0 4 Ath a Batt Seventieth Year - - __EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSrrY OF MICHIGAN "When Opinions Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Truth Wil Prevail" STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. "Did You Fellows Get All the News from Paris?" TO AVOM CRISIS Plight of Education Prompts Public Survey By SANDRA JOHNSON Daiy staff Writer "H[IGHER EDUCATION in the United States is not in an easy or comfortable position," social scientists at the Survey Research Center pointed out recently. "The war-time baby boom and the growing emphasis on higher edu- cation will more than double the number of students seeking admis- sion to our colleges and universities within the next decade," Rensis Likert, director of the Institute for Social Research, said. "The handling of the growing student population and the securing of adequate financial support "are problems that must be solved if the United States is to avoid an educational crisis, the social scien- tists warn. * * * PARENTS AND STUDENTS alike are going to become upset if de- serving young people are denied a college education becausse there is no room. "The large state-supported universities, deriving their sup- JNDAY, MAY 22, 1960 NIGHT EDITOR: MICHAEL BURNS OBSERVATION POINT iF REDUCED to its essentials, the University of Michigan can be most truly described as a school possessing quality within diversity. These two traits are deeply interrelated. Academically, the University is outstanding because it has within it the scope and diversity required of any great school. On the other hand, the University is diverse partly because it is great. Only a superior institution could draw from all parts of the world the largest foreign student body of any school in America. These two traits are deeply interrelated. Aca- demically, the University is outstanding because it has within it the scope and diversity required of any great school. On the, other hand, the University is diverse partly because it is great. Only a superior institution could draw from all parts of the world the largest foreign student body of any school in America. But the educational quality and far-reaching variety which the University gives to her stu- dents are not necessarily assets alone. For both the coin of academic superiority and that of overall diversity present two faces. Depending on the spirit in which they are taken and how they are used by the student, they can either be an asset or liability to him, both during his stay at the, University and in his future life. FIRST FOR academic quality. It is obvious that the educational excellence in intel- lectual training and in human understanding that students receive from the University is an asset to them. Accomplished teachers and scholars, excellent library and laboratory facil- ities and carefully constructed curricula have all combined at Michigan to the end of a superior university education. Because of it, University students are not only more effective. within society today, but also reap the personal benefits of the wide-ranging yet disciplined understanding of themselves and their environ- ment that are the hallmarks of the educated man. But a quality education can have, another, more snobbish face-one that is hardly an asset to its owner. For both Michigan and Michigan students realize they are good. They are better educated in fact than most Ameri- cans today. It is this realization of superiority, if allowed to get out of hand, that can split the college student off from the wider community of his fellow men. The student who takes his super- iority in the wrong way may become an intol- erant egghead in the worst sense, and then may withdraw into his personal ivory tower, occasionally deigning to lean out to sneer at the rest of the supposedly uneducated world. I happen to know a Michigan co-ed, now long graduated, who has had a miserable home be- cause she is more interested in reading Des- cartes than in caring for her children. This is, of course, an extreme example, but similar ones are often all too true. Our age has been called one of "the betrayal of the intellectuals," and recently has been characterized by witch hunts largely directed against intellectuals in American society. Such things, of course, cannot be condoned. But the college student, and future "intellectual" in American society, might well wonder whether a degree of snobbishness unjustified by his real worth may be at bottom a contributing factor in such outbursts. 0LOOK NOW at the coin labelled diversity. As with academic quality, variety at Michi- gan may either be an asset or a liability to the student. On one side of the coin, the great diversity of Michigan contributes to the excellent edu- cation she gives. It is present in the boy from New York City who has sat in a Great Books class and argued about the Iliad with a girl from the Upper Penninsula, who went to high school in a one-room schoolhouse. It has been given to the English major who has joined a graduate mathematics student in a discussion of modern poetry, along with a medical stu- dent from India. In the complexity of 17 schools and colleges and numberless departments which make up the University today, lies the necessary ground- work for what the English poet Robert Graves (in The White Goddess) has called the capac- ity for "'the graceful relation of all varities of experience to a central humane system of Editorial Staff THOMAS TURNER, Editor . . . Philip Power I thought," a capacity that distinguishes the truly educated man from the barbarian. BUT THE COIN of diversity has its other face. The very variety and size which make Michigan a great university can also become a serious liability to its students. For a com- mon response to the often overwhelming in- tricacy of Michigan is for the student to retreat into the familiar, the small, the easily under- standable. The English major who knows nothing-and cares less-about zoology; the girl who, when asked whom she dated the