a 4r £i4gawu DaiI seny-Third Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERsTrY OF MICHTGA UNDER AUTHORITY OFB OARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLCATIONS "Where Opinions Are Free STUDENT PuICATIONS BLDG., ANN ARBOR, MICH., PHONE No 2-3241 Truth will Preval Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. ThM must be noted in all reprints. "Since You Been Going With That Doll, Youre Getting Chicken" WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1962 NIGHT EDITOR: GAIL EVANS Expansion Best Met By Small Living Units THE UNIVERSITY has a dual commitment: it must offer quality education and it must offer that education to as many students as possible. Over the years, it has expanded in or- der to offer the greatest possible opportunity to the greatest possible number of qualified students. Unlike institutions such as Harvard, the University does not want to limit itself to a small segment of the nation's and the state's intellectual and financial ultra-elite. Today, the University is at a critical junc- ture in the matter of size. In the next few years, it will be faced by a rapidly rising num- ber of applications. Its obligation is to expand to accommodate as many of these applicants as possible. At the same time, the University must maintain its quality; otherwise, it would be do- ing all generations of future students an in- justice. The relationship of size and quality is not as clear as it seems. Most students fear an in- creasing number of large lecture courses and an alienation of students sand faculty, making it difficult to see or know a teacher. In addition, the faculty fears inadequate facilities, increased teaching loads and possible hampering of each individual's research activities. Clearly, these conditions would be incompat- ible with excellence. If the University cannot get enough money to hire extra faculty mem- bers and build the necessary buildings, itshould not expand. If the Legislature expects the Uni- versity to bear the burden of educating as many as possible, then the Legislature must bear the burden of paying for it adequately. B UT ASIDE from the problem of money, there are important educational questions in- volved in expansion. What is it going to do to the educational process, even if classes can be kept to their present size or reduced? What are the alternatives the University faces in expansion and how will they effect the stu- dent? The major problem here is orientation. In a four-year undergraduate program, the Uni- versity tries to give the student some sense of what an academic community is and of the diversity that exists within it. Hopefully, the student gets some sort of basic knowledge in his own field and acquires an appreciation of several others. Various fields are different ways of looking at the world. Hopefully, the student also acquires some sense of the continuity and interrelationship of all these fields. By acquir- ing this sense the student can feel a part of the academic community. It is this feeling that expansion endangers. For instance, in the literary college-which is already bursting with students-any further growth'under the present system might be dis- astrous. The academic community would be- come so large that its very existence would become tenuous. The individual student-espe- cially in his first two years-would have no orientation toward the whole, no vantage point from which to glimpse the community. ONE WOULD EXPECT a student under such circumstances to do one of two things: either find some small, personal group into which he can retreat or to bury himself in his books for four years. Neither alternative is de- sirable. In the first case, the student's energies are devoted primarily to the non-academic. The classroom and life separate. In the second case, the student is acquiring mere facts, a nec- essary part of education, but not doing any- thing with them. Loophole [7E SUPREME COURT dealt a serious blow to Northern states-including Michigan- which are trying to keep industry from running to the Southern low-wage, no-union, low-tax "paradise." By ruling that workers do not have transfer rights wLien a firm moves its plant Southward, the court has allowed employers to ditch unionized high-wage employes in favor of unorganized Southern workers willing to work for much less. Combined with tax concessions and an im- plicit promise to "keep the unions out," the court decision tends to increase Northern un- employment and economic woes. The court's action eliminates one of the few checks on runaway plants. Taxes and union busting and matters of local concern over which the Northern states and the federal gov- ernment have limited control. However, as the transfer of these plans and the sale of their products involves interstate commerce, the fed- eral government can take some action. For the good of the workers who often have worked at the firm for many years and are permanently unemployed and the economy of the North, Congress should close the loophole created by the Supreme Court decision. Run- away plants do more than injure their ditched workers, they depress the economy of the city or state from which they