9"'TWMICHMAN "A.11',V yr m*i ,, n , 1.TT1i. 1 M1Le1.71 t11-!.}I flA1IIV1 --L .L A JT A _-__7kJ~ .P1~L THURSDAY APRIL 3, 1J 17 r Freedom at WaynuY yESTERDAY members of the party which dominates the Senate of the Michigan Legislature voed in secret caucus to deny state financial aid to Wayne University until that university bans its American Youth for Democracy chapter. This move is a clear cut attempt to infringe on the academic freedom of the administration, faculty and students of that university. The Senate magority party has voted to tell Wayne Univer- sity's president, its faculty, and its stu- dents how to run their strictly internal affairs. By mixing politics and education- al finance, this move threatens Wayne's academic freedom to rule and decide upon student activities on its campus; the move would be precedent for legislative coer- cion regulating any activity-student or faculty-on any state campus. This, in spite of every indication that Wayne of- ficials are handling the AYD issue com- petently. A. D. Jamieson, president of the Detroit Board of Education, told the Callahan Com- mittee investigating alleged subversive ac- tivities on the state's college campuses, "If the AYD. can be shown to be a subversive group, it will not be tolerated on the Wayne campus." Jamieson quoted Theron L. Cau- die, assistant United.States attorney general Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: STUART FINLAYSON that the Department of Justice "does not have evidence in its possession at this time to prove that the program of the AYD is subversive, or that its purpose is advancing the cause of communism." President David D. Henry of Wayne has made clear the coercive power of a threat such as the senators have made. "Approxi- mately 3,000 additional students, the major- ity of them veterans, have been admitted to the (Wayne) university on the basis of the State's commitment to build a classroom and a science building here." "The educa- tional welfare of over 15,000 students, as well as the future of students now seeking admission would be jeopardized," he has pointed out. Dr. Henry added that, ". . . neither the Senate committee nor local and state police authorities have furnished evidence that the local chapter of AYD or any other student group has been subversive or even in viola- tion of university regulations." Jamieson told the Callahan Committee, "It is our intention as board members to be constantly on' the alert to combat any subversive influence on the lives of young people." "At the same time, we intend to do our best, insofar as it lies within our power, to protect the constitutional and legal rights of all citizens, including stu- dents, and to prevent, if possible, any abuse of such rights. In this connection the right of freedom of speech, freedom of press, free- dom of assembly and freedom of zeligion, being guaranteed by the Constitution, belong to the students of Wayne University." The move contemplated by the Senate caucus is a threat to these academic, legal and constitutional rights. -The Senior Editors Equal Responsibility WE ARE PRETTY well into the 20th century. During its 110 years of ex- istence. the University has gradually open- ed field after field to women until they are now found in every ctrner of this "man's campus" and the University has become truly co-educational-but with one import- ant flaw. Co-educational it is, but not co-social. Along with their stand for equal aca- demic rights, equal chances for campus leadership and theoretical equality in the social and dating world and the "gravy" that goes along with good performance in these fields, women automatically took on the obligation to pay for "wrongs" as well. In this case the "wrong" refers to the existing situation in regard, to unapproved, unchaperoned parties. Today, when an un- chaperoned party is discovered, the individ- ual men and the house pay the penalty- anythalg from fines to social probation for the house. But no active attempt is made to discover the identity of the coeds attend- ing the party. University policy here has a very jus- tifiblae basis. Both Alice C. Lloyd, Dean of Women, and Erich A. Walter, Director of the Office of Student Affairs, have said that the University will not put any student in a "tattle-tale" position. A noble and laudable stand it is, but it produces a situation unfair to both the men and the women. 