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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1962 NIGHT EDITOR: RONALD WILTON
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POLITICS IN PERSPECTIVE:
Romney's Personality
Sweeps Michigan
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Graduate Language Courses
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- LAST SPRING the academic departments and
schools throughout the University were
unanimous in voicing support for the graduate
school's language requirement, which stipulates
that each doctoral degree candidate must pos-
sess a reading knowledge of two foreign lan-
guages, preferably French and German.
The support came in response to a question-
naire distributed at that time by the Graduate
school executive board, which had been pon-
dering financial and staffing problems that
forved severe restrictions in enrollment in the
special language service courses for graduate
students-French and German 111 and 112.
During the intervening period neither de-
partmental backing nor money and staff
troubles have departed. There's little possibility
that the requirement will be revised in any
startling fashion, and prospects for arranging
more money to free faculty men to teach the
service courses are equally miniscule.
SO WE HAVE the same old issues and the
same old problems. The same old justifica-
tions for the requirement, however, might have
to be revised in the future.
Professors and administrators have always
upheld the requirement on purely scholastic
grounds. The feeling is simply that any PhD
graduate worthy of the title should be able
to undestand his speciality in at least two
other languages, not only for practical neces-
sity, but also for the sake of learning itself.
In the next five of 10 years, though, most of
the pragmatic underpinnings for the require-
ment will fall away; for if pertinent foreign
documents are of any substantial length, it
will be cheaper to get them translated by means
of a machine. Students won't have to depend
on University language course training when
they can keep abreast of the latest develop-
ments abroad in their field much more easily
and quickly through mechanical aids.
Also, the increase in the number of lan-
guages in which advances will be coming
Russian, for example) and the overall increase
in the amount of new developments abroad will
render a reading knowledge of only two lan-
guages both insufficient and needlessly time-
comsuming - especially in more technical
fields.
THE "OFFICIAL" intellectual Justification
will then have to be stretched, or current
language policies revised to re-cohere theory
and practice. There will be at least four trouble
spots:
1) The University uses the same academic
Support
IN ITS DOGGED effort for survival, the Unit-
ed States National Student Association glee-
fully welcomes support from any quarter, but
the laurels from Rev. Martin Luther King
should be especially welcome.
The powerful and respected leader said, in
answer to a question asked Monday night at
Hill Aud., that "it would be very unfortunate
for the University to disaffiliate from USNSA,"
adding that "it has done many significant
things particularly in the area of civil rights."
He believes it important for students to face
their responsibilities as citizens of the world.
Disagreeing with University President Harlan
Hatcher's state of the University address in
October, he said that "students have a respon-
sibility to participate in the student movement."
As King sees it, there are two accordant pur-
poses of education: to give students critical
faculties and to humanize the individual so
he develops a sense of values.
"While riding the bus in the South is not the
olny way to become educated, it is part of
the solution. Also, it would make it clear that
the students of this generation are not apa-
thetic and unconcerned," he said.
OPPONENTS of USNSA are often the same
people who are opposed to involvement
of Student Government Council in off-campus
issues. They forcibly stress that the role of the
student is on campus, that the student is one
phase of a person while the citizen is another.
In essence, they believe the student, and the
student's representative body should keep his
sights fixed on the Ann Arbor city limits-or
Lansing at the farthest. King sees the scope
of education as being broader than this, as in-
cluding a concern with peoples and activities
throughout the nation and world.
An argument against USNSA is that it is
concerned with areas in which it should not
dabble, namely politics. The anti-USNSAers feel
the USNSA Congress had no right to express
a concern with the sit-in movement, because
this was being bipartisan and students at US-
NSA should be students-and not political be-
ings.
We the students, or even we, some of the stu-
dents who are represented some of the time by
USNSA, should not fail to express our con-
cern with an opinion of the world through
a potentially powerful and effective voice. It
would indeed be unfortunate if we were to
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justification to cover a two-language require-
ment for doctoral and some master's degree)
candidates and the one-language standard for
literary college undergraduates. While this
difficulty can be partially solved by the claim
that graduate students somehow need a greater
range of language facility, nevertheless there
are problems when the undergrad becomes a
graduate student and suddenly has to pick up
another language.
