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ISSUES OF THE DAY:

Bias,

OSA Main Concerns

[DAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1962

NIGHT EDITOR: DAVID MARCUS


The Process of Education:
A Question of Values

By MICHAEL HARRAH
City Editor
TRADITIONALLY, in a Univer-
sity community, students find
themselves embroiled in a .strug-
gle, real or imagined, for some
freedom as individuals-a greater
responsibility for life.
And in pursuit of these goals,
they "hurdle" or vanquish any ob-
stacles which may stand 'before
them-or they try to. Currently,
students on campus have been
concerned with personal freedom.
This concern is characterized by
their pressure for reforms within
the Office of Student Affairs.
* *.*
LAST YEAR about this time,
Dean of Women Deborah Bacon
resigned, triggering what amount-
ed to a major shakeup in the OSA.
Meanwhile, Prof. John Reed of the
law school was chairing a com-

WHY ARE YOU HERE?
Three days from now, the University will
formally embark on a set of activities its publi-
cists label "the educational process." Students
will face professors for the 289th semester with
new faces, but with essentially the same noble
aspirations.
The unarticulated and often hastily consid-
ered question of just why an individual has
chosen to attend the University-what he ex-
pects to give and to receive-will be pushed
deep into the background as recitation quizzes,
text readings and laboratory reports fill the
student's waking hours. Yet, if this question,
"Why are you here?" is not answered, the
student will find it difficult to plan and achieve
any integration of the myriad of activities and
programs thrust into his vision.
BEGINNING MONDAY, somewhat more than
20 gross of freshmen will be exposed to this
"elite" academy in what hopefully will be a
critical and examining manner. Their chief
anxieties, however, will probably be pointed
toward succeeding in masteringthe too often
inert ideas, of %the first year curriculum, mak-
ing friends and influencing dieticians in the
educationally sterile residence halls and sur-
viving the first cut in "tryouts" for, the press-
tigious and bureaucratic student organizations.
The rest of us, returning to the campus, have
already adjusted in large measure to the frus-
trations and disappointments of'Freshman days
at the University, only to develop new anxieties
about grade point averages and graduate
schools, football drills and fraternity discrimi-
nation, where to get beer and how to avoid the
bomb.
In the next year, four years, twelve years-
however long he remains at the University-
the student will be offered unique opportunities
for self-development and be subjected to unique
pressures to work for the development of others.
Largely free from economic pressure and
familial responsibilities, the student at first
appears to have a relatively easy life. Although
it doesn't always achieve its aims, the Univer-
sity, as a goal, is less interested in the manu-
facture of utilities than the examination of
ideas.
The student is in daily contact with stim-
ulating men and ideas, brilliant lectures and
provoking articles, virtuouso performers in all
the arts and the best in investigative laboratory
tools. And his main obligation is to immerse
himself in this milieu.
THE UNIVERSITY experience, however, has
little meaning if it is seen as divorced from
the rest of the individual's life. There is no
division of the campus from the "real world"
which successfully isolates one from the other,
nor should there be one. Geographically, we
are located in the city of Ann Arbor, county
of Washtenaw. Therefore, as individuals we
can gain most directly and immediately from
the people and issues centered here-and ac-
complish the most, too.
The University is functionally linked to the
state Legislature, state politics, even the United
States foreign policy. The student must under-