'Though the age of chivalry may not be dead, it is high time that coeds were drag- ged out from. behind the men's coat-tails when they are caught by the "campus cop" at an illegal party. Surely if they have the mental capacity to compete with men in academic, extra- curricular and business fields, they can use the same capacity to decide for them- selves whether or not they will break a rule, No coed who can maintain passing grades at Michigan could claim such naivete that she could be lured into "forbidden base- ment-room" parties, completely innocent of the fact that she is not supposed to be there. If they decide to break the rule, what pos- sible right would there be to gripe if they are caught breaking it. To take a chance to win automatically entails taking another chance to lose. Any gambler knows that no matter how many odds there are for him, there will be a certain number against him. If the odds against outweigh those for, and he loses, there is a debt to pay. Unchaperoned parties are a gamble. They are a "partners" game, but at pre- sent only one partner is paying when both lose. ISS LLOYD says that when the informa- tion is available on coeds attending par- ties, proper "steps" are taken. Several coeds were disciplined on this basis last semester. For obvious reasons, the number actually found at parties cannot be ascertained; com- parison of the numbers punished and the number "caught" should be interesting. But just how is the University to identify the coeds? It is all too easy for the man to say, "She told me her name was Susie. She's from Ypsilanti," and for the campus policeman to find his hands tied. To put the men in a tattle-tale position is wrong 'n the face of it, but pressure has to be applied. Our .code of social ethics has not yet reached the lofty plane that will force her to identify herself just because the University "said that it was the proper thing to do." When a house is "caught," it is consid- ered proper for it to apply pressure from within to make the individual members take their share of the blame. Then pressure from within should be a suitable method to identify the coeds too. In other words, let the men force the women to tell, not tattle on them. If the men knew that heavier punish- ment was waiting them if the ,women were not identified, there would probably be little hesitancy about "encouraging"them to take their share of the blame. In this light, the social pressure involved alone would prob- ably be enough to, force the coed to "take her medicine." This plan sounds harsh, but the social pressure method is approved for identifying the men. One generation ago the female sex won its battle for equal rights. As they carried signs in one hand for equal rights, they might as well have carried one in the other for equal obligations. They won both. --Gay Larsen Campus Freedom Editor's Note: Following is the text of a state- mnent of policy issued yesterday by the Uni- versity of Michigan Committee on Academic Freedom. WE ARE HERE CONCERNED with a dou- ble problem. In the narrow and techni- cal sense, academic freedom is the freedom of the teacher to discover and teach the truth within the limits of his own specialty, and the student to select the studies which he will pursue. This would defend Galile in teaching the rotation of the earth, the Darwinians in teaching the animal origin of the human species, and a professor of eco- nomics in accepting-or rejecting-the the- ories of Adam Smith or Karl Marx. But it would not protect the economist in teaching Darwinism or any professor or student in taking part in an outdoor street demon- stration.. The second, and broader, meaning of academic freedom might more properly be called "civic freedom." That is the right recognized under all liberal governments, for any person peacefully to advocate any opinion or support any public policy which does not amount to an incitement to crime or violence. This is the supposition un- derlying our national and state constitu- tions. In general it is admitted, but some people hold that it does not apply to professors or students. Professors, and all teachers, are said to be restricted as pub- lic servants from the freedom accorded to other citizens. Students are said to be under tutelage and guardianship, and able to receive truth only as "milk for babes." These opinions we utterly reject, not for the sake of teachers or students themselves but from the standpoint of the public inter- est. Universal experience has shown that a censored, suppressed, timid faculty cannot give inspiring leadership to a student body, and that students debarred from full ex- pression of their opinions and sentiments soon cease to concern themselves with pub- lic problems and fail to become leaders in their communities after graduation. WITHOUT EXCEPTION, those institu- tions stand highest in the academic world which