leave. Some of the slack can be remedied by area redevelopment aid. Legislation against runaway plants, with transfer rights playing a prominent part, would reduce and possibly eliminate the need for such aid. . - - - 7 -~ 2--'>~~~ -~ b- ~ L~ U2~> ~L , ~, f ~ .7, K1 - I ~ '-/-" I ~< A~ For these reasons, the soundest means of expansion is a total reorganization of the lit- erary college into small units analogous to the tentative proposal for a small residence college which is now being studied. Hopefully, this col- lege, when and if it ever comes into existence, will fill the gap between the individual student and the academic community, giving the stu- dent an orientation toward the whole. It will give him a part of the University to which he can realistically feel attached. Also, within the context of several small colleges instead of a mammoth literary college, much more of a student's energy and orienta- tion could be devoted to academic affairs. Since each college would have a flavor, concentrating on one or two fields, the student would be as- sured of contact with individuals of similar interests with whom he can share and expand his own experience. At the same time, the Uni- versity could assure diversity by making sure that each college embodies a substantial num- ber of individuals in different fields. FURTHERMORE, the residence feature would permit a context in which the University can bring academics into the residence halls. If, for example, one particular college is 40-50 per cent English majors, then a young English instructor could be more easily induced to live in the dormitories. At the same time, the University could remove all compulsions to live in the residence halls and would still probably find them filled. Students would naturally grav- itate toward them. Student life would 'center around them. Of course, this system is applicable mainly to the literary college. Many of the smaller schools and colleges in the University can ex- pand now without any qualms. For some of the medium sized schools, any breakdown into smaller units is still only a remote possibility. But it is within the literary college that the need is greatest, where the applications are coming most quickly and where there is virtual- ly no unused capacity. A reorganization of the literary college into smaller units is the best formula for expansion the University now has. The other two alter- natives-full-year operation and the creation of smaller University-operated units around the state-really fail to meet the educational goals of the University. YEAR-ROUND OPERATION has the advan- tage of eliminating the need for added facil- ities in order to handle added students. But beneath the surface there are major problems. The University does not intend to use the third semester as a device for hurrying students through their education. Instead, it expects that students will stagger their education, coming in the winter and -summer and not in the spring. This will only add to the problem of student orientation within the University. In addition, the year-round calendar intro- duces a myriad of curricular, financial and faculty problems. And of course there is still the unanswered question of how many students will attend a 15 week semester in the hottest and most uncomfortable part of the year. The second alternative-establishing a series of smaller campuses around the state-is prob- ably the least promising of the three. To call these campuses the University would be grossly misleading. One of the major attractions of the University, both to faculty members and to students, is the wide variety of facilities available. It would take many years, if it could be done at all, to duplicate the library facili- ties available here even in only one or two ma- jor disciplines. THE UNIVERSITY could not offer the same quality of education without these facili- ties. It would have great difficulty in attract- ing top rate faculty to such institutions. Cer- tainly the University ought to foster the de- velopment of small colleges around the state in every possible way. But in no sense would they be branches of the University if they do not offer an education equal in quality to the one received on campus or if their location and structure does not constitute some kind of edu- cational experiment which cannot be carried out in Ann Arbor. Thus the plan for small colleges within the structure of the University is the best plan for any major expansion of the institution. It has its limitations. Once a number of small units is set up, the function of coordination among them may create an unwieldy administration; and the University certainly should question any system that might make the University top heavy. This places an absolute limitation on the number of colleges that can be set up. Al- though it is difficult to predict exactly where this point lies, it does exist. Hopefully, by that time the demand for edu- cation will have levelled off. If the University needs to expand further, it will have to find some other form of organization. The small colleges must necessarily be small, at most 2,000 students apiece. BUT THIS IS FAR in the future. The small college plan is certainly adequate to serve the University's needs for the next decade or two at minimum. This form of organization is nothing new. 