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'URDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1959 NIGHT EDITOR: THOMAS HAYDEN

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ROTC Should Not
Be Compulsory

HERE IS no need for compulsory ROTC on
any American university campus.
The federal government does not require col-
ges to have an ROTC program, and figures
rove that a compulsory program is not needed
a fill the armed services' officer requirements.
Therefore, on the universities themselves rest
hie responsibility for a program that has no
lace in a true liberal education.'
This is not to say that ROTC programs be
bolished, but only that they be made volun-
ary.
A misconception has arisen that tends to
upport the attitude of the compulsory ROTC
rogram universities: that the Morrill Act,
nder which the land-grant colleges (all but
ne of which have compulsory ROTC) requires
ailitary training. This is simply not true.
jARIOUS REASONS are given for abolishing
compulsory ROTC. One of the better ones
that an all-too-high proportion of compul-
ry two-year students drop the ROTC course
a their junior year to take their chances with
he draft. At Lehigh, for instance, six seniors
emain of a 350-man compulsory class that
nitered three years ago.
This huge dropoff, however, does not seem
o do the services any harm. Naval and Air
'orce ROTC programs are either voluntary or-
ttract enough officer candidates to fill the
wro or three year tour of duty, while the Army
s faced with a surplus of material. Many
raduates only have to serve a six months.
raining program before being put in the active
r inactive reserves. The Army, officers admit,
oes not have the money to maintain a suffi-
Lently large establishment to give all the young
eserve second lieutenants jobs.
Adopting voluntary programs would not af-
ct the numbers of officers going into the
rvice from ROTC anyway, a recent survey
veals. The percentage of commissioned grad-
ates in both compulsory and voluntary pro-
rams is: in compulsory, Army, 12 per cent;
avy, three per cent; Air Force, 4.8 per cent.
orresponding voluntary figures are 9.3, 5.4 and
9 per 'cent.
PHE BIGGEST ARGUMENT against compul
sory ROTC, however, is not statistical. Nor
it the disproportionate cost or alleged inef.
ctiveness of the program. It is simply that a
udent undertaking a college education should

not have forced down his throat a class which
will do little or nothing to further this edu-
cation. If the students want; for various rea-
sons, to participate in the program, they should
be given the opportunity, but should never be
forced.
ROTC certainly has little relation in subject
matter to literary and engineering courses. In
the Army ROTC, for example, the first two
years are spent in drill practice, learning to
work with individual and crew served weapons,
map reading, brief courses in orientation to the
"role of the Army" and a one semester course
in American military history not far above
high school level.
It may be argued with justice that such
courses are necessary for a technically compe-
tent military officer; but it may also be argued
with equal justice that these courses should
not be inflicted on students not intending to
continue service in ROTC. It is almost an
insult to them.
ROTC IS SEPARATE from the mainstream
of education and neither supplements nor
complements other academic courses. Where
would ROTC fit into the program of a typical
lit. school student? In engineering, sophomores
are working on levels already far above the
most difficult of college ROTC subjects.
If a student wanted ROTC, certainly there
would be no harm in letting him take it, but
why must he put work into an area from which
he will get no return?
It is argued that military training never hurt
anyone and is certainly helpful if the trainee
is later drafted. To the first point it need only
be said that compulsory military training has
a habit of engendering extreme dislike of any-
thing military, as does the draft. And the sup-
posed military virtues are not assimilated when
forced down the trainee's throat. Rather, they
are seen through the huge bureaucracy of
military life. It is certainly good to be able
to respect authority and take orders, but com-
pulsory ROTC is far from the only place in
which to learn these virtues. Second, the ob-/
ject of present personnel policies seems to be
abolition of the draft, so there is no need to
pre-educate draftees.
In sum, ROTC does not fit in with the rest
of the university education. It is more like an
extra-curricular activity, and should be treated
in the same fashion - voluntary.
-PHILIP SHERMAN

