4r Adirhigan Bathg Seventy-Third Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS "Where Opinions Are Free 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. Th must be noted in all reprints. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1962 NIGHT EDITOR: MALINDA BERRY PREMIERE: StudentProji ees Offer Hope to Grey World JUST NOW and then things happen which seem to make the grey of our days a little less grey and tend to persuade us, momentarily at least, that in all the fooling around with Pandora's box somebody really did have sense enough to slam the lid shut before Hope escaped. Within the past year, two things in par- ticular have happened very definately sub- stantiating this persuasion. They are the or- ganization of the Northern Student Movement and the proposal for a domestic peace corps to work in New York City's East Side. Both these projects, one of which has not even been formally initiated, offer grounds for a small but justified feeling of happiness to warm us through the winter months. The most recent of these two projects, the domestic peace corps, although still in its planningstage, appears to have a good chance of becoming an actuality. President Kennedy's naming last week of a Cabinet-level commit- tee to study the feasibility of applying the peace corps idea to social problems within this country indicates that the administration would probably be more than favorable to a working out of such a plan. THE INITIAL impetus for this project came from the work of the Mobilization for Youth organization which has been active in helping to solve the problems of juvenile delinquincy prevalent in many big cities. At the administration's request they recommended a. tentative outline of the way they felt a domestic peace corps should be operated. The peace corps volunteers would be working under local authorities similar in form to the mobilization project rather than as a separate unit. They would not live in specially pre- pared housing arrangements but rather in apartments throughout the areas in which they would be working. They would be sent only to communities requesting their services and these communities would be expected to pay about one-third of the cost of the project. The proposed arrangement of the corps is an attempt to prevent the people it seeks to aid from visualizing the volunteers as specially trained or professional workers who are there only because it is their job to be there. The initiators of the corps have realis- tically tried to create a blue print for the corps which would make it possible for the volunteers to approach the people with whom they are working on an equal level, thereby making it far more plausible that a relation- ship based on mutual trust will be established than if the workers were officiously "profes- sional." Much can be said for trying to work toward the establishment of the values of the people themselves and relatively little for an attempt to impose foreign values and needs on people whose social and cultural back- grounds is generally not in any way com- parable to that of the social worker or the corps volunteer. A good deal of sneering has been done about the "Yaley" or the Sarah Lawrence girl who goes to New York, or any big city, and pre- tends to be poor. But it is exactly people like this who realize the necessity of appealing to others in a way they can accept 'and under- stand, who in the final analysis accomplish what they set out to do. This is a concept not widespread in the last generation, and it offers hope and optimism and a challenge to this generation if we will but accept it. THE NORTHERN Student Movement is an- other piece of evidence attesting to the fact that students are awakening to their respon- sibilities and are beginning to care about the look on the face of a white mother glaring at a Negro child, or are beginning to be haunted by the eyes of a city child perpetually sitting on the dirty steps outside his apart- ment building. The NSM is carried on solely by college students and has as its purpose the solution, or partial solution, of the problem of educating minority groups in Northern communities. The head of its permanent staff of three, Peter Countryman, left Yale in his junior year, November 1961, to devote his full time to the job of organizing the movement's activities. It began as a conference sponsored by the New England Student Christian Movement in June 1961. From discussion during the con- ference, the idea of creating a Northern civil rights organization to fight discrimination in Northern areas and to assist such movements in the South was born. At present the NSM has grown so that it now has 65 affiliated colleges and universities in New York, Penn- sylvania, and New England. Last year NSM sent 150 college students to Philadelphia on a high school tutorial project. The students obtained jobs in the community and gave free instruction to 375 high school students two nights a week during 90-minute classes. Eighty per cent of the students taking lessons were Negroes. THE VALUE and the necessity of experiences like these-coming into personal contact with students in a minority group and