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)AY, MARCH 6, 1960 NIGHT EDITOR: JEAN SPENCER
OBSERVATION POINT'
OFTEN when a small legisla-
tive body acts for an im-'
mensely larger group, what will
sound good theoretically around
the conference table or across a
desk will be in application not
quite as attractive.
So it is with the Student Gov-
ernment Council's recommended
credit-audit plan. The purpose of
the plan is "to enable students
to elect courses far removed
from their major field of study
for credit towards graduation
without a recorded quality grade.
This would enable students to
broaden their educational scope
morely for the sake of the addi-
tional knowledge which they would
would receive."
The plan presupposes that the
student has a desire to learn for
the sake of learning.
* * *
THEORETICALLY this plan is
good; but it doesn't seem to add
much to the University's existing
official-audit system, and it fur-
ther has the unfortunate effect of
increasing the already consider-
able emphasis on grades.
It's true that Michigan's pres-
ent audit system does not offer
credit hours toward graduation,
but if a student is seriously inter-
ested in learning for the sake of
learning, the fact that he isn't
receiving graduation credit
shouldn't really affect his decision
to audit a course.
Under the credit-audit system,
a student could take a course
without concern for the grade he
FOR ONCE, REPUBLICANS and Democrats
agreed: it was the end of an era.
With his 15-minute television address Thurs-
day announcing his intention not to run for a
seventh term as Michigan's governor, G. Men-
nen Williams ended what may well have been
one of the great revolutionary phases of Michi-
gan political history.
He also clearly launched his personal career
into the vast and tangled uncertainties of
national politics,.where he is expected to make
a bid for the Democratic vice-presidential
nomination.
Williams' departure from the immediate
Michigan political scene was a sad and regret-
ful one-from his terrific effort to control
himself at the end of his speech to the regrets
expressed by some Republicans that he
wouldn't be around to face their attacks during
the coming election.
AND HIS DECISION will raise a host of
problems to plague Republicans and Demo-
crats on national and local levels.
The Democrats especially must deal with a
series of difficulties. Secretary of State James
Hare is already a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for governor, and Lieutenant Gov-
ernor John Swainson is reported to be ready to
announce his candidacy. The resulting primary
fight may well split the party, previously united
under Williams' leadership.
The problem of organized labor support is
doubtless on the minds of many state Demo-
crats. In the past, Williams had the firm and
unswerving support of labor. Now labor is
reported to be somewhat dissatisfied with both
Hare and Swainson. If this dissatisfaction be-
comes more than just a feeling, the Democrats
could be hit deeply by a loss of labor support.
THEN TOO, Williams was well known to the
electorate. Especially in heavily Democratic
Wayne County, merely the name of Williams
on the ballot was a great drawing card to get
out the full Democratic vote. Hare and Swain-
son are both comparatively unknown, and may
suffer because of it.
The Republicans are not, however, totally
happy with Williams' withdrawal. They feel
that Williams would have been more vulnerable
running on his past record than are Hare and
Swainson, running on relatively clear records.
NATIONALLY, Williams joins Adlai Steven-
son and Chester Bowles as near-sure mem-
bers of the Cabinet should a liberal Democratic'
become President.
He also joins the swelling ranks of Demo-
cratic vice-presidential hopefuls. But he does so
in a position weakened by the recent tax fiasco
with the state Legislature and his somewhat
disappointing showing in the 1958 election.
The tax crisis led to a drop in the state's-
and Williams'-national prestige, and opened
him to greater statewide criticism than ever
before. National Democratic politicos naturally
didn't like this.
Progress in Sol
.. .Philip Power I
Democratic questions about Williams' show-
ing in the 1958 election are especially ironic
and tragic, for they illustrate the cruelties and
intangibles of national politics. It is a political
dictum that a candidate, if he is to attain
national stature, must be a proven successful
vote-getter in his own region. But he must not
only be able to win elections; he must win
them by continuously increasing margins.
Merely to win them-after the first time-is
not enough. No lessening of local success is
tolerated.
S ENATOR KENNEDY won the 1958 election
in Massachusetts by a record plurality-
and went on to become a front runner for the
presidential nomination. Governor Williams
won the 1958 Michigah elections with a margin
somewhat less than in 1956, and faces an
uphill fight for even the vice-presidential nom-
ination. It is thus ironic that Williams, who
(with Democratic Chairman Neil Staebler)
broke the Republican statewide political mon-
opoly in 1948 and transformed Michigan from
a solid Republican stronghold to a Democratic
power, can reap little profit from this.
