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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Daily's SGC Editorial
Suffused in Mysticism
AY, DECEMBER 4, 1962
NIGHT EDITOR: RONALD WILTON
Year-Round Operations:
The Cafeteria Plan
THE UNIVERSITY is moving cautiously to-
ward full-year operations. Next summer
you might not notice a radical change but in
the deans' offices in the individual schools
and colleges an appreciable and significant
transfer of power will have taken place.
The substance of the recent change has been
the transfer of the financial and policy re-
sponsibility for summer school from the hands
of the Summer Session Office into those of
the individual deans. Consequently, it is now
up to the discretion of the deans to plan the
summer programs and to guide their respec-
tive units into full-year operations according
to the needs of these units.
The importance of the change lies in the
administrative area, one that will have little
immediate effect on students. Primarily, the
transition allows autonomy within the units as
to choice between the present two and one-half
semester and the proposed three semester
plan, and the method of making the shift
from the one into the other.
YET THE FUTURE promises wonderful
changes under the full-year program. With
each unit offering the traditional summer ses-
sion of six; and eight weeks, plus the slow
addition, when needed, of courses spanning
the third full semester, there will be a vastly
improvedflexibility in the time schedule.
As Dean Stephen Spurr of the natural re-
sources school, who has been instrumental in
the implementation of year-round operations,
says in a report, the project is like a cafeteria.
It can operate from morning until night and
can serve many more people than a restaurant
with table service at meals only. "The food
will be just as good, the meals will take just as
long to. eat, and most of our clients will come
in three times a day."
The greatest benefits of year-round opera-
tions is that an increased number of students
can be served in the same table space, to con-
tinue the analogy, as always existed. This is
not to say that the dining room is already
big enough or the food is good enough; but if
it's all we've got to subsist on, we
take fullest advantage of it.
had better
THE NEW PROGRAM offers all sorts of ad-
vantages such as the opportunity to work
in the winter, rather than the summer, and
still get a full year of school in. Faculty
will be freer to do research and find part-
time jobs, no longer restricted to the summer.
Many students, however, are wary of get-
ting a diluted education with the implementa-
tion of the new calendar. On paper the advan-
tages, which still remain to be tested, seem to
outweigh by far any disadvantages; in fact they
seem to obliterate them completely. In the new
calendar, classes begin in early September and
examinations will be over before Christmas.
Between the first and second semesters there
will be a three week period which is scot-free;
no worries over three' term-papers and two
exams the week following vacation.
The second semester, relieved by a mid-
semester recess of one week, will end in ' late
May. After another three weeks the third se-
mester will start. The cycle is never-ending; its
beauty is that nothing short of death, pestilence
or famine-or maybe the burning of Angell
Hall-can stop its precision clockwork.,
JEANWHILE, HOWEVER, while the clock is
just being wound up, there are plenty of
problems in sight. Of primary importance is the
question of appropriations. The deans will not
know the extent of their budgets until the
Legislature has decided its appropriations and
responsibility and plans of the most excellent
nature can't get off the ground without money
to back them.
Equally important is the question of facul-
ty and student support for year-round opera-
tions. The students that Dean Spurr expects to
attend the third semester will be mainly grad-
uate and professional students, students with
high motivation to complete their education as
quickly as possible without sacrificing quality,
students who will attend the first half of the
summer session and still have their vacation,
and the school teachers and others who have
traditionally attended the summer session. The
last group will enter when the students attend-
ing the first half of the summer session leave
Hopefully this plan of something for everyone
will attract all sorts o fnew students and enable
the University to expand the number of people
it services, a necessity in the face of the rapidly
growing student populace. However, faculty
must be willing to teach in the summer, vaca-
tion in the winter, teach all-year round or in
some way modify their traditional teaching
schedule.
T HE UNIVERSITY is doing much more to en-
hance its glowing "public image" by open-
ing its doors to an increased number of stu-
dents than it could ever do through films, smil-
ing at the public or any other public relations
techniques. As tuition goes up and space per
capita grows smaller, the University becomes
less and less an institution of higher learning
open to all. Yet with the gradual transition into
the full-year operations, it will enable more
students than ever to complete their education
both in a shorter time and without sacrificing
quality.
If the project is well-accepted by students
and faculty, the possibilities for growth are
limitless.
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To the Editor:
FROM EARLY TIMES, the num-
ber seven, which happens to
be the number of candidates to
be elected in the forthcoming
Student Government Council elec-
tion, has had mystical signifi-
cance. The ratings of these can-
didates by The Daily is also sur-
rounded by a certain mysticism.
