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AY, APRIL 13, 1960
NIGHT EDITOR: JUDY DONER
Challenge' at Michigan:
Awareness and Action
"As UNIVERSITY students we are concerned
with understanding the world in which we
live. Yet we find that our environment is nar-
rowing and fragmenting our awareness of the
contemporary challenges," a. group of inter-
ested students concluded last year.
Concerned with this splintering and lack of
modern sensitivity to the world's challenges,
last spring a group of Yale University students
set up a program designed to answer the
challenge presented by the modern changing
world. Since then, this program has spread
,olumbia, Smith, Antioch and Michigan.
Volumbia, Smith, Antioch and Michigan.
Five students who attended the "Challenge"
colloquium in March are attempting to set up
such a program on the Michigan campus. It
will be directed toward presenting all aspects
of contemporary concerns such as the effec-
tiveness of Democracy, or the threat of the
nuclear age. During this program, three objec-
tives will be maintained: to present the topic
so that it is meaningful in terms of student
experience, to stress its importance for stu-
dents in the world scene so that they will not
remain neutral, and to force the listener to
make a clear commitment as to where he
stands will be the basic objectives.
"And committment means action," Al Haber,
'60, points out.
EACH SEMESTER will be dedicated toward
coordinating all campus efforts to consider-
ation of a specific challenge. Departmental
speakers might give their approach to the
topic, outside speakers might be brought in,
housing unit seminars might reach individu-
als. In this way, a general awareness of the
topic could pervade the campus.
The challenge program would have to be
a campus-wide movement of independent stu-
dents. As one advocate put it, "we are looking
for people, not organizations." Such a program
should not get bogged down in organizational
rivalries or become stereotyped by one spon-
soring organization. "Such a program requires
the combined efforts of all the resources of the
University, and transcends narrow ideological
or organizational limits," a Yale participant
reports.
WHY ADD THIS, another program among
many, to the already overcrowded activity
schedule? Because this program can coordi-
nate the splintered efforts of many depart-
ments and organizations. The world horizon
has expanded to such a great degree that it
has become imperative to specialize in order
to become adequately informed about any-
thing. "Challenge" could draw together the
resources of various cultural and academic
activities on campus and concentrate them on
a vital topic, thus building the splinters into
a complete frame containing the active opin-
ions of students.
Challenge could, if rightly supervised, com-
bat student apathy by offering worthwhile
outlets for intellectual energy. It could both
awaken students by presenting the problems
clearly and arm them for action by forcing
them to take a stand on the issues which will
affect their future.
The presence of such a program on campus
would keep present organizations on their
toes, hopefully eliminating "mickey mouse"
activities by pressure of more powerful and
comprehensive projects.
CHALLENGE is not radical, conservative, Re-
publican, Democrat or Socialist. It is. a
program designed to inform and aid the stu-
dent in comprehending the challenges of his
environment.
Challenge only asks that the student take
a stand on vital issues. To that end the pro-
gram will attempt to present the full spectrum
of opinion to facilitate informed commitments,
It is thus beneficial to all existing worthwhile
programs every student reached will be poten-
tial workers in already existing organizations.
As the Yale report states, "We are challenged
by the immense and complex problems of
today's world. American young people need
and demand a positive, thoughtful examina-
tion of the paths to the future. Challenge is a
program that will forcefully explore these
dramatic contemporary challenges.'
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DISCRIMINATION:
Haber-Mller Motion
Offers New Solution
By JAMES SEDER
Daily Staff Writer
ON can't escape the impression that the prestige of Student Goy-
ernment Council and progress in the fight against fraternity and
sorority discrimination are still tangled up in the Sigma Kappa chaos.
Many people have deducted from the Sigma Kappa affair that
SGC is a powerless, meaningless organization. Others have concluded
that the situation forclosed all hope of moderate action in the area
of discrimination leaving as the only alternative a fullfledged crusade.
Neither of these viewpoints is particularly valid.
In 1949 the Committee on Student Affairs adopted a resolution
refusing "to recognize any organization which prohibits membership
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND:
Make Haste-Locall7
LIKE EVERY generation of students, this one
seems finally to have found a cause. Others
have contended with everything from prohibi-
tion to war; ours is discrimination.
