/; "Don't Sit There Looking At Me Like That" Seventieth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTs OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone No 2-3241 ten Opinions Are Free truth Will Prevail" PLANS CONFLICT: State Seeks Mediator To End Funds Hassle By THOMAS KABAKER Daily Staff Writer THE CONFLICT between the Legislature and the state's colleges and universities over higher education and appropriations has taken a new turn during the past week. The point of interest has shifted from appropriations per se to whether universities and colleges should be supervised by a governing body appointed by the state. The idea is not a new one. It was proposed last year by Republican Elmer R. Porter, chairman of the Seniate Appropriations Committee. The presidents of Michigan's nine state-supported colleges and uni- versities are meeting to choose their own medaitor, but are set against ditorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must, be noted in all reprints. DAY, APRIL 6, 1960 NIGHT EDITOR: THOMAS KABAKER Panhellenic Elections: There's Gotta Be a Better Way PANHELLENIC Association is talking about changing its election procedures. It's about ne. For here's how the twenty-two sororities lected the new Panhellenic officers Monday ght . . In each house, the president stands, an- unces there will be Panhellenic elections is evening. What? Slight undertone of "I n't know anything about the girls, I should At vote" along with mixed laughter. She advances names of the two girls slated r Panhel for the particular office. Either she the house delegate to Panhel proceeds to unmarize the platforms, and in most cases )ints out how she thinks the vote should go. liked so-and-so, she was dynamic." The atforms of each condidate have been printed > by Panhel and distributed to the houses. )ERHAPS someone in the house knows one of the two girls who will be selected for is office, in which case she may add her yay nay. Often no one but the president and legate knows of the candidate. They happen know because they went to a meeting Mon- ay afternoon and heard the candidates speak. r at least representatives from all but four . the sororities attended. House president calls for a vote. It is likely be unanimous, except for those who don't raise their hands. It is also likely to favor the girl for whom the house president or dele- gate speaks most positively. . Repeat this simple little election procedure about ten times, once for each Panhellenic position, including the public relations official and the secretarial manager. Repetition breeds contempt. YET THESE elections are important. Pan,- hellenic is head and voice of female affiliate opinion. Its president sits on Student Gov- ernment Council and its policy makers mold that amorphous ruler of men and minds called rush. To the girls who are slated for Panhel offices the election results will mean a lot. They have already given their time in attendance at an open house for prospective candidates, in drawing up platforms, in speaking at the pre- vote meeting. All were interviewed by Panhel- lenic's executive council before being slated. To each candidate, winning the election means the opportunity to be active on campus in the way she prefers. But the girls in the houses can do nothing but sigh and laugh a little while casting their votes. Indeed, the vote is democratic, so is choosing straws. There's gotta be a better way. - NAN MARKEL y AS I SEE IT,...ByTHOMAS TURNER WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Conversation with Kennedy By DREW PEARSON the state's appointing one over them. Porter's plan would call for a board which would handle not only appropriations requests from the schools, but would also have a voice in the internal problems of the schools, such as curriculum selecting. The constitutionality of this in regard to the University and Michigan State is dubious, as both institutions were originally set up under the authority of the state constitution. * - * * BUT AS PORTER pointed out Monday, the Legislature's reaction to these schools refusing to com- ply with their wishes might be very strong if they did not subject themselves to the proposed gov- erning board (should one be es- tablished.) The backers of Porter's ideas in the Legislature are not strong, but there is a general feeling that something must be done about the conflict which arises every year among the schools, and then be- tween the schools and the legisla- ture. It is evident that the proposed board or supervisor will exert pressure on the schools to get them to give up conflicting claims to the appropriation dollar. The schools would be deprived of the right to present their own budget requests, thereby giving the state much greater control over Michi- gan's institutions of higher educa- tion. A QUESTION arises as to why the state should not control its schools completely. The answer is a fear that the educational sys- tem may become involved in poli- tics. To give an example, had the state possessed power over the University ten