DIAGNOSIS:
Unknown Symptoms
Are Sweeter!
By JIM FORSHT
DON'T KNOW exactly why, but I've never paid particularly close
attention to the many signs in the campus store windows. It's not
that I have anything against them as such. They are usually attrac-
tive and easy on the eyes. Some even have pictures, and generally a,
child of three could comprehend them.
Maybe my lethargy stems from the fact that, as in the case of
magazines, there are simply so many that I have difficulty choosing the
exact one I want to read. One's time is, after all, a precious item, and
one must exercise selectivity. Or perhaps I don't read them because
they're too easy to comprehend. Being an English Major has taught
me, if nothing else, to suspect any sentence that can be understood
after only one reading.
Currently, however, there is a sign in the window of a local drug
store that defies apathy, and it's caused me to miss not a little sleep.
It goes like this: "1,000,000 Americans have Diabetes and don't know
it!" It's a big sign written in red ink (or is it blood?) and difficult to
ignore. It's getting so bad that every time I now passthat grim state-
ment, I find myself looking at the other side of the street, at the five-'
and ten. The signs in its windows may not be as urgent, but they're
nice in their own, unpretentious way, and occasionally even manifest.
a certain commercial "Je ne sais quoi."
IT'S POSSIBLE that this sign does not have such a violent effect
upon others, for mine is admittedly a morbid curiosity. Whether I want
to or not, I seldom miss those frightening articles that so frequently
appear in The Reader's Digest. (Incidentally there's a honey in there
now, about baldness). I can vividly recall reading articles about the
danger signs of cancer, and the symptoms of heart trouble, to name
but two. And I can remember that they both ended with the same, hu-
manitarian plea: get thee to a doctor!
Now, I have no doubt but that such medical warnings must accom-
plish some good, if only for the doctor, but they've never done me much
good. Wouldn't it look silly for a person my age to go to his doctor
and complain about baldness? As for the case in question, I doubt that
I'd recognize the symptoms of Diabetes even if I worked in a Sugar Re'.
finery. Oh, all right - I probably could. But would I want to?
That's the crucial question. Would I want to? I don't think I would,
which brings me to my point: what can be more fearful than having
the disease without recognizing the symptoms, unless it be displaying
all of the symptoms without actually having the disease? To put that
another way,.is there anything more frightening than the known? If
I had the choice, I'd rather not know, thank you. Keep your symptoms
to yourself, I simply don't want to hear about them. This sort of
knowledge tends to do one more harm than good.
* * * *
TO CITE but one example: all last year I had difficulty in getting
up in the morning. This, in turn, was further complicated by the fact
that I experienced a similar difficulty in going to bed at night. Now,
any idiot knows that college students are particularly susceptible to
mononucleosis. It has something or other to do with class attendance.
Here, in short, was an ailment eminently suitable to a person of my
age and station. At any rate, I looked up this disease in a medical di-
tionary, in the Undergrad Library, and discovered to my chagrin that
I had each and every symptom! Armed with this bit of knowledge, I
rushed to Health Service, the way a loyal devotee of The Reader's Di-
gest should. What did I get out of it? Two sets of pills - one to put me
to sleep at night, and one to keep me awake during the day. (Recently,
as a matter of fact, a friend of mine went there complaining of the
same symptoms, and that's what he got, too.) Evidently the people at
Health Service don't read Digest.
Although I've never taken the matter of health lightly, I must
admit that up to now I had blindly concentrated on the Big Killers,
the Top Ten in the medical world. This, I confess, was pretty narrow
of me, but now I know better.
TWO YEARS AGO, for instance, I was informed by my biannual
friend, the dentist, that I have two left teeth (the big ones, ol top.) I
may not exactly be a broken man, but this bit of unwelcome news has
taken its toll, nevertheless. If you have two left teeth, it's possible
that you have just about anything. Teeth, of course, are a matter of
herediy, but no one else in my family has two left teeth! Or if they do,
they're not flashing them about.
Sometime in November will occur "Diabetic Detection Weex,' dur-
ing which time this particular drug store will hand out free "drey-
packs," a means of detecting Diabetes. This is, I suppose, an act of high
civic-mindedness, but I find myself awaiting that week with anything
but anticipation. In the meantime, I still have trouble getting up in the
morning, but I'm no longer worried about mononucleosis. Not me
Something bigger and better has entered my life.
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The Senior Column
By Barton Huthwaite

AX LERNER:
Revolution in Asia

ROOM 214 of the Michigan Un-
ion is strangely silent this
morning. Its former occupant, the
University's oldest undergraduate
student at 63 years old, died
Thursday evening.
Philip R. Banghart, '60, was at-
tempting what few undergradu-
ates would dream of doing before
his untimely death. Currently in
his last year of undergraduate
study, he had hoped to attend law
school in the spring. His fellow
students, friends and instructors
pictured him as a studious, affable
gentleman who concentrated on
his studies but wasn't too busy for
a cup of coffee with his classmates
40 years his junior.
Banghart had a rare opportu-
nity not afforded today's busy
college student. For many stu-
dents here at the University, four
years of academic study represent
merely a, stepping stone to suc-
cess. Initiative doesn't come from
the desire to obtain a satisfying
education but from the desire for
a certificate of entry into the up-
per ranks of the business world.
* * *
BUT BUSINESS success wasn't
a factor in Banghart's decision
three years ago to achieve the
education he was unable to ob-
tain some 40 years ago. A solid
foundation in the investment field
and 20 years as a deputy clerk of
the circuit court in Wheaton, Ill.
gave him both financial security
and a sense of achievement. Bang-
hart's success came before his col-
lege education and not as a result
of it.
What was it then that inspired
a man in his last years of life to
pick up where he had left off four