This interest serves a dual purpose. It may
result in some concrete progress in eliminating
discrimination which would outweigh all the
theorizing ever done on the subject in a class-
room or a student mind. It may also serve as a
powerful remedy for that trite catch-phrase but
all too grim reality, student apathy.
ALL OF THIS is undeniably good. But as this
interest gains momentum it might be wise
to watch the boundaries students cross.
Picket stores that practice discrimination,
Eliminate the discrimination clauses cherished
by some campus groups.
But think twice about a seemingly minor
mction like dashing off a telegram to a south-
ern governor, Here students are involving
hemselves in somebody else's cause, and the
esults may not be desirable,
Actually it isn't so much somebody else's
ause as it is a different, and probably more im-
>ortant phase of the same one. Discrimination
s especially the South's problem. They have a
'eal job on their hands, while ours, though
mportant, is more of a mopping-up operation
y comparison. And in accomplishing our part
of the purpose it isn't fair to jeopardize the
success, of others.
THE SIT-INS in the South know what they
have to do, and that they have to do it by
themselves. They're approaching discrimina-
tion in each town as a local problem, because
a lot of local victories add up to county- and
eventually to state-wide success.
They realize that they have to do it alone.
They are discouraging any open assistance
from the NAACP, regarded by many Southern-
ers as a "New York organization," or from
CORE. And so, as one Michigan student re-
cently returned from meetings in the South
and sit-ins has discovered, they're not too
happy about northern universities bringing
pressure to bear on, for example, the governor
of Alabama.
T HIS ISN'T because they're stubbornly self-
sufficient, but because such actions stiffen
opposition to their cause rather than causing
It to diminish.
Sending telegrams may get our student
government organization a mention in Time,
and may be well-intentioned, but it also makes
the sit-in's job that much tougher., And this
should be the primary consideration. We're
supposed to be working with them, not against
them.
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WA S H I N G T ON-Republican
leaders don't want the Demo-
crats to know it, but thy are
quietly checking of five Demo-
cratic Senators who have invest-
ments in TV stations. Their sec-
ret strategy is to retaliate against
the Democrats in case the latter
really go to town with their "Free-
dom of Information Watchdog
Committee" appointed by Sen.
Warren Magnuson last fall but
never actually implemnted.
The five Senators the Republi-
cans are checking are: Lyndon
Johnson, Tex., Magnuson, Wash.,
Kerr, Okla., Anderson, N. Mex.,
and O'Mahoney, Wyo. Except for
Kerr, who with his family is quite
a group TV owner, and Johnson,
whose wife owns parts of four
stations, the other Senators hold
small interests each in one station.
All this is a matter of public rec-
ord. It has never been secret
However, ever since Magnuson
appointed Sens. Ralph Yarbor-
ough, Texas, and Gale McGee,
Wyoming, on a watchdog com-
mittee, along with GOP Sen. Hmlh
Scott of Philadelphia, the Repub-
licans have been trying to side-
track their work.
Though the three men were ap-
pointed in September, not a single
dollar has been allocated to the
committee and not one staff mem-
ber appointed. Six months have
passed and not a single piece of
work has been undertaken.
* * *
MAGNUSON'S STRATEGY in
appointing the watchdog commit-
tee was first, the fact that cong-
ress last year modified the equal-
time provision requiring radio and
TV stations to give equal time to
all candidates; second, the fact
that in election years the big ad-
vertisers and Madison Avenue ad
agencies have relinquished time
in the final weeks of the cam-
paign to their favored candidate.
And past records show that Madi-
son Avenue has always leaned
heavily toward the Republicans.
In fact, the Democratic Nation-
al Committee was only able to
find one Madison Avenue ad
agency in 1956 that would con-
sent to handle its account-even
though the work meant a sizable
chunk of revenue for the agency
accepting the account.
THE LATE FRANKLIN Roose-
velt used to delight in what he
called "pulling a rabbit out of the
hat." This was how he described
a surprise move in international
or domestic relations.
President Eisenhower is now
planning to pull a rabbit out of
the hat to pave the way for a
successful summit conference. He
will send Charles Bohlen, ex-am-
bassador to Russia, back to Mos-
cow to try to work out a special
understanding with Khrushchev
regarding both Berlin and disarm-
ament,
This became known as the
Western Foreign Ministers began
meeting in Washington, still di-
vided over Berlin, but with the
problem uupermost of welding a
united front regarding Berlin
prior to the summit conference,
Their split is between the French,
Germans and Italians on one side
who want to stand firm on Ber-
lin; and the British, who want to
compromise, on the other.