years ago, there would have been strong pressures exerted on the legislators, and therefore on the schools, to end courses dealing with Communism on the grounds that they are sub- versive. * * * THE UNIVERSITY presidents want a mediator to do research on the needs of the schools so a fairer allocation of funds might be managed. As the schools will not be bound by the decision of their' mediator, many legislators feel that the proposed $25,000 a year position is an absolute waste. The president's plan does seem too weak to be of much use except for research. This does not seem likely to solve the problem of quarrels over appropriations. But for the universities the idea of a state board is too strong, as most people agree that ' though the schools are organs of the state, they should'not be under the di- rect control of the Legislature. -No one has found a plan that would offer enough control with- out too much control, and in this case it is doubtful that any action is better than no action at all. BATES: Forest An d The Sea "THE FOREST AND THE SEA," Marston Bates, Random House, New York. $3.95. IT HAS, apparently, become a tradition to preface the review of a Marston Bates book with an incantation to Aristotle, Darwin, Whitehead, or all three at once. This practice serves not only to dazzle the readers, but also to put the author in the company of the demi-gods, of the literary- fringist science world. Too bad the practice is only wasted on Bates, whose books, especially this one, hold their col- lective own magnificently. "The Forest and the Sea" is a deceptive book at first. Bates's style, while not exactly 'pellucid,' is by and large Thurber-prose. And it is this kind of simplicity which belies the thorough control and scholarliness implicit in the content. BATES summarizes the mutual scorn betweenscientists working on the same phenomena at differ- ent levels: "This only shows that scientists are human beings, and science another human activity." This is one sentence of "The Forest and the Sea"; yet I have heard an emminent anthropolo- gist take two lecture hours to say the same thing. As everyone knows, Marston Bates is available to all, in person, in the form of Zoo.. 38, a course highly-touted alternately by the, inter-fraternity grapevine and the Michigan folk singets. This kind of ' breadith in admirers parallels Bates's own range of interests. He stands lonely exponent of the position that attempts to ignore the artificial boundaries of biol- ogy and look at "behavior" all at once; a position that serves as point-of-departure for this book. FLANKED by Mrs. Bates at one side and the great white dog Grundy at the other, Marston Bates generally spends one eve- ning a week leading thesseminar which, according to the dedica- tion page, made the book partly possible. The seminar characteris- tically devotes itself to the kind of interdisciplinary ventures which ,inspire "The Forest and the Sea" into a position quite more than a fine book of ecology. Thus, "The Forest and the Sea" succeeds at several different levels and makes it a worthwhile invest- ment in both time and money. -Dick Pollinger I i SOUTHERN REPLIES to Student Govern- ment Council's letters supporting Negro "sit-ins" have consistently noted Michigan's need to clean up its own discrimination first. While these letters ignore SGC's point that it protested against the mistreatment of stu- dents in the South, they do point up one of the shames of this Northern state. A number of Michigan communities, partic- ilarly in suburban Detroit, bar prospective non-white residents, A particularly obnoxious example is the Grosse Pointe rating system, in which all would-be buyers are rated not only according to clothes but also race and religion. An article in Sunday's Detroit Times sums up a questionnaire "admittedly used by prop- arty owner groups and others to screen pros- pective buyers of homes." (The questionnaire was among evidence introduced in a damage suit involving a Wind- mill Pointe property transaction which is being heard by St. Clair County Circuit Judge Hal- lord I. Streetor of Port Huron.) Under the name of the Grosse Pointe Prop- erty Owners Association, an investigator em- ployed by the property owners and by the Grosse Pointe Brokers Association seeks an- swers to three pages of questions. REGARDING appearance, the questionnaire reportedly asks the following (blanks to be flled in with checks): Mr. ...... Swarthy: Very .. .. .. Medium ,......Slightly ...... Not at all...... Mrs. Swarthy: Very....... Medium ...... Slightly...... Not at all...... Other questions included: Accent - pronounced, medium, slight or none? Names typically American? Typical of own race? INTERPRETING THE NEWS COn ferenC By 3J M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst THE GENEVA disarmament conference has degenerated early in life to its expected evel of deadlock. After the London' disarmament conference he big powers were put under heavy pressure Df public opinion in the United Nations to keep mrsuing the dream, regardless