Someday entrance requirements will be
stiffened so that incoming freshmen will have
to possess a complete knowledge of one foreign
language. Until that time, there will continue
to be a very clumsy disparity between language
training requirements at the undergraduate
and graduate levels.
2) The same academic justification also
covers the needs of every type of student. Its
practical application suffers, however. For in-
stance, the University says that an engineer
or a scientist must for purely intellectual rea-
sons acquire the use of two languages, and
yet any opportunities to pursue these skills
are almost non-existant at the undergraduate
level in colleges outside the LSA. If only a
purely scholarly justification is to be used,
then equal opportunities (or requirements)
should be maintained in each of the schools
and departments.
3) The graduate student language standard
provides only for a reading knowledge of a
foreign language; yet if the justification for
this is primarily intellectual, then why isn't
a complete knowledge (including writing and
oral facility) required? Administrators reply
that no one is stopping graduate students from
obtaining' these other language skills as well,
but this seems to miss the point: the Univer-
sity, after all, does see value in "stopping"
graduate students from not having a reading
knowledge by requiring them to have one.
4) The future undoubtedly will see a great
speeding up of degree programs as the Uni-
versity, futilely perhaps, attempts to keep pace
with the almost overwhelming demands for
professional and specialized manpower. If this
is the case, then programs such as learning
a language will have to be cut out or stream-
lined, for while much of the reading the stu-
dents do in preparation for the special lan-
guage examinations is done in their own field,
nevertheless the time and effort needed to
grasp the essentials of grammar and vocabulary
detract from research and the thesis.
IN ADDITION, much of the training in pro-
viding graduate students reading knowledge
facility is done through the special service
courses. Whether the University will continue
to be able to offer these courses is problema-
tical financially, especially since this knowledge
can be acquired outside the classroom, al-
though with considerably more difficulty and
less polish.
All these aspects should be given serious
consideration by University policy-makers. Ad-
mittedly, the problem is a complex one, and
is aided not a whit by bureaucracy: the lan-
guage departments control the service courses
the graduate school executive board controls
the degree program language requirements and
the executive committees of the various schools
and colleges control undergraduate distribution
requirements.
Out of this maze somehow will have to come
either a re-defined justification for language
requirements or revisions in current foreign
language policies, or both.
-GERALD STORCH
Exeunt
POLITICAL LIFE bid farewell yesterday to
its one-time golden boy, Richard M. Nixon.
Mr. Nixon could have gone quietly-nobody
likes to beat a broken man-but instead he
grabbed a large handful of sour grapes and
flung them at the American press,
The ex-politician had a simple answer ready
to explain his overwhelming defeat in Cali-
fornia:newspaper reporters painted his gold
heart black. "You won't have Nixon to kick
around much longer," the defeated candidate
told his press conference.
According to the Associated Press, Nixon
spent much time condemning his news cover-
age but made few specific charges.
He didn't, for instance, attempt to deny
Drew Pearson's scorching commentary on his
habitual practice of associating all his op-
ponents with Communism, Pearson was par-
ticularly hard on Nixon's campaign manager,
Murray Chotiner. The columnist successfully
alledged that both men were associated with
gangster elements across the country .
CONCERNING Communism, however, "Brown
is pink" labels were distributed by various..
Republican campaign offices in California, as
was a leaflet asserting Brown had Communist
ties. Nixon. was "horrified" and disclaimed any
knowledge of these incidents. But the same
tactics typified every one of his California
campaigns-he never professed to know who
started the rumors that his nnnnnents wee
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Disdains MSU Speaker Ban
To the Editor:
AS A STUDENT at Michigan
State University and a fre-
quent reader I feel obligated to
point out to your reading au-
dience the current sorry state of
civil liberties and student-admix}-
istration relations here at the uni-
versity.
Because so many students and
faculty were enraged last spring
at the arbitrary andunwarranted
banning of a 'speaker from this,
supposedly an institution commit-
ted to free thought and inquiry,
the administration recently ap-
pointed a student-faculty speaker
committee to decide who would
not be allowed to speak here.
Apparently they hoped to shift
some of the heat they received at
the last banningdonto the backs of
the students and faculty by mak-
ing them participate in he re-
stricting and censoring process.