decades ago? Philip Banghart was
never able to put his reasons for
returning into words. His only ex-
planation was a simple "I felt I
was in a rut" shortly before his
death.
Banghart never expanded on
just what was the nature of his
"rut." Perhaps it was the realiza-
tion that education is not a means
to an end but primarily an end in
itself. Banghart had the oppor-
tunity many college students hur-
riedly overlook in their stampede
to graduate and enter the ranks
of the working world. Maybe he
conceived education not as a tool
to be wielded by the student after
graduation but as an opportunity
to expand the student's outlook
beyond the narrow limits of the
eight-hour day.
PERHAPS Phillip Banghart's
"rut" was forced on him by the
narrow limits of his limited edu-
cation. The new intellectual hori-
zons provided by the University
allowed Banghart to break out of
the limited confines of the work-
ing day world.
Then again, Philip Banghart
might have just been a good-na-
tured gentleman wanting a youth-
ful community in which to spend
the fading years of his life. His
friends, both young and old, and
his classmates knew him as a per-
son who liked to meet people..
a kindly gentleman who was never
too busy to sit down and have a
chat. He was always open to new
ideas, new concepts. ..
James H. Robertson, assistant
dean of the literary school, knew
Banghart as having "a -tremen-
dous enthusiasm for wanting to
be a student and thoroughly en-
joyed being in the academic com-

'EW DELHI-India is doubtless going through
an agonizing reappraisal of the nature of
linese imperialism, but strikingly 'the Indian
vernment seems determined to ignore any
stance of Chinese expansionism that does not
ect its own boundaries. This is, I know, a
rsh judgment. But how else shall we explain
e curious vote of the Indian delegate-or
her, his refusal to take part in any vote-
the question of debating the Tibetan issue
the UN?
f anyone in the U. S. thinks that Krishna
non, through his position at the UN, is ex-
essing the feeling of the Indian people, I can
y flatly that he is wrong. This is one issue on
.ich all parties and wings except the Com-
mnists are agreed, from the new Swatantra
rty to the Praja Socialist Party. Tibet was
victim of a coldblooded shooting war by
ina, India is faced with a cynical penetration
her boundaries and erosion of her territory.
t there is no mistaking the fact that the
rce is the sam ein each case and the source
Chinese imperialist expansionism.
udging from the universal press bondemna-
n of the Krishna Menon position at the UN,
Indian people are ashamed of it. Yet one
uld add that the policy is not Menon's alone.
s also Nehru's. The latter has recently been
rying on a speech campaign against the
ss as being part of the "private sector" of
economy, and therefore presumably putting
fits ahead of truth. But on the Tibet issue
leading writers in the newspapers are closer
he truth, to the mood of the people, and to
moral position that India has claimed in
world than is Krishna Menon as Nehru's
kesman.
IE PUBLIC explanations of the Indian posi-
tion are pretty feeble. The argument that
na has not signed any Declaration of Hu-
n Rights and is not a member of the UN
ns too cynical even for a latter-day Machia-
.ian.
or can we take seriously the Indian position
t a UN discussion of the Tibetan issue "will
help the Tibetan people." If Menon means
t it will not bring dead Tibetans to life, nor
ve the slaughtered .corpse of Tibetan reli-
i and culture, he is uttering the cruelest tru-
y that logic no massacre should ever be
ussed after it has taken place, and no ques-