of the existence n the world of a new type war which could produce shooting at any time. The Soviet Union refused to have any more o do with the idea as long as she was outnum- bered at the conference table. Some of her ;atellites were then admitted to the circle, as 3yelorussia and the Ukraine, wholly integrated Soviet States, had been admitted to the United Kations originally. The current 10-nation dis- ussion is the result. SOME SLIGHT hopes for agreement were entertained in the West because of a belief hat Russia, finding she was still far behind in Dress -Neat or slovenly, conservative or flashy? General education-Good, fair or poor? A perfect score on the entire questionnaire would rate the applicant 100 points. But in the education category, the maximum is only five points. Occupation and position within that occupa- tion have a maximum of 20 points. "Fourteen points are involved if his friends are predominantly American or otherwise," according to the Times. (The questionnaire leaves a blank, in which the buyer's religion is filled in, under supple- mental information-no points are involved.) If the purchaser is considered "highly rep- utable" by the investigator, he can gain eight points; if the family is "highly thought of in previous neighborhoods." S OL LITTMAN, Michigan regional director of the B'nai B'rith Anti - Defamation League, who distributed copies of the ques- tionnaire, explained the interpretation of the points : "Under this system if you are Jewish you need 85 points. "Italians need 75 points, Poles 55. Negroes and Orientals are not given any consideration. The questions and the manner of obtaining answers are un-American and Fascist in con- cept. "Personally I think the charters of the Grosse Pointe Brokers Association and the Grosse Pointe Property Owners Association should be revoked." While situations such as this exist, and it should be kept in mind that Grosse Pointe is not an isolated example, there will be need for concerted efforts by citizens of Michigan to solve their own discrimination proolenis. The challenge of the Southern It ter-writers must be met, WASHINGTON - Whether you like Jack Kennedy or not, you can't help giving him credit for being frank and forthright in his willingness to answer embar- rassing questions. And the more you talk with him the more you like him. Point by point I raised the a r g u m e n t s which critics are making against him. One was re- garding his youth. "People are inclined to say, 'Well, Jack has time to run four years or eight years from now. He'll still be young enough.' By the way, how old are you?" I asked. "Forty-two," the Senator re- plied. "I recognize that my age is a handicap, but you can look at it in two different ways. Some say you need an older man to negotiate with Khrushchev. Per- haps a younger man could do better. A lot of people believe thAt what we need right now is youth and vigor. I believe the country is ready for some vigor and some youth." WE DISCUSSED the religious question. I told Kennedy that I had read the criticism of him in the Catholic press after his Look Magazine article made clear his position for the separation of Church and state; and that some. of my friends at Fordham report- ed that the Catholic hierarchy generally were much opposed to having a Catholic run for Presi- dent. Kennedy said he was aware of this. Rather undiplomatically, I re- minded him that a lot of Demo- crats were sore at him because they said he was blackmailing the party into either accepting a Catholic candidate or having the Democratic party appear anti- Catholic. He countered by saying that when he was asked on "Meet the Press" whether he would run o The Edito -e Unreal C f economic ability to fight a cold war both at home and abroad, wished to shift the balance between her economic and military power. There were demands in Russia as well as in other underdeveloped countries for some reali- ration of economic dreams long deferred. The slight hopes snowballed into a world clamor for peace, ignoring world situations which, if frozen in their present shape, could only be expected to pen up pressures for later violent explosions. Public opinion was directed toward an end rather than toward the means to an end. The Baltic States and Eastern Europe re- mained subjugated. Germany, Korea and Viet- name remained divided. The people of main- land China continue to protest against their Red rulers. More and more these rulers at Peiping insist on their enmity toward all the non-communist world. THIS NON-COMMUNIST world, led by the Western powers, does not believe these situ- ations can or should be frozen. International Communism not only believes they can h frzen but that new and similar Strangled .. To the Editor: AT their last meeting in March, the SGC strangled two vital motions with procedural red-tape and a lack of penetrating debate, The two motions were (1> permis- sion for a fund raising drive for the southern students who have incured financial difficulties due to their involvement in the lunch counter sit-ins, and (2) an en- dorsement of student picketing^ and economic boycott of the local branches of the Woolworth and Kresge chains to protect their policy on lunch counter discrim- ination. Two points in Tom Turner's editorial of April 5 are worth re- peating. "A broad base of national support for the demonstrators is needed also in terms of the prac- tical politics of the impasse. Only by a national boycott can the variety stores be forced to recon- sider their position on service to Negroes. "Only by national fund raising can the Negroes who now have fines to pay and meals to buy be supported; only with money behind them will other Negroes join them in the demonstrations." * ', * THE KU KLUX KLAN reply (Daily April 5) to an SGC letter sent to the Governor of Alabama indicates the kind of mentality that threatens our fellow students in the south who are seeking the elemental right to meals at a public lunch counter. They have shown courage and responsibility in their non-violent protest even when lighted cigarettes were put down their necks while they sat waiting for equality and the ac- ceptance of their human dignity. To serve as the official repre- sentative of the University stu- dent community . . . to the out- side student and world commun- ity. (SGC plan)." The fund rais- ing drive and boycott need SGC approval and endorsement. We hope that our SGC and campus will not be guilty of "washing their hands" of the issue as the dime store chains have done. We strongly urge the SGC to reconsider its action. Brereton Bissel Alan Dragoo Simon Katzenellenbogen Proposal . . To the Editor: THE PROPONENTS for estab- lishing foreign language houses on the campus have slipped into the universal but human fraility of being myopic to the over-all effect as they focus all their atten- tion to one aspect of the issue. It is only too painfully true that there is very little of mingling between students in different fields of concentration. Students in en- gineering, law, medicine, business administration, literature etc. tend to limit their acquaintance to members of their own school. It is only the girls who pic- turesquely float around like free electrons between the nuclei of the' members of various academic fields in the process of social dat- ing, giving the otherwise socially isolated schools a somewhat physi- cal continuity. Apart from this the only intermingling that takes place between students of different schools is in residence halls and other group-living units. *m A I' 'n* n for anything except President, he had to say no. "Once you begin running for Vice President," Kennedy ex- plained, "You're licked." However, he emphasized that in. no way was he trying to black- mail the Democratic party into nominating a Catholic, and that he would go out and campaign to show his good will for any man who was nominated. * * * WE DISCUSSED THE farm vote. I pointed out that Kennedy's voting record in the Senate had been rather lame; that although the question was complicated, farmers were exacting and the farm vote would be essential for him to win as the Democratic nominee. "On the other hand," I said, "Humphrey has a great record with the farmers and would run strong." a "That's true," Kennedy con-' ceded, "and in my opinion Hubert would be an asset to any ticket. "I suppose my farm vote could be a handicap in some areas," he continued. "But I have found that by being frank with people you can usually win them over. From 1952 to 1955, I voted in- the Sen- ate for a degree of flexibility as a method of preventing overpro- duction. In fact, I took the same view as Sen. Clinton Anderson, the able Secretary of Agriculture in the Truman Administration. However, it became obvious that as the support prices dropped the production increased rather than decreased. My view for the° last five years has been that support prices with effective controls is the best way to curb overproduc- tion." * * * I ASKED KENNEDY about re- ports that Chester Bowles, for- mer Governor of Connecticut and Ambassador to India would be- come Kennedy's Secretary of State in return for supporting him now. "Chester Bowles and I have never discussed the matter," Ken- nedy replied. "I would think that Adlai Stevenson, if he were not the nominee, would probably be asked to be Secretary of State by any Democratic President. But I must say I am fortunate to have Chester Bowles' help." "I understand Congresswoman Edith Green of Oregon believes she is to be your Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare," I prodded. "She certainly would make a good one, but we have never dis- cussed the matter," Kennedy re- plied. "She certainly has stuck her neck out for me. She took on a good many struggles in her own state when she agreed to head my campaign. The situation is par- ticularly complicated now that her friend Wayne Morse is run- ning for the Presidency." We talked of other things-the libel suit that Kohler was bring- ing against his brother Robert for the obvious purpose of em- Give Credit Where Credit Is Due 4 1 ,. ..... :: :.