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SIBLEY & BEATNIK FRIENDS:
Garg Marches Onward
Though It's a Strain
IT'S GARG time again. The only discernible difference between this
and any other issue is that the November dose is an off-pink shade,
what might be called, in some circles, magenta.
One of the funniest bits is on the cover, so one needs to be warned
at the outset: go slow; construction work ahead.
All of the inside can be divided into three parts, art, advertise-
ments, and parody. In descending order. The "giant fold-out" of the
diag, the work of art editor David Cornwell is the best thing in the
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Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers
or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints.
DAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1959
NIGHT EDITOR: NAN MARKEL
The 'Superior Student'
Concept Questioned
VOTING the Wednesday morning session
the University Conference on Higher
ation to "The Superior Student" raised a
ber of questions.
st, who is "The Superior Student?"
mey be the book-worm who goes beyond
red textbook reading and underlining, be-
memorizing lecture notes, and beyond,
ding a brief number of hours in the library
ring each night. And he may be rewarded
his efforts with superior grades.
perhaps "The Superior Student" is one
combines superior classroom and test per-
ances with participation in extracurricular
Loose Ends?
HERE IS more wrong with television than
corruption in high places.
[hursday evening, viewers were treated to
dramatization of Hemingway's masterpiece
understatement, "The Killers."
[hose responsible for the show apparently
ured ol' Ernest left a few loose ends. How
i Nick Adams happen to be in Summit in
e first place, they wondered? The viewer
s shown Mr. Adams arriving by boxcar and
ni-trailer.
Why did these hired gunmen want to kill
-fighter Ole Anderson, they wondered? The
der saw Ingemar Johansson as Ole train
a fixed fight, mess it up, then run.
Was it really awful that Ole was going to
? Yes, the viewer is shown the mother of
e's fiancee, and the church where the two
mg people were to be married.
7ERE THESE killers really as brutal as they
sounded in the dialog in the diner? They
e are, for they nearly crush a mechanic be-
ath an air-hoist in a service station.
But aren't they human at all? Well, one of
em shoves a bill into an alms box at the
.irch.
And what about Ole Anderson; waiting up
ere to die? He dies, the yiewer hears the
ved-off shotgun go off twice.
And Nick Adams, couldn't he have prevented
No, he went so far as to borrow a shotgun
d wait in ambush for the killers as they
me after Anderson. But he couldn't go
rough with it.
But don't feel so sorry for him, for Nick still
s the cute little girl left. You know, the one
met in the diner, and whose father called
the chief of polite for Nick. That was right
er the cop on the beat wouldn't talk to Nick
cause he was too busy arguing with his
activities. He works actively on at least one
student organization, attends concerts and
non-compulsory lectures, and still does well in
class.
If either of these two types of students is
"superior," is it then necessary to put him
in a class of his own - an honor student?
"The Superior Student" is supposedly so
outstanding that he is able to handle outside
research work and cope with instruction on
a higher level than "The Average Student."
1F SO, is it necessary to separate superior stu-
dents into honors courses of their own and
then "prod" them into doing extra work? If
the student is truly "superior," wouldn't he de-
vote his hours outside of required classwork
and extracurricular activities to outside read-
ing, research and work?
In addition, separating "The Superior Stu-
dent" from his average classmates may prove
detrimental to the latter group.-Just as a poor
tennis player is more likely to improve if he
plays with someone better than himself, "The
Average Student" can be stimulated to keep
up with his more outstanding counterparts.
Then, is putting "The Superior 'Student" into
an honors class of his own fair to "The Average
Student?"
And last, there remains one other question:
Why separate "The Superior Student?"
SEVERAL SPEAKERS at the Conference en
phasized the importance of "directing the
gifted into research and academic careers."
Although some speakers stressed that honors
programs could also be established in "such
schools as engineering and journalism to pre-
pare for a profession" in these fields, their
main interest seemed to lie in molding students
in their own image.
Surely, there is pride in one's profession and
a desire to see the profession pass into the
hands of at least an equally (if not better)
prepared generation of successors, but how
then can one explain faculty appraisal of an
honors program for "The Superior Student"?
