efforts to
rship.
, PROTESTING is not enough. As
ewspapers uncritically accept the
ethods of the defense department,
its tools, available for manipula-
ical attitude will prevent the press
ng defense department handouts
nd will encourage newspapers to
®rially what the Pentagon is doing,
ir reporters on the scene, at least
this attitude to the public will
the newspapers' cause. Public
spoon-fed news will make Sylves-
hink twice before handing it out.
Protests about' details while un-
epting defense department policies
ss. If the press is ever going to stop
witting tool of Pentagon publicists,
tically re-evaluate the defense de-
d its relationship with it.
-PHILIP SUTIN
Experses
E, Michigan Union president and
-y chairman of BOO USNSA, urges
to vote against continuel partici-
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'DER SPIEGEL': *
irrors German Weakness
By RICHARD KRAUT
VOTE to keep the University
in the United States National
Student Association may, in effect,
be a vote to withdraw.
This curious statement can eas-
ily be explained by an examina-
tion of the referendum regulation,
passed by Student Government
Council last February. A referen-
dum, according to the Council
plan, is valid only if 3000 students
or 75 per cent of those voting in
the election, whichever figure is
greater, participate in it.
In other words, if 4000 or fewer
students vote in the election, then
at least 3000 must vote on the
referendum; and if more than
4000 vote in the election, then at
least 75 per cent of the voters
must participate in the referen-
dum.
* * *
THIS REQUIREMENT, although
necessary to insure that an ex-
tremely small number of stu-
dents cannot make ma3or deci-
sions, can sometimes play very
nasty tricks on the voter. For ex-
ample, suppose you are the last
person to cast a ballot in the
election and you have decided to
vote Yes on the referendum. Ex-
actly 3500 students have already
voted; 1600 of the have voted No
on the .referendum and 1399 have
voted Yes. Unaware of the situa-
tion, you cast your Yes vote, the
total vote in the referendum be-
comesr3000; the No's still out-
number the Yes's and the Univer-
sity drops out of USNSA. Neat?
The only way Friends of USNSA
can avoid this delemma, it seems,
is to instruct its supporters not
to vote on the USNSA question.
With no liberals participating in
the referendum those opposed to
USNSA would have to muster at
least 3000 referendum votes by
themselves. Their chance of doing
this is definitely less than their
chance of merely outnumbering
the liberals, which may very well
be done with about 2000 No votes.
Therefore the liberals can make
it much more difficult for the
conservatives to vote the UUniver-
sity out of USNSA. Why don't
they do it?
* * *
THERE ARE two very good
reasons. The first is that it would
be political suicide to urge non-
participation in the USNSA ref-
participation in the USNSA
referendum. Any self-respecting
member of Better Off Out would
immediately charge that the sup-
porters of USNSA were:
1) afraid of losing an honest
fight;
2) hypocritical in their belief in
democratic principles, and
3) malicious manipulators, sel-
fish in their goals and unscrupu-
lous in their methods. In short,
it would be political hay for the
conservatives.
The second reason is that if, the
referendum does not reach the
requirement for validity, SGC can'
simply turn around and vote the
University out of USNSA by it-
self. The BOO members hav 'the
votes to do it and probably will
still have the votes to do it after
the election, since no one is ex-
By H. NEIL BERKSON
AMERICANS HAVE just com-
pleted their 88th biennial trip
to the polls; German democracy,
now 16 years old, is shaking at
its very foundations.
Last week, in'a manner remi-
niscent of Hitler's Gestapo, Ger-
man security police raided one of
Europe's best news magazines
"Der Spiegel." Striking in the
middle of the night, they searched
and sealed the magazine's Bonn
and Hamburg offices. Publisher
Rudolf Augstein and three edi-
torial assistants were arrested on
charges of treason and bribery.
The evidence against Augstein:
his magazine, long a bitter foe
of the policies of West German
Defense. Minister Franz Josef
Strauss, had printed an article
alledging that West German troops
had received the lowest rating of
combat readiness possible in a
NATO exercise.
