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DAY, MAY 24, 1960 NIGHT EDITOR: SUSAN FARRELL
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-t *T t O , By THOMAS TURNER
JNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN students have
been given the opportunity of obtaining a
fine education.
For despite a continuing failure to develop
and articulate long-term goals, the University
remains an outstanding institution of higher
learning. Ma'ny of its constituent parts-fac-
ulty, programs, facilities, are as fine as any in
the country.
From any one point within the University,
the level of achievement in other sectors is
likely to be unappreciated, unless noted by an
outsider. A recent article in a national news-
magazine made me aware for the first time of
the position of leadership the University's
Mental Health Research Center holds, for ex
ample.
Other components of the University - the
School of Music, the College of Engineering,
the Medical School Survey, Survey Research
Center-have few peers.
Faculty members such as Shakespearean
scholar G. B. Harrison, anthropologist Leslie
White and economist William Haber are among
the most distinguished in their respective fields.
OUTSIDE the classroom and laboratory, too,
excellence predominates.
University Press has become one of the finest
in the- nation, its "Ann Arbor Paperbacks"
being particularly impressive.
May Festival, the Concert Series and the
"Messiah"; Speech Department Playbills and
free concerts by the Orchestra and Band;
Cinema Guild, the Creative Arts Festival at
the Union, and the Folklore Society's Diag
sings . . . cultural opportunities so proliferate
on this campus that it is difficult to choose be-
tween them, and most of these represent
quality entertainment.
The Athletic program at Michigan is a credit
to the institution and of benefit to student
participant and student spectator alike.
It, too, is characterized by excellence. In four
years, I have seen good teams in football,
basketball, gymnastics, wrestling, tennis, base-
ball and golf, and great teams in hockey,
swimming and track. These teams have com-
piled their outstanding records against the
best competition in the nation, including many
schools which are far less demanding academi
cally.
Credit is also due the institution in general,
and Athletic Director Fritz Crisler in particular,
for maintaining balance. "Major Sport" cham-
pionships are not won at the expense of low
finishes in three "Minor Sports." A broad
intra-mural program is maintained for those
unwilling or unable to compete in intercol-
legiate sports
Student activities on this campus include a
number-Interfraternity Council, The Daily,
the Union-which are recognized nationally as
leaders. A wide range of others have less access
to national recognition, but are either out-
standing now or hold promise of becoming so:
Gilbert & Sullivan, the Political Issues Club,
the Glee Club, 'and the newly institute Chal-
lenge program, to name a few.
EXCELLENCE is a tradition at Michigan, it
seems clear, but Michigan students are fail-
ing to take advantage of the opportunity for
higher education which lies before them,
This in no way acquits the faculty, adminis-
tratfon and Regents of the charge of failure to
formulate and articulate goals for all to follow.
But the collective failure of the University to
educate its students fully is the sum of a series
of individual failures, one per student. While
the intellectual leadership may not be exem-
plary, the opportunities cited are certainly
present for each to do with as he sees fit.
Many students come here with no objective
other than attaining a degree, move into an
area of concentration with no further obje-
tive than achieving competence in that area,
and graduate with a degree which represents
only achievement of that competence. Such
graduates are often no more capable of intel-
lectual endeavor or ethical assessment than
they were as high school graduates.
FAILURE TO ACHIEVE a genuine education
is a direct result of failure of students to.
realize the significance of their role as stu-
dents. That students are the leaders of tomor-
row is a commonplace; that they owe it to
themselves as well as their communities to
Editorial Staff
THOMAS TURNER, Editor
PHILIP POWER ROBERT JUNKER
Editorial Director City Editor
JIM BENAGH................. .Sports Editor
PETER DAWSON ........ Associate City Editor
CHARLES KOZOLL ........ .. Personnei Director
JOAN KAATZ ...... Magazine Editor
BARTON HUTHWAITE .. Associate Editorial Director
FRED KATZ ............... Associate Sports Editor
DAVE LYON ..............4. Associate Sports Editor
consider every step in their education in
terms of preparation" for leadership ought to
be generally accepted, but is not.
It can scarcely be said that there are no
opportunities for students to exercise leader-
ship. There are tides of change afoot in the
educational community of this country, there
are signs that students on other campuses
have begun to develop a consciousness of their
role as spokesmen for justice and needed
change.