Indian delegates are rather verbal. It also
means that nothing should ever have been said
about the Hungarian massacre, once the victims
were dead.
THERE REMAINS the argument that India
must not allow itself to be dragged into
the cold war, a position which is an outgrowth
of the basic Indian policy of non-alignment
with either camp. It is difficult to see how an
earnest and honest attempt to inquire into
what happened to the Tibetan people and cul-
ture will increase the cold war. To be sure,
the Chinese will not like it, but if that is to be
the test then the Nehru position would rule out
anything that ruffles the feelings of the Rus-
sians and Chinese. These are not the outlines
of a policy: they are the blueprints of a moral
abdication.
The truth is that while there has been a new
revolution in Asian opinion, which now is be-
ginning to see the visage of Chinese imperial-
ism, this revolution has not yet reshaped Indian
foreign policy itself-as it is bound in the end
to reshape it.
In a stern note two weeks ago to Chou En-lai,
Nehru said that India would never submit to
having its boundaries changed by force. He
said he was willing to negotiate about what had
happened thus far, but that any further in-
cursions would be resisted.
It reminds me of David Low's wonderful car-
toon during the rise of Italian Fascist aggres-
sion, when the British government was in the
same stage of waking up to the meaning of an
imperialism it had hoped would be tame. As I
recall it Low had the British government saying
to Mussolini: "Sit, you have murdered my
mother and raped my sister. But have a care,
Sir, one of these days you may go too far."
THE IMPORTANCE of the Indian refusal to
vote on the Tibetan revolution is that it
shows up the contradictions in India's whole
position. By trying to keep the Tibetan issue
quiet, and by refusing to speak out against
Chinese designs against Laos, the Indian gov-
ernment is saying to the Chinese: "Settle your
quarrel with us. We have no quarrel with you
about what'you are doing to others."
A great moral leader of Indian opinion like
Jayaprakash Narayan is deeply troubled about
this. So is the Praja Socialist Party, under the
leadership of Asoka Mehta. They have reason
to be troubled. For by refusing to see the situa-

munity .. . with students." Em-
ployees of the Union knew him as
a "fine gentleman" who met stu-
dents very easily and always wel-
comed the opportunity to sit down
and have lunch with anyone.
Philip Banghart and the real
reasons behind his coming to the
University will probably never be
known. But the ever-smiling Phil-
ip Banghart, books tucked under
his arm hurrying to class, will be
a familiar sight sadly missed by
his student colleagues.
SHULMAN:
Mature
"I Was a Teen-Age Dwarf,"
Max Shulman, 204 pp. Ran-
dom House, New York, 1959,
$3.50.
ATTEMPTING to discuss a "ma-
ture Max Shulman" is a haz-
ardous business. At best, you wil
probably be accused of a con-
tradiction in terms. At worst, you
run the risk of being burned at
the stake for the rankest kind of
heresy.
Yet "I Was A Teen-Age Dwarf,"
Shulman's latest effort, must be
discussed in just those terms. For
this is, at bottom, a mature book
by a mature author whose flair for
the truly comic borders on the re-
markable.
The nostalgic reader who turns
to this book for another dose of
"Barefoot Boy with Cheek" will in
all probability go away a little dis-
appointed. The true Shulmanphile,
however, should find this to be
probably their hero's finest work.
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IN "BAREFOOT BOY," Shul-
man was a broad farce writer, a
literary equivalent of the comic
whose forte is hitting people in the
face with pies.
The humor in -"Teen - Age
Dwarf" is still broad, still farcical.
But it is also more plot-oriented,
more intrinsic to the particular
situation-and more effective be-
cause of it.
Basically, "I Was a Teen-Age
Dwarf" is a series of 10 episodes,
each of them centered around a
particular girl and the particular
problems she represents to our
hero, Dobie Gillis. There is, for
instance, Elizabeth Barrett Shultz,
whose mother wanted her to go to-
Vassar instead of win athletic
trophies - Elizabeth Barrett pre-
ferred fishing
THERE WAS also Red Knees
Baker, so called because she always
had sore knees. And there was R.
G. (for Rotten Girl) Spencer,
whose real name was Helen, but
who acquired her initials after jilt-
ing Dobie for Milton Armitage (he
had a bicycle-built-for-two, and
she flipped). And many more,
The reason there were so many,
by the way, is because the house
next door to Dobie's had a curious

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To The Editor

Hypocrisy .. .
To the Editor:
'HERE HAVE appeared in recent
weeks many articles condemn-
ing undergraduate fraternities and
sororities because of prejudices,
both racial and religious, existing
in these organizations. I am not
going to comment on this particu-
lar point because it is sheer folly,
to expect the written word to sig-
nificantly alter such deep rooted
idiosyncrasies. I do however de-
nounce at least one fraternity on
yet another basis-hypocrisy. To
do this, I submit the following
proof.
In the literary college there is a
freshman whom I shall call Tom.
I have known him for many years
and I consider myself as capable
as anyone of testifying to his char-
acter. He is a good natured young
man, neat and well bred. His par-
ents sent him to a private school
because of the totally inadequate
facilities in the Public High
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er had the opportunity of becom-
ing any more than moderately
associated with others of his age.
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THIS FALL Tom rushed, and
was refused by all four of the fra-
ternities he wanted to join. At
first I couldn't understand why
someone who holds two positions
of responsibility in his Quadrangle
and is already a contributor to a
campus publication had to suffer
such personal humiliation. Last
week I was told by a member of
one of the fraternities that re-
jected Tom that he was "disliked
because of his shyness." I accept
this as the truth, for my informant
is a highly reliable person.
One need not look further than
the constitution of any undergrad-
uate fraternity to see that its aims
are to "turn boys into men" or
"turn the shy into the gregarious,"
or whatever the booklets on Fra-
ternity Constitution-Writing state.
And yet they turned him down be-
cause he did not possess the traits
which they themselves "intend" to

