The Big Count-Down Seventieth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHTGAN , -- ; hen Opinions Are Fres UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Truth Will Prevail' E STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. " ANN ARBOR, Mics. * 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. TRUMAN'S OPINION: Indecisiveness Hurts Stevenson's Career NEW YORK MP)-Former President Harry S. Truman says he cluded in 1956 that Adlai E. Stevenson would be "ineffectual presi'dent" because of indecisiveness. Truman, writing in Look magazine, said he also felt Stev( was "uncertain of himself and remote from the people." Stevenson, he said further, brought about a period of "conk drift and factionalism" in the Democratic Party by not exerc party leadership after his 1952 defeat by Dwight D. Eisenhower. He also said Stevenson's 1952 campaign was not conducted oz Democratic administration record and cost the party three of , MAY 24, 1960 NIGHT EDITOR: FAITH, WEINSTEIN WITH THE NEWS .. . By ROBERT JUNKER HE UNIVERSITY has changed a lot in four years, especially the student body. The great school itself has made a few sur- face changes-the honors program was insti- tuted, a vice-president for research was added, the Institute for Science and Technology was founded. But the school itself has lost none of the impersonality which comes with size. And one suspects, but cannot really prove, that the quality of the faculty has gone down. SGC FOR THE FIRST TIME in four years has a conservative bloc. In years past there has been a minority core-two or three or four --who have stood for the conservative line. They have been affiliates. This year the con- servative bloc numbers at least six, with three other votes usually on its side. It has equal force with the liberals on the Council. It is made up of both affiliates and independents. The Council now has personnel less qualified for student government than four years ago, perhaps, but by its increasing conservative na- ture it is more representative of campus opin- ion. The liberals of the post-war era are no more. This is not the era of the Fair Deal; it Is the era of Eisenhower conservatism. And this viewpoint is increasingly noticeable at the University. A few students picket for Negro equality-a very few. More students wit1 conservative ideas show up oh SGC, on The Daily, formerly the bastion of the liberal stu- dent. The conservative student body tends to equate conservatism' with doing nothing. They don't even bother to vote.' Thus the trend toward conservatism which can be seen on SGC Is not a conscious effort on the part of the student body to elect a representative council., The fact that the campus doesn't care does not contradict, in fact helps to support, the trend to conservatism. When members of this student group are put on the Council, however, they areexpected to take action. Conservative legislation then takes the form of carefully considered action as opposed to abortive attempts to rush into Implementation of exalted liberal ideals. With the conservatives nearing control of SOC for the first time in four years, the Council will perhaps gain new strength and a new vigor. The conservatives, it is hoped, will begin to spend more time with the problems which concern the students as a whole, and less with the most esoteric theory of the past. What the student body needs is leadership, representative leadership, and it is nearing that goal. A moderate approach to anti-discrimination has just been accepted-the Haber-Miller plan. The time limit on bias clauses which passed the students government but was vetoed by Presidents Ruthven and Hatcher back in 1949 and 1951 has been discarded in favor of a more equitable plan. SGC has definite ground to cover in its relations with the student body; if it can con- vince students that it is actively representing them, or a majority of them, it may solve the problem. SGC has service projcts to launch-parking structures for student cars, improved living conditions in residence halls. SGC has to make the student voice heard on the critical issues of the University-the iri-state, out-state en-' rollment ratio, admission criterion, curriculum. Most of all, SGC has a student creed to formulate, a tone to set. It has to lead in showing spirit and pride in the University. It has to be able to present a student viewpoint on University problems, a representative stu-1 dent viewpoint. It has to help clear out the anachronistic rules which occasionally oppressj the student. A conservative, representativeI council can do all these and much more-for the benefit of the University. CAMPUS TRADITION is valuable; it is the great force which binds all the University community, presentand past, together. It cre- ates a personality for something which is high- ly impersonal. Nothing else but the lore of the University serves to tie its highly fragmented units together. Its history, its alumni, the Editorial Staff THOMAS TURNER, Editor PHILIP POWERROBERT JUNKER j Editorial, Director City Editor JIM BENAGH. ................Sports EditorT PETER DAWSON ........Associate City Editor CHARLES KOZOLL............ eersonnel Director JOAN KAATZ Magazine Editor BARTON HUTHWAITE . Associate Editorial Director FRED KATZ.............. Associate Sports Editor DAVE LYON .. . . ..... Associate Sports Editor JO HA'RDERE............... Contributing Editor color and glory of the past-these all stu- dents have in common. While many of the older traditions still remain, most of the new ones are dying while barely out of the womb. The panty raid seemss to be a thing of the past. Food riots have lost their spirit. The great impersonal administra- tion frowns on such things, perhaps with good reason. One of SGC's implied responsibilities is to retain tradition and develop a student nation- alism within the University. It is necessary for 'the University, through its student government which articulates student beliefs and is the official uniting force of the student body, to retain and develop the informal tie, the Uni- versity's body of myth. Some of the old traditions, like J-Hop, have recently died. But some of the tradiiton of the past has managed to stay around, still popular, and waiting for the day lvhen the University again develops a new nationalism. The Glee Club still wins ovations for the old songs. The Pretzel Bell is still the home of the collegiate beer drinker. Students can still get aroused at foot- ball games. The greatest tradition of the past-the hon- orary-is still strong. Michigamua is proud of its tradition and still numbers among its members the most active, interested and quali- fled men on campus. That its spririt-and its value-should span the fifty years since its founding should be a sign of encouragement to those who claim the University isn't what it used to be. Michigamua's final value is in its uniting force-bringing student activities lead- ers and athletes, engineers and literary college students together to discuss the problems of the University and their part in solving, them. Few other groups do this. MANY OF THE preconceived stereotypes of University life are broken in four years. Students find the supposed dumb athlete is pretty smart at the University. The athletes which represent the University across the coun- try create a good image-they are basically intelligent young men. They work harder than the average student, for they must make grades at an admittedly stiff school and spend long hours of training, playing and traveling to their sports events. An athlete at Michigan is a man to be admired-a statement which can be made at few other schools. A word of praise can be given, not only to the athletes theiiselves, but to their chief, H. O. "Fritz" Crisler. Michigan athletes are by reputation efficiently run and'"clean." The official concern extends to the individual ath- lete's scholastic career as well as his academic career. Athletes can miss practices here to study-this situation is not common in the college athletic powerhouses of today. THIS LAST YEAR has been an unusual one indeed. For the first time in recent years, the Interfraternity Council had a president who was moderate in his views and showed an interest in the campus as a whole rather than in the fraternities exclusively. Jim Martens earned lots of good will for his organization, and IFC has needed that for some years. In addition, he made the fraternities faces their own problems and start to solve them-the bias clauses, hazing. THE UNIVERSITY is fortunate in possessing a strong affiliate system. These housing units provide homogeneous groups with which the student can identify, as he cannot with the residence halls as presently constituted. They provide active social programs. And they bear more than their share of the responsi- bility for maintaining student activities. It 9s primarily thanks to affiliates that the major student organizations have remained in existence. Whether their participation in these organizations is from pressure, desire to win prestige for their own houses or whatever, it remains that the affiliates have a far higher percentage of participation in student activities than the more numerous independents. They take their responsibility as members of the University community more seriously. ANOTHER INTERESTING phenomenon of the past year has been the opening of the Dearborn Center. Philosophically a mistake, since