sand this association if he is to understand
his community and derive and contribute the
maximum to it.
The university is philosophically linked to the
whole of man's concerns. The student must
adopt this assdciation if he is to have as full a
role in his society as a democratic world re-
quires.
The demands on the student to reject selfish-
ness and embrace his brother's problems are
heavy. A fundamental role of the University is
teaching: the imparting to others of knowledge
and wisdom and the means to gain more so
that they may benefit themselves and in turn
benefit a still wider society.
THE INCOMING STUDENT will be contin-
ually bombarded with literature and speech-
es urging him to go beyond the classroom by
recognizing his obligations to other students'
welfare, the problems of the city, state, nation
and world. A few will supplement their cur-
riculum with these activities; some will for-
sake the classroom for the picket line or civil
rights pamphlet.
Too few, however, are willing to enlarge
their scope of concerns beyond the requirement
for the University degree; those who do are
hampered by the lack of numbers since this
means that large.scale reforms are often frus-
t'ated and the work load becomes too heavy,
for the activists to remain in school.
The mushrooming world of the student ac-
tivist has already become too large and too
complex for any one person to grasp every-
thing. The age of specialization finds no ex-
ception in the world of student politics: a stu-
dent devoted to peace cannot master the jar-
gon and scientific background to discuss and
effectuate changes in the arms race and real-
istically hope to be a civil rights expert and do
anything of significance as a major in geology.
WE ARE CAUTIONED not to regard the col-
lege years as a parenthesis in which noth-
ing is done but taking courses; starting now,
the student should be involved in the major
issues of his society. On the other hand, the
college years should not be a parenthesis filled
with political action. Young men and women
are at the University for the purpose of acquir-
ing a certain set pof skills and a disciplined ra-
tional approach to examining the universe.
Education is a multi-coordinate process and
the student does himself harm by ignoring or.
overemphasizing any single component.
Each student must make his own decisions
on balancing his times and alloting his re-
sources, but the decisions should be based on
a coherent and consistent philosophy which he
uses to answer the question, "Why are you
here?"
The philosophy may change and fluctuate
as new concepts rise to challenge preconceived
prejudices and beliefs. It must however be
broad enough to recognize realistically all the
factors and issues which impinge upon the
individual and his search for meaning in the
chaos about him.
-MICHAEL OLINICK
Editor

telling them what to do, although
the statements are available only
to the committee and Lewis and
thus far have been inspected only
to see if they contain adequate in-
formation.
Whether or not the situation
will result in disciplinary action
against a fraternity or sorority
failing to comply, remains to be
seen. SGC has demanded the sub-
mission of satisfactory statements
with all due haste, but how can
some fraternities comply? Their
nationals won't agree.
ANOTHER ISSUE which has
been gaining steam of late is the
ban against Communist speakers
on campus. A Regents Bylaw pro-
hibits their presence for the pur-
pose of advocating the violent
overthrow of the government and
in the past \the University has
heeded it strictly.
Last spring, however, things
changed a mite. Carl Braden and
Frank Wilkenson, who are not
strangers to Communism by any
means, were granted permission to
speak here over strong objections
from Sen. John P. Smeekens (R-
Coldwater).
President Ha t c h e r informed
Smeekens that the duet would be
allowed to speak in compliance
with Regental policy, since the
men are not themselves Commu-
nists.
The repercussions of this are still
being heard, and this matter will
certainly be tested further.
Too fresh in the minds of one
and all, however, is the budget cut
Wayne State University received
at the hands of Sen. Elmer R.
Porter (R-Blissfield), when that
school dropped its speaker ban and
refused to reinstate it.
THIS OF COURSE raises the
whole issue of legislative control
over the University, a supposedly
independent institution.
Constitutionally, the University
is controlled by the Regents; who
are responsible only to the people.
However, the Legislature, with the
power to appropriate the Univer-
sity's operating funds, is obviously
in a position to have some say in
the matter.
Recently, many legislators have
been concerned about Communist
infiltration of the state's- colleges
and universities. Numerous stabs
have beeen taken at requiring all
teachers to sign a loyalty oath,
similar to the controversial loyalty
oath and disclaimer affidavit at-