'DRY LINE' ABOLITION: Merchants Campaign For East-Side Liquor By RICHARD KRAUT AFTER 58 YEARS of dividing sin from virtue, Ann Arbor's "dry line" is under attack and may soon be abolished. A group of local merchants is circulating petitions to put on the April 1 city election ballot the question of whether the ban on liquor by the glass in the east and south parts of town should continue to exist. The petitions need 1,800 signatures before the end of the year. The "dry line" is set up by the city charter - the same document that determines the structure, powers and procedures of the city gov- ernment, as approved by the governor of the state. The partial ban on liquor is therefore no technicality, tucked away in the fine print of a dusty law book; rather, its status as a law is the same as the one which gives the city its power to provide for the public welfare. WRITTEN AT the turn of the century to keep students away from bars and bars away from students, the "dry line" law proclaims that "no person shall keep a saloon or other place, except a drug store, where any spiritous, malt, brewed, fermented, vinous or intoxicating liquors are sold, or kept for sale, at wholesale, or at retail, in all that part of the City of Ann Arbor lying south and east of the following prescribed line." The line begins in the northeast part of town, at Fuller and con- tinues through Detroit, Division, Stadium Boulevard, Iroquois and Packard, winding up in the southeast part of the city. It is more than 15 miles long. Until recently, the "dry line" was not the only factor that helped make Ann Arbor a relatively tight town. Before the fall of 1960, liquor could not be sold by the glass anywhere in the city. Local businessmen hired William Lolas, a public relations man from Jackson and he suc- cessfully lead the campaign against the restriction on by-the-glass sales. Another change made in the last two years pushed back the clos- ing hours for bars. Formerly, these "saloons," all on the north and west side of town, of course, closed at 12:30 a.m. and were vacated by 1 a.m. on weekdays; on Friday and Saturday nights closing hours were extended one hour. But to put Ann Arbor on the same ethical plane as most other Michigan cities, the tavern doors were permitted to lock as late as 2 a.m. every morning - except on Sunday, of course. THESE TWO reforms-liquor by the glass and closing hours- having been successfully executed, local merchants are now eager to try for a third change. They hired Lolas aagin-this time to refer the "dry line" issue to the voters in the coming city election. But before the business groups could come out with a unified stand, they had to settle their own difficulties. After scouting Around during the summer, Lolas found that there were two factions in the anti- "dry line" camp. Some of the merchants were interested only in ad- justing the "dry line" to include more business areas; others favored a complete abolition of the line. The former group, advocating adjustments in the law rather than its abolition, had a good case for two reasons. First of all, this less severe move would certainly be less likely to anger church and tem- perance groups. Second of all, the "dry line" was never drawn arbi- trarily-it was so designed that it would not antagonize various indi- viduals and neighborhoods. * * * FOR EXAMPLE, in the south of town, the logical way of drawing the line would have been to extend it through Stadium Blvd. to Pack- ard. But the line dips down along Iroquois up to Packard, instead of continuing along Stadium, thereby lessening the area in which liquor can be sold. The reason for this is that the southwest corner of Packard and Stadium is zoned C3, a fringe commercial district. However, nearly all of the rest of that particular area is zoned in a one-family dwelling district. In other words, it would have been possible for someone to have established a bar right in the center of a residential district. To avoid this situation, the "dry line" was drawn so that no such bar could have been established, For some reason, those advocating only changing the line lost out and the merchants decided to come out and support its complete abolition. Probably, making changes in the "dry line" would have caused more problems than It would have solved: who would decide, for example, exactly what changes shculd be made? Their internal difficulties settled, Lolas and the local merchants announced their intention to bring the issue to the voters. THE MOVE was quite unexpected. The day before Lolas came to Ann Arbor to make final arrangements for the petitions, Mayor Cecil 0. Creal said that no one was contemplating any campaign against the "dry line" in the near future. The mayor expressed confidence that sooner or later, the line would go, but added, "Quite frankly, the people won't accept a change right now." Previous to that, Creal had been trying to calm State and South 4 4 j ...