a trade school has no place being associ- ated with this University, its expensive first year of operation served only a handful of students. One would hope, to save University. face, that this institution garners more stu- dents next year than it has classrooms-or else the whole thing should be chalked up to failure. OUR YEARS at Michigan are bound to leave some impressions. M list of interest- ing, unusual and entertaining people includes Hope they get it over with before I start studying for finals -Daily-James Richman SOVIET 'TIME BOMB': Crisis Faces Next President -1V By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER Associate Press News Analyst XASHINGTON-Premier Nikita - Khrushchev neatly planted a Soviet time bomb last week under the inauguration of the next United States President. It threatens to explode a new summit crisis next January in the midst of political confusion ac- companying a change of adminis- trations in Washington. , At that time Khrushchev must be expected to make a determined effort to force the United States, Britain and France to withdraw from Berlin. In the meanwhile, with the future challenge already clearly shaped, he must be expected to try to divide the Allies. THE EVIDENT lines of Soviet strategy indicate that President, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Sec-.. retary of State Christian A. Her- ter, during their remaining months in office, must strive to strengthen already damaged Allied ties and to cushion the shocks always in- volveed in changing government. They do not, however, have to worry any more about making any substantial start on East - West peace negotiations themselves. Their hopes in this respect are buried under the debris of the Paris fiasco. The disarmament negotiations and nuclear test talks at Geneva may go one-no one can yet say- but in the hostile post-summit atmosphere there are no real hopes for any important agree- ment. Diplomats foresee an increasing pressure on Eisenhower from the defense department and Atomic Energy Commission to order a resumption of underground nu- clear weapons tests. Such talk is already beginning to be heard here. Advocates of new tests argue that -in the absence of a United States - Soviet-British agreement, the Soviets may secretly start up testing again. The results of last week's disas- trous diplomacy in Paris are only slowly becoming apparent. The causes will be debated for years. No one at present, except possibly Khrushchev himself, can speak with much real authority on what happened. Khrushchev dominated the situation throughout but pre- cisely why he handled it as he did is still a matter more speculative than factual. * * s AMONG WESTERN leaders at Paris, including British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan and French President Charles de Gaulle, the consensus was that Khrushchev did not have to de- stroy ths summit meeting over the issue of spy flights. They con- cluded rather that he deliberately chose to wreck the conference by breaking violently with Eisenhower over the issue. If Khrushchev hurt himself in the process-and many Western dpilomats believe he did-it was because he overplayed his role. British and French experts made Many Western European au- thorfties felt Eisenhower put Khrushchev in an impossible posi- tion by taking public responsibility for what under international law and tradition was a violation of Soviet territory. They felt Khru- shchev had to make a row, but not as big a row as he produced. IF THE U-2 incident and the Eisenhower-Herter handling of it did not constitute the real cause of the summit breakdown, what did? There are several answers to this; probably none of them is completely true but all have some truth. The nost important is that Khrushchev could see weeks in advance he faced failure at the summit conference. It seems likely that Eisenhower and Herter have consistently un- derestimated the importance which Khrushchev attaches to breaking down the Western posi- tion in Berlin. The West talked instead of summit progress on disarmament and a nuclear weapons test ban. But Khrushchev. was more inter- ested in beating the West down on Berlin. When he realized he could not do so the summit con- werence became, for him, a poten- tial liability. ANOTHER FORCE behind Khrusheshev's summit strategy is the opposition of the Red Chinese leadership, under Mao Tse-Tung, to Khrushchev's long campaign to establish more friendly relations with the United States. Related to this is the virutal certainty that powerful elemens within the Soviet ruling group dis- approve of Khrushchev's peace- ful coevistence line toward the West and prefer a more belligerent attitude. A summit failure for him on