The student sit-in movement (to end dis-
crimination in restaurants, variety store lunch
counters and other quasi-public places) is the
prime example of this consciousness in action.
It is scarcely the only one-student campaigns
for repeal of the National Defense Education
Act loyalty - oath and disclaimer affidavit, for
an end to nuclear testing, for disarmament, for
an end to compulsory ROTC (all essentially
moral issues), have been in the news.
University of Michigan students have partici-
pated in the sit-in movement, and have
played an important part in presenting a
united student front on the issue.
Student Government Council's letters to chain
store executives and to Southern governors
attracted considerable attention, and were
worthwhile as a public statement of principle,
but the picketing of local outlets of chain
stores which discriminate, and of a local dress
shop charged with discrimination, has been a
more substantial contribution. Both actions ex-
pressed opposition to discrimination, and soli-
dariy with Southern Negroes who risk going to
jail and losing their right to education. But
the picketing went further: it demonstrated
continued conviction on the part of the pic-
keters, and drew as participants a number of
students who previously had taken no interest
in campus-wide affairs.
But the letter-writing and the picketing have
caused a reaction on the part of many students
here. These students feel that national issues
such as, chain-store discrimination are not
valid concerns of students on this campus, who
should concentrate on local problems.
THESE PEOPLE suggest that the choice be-
fore the student of today, the choice before
the National Student Association, Student
Government Council, or The Daily, is one .of
either commenting upon everything in the
world-nuclear testing, apartheid, the draft-
or of concerning oneself with. local problems.
This is not the choice.
It has similarly been suggested that the
choice before the student of today is one of
either involving himself in student activities,
or of concentrating on his studies.
This is not the choice.
The choice is one of commitment. A student
may commit himself to developing his intellect
and developing his moral consciousness, in-
forming himself on issues of importance
whether local, national or world-wide, as well
as becoming a master of his chosen vocational
field, all of which is central to his becoming
a useful member of society. Or he can take the
easy way out, eliminating one or more portions
of this obligation . .. perhaps all of it, in which
case he expends the energy necessary to obtain
a degree but no more.
This commitment is an ethical one, it must
be noted, for it involves fulfillment of one's
obligation to oneself, to one's family, to the
University which is paying for three-fourths
of one's education, and ultimately to society,
which is depending upon the current students
to become responsible leaders in the future.
THOSE STUDENTS who show interest in
national and international problems tend
also to be interested in local problems such as
curriculum or housing, since each kind affects
them in their role as citizen student.
Those who object to involvement in non-
campus problems suggest involvement in local
affairs as a-more desirable course of action. In
practice their alternative is often inaction.
Similarly, many of those who talk of aca-
demics as prior commitment to extra-curric-
ular activities are using this argument as a
means of shirking involvement of any sort.
Obviously, a student's time is limited, and
he must choose how to employ it. But this
choice can only be made in terms of activity
which is beneficial and that which is not, never
sacrificing one sort of beneficial activity com-
pletely to another,
Courses must be elected for the most stimu-
lating professor, even if he is the most rigorous
rather than the least.
Activity must be judged according to valueI
of the immediate experience and of the project
itself when completed: busy-work for Chal-
lenge is more of a contribution to the com-
munity than busy-work for Spring Weekend.
WHILE FAILURE of an individual student to
obtain a real education is individual fail-
ure, success of a student who does become
truly educated is more than individual suc-
FOR THE MASS of capped and
gowned humanity who are to
receive degrees, June 11th marks
the termination of an association
with the University and in many
cases, formal education.
The group's four year connec-
tion with both the place and the
process involves a multiplicity of
experiences which are indicative
of the essentially diverse character
of this institution.
The range of activities can vary
from one person spending long
afternoons in the stacks of the
General Library or a group stuff-
ing napkins in a Michigras float.
.On an individualnbasis it can in-
volve one person narrowly ap-
proaching what he believes are
objectives essential to his develop-
ment or one person exploiting all
of the possible sources which will
contribute to his 'growth-,-organi-
zations, other individuals, group
activities.
IN ANY CASE it would seem
advisable for students to be cog-
nizant of three very loose rules of
thumb which can be applied to all
types of situations. Not one of the
three can be cited as the most im-
portant-they are only listed in the
order they are most usually ap-
plied:
1) Know why you are going to
do something before you decide to
do it.