PROF. JOHN REED?
.. committee study

mittee to consider OSA reforms.
This committee's efforts resulted
in the restructuring of the OSA
which took place this summer,
abolishing the posts of deans of
men and women and placing full
responsibility for stuident affairs
with Vice-President for Student
Affairs James A. Lewis, who is
assisted by three directors and var-
ious advisers.
With the OSA shakeup have
come an end of curfew hours for
senior women and blanket apart-
ment permission for them. It has
also resulted in relaxing of dress
regulations in the men's residence
halls.
All this at a university which
has hewed to tradition, discipline
and paternalism, spells a new era
and concept in student discipline.
But will this liberalization be
enough?
* * *
AND WILL OTHER organiza-
tions relax their standards also?
In the past a bone of contention
has been the attitude of the Mich-
igan Union toward the patrons of
its grill. Two years ago, contro-
versy flared when the Union at-
tempted to rid itself of an "un-,
desirable" element alleged carry-
ing on illegal activities in the
MUG.
Now, with the remodelling job
in the grill, with a new crackdown
on personal habits and appear-
ance be forthcoming? And if so,
what will be the student reac-
tion?
Racial and religious discrimina-
tion will certainly continue to be
an issue. The Student Govern-
ment Council has asked all fra-
ternities and sororities to submit
to its Committee on Membership
statements of membership policy,
written and unwritten, with a view
toward eliminating written bias
clauses in accordance with Re-
gents' bylaw 2.14, passed in 1959.
Most have complied, though is-
sue is raised with some. And the
question remains whether or not
SGC has the right to probe into
the affairs of fraternities and sor-
orities. And if so, will the mere
elimination of written bias go very
far toward actually eliminating
bias itself.
So difficulties are certain to
crop up. Many fraternities and
sororitites are controlled nation-
ally by their Southern chapters
or their alumni, neither of whom
look with any favor upon SGC's

the door. Last summer, they tack-
ed a rider onto the Michigan State
University appropriation, which
ordered the closing of the Labor-
Management Center. An earlier
Senate investigation had reported
that the center was "pro-labor."
MSU, however, defied the Leg-
islature by changing the semi-in-
dependent center into a university
department, carrying on its orig-
inal functions. The legislators may
retaliate.
THE LEGISLATURE also is con-
cerned over the number of out-of-
state students attending the Uni-
versity (roughly one-third of the
total enrollment). They complain
that these students are blocking
Michigan students who want to
enter. The University disclaims it.
As yet, neither side has proved
the other wrong, and the Legisla-
ture constantly threatens to tack
on a rider which would withhold
budget moneyrunless out-of-state
enrollment were limited.
A year ago, such a maneuver
almost succeeded.
* * *
ANOTHER BONE of contention
in Lansing is tuition, which law-
makers, hard-pressed for funds,
consider too low. They are thus
reluctant to increase appropria-
tions unless the University raises
tuition. "Tit-for-tat," one law-
maker says. "The people are tired
of footing the bill." He adds that
the University ought to figure how
to get out of the problem.
In a way, the University has
done just that, for currently it is
preparing to go onto "year round
operation"-three equal semesters,
but different than a regular tri-
mester. Students may drop out for
the summer, just as they do now.
This, the University claims, will
make for greater use of facilities.
Currently, departments are plan-
ning for the switch-over, scheduled
for the fall, 1965, which will short-
en the two regular semesters as
they now exist.
Such operation, however, in-
volves a reorientation of opera-
tions and personnel, for all has
been geared with a summer vaca-
tion in mind.
* * *
HOWEVER, the upcoming bi-
annal state elections may change
a few things. The collective face
of the Legislature will certainly
look different, with many old-
timers swept out in the primaries.
A statewide income tax, which both
gubernatorial candidates support,
wouldopen up a vast new field of
taxation.
But legislators on both sides of
the aisle oppose such a levy. They
claim the people back home don't
want it. Meanwhile, the University
is hard-pressed for funds. Building
has virtually ground to a halt, and
spending money is anything but
plentiful.
As the price of education spirals,
new money will have to be ob-
tained somewhere.
* * *
ON CAMPUS, student govern-
ment has its problems. By the
general consensus, "SGC elections
have degenerated in quality to the
point where they make a mockery
of balloting.
Election frauds ran rampant last
spring, and the Hare System, used
to count the ballots, is clearly dis-
criminatory. Besides that no one
understands it, and so the votes
are rarely counted according to
Hoyle. With those ground rules,
anything goes and usually does.
SGC elections crop up again this
fall, undoubtedly with the same
evils.
A major issue, as always, will
be whether SGC should concern
itself only with campus problems,
or whether it should expand into
commenting upon the national
scene.
Also under fire, is the Univer-
sity's membership in the National
Student Association, a confedera-
tion of student bodies through stu-