-et~Sdr P7 CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: Supporters vs. Abolitionists (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the sec- ond of two articles dealing with capital punishment.) By BARBARA PASH ALTHOUGH most arguments in magazines and literature are gainst capital punishment, the weight of legal precedent, tradi- tion and, presumably, public opin- ion favors it. Most debate on the question of capital punishment is based on its alleged deterrent effect on crime. Statistics do not prove or disprove this claim. The fear of capital pun- ishment appears not to have suc- ceeded in lowering the crime rate appreciably. There appear to be five major arguments around which the pro- and con groups rally: deterrence, equality, courts, fallibility of men and rehabilitation of the prisoner. AS ALREADY noted, deterrence is the strongest issue in the prob- lem. Those upholding capital pun- ishment say that the threat of death as retribution for commit- ting a capital offense will prevent crimes. In answer to the noncom- mittal statistics, they charge that even if fear of the death penalty saves one innocent life, it is worth the price. Abolitionists reply that crimin- als do not fear a specific punish- ment so much as the more general possibility of being caught. There- fore, a person does not fear the death penalty because he expects to escape detection. Also, knowing that if they are caught they face death, criminals will murder or rape or kidnap a victim to silence possible witnesses. However, the fear of death may exert an important influence in many situations, such as leading robbers to use unloaded guns. * * * THE SECOND argument for abolition is inequality. This in- volves the fact that many crim- inals convicted of a major offense are not executed. Instead, they are sentenced to long prison terms. Yet of the-3,666 persons executed from 1930-'59, 1,972 (more than half) were Negroes. Because the law allows juries .nd judges to decide between death nd long imprisonment (only in hree states is capital punishment automatically required for a ma- jor crime), the individuals in- volyed, the attitude of the press and public and the impressions made by the witnesses will be de- termining factors. Supporters of capital punish- ment contend that as long as those sentenced to die deserve this pun- ishment, they have no basis for complaining that others equally guilty have escaped or been im- prisoned. m * * MOREOVER, they argue, if we acted on a basis ofabsolute equal- ity in criminal sentencing, no one would ever be punished because absolute equality is unattainable. Tha fMt which a trial invnol- THE FOURTH argument, the fallibility of mankind in judging others, is often cited by the abo- litionists. It is terrible, indeed, when an innocent man is impris- oned for a crimeehe did not com- mit, but it is even more horren- dous when that man is executed wrongly by the state. One of the reasons why delay is permitted and so many remedies allowed in the courts, the sup- porters explain, is to reduce the danger of such mistakes to the barest minimum. The last issue involved is that of the rehabilitation of the crim- inal. The two groups seem to have interpreted similar sets of statis- tics differently. The abolitionists point to figures showing that pa- roled prisoners who had committed serious offenses behaved better than released prisoners in general. * * * THE SUPPORTERS, however, emphasize the cases where pris- oners spared from the death pen- alty again, comtmitted major crimes. In any case, they insist that rehabilitating the prisoner is less important than the maxi- mum protection of the public. I personally believe that a crim- inal who deliberately plans and commits a heinous crime deserves the maximum punishment which society can give, the death pen- alty. I base my view not on its deterrent effect, but on the simple fact that a murderer does not de- serve to live in the society which he has so maliciously abused. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Urgent Aid Requested To the Editor: r E FOLLOWING is a letter I received from Bob Moses, direc- tor of the SNCC voter registra- tion drives in Mississippi; I had asked him how badly aid was needed in the counties where the Federal Food surplus plan had been discontinued to discourage further Negro registration. * * * "WE DO NEED the actual food, I just hope you and others can gather it, and we can distribute it, so the people who need it receive it. "Just this afternopn, I was sit- ting reading, having finished a bowl of stew, and a silent hand reached over from behind, mum- bling some words of apology and permission, and stumbled up with a neckbone from the plate under the bowl, one which I had dis- carded, which had consequently some meat on it. The hand was back again, five seconds later, groping for the potato I had left in the bowl. I never saw the face. I didn't look. The hand was dark, dry and wind cracked, a man's hand, from the cotton chopping and cotton picking. Lafayette and I got up and walked out. What the hell are you going to do when a man has to pick up a left over potato from a bowl of stew? "They finished picking cotton, at Thanksgiving this year; they usually pick until Christmas time. For the overwhelming