That is, they are a mystery to us.
According to The Daily, the
candidates were judged and placed
"in order of the consistency of
thought, logical development of
ideas and apparent ability to turn
their conceptions into effective
programs." We admire the edi-
torial staff's golden ideal, but
we wonder at the magic elixir with
which The Daily alchemists trans-
muted the leaden qualifications of
certain of the candidates into
this golden ideal. Witness: The
candidate rated as "four" by the
Merlins of The Daily.
"She utters, and undoubtedly
believes, fine statements about the
aims of the council, . . . with
little qualification and less ap-
parent thought." Is this a logical
development of ideas? "Her de-
bate would be ineffective, but her
vote would aid the Council." Op-
pose this to the candidate rated as
"six."
* * *
"HE DISCUSSES issues intel-
ligently and has framed criteria
around which to judge the import-
ance of motions. Given some time
on Council to pick up knowledge
about the University, he would
become one of the most effective
spokesmen for this group's (fra-
ternities') viewpoints."
On the basis of these qualifica-
tions, and in fview of the stated
criteria, how can the editors rate
this candidate below one which
they have deemed "little qualified
. . . ineffective . . . of little
thought?'
If the editors of The Daily wish
to pick candidates, why do they
not stick to the criteria which they
have advanced? That is to say,
why do they cover up their true
criteria with a set of false ideals?
If they wish to pick candidates on
the basis of political affiliation, at
least let them admit it and not,
try to mislead by obscuting this
fact with a smokescreen of ideal-
Ism.
-Dale Stoner, '65
-John Binkley, '65
Training ...
To the Editor:
PLEASE HAVE David Fainberg
look up "banned" and "sub
rosa" in the dictionary. I'm afraid
his English on the front page of
a recent Daily makes both you
and the English department
(where I presume he had some
training) look pretty feeble.
-Prof. Sheridan Baker
Criticism .. .
To the Editor:
ALTHOUGH The Daily has re-
cently begun to distinguish it-
self in regard to its dramatic
criticism, it is obvious that those
whom it chooses as arbiters of
the public's musical tastes are in
the long tradition of Daily re-
viewers.
One endures the usual academic
prejudices against romantic music
which The Daily never tires of
printing, but when a reviewer
totally damns a rather fine pro-
duction, it is time to raise the cry
which has so often been printed
in these columns, but to no avail.
Thew ase in point is Michael
Wentworth's review of the New
York City Opera Co. "Rigoletto."
One is entitled to one's views, but
when they are as choleric (as well
as misconceived) as Mr. Went-
worth's, your readers have the
right to complain.
* * *
THE PRODUCTION was an en-
tirely competent one with lapses
in dramatic technique which are
common on every opera stage in
the wrld. The soprano was an ap-
pealing Gilda whose lack of con-
summate technique is largely due
to her age and whose acting was
above the average. The tenor made
the Duke of Mantua plausible,
which is no mean feat, and if he
indulged a few Italian manner-
isms, for the most part he sang
with great flourish and good taste.
One could ask far more of the
production's Rigoletto, but he was
not, as Mr. Wentworth suggests,
inadequate. Mr. Wentworth com-
plains of the balance between
singers and orchestra, but he turns
his attention to the wrong party.
As one who experienced the same
trouble the night before and found
it rectified when I moved out. of
balcony, I would !be inclined to
find fault with the conversion of
Hill Auditorium into a proscenium
stage.
* * *
EVEN SO, however, the point is
Mr. Wentworth's review. One won-
ders how wlien he is so adept at
dissecting a production, he could
praise "La Traviata" so highly.
That production was a thorough
bore and a very badly sung one, at
that.
-Stuart Curran, Grad
HISTORIAN'S DILEMMA:
Cuban Crisis in retros pect
By ROBERT SELWA
IF THE HUMAN race does not
destroy itself with nuclear,
weapons or pesticides or over-
population by the year 2000, his-
torians may look back at the
events in Cuban-United States
relations with puzzlement.
If they run across a description
of these events such as what will
follow, they might have a little
troouble deciding if the period
was the late 1890's or the early
1960's:
"For the yellow journalists,
trouble in Cuba meant another
chance for sensational stories, ex-
citement and adventure. For their
competitors, the problem became
one of maintaining caution and
losing circulation.
"THE INSURRECTION in Cuba
was the culmination of many
years of struggle between Cuban
rebels and the existing Cuban
regime.
"A change in American policies
affected the Cuban sugar market,
increased hostilities and tended to
bring hard times and unemploy-
ment to Cuba.