It is also ironic that of Williams' accomplish-
ments-always limited by a hostile, Republi-
can-dominated Legislature-one of the most
far-reaching may be his effect on the state
Republican party. Before Williams' entry into
state politics and during the early part of his
administration, Michigan Republicans could
with no strain be described as reactionary. But
under the sting of Williams' electoral successes,
the party (or part of it) seems to have under-
gone a metamorphosis, and moved toward a
more modern, reasonable position. If the Re-
publicans show a resurgence in their new ideo-
logical clothes, they will owe it in large part
to Williams.
W ILLIAMS' departure from the Michigan
political' scene is regretful because some-
how his decision stands for something that
might have been, but never quite happened.
If he had followed advice given him two years
ago not to run for a sixth term, he might now
be a highly respected member of the Senate,
with a brilliant national political future. Per-
haps this future is still brilliant, but it may
take several years for Williams to make up the
losses suffered during the tax hassle with the
Legislature and his 1958 election performance.
I once heard a friend of mine say "Williams
is the perfect example of a man who wasted
his youth in success. He's through with the
governorship now; where does he have to go?"
Another friend remarked, "No, Williams is
the perfect example of a man who wasted his
success in youth. He's been on top when he
was young; what will he do when he's old?"
While acknowledging these remarks, I still
feel that Williams has too much ability to be
washed up as a national political figure. He
may not become President, and I think he
realizes this, but he can give valuable service
in Washington and probably will.
uth America.
THE HOPE EXPRESSED by many people,
that the President's friendly reception in
those countries which he dared to visit indi-
cates that our troubles in Latin America are
now over and that our problems are solved,
seems too naive. President Eisenhower is a
great symbol of peace to the people of the
world. Almost wherever he goes, he draws huge
crowds of cheering people.
But the people are cheering him not so much
as a representative of the United States-
rather as a universal, personal symbol of peace.
No substantial diplomatic agreements between
our country and Latin America have resulted
from the trip. No measurable progress has been
made, save a possible groundwork has been
laid for future improvement in relations.
If we allow this apparent lessening of Latin
American-United States tensions to lull us into
apathy toward the nations to the south of us,
we are going to be in for a shock when we
discover that the problem has not really been
solved. If President Eisenhower's trip is not
followed up by effective measures involving
technological and . economic assistance along
with an increased recognition of the position
of the Latin American countries in the world,
our relations with them will become increasing-
ly strained.
-SHERMAN SILBER
Gouod Show
AS EVIDENCED by their latestmoral
crackdown, the Dean of Women's
Office believes that ounces of prevention
are worth more than pounds of cure.
Viewing a snowball fight between the
CIVIL RIGHTS:
Unorthodox Tactics
May Finally Get Bill
By JAMES SEDER
THERE ARE times when one
can't help having second
thoughts about the American po-
litical system. One of those times
is when one reads a headline,
"Filibuster Captain Shows Off
Hideout."
One becomes a little more
alarmed when the New York
Times-which isn't generally con-
sidered a "scandal sheet"-carries
a page one story "filibuster Diary:
First 24 Hours." The story gave a
time schedule of the major events
of the first day of the civil rights
filibuster in the Senate.
* * *
"12:02 P.M.-The majority lead-
er, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of
Texas, asks, as usual, for unani-
mous consent to dispense with the
reading of The Journal-a lengthy
summary of the previous day's
proceedings. Senator Richard B.
Russell, Democrat of Georgia,
leader of the eighteen Southern
stalwarts, objects. 'I do not pro-
pose to waive any potential (time-
consuming) advantage, however
.minute.'
"12:08 P.M. - Senator Everett
McKinley Dirksen of Illinois, the
minority leader, asks that business
be suspended each day for the
customary noon prayer. Senator
Russell agrees: 'If there is anybody
on earth that needs prayer at the
present time, it is the Senate of
the United States.'
"12:12 P.M.-Senator Allen J.
Ellender . .
IT IS SOMEWHAT of an under-
statement to say that this is not
what one would expect from the
self-styled "world's greatest de-
liberative body."
But when one looks closely at
the situation, it isn't a whimsical
game, nor is it frivolous nonsense.
The Senate round the clock ses-
sion is the battle-ground in a no-
nonsense fight over a civil rights
bill.
Now that the Senate has finally
become involved in the civil rights
fight, that body is faced with three
alternative choices:
1) The Senate could give up and
pass no civil rights bill at all. This
is virtually impossible. The Senate
is committed to the fight and giv-
ing up now would seriously en-
danger the political future of a
host of Northern senators of both
parties.
