THIJ, MICflIC API DkIL! Street PLAY lus'Ve Styles rect A WV THE I1ICIhIGAN DAILY Official Newspaper at the University of Michigan. Published every morning except Mon- day throughout the school year. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Ar- bor, Michigan, under Act of Con-- gress of March , 1879. MANAGING EDITOR. Walter K. Towbrs. BUSINESS MANAGER Albert R. Dilley ~uNON LAB SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, Ill. Night Editor -Loren obinsiin. Are We to Have Social Unity? The activities of the Young Men's Christian Association and of the Uni- versity of, Michigan Union have :me into conflict. This has come ;About not because the governing board of ei- ther body has desired it, but because plans and purposes held to by each Street! S the 1 . ors c )pyright >Ome in an id make r_' ti S1 ia muuaars o None but im re and nearly e confined ex- hbaum. Drop >lav of fabrics. """""""" baum Mn's Tailor" have made it inevitable. Any amount of earnest and well-intentioned effort on the part of the officers of either to suppress the apeparance and evi- dences of the conflict, and to retain of- ficially amicable relations, the one with the other, can no longer be effectual. To the university as a whole the state of thing; is apparent, and there is everywhere a growing feeling that it is a most undesirable one. 1 The two organizations in question are confessedly devoted to meeting certain needs of our general univer- sity body, the one those needs of a re- ligious nature, the other those, using the word in its large sense, of a social nature. And neither of these needs is to be in any sense belittled. The Chris- tian Association, in order to more ef- fectually carry out its religious pur- poses, has developed facilities and equipment to take care of the social needs of at least part of the univer- sity. It is now proposing to greatly en- large and increase these, at a time when the Union is making every effort to accomplish its avowed mission for the university. Each organization is strong in the record of past achieve- ment, in loyal support among students and faculty, in the interest and encour- agement of alumni, and in a spirit of zeal for its work. And all this is wherein the conflict is inevitable. Isl it to continue? The Daily has no hesitation in as- suming the existence of our general university body as a great Michigan family circle, of which we all, under- graduates, faculty, alumni acnd re- gents are a part, one to whose inter- ests and for whose good, the interests and aims of all institutions and activi- ties among us, without exception, are to be subordinated. And we further assume that it is for this university body, primarily, to say what things are its needs, what things are for its good, and how these needs shall be met and the good attained. We base these as- sumptions upon the conceptions of de- mocracy, and the supposed ability and intelligence of men of university ad- vancement and training. Now the crux of the present situa- tion, the question which has been rais- ed by the conflict between the Asso- iation and the Union is this: What are our needs from a social standpoint; and who is to provide for these? Do we care for those services which the Union and the Christian Association propose to render? If so, who shall render them? Shall one organization or several, the Young Men's Christian Association, the Michigan Union, or both? It should be, and we beieve it is for the university body generally to say. Obvicasly we do not wish that two bodies shall be operating in one and the same field, unless they do so in conjunction with each other and with absolute harmony. There must be no permanently divisive influence within our family circle. Organiza- Lions as such must not draw to them- selves adherents and support to the injury of the spirit of unity In the body as a whole. They are agencies for our good, they should not be permit- ted to destroy that good by seeking to build up their individual influence, they should subordinate their aims, their activities, their all, to the inter- ests of the university. if either of the organizations in question, or any other in our midst, is not willing to take this view of the matter, we should consider it at its best, a missionary institution, and for such we feel no present need. We should certainly never be willing to see the university body split up by assigning to a certain body a certain "class" of men as its field of activity, and we are inclined to question the possibility of two strongly tntrenched organizations ino ur midst covering the same field, without injury to each other and to the university as a whole. Whatever its solution, the question is a Michigan question, to be settled by Michigan men for Michigan's good, and to be settled here and now. town Oalh I A mere man who has been laboring under the delusion that the function of a chaperone was to stand guard over illicit.cupiding between sexes wonders what a chaperone does at a sophomore girl's banquet. We fear that some of the patriots have substituted "Y. M. C.A." for "Con- ference" in those signs in their rooms. Can it be that our editorial butt, the roller towel is really doomed? After reading over the All-American selections of our more or less es- teemed Camp, and noting that Mercer couldn't even land as fullback on the third team, we give up trying to think of anything that mnight class as humor and refer our readers to the handiwork of the Sporty Editor. UNIVERSITY CALENDAR Dec. 9.-Senior Dent class dinner at Dec. 9.-Alumni Smoker at University Club, Detroit, 7:45. 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