2) Be aware of the best possible
method to go about doing it.
3) Investigate the widest range
of available choices and be willing
to experiment with all of them.
In the realm of structured edu-
cation it is easy to apply these
considerations-or at least it seems
that way. A prospective student
should have determined his rea-
sons for coming to the University
and for what generalized purpose
(s) before he matriculated. During
his stay he hopefully plans out his
courses with some of the same
rules in mind.
* ,* *
,OUTSIDE OF THAT AREA, it is
quite possible that those important
rules will be forgotten.
If a person is naive enough to
believe that his education ends
when he leaves the classroom he
may neglect those rules when it
decides on his type of living situa-
tion. By force of habit he will stay
in the quad or through social pres-
sure he may affiliate. In the long
run he may regret one or the other
selection.
When choosing his friends
and/or acquaintances he could
again be influenced by habit and
fail to recognize the value to be
derived from association with the
diverse human elements in this
University community. If he sticks
with his home town buddies or
adheres to the superficial associa-
tions that may develop in his in-
dependent or affiliate surrounding,
he will waste a singularly valuable
opportunity.
He may never meet an interna-
tional student or talk to a pro-
fessor outside of4 class if he is un-
willing to extend himself out of
the normal range of his com-
petency.
* * *
IF HE IS a "joiner-doer" auto-
maton in activities he may end up
typing out stencils and writing
lists, for no apparent reason. He
may join for prestige or wear his
honorary's pin because it looks
good; but he may never have more
than just given a flippant reason
for participating.
At the end of his experience in
activities, he may have a flash of
regret that his time might have
been better spent.
If he is only aware of his course,
he may be unaware of the vast
number of lectures present each
year. He may never take advan-
tage of this addition to his educa-
tion to be obtained from irregular
attendance at these meetings.
IF A PERSON is too busy or too
dense to stop and consider who he
is and where; he is going and how
he is getting there, he may elimi-
nate one-half or three-quarters of
the benefits he can derive from
this university. If he is too lazy he'
will miss the opportunities which
require a minimal amount of ini-
tiative.
And at the terminus of his four
years he may be aware of his tech-
nical competence but still lack-
ing in the fine toucnes which a
total and well-thought out formal
and informal educational experi-
ence can provide.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA:
Censure: of Students Protested
(EDITOR'S NOTE: The follow-
ing editorial ran May 11 in the
San Francisco Progress, following
the action of the University of Cal-i
fornia Associated Students of the
University of California in picket-
ing the hearings of the House Un-
American Activities Committee at
thV Berkeley City Hail. The stu-
dents haveprotested the tactics of
the Committee, the University's
censure of their protest action and
the police intervention at the dem-
onstration.)
T HE MIGHTY AND world - re-
spected University of Califor-
nia at Berkeley last Thursday fol-
lowed the University of Illinois in
directly repressing the freedom of
speech of undergraduates and fac-
ulty. To us, there is grave danger
to the value of a university educa-
tion in this action.
Surely the president and chan-
cellor of UC must recognize the
great value of a university educa-
tion lies in the critical examina-
tion, discussion and expression of
ideas-both of the past and today.
It is all very nice sitting around
discussing Plato, but students also
want, and need, to think creatively
of present day events. Students
live in the world too.
Certainly the student governing
body has a job to do examining
campus affairs. But if the out-
standing students on campus are
to be confined to discussing the
theme for college dances or picket-
ing fraternity rushing dates, in-
stead of furnishing student lead-
ership in a serious discussion of
issues facing all citizens, there
seems to be little purpose in at-
tempting to make state univer-
sities"anything more than trade
schools, which some of them-not
Berkeley-already are.
The 'assertion that ASUC opin-
ion will be, misunderstood as repre-
senting all-unniversity judgment
is -hogwash-the perennial cry of
college administrators who dis-
agree with what their students are
advocating. To say this is to say
that the House of Representatives
should be restricted from speaking
on foreign affairs, because other
countries might think all Ameri-
cans feel the way the House feels,.
(It is the Senate that is charged
with responsibility for our foreign
relations, -but the House certainly
has freedom to speak out.)
Unfortunately what really mo-
tivates Chancellor Seaborg and
President Kerr is the same thing
that affects the president of Illi-
nois and many other American
colleges: a desire for good public
relations.
