Seventieth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 Mhen Opinions Are Free Truth Will Prevai" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. AY. OCTOBER 24. 1959 NIGHT EDITOR: THOMAS HAYDEN University Suffers from Red Tape, Lack of Information 'HE UNIVERSITY of Michigan is bound up in endless miles of unnecessary red tape ad lack of knowledge. Any student who wants to process an a'ppli- tion to attend another school, ask a question ' even see a counselor frequently has to go Trough many different channels before he rally gets the information he is looking for. secretary in one office sends hn to another ae, and from there he is quite likely to be sent a a third. Even for the simple matter of having school seal affixed to a document, one stu- nt had to go to three different offices before cating the correct one. Today, students waste valuable time knocking 4 office doors, behind which usually lie no irther solution to his problem or clear answer his question. NE OF THE causes of this unnecessary dis- organization is that secretaries lack the -oper information themselves, or the simple towledge as to where to go to find it. If and hen the student finally arrives at the right ace, the people there either don't know what e is talking about,'or they give him conflicting nswers. One student interested in an honors course ent:to inquire about it and was sent from one partmental secretary to another. Finally she arned that such a course wasn't being offered. few days later the chairman of the depart- Hothouse? I AYBE IT'S a good thing the University nurses its students as though they're hot- )use flowers. But must its educational policy consistent to the point where classrooms are aintained at hothouse temperatures? Stu- nts might be able to learn by themselves if esh air kept them awake in classes. -NAN MARKEL Teaching "AN A MACHINE teach? This variation on an old rhetorical question quired new significance recently with the :monstration of automation's newest fruit, the eaching machine." The "Tutor" simultaneously grades a stu- et's work, times his performance and ad- nces him at a rate determined by his demon- rated ability to absorb the information pre- nted." The term "student" and "teacher," examined the light of this magical device, take on ought-provoking connotations - particularly consideration of the operative phrase, "ab- rb the information." rIS QUESTIONABLE to what extent the teacher's role should be; merely to present formation, or the student's to absorb it. The striction inherent in this definition of a acher's function imposes a limitation on the nge of values which instruction can offer the udtn. The quality in a teacher that inspires stu- nts to sign up for any course he teaches for .e sheer educational experience he provides is most Indefiniable. It's hard to imagine one edi advising another to "get Tutor EM-704- ment asked her why she wasn't enrolled in the very course she was told didn't exist. Counselors, upon whom students depend for guidance in planning their programs, lack adequate knowledge about course sequences and majoring requirements. This is especially true in the case of those who counsel undergradu- ates who have not yet begun their field of con- centration. IN MOST FIELDS there are prerequisite courses that one must complete before one can begin concentration. It is important, there- fore, that one learn about these requirements as a freshman and sophomore. But the coun- selors for these students simply don't know enough to adequately advice them. How many hours of language do I need? Is one year of physics necessary for majoring in chemistry? Do you advise that I take two semesters or more of English? Questions such as these have been placed before counselors only to receive no results. Even questions about filling out summer school forms couldn't be answered by some counselors. PERHAPS it would be advisable to assign a freshman a counselor in his field or in a related field of the one in which he is inter- ested. The entire problem of counseling is pres- ently under study-and it needs it. Possibly a fairly complete and accurate direc- tory could be published, listing the offices and services of the University. This would also mean less work for secretaries and members of the faculty, and would provide for more effi- cient administrative services in the University. It is true that for a university of this size there are numerous offices and countless pieces of information with many people in positions to know, but excessive disorganization and lack of information is unnecessary. The size of'the University provides a more urgent reason why some attempt should be made to provide better facilities. -DON14A MOTEL Vachines? praised the Tutor for "making possible inter- action between a teaching machine and the. trainee; that is, to completely adapt itself to the student's pace." THE DISTINCTION