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)AY, JANUARY 13, 1960
NIGHT EDITOR: JEAN HARTWIG
Did Nixon Play Important
Role in Steel Settlement?
O s
THE MUCH-MALIGNED Richard Nixon has
accomplished something in the national in-
terest in aiding the recent steel strike settle-
ment. $ut critics, notably Democrats, will not
give him any credit for this.
The nature of Paul Butler's accusations
typify the attitude built up about Nixon among
his detractors. It is an attitude charged with
emotion and lean on facts, that does not be-
come the supposedly rational men who :lead,
the Democratic party in and out of Congress.
SPECIFICA LIY, Butler charged Nixon made
a deal with the steel industry whereby, in
exchanger for an early strike settlement, he
wouli permit them to raise prices when and if
elected. Butler offered no evidence, only the
accusations. * Support for the accusation lies
presumably in the image of Nixon as a political
double-dealer built up by the Democratic party.
Admittedly, no man is without sin. Bnt it
hardly seems necessary for the Democrats to
spread tales that can never be proven. This
absurdity is compounded Eby the facts that
neither the steel industry nor the Eisenhower
administration, whose policies Nixon has pro-
fessed to support, favor inflationary moves.
Both groups have everything to lose and nothing
to gain from a price increase.
The Democrats must be sympathized with:
Eater all, they have been sniping at the Vice-
'President for seven years, only to see him rise
in the public eye at every turn. They should be
frustrated, but they sliould not turn to emo-
tion.
AND THEY TURN to emotion when they ac-
cuse Nixon of, for instance, settling the
steel strike for partisan advantage. And if he
were to come out against sin, that would be
the same. There would be the same reaction:
cheap partisan tripe.,
Admittedly, this argument for Nixon is it-
self emotional; but how else can it be said..
The facts are always quoted with little result.
No one has any right to ask Nixon's op-
ponents to stop attacking him, for this is a part
of the American political process, since the
opposition must furnish opposition. But at
least, it can be expected that they will appeal
to man's minds every once and a while. The
way they are cond ting ,the anti-Nixon cam-
paign right now is national disgrace.
After all, all the man did was play a big role
in settling the steel strike.
--PHILIP SHERMAN
A SELF-DUBBED "sloganeer without peer"
makes it his business to make campaign
buttons. His latest creation is the "NIXON,
MAN OF STEEL" button.
Soon to flood the Gountry, and etch on the'
public's subconscious a direct association be-
tween the steel strike settlement and Nixon,
the button is a frightening example of the;
modern catchword conjured pp to create at-
tention-regardless of authenticity.
Nixon is no more man of steel than the heads
of the steel industry or the steelworkers or the
heads of the USW; no more man of steel than
the several steel strike mediators, in fact. He
is, if anything, certainly less a steel man than
they.
HE DID A GREAT DEAL less to settle the
steel strike than did the bargainers who
struggled during the seven-month interim after
intention of a strike was first announced. No
settlement could have been accomplished had
not the issues been thoroughly and completely
hashed over and resolved by those directly con-
cerned-
The industry and union representatives drew
up the terms of the issue and the terms of the
settlement. One is tempted to note that a set-
tlement was in the air when in December Nixon
decided to see what he could do.
While Nixon played a part in settling the
strike, he is only one of the many who did so---
and does not deserve lion's share of the credit.
ONE MAY EVEN doubt the figurative truth
of the "MAN OF STEEL" label. Nixon has
"put up with" a lot in his political career, in-
cluding stonethrowing in Venezuela and dirty
politics in the United States. His experience
may very .well have made him iron-armored.
But senisitivity is also an attribute.
If the label is to imply strength in the sense
of stature rather than endurance, its authen-
ticity is also open to question. To many, Nixon
appears mostly an opportunist. His Khrushchev
argument was a lucky opportunity.
Nixon stepped into the steel strike negotia-
tions at an opportune moment. Whether the
settlement will benefit workers and industry
remains to be seen. We are already seeing the
benefit the settlement bestows on Nixon.
Why not a button reading: "I'd walk a mile
for settlement?"t
" --NAN MARKEL
FEES:
Interests
Ra+nkin
By RALPH KAPLAN
Daily Staff Writer
THE WAY in which tuition fees
are parceled out to units of
the University, although deter-
mined by administrators, is per-
haps an accurate representation
of how the student would rank
his interests on campus.
By far the largest segment -
about $100 of the Michigan stu-
dent's $125 fees and $275 of the
out-of-state .student's $300 - is
applied to the general expenses of
running the University. Appro-
priately enough, a student's princi-
pal interest of necessity lies in
using the University's educational
facilities. He is first of all a Uni-
versity student, and his campus
life centers around classrooms,
laboratories and libraries, around
administrators and faculty mem-
bers.