* * *
HITHERTO, EISENHOWER has
been standing more or less mid-
way between. However, he now
plans to have Chip Bohlen, who
speaks Russian perfectly and is
well-known and respected inside
the Kremlin, talky turkey to the
Russians. His message is going to
be this: unless Khrushchev stops
making threats regarding Berlin,
the United States will agree to no
disarmament.
Behind this is the State Depart-
ment belief that Xhrushchev ur-
gently wants disarmament in
order to concentrate on Russia's
civilian economy and is willing to"
pay a price for it. That price, the
State Department hopes, will be
to quit demanding the free city of
Berlin.
(Copyright 1960, by the Bell Syndicate)
Democratic TV Interest
By DREW PEARSON
in the organization because of
race, religion, or cplor."
SINCE TILS time student gov-
ernment has twice attempted to
enact some measure which would
end discrimination in fraternities
and sororities on campus previous
to the ruling. The first attempt
was vetoed by President Alexander
Ruthven, the second by President
Harlan Hatcher. Both men indi-
cated that the proposed measures
were too coercive.
The Sigma Kappa situation
demonstrated that the 1949 res-
olution has several faults. The
resolution provides no iron-clad
bar to the recognition of groups
which do, in fact, discriminate
and its provides no mechanism for
dealing with situations arising
from this. But perhaps the most
serious defect of the resolution is
that it is deceptive: it looks as if
it were the first step along the
road to complete non-discrimina-
tion. But the past decade has not
shown that such a ruling en-
courages actual integration.
As a result a new approach is
vitally necessary. The Miller-
Haber proposal currently before
SGC offers this new approach.
There were a few minor prob-
lems with this plan, but they seem
to have been ironed-out in the
revised proposal which Al Haber,
Jim Martens and John Feldkamp
will present to the Council to-
night.
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PAST EXPERIENCE has clearly
"shown that a committee must be
set up to work in this area. Cer-
tainly the most effective way of
ending fraternity and sorority
discrimination - and perhaps the
only way short of time clauses-
is to provide some mechanism for
bringing constant pressure to bear
on both local and national offi-
cers.
Such a committee should be a
tri-partite group composed of stu-
dents, administrators, and mem-
bers of the faculty. This arrange-
ment has met with some criticism
from both students and faculty
members who feel that the com-
mittee should be exclusively com-
posed of students. But there are
many reasons it is essential to
have a tri-partite group:
1) This is a University-wide
problem, not exclusively a student
problem.
2) The committee will desper-
ately need continuity and exper-
ience. Since students are transi-
tory, it is manditory to have non-
students on the committee,
3) The group, to function ef-
fectively, will need to establish
rapport with national fraternity
and sorority officials. This rapport
will be easier to accomplish if
the officials feel that they are
dealing with a peer group.
* * *
THE KEY to the success of the
group is its approach. It must
concern itself with making pro-
gress, not with being punitive. The
group will have to work diligently
with national and locel fraternity
and sorority leaders over a long
period of time to be successful.
Progress will often be slow and it
will rarely be dramatic, but pro-
gress can be made and it will be
made so long as the various fra-
ternities and sororities work with
the committee in good faith.
To insure that these groups do
so some power is necessary to
insure cooperation of reluctant
groups. Fortunately, there is a
legitimate power available.
Any discriminating group re-
fusing to show good faith clearly
forfeits the right to be recognized
by the University. If such a fail-
ure should arise, no one would be .
likely to dispute SGC's responsibil-
ity to withdraw recognition from
the group,
If, as it is reasonable to assume,
competent people are appointed
to the committee and it receives
the backing of the University com-
munity, its creation will contribute
toward ending discrimination in
students groups and will go far
toward restoring prestige to SGC.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1960
VOL. LXX, NO. 140
General Notices
President and Mrs. Hatcher will hold
open house for students at their home
Wed., April 13 from 4 to 6 p.m.
Undergraduate Women Students now
on campus who do not have a housing
commitment for the fall semester, 1960,
may apply for housing at the Office of
the Dean of Women, S.A.B., beginning
Wed., April 13. In addition, League
House applications are asked to apply
House applicants are asked to apply
on Wed., April 13.