between interaction through adaptation and interaction through communication, however, is of grave impor- tance. The intellectual stimulation transferred between a good teacher and good students is inconceivable in the case of. mechanical in- struction-one cannot use the word education in such a mechanical case. The informational material covered in any given course only provides a convenient area for provocative communication between teach- ers and students; mechanized instruction could only serve to reduce instances of the inter- action of minds which is necessary to educa- tional experience. Finally, the manufacturer declared that the Tutor is not designed nor intended to fill the shoes of the creative teacher, but will "free the teacher for his real creative role." Where is this role to be enacted if not through the instructor's presentation of mater- ial on a subject which interests him vitally to a responsive student audience? AT THE MICHIGAN Day, Hudson Sparkle Through 'Pillow Talk' "PILLOW TALK" is good weekend entertainment. It is also good week- day entertainment. In fact. it is good entertainment any time. One of those refreshing movies which comes along occasionally in this day of the "problem film," "Talk" offers no message, but it does offer brightness, color, and an extra effervescent quality provided largely by Doris Day, Our Heroine. Rock Hudson, Our Hero, does a reasonably competent job of frus- trating Our Heroine and shows a surprisingly deft touch for comedy in a number of scenes. The plot will tax only the simplest of minds: Doris Day, as a bright young career woman, shares a party line with Rock Hudson, bachelor- about-town and (surprisingly) affluent songwriter. The trouble -and the movie - begins when Miss Day tries to put through a few business calls, only to be thwarted by a succession of Hudson's girlfriends who monopolize the phone day and night. After complaining to her party-line sharer, Miss Day turns to the telephone company with her complaints. Unfortunately, she is soon left to solve the problem herself. THE PLOT has been running fairly smoothly up till now, and the audience has a pretty good idea that Hudson and Day will triumph over the inefficiencies of the Telephone Company eventually, but there has to be an additional little stumbling-block along the way. His name hap- . pens to be Tony Randall, who turns in a marvelous portrayal of "a member of a minority group - millionaires." Miss Day, who has won his heart with her clever decorating schemes, will have none of him because she is waiting for Mr- Right. Little does she know that Mr. Right is a friend of Randall's and is shar- ing her party line at this very moment! Summing up: take advantage of a game-less afternoon today and see a happy movie. --..----~------- .. .e Selma Sawaya WORLD GOVERNMENT REALITY: UN Celebrates 1t nnvray Tdy I By MARC 'PILISUK Daily Staff Writer AMONG THE most scholarly manuscripts ever -prepared are the charters for an effective world government which have been drawn up by specialists in inter- national law. Several of these documents are true masterpieces, combining cre- ative genius with legal precision and accurate knowledge. In their final form they stand as tributes to human intelligence and as blueprints for the day when all men will live in one united world. Where are these brilliant char- ters? They lie buried in the pages of low-circulation texts with such prefacing remarks as "Dedicated to future generations." Their little reknowned authors look on sadly as modern nations court disaster by flirting with "brink of war" diplomacy. But mankind does not seem ready for their counsel. In fact, one well known pressure group in our country chose as its annual slogan, "World government means world Communism." They did this, without bothering to notice that the documents they de- nounced aimed at offering the en- tire world those same principles of federation and democracy that the founding fathers gave to the United States. * * * IN AN EFFORT to bring these glittering scraps of paper to life thousands and perhaps millions of persons have joined, the cause of the world federalists. They have received resolutions of ap- proval from a number of United States state legislatures and from many international leaders, in- cluding the President. But world government has always lacked the margin of support necessary to come into being. The documents are still museum masterpieces. But documents are not deeds. TheI present United Nations was not constructed as a world gov- ernment. It was built with realis- tic recognition of the power strug- gles between nations. In its de- sign ;to "save future generations .. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: 'Utopia in Residence Halls' Described, The president of the manufacturing firm INTERPRETING THE NEWS:. -JEAN SPENCER To the Editor: FOR THOSE students who are looking for Utopia, U.S.A., you can find it right here in our fair city of Ann Arbor; in fact, right on our own campus. Of course, it goes under the name of Jordan Hall, but nevertheless it should be called Utopia. I can't under- stand why so many women try every year to melt Miss Bacon's heart with reasons for leaving the dormitory system. After all, rents haven't been raised that high. And just think, for the extra money you're paying they have 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 Administration Build- ing, before 2 p.m. the day preceding publication. Notices for Sunday Daily due at 2:00 p.m. Friday. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1959 VOL. LXX, NO. 29 Concerts The Boston Symphony Orchestra will be heard in two concerts this weekend -Sat., Oct. 24, at 8:30 (second concert in the Choral Union Series); and on Sun., Oct. 25, at 2:30 (first concert in the Extra Series), in Hill Aud. The Saturday evening program: Brandeno- burg Concerto No. 6 (Bach); "Schelo- mo" for cello and orchestra (Bloch) with Samuel Mayes, soloist; and the Brahms Symphony No. 2. The Sunday evening program: Mozart Symphony No. 38 in D major (Prague); Party Scene and Finale from "The Tender Land" (Copland) and the Beethoven Symphony No. 5. Lectures Lecture: Llewelyn Williams, Econom- ic Botanist will speak on "Forests of the Amazon Valley and its Natural Re- sources" on Mon., Oct. 26eat 4:15 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheater. Engineering Mechanics S e mi n a r, Mon., Oct. 26 at 4:00 p.m. in Em. 218, W. Engrg. Bldg. Hadley Smith, Assoc. Prof. of Engineering Mechanics, will speak. The title of his talk will be "Im- plications of Similar Boundary Layers." Coffee will be served at 3:30 p.m. Placement Notices Announcement for professional ex- aminations for the Buff'alo Public Schools to be held Sat., Oct. 31, 1959, for positions available Sept. 1960. Ap- plications must be filed with the Super- intendent of Schools, Attention Coor- dinator of Personnel, 722 City Hall, Buffalo 2, N. Y. The following schools have listed teaching vacancies for the 1959-60 been so kind as to cut down maid service to a fast once-over every two weeks and a promise of tele- phones in each room by the year 2000 A.F. (After Ford). Our heat- ing system is, to say the least, un- usual. For example, where else can you turn onyour radiator on one of the coldest days of the season and then find that you are as- sured of heat for the rest of the year because, try as you may, it won't turn off. Of course, the logi- cal way of balancing this is to open your windows. Thendyou find that your head is cold and your feet are hot. A wonderful way of encouraging c r e a t i v e thought. After experimenting you find that the answer is to wear a hat but no shoes. AS MOST OF YOU are aware, Jordan was closed last year for plumbing repairs. These repairs made our paradise complete. The workmen removed our hot water drinking fountains and replaced them with water coolers. There are no longer damp and crumbly walls in the rooms next to the bathrooms. But best of all, we have variety when we take show- ers. No longer do we have dull, well regulated water temperature. The water now goes from warm to icy cold, to boiling hot and when there is more than one person showering, the bathroom resounds with lovely ensemble singing. You might say that we are serenaded with constant mudleys. You see, ladies, dorm living can be gracious? So don't run for hte dean's office when your twenty- first birthday comes around. Join the merry thousands who endure dorm living every year and exper- ience not only these wonders but many others like them. -Susan Wolf Solution. . . To the Editor: YOU AND I are being gypped regularly - overcharged for a public service. Every time we mail first-class or airmail letters, we are required to pay more than it costs the Post Office Department to handle and deliver them. This was true even before the last rate increase, and unless we do some- thing about it, there will soon be another increase - it will cost 5c to mail an ordinary letter, in spite of the fact that 3c was more than enough. The worst part of the situation is that while you and I are re- quired to pay too much for this public service, certain profit-mak- ing businesses get by (and have gotten by for years) with paying million dollars. None of these ten gets less than one million dollars per year. The heavyweights, Life, and Saturday Evening Post, get more than nine million dollars and six million dollars per year, respectively. THESE FIGURES are based on United States Post Office Depart- ment estimates, which are re- quired by law. You have probably noticed many comments in maga- zines to the effect that they are "only" estimates; and the hint is that they are bad estimates-that the magazines aren't really getting all that free service. But I have yet to see a magazine editorial de- manding