One faculty counselor at the University
known as an excellent teacher told a student
who had come to him for advice: "You want
an honest opinion of the honors program? I
would say you should not join it. Students in
the honors courses are tools being prepared
for a teaching career."
Recognition and separation of "The Superior
Student" seem to present a number of 'prob-
lems. Perhaps such difficulties will be resolved
through continued research, discussion, and
improvement similar to the University's Con-
ference.
NORMA SUE WOLFE
Her block is way due to illness St..co ' s t PVb ast C .
-Thne Senior Column
By Barton Jluthwaite
mag. Derivative, it is nevertheless
interesting as well as charming
detail.
Another two-page spread, very
Steinberg-ish, is also fun; it pur-
ports to be a "surrealistic view of
the Garg staff." There is a great
deal of self-consciousness in this
issue.
* * *
OUTSIDE OF the ads (note the
very funny one, for "coeds who
like to make their own clothes"),
the rest of the magazine is given
over to two bits of parody, one a
take-off on the game called
Monopoly and the other a satire
on Generation.
To say that both of these rath-
er bore me is perhaps to indicate
that I am growing old, but I like
to think the reason is that neither
is very well done.
To be clever is not easy. The
game which the Garg calls Oligo-
poly is almost as dull as the ori-
ginal, which I once heard called
Monotony.
Most of the possibilities for real
fun here are wasted (is "Toad" a
private Garg joke? Someone on
the staff perhaps?)
* * *
THE SATIRE of Generation
has been done before. But that's
no excuse. "Friends from Many
Lands," featuring a translation
from the Arabic fails to catch all
of the delicate nuances of the ori-
ginal but we must be construc-
tive: thanks to Edgar Geiss for a.
spunky try.
Besides, your poem is longer
than any one of the five by Mi-
chael Sibley, bard of aloneness.
The other pieces make fun of the
idea of printing music, and photo-
graphs
* * s
THERE ARE thirty-six pages in
this issue. All of them represent
more or less sincere efforts at hu-
mor.
The successes, like most funny
things, are evanescent. The fail-
ures illustrate the great difficulty
inherent in the very nature of
comedy.
Good humor is, indeed, rare.
That this "eclectic issue" doesn't
quite come off is no disgrace.
A grin or two is a notable
achievement these days.
Marvin Feheim
Department of English
A Propos
NORTH CAROLINA is setting an
example for the rest of the
nation in how to revitalize de-
pressed areas without Federal Aid.
Since 1954 commuiities in that
state have been encouraging de-
velopment of new industries to
manufacture items previously pur-
chased from out-of-state. Some
300 such industries have sprouted
in North Carolina during that
period, and of great significance-
only one has failed.
In lauding North Carolina's ap-
proach to the depressed area
problem. Ward Miller, Jr., high-
ranking Department of Commerce
official, says that the blighted
coal-miningyregion of Kentucky,
Tennessee Virginia and West Vir-
ginia must launch a similar "do-
it-yourself" program or continue
to face a chronic depression.
-Human Events
CAMPUS interest in Student
Government Council has sunk
to an all-time low.
Ask any student, excepting
members of the "Club" and the
fabled "student leaders," what
their views are on SGC. Their re-
ply will most likely be a caustic
"I don't give a damn."
Students did "give a damn"
when the concept of SGC was
brought to them by a campus
referendum in the spring of 1954.
Almost 7,000 approved the SGC
proposal. The recentfall elections
only brought approximately 3,500
voters to the polls. Compare the
total enrollments of the two years
and this student disinterest is
even greater.~
SGC'S reputation began spiral-
ing downward with the abortive
Sigma Kappa issue in the fall of
1956, only a year after the Coun-
cil held its first elections. Stu-
dents generally felt SGC was bit-
ing off more than it could chew
in trying to oust the Sigma Kappa
chapter here for alleged discrim-
inatory practices.
They were -proven right ..
Sigma Kappa is still flourishing
on the campus.
Then came a series of ballot
box stuffing charges and counter-
charges. The "Ted Bomb" fiasco
closely followed. Several students
urged election of the now-re-
nowned mutt for a seat on the
Council . . . the snowball rolled
and mutt Ted Bomb became a
highly popular candidate.