* * *
THE FEDERAL prosecutor's of-
fice charged that Der Spiegel's
article contained state secrets
which must have been obtained
from military officials. The fed-
eral prosecutor speculated that
they may have been obtained
through bribery.
Without proof of either the
source of the information or the
means by which it was obtained,
Augstein was nevertheless arrested
and charged.
Chancellor Adenauer's govern-
ment attempted to keep the af-
fair quiet, but the news leaked,
and the uproar in Germany was
nstantaneous. The country, thank-
fully, was outraged at the govern-
ment's dubious methods.
Many intimated that the arrests
really stemmed from Defense Min-
ister Strauss' personal grudge
against "Der Spiegel."
* * *
MOST OUTRAGED was Ade-
nauer's minority partner in the
coalition government, the Free
Democratic Party (FDP). FDP
Justice Minister Wolfgang Stamm-
berger, under whose jurisdiction
such a case woud normally fall,
complained that he was neither
consulted nor even informed about
the raids in advance and submit-
ted his resignation.
THE 3,000TH VOTE:
Math Proves Why
To Vote on USNSA
The party's other four ministers
also threatened resignation - a
move which would topple Ade-
nauer-unless the number two
men in the defense and justice
ministrys were removed.
These men, FDP claimed, were
responsible for keeping Stamm-
berger in the dark. Two days ago
Adenauer finally acquiesced in
order to save his government, and
all the FDP ministers, including
Stammberger, have remained at
their posts.
* * *
THE "DER SPIEGEL" affair
raises a serious question of how
long Adenauer can stay in power.
The FDP is growing more and
more restless within the coalition
because it doesn't feel it's receiv-
ing proper attention.
Adenauer's Christian Democrats
are making major decisions with-
out consulting the FDP. The "Der
Spiegel" case was only one ex-
ample. Lately the cabinet approv-
ed much social legislation when
FDP ministers were absent.
The "Der Spiegel" affair is not
over. The magazine's lawyers have
taken the case to court. The Ade-
nauer government's actions are
totally incompatible with demo-
cracy. They have closed a maga-
zine, arrested its publisher, and
now they are looking for the proof
to back up their charges.
Yet whether or iot certain mili-
tary officials are uilty of leaking
state secrets, is the magazine
guilty for printing its information?
Certainly this would not be the
case in the United States. One
cannot imagine a more incon-
gruous sight than "Time" Editor-
in-Chief Henry R. Luce languish-
ing in jail for getting hold of and
printing classified information.
Meanwhile, the German govern-
ment continues to shroud its next
moves in secrecy. It refuses to
inform a worried German public
of the exact nature of its case
against Augstein and "Der Spie-
gel." Chancellor Adenauer, the re-
puted father of Germany demo-
cracy, is allowing his subordinates
to act most recklessly. He is pre-
senting concerned observers with
the most serious reservations about
the future of the German demo-
cratic experiment.
pecting any great changes in the
liberal-conservative breakdown.
(The Council would probably feel
especially justified in withdraw-
ing membership from USNSA if
the vote in the referendum were
something like 2500 No's and no
Yes's.)
* * *
IT MUST BE added that the
opponents of USNSA are no less
free from the ironies of life. For
example, the situation might be
one in which 3500 have voted in
the election and there are 1600
Yes votes, 1399 No's. The unsus-
pecting USNSA opponent casts his
No vote, the number of referen-
dum votes becomes 3000 and the,
University must remain a mem-
ber of the national student or-
ganization.
However, the conservatives would
be in an even more "rediculous
situation than the liberals might
be, since they are the ones who
have been advocating a referen-
dum.
It seems, therefore, that there
is no way out of this dilemma,
Both Friends of USNSA and Bet-
ter Off Out will just have to get
out the USNSA vote and hope
that the hypothetical 3000th voter
won't defy the laws of probability
on election day.