* 0 0
2) THE SECOND possibility
would be to reach a compromise
and pass a reasonably strong civil
rights bill, but one that the South-
ern senators would find accept-
able. Senator Russell gave a hint
that this might be possible. He said
that the civil rights bill's proposal
for court - appointed referees to
safeguard Negro voting rights was
"way down the line in the order
of being obnoxious" to the South.
His strongest objection was to the
school desegregation provisions of
the bill. "They're telling every
school trustee that it is your duty
to go out and bring the races to-
gether and mix them up in the
schools."
In spite of Senator Russell's
quick denial that he Was offering
any compromises and the out-
spoken stand against compromise
taken by much of the Northern
press, the Senator's comments lead
to speculation about a possible
compromise solution.
3) THE LAST solution is clo-
ture. Filibusters can be stopped if
two-thirds of the Senate vote to
stop it. Since the Southerners can,
apparently, only count on 16 votes,
the pro-civil rights people do have
the potential to *bring the bill to
a vote. The Senate, being a tradi-
tion - bound group, is extremely
hesitant to do this, however. If
some compromise isn't reached in
a few days, public pressure might
force the Senate to invoke cloture.
The present operation of the
Senate is certainly a strange way
to run a government - particu-
larly one as large as the United
States, but it may well bring about
a good, or even and excellent, civil
rights bill. The objective seems to
justify the unorthodox behavior.
will receive and still get the same
credit that a student who does all
the 'course work as well as bears
the tension achieving a good
grade can mean. In the last an-
alysis, it is the number of credits
and not the grades that determine
the recipients of degrees . . . and
the degree is the first step toward
a job; grades are at best second.
IN ADDITION the new system
seems to add an undue emphasis
to the value of grades.
It seems possible that the un-
stated philosophy behind the pro-
posal is to allow students to elect
courses without fear of poor
grades. One hopes that grades or
a lack of them should not be the
crtieria for choosing courses.
The rationale specifically states
"Courses taken under this plan
would have no effect on the over-
all grade point average. Thus this
could not be used as a panacea to
pull people off probation." How-
ever, it doesn't allow for the fact
that people might use the credit-
audit' system to stay off academic
probation in the first place.
BASICALLY the new plan as-
sumes the literary college curricu-
la are too constrictive. Yet most
requirements for fields of concen-
tration are designedhto include
electives, and many have a cur-
riculum that includes courses
outside the major field. The limi-
tations in any concentration exist
so that the student will receive a
basic knowledge of his field rather
than a smattering of several
vaguely related subjects.
A further problem in the plan
is the excessive red tape it would
involve. Students would have to
go through many faculty and ad-
ministration channels to assure
credit for the course they would
audit. Already there is so much
bureaucracy that a student must
go through in order to elect his
courses - it literally can take
weeks. So why add more unless
the plan adds compensating new
advantages.
These new advantages seem
only slight in view of the many
problems. Theoretically the plan
is good; over a conference table
it sounds attractive. But the gains
do not appear to be of a signifi-
cant improvement over the offi-
cial audit system.
Translated Travesty
Illuminates Arena
-Daily--Ian MacNiven
UBU ROI-A scene from the farce presently being staged by the
John Barton Wolgamot players at the Arena Theatre in the Frieze
Building.
"BU ROVI Alfred Jarry's farcical paroxysm of avarice, gross ribaldry
and massacre, incited French spectators to riotous protest at its
first official performance in Paris in 1896. This grotesque comedy pre-
figured surrealism more than 20 years in advance.
No outright riot ensued Saturday night at the Arena Theatre in
Frieze Building,,where the Wolgamot Society unveiled to an overflow,
guffawing audience "Gopotty Rex," a new American version of Jarry's
theatrical nightmare adapted by Bernard Keith and X. J. Kennedy.
Apparently Ann Arborites react to bizarre dramatic fare less violently
than did the fervent Parisian public of -"la belle 6poque."