The standing campus joke was
"SGC has gone to the dogs" and
the Council's reputation contin-
ued to spiral downward.
* * s
THIS IS not to say SGC hasn't
made some remarkable strides to-
ward serving the student body.
But these have not come in the
form of controversial issues split-
ting the campus into segments
and alienating administrators.
SGC's numerous seminars, study
groups and other c onmm i t t ee
achievements 'have proved very
successful.
But campus opinion today con-
siders $GC a bungling highly per-
sonalized clique of 18 students so
wrapped up in themselves that
they are oblivious to the campus
outside the Student Activities
Building.
Complicated talk of clarifica-
tion committees, Boards of Re-
ferral and a cure-all "SGC Plan"
fall on deaf ears fed up with the
Council's long-winded, reaching-
for-the-moon attempts at inter-
decorative and amusing, full of
DAILY
OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
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official publication of The Unver-
city of Michigan for which The
Michigan Daily assumes no edi-
torial responsibility. Notices should
be sent in TYPRWRITTEN form to
Room 3519 Administration Build-
ing, before 2 pm. the day preceding
publication. Notices for Sunday
Daly due at 2:00 p.m. Friday,
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1959
VOL. LXX, NO. 53
General Notices
Combined Concert Tonight: The
Ohio State University Men's Olee Club
and the University Of Michigan Men's
Glee Club present their Combined
Concert, 8:30 pm. in Hill Aud. Stand-
ing room tickets, $.75, will be on sale
at the Aud. box office from 6:00 p.m.
Academic Notices
Engrg. Mechanics Seminar, Mon.,
Nov. 23 at 4:00 p.m. in Rm. 218, W.
Engrg. Bldg. Dr. F. G. Evans, Dept. of
Anatomy will speak on "Studies in
Human Bio-Mechanics." Coffee will be
served in Rm. 201 w. Engrg. at 3:30.
Doctoral Examination for Malcolm
Alvin Conrad, Mineralogy; thesis: "Ul-
traviolet Piezobirefringence of Dia-
mond," Sat., Nov. 21, 4065 Nat. Sc.
Bldg., at 10:00 a.. Chairman, . M.
Denning.
Doctoral Examination for George
Charles Clark, Chemical Engineering;
thesis: "Light Scattering in Dense Dis-
persions of Spherical Particles," Mon.,
Nov. 23, 3201 E. Engrg. Bldg., at 1:30
p.m. Chairman, S. W. Churchill.
Placement'Notices
The following schools have listed im-
mediate teaching vacancies:
Charlotte, N.C. -- Social Studies for
SHS.
Mt. Clemens, Mich. - Elem. Vocal
Music.
Roseville, Mich. -- SHs Home Econ-
omics, Counselor (woman).
The following schools have listed
teaching vacancies for Feb., 1960.
Riverside, Il. - English.
Willow Run, Mich. - 7th grade Sci-
once andMath.
The following schools have listed
teaching vacancies for the 1960-61
school year.
BentonaHarbor, Mich. - Guidance
Counselors.
Honolulu, Hawaii- 500 Elementary
and Secondary positions.
For any additional information con-
tact the Bureau of Appointments, 3528
Admin. Bldg., NO 3-1511, Ext. 489.
Personnel Requests:
Anderson Chemical Co., Weston,
Mich., is seeking organic chemists at
the BS, MS or PhD level with or With-
out experience and Chemical Engra,
at the BS or MS level. Experience in
the field of metal-organic chemistry
would be desirable.
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Nat'lBureau
of Standards, washington, D.C. is In-
terested in. obtaining the services of an
experienced metallurgist, preferablyin
th non-ferrous field, and with some
background In powdered metallurgy.
Western Illinois University, Macomb,
Ill., has an Immediate opening for a
Director of Housing and Student u-
ion. Desire the person to have college
experience in student union operation
and to be familiar with problems of
college housing and food service.
Norman Hoffman Corp., Detroit,
Mich., has need of an MIfor sales po-
sition. BS degree, experience desirable
but not necessary. Age: 25-35, male.
Cambridge Acoustical Associates, Ine.