LETTERS
to the
EDITOR
To the Editor:
IN MR. STORCH'S article con-
cerning courses which prepare
graduates to pass foreign language
reading examinations, there is no
mention of the fact that the Grad-
uate1School, without special peti-
tion, now accepts Russian in the
place of French or German.
It might also be mentioned that
the Department of Slavic Lan-
guages and Literature offers
courses 111 and 112, which are
specifically designed to prepare
students to read, with ease and
accuracy, Russian materials in
their fields of specialization. Meth-
ods of instruction have been dili-
gently refined, so that, despite in-
creased enrollment, levels of
achievement have been continual-
ly raised.
For most of the first semester
all students learn' Russian lan-
guage fundamentals using a text
designed especially for this course;
in the second semester a tutorial
approach is used, each student
reading materials relating to his
discipline. Some students, partic'-
ularly those in the physical sci-
ences and mathematics, have
been able to sight read articles in
technical publications prior to the
conclusion of the second semester.
-John Mersereau, Jr.
Chairman, Department of
Slavic Languages and Lit-
erature
'democrats .. .
To the Editor:
IWISH to protest the consistent
use of the word "Democrat" as
an adjective in all of The Daily's
political commentary. As there is
no "Democrat Party," there are no
"Democrat" candidates. This delib-
erate and obnoxious grammatical
error was begun by the late Sen-
ator Joseph McCarthy in his witch
hunting days, and has been con-
tinued only by the Old Guard
leadership of the Republican Par-
ty, most noticeably by former
Vice-President Nixon, in his most
intense hatchet-wielding tirades.
Sam Rayburn once attributed
Republican aversion to correct use
of the adjective "Democratic" to
GOP inability to pronounce words
of more than three syllables. If
you insist in perpetuating this
subtle derogation in your "news"
articles, and as long as Right-
Wing "anti-Communists" persist
in likening their crusades to the
goals of Christianity, I think it
only fair that you also adopt Ray-
burn's suggestion of abbreviating
the minority party's title to the
Biblical term "publican."
-Ron Martinez, '66
ADVENTURESOME PROGRAMMING:
Hindu Dancers Shun Classical. Style
L AST NIGHT'S performance by
Uday Shankar and his Hindu
dancers was another example of
the -adventuresome programming
of Mr. Gail Rector and the Uni-
versity Musical Society.
It was the young Shankar who
electrified American audiences in
the 1930's with his rippling arms
and classical style. Now he returns
as the grand old man of Hindu
dance with his leading lady of
some 15 years ago. Neither the
music nor the dance are now in
the classical style and several
parts could perhaps be better
handled by younger members of
the troupe.
What one did see, however, were
several good examples of modern
Indian movie-style dancing. The
Krisna dance by Amala Shankar
was closest to the classical style,
but the most interesting number
of the evening was the first one.
Here Shankar used a combination
of traditional movements and
modern themes to create some-
thing quite valid in the contem-
porary theatre world and at the
same time something quite Indian.
It is unfortunate that this best
number had to be first for the
audience was not in a position to
appreciate at that point the clever
compromise Shankar had made.
The story dealt with the com-
promise of ancient Indian ways
and the machine age and the,
choreography reconciled Indian
classical with modern dance ala
Doris Humphrey (1930). It was
like many of the communist folk
dance troupe choreographies. How-'
ever, Shankar could base his on
the rich vocabulary of Indian ar-
tistic dancing rather than the
limited movements of folk dance.
Someday I hope that the classi-
cal style will be shown to the
West again in a pure form. Never-
theless, through the p re s e n t
Shankar repertoire one can see
the new India and its attempts to
maintain a creative attitude in
its own terms while facing up, as
Nehru said, to the reality of the
times.
William P. Malm
Security
IT IS ONLY when statesmen come
to discuss security and how the
world can achieve security that we
are ever likely to make any pro-
gress towards disarmament.
-Sir James Pitman
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