The list of appropriations for
the $25 or so remaining from each
tuition fee is headed by a $7.50
allocation for women to the Mich-
igan League and a six dollar allo-
cation for men to the Michigan
Union. Throughout the school
year University students partici-
pate en masse in all - campus
events sponsored by the Union
and League: Homecoming,1Michi-
gras, Spring Weekend, plus spe-
cial programs. The two organiza-
tions are the heart of much of the
campus social activity. Who hasn't
snacked at the MUG, enjoyed a
performance at Lydia Mendels-
son?
* * . .
SIGNIFICANTLY relegated to
a midway position on the scale is
the five dollar provision for the
athletic department. University
students give modestly to the sup-
port of a Michigan tradition, but.
have reached the point where a
championship athletic program is
no longer imperative fora mean-
ingful college experience. They ap-
pear to be devoting more time to
exploiting the University's aca-
demic possibilities and its broad-
er range of activities.
Another five dollars of each tui-
tion fee helps pay for the new
Student Activities Building. The
fact that this, the most recent ad-
dition to the apportionments, is
on a par with the athletic depart-
ment's allocation, indicates a
growing movement of maturity by
students toward truly functional
interests: organizations, clubs and
projects coinciding with and de-
veloping individual abilities.
STUDENTS GIVE $1.25 to the
alumni association. Each knows
his connection with the University
will be far longer than four years,
for throughout his life he will be*
known as a Michigan alumnus. He
looks ahead and realizes he must
do his part to maintain the Uni-
versity's lofty standards.
A token 25 cents is Student
Government Council's share of
each tuition fee. Here is evidenced
a distinct lack of interest in the
current student government at
the University. Perhaps students
feel SGC has done little in their
behalf to deserve more of their
support.
The basis for apportioning
tuition fees thus provides an in-
teresting indication of the com-
paritive ranking of student in-
terests and one that compliments
the University's attitude.
'Don't Worry, We're Keeping A Firm Rand On The Till'
LEIRS
to the
EDITOR
SEVEN ARTS:
Jazz from the Outside IV
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the
fourth in a series of articles by Mr.
Young, dealing with the socio-
psycholOgical aspects of jazz.)
By AL YOUNG
O UR FRIEND had "come over"
to the new music so completely
that he slept and ate jazz, picked
up on the habit that many of us
had of getting up earlier than
necessary in the morning to "dig
sounds" before going to class.
He really thought he was ac-
cepted when he reduced his work-
ing vocabulary to the forty or
fifty expressions, mostly terms
from musical nomenclature, that
were in vogue at that time. He'd
say, "Well, guess I'll go blow some
basketball," or "Man; I just can't
see myself workin outta the home-
work bag."
To come to the point--our friend
became so involved with the music
that he took to seeking out stim-
ulants to fill the emptiness that
made ,up the rest of his life. He
had never done well in school;
his parents were not what you'
would call "understanding" people,
and the only thing he r'eally knew
intimately in his little age was
the streets. He had taken to music
for an intensive life. He wanted
to be certain of nothing interfer-
'rI
PhD's at Dearborn Questioned
TH E UNIVERSITY'S latest appendage, the
Dearborn Center, plans to add a varied
liberal arts program to its current engineering-
business administration curriculum in October.
Although the ideas contained iri the present
formulation of the plan are basically sound and
a definite asset to the Center, they contain the
seeds of future problems..
Dearborn Center's enrollment can hardly be
called phenomenal, and no one would say that
the estimated 200 students who will enroll in
the new division will be threatened with mass
instruction.
!THE STUDENT BODY will be drawn, to a
large extent, from junior and community
colleges. Henry Ford Community College, soon
to be built on a mound of clay opposite the
center, will undoubtedly send many of its
graduates across the way.
The limited liberal arts program planned
will probably fill the equally limited objectives
of these students nicely. Basic instruction on.
the junior level is offered in humanities, social,
physical and biological sciences. Dearborn
seems to be educating for industry, not for
scholarship.
Further prospective plans for this industry-
oriented student body include the addition of
a graduate school. This seems to have been
planned with not too much foresight.
IT APPEARS improbable that outstanding
students in humanities or "social sciences
will really want to take their doctorates at
Dearborn. There, they will be almost com-
pletely dependent upon inter-library loans for
research, deprived of more than a few good
professors in their related fields. .
- _
Students of the ability necessary for a doc-
toral degree will, in all probability, prefer to
study on the Ann Arbor campus.
Furthermore, the type of student that the
Center will probably attract - the one who
comes from a community college, or who never
bothered to stay in school long enough to
graduate is not apt to be motivated to take
advanced degrees.