* * *
THE DULY elected president of
our student government rightly
refused to serve on any such cen-
sorship committee. He and several
other student leaders challenged
the right of the university to so
limit free speech, both by making
public statements and by spon-
soring a meeting at which unclear-
ed speakers appeared.
Now the administration is tak-
ing its revenge. Enraged at this
justified questioning of authority,
the administration has forced the
resignation of Robert Howard,
president of the student govern-
ment, and also forced the resigna-
tion of several other organization
leaders, placing them all on the
strictest probation, the next step
to expulsion.
* * *
THIS IS A vicious and unjusti-
fied action against students whose
only fault is that they were ques-
tioning the apparent contention
of the university administration
that the Bill of Rights does not
apply here.
I hope interested readers will
appeal to Michigan State Univer-
sity president John Hannah and
Dean of Students John Fuzak as
well as other administration lead-
ers to reconsider this hasty and
unwarranted action in favor of
a more rational approach.
-Raymond B. Pratt
Embarrassed .. .
To the Editor:
I WOULD like to write a few
words in answer to the critic
published Tuesday by Michael Hy-
man on the cinema of the new
wave from Italy and France. Let
me say I feel embarrassed for the
writer of this article. I am tired
of listening to people saying that
what they don't understand in art,
which is always the avant-garde,
is a fraud and a joke,
What about the quarrels over
abstract - expressionist painting?
Also this finding of filth every-
where is sickening. This cat is not
hip. He does not know that art
goes further always\than what you
most important contemporary
French writers, Robe-Grillet, and
it seems sort of inadequate, to say
the least, and not to the honor
of the Americans, that he should
be treated so depricatingly.
-Suzanne Meloche
Annihilation .. .
To the Editor:
AFTER READING The Daily's
comments on the Cuban crisis,
as well as certain student reac-
tions, I feel compelled to present
the feelings of University of Flor-
ida students ofthe past week.
We in Florida, which is now
an armed camp, took a different
view of the chilling situation than
most people. There were no anti-
blockade demonstrations, or fer-
vent opposition to President Ken-
nedy's action. We watched Army
convoys roll southward as we
walked to class.
There was, though, a dreaded
anticipation of what might have
come-we are only 350 miles from
Cuba. While Michigan, California,
and Harvard students were hoot-
ing and tossing eggs at one an-
other, Florida students were
quietly reading civil defense in-
structions, stocking up 'on food,
and making plans to grab a blan-
ket if the word came.
We in Florida are keenly aware
of what national security is and
tend to forget idealism when we
are five minutes from annihila-
tion.
--Jack Horan
Managing Editor,
U. of Fa. Aligatr
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first
of two articles analyzing Tuesday's
elections.)
By DAVID MARCUS
THE VOTERS of Michigan have
picked George Romney.
But they have not picked the
Republican Party. The defeat of
every one of Romney's running
mates shows that the people of
Michigan have chosen a personal-
ity, a personal approach rather
than a political philosophy.
Romney won because he was
able to forge a coalition of out-
state Republicans and independent
or normally Democratic voters in
Wayne County. This, combined
with an astute approach to the
art of campaigning, brought Rom-
ney victory.
* * s
VICTORY, however, is only the
beginning. Romney is in an ex-
tremely difficult political situation.
As governor, he will be surrounded
by men who oppose him. As gov-
ernor, he must assume not only
the responsibilities of Michigan's
chief executive, but must also be-
come the leader of his party. At
the same time, he must rnot alie-
nate the urban-rural coalition
which elected him.
The Democrats in the adminis-
trative board will be the most im-
mediate stumbling block. Romney
is in the embarrassing position of
having a member of the opposi-
tion take over his job every time
he leaves the state.dHe will also
most likely be at odds with At-
torney General Frank Kelly whose
views on the responsibilities of
the attorney general almost cer-
tainly differ radically from Rom-
ney's.
But the most embarrassing fac-
tor in the administrative board
will be James A. Hare as secre-
tary of state. Of course Hare has
done an excellent job over the
years which even the Republican
Detroit News will admit, but the
secretary of state's office is the
major source of patronage in the
state government.
*w* *
THEREFORE, Romney will not
have a free hand in distributing
patronage, which in many politi-
cal situations is a potent weapon
for the executive. Probably, he
will reach some compromise with
Hare over the distribution of jobs
just as he will probably reach
some compromise with Lt. Gov. T.
