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OCTOBER 6,1963
NIGHT EDITOR: STEVEN HALLER
The SGC Candidates.. .
FTER A CAMPAIGN virtually devoid
of issues, eight candidates from a
eld of 12 will succeed to seats on Student
overnment Council in Wednesday's
ection.
Basing our stand on platform state-
ents, an hour-long press conference for
ro groips of five candidates each and 30
iute interviews with each hopeful, we
ve found no candidates who are emi-
mntly qualified to sit on Council.
In our opinion, a candidate should
eet the following criteria:
He should have at least a rudimentary
iowledge of the structure and opera-
ns of the University;
He should display some independent,
Iginal and sound thinking about the
nction and possible actions of SGC;
He should be concerned with relating
>uncl's role to the general educational
ocess of the University;
He should attempt to develop 'new
;ues aimed at expanding Council's scope
'areas other than the nearly settled
u'e of membership selection;
And he should attempt to make SGC a
>re relevant body to the rest of the
iversity community.
NFORTUNATELY, the 12 candidates
met even these general and rather
f-evident standards only to a limited
gree. None seems to have devoted much
he to proposing new issues for Council
liberation except for vague generalities.
teir collective knoweldge of the most
sic facts about the University is unsat-
actory for SGC candidates.
some of the candidates do have the
tential to become effective Council
Rmbers. It is our hope that the success-
ocandidates will work to remove their
Ortcomings and live up to the respon-
ilities imposed by their membership on
uncil.'
(ALPHABETICAL order, these are the
candidates we feel are best qualified:
[DOUGLAS BROOK has an awareness
the problems facing Council and has
political background that could make
n a real focus of leadership. It re-
dns to be seen whether Brook can
ovide the vitality to crystallize his
wpoints to a point where other Coun-
members would look to him for leader-
.p.
He has, administrative ability but his
npaign was generally unstimulating.
is an astute politician, and his know-
ge of state politics might prove useful
broadening the scope of Council's
rcern-
COTT CROOKS - a member of the
mnmittee on Membership in Student Or-
lrzatlons-offers a working knowledge
Council and seems to be a conscien-
is hard worker. He seems to have an
m mind and is articulate and frank.
shows a sincere interest in SGC and
>road concern for the welfare of stu-
it groups.
3ut Crooks lacks factual knowledge of
structure of the University and will
ve to spend time acquiring the back-
und he will need to act as an effective
ancil member. '
fHOMiAS SMITHSON, SGC adminis-
tive vice-president, has developed a
at deal since his election to Council
b spring. Having learned the limits of
C's power last semester, he is now
:king more realistically to extend
incil. He has done a fairly good job as
officer and has made worthwhile con-
)utions to debate, often offering ger-
ne amendments.
[owever, Smithson, as an officer and
>erienced Council member, should have
.en the initiative In bringing new issues
the fore during the campaign. He
ds to search for large-scale projects
ier than smaller ones that may more
actively extend SGC power.
ALPHABETICAL order, these are the
andidates whom we feel have the po-
tial to make a contribution to Council
whom we cannot recommend without
rg reservations:
RED RHINES, SGC treasurer, is a
te-in candidates. He originally decided
,inst running, but changed his mind
er repeated urgings of Council mem-
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bers and others. He has done an ade-
quate job as an officer. He has an open
mind and is one of the few Council mem-
bers concerned with hearing all sides of
an issue.
But in his semester on Council, Rhines
has failed to contribute any significant
motions. He became preoccupied with his
job as treasurer and did not make con-
tacts with University administrators or
gater knowledge about the campus.
HOWARD SCHECTER has the poten-
tial of making an important contribu-
tion to Council. He also would bring to
SGC immense vitality by arguing for
strong stands on issues.
Schecter, however, tends to be overly
emotional and impractical in the meth-
ods he advocates for strengthening stu-
dent power. He seems to have assimi-
lated a wide assortment of facts too
quickly and does not yet know how to use
them. He may be bound for disillusion-
ment when he learns the limitations of
students in dealing with the administra-
tion.
