Ten Years in Korea
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Modern Dance Concert
Shows Variety, Taste
REMEMBERING THOSE of some years ago, the faculty advisers for
this modern dance concert should be proud of the results. There was
variety and good taste in both dance and music.
The opening choreography' "Fanfare" was excellently costumed,
well danced and a fine beginning for the evening. It evidenced concen-
trated rehearsal and fine unity and had the courtliness of a pavane.
"Windsong" followed, blowing on and off stage, unfortunately be-
coming a bit monotonous.
"Sonata," danced in violet costumes and on half-toe, resulted in
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NIGHT EDITOR: FAITH WEINSTEIN
Too Much Delay
In Picketing Cases
)NE FINDS it difficult to believe that the
city's investigation of picketers, begun last
turday, could become as confused as it has.
he case has been so blurred that only one
nclusion seems plausible: city authorities
ive mishandled the incident, perhaps pur-
sely, and have unfairly treated both the
eketers and general public.
The first indication that the case would not
simple came almost immediately after the
st arrest Saturday afternoon. A complaint
d apparently beery filed, but no one could
explicit concerning its origin. Most agreed
ome State Street merchants" had complained
a patrolman on his beat. But even on Tues-
y, three days after the arrests, detectives
ere not able to explain who the merchants
are, or more important, exactly what the na-
re of their complaint was.
Apparently the picketers had been appre-
nded for possible violation of either of two
ws; one against the scattering of bills, the
her against littering. Police first agreed the
lenders had violated the ordinance against
att'ering of bills, but by yesterday it was
sisted that the second ordinance had been
olated.
ORIGINALLY, city officials had set Tuesday
as the time for a final judgment. After four
>urs of private consultation with attorneys
r the picketers, a joint statement was issued,
In1 Memoriam1
)ON'T laugh, it's a serious world.
With the full weight of the cold war bear-
g equally on everyone's shoulders, to laugh
as become a sign of ignorance of the grave
'oblems of the world. Our leaders don't date
laugh at themselves and their problems. On
e campus with its emphasis on serious study
id its harsh penalties for departures from
e norm, the somber atmosphere continues.
Students have lost interest in the childish
.eas of their fathers; the imaginative and the
amorous are soon crushed into conformity by
e silent thousands.
Gargoyle is dead."
-K.B.M.
which most persons understood to be a release
of the 15.
But shortly, the case became confused again.
One detective explained a delay was necessary
for further study of legality by the assistant
city attorney. The assistant city attorney,
however, said delay was necessary so that
police could further investigate the actions of
Saturday.
As of yesterday, two students were ap-
parently still being studied by either the police
or the city attorney (no one was making clear
distinctions between the two). The other 13
were definitely released, according to Assistant
City Attorney Elden. His statement was issued
almost simultaneously with word from a detec-
tive to the effect that all 15 students were
still being studied.
O CONFUSE matters further, a student
picket called Elden to ask which of the 15
were still being investigated: Elden reportedly
told the student he did not know. Later, he
refused to release names to a reporter, but
indicated he had them.
As of yesterday afternoon, none of the
picketers were sure whether or not they were
being "studied." American Civil Liberties Union
lawyers in Detroit, as well as a representative
of the American Jewish Congress in Ann Arbor,
were groping for details of the action. News-
paper reporters were at loss to discuss the case,
ALL THIS is not to say that police or Mr.
Elden are necessarily trying to discourage
the picketing. But the series of curious delays
and contradictions has suggested such a possi-
bility to many persons. There is definite justifi-
cation for the charge that city authorities are
practicing "harassment" techniques in "the
case, and that an ambiguous city ordinance is
being used to abridge freedom of speech.
If city officials sincerely feel there is a
justification for the week-long investigation,
then a clear statement of the present situation
should be made, preferably before, tomorrow
when picketing is scheduled to resume. The
twisted pattern of the last week has suggested
no such justification as yet. Rather it has
caused irritation and, more important, a blur-
ring of the basic questions regarding con-
stitutional rights.
