N to THE MICRIGAN DAILY R UJLUk3",M ! 1P1 tLH UJLl. /.I Q, J CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES: Haber Answers Political Club Criticism 4i 9 hz at%4! The snow sti I I is We wonder where The Sick bikes izz By STUART DOW "We are a radical group in that we feel students should be inter- ested in what's going on in the world around them, and in that we will discuss controversial is- sues," Al Haber, '60, said. In this way Haber answers those people who accuse the Political Issues Club of being a group of radicals. PIC was originally founded on this campus on December 19, 1956., It died last spring from lack of interest. Reorganized this fall by Haber, it now has 55 active mem- bers and a mailing list of over 250. This winter it became affiliated with the national Students for Democratic Society. Haber is the national vice-president of SDS. "It is not necessary to belong to both groups," Haber said. "One can be a member of PIC and not of SDS." Advocates Action "The student years are not ones where one should wait for some- thing," Dewitt C. Baldwin, ad- viser to PIC, commented. "Stu- dents should get into things and take an active interest in current 11 NEW BIKES -USED BIKES I GUARANTEED REPAIRS BEAVER'S BIKE & HARDWARE 505 Church St. NO 5-6607 problems. The function of PIC is to encourage students to do just this." To accomplish this the club each week presents one or two guest speakers on controversial issues. Each speech is followed by a dis- cussion period. The programs this semester have been on a wide variety of subjects. Issues such as the Na- tional Defense Education Act, the Anti - Fascist Movement on the Continent, the H. Chandler Davis Case, and the proposed University tuition increase have all been dis- cussed. PIC even sponsored an open house for Student Govern- ment Council candidates during the recent campaign. To Sponsor Discussion "We willsponsor a discussion on any subject, which someone is in- terested in presenting," said Brere- ton Bissell, '61, chairman of PIC. "We are more than willing to work with any group or individual, who wishes to present a program which might be of interest to our mem- bership and the student body in general." This spring the club is sponsor- ing a conference to discuss "Dis- crimination in the North," from April 28-May 1. Such people as James J. McCain of the Congress of Racial Equality and Jim Farm- er, program director of the Na- tional Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People, are among the scheduled guest speakers. Thurgood Marshall of the NAACP and Martin Luther King have also been invited, but have not as yetI replied. "In addition to the main speak-, ers, there will be some thirty top in the North, we hope the confer- ence will act as a leadership train- ing program in ways and means of combatting it. Over three hundred students from all around the Mid- west are expected to attend." Secretary Here Charles Van Tassel, former Ex- ecutive Secretary of SDS and now the paid secretary of the confer- ence, is presently here on campus helping to arrange the conference. Besides working here, he makes frequent trips around the Mid- west to arouse interest in the con- ference. In preparation for the confer- ence, recent PIC programs have revolved around the issue of dis- crimination. People such as Anna Holden, Grad., of CORE, and Wil- liam Goode of the Michigan Co- ordinating Council for Civil Rights have talked on discrimination problems here in the North. "It is necessary to build up pub- lic opinion to meet and accept new laws and advances in law," Bald- win said. "One can accomplish much more through education than through rabble-rousing. One of the purposes of the conference is to educate people about what has been done in the past and what can be done in the future. Conviction should lead to action." Discussion Group Originally PIC was set up to be just an impartial discussion group. "This is no longer the case," Haber said. "We now try to put the out- come of our discussions into ac- tion. We are moving towards being an action club in addition to being an active club. From now on we will be discussing not just the problems involved but ways and means of solving them. Our present interest is in the field of civil rights." "For instance we are planning to collect money to help pay the fines of the Negro students, who participated in the sit-down strikes in the South recently," Bissell said. "Students should be excited and deeply concerned with the prob- lems facing the world today, but they aren't," Haber said. "Until they are, there will always be a need for a group such as PIC." Q t9 _A*1 ii IIllIIII lass feet Foseteake Introducing ...9 The mass meeting for Froshv Weekend 1960 will be at 4:15 p.m. tomorrow in the Michigan League Ballroom. Frosh Weekend, which began in 1924 as a dance pageant, is sched- uled for April 29 and 30. Today it ,., .t... rr~n ofc -m .1 m nl about the, activities of each of the various committees will be pre- sented. Freshmen will be able to sign up for membership on one of the teams and to join the com- mittee on which they'd like to work. 0 1 'JR fa ) ourn i i E O O S. 0 i t r E resource people leading discussion is the culmination o1sveral weeks groups," Haber said. "Along'with of work and fun by two teams, the the presenting of information on Maize and the Blue. the subject of discrimination here The teams are judged on their Joint C hoirs publicity, dance decorations, floor- show, programs, ticket design, number of tickets sold, total dance o o r s A cost, and number of team mem- bers with their dues paid. A plaque , is awarded to the winning team. the icigy Simes wil ENDS WEDNESDAY and the Michigan Singers will The purpose of Frosh Weekend present a special Lenten concert is to give the women of the fresh- at 8:30 p.m. today at Hill Aud. man class an opportunity to make The choirs will be conducted by new friends, to learn the funda- Prof. Maynard Klein and accom- mentals of committee work and panied by a string ensemble and, the art of cooperation, and to be- Marilyn Mason Brown, harpsi- come better acquainted with the chordist. facilities of the Women's League. The Women's Choir in the first "Our primary goal is fun for half of the program will sing from everyone," Susan Rosenfeld, '63, Catholic tradition: Francis Pou- general chairman of the Blue lenc's "Litanies a la Vierge Noire," N Team, said. with William Osborne, Grad.,on "We're looking forward to see- the organ, and Giovanni Batista ing all freshmen women tomorrow Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater," with - ----- - - - afternoon at 4:15 p.m. in the soloists Elizabeth Bowman, Grad., Phone NO 2-4786 League Ballroom," added Lynne soprano, Mary Ellen Henkel, mez- Friedman, '63, Maize Team gen- zo soprano, Karen Kilpec, '61, for Classified Adverti sng cral chairman, soprano, Judith Hauman, Grad., At the mass meeting, a skit soprano, Muriel Greenspon, Grad., _mezzo soprano, and Janet Ast, Grad., soprano, accompanied by Sastring ensemble and harpsichord. The Michigan Singers in the N O W ! second half of the program will { f present traditional Protestant mu- DIAL NO 5-6290 (Ends Thursday) sic: Viovanni Corce's "O vos om- "Our nominee for THE FUNNIEST nes," Johann Sebastian Bach's MOVI OFTHEYEA!" --Wold eleram "Cantata 150, Nach dir,.Herr, ver- MOVIE OF THE YEAR!" -World Telegram langetmich," with soloists Misses A Hilarious Movie!" -Life Hauman, soprano, and Henkel, mezzo soprano, and Charles Wal- ton, '6OSM, tenor, Walker Wyatt, Grad., baritone, accompanied by string ensemble, harpsichord and bassoon. In addition, Thomas Tallis's 9 ,,Ali "Spero in alium aunquam habui,"