German issues would have given these opponents in Red China and in' the Kremlin argu- ments to use against Khrushchev in the future. Another element little noted by the diplomats but seized upon by military observers is this: The U-2 spy plane the Russians said they shot down was reported by the Russians themselves to have pene- trated about 1,300 miles inside Russia. This showed up Soviet defenses as being weaker than they were reputed to be. Khrushchev quite possibly felt- or his military chiefs told him-- that a ruthless diplomatic strategy was needed to restore the pres- tige Russia lost by the disclosure. AFTER HIS PARIS performance Khrushchev flew off to Berlin, where he appeared subdued and tired. There he announced he would wait six or eight months for a new summitrconference and that his demands on Berlin and his oft-threatened East German peace treaty would have to wait also. He served notice in effect that he would iname the Berlin situa- tion again late this year or early next. To deal with the problem, he put a new summit conference on the agenda for the future. He seemed quite satisfied to have the whole U-2 incident shoved into the United Nations where his representatives can use it to try to keep the United States on the defensive. Thus Khrushchev planted his time bomb under the new ad- ministration in Washington; months before it is even chosen. million votes. In 1956 Truman supported the then Gov. Averell Harriman of New York for the, Democratic Presidential nomina- tton. He has come out this year for Sen. Stuart Symington of Mis. souri. * STEVENSON, the party's nomi- nee in both 1952 and 1956, has said he is not a candidate for the nomination this year bt has left the door open to acceptance if it is offered. Truman told of a conversation he had with Stevenson in July, 1956, in the Hotel Blackstone in Chicago. "As we talked about some of the major domestic issues," Tru- man wrote, "Stevenson's only com- ment to me was, 'what is it I am doing wrong?' "I walked over to the window. Looking down, I saw a man stand-. ing at the entrance. I beckoned to Stevenson and then, pointing down, said, 'the thing you have 'got to do is to learn how to reach than man.' "I WAS TRYING, as gently as I could, to tell this man-so gifted in speech and intellect, and yet apparently so uncertain of him- self and remote from people-that he had to learn how to communi- cate with the man in the street. "When we parted that day, I felt that 'I had failed in my effort to help him. I realized more than ever that Stevenson not only had a problem in making himself un- derstood by the man in the street, but that his indecisiveness, unless overcome, would make him Inef- fectual as a President." Truman said that in 1952, when he decided not to seek reelection, he felt that "Stevenson was the best prospect in sight . . . and I was hoping he would supply the new leadership the party needed." HE INDICATED that it was that year he first encountered what he called indecisiveness by Stevenson, then governor of Illi- nois. He wrote that he urged Steven- son three times to become the candidate, but that Stevenson de- clined each time. "Then, out of the clear, on the day the Presidential candidate was to be chosen," Truman wrote, "Gov. Sevenson telephoned me at the White House; he said that his friends wanted to nominate him for President. "'Would you object if I agreed to run?'" Stevenson asked me. "Well, I blew up. I talked to him in a language I think he had never heard before. I told him that for months I had been try- Ing to get him to be a candidate. Now, at the last possible moment, he had changed his mind. But he was still the best prospect we had, and I said I would support him." ** * "THE STEVENSON went out and conducted a campaign that was not in support of the Demo- cratic program of President Frank- lin D. Roosevelt and myself," Tru- man wrote. "You cannot success- fully run as a -Democrat, with a Democratic administration in power, without "running on the record of that administration --* "The swaythe campaign was conducted cost the party at least three to four million votes." DAILY OFFICIAL (ULLETIN (Continued from page 2). meeting of the Regents will be held on June 10. Communications for consider- ation at this meeting must be -in th11 President's hands not later than Tues., May 31. Please submit nineteen copies of' each communication. All faculty, students and staff mem- bers leaving the University at the end of the present semester, and having University keys in their' posession, should return the same to the ke. office. Key office is now located on campus between waterman Gym and West Medical. General Library hours will be ex- tended until 10 p.m. on Fri., May 2 