The college administrator should
be a'man who defends the absolute
right of his students to freely dis-
cuss and criticize any idea or issue
they wish. Instead, many presi-
dents have become glorified press
agents whose sole concern is sell-
ing their college and influencing a
favorable public reaction to it.
It is very sweet that Cal officials
are concerned with how the public
feels about their school. But if stu-
dents are to be limited in their
views by what the president feels
the public will accept that day,
heaven help our democracy. Uni-
versities breed minority opinion,
and the worthiest minority views,
fortunately, become majority views
in time. A democracy cannot exist
without strong minority thought.
-San Francisco Progress
LETTERS:
Supports
Pickets
To The Editor:
LAST MONDAY'S Daily Cali-
fornian, the University of Cali-
fornia student newspaper, con-
tained several articles regarding
the summary treatment of stu-
dents demonstrating before the
House Un - American Activities
Committee hearing, held at the
San Francisco Court House. In ex-
change for the favorable publicity
given Ann Arbor picketers, a Uni-
versity of California instructor
expressed dissatisfaction with fail-
ure of our Daily to editorialize on
the subject.
Although I think the riot which
resulted deserved better than page
three coverage, I agree that the
demonstration in San Francisco
did not merit supporting editorial
comment.
* * *
IN A LETTER containing an
eye witness account of the "brutal
physical treatment" accorded the
demonstrators, the instructor en-
dorsed expression of student opin-
ion on civil rights and politics. He
fails to distinguish between the
passive economic resistance of
Southern Negro -students (and
sympathetic Ann Arborites) and
the more violent form of expres-
sion taken by the California stu-
dents. These students, being re-
fused admittance to the hearing
chambers (allegedly in a dis-
criminatory manner), began
chanting, singing and eventually
battling with police in the court
house corridors.
Did these demonstrators think
that by upsetting the business of
a city's court house they could
achieve the status and recognition
of their Southern counterparts? A
lesson in ways and means should
first have been learned from the
groups these Californians tried so
hard to emmulate.
job of holding together the var-
ious themes and complex human
relationships falls. In so far as
she fails, the play fails..
" TO SAY THAT her role was
played mechanically is not fair,
but, although competent, she was
not consistently a fully developed
character.
The husband, Charles Hohman,
turned in a good performance as
the brash, animally vital man who
wants to give his family the only
thing he thinks he can-money.
Under his wife's harassment to,
give up his travelling job he walks,
out on the family.
It is while he is away that the
wife, and through her, the rest of
the family, try to answer the
question, "How does anyone know
what's wrong with anyone else?"
The answer of William Inge is:
forget about yourself first.
* * *
AS THE "sissy" son, Phillip Fox
was convincing whether sulking
or throwing temper tantrums. The
daughter, Jada Rowland, gave a
highly sensitive performance par-
ticularly in the third act when
she realizes that her own selfish-
ness has helped to destroy a lonely
Jewish boy (Henry Garrard).
The theme of prejudice that
runs. through the play, although
it contributes to events which
force the Flood family to see it-
self, distracts a bit from the main
current of the drama. Garrard as
Sammy Goldenbaum overempha-.
sizes the more obvious problems,
of an unwanted child, but it is a
difficult part to play, since the
boy appears so briefly and so
much of the following action de-
pends upon an understanding of'
his feelings.
* *, *
LOTTIE, CAROLYN OLSON,
gave a tour-de-force portrayal as
Cora's sentimentally hypocritical,
envious sister who, is a frustrated
wife. Her husband (Stephen El-
liott) conveyed with nuance his,
full loneliness and unhappiness.
"The Dark at the Top of the
Stairs" is not so simple A play as
it appears on the surface. Twin-
ing all of its threads into a con-
vincing whole is difficult. The
Drama Season cast performed this
task with vigor, humor, and com-
petence, but sometimes without
all its necessary warmth.
-Jo Hardee
MAHLER
Idealily
Recorded
Mailer: Symphony Number 4
in G Major. Paul Kletzki con-
ducting the Philharmonia . Or-
chestra; Emmy Loose, soprano.
IN THE SYMPHONIC output of
Gustav Mahler, the'fourth in G
major occupies a unique position.
Like the fourth 'of Beethoven, it
is a moment of quiet between two
storms. Shortest of all the sym-
phonies after the first, it is by far.
the gentlest of them all.