suc- ceeding in making them want to continue their education, or working closely with stu- dents in a city like New York, where in some parts the problems involved in trying to live an ordinary life are almost insurmountable- are not comparable to schooling available at any of our universities. Peter Countryman and others have realized this, that there can be an end to discrimina- tion and delinquency and brutality. They have also understood that it will come about only through a semblence of caring on the part of men. Maybe some day .there will be enough NSMs and domestic peace corps to insure a day without greyness. -JEAN TENANDER "If You Don't Mind Danger, You Can Serve In One Of Our Cities Here At Home" t-1 A ca r ^ Pos p CORpS T fs li 4 c "s '-ns HE MERRY - GO - ROUND of life was given quite a world premiere last night with the MUSKET production of "Barthol- omew Fair," fashioned by the same twosome who penned last year's original effort, "Land Ho," Jack O'Brien and Robert James. This ambitious, colorful and bawdy musical comedy was inspir- ed by the 1614 play of the same name by Ben Jonson. As in the original work, satire and character are dominant, with plot hopelessly lost in the shuffle. The question is: does this make a musical comedy? First, it should be stated that the James-O'Brien team is an ex- tremely gifted one. Their, com- bined efforts as composer-conduc- tor, librettist-lyricist-director at- test to their boundless energies, which are straining to burst out all over into creative expres- sion. * * * AND THERE'S more to be said: they also show considerable prom- ise and originality in terms of musical and theatrical horizons yet to be discovered and exploited. Undeniably, they have already come a long way from the bur- lesque-for-its-own-sake quality (pleasant though the memory of "Land Ho" is) ; for in "Bartholo- mew Fair," they have admittedly experimented with a number of dimensions, many of which added fresh insight into the "human circus." When they are successful, there can be little doubt that music and words can be wed, not only into lilting melodies, but into theatric- ally exciting patterns and impres- sions. But again a question; is this enough? When Ben Jonson drew his bit- ingly satiric sketches for his Eliz- abethan audience, he gave them what they wanted, and they ap- plauded for years. If sheer ap- plause and exuberance is the test, then last night's response would have to be classified as an un- mitigated success. MORE QUESTIONS: Is this what a talented team, still in its MUSKET Musical: 3its of Brilliance' embryonic stage as careers go, really wants-or more important, should they be so easily swayed by the emotion of the mob of the moment? For the plain truth is, they have more-so much more- to give us in the future. And the fact that a warm, loyal, local audience shouts "Bravo," does not mean that they are ready for their dream of a Broadway production. That it will come to James and O'Brien one day surely is a hopeful possibility. B u t "Bartholomew Fair," for all its attempts at so- phisticated inovation, and with all its winning lyrical and musical qualities, is not the vehicle - at least not in its present form. * * * NOW, TO THE production. It would be understatement to say that MUSKET attempted many technical "gimmicks," most of which worked. Many a profession- al company would not dare (at least very often) some of the live- ly tom-foolery. Add to this the color and bounce of a fair, as seen through a large cast of carefully costumed characters streaming up and down, in and out of bright set- tings-another plus. The performers, too, added to the proper spirit of irreverence: Tom Jennings, as the wistful pied piper, full of innocence and unde- fined longing, won us over com- pletely with his inner sincerity and "heart," as he pranced through all the gyps and fakers, all the self- righteous hypocrites of the aris- tocracy and clergy, and as he wist- fully culled moments of memor- able nostalgia in his rendition of "All My Own." ALL IN ALL, "Bartholomew Fair" has much excitement in it, even if it is not next season's "sleeper" on the Gay White Way. James and O'Brien have given us the distinct pleasure of watching them grow step by step. And we can only thank them for such a rare opportunity, and look forward eagerly to their next creation. Let them come forth! -Jerry Sandler I LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: WCBN Opinions Individual United Europe a Challenge AN IMPORTANT STEP towards the unifica- tion of Europe has been taken by the Benelux countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg). Since October 1, the Benelux countries have been operating under a uniform traffic code regarding- international commercial vehicles, their length, weight, licensing, and conduct. Such uniformity of vehicle codes has been long under discussion by the various states in the United States, but nothing constructive has come of it as yet. This recent development is only one step in a series aimed at the eventual unification of Europe on both primary (economic, political, and governmental) levels and the secondary levels of national living (such