Hours in the Undergraduate Library will be increased on Sat., May 28, when the library will remin open until midnight. The Educationand En- gineering Libraries will be open from 8 a.m. to 12 midnight o Sat., May 28. Beginning Thurs., May 26, the Audio Room in the Undergraduate Library will be open from 9 a.m. to 12 noon, and from 1 to 10 p.m. through Thurs., June 2, except for Sun., May 29, when hours, are 1 to 10 p.m. On Memorial Day, Mon., May 30, all libraries will maintain regular hours, except'the ;Bureau of ,Government Li- brary, and the Museums Library, which will be closed. Students who expect to rece1ve Edu- cation and Training Alloane under Publie- Law 550 and 8634 must turn lin DEAN'S MONTHLY CERTIFICATION for final examinations, signed by 'the instructors after each final,, to the Dean's Office after the last exam. This is official notice. Students eligible to receive Eduation and Training Allowance under Public Law 550 or 634 must sign. MONTHLY CERTIFICATION for May, V& Form VB 7-6533, (IBM card), in the. Office of Veterans' Affairs, 142 Ad. Building, before 3:30 p.m:, June 6. Students may sign MONTHLY CERTIFICATION for June as soon as finals are completed. Office Hours During Certification 8:00-11:00 a.m. 1:00- 3:30 p.m. Branstrom Freshman Prize Books may be picked up at room 3011, StudetA-' tivities Building. Winners must show Identification cards at Scholarship Of- June Graduates who did not pick up their announcements orders please d so Wed., May 25, 2-5 p.m. at SAB. Applications for Fubright awards for graduate study during the 1961-2 a *ademic year are now available. Coun.. Itries in whiche study grants are 6f- fered are Australia, Austria,. 'Belgium, and Luxembourg, Brazil, Chile, Repub- lic of China, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, India, Iran, Italy, Jap- pan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nor- way, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Spain, Sweden, Turkey. Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Repub- lic. Awards for study in Ireland are also available. The scholarships over travel, tuition, books and maintenance for one year. Scholarships for study in Latin America under the INERA-AM- ERICAN CULTURAL CONVENTION are available, for the following countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, 'Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela. IAAC scholarship. cover transportation, tuition and par- tial to full maintenance. Interested students who are U S. eiti- zens and hold an A.B. degree, or Who" will receive such a degree by June, 1961, and who are presently enrolled in the University, should request application forms for a Fulbright award at the Fe- lowship office, Room 110, in the Gradu- ate School. The closing date for re- ceipt of applications is Oct. 24, 1960. Persons not enrolled in a college or university in the spring or fall of 190 should direct inquiries and request for applications to the Institute of In- ternational Education, U.S. Student Program, I East 67th Street, New 'York. 21, New York. The last date on which applications will be issued by the Insti- tute is Oct. 15, 1960. The office and mimeographing roms of Alpha Phi Omega will close untilthe fall semester, on Wed., May 2. PLANS FOR COMMENCEMENT Commencement-Sat. June 11, 5:30 p.m. WEATHER PAIR TIME OF ASSEMBLY-4:30 (excep' noted) PLACES OF ASSEMBLY: Members of the Faculties at 4:15 p.m. In the Lobby, first floor, Ad 'Building, where they may robe. (Transportation to Stadium or Hill Aud will be prov- vided.) Regents, Ex-Regents, Deans and 4th- er administrative officials at 4:15 p.m. in Ad Building, Room 2549, where they may, robe (Transportaton totadium ? or Hill Anu will be provided.) Students of the various Schools and Colleges on paved roadway and grassy field, East of East Gate (Gate 1-Tun- nel) to Stadium in four columns of twos in the following order: Section A - North side of pavement: Literature, Science ad The Arts (in front), Social Work (behind I .&. Section B - South side of pavement Medicine (in front), Law (behind Med- icine), Dental (behind Law), Engineer- ing (behind Dental). Section C - On grass field In a line about 300 South of East: Graduate School Doctors (in front), Graduate School Masters (behind Drs.); Phar- macy (behind Masters), Architecture behind Pharmacy), Education. (behind Architecture). Section D - On grass field in a line about 450 South of East: Nursing (in front) Business Administration (be- hind Nurs.), Natural Resources (be- hind Bus. Admin.), Music (behind Na- tural Resources), Public Health (be-, hind Music), Flint (behind Pubglic .. . He Wasn't There Again Today. Oh, How I Wish He'd Go Away!" I 9 r "5;l 5 s.r.x :r .. r .v.'i, ~ - -- I