ICambridge, Mass., is seeking MS or PhD
whose interest lies in these fiels: ap
plied mechanics associated with me-
chanical vibrations, stress waves, and
acoustics. Good ability in mathemati-
Ical analysis. It is desirable, but not In-,
dispensable, that he have some experi-
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preting non-existent s t u d e n t
opinion.
* * *
TODAY, Student -Government
Council stands as an outstanding
failure. It has defeated its major
goal of voicing student opinion
and transferring this opinion into
concrete University policy. It has
proved itself incapable of flexi-
bility in the light of real student
interests.
With the very mention of SGC,
students see a pie-in-the-sky, un-
representative "Club" fighting a
battle the students neither know
about nor care about.
This is not to say the concept of
student government is not a good
one. But thinking so far has re-
stricted 'student government to
the bungled SGC form.
* * *
THE RECENT fall elections
brought only a handful of candi-
dates and one-eighth of the cam-
pus to the polls. What will they
bring next year?
Abolishment of Student Gov-
ernment Council in favor of a
more representative body or, if
the students choose, no student
government, is an alternative.
The question today is, who will
have the courage to propose such
a move?
V
stress . .
AX LERNER:
-T. TURNER
Indians Aroused
RISHNA MENON'S homecoming was any-
thing but that of a hero. By delaying a day
London he missed a student demonstration,
mplete with bitter placards and slogans,
hich took place the day he was scheduled to
rive, and was met by police with lathis guard-
g the house.
He-came back to a people thoroughly aroused
the aggressions of guile of Communist China
id angry at Chou En Lai's latest proposal for
>th nations to withdraw twelve miles from the
ositions forcibly occupied by the Chinese. And
e came back to a people looking for a concrete
gure to symbolize the disillusionment and
imiliation they have suffered--a people who
ave found that symbol in Menon.
I suspect that the recurring speculations
bout Nehru getting rid of Menon, the albatross
e carries on his shoulders, are mostly wishful,
tleast for the moment. True, the five princi-
es (Panch-Sheel) have gone up in flames and
te non-alignment policy is pretty rickety. True,
ehru sits amidst the ashes of Menon's foreign
licy.
JUT TOO MANY people here forget that it
has also been Nehru's own foreign policy.
ehru has never been the sort of leader who
ies to escape responsibility by shelving it on
subordinate or who makes a scapegoat out of
m to keep his own purity unimpaired. Besides,
ere is no party strong enough yet to chal-
age Nehru's hold on the people with or with-
tt Menon.
As Nehru faces the new session of Parliament
will have bristling questions to answer, both
out the old foreign policy which is dead but
At buried, and about a new one which has not
t clearly come into being. What is the indict-
ent that can fairly be made of both past and
esent?
'IRST THERE IS the Maginot Line mentality,
with the Himalayas serving the India mili-
ry and political leaders as the Maginot Line
rts once served the French. So secure did the
dians feel about the Himilayas as a natural
ber one enemy. It has been Menon's calculation
-and Nehru's as well-that the enemy was
not Communist China but Pakistan. The na-
ture of the army's weapons, its logistical think-
ing, and the military build-up all ran in terms
of Pakistan as the enemy.
Since Ayub Khan came to power in Pakistan,
with enough strength to resist demagogic pres-
sure for making faces at India, this has been
obviously unrealistic. The Menon whose brief
hour of national glory came in his dramatic
talkathon on the Kashmir issue in the UN was
emotionally incapable of seeing that he had
mistaken the enemy-until the brutal recent
events compelled even him to shift his sights.
HIRD, THERE IS the question of India's
readiness to resist with full military means.
The dilemna of many Indian commentators
was put best when one of the leading newspa-
permen said to me : "I recognize Nehru's posi-
tion. He must operate for the present in the
spirit of Munich, but as a journalist I must
keep prodding him to act differently."
He used a cruel phrase when he spoke of the
spirit of Munich, especially in the light of Neh-
ru's moral shock and recoil from the Munich
agreement when he was in Europe at the time.
Yet India is in a cruelly difficult position to-
day, incapable of stopping the very aggression
it is incapable of allowing. In naked terms,
stripped of all the brave words, the picture you
get here is that of the impotent facing the
intolerable.