Such a graduate program would be exp'en-
sive to finance, considering the small number
of students it would comprise.
M OREOVER, the quality of work performed
under such restricted arrangements could
hardly be comparable to that done under more
favorable circumstances.
One undeniable asset of the liberal arts pro-
gram: it will not operate under the work-
study arrangement, a possibility considered in
the past. It is interesting to speculate as Ito
what sort of work assignment would be given
to students enrolled in philosophy or French
literature, and what possible value such a
method would have.
If the Center is to operate a liberal arts pro-
gram at all it should do just that and not try
to convert the subject matter into work-ori-
ented studies.
IT IS DIFFICULT to determine what is needed
to insure the immediate success of the new
program. The academic climate, now absent
from the Center, may possibly be encouraged
through the influence of the liberal arts ap-
proach, but this will ultimately depend on the
contributions of the students themselves.
What is most essential is a solid academic
approach to the new curriculum. If environment
determines character-and more character at
Dearborn is what is desired-then its policy
must be directed toward forming an academi-
cally responsible and responsive student body.
-CAROL LEVENTEN
INDIA EXCHANGE:
Chincese I ncursions
Cause New Policies
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Liza Purmalis is a University student-being sponsored
by SGC for a year at University of Delhi, India. In this letter she discusses
the Indo-Chinese border dispute. In a following letter, she interprets Nehru's
leadership in India.)
DELHI - The big international news story of the year has been the
Indo-Chinese border dispute.
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's stand in the matter has been
criticized not only abroad but in India, yet no one has offered construe-.
itve alternatives to his program. In Delhi, the reactions to the Chinese
activities varied. For a while there was much emotional tension.
Relating to the latter, much speculation was going on concerning
the possible roles of the United States and the Soviet Union in the event
of a war .between China and India. Whatever the official attitudes,
there was a pronounced popular feeling that the United States would
definitely come to the aid of India, and on the same level, there seemed
to be much confidence in the strength of the United States.
* * *
THROUGHOUT the tenser time, many young men were ready to rush
to the frontier; some of my student friends seriously expressed the
idea that war, after all, might be the only effective solution for the
overpopulation problem that both China and India are facing.
Students actively denounced the Chinese incursions: there were
student demonstrations in front of the Chinese embassy with shouts
of "Chou En-lai, bhai, bhai!", assemblies in front of the Prime Min-
ister's house to declare their willingness to fight and to call for a more
assertive policy.
Then Nehru came forth, calling for discipline, calmness and unity
of purpose and action of the nation in the face of the crisis. As a result,
everything has calmed down after affirmations of support of his lead-
ership. In many areas students have signed pledges for their readiness
to give their lives to India when Nehru would call for it; just lately the
Prime Minister received one such pledge signed by three hundred young
men in blood.
All in all, the popular emotional reaction has subsided even though
the issue is just now being debated in the present session of Parlia-
ment. These debates are, of course, recorded in the papers, but many
other items are taking over the headlines.
ing with the new world he had
cii.,covered.
* * *
IN HIS EARLY days of "blotting
out the squares," he would show
up for classes with liquor on his
breath, humming his "sides" as
he made the hall scene between
classes, a crisp new copy of Down
Beat tucked between the pages of
the notebook he carried. He would
read the-magazine in class, even
cut some of the photos out with a
pocketknife and deposit them in
his wallet. What baffled me is that
he'd often cut classes to dig band
practice or orchestra rehearsals,
but never did he consider taking
up an instrument himself.
It didn't take him long to un-
cover the "hippies" out there at
his "playground" - the streets.
Tley turned him on to new stimu-
lants. He drifted further and fur-
ther away from reality, listening
to nothing but bop records by
now; learning every note, every
twist by heart and scat-singing
them when he had nothing better
to do:
* * 4.
YOU COULD mention New York
and he would say, "Yeah, I'd sure
like to make it to The Apple some
day and walk around the same
places Bird did, and do some of
the same things, meet some of the
same people. Man, that'd knock
me out!" The height of his mysti-
cal euphoria was reached when
one day he followed a certain alto
saxophone player around school,
and announced almost desperately,
"Listen, Jack, could you let me
see your axe a minute?"
"What for?"
"Man, I can blow. I can feel it.
I can feel it in my fingers. I can
blow."
"Have you gone crazy?"
"Naw, I ain't gone crazy. I can
blow that axe. I had a dream, I
just know I can do it."
The scene took place in the
corridor between classes.'I and two
other fellows were standing by.
One of us said, "Go ahead and
give him a chance, Jack. Maybe
he's been practicing in private and
wants to surprise us or some-
thing."
So after school we all went over
to Jack's. Jack uncased the instru-
ment and handed it to our friend.