--THOMAS HAYDEN
STUDENT GOVERNMENT:
Conservative Victory Disappointing
being a matter of competition for
consequence, in traditional corps
decorum. This is always sad, espe-
cially when the group is made dap
of good performers.
"122 WORDS for Dancers" was
an amusing, Thurberish creation
which the audience began to really
enjoy with the appearance of the
bird. It was well danced and Miss
Nestel kept her choreography in
character' throughout.
"Tempo" in striking black and
red costumes perhaps could have
been a little hotter and more beat-
nick instead of sophisticated, but
it realized a certain degree of suc-
cess.
"Integrales," with abstract pro-
jections as scenery, was a striking
stage piece. Karin Paulson has a
clarity in performance which
leaves no doubt in the viewer's
mind as to her ability. Interest-
ingly, we feel she has more to give
than she allows herself.
"DREAMER" truly attempted to
carry a gentleness and dearness
and perhaps it would if it were
not quite so long. The moon was a
poor prop with the carefully de-
signed costumes; and the choreo-
graphy seemed a bit contrived in
spots.
"The Rehearsal" was based up-
on a Degas painting. Like his pic-
tures it was light, pleasant and
amusing. The ballet master added
a firmly comic touch.
"Haiku," the Japanese Zen
poetry, began with an elegantly
simple stage - three large trans-
lucent grass screens in geometrical
shapes. The dancers were sitting
in the traditional pose used by the
Zen monks as the most effective
for meditation. Some portions
might have more fully used the
rhythm of the original poetry, but
it was a highly interesting choreo-
graphy.
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"KALEIDOCHROME" had
painters splashing paint at inter-
vals and the dancers translating
the sounds of the brushes. The de-
signs ended with a duo-executed
mural with amazing colors. It was
an intriguing idea and the audi-
ence applauded for a relook which
was not granted.
"Three Songs From William
Blake" was excellently danced and
Nick Ashford reminded one of
Merce Cunningham twenty years
ago. He moves exceedingly well.
"Le Monde de Jeunesse" was a
striking last dance on the program
- Play, Fear and Search being
skillfully portrayed.
-Frances Wright
New Books at Library
B a k e l e s s, John - Turncoats,
Traitors and Heroes; N.Y, J. B.
Lippincott Co. 1960.
Burrough, Loretta - Sister
Clare; Boston, Houghtom Mifflin
Company, 1960.
Conrad, Earl - The Governor
and His Lady; N.Y., G. P. Put-
nam's Sons, 1960.
Daley, Robert - The World Be-
neath the City; N.Y. & Philadel-
phia, J. B. Lippincott,1960.
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the ballerina role and lacking as a
AX LERNER:
Unavowed Unders tandin g
ANGKOK, Thailand-I suppose this is one
of the most cynical capitals in the world,
here power and influence are traded more or
ss publicly and without much sense of shame.
ut there is a more depressing cynicism loose
the world today.
I have just read a newsletter issued by a
rious and politically mature research organi-
,tion, analyzing the recent pre-summit meet-
gs and exchanges. The newsletter was bright,
tarp and sophisticated, and it had a few
irewd things to say about de Gaulle, Mac-
illan and Khrushchev.
But all the way through, from beginning
z end, its underlying premise was that this is
I chessboard stuff, that the four summit
aders-and Adenauer and Mao Tse-tung as
ell-are pushing power-counters around in
n elaborate game, and that nothing now afoot
ill avail to avert the coming nuclear war.
This is doom-thinking, surrender-thinking,
bdication-thinking: call it what you will, pro-
ded that you emphasize that it involves giving
p our will and submitting to the Big Drift. If
his is true we had better face it, of course,
ad prepare our minds and steel our hearts for
he fiery deluge to come. If it is not true it is
art of the great disease of our age. The news-
tter spoke of the summit negotiations with
ae same cold calculation that you might find
1 a stock market letter about speculation on
rall Sreet,
V ITH PRESIDENT de Gaulle about to begin
his American visit, one turns inevitably to
he question of what manner of men these are
ho will be meeting at Paris in May, and what
heir deepest purposes are.