previous evening, answers with a groan "only an engineer;" the extracurricular activities man who only associ- ates with the other members of his inbred clique. Students such as these may well turn away from the full world in which they must eventually live. By gradually denying their involvement in the wider human community, by restricting their activitiesand interests only to their bridge club or to their business associ- ates, such students reject the real meaning of their education at Michigan for the narrow satisfaction of a limited life. To such students, the diversity Michigan has given is little more than a liability. IN ALL HER activities, then, the University has given her students the raw materials for a full meaningful life as truly educated men and women. But if misused, these same qualities can result in a student who lives a life of snobbery and withdrawal. Whether we who are students use what the University has given us as assets or liabilities is largely up to us and to our own personal insight. This is the challenge of education-a challenge we shall face all our lives. What is the ideal use of these things? A hard question, and such a personal one that one cannot give a definite answer, for we all have our own favorites. My own is that written by William Johnson Cory, a master at Eton in England during the 19th century. He wrote: "At school you are not engagedj so much in acquiring knowledge as in makingj mental efforts under criticism. A c e r t a i n amount of knowledge you can indeed with average faculties acquire so as to retain, nor need you regret the hours you spend on much that is forgotten, for the shadow of lost knowledge at least protects you from many illusions. "But you go to a great school not so much for knowledge as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming at a moment's notice a new intellectual position, for the art of en- tering quickly into another person's thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms, for the habit of regarding minute points of accuracy, for the art of working out what is possible in a given time, for taste, for discrimination, for mental courage and mental soberness." SUCH QUALITIES are not cold, impersonal techniques to be absorbed from books, for they are not subject to reduction into print. Rather they are intensly human, and can be learned only from other human beings who possess them in full measure. This is why the student does not remember long after the completion of a course the specific bits of information he has crammed down, too often in a last-minute rush before an examination. The student remembers instead the indi- vidual teachers under whom he has studied -as human beings. This is because only through their personal examples can the arts and habits of an educated man-the most im- portant results of an education-be made real to him. It is only through emulation and sin- cere affection for such men that students can hope to acquire the arts and habits of an edu- cated man which such teachers possess in full measure. And only such men possess the sine qua non of a great teacher: the ability to make subject material take on a personal meaning and in- terest for the student, and to inspire in him the desire to continue learning. IN MY OWN experience at the University, I have been fortunate in encountering many such men-men who have made the learning process at Michigan meaningful and exciting for me. Dean James Robertson, James Meisel, Pal- mer Throop, George Cameron, Paul Alexander, Arthur Benavie, Andrew DeRocco, Arthur Eastman, Kenneth Boulding. Only such men can make the University a place of vast ex- citement and terrific meaning for its students. For in the last analysis, the University stands or falls on her human resources. With- port from public taxation, will necessarily be more extensively - affected by this public reaction." -x'"To avoid friction, misunder- standing and criticism, the ad- ministrators of our institutions must understand the viewpoints b .Mof the public who financially sup-- -. port the schools; and the tax- payers must understand the ac- tions, policies, and needs of edu- cational institutions. TO MEET this need the Survey Research Center has proposed that it carry on "a study designed to discover what people know, or do not know, about higher educa- rx °- ? tion and how they feel about edu- U cational institutions and their various f u n c t i o n s, policies and products." From this data the administra- m;:s tors would be made aware of what the public regards as the best means and sources for future fi- nancial support. This study would also provide practical information. - - . on factors affecting future college Q E+T.40. tS4KOM ver ' wenrollments and attitudes towards the policies of the institutions. UNIVERSITY FACES PRESSURES: Tuition Increases Reasonable, By THOMAS HAYDEN Daily Staff Writer ALL THE interacting strains of the University's ambition to expand facilities along with the state's persistent financial troubles led to Friday's justifiable deci- sion to raise tuition for all stu- dents. Since World War II the Uni- versity has increased geographi- cally, particularly through large- scale development at North Cam- pus, Flint and Dearborn. A par- allel increase in its financial needs has of course ensued. Those needs have expanded more rapidly than the state's ability to meet them. Especially in the last three years, Michigan's money troubles have intensified the University's own financial-- and consequently, academic - needs. In particular it has seen frightening departures from its teaching staff, because of better salary offers elsewhere. * * * * IN 1957 the University raised its tuition fees to help meet its needs. In that year legislators de- manded that the state schools pay their fair share of the bill for edu- cation. For the past several weeks, many observers have seen a simi- lar situation emerging, ever since it became abundantly clear that legislators were not going to ap- propriate the amount