Possibly one of the very few plays in the history of the theatre
which deserve to be termed "revolutionary," Jarry's wild comedy
parodies "Macbeth," the cruelty of epic villains and the unbridled,
scurrilous humor of Rabelaisian heroes. Yet beneath the Guignolesque
savagery and extravagant carnage perpetrated by Ubu (or "Papa
Gopotty") lurks a radically corrosive form of force-lyricism intimating
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WE, AS RELIGIOUS student
groups, feel that the recent IT AP
controversy over the scheduling of dent G
the Young Friends' "Peacemak- servative
ers' Prance" involves more than tremely
the issue of militarism versus Interest
pacifism. It involves the larger position
issue of civil liberties, too fre
The Young Friends, on the word societyt
of the Student Government.,Coun- shouldi
cil, had made plans to hold their ganizati
dance-plans which had to be -no m
changed because the Council yield- organiza
ed to the pressure of the R.O.T.C. how la
We believe that the action of the are. The
Council is plainly wrong! The ob- versive
jections that the R.O.T.C. raised merelys
to the Friends' dance have been views fr
answered adequately in Robert have as
Farrell's editorial in the March express
4th issue of The Daily. But the even ce
civil liberties problem remains un- We fe
answered. prior cl
Although we can understand the student
fact that a military ball is con- military'
sidered as part of the R.O.T.C. dance a
training program by the military no right
faculty, to the student population the stu
at large it remains, and should re- The Un
main, another extracurricular ac- pus isu
tivity. As religious groups, we con- not yet,
sider church worship as a vital
part of a person's religious life, -The U
but we cannot and do not insist and T
that religious faiths antagonistic Discip
to our own be restrained from ob- Refor
Letters to the Editor must be signed and limite
reserves the right to edit or withhold any letter.
and celebrating their be-
the same time or in the
eighborhood.
PEARS to us that the Stu-
)vernment Council's con-
e elements used an ex-
dangerous "Balancing of
s" doctrine to justify their
. And this is happening all
quently in our American
today. Individual liberties
not be sacrificed to or-
onal demands in this way
atter how important the
ation is considered to be or
,rge its numbers actually
e Friends are neither sub-
nor "pink." They are
a group holding differing
om that of R.O.T.C. They
much right as R.O.T.C. to
these views and, indeed,
Lebrate them!
eel that R.O.T.C. has no
,aim over our "civilian"
population. In our eyes a
ball is another student
nd no more. R.O.T.C. has
t to enforce its wishes on
Ldent community at large.
iversity of Michigan cam-
not "occupied territory"-
at least!
Unitarian Student Group;
The Congregational,
ples, and Evangelical and
med Guild Council
ed to 300 words. The Daily
L.
the poet's vision of universal cor-
ruption, greed, and inhumanity.
* * *
THE WOLGAMOT translators,
musicians, director, costumers and
technilians (whose program names
are mostly disguised to sit the
"mask" atmosphere of "Gopotty
Rex") .must be commended for
their boldness in undertaking to
transpose the unique verbal jests
and verve of the French farce into
a colloquial American style.
Inevitably, their effort is only
partially successful.
The adaptors have stressed the
comedy's crudities of expression
for the sake of hilarity. For im-
mediate farcical effect, this is an
effective trick, but it is scarcely
defensivle when "Gopotty Rex"
loses the underlying structure of'
profound caricature and satire
which gives authentic comic sub-
stance to Jarry's "Ubu Ro." Papa
Gopotty has a wonderful assort-
ment of inventive and pungent
exclamations nearly rivalling Ubu's
in tle original farce; but his
cruelty seems facetious rather
than devilishly methodical, as was
Ubu's.
* * *
IT WOULD be unjust to make
pointless comparisons between the
initial dramatic experiment of the
Wolgamot Society and other the-
atrical groups' productions. Judged
as innovation of approach to high-
ly unusual and experimental
drama, "Gopotty Rex" is intrigu-
ing,, controversial, and ludicrous.
although the level of individual
performances is rather uneven.
-Kenneth S. White
DAILY
OFFICIAL
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E. Engrg. Bldg. at 2:15 p.m. Chairman,
S. W. Churchill.
Placement Notices
Beginning with FriA., March 11, the
following schools will have represen-
tatives at the Bureau of Appointments
to interview for the 1960-61 school year.
FriL, March 11:
Mt. Eden, Calif. -- Eem. (K-6); Jr.
HS Home Ec., Lang/Soe. Stud., S./
Math, Boys and Girls P, Ind. Arts.
Sat., March 12:
Glen Head, N.Y..(North Shore Schs.)
-Elem. Nurse-Teacher, Library; Ment.
Ret.; Lang., Math/St.; HS English;
Jr. HS Core.
Mt. Eden, Caif.-See above.
For any additional information and
appointments contact the Bureau of
Appointments, 3528 Admin. Bldg., NO
3-1511, Est. 489.
Beginning with Monday, March 7,
the following schools will haverepre-
sentatives at the Bureau of Appoint-
ments to interview for the 1960-61
school year.
Mon., March 7:
Aurora, Ill. - Elem.;. Jr. HS Eng.,
Soc. Stud., S., Home Ec., Girls PE;
HS Eng., Soc. Stud., Math, German
Latin, Ind. Arts, Girls PE.