Fulbright Awards for University Lec-
turing and Advanced Research have
been announced for 1961-62 in Austral-
ia, New Zealand, the countries of South
and Southeast Asia, and Latin America.
Those applying must be U.S. citizens;
for lecturing, must have et least one
year of college or university teaching
experience; and for research, a doctoral
degree at the time of application, or
recognized professional standing. Ap-
plication forms may be obtained from
the Conference Board of Associated Re-
search Councils, Committee of Inter-
national Exchange of Persons, 2101 Con-
stitution Avenue, Washington 25, D.C.
Deadline for filing, an application for
these countries is April 25, 1960. Further
Information may be obtained at the
Fellowship Office in the Graduate
School.
The University of Michigan Maching
Band will be one of the featured march-
ing units in the Michigras parade on
FrI., April 22. William D. Revelli, con-.
ductor of bands and George Cavender
would like all members of the marching
band who are not merbers of thesym-
phony and Wolverine bands to -report
to Harris Hall before Friday of this
week (April 15) to sign up for the
parade and to make arrangements to
be Issued uniforms, music and instru-
ments.
Tomorrow at 4:15 p.m., the Depart.
ment of Speech will present a double-
bill of original one-acts. The Good
Cross, a passion-play by Donna Eichen-
laub, and The Window by Shannon
King will be presented in Trueblood
Aud., Frieze Building. No admission will
be charged.
International Student and Family Ex-
change have moved to new quarters at
the Madelon Pound House (basement)'
1024 Hill St. (Corner of E. University).
Open Wednesday nights 7:30 - 9 p.m.,
Thursday mornings 9:30 - 11 a.m. Top-
coats and sweaters for menand iwomen .
Inf ants equipment. and :clothing and
children's clothing. These are available
for all Foreign Students and Families
needing the above items.
University of Michigan Graduates
Screening Examinations in French and
German: All graduate students desiring
to fulfill their foreign language require-
ments by passing the written examina-
tion given by Prof. Lewis (formerly
given by Prof. Hootkin) must first pass
an obective screen examination. The
objective examinations will be given
four times each semester (i.e., Sept-
ember, October, November, December,
February, March, April, and May) and
once during the Summer Session, in
July. Students who fail the objective
examination may repeat it but not at
consecutive administrations of the test
(e.g., September and October) except
when the two administrations are sep-
arated by more than 35 days (e.g., Dec-
ember adFebruary).
There will be two more administra-
tions of the objective examinations in
French and :German during the cur-
rent semester. The first will be on
Thurs., April 21, in Aud. B, 7:00 to 9:00,
p.m. The last will be on Fri., May 6 in
Aud. C, 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. Within 48
hours after the evaminations the names
of students who have passedwill be
posted on the Bulletin Board outside
the office of Prof. Lewis, the Examiner
in Foreign Languages, Room 3028 Rack-
ham Building.
Students desiring to fulfill the Grad-
uate School's requirement in French
and Germati are alerted to an alternate
path. A grade of B or better in French
12 and German 12 will satisfy the for-
eign language requirement. A grade of
B or better yin French 11 and German
11 is the equivalent of having passed
the objective screening examination.
Lectures
University Lecture in Journaism,
Wed., April 13. Irving Diliard, editor-
ial writer for the St. Louis Post-Dis-
patch, will speak at 3 p.m. at Rackham
Amphitheatre.
Speech Assembly: Edward Stasheff,
Prof. of Speech, to present a program
entitled, New Stages for Old, on Wed.,
April 13 in Rackham Lecture Hall at
4:00 p.m. Open to the Public.
Lecture: J. J. Sweeney, Director, Gug-
genheim Museum, New York, will speak
on "Guggenheim Museum and Collec-
tion" on Wed., April 13 at 4 p.m. in the
Architecture Aud.
Guest Lecturer: Jack Bornoff win give
a lecture entitled "Survey of the Con-
temporary Music Scene" on Thurs.,
April 14, at 4:15 p.m. in Aud. A.