of money the University insisted was the absolute minimum for its 1960- 61 operating expenses. Finally, the legislature pulled an interesting, if not praiseworthy, political move, by appropriating a. University operating budget slightly higher than the budget for the last fiscal year, but not quite meeting the "absolute mini- mum" requested. HENCE, THE Legislature re- ceived some favorable recognition for the increase it did provide, and at the same time got the tuition increase it wanted the University to contribute. The University always has been opposed in principle to tuition increases. The early constitutions of the midwestern states foresaw an edu- cational system reaching from the elementary through university levels "where tuition shall be gratis and equally open to all." Such has been the general case through the first twelve grades. No tuition is leveled, on the theory that the education provided its of general benefit to the state. THE PUBLIC mind, however, has not yet recognized the similar general value of university train- ing. In the course of time the public mind will perhaps change. Until it does the University will have to charge a certain fee to those wishing to learn. In other words, while tuition increases are philo- sophically questionable, they were in this case a practical necessity; this was the essential considera- tion of the majority of the Re- gents who decided to boost both charges $255 (instate) and $555 (outstate). Wayne State, a metro- politan school trying to become cosmopolitan, accordingly charges $276 (instate) and only $300 (out- state). MSU has still not revealed its intentions regarding fall tuition fees, but rumors suggest the in- stitution opposes any increases for instaters, but may add to the tuition burden of the outstate stu- dents. Wayne on the other hand may raise neither. The difference between instate and outstate fees has weighty ramifications for the whole state, and especially this University. Considerable sentiment has been generated against outstate stu- dents on the grounds that tax money of Michigan residents should not be used for the bene- fits of students from other states whose families do not pay taxes in Michigan. * * * SOME LEGISLATORS and many citizens have even used the label "foreigners" to describe the out- stater. Others have been willing to raisehoutstate fees here because the high rates charged Michigan students attending eastern schools amount to "unfair barriers." This kind of condition has irritated more than one Regent and ad- ministrator. At the Board meeting Friday, Regents M u rp hy and McInally voted against any hike in instate fees, and Mrs. Murphy suggested openly that outstate fees should be considerably higher, as much as $810 a year. * * * IT IS IMPORTANT to remem- her such ideas have been generated in a large and serious context- what what has been glibly re- ferred to as the "baby boom." That boom-the raising numbers of students clambering to get into American colleges-has now be- come frightening in its demand for immediate attention. For example, it is quite likely that the University could close its doors to all dutstaters - now DAILY 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 Adminsitration Build- ing, before 2 p.m. two days preced- ing publication. Notices for Sunday Daily due at 2:00 p.m. Friday. SUNDAY,,MAY 22, 1960 VOL. LXX, No. 174 General Notices Attention June Graduates: College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, School of Education, School of Music, School of Public Health, and School of Business Administration:Students are advised not to request grades of I or X in June. When such grades are absolutely im- perative, the work mus be made up in numbering three in every ten stu- dents here-and still: be forced to raise its admissions standards to cope with the surging crowd of instate residents seeking admis- sion. It is possible that the level, of intelligence of the undergradu- ate body would now remain the same even without a single stu- dent present from outside this state. Many who know this, and are additionally aware that the Uni- versity's first obligation is to in- struct the residents of Michigan, have adopted one of two opinions: either the University doesn't need outstaters any longer, or the Uni- versity needs outstaters but should force them to pay heavily. NEITHER ARGUMENT is en- couraging. The first totally subverts the University's traditional commit- ment to preserve a fundamental heterogeniety among its student body. That commitment has been not only characteristic of the Uni- versity's peculiar quality, but an essential contributing factor to that quality. - The second, that outstaters should pay heavily, is perhaps justifiable, 1) as a former retalia- tion against the high tuition bar- riers in other states or 2) as con- sistent with the University's pri- mary obligation to state students. These were the arguments of Re- gent Murphy, who favored greater increases in outstate fees. But the dangers in raising out- state fees are clear in a very con- crete sense. The University does not want to choose its outstate students by economic selection, rather than selection as fees go higher, economic selection becomes a greater d a n g e r. Outstaters coming to the University are not exposed to as many local scholar- ship opportunities as ,instaters (the instate student, for example, can draw on a $400,000 Regents scholarship fund for aid). s * * THE UNDERLYING premise which opposes economic selection is simply that the world of scholar- ship recognizes no economic dis- tractions between individuals who wish to enter it. Hopefully the Regents will not raise outstate fees much further, nor make the present difference in instate and outstate fees much greater. As for instate fees, it was un- fortunate but necessary to make the slight increase of $30 for Michigan residents, although Re- gents Murphy and McInally dis- agreed. To raise the instate fees any farther would have been some- what questionable because