"Leading newspapers so handled
the news of events leading up to
the crisis in bad relations that a
war psychosis was developed. It
must not be forgotten, however,
that the newspapers were cultivat-
ing public opinion in a favorable
atmosphere.
"INTEREST in international af-
fairs had been steadily growing in
Values
PAUL VARG, Michigan State University's
Dean of the College of Arts and Letters,
was one of those who drew up the speaker
policy approved by the Michigan Coordinating
Council on Higher Education.
This policy, as the Michigan State News
points out, places tighter restrictions on the
advocacy of violence than does the Federal
government. While Federal law prohibits
speakers who incite immediate violence, the
speaker policy bans advocay of violence in any
form. We don't even stop to consider what
this would do to certain American historical
figures because we are far more interested
in Dean Varg's rationalizations.
"We felt the advocacy of violence was in-
consistent with the Spirit of a University (sic),"
said the eminent dean.
Such language would be laughable if it
weren't dangerously indicative of the flippant
unconcern with which the values, the prin-
ciples of a free education are being tossed aside
in this country. Or perhaps to Dean Varg the
"Spirit of a University" merely means Michi-
gan State football.
--H. NEIL BERKSON
AT THE STATE:
Absurd Thrills Abound
IT'S AN all Warner Brothers
night at the State for a while,
starting with a new Looney Tunes
about a "monster," which is a
cut above average in fantasy but
which has a most unsatisfying
surprise ending. Roughly the same
things can be said about the
feature "What Ever Happened to
Baby Jane?"
No pretender to unity of plot
(or any of that stuff), "Baby
Jane" is a string of high tension
incidents, a sort of detective story
with no detective. Bette Davis is
very impressive as Jane, a once
child performer now old and bloat-
ed and mad beyond belief. (The
role itself, however, is filled with
enough grotesque gimmicks to
give any actress a head start.)
Joan Crawford, her crippled sister
and psychological straight man,
gets bound, gagged, kicked, drag-
ged, and generally harassed for
a good two hours, most of which
goes to show that no matter what
you do, you can't make Joan
Crawford ugly.
There is comic relief: Victor
Buono, a new gentle giant, romps
through his part with spirit and
taste, which is more than can
be said for most actors who are
seven feet tall.
THE PHOTOGRAPHY generally
is disappointing, though not with-
out fine moments-an under-
taker's billboard, a sun-tanned
navel listening to a radio-yet
one must await these moments as
exceptions. The direction generally
is heavy-handed: any given mo-
ment of horror is underscored
once with loud music, again with
a close-up shot of someone's eyes
popping, and then prolonged into
a series of near-climaxes, until
finally when the knife falls, it is
quite too late to scream. (Con-
sider, for example, the stairway
scene or the rat-on-a-platter).
Psychologically, of course, the
movie is absurd, but then who ever
worries about that when he can
get scared out of his pants for 90
cents?
In all, you might as well see
"Baby Jane," as it's pretty scary
and everyone is going to ask you
if you've seen it anyway. It's no
"Psycho,' but then it's no Con-
stantine and the Cross either.
-Dick Pollinger
the United States, and many
Americans cited the Monroe Doc-
trine of 1823 as a justification for
possible militaristic adventures in
the Caribbean. The United States
was taking part in a world-wide
fight for power. Americans were
feeling this growing sense of power
in world affairs. And the news-
papers played upon the sense of
power andupon American pride,
pointing to the American military
forces that could be tested in
battle.
"The papers urged the U.S. to
use force if need be to oust the
regime in Cuba, suggesting that
it would be an easy mark. The
horror of the last war had faded
and some Americans were wonder-
ing if their country's military
prowess wasstill secure. In short,
the nation was ripe for war in
Cuba.
"American newsmen exaggerated
the bad conditions in Cuba. Some
of their stories were supposedly
based on their eyewitness report-
ing but others admittedly were
recountings of the stories of Cu-
ban refugees. American correspon-
dentshwere expelled from Cuba,
and the American press retaliated
by working harder to get news
unfavorable to the regime. Many
papers stressed the need for in-
tervention in Cuba.
* * *
"CONGRESS PASSED a resolu-
tion calling for action on Cuba.
People were saying something
ought to be done in the name
of the U.S. and the Monroe Doc-
trine. The mood of the country
was one of nationalism, offended
pride and jingoism.
"Finally the invasion of Cuba
was launched . ..'
By checking closely, the his-
torian of the future might dis-
cover that this description was
probably drawn chiefly from Ed-
win Emery's book, "The Press and
America," and involved not the
period of the early 1960's but that
of the late 1890's.