ROBERT SHENKIN holds a broad view
of Council's purpose and can assimilate
and use information very well. He too
may be a stimulant for debate on SGC.
He strongly believes that students are re-
sponsible and mature and should have
the power to govern their own behavior
at the University.
On the other hand, Shenkin was vague
on outlining his specific intentions as a
member of Council. He tends to get lost
in irrelevancies and loses sight of specific
means of implementing his plans to gain
student control. It also remais to be seen
how vigorously he would work toward
realizing his liberal principles.
THE FOLLOWING candidates are not
qualified but are the most acceptable
to fill the remaining seats on Council:
GARY CUNNINGHAM lacks factual
knowledge about the University and
Council. He believes that ideologicallsplits,
hamper Council. However, he was un-
aware that the present SGC lacks these
basic disagreements. He also does not un-
derstand Council's function as a political
body.
Cunningham has some hazy proposals
for SGC speaker programs and national
student exchanges but has not given
either of them sufficient thought or re-
search.
RUSSELL EPKER is an incumbent who
admits that he brought up no significant
motions during his stay on Council. He
rarely took part in debate. In addition,
his viewpoint of Council activity is al-
most exclusively fraternity oriented. This
narrowness was apparent, for example,
when his chief concern about the pro-
posed residential college was whether
affiliates would be allowed to participate.
Epker as an incumbent and former
officer ran an unoriginal and unstimulat-
ing campaign. He made little effort to in-
troduce new issues and provided no crea-
tive leadership for the other candidates.
ELAINE RESMER is a write-in candi-
date who decided to run only five days
ago because she said she was appalled by
the SGC candidates. She is intelligent but
has an extremely limited factual knowl-
edge of the University. She believes that
students are adults and should partici-
pate in the policy-making process but
qualified her belief with the cliche that
students must first prove they are re-
sponsible, without naming any specific'
means for them to do so.
She also has suggestions for expanding
SGC's concerns in the academic area.
Miss Resmer wants Council to consider
the two hour exam periods, pre-registra-
tion program and academic questions in
general, but has not thought these pro-
posals through.
THE FOLLOWING candidates are un-
qualified to hold seats on SGC under'
any circumstances:
DOUGLAS BAIRD knows very little
about the University or Council. When1
asked to name the dean of the literary{
college, he thought that Walter Rea, di-1
rector of financial aids in the Office of
Student Affairs, held the post. He does
not believe in the concept of students
governing their own affairs and believesa
that the administration should be con-
sulted on major issues before any action
is taken.
JEFFERSON DAVIS, likewise, can offer
little background in either University or
student affairs. Davis said he opposes
the Union-League merger. However, he
could not describe the merger plans orj
the present structures of these organiza-
tions.f
He wants a totally political Council
where differences of opinion are quietlyf
settled behind the scenes. He does nott
understand that public differences can
build a more informed electorate.c
BARRY KRAMER could name only five
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(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the
first of a weekly column by Robert
M. Hutchins. Hutchins, who be-
came president of the University of
Chicago at the age of 30, is now
president of the Fund for the
Republic and director of the Fund's
Center for the Study of Democratic
Institutions.)
By ROBERT M.HUTCHINS
THE WORLD we are living in is
entirely new. But we haven't
many new ideas. It sometimes
seems that we haven't any ideas
at all: our minds are filled with
slogans like "free enterprise,"
"collective bargaining," "progress,"
"National sovereignty," "checks
and balances" and "that govern-
ment is best which governs least.",
All these slogans contain some
truth, and one object of these
columns will be to show what
these truths are. But a slogan is a
phrase that can be repeated in-
definitely without putting any
strain on the mind. It is a sub-
stitute for thought. We have been
so busy getting the continent
settled and then moving on to be
the richest and most powerful na-
tion in the world that we have
had little chance to think. Our
success has even suggested that
thought, in addition to being a
waste of time, might be an ob-
stacle to "progress."