as traffic regula- tions, language, and commercial enterprise con- trol, etc.). Most people are familiar with the concept of the European Economic Community, or Common Market, as a sincere attempt on the part of several major European powers to unite and work together for the economic and, eventually, political unification of Europe. The Benelux countries have also made this type of concerted effort, on a much smaller scale, and there are a great many other groups who are attempting the same achievement. ON THE WHOLE, then, we can safely con- clude that, if not the majority, at least a good opinion of European countries and peoples are interested in the United States of Europe concept as an imminent goal. What does this mean for the United States of America in terms of its own unification? FIRST, we are going to have to re-examine carefully our values in the area of racial discrimination and segregation. Many of the nations of Africa and Europe are having the same types of racial problems we are having, some of them even more SECOND, careful consideration is going to have to be given to the standardization of such things as vehicle codes, medical programs and tax systems. Unless we can solve some of our own prob- lems such as extreme variances in traffic codes (which annually account for a great many accidents according to experts), wide differences in medical programs, and incon- gruities and inconsistencies in state sales taxes, interstate travel and vehicular commerce, and corporation and business and personal income taxes, our advice will fall by the wayside, re- sulting in the United States losing prestige as a great world leader. THIRD, the people are going to have to be- come more solidly unified in their attitude toward Europe and European problems than they presently are. Many people do not even understand the problems facing Europe and its people: how- a continent which is tradi- tionally divided by racial, linguistic, and physi- cal barriers can even think of becoming united to the extent that the proponents of unifica- tion hope to achieve. WOULD ALSO force the United States to reconsider and re-evaluate its foreign trade restrictions. The Common Market has expressly stated that it intends to abolish all internal trade restrictions and to impose very severe barriers to external trade except where it is absolutely essential that such restrictions be suppressed. HESE EFFECTS woul force the United States to search for new markets and new sources of goods now being handled by the Common Market countries or else to face a serious unbalancing of trade between the United States and these countries. They would also force the United States to either lower or eliminate its trade restrictions on these foreign products or face an economic To the Editor: B ARBARA LAZARUS spent a good deal of time, November 7, castigating me for delivering an editorial on "Headlines and By- lines," October 19. However, in so doing, she made several errors, and since she was nice enough to point mine out, I must reciprocate. First, I am not vice-president of the Young Republican Club. Second, WCBN has not, and will not take an editorial stand as a station. My partner, Robert Price, and I run a disclaimer at the conclusion of every broadcast which states: "The opinions ex- presses on "Headlines and By- lines"are those of the commenta- tors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of either WCBN, its advertisers, or organizations to which the commentators belong." * * * THIRD, it is very interesting to me to see the following statement appear in The Daily: "WCBN owes it to (its listeners) to present a balanced editorial opinion." May I reiterate for Miss Lazarus a state- ment which we made on our first H & B show, and have continually restated. We extend an open in- vitation for anyone to appear on our show. By merely calling and arranging for a broadcast time, any indi- vidual can appear on the show. As far as a "balanced editorial opin- ion," we have had such notable "liberals" as Bob Ross, Ken McEl- downey, and Ken Miller on the show. If this is not presenting a "balanced editorial opinion," I'd like to know what is? Fourth, in reply to the censor- ship-on-WCBN-charge, may I sug- gest that the news staff of WCBN does not omit part of a story because it does not agree with the editorial viewpoint of H & B. A specific example: The Colorado Daily. The minute the editors of The Daily got wind of the story, they published it. However, doing a little checking myself with our correspondent in Colorado, I dis- covered The Daily had only pub- lished about half the story. The remainder of that squib was dam- aging to the viewpoint expressed in the editorial columns, and so it was withheld. I challenge The Daily to back up its statement that we of WCBN censor our material. Fifth, to clarify Miss Lazarus on libel, it is the written state- ment which damages a person's reputation. In short, it is a written lie. I was referring to the article which appeared in the Colorado Daily calling Senator Goldwater a "murderer" among other things. The editor, Gary Althen, was re- placed, and The Daily screamed "censorship." I contend