One kind of assessment of them-if you,
ant to make it-would reduce their moves to
hose of the classical power-moves of power-
oliticians, like a group of local poolroom
olitical leaders maneuvering for advantage.
On that kind of calculation Macmillan is not
ally concerned about keeping the British
Isles from being blown up as a sinkable atomic
base, or keeping the Commonwealth from
being blown away by the winds of revolutionary
change: he is only concerned about blasting
the European Common Market (the Six) and
torpedoing Adenauer out of Berlin. As for de
Gaulle, he is on that calculation not concerned
with revitalizing the political greatness of
France. as the basis of a continuing cultural
greatness: he is only concerned with getting
a few more atom bombs, drowning the Algerian
war in blood, and cutting a bigger figure at
the summit to feed his national personal
vanity.
TURNING TO the two major powers, Eisen-
hower on this calculation is not concerned
with going down in history as a man of war
who became an architect of peace, nor with
averting a disaster which would end the proud
course of American civilization: he is only a
puppet of Macmillan and the Foreign Office
Machiavellis, who themselves thought up a
soft line toward Russia after Macmillan's visit
to Moscow.
And Khrushchev? On this calculation he is
not concerned about saving the gains of the
Russian Revolution and preventing their de-
struction by war: he is only concerned with
lulling the West into disarming, so that Russia
can raise its living standards without giving
up its present military advantage.
I don't say that this is an impossible version
of what is happening. But in an age when man
may die out of poverty of spirit it is a mean,
petty, and niggardly view of world events. We
ask for greatness and imaginativeness on the
part of our leaders, and then reward them by
taking the most parochial view of their intent,
whatever we may make of their means.
E NDING an early book of mine I once wrote
a postscript which I headed, "History Is
Written by the Survivors." I argued that the
first imperative of democracy is to be able to
survive, in order to write the epitaph for its
enemies. Khrushchev has indulged in the
fantasy of some day "burying" our Western
civilization, and there are some leaders of our
own who have dreamt of burying his. But if
either side tries to carry it out, there will be
no survivors left and no history for them to
write.
There have been two ways in history by
which civilizations have fallen. One has been
through a failure of nerve, when they faced a
challenger enemy, and dared not muster the
By PHILIP SHERMAN
Daily Staff Writer
W e d n e s d a y night's meeting
seems to indicate there will be a
strong but reasonable conserva-
tive alliance in Student Govern-
ment Council, newly reconstituted
by the addition of new ex-officio
members. Apparent floor leader of
the at-least tacit alliance is Inter
Fraternity Council President Jon
Trost.
On the basis of Wednesday
night's meeting, the alliance will
be pro-civil rights, though with
definite reservations about tac-
tics. Its vote on Roger Season-
wein's motion to send a letter to
support Prof. Leo Koch, recently
of the University of Illinois, was
downright disappointing.
The Council got moving on the
modified Haber-Miller anti-dis-
crimination motion, discussing
three motions by Trost. More will
be discussed next week, with as
great despatch and accommoda-
tion, one would hope. Trost's mo-
tion did not seem "IFC-prompt-
ed," especially on the basis of his
arguments for them.
The two that passed, renaming
the motion's projected watchdog
committee to "Committee on
membership in Student Organiza-
tions" and subjecting its standard
procedures to Council approval,
definitely improve the motion.
The motion to eliminate "creed,
national origin, or ancestry" fail-
ed, though without too much sig-
nificance.
Bill Warnock pointed out there
was no need to eliminate words
that were overlapping, such as
creed and religion, simply to save
type space. And liberal Al Haber
argued national origin and an-
cestry could be used, though in the
context of "race, color and relig-
ion," it would hardly seem likely
any organization could get away
with discrimination on these basis.