It is a remarkable, long and
peaceful, calm and sensuous
dream. A dream of heaven and
welcome death if one reads the
jacket notes (don't, by the way;
they're worse than usual) or is
familiar with Mahler's predilec-
tions. But this is beside the -point.
What matters is that the musical
effects are subdued dynamically
and rhythmically. They are also
subtle, intricate and orchestrated
with superb delicacy.
* * *
A NEARLY IDEAL performance
of this work has been recorded by
Paul Kletzki and the Philharmonia
Orchestra for Angel Records. Noth-
ing is overstated, but everything
is there. The tempi are relaxed,
but one is never let down. The re-
curring pizzicati in the second
movement are extraordinarily res-
onant.
The third movement is perhaps
the longest sustained adagio on
records. The continuity of tone
and mood, the elegance of the
phrasing, the blending of melodic
lines are exemplary. The climax
of the movement, which is the
high point of the entire work -
featuring the statement in the
tympani of. a motive first an-
nounced almost inaudibly at the
very beginning of the movement
and hinted at thereafter - is a
stunning example of relaxed ex-
citement.
The clear light soprano of Emmy
Loose in the last movement is ap-
posite to the prevailing mood. One
could not ask for more.
--J. Philip Benkard
PERHAPS life's simplest lesson is that people need one another. It
appears the hardest to learn. William Inge's "The Dark at the Top
of the Stairs" teaches that lesson to an Oklahoma family and, per-
haps, to its audience.
The chief problem 'of the play is its many themes which border on
the contrived from time to time, but are all interrelated finally to bear
on the central point. Theme juggling was aided by actors who gen-
erally were deft in interpretation and timing.
Kim Hunter as Cora Flood, the over protective mother, was the
most disappointing of the cast. From an actress of her caliber one
would expect that special quality that breathes life into a fine por-
trayal, but it was somehow missing. It is on Miss- Hunter that the
'Jo lant he' Beautifully
Sung, Orchestrated,
Gilbert and Sullivan: "Iolan-
the." George Baker, baritone;
Elsie Morison, soprano; Monica
Sinclair, contralto; John Cam-
eron, baritone; Marjorie Thom-
as, contralto; Owen Brannigan,
bass; Sir Malcolm Sargent con-
ducting the Pro Arte Orchestra
and the Glyndebourne Festival
Chorus. Angel Records (S) 3597
B/L.
"jOLANTHE" IS Angel's newest
Gilbert and Sullivan recording.
Like its predecessors, "Pinafore,"
"Gondoliers," "Mikado," and "Yeo-
men of the Guard," this recording
combines Sir Malcolm Sargent as
conductor, the Pro Arte Orchestra,
The Glyndebourne Festival Cho-
rus, and some of the finest of to-
day's British singers.
Phyllis is sung by Elsie Morison
who sings among other roles at
Covent Garden Lucia. The Stre-
phon is John Cameron who sings
the title role in Angel's "Elijah."
Monica Sinclair (The Queen of
the Faries) is one of the all-time
ra otalo. so rih and denr
a thrilling rendition. From open-
ing drum roll and trumpet call to
final chorus note (which Sir Mal-
colm has the Peers hold for twice
the time specified in the score, but
oh well, they sound so. good) this
chorus is a memorable experience.
Owen Brannigan makes Private
Willis' song "When All Night
Long" a perfect union of his rich
bass voice and Gilbert's wry hu-
mor. Mr. Brannigan brings a real
Handeian flair to this music.
Iolanthe's song of pleading with
the Lord Chancellor is sung in a
truly moving fashion by Majorie
Thomas.
* * *
BUT DESPITE the other good
things about this recording, in ad-
dition to the ones mentioned above,
this album cannot be given an
unqualified rave because of the
heavy, leaden tempos that Sir Mal-
colm inflicts on some of the num-
bers, such as the entry of the cho-
rus in the second act and the
grand finale, which Sir Malcolm.
leads as if it were marked allegro
moderato instead of allegro vivace.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1960
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women. Infants' equipment and cloth-
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Families needing the above items.
Memorial Day, Mon., May 30 will be
a recognized Holiday of The University
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will be paid for Memodial Day at their
normal rate of pay if they have worked
the last scheduled work day prior to
and immediately following Memorial