YET LOOK at the matter from
the standpoint of the most sacred
of our sacred texts, the Constitu-
tion of the United States. This
document does not mention any
of the subjects that we talk about
most today: education, labor un-
ions, corporations, political parties,
cities and administrative agencies
or the bureaucracy. ft mentions
the press, but not television. It
refers to the common defense, but
not to the hydrogen bomb. It
speaks of religion,, but. does not
anticipate a time at which a third
of the population will be Catholic
and millions more will profess no
religion at all.
The main concern of the Con-
stitution is, of course, the relation-
ship between the states and the
federal government, a relation-
ship that has been" changed be-
yond recognition by technology.
Federalism rests on the assump-
tion that geographical differences
are important.
Technology has eliminated geo-
graphy, and urbanism, the child
of technology, raises new ques-
tions about the meaning and sig-
nificance of political subdivisions.
For example, Chicago, for all pur-
poses other than voting, paying
taxes and getting arrested, is in
four states.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON, who de-
spaired of democracy in Europe,
thought it might work in this
country because we would all live
on farms; we would all be self-
employed; we would all be very
well educated, and we would be
trained in civic virtue through
participation in local government.
Now almost none of us live on
farms; 75 per cent of us work for
others; our system of education
aims to adjust us to the group
or to train us to earn a living,
not to understand our respon-
sibilities, and anybody who pro-
posed today to learn civic virtue
through participation in local gov-
ernment would be sent to a psy-
chiatrist. t
I am not suggesting that the
Constitution should be amended
or that Thomas Jefferson was an
ignoramus. Far from it. The
Founding Fathers, living in an
age in which it took longer to go
from New York to Philadelphia
than it does now to circle the
globe, devised a form of govern-
ment and enunciated political
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'1THINK I'LL
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS
... revitalize thinking
LS&A EVALUATION:
Achievement Tests Useless
By MARY LOU BUTCHER
MORROW THE faculty of
the literary college will decide
whether or not to retain as ad-
mission requirements the College
Board Scholastic Aptitude Test
and the achievement tests.
Although the SAT has long
been an admissions requirement
for out-of-state students, both the
SAT and the achievement tests
have been required for all enter-
ing students only during the past
two years. When this requirement
was adopted, it was with the in-
tention of studying their relia-
bility as predictors of student suc-
cess at the University and was
subject to review.
THESE TWO years have been
an experimental period. The va-
lidity of the tests was to have
been determined by the admis-
sions committees of the various
colleges in order to decide whether
they should be used as a basis for
admissions.
The SAT is used together with
the student's high school record
to determine if he will be ad-
mitted to the University. The
achievement tests; on the other
hand, are used by the academic
counselor for supplementary in-
formation. Only when the stu-
dent'sthigh school records are in-
complete does the admissions com-;
mittee refer to the achievement
tests.
SO FAR ONLY the engineering
college has taken action after re-
viewing the "experimental" ad-
missions requirements; 'it has de-
cided to retain the SAT but to
d r o p required submission of
achievement tests.
The engineering college drop-
ped this requirement because it
felt that psychologists had pre-
sented enough Ovidence to indi-
cate that they added nothing to
what the SAT measured regard-
ing a student's capabilities. Since
the SAT verbal and 'math tests
are so comprehensive in nature,
additional English composition
and math tests necessarily obtain
similar findings, it was felt.
Even such achievement tests as
chemistry and physics are not as
reliable as reputed to be. Because
the tests are administered na-
tionally to students from high
schools of various qualities and
a variety of science curricula, the
test by
general
measure
EVEN
has not
there is
tion of
implication must be of
knowledge and not a
of real achievement.