that libel is sufficient grounds to replace' someone. * * * SIXTH, Miss Lazarus contends that "the Committee on Member- ship is not trying to steal any in- dividual liberties and to force fra- ternities to take members they don't want." I would refer Miss Lazarus to an unsigned, mimeo- graphed five step plan which calls for a gradual elimination of the blackball system. I will outline it all organizations to remove said clauses; Step 4 to prove no unwritten laws exist, campus groups must integrate members; Step 5 potential goal is com- plete integration of all students who are desirous of affiliating with the group. THIS LIST was circulated in the East prior to ;ethe elimination of the fraternities at certain colleges and universities. May I suggest that this plan does call for the elimination of the blackball sys- tem, and that this is infringing on the rights of fraternities. Also please note that we are into Step 3 at this moment. Seventh, Panhellenic had no part in writing or delivering this editorial. I gave Ann McMillan a copy of the text and said she could do with it as she wished. For me to present Panhellenic with the opposite viewpoint also, as Miss Lazarus suggests, is ut- terly ridiculous. That responsibility lies with my opponents. Eighth, I extend an invitation to Miss Lazarus to appear on "Headlines and Bylines" when- ever we can arrange a suitable nir time. All she has to do is call either Robert W. Price or myself, Harry L. Doerr, for arrangement of a broadcast time. Once again, may I reiterate: "The opinions expressed . . . are those of the commentator, and do not necessarily reflect the views of . -WCBN." -Harry L. Doerr, '64 News Editor, WCBN Socialists . . To the Editor: THE "ELECTION SPECIAL" in the November 4 Daily typifies the disregard for the purposes of elections and the rights of elec- tors which have characterized the press and other media of informa- tion, generally. The sources of election information credited by The Daily disregard the Constitu- tions of the United States and Michigan, the elections laws, and the ballot. According to the Constitution of Michigan, the franchise belongs to the electorate. By distortions and deceptions, The Daily and other news media have stolen that right from the electorate. They have set themselves up as judges of candi- dates and issues by implying that the candidates of the inseparable and indistinguishable Siamese par- ties of capitalism are the only parties on the ballot. Where were the pictures of the Socialist Labor candidates and the statements of their views. Pictures of S.L.P. candidates were obtain- ed by the capitalist press. The views of S.L.P. candidates were so- licited by the press in addition to regular, releases which were sub- mitted to the press throughout the campaign and which are also sub- mitted throughout the year. For every single word which news me- dia carried by and about the can- didates of the Socialist Labor Par- ty, the news media carried hun- dreds of thousands of words by They agree that capitalism pro- duced a large group of older peo-- ple who are unable to look after themselves. They disagree only on the manner in which such paupers shall be commiserated in their pauperism. They agree that em- ployment is a serious problem, an- other result of capitalist conditions of production and distribution. They disagree only on ways to pipe back into Michigan the business and jobs which other states have piped away from Michigan. This is no solution to the over-all econ- omy. They agree that (capitalist) con- ditions are driving people crazy. They disagree only as to the ways of providing care for the mentally deranged at the least expense to the capitalist class. They agree that something must be done about young people who are rebellious and resentful of capitalist condi- tions which threaten both their livelihoods and their lives. They even agree to educate young people for jobs that do not now exist and which will be more difficult to find by the time that the young people have received their school- ing. They agree that something must be done about Cuba, Berlin, and other problem spots which have developed out of the interna- tional struggles for the markets and raw materials of the world. They disagree only on what sort of brinkmanship can be practiced without the command being given to push the unnamed buttons at missile sites which will result in a general holocaust. Capitalist politicians, both Dem- ocratic and Republican agree on the effects of the exploitation of workers by the capitalist class but blamethe effects on vapid causes which they have been dreaming up for more than a century. The press, radio, and television, and the cap- italist candidates have all ducked the real issue and thereby have played a vicious hoax on Americans and the world for whom a solution to the real issue is a matter of life and death. IT BEGS the issue to claim, as has been done over and over again, that the candidates of the Social- ist Labor Party haven't a chance of being elected. Ofcourse they have less chance of being elected if the news media are silent or lie about them! It was thought, for decades, that the