The mood of the motion is to
eliminate discrimination in all
forms. The alliance did not object,
at least yet.
There was some discussion about
League President Katy Johnson's
motion to write letters to all "stu-
dent organizations and housing
units informing of the council's
concern that this campus' student
NIXON:
T0 Soon
To .relax
WASHINGTON (AP)-Vice-Presi-
dent Richard M. Nixon is not
discounting the possibiity that
New York Gov, Nelson A. Rocke-
feller could upset his plans to win
the Republican Presidential nomi-
nation.
But the Vice-President remains
confident that-barring some un-
foreseen development-Rockefeller
cannot defeat him for the nomi-
nation at the Chicago convention
in July.
According to associates, Nixon
groups financially aid our fellow
students in the South."
Trost wanted the Council to ask
only "consideration" be given with
no reference to money. Union
President Perry Morton said SGC
should give its endorsements to
contributions.
The spirit of these arguments
was anti-discrimination, but hard-
ly with a bang. On the assurance
of President John Feldkamp that
he would phrase the authorized
letter in less specific terms, Miss
Johnson's motion passed. Feld-
kamp too is beginning to assume
definite conservative colors.
Perhaps the very liberal aspect
of the Council is coming to an
end. No doubt, a conservative
Council will get in less trouble
with the electorate, but one won-
liked the liberals, but at least they
knew they were there.
ders if a very conservative body
can attract the interest SGC vit-
ally needs. People may have dis-
The place where the alliance
fell down most, at least in liberal
eyes, was when it defeated Seas-
onwein's motion to support Prof.
Koch. Seasonwein said "whenever
academic freedom is threatened,
it is threatened everywhere." He
emprasized the same thing could
happen locally, as already has in
the H. Chandler Davis case.
Lynn Bartlett askedif there
were any precedents for such a
motion, which there were. Trost
said he thinks there are still some
American values to defend, and
added pragmatic considerations
in Koch's firing were justified.
First time around, the vote was a
tie, broken to the negative by
Feldkamp. Seasonwein asked a
recount, and the vote ended up
11 to 5.
It was conservative triumph,
which means the conservatives
can probably run the Council if
they see fit and as they see fit.
Liberal Loses
(EDITOR'S NOTE: The following letter from Prof. Leo F. Koch was printed
March 18 in the University of Illinois' Daily Illini. Prof. Koch was dismissed
by the University's president on April 7.)
To the Editor:
YOU HAVE MADE a great show of liberalism in racial problems
whose center of physical and emotional disturbance is a safe one
thousand miles away. I will be interested to see how your social
conscience operates with a problem which strikes very close to home,
here on campus.
The problem is broached by Dick Hutchison and Dan Bures in
their article "Sex Ritualized" (March 16) under the heading "Off
the Cuff" on your edit page.
Hutchison and Bures are to be commended for their courage
in candidly discussing the sexual problems of college students, even
if only with narrow-minded, if not entirely ignorant, perspective.
Their discussion omits entirely any reference to the social milieu
which compels healthy, sexually mature human animals into such
addiction (of which masturbation is likely the least objectionable)
to unhealty and degenerative practices.
* * * *
THE FIRST HAZARD encountered by the frank discussion in
public of sexual problems is the widespread unrealistic attitude that
where there is smoke, there is fire, Anyone who insists on speaking
about sex in public, say the orthodox moralists (unless it is con-
demned soundly), must be a sexual deviant (a queer) in their
orthodox view.
The second, and by far the more important hazard is that a
public discussion of sex will offend the religious feelings of the
leaders of our religious institutions. These people feel that young-
sters should remain ignorant of sex for fear that knowledge of it
will lead to temptation and sin.
Hence, we have the widespread crusades against obsenity which
are so popular among prudes and puritanical old maids ... Their
article would lead a casual reader to believe that the evils portrayed
by them are due only to depravity of the individuals they observed,
whereas, in fact, the heavy load of blame should fall on the
depraved society which reared them.