S* *
THE COLLEGE Board
produced evidence that
any significant correla-
the achievement test
scores to the performance of the
student in these same subjects in
college. In! the 1955 edition of
"College Board Scores," there is
only a brief paragraph pertain-
ing to the usefulness of the
achievement tests. In effect it
says that there is no empirical
evidence to prove the value of
the tests but they are undoubted-
ly of value.
On the contrary, research on
the SAT has indicated that it is
a reliable predictor of academic
success and therefore a worth-
while guide both for admissions
committee members and coun-
selors.
IF THE SAT and the achieve-
ment tests tend to measure the
same factors - general academic
knowledge and potential for suc-
cess-one may assume that either
one can be used and therefore
the former is not necessarily bet-
ter than the latter. This may well
be true. However, it seems only
logical that the University should
choose the test which has the
most empirical evidence in its
favor.
Moreover, students take the
achievement tests at different
times in high school careers, in
subjects of their own choosing
which partly discounts their value
in comparative evaluation. It is
hardly justifiable to ask students
to spend time and money, and
often a great deal of Inconven-
ience in reaching designated cen-
ters, to take tests whose results
are relatively inconclusive, and, at
besta duplication of previous
scores.
SINCE OTIER colleges and
universities also require the
achievement tests in addition to
the aptitude tests, it might be
considered advisable for the Uni-
versity to require them for admis-
sions purely for the "supplement-
ary value" they might have.
This argument is purely "band
wagon" propaganda. The Univer-
sity, as a member of the College
Board, has a responsibility to
speak out against tests which do
not merit their reputation. The
first step in this direction is the
suspension of the achievement
tests as an enrollment require-
ment.
The "band wagon" approach is
a short-sighted one-it makes al-
lowances where none need be,
made and, further, encourages
future short-sighted analyses of
admissions requirements. If the
achievement tests are retained
tomorrow for guidance and coun-
seling, in a few years they may
become criterion for admissions
simply because other colleges are
doing it.
** *
THEaGUIDANCE and counsel-
ing values of the achievement
test scores are themselves ques-
tionable. A much better guide for
counselors is the Opinions, Atti-
tudes, and Interest S u r v e y,
"Achiever Personality Test," which
measures such personality facets
as creative potential, social and
emotional adjustment and moti-
vation for success.
Colleges have long recognized
a need for such personality meas-
ures. Surely then, counselors can
gain much more knowledge about
a student from his OAIS scores,
which are not now required, than
the achievement tests.
* * *
THE NEED TO develop better
tests remains. The University can
facilitate this development by sus-
pending t he requirement of
achievement tests and by encour-
aging the College Board to re-
examine the validity of such tests
and. further. to exnand on re-
ideals that are still the best in
the world. I suggest, that the
reasons for the success of this
country are our isolation, our re-
sources and our inherited intel-
lectual and moral capital.
* * *
OUR ISOLATION is gone; the
relative strength of our resources
is declining, and the question is
whether we can replenish and in-
crease our intellectual and moral
capital so that we can be equal,
as the Founding Fathers were, to
the new world we face.
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IN THESE COLUMNS I hope to
show why and how the world is
new and to propose ways in which
we can revitalize the ideas and
ideals that are our heritage in
order to cope with total novelty.
The views I shall express are my
own.
But I cannot deny that they are
much affected by my years at the
Center for the Study of Demo-
cratic Institutions in Santa Bar-
bara, by my colleagues there and
by the hundreds of visitors from
every part of the world and of
every persuasion who have taken
part in the continuous discussion
of these issues that goes on there.
(Copyright, Los Angeles Times)
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Resmer Announces
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SGC Candidacy
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CITYSCOPE:
Eulogy for an Idea:
The Fair Housing Bill
By WILLIAM BENOIT
STATE ATTORNEY General Frank J. Kelley's ruling that legislating
on civil rights be within the realm of the state, and not cities, is
a boon to tired city councilmen.