problems be- tween England and her colonies could and ought to be resolved within the framework of the con- ditions which produced those prob- lems. The few advocates of inde- pendence from England were treated with disdain and contempt on this side of the Atlantic shortly before 1775. For many decades, the abolition of chattel slaves was thought to be impossible and dan- gerous. Every reform to avoid the issue was proposed. Abolitionists were reviled, and worse. But aboli- tion was required. Its post- ponement only made its final ac- ceptance more bloody and danger- ous to American society. Verily, The Daily and other news media have usurped electoral deci- sions which will condemn them INDIRECT COSTS: Grants, Contracts, And Gifts Outright By PHILIP SUTIN THE UNIVERSITY, along with similar institutions across the country, will have to' convince Congress that a grant is not a gift, if it hopes to retain the useful- ness of federal grants, especially in the defense area. Congress, especially the House Appropriations Committee took a dim view of paying for the in- direct costs of colleges and uni- versities doing grant-financed re- search for the federal government. So the committee wrote a rider in the appropriations bills for in- dependent government offices, in- cluding the National Aeronautics and Space Agency and the de- fense department, limiting federal support for indirect costs to 15 per cent of the direct costs of re- search grants. After some intense lobbying, the limit in the independent office bill was raised to 25 per cent and the defense department bill ceiling was lifted to 20 per cent. The lobbying resulted in some bonuses, however. The 15 per cent limit, long in the health, educa- tion and welfare department ap- propriations bill, was raised to 20 per cent. The 20 per cent ceiling in National Science Foundation grants was hiked to 25 per cent. * * * THIS ACTION will result in a net saving for the University which does more than seven times as much grant-supported research for the health, education and wel- fare department, mainly for the National Institute of Health, and for the National Science Founda- tion as for the defense depart- ment and NASA. The University receives approximately $4 million in grants from the National In- stitute of Health and $1.13 million from the National ScienceiFoun- dation. It. will receive five per cent more to cover its indirect costs. On the other hand, the Univer- sity will be losing money on de- fense department grants and, as a result, it is not applying for any new grants. Similarly, it is not seeking any from the Surgeon General's Office, affected by the independent offices bill limitation, and is attempting to convert NASA grant-supported projects into contracted projects. However, the University unwill- ing to kill projects already under- way or proposed before the limita- tion went into effect, will con- tinue this year to seek grant sup- port for these projects. * * * INDIRECT COSTS cover a wide range of administrative and main- the vice-president for research, the Office of Research Adminis- tration and the executive offices of the Institute of Science and Technology and similar research units; 3) operation and maintenance expenses of buildings in which re- search is being undertaken; 4) library expenses; 5) use allowance to compen- sate for the depreciation in value of University buildings and equitp- ment in which research is d ne. 6) indirect departmental costs such as salaries of department heads and other officials. * * * CONGRESS IS skeptical about paying for these items in grants. It sees a grant as a gift to an institution to cover the direct costs-salary and wages of those doing research, supplies and other immediately related expenses-and not to pay for the administration of its entire research program.. It believes that contracts in which the federal government and the institution involved negotiate a complete and often bureaucratic set of terms covering a project is the proper place to cover such items. Yet, as Director of itesearch Administration Robert E.- Bur- roughs points out, the effect of a grant is not substantially dif- ferent from a contract. A grant is not as generalized a gift of money as Congress supposes, he adds. It covers fairly specific research costs. GRANTS, HOWEVER, are more suited to colleges and universities than contracts. The latter in- volves many petty details and in- cludes more stringent demands by the government. Less red tape ensnarls grants and their generalized nature gives universities more autonomy. How- ever, the indirect cost limitations may force the University to seek contracts, especially in the defense area. Grants are already rare in the area, only accounting for $600,000 of the University's $14 million defense research budget. Thus, further lobbying efforts will be undertaken for ending the indirect cost limit in the next ses- sion of Congress. As the limita- tions were included in appropria- tions bills, they will expire this year. * * * THE COLLEGES and universi- ties and the American Council for Education, headed by Vice-Presi- dent for Research Ralph A. Saw- yer, will continue to wage an in-