John Lesinski over what Lesinski
will do when he is acting governor.
There is almost no prospect of a
settlement with Kelley.
Thus partisanship will pene-
trate into the executive offices for
the next few years and present
an irritating but not fatal prob-
lem.
A more important aspect of
Romney's situation is his dualis-
tic position. Unquestionably, the
governor must be the leader of his
party. Romney, on the other hand,
has called for an end to partisan
squabbling and a unified approach
to state problems.
* * *
THIS CONFLICT of roles will
present itself in many ways, es-
pecially in the case of fiscal re-
form. Many of those bitterly op-
posed to an income tax, even as
an integral part of a general over-
haul of state taxation, have re-
turned to the Legislature. In or-
der to pass his program, Romney
will have to make some open ap-
peals to the members of the op-
position. If the Democrats agree
to back his proposals, it may well
hurt his position among the more
conservative members of his own
party.
On the other hand, if he does
not form a coalition with the
Democrats, he will probably not
be able to pass many of his pro-
grams. If he is unable to get a
constructive program through the
Legislature, he will lose the sup-
port of Wayne County Democrats.
It is possible that he will be
able to get some programs through
the Legislature. The ultra-con-
servative leadership has been very
disorganized especially through the
defeat of Senators Carlton Morris
and Charles Feenstra and the
withdrawal of Sen. Lynn O. Fran-
cis from the Senate. The real trick
will be to get the programs
through without alienating large
segments of his own party.
* * *
ANOTHER PROBLEM Romney
faces is that he may have height-
ened partisanship instead of al-
leviating it. Democrats are still
smarting from his many charges
about union domination of the
Democratic party. Romney's pro-
lific abuse and sarcasm toward
Gov. John B. Swainson and the
Democratic party have not helped
either, not to mention his remark
about now Congressman-at-large
Neil Staebler's "Americanism."
Democrats could take their re-
venge by blind opposition and a
determination to wreck any pos-
sibility of his re-election or any
consideration of Romney as a
possible GOP presidential candi-
date in 1964.
It remains to be seen what
Romney will do to handle or
avoid these difficulties. They are,
of course, exactly the things
against which he campaigned. But
to say they will not occur is to
either contend that the compro-
mises were the best that could
be made under the circumstances
or that Romney was inexperienced
in the ways of politics.
Certainly, he will have to make
a different kind of compromise as
governor than he made at either
con-con or as President of Ameri-
can Motors. Con-con was dominat-
ed by conservative Republicans.
Romney's major difficulty was to
compromise GOP factions. As
American Motors president, he had
much greater authority than any
governor has in dealing with in-
dividuals who stubbornly opposed
him. Neither of these techniques
can be wholly successful in deal-
ing with the Legislature.
MOST DIFFICULT of all, Rm-
ney will have to do something to
realize his ideal of individual
citizen participation in politics. It
is an interesting and laudable
principle, but it is rather obscure
as to how specifically it can be
implemented.
Perhaps he intends to accom-
plish such individual interest
through the structure of his bwn
party by attempting to exclude
the interests of large groups in
favor of the interests of individ-
uals. But agin, the precise methods
involved are rather obscure.
Much lies before Romney as
governor. There is no sense in re-
viving all the objections brought
up against him during the cam-
paign. The people have made their
choice. What remains to be seen
is whether George Romney can
make the transition from an ap-
pealing image to a political lead-
er of substance, and whether he
can breath life into the Republican
party.
LIPPMANN:
The Great
Shake- Up
By WALTER LIPPMANN
WE APPEAR to have come to
one of those moments in his-
tory *when the state of things,
which for good or evil, was fairly
steady, is suddenly shaken up. No
one can now see better than dimly
what will be the new. shape of
things in the two major crises we
now face.
As for Cuba, though the full
agreement about verification of
the removal of the strategic weap-
ons is still to be worked out, there
is no doubt that the United States
has the upper hand in this part
of the world. For if Castro at-
tempts to frustrate the imple-
mentation of the Kennedy-
Khrushchev agreement, he will
lay himself open to heavy penal-
ties from a tightened blockade.
The Soviet Union cannot now
protect him in his recalcitrance.