of the University's obligation to its state taxpayers. But to raise only out- state fees, which Regents Murphy and McInally proposed, and by a sum as significant as $150, would have been a failure to recognize the University's non-provincial nature. AS FOR the future, things now look generally better than in the but... ficant number of students will be turned away because of inability to pay the new fees. The $200,000 aid fund, thoughtfully established along with the new fees, will par- tially take care of problems in this area. The state - and its financial condition. - is something else. Lynn Bartlett, state Superintend- ent of Public Instruction, argued. Friday that higher education might receive its."just share" of funds when the Legislature meets in a special session in the early fall. The University can be some- what hopeful here, but perhaps not until next spring when budgets roll around again. * * * BEHIND ALL THIS lies one fur- ther grave danger-that in the fu- ture tuitions will have to rise again. Although one Regent said Friday such a possibility "does not neces- sarily follow," no one could deny the possibility. The University is committed to continued growth, and at this point, the state is hesitant and not quite capable of meeting the Uni- versity's demands. This difference in purpose and capabilities is' bound to force some more of the interacting strains which caused the present tuition increases. The Legislature (and perhaps the public) refuses to agree that higher education should be sup- ported by taxation and philan- thropy. Until they do, the Univer- sity will be asked to make its stu- dents contribute their "fair share" to the expense. ** * IF THE UNIVERSITY yields again, and it has shown little in- tention of not doing so sometime in the future, it will be moving into a dangerous situation. Further, Increases in instate tuition'will be- minimal, leaving outstaters to probably carry more of the load. If this is done, the University's understanding of its special quali- ties and heterogeneous character will have slipped very badly. BUSINESS COLLEGE: ' U', Stiffens, Standards By ANDREW HAWLEY Daly staff Writer HE NEW undergraduate cur- T riculum program approved Fri- day by the business administration school faculty is a reassuring ele- ment in the fact of the constant criticism leveled at business schools in American institutes of "higher learning," especially in recent months. The new program, which was prepared by the school's curricu- lum committee, is the culmination of two years of study, indepen- dent of, but similar to, two Im- portant and well-known reports published last year, one sponsored by the Ford Foundation, the other by the Carnegie Corpora- tion. The two studies, also indepen- dent of each other, attempted to survey and make an analysis of the state of education for busi- ness in the United States. THE BOOKS, "The Education of American Businessmen," by Frank C. Pierson, profesor of economics at Swarthmore Col- lege; and "Higher Education for Business," by Robert A. Gordon and James E. Howell, arrived at many similar conclusions and had an important impact on business educators, employers, and others who would like to see , constant appraisal and improvement in standards ofdboth business and general education. According to Russell A. Steven- son, dean of the school of busi ness administration, the Univer- sity has for several years had an opportunity to pursue a program which would conform to the recommendations of the two re- ports, using courses in non-busi- ness liberal arts to provide a broad, general educational back- ground. * * "THE UNIVERSITY under- graduate business administration school does not admit students until their junior year," he pointed out, "making it necessary for them to take at least half of their courses outside of our school." But it was possible for them to take "easy" courses or courses which would not contribute to either their intellectual well-be- ing or their capacity for efficient and intelligent business adminis- tration. THESE NEW curriculum re- quirements, . plus the school's policy of admitting students from liberal arts, engineering schools and junior colleges, contribute to keping its standards and reputa- tion near the high level enjoyed by most of the other departments and the University in general. According to Stevenson' esti- mate, our business administration school ranks among the top four in the nation. Constant, .careful self-scrutiny by the department will help it to avoid the stigma attached to so many of the coun- try's business schools, and to con- tinue to improve the quality of our citizens and our business lead- ers. TO Tn pio- To The Editor: MR. HENDEL'S letter of May 18 shows that he lacks an under- standing of Catholics and the Catholic Church. Catholics are ra- tional beings. Granted there are some who blindly follow the dic- tates of their priests, but many Protestants and Jews are guilty of the same failing. Most Catholics are guided by their consciences. The Church itself is not a mono- lith, but a haven for many diverse .points of view. One must not see only obscurantist prelates and be blind to those (the vast majority) of the hierarchy who accept the American tradition on church- state relationships. The Catholic Church is not a menace to this country. A Catholic majority does not sound the death knell of democracy. No, the real danger comes from those who would deny any person, or group, the right to speak out on issues of moment in the light of their own principles. --John H. Wilde, 'G0 To The Editor: IAM pleased that the House Ap- propriations Committee today approved $1.8 million for a cyclo- tron for the University of Michi- gan which had not been budgeted. After this public works appro- priation bill is approved by the House next Thursday and later PHILIP POWER Editorial Director ROBERT JUNKER City Editor JIM BENAGH....................... Sports Editor PETER DAWSON .... ....... 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