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Violence Begets Violence
By J. M. ROBERTS speaking reaction in South Africa and the at-
ciated Press News Analyst titude adopted in Britain, which formerly ruled
African conflict now begins to the country.
ome of the aspects of a three-way There was a boycott movement against
South African goods in Britain long before the
ch because the Afrikaner Prime recent violent outbreaks. There have been
shot by an Englishman, which bitter expressions in Parliament against Ap-
en just a happenstance, but be- artheid, and suggestions that South Africa
rained differences between the should be ousted from the British Common-
tions of Dutch and English an- wealth of Nations..1
There has been a suspicion ever since the
h-speaking population, despite a nationalists rose to power in 1948 that Afri-
)f solidarity with the Afrikaners kaner policies would eventually take South
itudes prior to the extremes of Africa out of the Commonwealth.
s begun to display greater liber -
he Negroes. SINCE the recent crisis, there has been a
growing speculation that the Afrikaners
is is due to politics, where the are pushing their country toward a terrible
tatus of the English-speaking has destiny of civil conflict and ultimate dissolu-
zed since 1948, and part due to tion.
British moderates are meeting the suggestion
-for outlawrv nf South Africa with th rnntn-
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Me Purmalis
Is a University student, currently
studying in New Delhi on a Stu-
dent (overnmen tCouncil exchange
scholarship. Ier 'letter discussing
the current situation in India is
written from there.
By ILZE PURMALIS
N A RECENT editorial titled
"Mr. K's New Line" published
in Michigan Daily, Max Lerner
focused on two questions which
might well be topics of Congres-
sional discussion on foreign aid in
the near future.
To put it bluntly, they are: Is
Russia beating us in India? Should
we step up the propoganda value
of our aid to India?
When these questions will come
up, it may be that in result it will
no more be a matter of Russia
beating us because we already will
have defeated ourselves by both
evaluating and directing our own
methods and aims only on the
basis of what Russia is doing.
It is discouraging that the trend
started by Sputnik is still con-
tinuing and seems to be gaining
momentum. In all areas our ini-
tiative, drive, and even goals are
more and more routed toward a
single track labeled "beat Rus-
sia." If that is our major source
of motivation as a people, then on
that same single track we shall
coast to oblivion.
To say the least, this is an un-
imaginative and even negative
tween India and the United States
were strained, a condition due a
great deal to our attitude in ex-
tending aid to India.
Those were the days when we
felt that anyone not committed
for us is against us. Since then our
frame of mind has changed; the
spirit behind our aid has not been
an attempt to get India on our
side any more but to help India
in its tremendous effort of eco-
nomic and social development.
Asma result, our relations, based
on mutual confidence and co-
operation, are unprecedently good.
Yet the trend can be reversed as
quickly as we revert to our old
policy even though it would be in
a new perspective. As any other
country, India has a national pride
and sensitivity-surprisingly tem-
perate for a nation so recently
independent, nevertheless, it is
there.
* * *
BASICALLY, it all comes down
to the question: what are we try-
ing to achieve in India? As it is
now, India is an independent dem-'
ocratic republics It is not relevant
whether it is pro-American or not,
what is of import to the present
day as well as the future world is
the often repeated querry whether
a nation facing economic and so-
cial problems of the magnitude
found in India can solve them
within the framework of demo-
Pemv Ti iQ heonnd the imanina,-
food, clothing and shelter. As a
result, when the people in general
cast their votes, they are not vot-
ing ;or Russian steel mills nor for
any American projects, they are
voting for bread.
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IN THE PAST American aid in
India through our government as
well as agencies such as the Ford
Foundation has been very widely
dispersed on a large variety of pro-
jects. Because of this, some of
them are said to have been in-
effective in the long range.
This has led to a concentration
of aid on fewer areas for more in-
tensive work. Exemplifying this
trend, the Ford Foundation pro-
gram is now focusing on only three
projects:' development of ferti-
lizers as one of the keys to the
food problem, family planning
education, and development of
educational T.V. for use in class-
rooms.
The form which United States
government aid will take in the
future is still unknown. No doubt,
areas of action should be carefully
chosen according to how vital they
are for the whole program of In-
dia's development. Often the great-
est needs do not offer scope for
spectacular, concrete results in
fulfillment; they are the unobtru-
sive yet absolutely necessary back-
ground work for the success of the
whole. This is the area in which
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LETTERS
to the
EDITOR
Crummy Exteriors . .
To the Editor:
CERTAINLY WELCOMED Dr.
Hall's letter commenting on
the so-called "beatniks" on this
campus. Just to look at their
crummy exteriors makes one want