But then again he could not be
sure . .
HOW WOULD you feel if you
were a new bride and the love
of your life took you away in a
1939 black Cadillac hearse for a
honeymoon night in the wet, run-
down Ole Man River Motel? Also,
to add to your bridal bliss, your
new spouse gets soused, screams
"Take yer clothes off, before I
rip 'em off," anti then tells his
best friend the next day that
you're frigid. This could lead to
some marital problems and some
wild comedy and it does just that
in Tennessee Williams' "Period of
Adjustment."
Originally written for Broad-
way in 1960, "Period of Adjust-
ment" is a comedy about normal
people (believe it or not) with
some usual, but funny marital
problems. Jim Hutton plays
George, a husband who is scared
of sex. His wife, "Little Bit" (Jane
Fonda), has got a case of the "I
want to go back to Daddy" blues.,
When George arives at his best
friend's house with his scream-
ing wife, Ralph (Tony Franciosa)
puts forth with a little counseling
--"You're only going through a
period of adjustment." The only
drawback is his wife (Lois Nettle-
ton) has taken a powder. It seems
Ralph insulted her Daddy and
accused her of making Junior a
sissy.
'PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT'
Warm-Hearted Cornedy
MANY HUMOROUS things hap-
pen in the next few hours. Take
for example the steady intoxica-
tion of the local Christmas carol-
ers. We see them throughout, the
film and they get drunker and
drunker. In the end they cause
mayhem in the police station with
Ralph, George and wives, and ver-
sions of "Big Daddy" and mink-
draped Mama.
This is a comedy that does not
rely on the unusual happening or
event as in a Peter Sellers. The
real comedy relies on the lines
that are spoken and they are some
wonderful ones. The acting of Jim
Hutton and Tony Franciosa is
superb and the pace of the film
increases when they are on the
screen. Miss Fonda is good, but
cannot command our attention for
long stretches. She has too many
disturbing mannerisms which in-
terfere with her character por-
trayal.
The expected Williams touches
never happen. Junior is not bar-
becued and neither is Big Daddy.
It is nice to know Tennessee Wil-
liams understands and writes very
well about normal problems. It's
also nice to leave a Williams film
with a warm heart.
If you need a study break or
just a change of pace from "Baby
Jane" go to this film and see
Mr. Williams in a new light.
-Barbara Finch
Loss of Rea.Will Hurt Union
THE NEW AMENDMENT to the Union Con-
stitution which provides for the vice-
president for student affairs or his special
representative to replace the holder of the
now defunct position of Dean of Men on the
Union Board will probably mean the end of
many years of service by Walter B. Rea on
the board.
It will be sad to see Rea leave because he
has devoted much time and effort to improv-
ing the Union and its services. He is well liked
and respected by his fellow board members
and has contributed to the good relations
which exist between the Union and the OAS.
He has played an important part in the selec-
tion of Union officers.
His probable leaving was brought about by
the reshuffling of the OSA. Formerly the Dean
of Men sat on the board as one of the ex-
officios provided for in the Union's constitution.
Now however he is special assistant to the
vice-president and director in charge of finan-
Business Staff
LEE SCLAR, Business Manager
SUE FOOTE....................Finance Manager
RUTH STEPHENSON*............Accounts Manager
SUE TURNER..........Associate Business Manager
THOMAS BENNETT........... Advertising Manager
Editorial Staff
MICHAEL OLINICK, Editor
JUDITH OPPENHEIM MICHAEL HARRAH
Editorial Director City Editor
cial aids, a position which leaves him with
no logical connection with the Union.
HIS OBVIOUS REPLACEMENT should be
former assistant dean of men and present
director of student organizations and activities
John Bingley. His appointment would be a
recognition of the importance of the Union's
growing interest in broadening its appeal as
evidenced to by the present union-league study
committee, and would bring to the board a
broader outlook than that encompassed by the
old Dean of Men's position.
Actually it would probably be best if vice-
president Lewis himself could sit on the board,
but it is likely that other commitments will
keep him from this. In this case Bingley is
his most logical representative.
The male students on campus owe Rea a debt
of gratitude for his efforts in aiding the growth
and improvement of the Union. Hopefully
Bingley will continue in this tradition and will
bring fresh ideas and dynamism to a Union
Board which is facing such important ques-
tions as future relations with both the Wo-
men's League and the OSA itself.
-RONALD WILTON
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]FULTON LEWIS III, at a Young Americans
for Freedom-sponsored lecture, claimed that
when a witness takes the Fifth Amendment
when asked, "Are you a member of the Com-
munist Party?" one could only assume that
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