NO ONE EXPECTS a nation to destroy itself
by offering to fight when it is unready. But
one might expect the leader of such a nation,
whatever his past attitude about military
means, to seek added military strength wherever
he can, as soon as he can. This is exactly what
Nehru refused to do, despite Pakistan offers for
a joint military defense. This would be, he in-
sists, not only abandonment of the non-align-
ment policy but an expression of fear.
"I may be guilty of a thousand and one
things," he told an audience at Ujjain, "but I
hava n~arhA~ a.enw~rA Tn hve anv fear
GAP EXHIBIT:
Gallery Fills Cultural Vacuum
!rH E OPENING exhibit at the
GAP, a cooperative art gallery
at 117% East Washington, is an
exciting and considerable achieve-
ment.
It is an achievement first be-
cause the distinct work of 24 art-
ists is so well integrated into a
single show. The gallery is well
planned, its space is carefully
used, and the work is lighted with
better judgement than many pro-
fessional establishments.
Secondly, the individual work
of these artists is good, some of it
is very good. For the most part
these painters, sculptors, and pot-
ters are from the cultural envir-
onment of Ann Arbor. Yet the di-
versity of these artists' concepts
and techniques discourage outlin-
ing the influences among them.
* * *
JOSEPH Goto's drawing "Male
and Female" is the most imme-
diately impressive work in the
show, partly because of its size,
but primarily because of a dra-
matic balance between its calli-
graphic and bold sculptural form.
Peti Dawson is represented by
two woodcuts and a softly trans-
lucent collage. Georgeanne Pierce's
borealic "Magic Mountian" is per-
haps the best woodcut in the show.
* * *
IT IS TEMPTING to find in-
fluences of the fantasy of Paul
Klee or Alfred Kubin in Nelson
Howe's six "Personages," but
these large drawings (which are
part of an uncanny sequence of
30) are clearly products of Howe's
own virile mind.
* * *
THREE ITEMS are in a special
class by themselves: a demonic
rug and a "sit-upon" by Thomas
Stearns, and a small bronz "Dem-
igogue with Flag" by Stu Ross
which only those with searching
spirits will see.
Thirdly, the gallery is the re-
sult of a spirited and well-direct-
ed enthusiasm. Since the early
part of the summer Miss Pearce
and her assistants have carefully
transformed a dingy second-floor
warehouse type "apartment" into
a warm, attractive, and adaptable
gallery. They have done this work
on the proverbial shoestring bud-
get.
There is no need for this re-
viewer to harangue that a cul-
tural gap has been filled by this
gallery. This unusual show and
the tremendous response it has
received speak for themselves.
-Gordon Mumma
To The Editor
I
Goof...
To The Editor:
YOUR EDITORIAL Nov. 17th by
Marc Pilisuk goofs badly in
attributing a "policy. of military
strength" to the Truman-Acheson
era.
It was anything but. And when
the consequences of loving-thy-
fellow - red - herring ran their
course, we found ourselves in a
fight with outmoded weapons in
the hills of Frozen Chosen.
It's a shame to let the facts
interfere with Pilisuk's interesting
literary style and ready "conclu-
sions" favoring negotiation, but
that's the way it goes, fellows.
-W.B.
Cometh . .
To The Editor:
ONE GENERATION passeth
away-.and another Generation
cometh: but the earth abideth for-
ever.
The thing that hath been, it is
form. These reactionaries and
scoffers are admittedly inj the
minority, but they constitute a
significant number nevertheless.
My intention and hope is to
introduce some of the pitiable Per-
sons to the merits of Beat poetry
by presenting several of mnl wn
shorter compositions.
Let me beginw ith a rudimentary
selection that will not overwhelm
the uninitiated.
Bramble-fettered string of glossy
sharp
Atop three heaps of rancid clay,
Thrust a temple built beneath
a harp
Eating her curds and whey.
DO NOT LAUGH. While at first
glance this excerpt may appear to
be too inartistically obvious and
self-evident to be of any value, we
cannot help but be impressed by
its scathing indictment of our sr-
cial structure.
We may proceed to more ma-
ture-material, my latest endeavor.
A wrench in a smooth herd of
I
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