dent governments.
Campus conservatives h a v e
threatened to put the NSA mem-
bership issue to campus referen-
dum, to see whether or not the stu-
dents actually wish to belong to
the organization.
Dominated by the liberal stu-

dents, NSA has been rejected by
other colleges and then accepted
by almost as many.
STUDENTS will concern them-
selves with politics this year. Hot-
test potato is the Romney-Swain-
son donnybrook for the governor-
ship of Michigan, which has young
people out beating the bushes for
both sides.
And on the national scene, stu-
dents have been aiding a drive in
the South to register Negroes to
vote and to break down resistance
to integration.
This results in local picketing of
chain storesrwhich discriminate in
their southern outlets.
But a movement which seems
to be overtaking the segregation
issue, is the move for peace and
disarmament, which finds stu-
dents staging peace marches and
demonstrations.
Last year, University students
marched on Washington to call for
disarmament, and they were join-
ed by students from all over the
nation.
Suchobjectives are the goals of
the liberals on campus. Their con-
servative counterparts, rather less
active, tend to devote their efforts
to the more practical side of poli-
tics-elections and legislation.
Unfortunately, the right-wing is

PEACE MARCH-Students from all across the country met in
Washington last year to urge nuclear disarmament.

both less organized and less artic-
ulate than the left.
LAST, BUT NOT LEAST, The
baily itself is not without trou-
bles. In April, the Board in Con-
trol of Student Publications up-
set a longstanding tradition and
intervened in the appointment of
senior editors.
And while this situation was not
without precedent, it certainly was
not established practice..As a rule,
the outgoing seniors named their
successors, and the board simply
rubber-stamped them, even though
it had the legal power of appoint-
ment.
Last spring, however, the Board
decided to assert its power, and
appointments were changed. The
outgoing seniors resigned in prd-
test, and the appointees refused
to accept their positions. For a
month, matters drifted along in a
deadlock until students and the
Board arrived at a compromise.
This arrangement, however, did
not settle the issue, for here again
the matter of student freedom has
not been resolved. Should the
Board have the power to manipu-
late the students, or should the
students be allowed to regulate
their activities themselves?
Like the rest of the issues of
the day, this remains to be seen,

AT THE MICHIGAN:
Su-Bile "Scoundrels"
worth Second Run

JAMES A. LEWIS
... OSA shakeup

Interest and Commitment

OF THE FIVE leading contenders for the most
common word in the campus vocabulary,
it is difficult to predict which will win first
place.
It is obvious, however, that one of the run-
ners-up, if not the grand champion for the
1962-63 season, is "commitment." Anyone in
doubt of the fact that the University is the
most committed campus in the country need
only leave Waterman gym after finishing the
student-counselor-registration worker melee.
Defeated or triumphant, but in either case
physically and emotionally shattered, the stu-
dent wants to.retire to the privacy of his room
to weep or exult over his schedule after taking
several aspirin.
But no such respite is permitted. Workers
for Romney, volunteers for Swainson, ban-
the-bombers and a host of other already com-
mitted individuals descend upon him in a
merciless wave, and he must run the gauntlet
of their signup tables before he reaches the
haven of the Diag and freedom.
Now the student may be heartily sympathetic
with the aims of one or several of these groups,
but it is annoying, not to say downright in-
sulting, when members of an organization de-
mand that one sign his name to their mem-
bership lists in token of his "commitment"
to their ideals.
Editorial Staff
MICHAEL OLINICK, Editor
JUDITH OPPENHEIM MICHAEL HARRAH
Editorial Director City Editor
JUDITH BLEIER................ Associate City Editor
FRED RUSSELL KRAMER .. Assoc. Editorial Director
CYNTHIA NEU.............c..... Co-Magazine Editor