I submit that the events described by Hutchison and Bures are
merely symptoms of a serious social malaise which is caused pri-
marily by the hypo-critical and downright inhumane moral stand-
ards engendered by a Christian code of ethics which was already
decrepit in the days of Queen Victoria.
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COLLEGE STUDENTS, when faced with this outrageously
ignorant code of morality, would seem to me to be acting with
remarkable decorum, and surprising weakness if they do no more
than neck at their social functions.
Perhaps it would be nearer to the truth to say that such meek
and very frustrating, no doubt, behavior indicates an extreme degree
of brain-washing by our religious and civil authorities in the
name of virtue and purity to the point where the students have
become psyc ologically inhibited from satisfying their needs in
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FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1960
VOL. LXX, NO. 148
General Notices
May Festival usher tickets, which
were listed in the D.O.B. on Tues. and
Wed. this week, that have not yet been
picked up, must be picked up at Hill
Auditorium box office on Saturday,
April 23rd, from 10 a.m. to noon. This
will be your last chance to claim your
tickets as they cannot be given out at
the door on the night of the first con-
cert.
A few additional ushers for the May
Festival will be needed and those per-
sons who are interested may come to
the box office at Hill on Saturday,
April 23rd, from 10 a.m. to noon. See
Mr. Warner.
Applications for History Honors eur-
riculum: Students interested in enter-
ing the two-year History honors cur-.
riculum next fall should consult Dr.
A. C. Jefferson, telephone ext. 559. Room
3613 Haven Hall, as soon as possible.
Summary Action Taken by Student
Government Council at its Meeting
April 20, 1960.
Approved minutes previous meeting.
Approved following appointments:
To Interviewing and Nominating
Committee: John Richards, Michael
Turoff, Mary Elizabeth Carroll for terms
of one ner. endiring" in May, 1961.
STANLEY QUARTET:
concert
Crafted
A FINELY crafted performance
Wednesday night in Rackham
Auditorium by the Stanley Quar-
tet did not entirely offset the
disappointment that this reviewer
felt at the indefinite postpone-
ment of a hearing of the Second
String Quartet, by Elliot Carter.
I suspect the disappointment
may have been general. The Rack-
ham audience has by now become
accustomed to the tradition,;which
ought not to be taken for granted,
of an annual commission and per-
formance 'by the Stanley Quartet
of a new piece of chamber music.
The new quartet by Carter is
undoubtedly a musical event of
great significance. The University
can take pride in Dean Moore and
the Stanley Quartet for -having
commissioned the work.
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THE QUARTET in G-minor,
Op. 10, by Debussy, which was
substituted for the Carter quartet,
is organized as much by various
sonorities as by themes and keys,
but the systematic exploitation of,
all possible string colors begins to
have the paradoxical effect of
making the string sound mono-
chromatic.
The Quartet seemed to enjoy
the performance as much as the
audience did.
Mozart's "Serenade in G-major,
K. 525," for string quartet and
double-bass, was given a careful
performance by the Quartet with
Clyde Thompson, double-bass.
Because of Thompson's discre-
tion, the balance was consistently
pleasing. The inner parts received
some very complimentary atten-
tion from Robret Courte, viola,
and Gustave Rosseels, second
violin.
BEETHOVEN, as far as I know,
never before or after the first
Rasommovsky quartet (Quartet in
F-major, Op. 59, No. 1) composed
another work in four sonata move-
ments. Even the most conven-
tional sonata movement is, more
demanding of the listeners' atten-
tion than movements in the other
standard forms.
But the sonata movements
which Beethoven began to write in
his middle and late quartets in-
crease these demands to an al-
most unreasonable degree. As, if
in compensation, the quartet
abounds in tunefulness, rhythmic
vitality, and above all, in the
most intriguing instrumentation,
I FOUND myself thinking about
the music, rather than about the
performance as such-a condition
which is ideal in chamber music
concerts. On the other hand, cer-
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