We in Ann Arbor can almost hear the relieved sighs of Mayor
Cecil Creal. What a break -that the fair housing situation is out of
the hands of Ann Arbor legislators, he tells himself. But what a
relief that we will no longer suffer under the pontifical comments
of townspeople 'who believed that fairness had been legislated by
their council.
They failed to realize that if they wanted a fair housing-brand
of equality, it was their business to dispose of property in a fair way
and not council's duty to legislate equality. They were less fair-
minded than townspeople who openly declared against fair housing
and who sought maintenance of property rights.
* * * *
WHAT A PITIFUL waste of perfectly good militance it is to
have to pay a sizeable fine for protesting a fair housing ordinance
that was to be declared void.
Then consider the extra militance of those indignant six who
went to jail. They suffered through adverse conditions in a jail whose
officers seemed hell-bent on making their lives miserable. It was all
for nothing.
The demonstrators might seek refuge and excuses, holding that
the spirit of the sit-ins will live on, or they could shift their arena
to Lansing and demonstrate for the benefit of state lawmakers.
However, if the criterion for fair housing is an all-inclusive
ordinance, Lansing will be no fairer than Ann Arbor was.
* * *
(Letters to the Editor should be
typewritten, doublespaced and lim-
ited to 300 words. Only signed let-
ters will be printed. The Daily re-
serves the; right to edit or with-
hold any letter.)
To the Editor:
AM RUNNING as a write-in
candidate for Student Govern-,
ment Council because I think there
is a need to offer the student
body a greater opportunity for the
selection of candidates. There are
8 positions open and 10 can-
didates. I feel that some of these
candidates are unqualified and
would be inadequate members of
SGC. The fear of an inadequate,
do-nothing Council has Influenced
me in my decision to run.
This body has, in the past year,
made strides toward increased stu-
dent participation in matters of
concern to the University com-
munity. I want this trend to con-
tinue. I firmly believe that stu-
dents are adults who 'have the
knowledge and ability to govern
their lives without the interference
of outside forces. They also must
assume the responsibility of ini-
tiating changes within the Uni-
versity community to create a
more meaningful atmosphere.
SPECIFICALLY, SGC should
seek and represent student opinion
in programs such as student-
faculty government, conferences
on the University, residence col-
leges and in policies concerning
curricula and requirements.
At present, SGC represents the
vital.link between the students,
faculty and administrators. This
contact should be expanded and
magnified to increase communica-
tions between these areas.
In the Reed-Office of Student
Affairs report, a statement ap-
peared in reference to college life:
"This iR lifP_ tn+t n n enatn no
should serve in an advisory capa-
city to SGC. Council should work
closely with. this body for its
chief importance is that, it creates
a continuity that is essential in
our transient student government.
Though the OSA, the plan for
Student-Faculty Government can
become a reality.
Second, the Conference on the
University should be expanded and
recommendations from these meet-
ings should be presented to a
student-faculty government for
immediate consideration. The pos-
sibility of implementation would
be increased if proposals were
submitted to such a body. Stu-
dents should participate in aca-
demic policy-making for they are
the members of the University
community who are most vitally
affected by these decisions.
I HAVE TRIED to summarize
my philosophy and approach to
SGC in this brief letter. I feel
qualified to be a campus repre-
sentative on SGC because I have
a thorough understanding of stu-
dent concerns through experience
as. Executive 'Vice-President of
Junior Panhellenic, co-chairman
of the Panhel Orientation Open
Houses, member of the SGC elec-
tions and activities committees,
treasurer of Frosh Weekend, mem-
ber of Dorm House Council, Elec-
tions and Activities Chairman of
Collegiate Sorosis, and other cam-
pus activities. I am running as a
write-in candidate for SGC be-
cause I have a firm belief that it
can be a meaningful organization
on this campus and as a mem-
ber of this body, I could work
more effectively for this end.
-Elaine Resmer, '64
Hofstadter.
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