Ten Years in Korea Seventieth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD rN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. 0 ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 2 Opinions Are Free It Will Prevai"' AT LYD1IA MENDELSOHN: 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 -I Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. 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. - t "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. 4 . 4 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. * * * * 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 DAILY1 OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of The Univer- sity of Michigan for which The Michigan Daily assumes no edi- torial responsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3519 Administration Build- ing, before 2 p.m. the day preceding publication. Notices for Sunday Daily due at 2:00 p.m. Friday. 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. * * * 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- I I I , 3i4gwn Ba-Ig Editorial Staff THOMAS TURNER. Editor LIP POWER ROBERT JUNKER orial Director City Editor