majority of the people there will be no steady work until cotton chopping time, first of June or the last of May. "Finally, for the voting program we are in desperate need of sev- eral typewriters and an electric mimeograph machine, if we are to get out the volume of material we need to contact people across the delta." -Martha Prescod, '65 nrnt hAarhnnrl -_ theological celebration, just as the assertion of universal brotherhood is, for most of us who profess it, a theological affirmation. Mr. Hy- man does not define what "loving one's fellow men" means, but one suspects considerable ignorance of the theological usage of the phrase. For as one of the "pseudo-sages" who is accustomed to declare all men as brother, I reject the state- ment of two premises, one or the other of which he asserts I be- lieve. The real premise, at least for a good many of us "pseudo-sages," is that all men are created in some sort of spiritual image of Glod- however much we may differ in defining our exact terms. Hence there is a kinship a great deal deeper than anything which Mr. Hyman apparently comprehends, a kinship which elicits a concern of intelligent goodwill (love) to- ward all men, whether or not we happen to like them on some other basis. THE RELIGIOUS foundation for the concept of brotherhood does not necessarily deny the un- desirable traits mentioned by the editorialist. As a matter of fact, most brands of religion proclaim some sort of innate evil (even "original sin") in man. But the spark of divine image is there, too, and the proclamation of brotherhood is part of the answer to the age-old question, "What is man?" (I commend a reading of Psalm 8.) Far from appealing "to the worst in mankind," as Mr. Hyman as- serts, the person believing in uni- versal brotherhood appeals to the best in mankind. "Nowadays, there can be no possible justification for loving all of one's fellow men," he, claims. No new, modern-day jus- tification, it is true; just the eternal one of a requirement to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly before God. University merchants, whose thirst their thirst for intoxicating spirits. Creal's theory is that there have been two recent reforms made in the city liquor regulations and that another one is likely to antag- onize temperance groups. In addi- ize temperance groups. In addi- tion, if the "dry line" becomes an issue in the coming election, it will pose problems for a man that must be elected by the whole city. How is it possible to attract local mer- chants if one opposes the abolition of the "dry line?" And then again, is it possible to attract the more temperate elements in so- ciety if one favors the abolition of the "dry line?" Creal's sympathies, however, lie with the east side merchants, and to prove this one need only look at the issuing of liquor licenses in the city. Only one license can be issued for every 1,500 people liv- ing in Ann Arbor, which in effect means that a maximum of 45 li- quor licenses can be issued. So far, 32 retailers have obtained licenses and it is becoming in- creasingly difficult for a west sid- er to purchase one. Creal, then, is waiting for a riper time to elim- inate the "dry line" - and he thinks that if he does wait, he will definitely succeed. SINCE MOST students cannot drink legally, the "dry line" is of only sideline interest to them. But it does affect the faculty, who for five years have been wanting to establish a faculty center on campus. The center, which would offer food and especially cocktails to the faculty, must be located west of Division if the "dry line" remains. Such a distance would be inconvenient. Ideally, the faculty center would be located at the Michigan Union. However, there are more obstacles tn this than the "dry line" for profits is perhaps greater than THE MOVIES: Cat, Dogs ONCE AGAIN movie houses across Ann Arbor hold their noses and prepare for the tradi- tional vacation-time festival of rotten films. Here's what you can see if you miss your plane this Christmas : At the Michigan there's a fea- ture length animated cartoon about cats called "Gay Purree.' Its plot is embarrassing, its dia- logue worse, and its music simply foul. The entire production ap- parently is an excuse for U.F.A. cartoonists to do some very in- teresting backgrounds. Depending on locale they are done in the styles of various recent French artists-and, astonishingly enough, done very well indeed, with the finest color I have ever seen in any animated film. This gets totally out of hand, however, when the narrator at- tempts an art lesson, telling the audience salient features of each style. The movie can't be for children -its theme is too sophisticated (in its own stupid way). Of the six people at the film besides me, five were children, three left in the middle, and two cried. ON THE other hand, if you've ever wondered what the Ed Sulli- van program would look like in color, here's your chance to find out: at the Campus is "European Nights." Henry Morgan narrates an outsized travelogue of the old style (bad photography, bad jokes, random editing). We are treated to a string of what are supposed to be (but what are not at all) the top nightclub