Los Angeles, Calif. - Elem.; HS Bus.
Ed., Eng., Girls PE, Home .Ec., Ind.
Arts, Math, St., Soc. Stud., Spec. Ed.;
Jr. Col. Math, Bc., Engrg.
Pelham, N.. lem.; HS Eng.,
French, French/Spanish, Spanish/Latin
Soc. Stud., Ind. Arts.
Racine, Wis. - Elem.: Jr. HS Eng.
Soo. Stud., Boys & Girls P, Math
Latin, Librarian; Hephing Tchr. In
'ARBOR':
A Attractiv
But Uneven
"ARBOR"is to be a widely .disc~
tributed, magazine of contem-
porary literature, not simply a
campus magazine, and its first
issue must be reviewed within that
more demanding frame of refer-
ence. Its format is very attractive,
its contents perhaps too few for
a magazine priced at fifty cents.
The best of the writing is unques-
tionably first-rate and important,
but much is amateurish or incon-
sequential.
Best of the prose is the delicately
beautiful "Mr. Farrago" byThay-
er Bice. It is described as her first
publication, but the skill and eco-
nomy of its telling are masterful.
John Monaghan's "The Nice Girl,"
somewhat in the Fitzgerald style,
is competent but less significant.
"North, on Glendon Mead," by
Jack Sanecki, has only a certain
crude strength. Its symbolism of
bug and toad- is tacked-on. Rose
is not a credible character, and '
the dialogue in which she tells
Don of the lost stranger, presm-
ably himself, is wooden and inept.
* * *
THE POETRY is similarly un-
even. Sheridan Baker's naughty
pjoem "Frycook" and his record of
a writer's experience in "Deposi-
tion" exhibit his usual fine stylb,
trenchant,' colloquial, witty. The
poems by E.G. Burrows, Dorothy
Donnelly, and Bill Livant are also
among the best the volume offers,
powerful, exciting and intelligible.
Bernard Keith's "Amphitheatre
at Aries" is too obvious, and much
of the remaining verse is of the
almost-imagistic type that can be
neither very good nor very bad
and therefore cannot matter
greatly.
There is included a play "Alight
Behind the Sea" by Mary F. But--
ton, which occupies the greatest
number of pages in the volume. I
have not had time to study it at
length. It exhibits a remarkable
mixture of cultures and total will-
ingness to follow any thought or
sound which accidentally occurs.
It is a light and amusing piece,
and one trusts that it is intended
as parody.
A FINAL WORD on the editing.
A magazine seeking national dis-
tinction should be scrupulous in
rooting out misprints and mis-
spellings. A hasty reading discloses
many of both.
Misprints:- "I doesn't cover
changing conditions," "How you
you know," "mother - or - pearl."
Two of these are from Mrs. Sut-
ton's play and may of course be
deliberate. Freshman misspellings:
"murmurred," -"alter" for altar,
"paranthetical," "rasberry," "cur-
rantly."
Some ineptitudes of writing
should have been caught in edit-
ing. For example, on p. 9 Rose de-
dares of the pond that "They
dragged it," and a line later "Don
stared down at the walk, as he
dragged on the cigarette." Toward
THE FRONT PAGES have been filled during
the last week with- news of Ike's apparent
siccess in Latin America. There can be no
doubt that, in terms of numbers of people
coming out to see the President parade by, he
was immensely successful. But before we allow
this seeming diplomacy and personal victory
to delude use into further apathy toward our
neighbors to the south, there are a number of
factors that deserve mention.
For a number of years, the United States has
beei under a constant barrage of criticism from
most Latin-American countries. Many of their
charges have been not entirely without truth.
We have been guilty for quite some time of
politically neglecting Latin America as being
unimportant and unworthy of great concern.
We are discovering that today no nation in
the world is really unimportant, particularly
those that are near us. But whether our sudden
switch can now gain back their faith is doubt-
ful.
ONE OF THE bitterest and most embarrass-
ing charges made against us regards the
United States' support of many Latin American
dictators. It is particularly embarrassing when
certain of these dictators encouraged by the
United States are overthrown. Cuba is the most
immediate case in point.
Certainly Batista was favorable to American
investments and interests in Cuba-but so
favorable, that we were blind to the cruelty
that he showed the Cuban people.
When Batista and his atrocious policies were
finally thrown out, our unfriendly reaction to
Castro could not help but stamp a despicable
and indelible impression of us upon the Cuban
people and on much of the rest of Latin
America. Castro's natural counter-reaction to
the United States and the subseauent economic
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