more accurate figures. They know they're getting some- thing for nothing, and they don't want the applecart upset. The point of this letter is as fol- lows. There are three bills before Congress, that would put an end to this abuse of the subsidy. These bills would not abandon the small publications and non-profit or- ganizations that need subsidizing in the public interest. Such or- ganizations woul dstill get the assistance originally intended by Congress in arranging the postal subsidy. But the bills would bring a halt to the huge drains of our postage money (and a lot of tax money) into the bankrolls of large, profit-making firms that have been taking advantage of us for years. Naturally these favored busi- nesses are not going to give up without a fight. They have been fighting attempted fair revisions of the postal rate structure for years--and winning, because they can put a lot of pressure on Con- gressmen. Now it is time for us to exert some pressure of our own. We can do this by letting our Con- gressmen know that we are aware of the situation, and that we de- mand fair play. A lot of letters, to a lot of legislators, from their own states and districts, and all at the same time, would give Congress the public support it needs to pass these bills. -R. L. 'Calhoun from the scourge of war" it has fully recognized the necessity of Big Five cooperation and in dis- putes among the major powers it can do no more than offer a con- ference table. Considering such built-in limi- tations the UN should be celebrat- ing its fourteenth anniversary to- day with well deserved pride in its accomplishments. The thousands of children in- noculated by the World Health Organization, the technical aid given to underdeveloped areas by the Economic and Social Council -these deeds are legion. The number of Arab and Israeli citi- zens who owe their lives to the presence of a truce-protecting United Nations Police Force pro- vides evidence of action to pre- serve peace. THE RECORD of the United Nations in the all-important lest- West conflict has led to its repu- tation as a debating society. The documents which would empower the UN to go beyond debate in this area are not in effect. While one must remember that the UN has no more power than its mem- bers have been willing'to give it- one must also admit that debating is a highly respectable activity and a far safer one than flinging missiles. While diplomats talk, a possi- bility of progress remains. Nations which once refused to take part in the League of Nations are now ac- tive participants in the UN. Na- tions which now refuse to make any sacrifices in their sovereign- ty may soon sacrifice to the UN their rights to produce, test, or stockpile nuclear weapons. As long as the UN continues its growth in membership and acti- vity - in fact, as long as the UN continues - it remains mankind's hope for a better world. De Gaulle and Khrushchev By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst 'HARLES DE GAULLE is seeking parity with his allies on all counts before any round able conferences with them and Nikita hrushchev. President Eisenhower and Prime Minister [arold Macmillan have both had preliminary onferences with Khruschchev. Now de Gaulle i preparing to do the same. It is apparent that e does not want to have to listen quietly while hey say "now we think Khrushchev - -." The United States feels that, with continua- on of the Berlin stalemate likely, any small rospocts of concrete progress during the nego- ations will center around disarmament. The dist likely beginning on disarmament, if a eginning is made at all, seems to be in the eld of banning nuclear bomb tests. France has een excluded from preliminary skirmishing on hat topic because she is not a member of the -Club. )E GAULLE is believed to be pushing for rectification of that through the testing of a nuclear weapon in the Sahara desert very soon. De Gaulle has felt downgraded in the coun- cils handling European defense and approaches to European settlements, and one reason is France's inability to make her full defense contribution because of her preoccupation with the fighting in Algeria. He has been trying to do something about that. So de Gaulle spars for time. This may not be as damaging to Allied inter- ests as the disagreement over an early date for a summit conference might make it appear. A MAJOR ALLIED objective in the Khrush- chev-created crisis over Berlin has been to stave off a showdown, and talk has been the weapon. Indeed, the original Allied policy of contain- ment itself accepts delay in coming to grips with the issues. Even though Khrushchev has withdrawn his time limit regarding Berlin, the longer the stalemate lasts the longer danger is postponed. THERE IS another factor in de Gaulle's position. Excalibur /ZZ1 .. ". 1%'~rr ,, w." . r ......,.. SS :*' e w-, 4'r - s V :t' ' ' Y : ,?t'i , fr.. " ",w' °+ r - f ell S