Castro has been deprived of the
military protection of the Soviet
Union, and if he is to replace it
with some guarantee besides the
promise of the United States not
to invade him, his best course is
to invite the Organization of
American States to make Cuba a
neutralized island which will con-
centrate its attention on its own
internal development.
* * *
WHAT IS HAPPENING in Cuba
is having far reaching effects not
only in Latin America but, al-
most certainly, in Africa and the
Middle East and Asia. By. con-
junction with the Chinese invasion
of India, the effects of the Cuban
affair are compounded. Both in
Cuba and in India the Soviet
Union has had to water down or
write off the promises of support
which it had made.
India's foreign policy under Ne-
hru has, as he himself has con-
fessed, been based on an illusion.
But what was the illusion? Not
that the Chinese were too timid
to hurt India: Red China has been
nibbling at the Indian frontier for
five years. The Indian illusion was
that the Soviet Union was the par-
amount power in the Communist
orbit and that it would and could
prevent China from committing a
serious aggression against India.
* * *.
NOT BEING myself a Kremlin-
ologist, I do not know what will
be the effect of the two great
crisis on the internal situation of
the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union finds itself
contained and blocked in both di-
rections. In the . West, towards
Europe and the Americas, the
nuclear balance of power is against
her, and her two attempts to close
the gap-by resuming testing and
by planting first-strike missiles in
Cuba-have failed.
In the East, Red China is con-
solidating control of the Tibetan
plateau which threatens Soviet
Siberia.
* * *
THE CRUCIAL QUESTION is,
it seems to me, whether the Krem-
lin will take a short or a long
view of the situation.
On a short view, the Kremlin
will pretend that there is no sig-
nificant change inside and out-
side the Communist world, and
LIGHT (HEARTED) OPERA:
G&S Princess Ida'.
Successful Obscurity
THE GILBERT AND SULLIVAN SOCIETY has dusted off one of G&S'
more obscure light operas, "Princess Ida," with a great deal of polish.
Threatened with oblivion earlier this year, the Society has re-
bounded with a lively performance that ranks among the bestathey
have done in recent history.
"Ida," the story of the defeat of a hundred women, imbued with
feminine supremacy, by six "lowly men," was not one of Gilbert and
Sullivan's more successful offerings when first produced. But last night,
the operetta was performed with the gusto of "Pinafore" or "The
Mikado."
WITH THE INTRODUCTION of a new musical director, Rosella
Duerksen, and a new dramatics director, Gershom Clark Morningstar,
the Society avoided its old pitfalls. Gone was the orchestra which
drowned out the chorus; gone was the chorus which could not be under-
stood.
Instead, the show, for the most part, was lively and enjoyable, a
feat none too simple with "Princess Ida."
EASILY THE MOST DELIGHTFUL portrayals were turned in by
Prince Hilarion (Henry Naasko), and his two cohorts, Cyril (Hendrik
Broekman) and Florian (Dick Hazzard). Their capacity for humor is
great, each unique in its own way, demonstrated by their performance
mid-way through the second act, when they disguise themselves as
"girl graduates" and crash Princess Ida's ladies' seminary.
Purple gowns trailing in the breeze, they clowned their way from
flamenco dancers to a bergomask. Broekman, however, outshined his
co-stars, first with a brief hip-swinging sequence and later getting
drunk on the luncheon wine, revealing the masquerade.
Morningstar, as King Gama, Ida's father, was delightfully dis-
agreeable, slithering from pillar to post, leaving a trail of insults in his
wake. Dispatched by Ida to break Hilarion's marriage contract, Gama
despaired when imprisoned "with kindness" by King Hildebrand (Paul
Vanderkoy), Hilarion's father.
* * 4. *
IDA (NANCY HALL) turned in an adequate performance. Her role
did not offer a wide range of possibilities for interpretation, a fault
typical of G&S leading ladies. Her voice, however, was clear and
resonant, and her stern portrayal gave credence to her part.
Vanderkoy, on the other hand, left something -to be desired. To be
certain, he is an excellent singer. But his portrayal was stiff and arti-
ficial, and he alone could not be understood past the middle of the
main floor.
Somehow, he did not convey a convincing image of a monarch,
largely due to the fact that acting seemed totally foreign to him. (He
plopped when he should have jumped.)
In addition, the second act drags in spots, inching along to a