THERE ARE a great many worthwhile proj-
ects on campus, which certainly do merit
ideological commitment from serious, socially
aware students. These projects range from
working for a fair housing ordinance for Ann
Arbor to campaigning for the addition of a
course to the curriculum.
But being interested, being concerned, even
working for an idea in the way which seems
most attractive and appropriate to an individ-
ual may not mean standing up to be counted
at every opportunity or aligning oneself for
life with an organization just because one is in
agreement with its policy on a particular issue.
Political awareness has become almost a
crusade during the past few years on campus.
The drive is on to combat that enemy of politi-
cal organizations and friend of administrators
known as "student apathy." The anti-apathyers
have a good cause, but as far as they are
concerned, the only answer to apathy is com-
mitment-not private, but public, roll-call an-
swering, dues-paying commitment, now and
forever.
YET SUCH COMMITMENT is significant only
when it arises out of a deep and sincere con-
viction not only about the issue at hand, but
also about the more fundamental questions
which underlie local and ephemeral causes.
It is not honest to sign a petition protesting
apartheid in South Africa unless you sincerely
believe at the same time in full rights and
equal opportunities for all minority groups
everywhere.
On the other hand, it is perfectly honest
and completely ethical to believe wholehearted-
ly in a cause without signing anything or de-
voting all your time and money to working for
it.
Urging fellow students to become aware of
and interested in issues is a legitimate and
hil-.-1 ,nmmnei~n1P minmr-s , N i t .T,+ni 1' 'priit-

tached to the National Defense
Education Act.
Lawmakers have also attempt-
ed to require certain political sci-
ence courses which would combat
Communism.
THE REASON for all the to-do,
the lawmakers contend, is that
many professors at these universi-
ties have "sounded dangerously
left-wing." Communist is what
they mean, though they demurely
refrain from saying so.
But whether they are right or,
not isn't the issue. The question
remains whether the Legislature
will be allowed to interfere in aca-
demic affairs, violating in a sense,
the constitutional independence of
higher education.
The lawmakers have a foot in

' HE SCHOOL for Scoundrels"
is worth this, its second run
in Ann Arbor, theatres. It is a
ruthless expose of the craft of
"lifemanship," which all of us
practice with.-some degree of suc-
cess in all dealings with the rest
of the world.
Mr. Potter (played charmingly
by Alistair Sims) is the founder
and principal professor at the Col-
lege of Lifemanship which is
dedicated to the continuation of
the "most basic dichotomy in hu-
man relations"-that of "those
who are up, and those who are
under."
Potter, this Henry Higgins with
an eye for a buck, (and marvelous
tufts of hair bristling from each
ear) takes Henry (Ian Char-
michael) "in brief, what's wrong
with me is that I'm a failure," and
produces a perfect example of a
man who is "up."
* * *
HENRY, searching for social
poise, respect, and the hand of
a certain fair maid, enrolls in
Potter's school; and after a few
extensive courses in woo-manship,
gamemanship, accountingmanship,
and the other graces returns to
deliver a horrible and just re-
venge on all those who have
plagued him, cheated him, and
taken advantage of him, through-
out his whole life.
Mr. Potter's basic formula ro-
tates around the theory of self-

confidence upholstered with the
sauvity of social graces, will jockey
any man into the position of an
of the movie, is that you' can see
"up.
I imagine that if the theatre
were light, everyone in it would
be blushing, one half because they
can realize how they have been
taken in, and the other half be-
cause their heretofore most suc-
cessful ruses have been uncover-
ed for all the "unders" to see.
"SCOUNDRELS" is a su-Btle
comedy with a fair to middling
share of belly laughs. Three of
England's best comedians com-
plement each other throughout.
Besides Carmichael and Sims,
Terry Thomas is seen as Ray, the
heavy of the piece who steals the
girl from the original gauche
Henry.
The single episode which will
convulse all viewers, who have
ever bought a car, is one where
Henry is engulfed by the used
car salesmen. The car shouldn't
happen to a dog; and the coup
de grace of the movie is when he
returns to the showroom, after
his course at the College, and
convinces the oily used car sales-
man that they are getting the
better half of a deal which gives
them back the original car, and
gives Henry a brand new Triump'
and 100 guineas in cash.
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