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Women with BS or MS in Fine Arts or
Industrial Design for Interior Fabric
Design.
Wed., Nov. 4
Nalco Chemical Co., Chicago, Ill. Lo-
cation of work: Sales-Throughout the
USA. Graduates: Feb.-.or June. Nature
of business: Sell and service industrial
chemicals for water treating and petro-
leum treating. Large steam generating
equipment such as industrial boilers
and public utilities, as well as cooling,
water problems and waste water dis-
posal problems. Men with degrees in
Liberal Arts or Business Administration
and some chemistry background for
Sales Training Program. Men with BS,
MS, or PhD in General Chemistry, Ana-
lytical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry or
Physical Chemistry for laboratory work.
The' Prudential Insurance. Co. of
America, Detroit, Mich. Location of
work: Detroit, Southeastern Michigan.
Graduates: Feb., June or Aug. Life In-
surance and sickness and accident in-
surance. Employs 60,000. Men with de-
grees in Liberal Arts, Business Admin-
istration, Law, or Education for Insur-
ance Sales and Inside Sales.,
Thurs., Nov. 5
Whirlpool- Corp., St. Joseph, Mich.
Location of work: Minn., Ind., Ohio and
Mich. Graduates: Feb. Nature of' busi-
ness: Manufacture of a complete line
of home appliances, including auto-
matic and conventional washers, dry-
ers, ironers, refrigerators, freezers, air-
conditioners, electronic, gas and elec-
tric ranges, dehumidifiers and vacuum
cleaners. Men with MS or PhD in Phy-
sies for Research.
Housing and Home Finance Agency,
Washington 25, D.C. Location of work:
Washington, D.C.; Region I-New York;
Region II - Philadelphia; Region III-
Atlanta, Ga.; Region IV=Chicago; Re-
gion V-Fort Worth, Texas; Region VI-
San Francisco; Region VII--San Juan,
Puerto Rico. Graduates: June. Con-
cerned with physical planning and
shelter problems of metropolitan areas;
provides financial and technical as-
sistance for urban renewal and com-
munity facilities programs. Employs

thetic detergents, and edible fats and
oils 'for. home and industrial uses;3
health and beauty aids; bleaches,
household paper products; shortenings,
prepared mixes, peanut butters.' and
other food products. Men with a de-
gree in Liberal Arts or Business Admin-
istration for Industrial Purchasing
Training Program. The trainee is given
on-the-job training with immediate re-
sponsibilities spending four months in
Office Division, two weeks in the Cin-
cinnati plants and one year of prelim-
inary buying experience under the
guidance of a senior buyer or super-
visor. Men with adegree in Liberal ArtA
or Business Administration for Indus-
trial Traffic Training Program. The
trainee spends one week learning the
structure of the department and then.
3 or 4 months in the major sections of
the department learning all procedures
thoroughly after which time he will
spend three weeks in the Cincinnati
plants observing plant operations. Aft-
er approximately a year and a half of
training, a man is qualified to assume
real responsibility in the department.
Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., Toledo,
Ohio. Location of work: Toledo, Ohio.
Graduates: Feb. or June. Manufacture
of flat and bent glass. Employs 13,000.
Men with BS or MS degrees in Physics
for Research and Development, Produc-
tion, Design, or sales.
Student Part-Time
Employment
The following part-time jobs are
available to students. Applications for
these jobs can be made in the Non-
AcademicBPersonnel Office, Rn. 1020
Admin. Bldg., during the, following
hours: Monday through Friday., 1:30
p m. to 4:45 p.m. Employers desirous o'
hiring students forpart-time work
should contact-.Jim Steinpson, Student
Interviewer, at NO 3-1511, Ext. 2939.
MALE
3 Door to door sales of floor polish
5 Snack bar (evenings)
1 Lab Technician (experienced In bio-
logical technique and qgarititative
analysis. 20 hrs./wk., consistent hrs.)


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