He held it in his hands for a long
time, studying it, his eyes hidden
behind dark glasses. "Yeah, a
horn," he said finally and closed
his eyes. And tried to blow it. Out
came squeaks, reed squeaks. Jack
tried to show him where to place
his fingers, and the proper way to
hold the instrument. "Get away,
man, I know I can blow this--"
But he never did.
.' * *
DISGUSTED, he advised Jack to
get a new horn, that "this one
ain't no good." And shortly after
that, he quit school and graduated
from pot (marijuana) to horse
(heroin) in one big leap. Occa-
sionally I run into him.
"How's it going, man?" he'll say.
:ti11 Irin it n +-h.. vnl ,
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man, 2508 FB; Bittrich, 103 Econ.;
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was high all the time, knew what
music meant. Opium, dig? Few of
the boys been explainin' it to me. I
don't know if you understand it
but that's what I get "outta listen-
ing to jazz-that soul, that deep
soul, baby."
All I can usually think of to say
is, "Well, that's nice you're happy.
Take care yourself." I walk away
feeling sorry for him and a bit
guilty for introducing him to jazz.
How is he going to escape the web
he's slowly spinning around him-
self ?
(TOMORROW: Something of a
Summing Up).
To the Editor:
ALTHOUGH homosexual solici-
tation is defined by the laws
of Michigan as a criminal offense,
citizens of the "Athens of the
West," enlightened as they are In
the ways of psychology, are quick
to point out the pathology rather
than" the criminlality involved Ii
this behavior. These are sick pe-
ple who must be hospitalized,:not
institutionalized.
How very easy these thoughts
of Freud come to mind; how re-
assuring they are. At once, one is
allowed to have compassion for
the homosexual and to hae him
removed. Pe'haps the very tran-
quility induced by conceiving of
the homosexual as sick should
arouse one's skepticism. Is it he
who is sick, or is it the society
which, not able to tolerate his de-
viation from its norms, chooses
to arrest him?
WILL HIS lack of ,procreaton
endanger the survival of the
species? Hardly. Birth control is
the problem. Is deviation from
standards ipso facto patholoical?
Of course not. Deviation is merely
a normative statement, riot one
pertaining to value judgements.
But can ths particular deviation
be indicted as pathological by
psychoanalysis? Again no, Norma-
tive statements can be made de-i
tailing wherein development re-
sulting in homosexuality differs
from that resulting in hetero-
sexuality, but it should not pass
value judgements on the' phe- '
nomena which it studies. And is
the homosexual dangerous to the
members of society? To say that
attempts to form homosexualirela-
tionships are intrinsically wrong
or dangerous as contrasted to at-
tempts to form heterosexual rela-
tionships is .to beg the question of"
whether or not the relationship
itself is wrong or pathological.
Finally, were one to attempt a
somewhat simplified definition of
pathology such as prevalence of
psychotherapy, it might possibly
be true that homosexuals would
appear to be sicker. But is this so
startling in light of society's scorn,
repudiation, and persecution of
them. Treat any person harshly
enough for an appreciable dura-
tion and the same effects will be
witnessed. Perhaps it is indeed the
society which, fearful of the dis-
ruption of its irrational standards
and overly ready to mete out
punishment, is the source of pa-
thology,
-Barton Meyers, Grad.
[AL BULLETIN j
warsinski, 101 Econ.; Whelan, Aud. A,'
AH; Wiebe,. 2235 AH: Wild, 3010 A;
Williams, 3011 AH; Wolf, Ad. A, =A;
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2003 AH, See. 175 - Aud. , AH.
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Student Recital: James. Lakinx, who
studies oboe with. Florian Mueller,. will
present a recital in Aud. A, on Wed.,
Jan. 13, at 8:30 p.m. in partial fulfill-
ment of the requirements for the de-
gree Master of Music (Wind Instru-
ments). Mr. Lakin, who will be assist-
ed by Karen Taylor, pianist, will play
compositions by Telemann, Lapis, Kra
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his recital will be open. to the general
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Editorial Sta
THOMAS TURNER, Editor
PHILIP POWER ROBERT JUNKER
Editorial Director City Editor
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New B ooks at the ,ibrar y
Berle, Adolf A.-Power without property: A
new development in American political econ-
omy; NY, Harcourt Brace & Co., 1959.
Dermout, Maria-Yesterday; NY, Simon &
Schuster, 1959.
Dupree, Hunter A.-Asa Gray, 1810-1888; Cam-
bridge. Harvard Univ. Press. 1959.
Lectures
A lecture on "A Fresh Look at the
Cold War"' by Marshall D. Shulman,
Assoc. Director Russian Research Cen-
ter, Harvard University, will be gives
on Jan. 13, 8:00 p.m. Aud. B.
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