have taken the greatest risks on the side of freedom and the fewest risks on the side of censorship and repression. Moreover, our students are no longer-if they ever were-immature wards of the state. Many are veterans of the greatest war in history. They should be treated as mature and adult citizens with all the rights of any citizen. Those few who are not yet mature and responsible will grow more readily under the bracing discipline of free- dom than under any type of restriction and external control. These general considerations apply no less to communism than to any other form of opinion. So far as communists really en- gage in unlawful activities, such as sabo- tage and espionage in the interest of a for- eign power, they can and should be pun- ished by the full power of the law. So far as their alien sympathies lead only to talk and writing and open organization, they should be met only by the wiser words and sounder arguments of others. Communists on this campus are a small-even a minute -minority. Their freedom of speech consti- tutes no threat to sober, unterrified men and women. -Committee on Academic Freedom MATTER OF FACT: Palestine By STEWART ALSOP ROR THOSE OFFICIALS and newspaper men who have tried to retain a certain objectivity, Palestine .is an unpleasant post, for all that it has been made, largely by Jew- ish effort, easily the most agreeable country in the Middle East. Those who have become neither wholly pro-Arab nor pro-Zionist suffer from a sort of painful schizophrenia. The fact is that both Arabs and Jews have an almost unbreakable moral case. The situ- ation is especially galling to Americans, who have somehow imbibed the cheerful notion that if you want anything hard enough and long enough and study enough graphs and statistics a "solution" will magically emerge. The nearest thing to a solution is the pro- posal of Mordecai Bentov, leader of the Left- wing Hashomer Hatzair party. Bentov, a small and worried looking man, filled with a stubborn and endearing idealism, proposes, a state, neither Jewish nor Arab, but Pales- tinian, in which Jews and Arabs will some- how learn amicably to cooperate. His think- ing greatly influenced the Anglo-American commission, which proposed much the same thing. The only trouble with the Bentov solution is that it presupposes, against all the available evidence, that the brotherhood of man, and more specifically the brother- hood of Jews and Ara .is just around the corner. The plain fact is that no solution is pos- sible. Only a settlement is possible. Some settlement, immediate and final, is, in the opinion of most qualified American obser- vers, in the vital American interest. Such a settlement can only take the form of par- tition, however far from a solution in the ideal sense partition is, and however pain- ful to both Arabs and Jews. (Copyright, 1947, New York Herald Tribune) r,. H-3Copr. 1447 by United F.t,,, Syndcate, Inc. A PU .'Gtis m. Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.-All rights reserx.d " DAIEY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 2) of school through ginning March 311 by 5 p.m. April 14. the week be- must be filed Veterans Absence reports for the week beginning March 31 are due April 7. These reports may be turned in on Friday, April 4 or Saturday, April 5, at any of the collection locations. Veterans' Tutorial Program: Chemistry (3)-Mon., 7-8 p.m., 122 Chem, S. Lewin; Wed.-Fri., 5-6 p.m., 122 Chem, S. Lewin; (4) -Mon. 7-8 p.m., 151 Chem, R. Keller; Wed.-Fri., 5-6 p.m., 151 Chem, R. Keller. (21)-Wed., 4-5 p.m., 122 Chem, R. Hahn. English (1)-Tu.-Th.-Fri., 5-6 p.m., 2203 A H, D. Martin. (2)- Tu.-Th.-Fri., 5-6 p.m., 3209 A H, D. Stocking. French-(l)- Mon. Thurs. 4-5 p.m., 106 R L, A. Favreau. (2)- Tu.-Thurs., 4-6 p.m., 205 R L, F. Gravit. (31) Mon.-Thurs., 4-5, p.m., 203 R L, J. O'Neill. (32)- Tu.-Thurs., 4-5 p.m., 108 R L, A. Favreau. Spanish-(1)-Tu.-Thurs., 4-5 p.m., 203 R L, E. W. Thomas. (2)- Mon.-Wed., 4-5 p.m., 207 R L , H. Hootkins. (2) -Tu.-Thurs., 4-5 p.m., 207 R L. H. Hootkins. (31)- Tu.-Thurs., 4-5 p.m., 210 R L, C. Staubach.0 German-Mon.-Wed., 7:30-8:30 p.m., 2016 A H, F. Reiss; Sat., 11- 12 a.m., 2016 A H, F. Reiss. Mathematics - (6 through 15) -Wed.-Fri., 5-6 p.m., 3010 A H, G. Costello; Sat., 11-12 a.m., 3010 A H, G. Costello. (52, 53, 54)-Wed.- Fri., 5-6 p.m., 3011 A H ,E. Span- ier; Sat., 11-12 a.m., 3011 A H, E. Spanier. Physics (25,45)-Mon.-Tu.-Th. 5-6 p.m., 202 W. Physics, R. Hart- man. (26, 46)-Mon.-Tu.-Th., 5- 6 p.m.-1036 Randall, D. Falkoff. Book Collections for the Joseph Ralston Hayden Memorial Li- brary: The General Library and all divisional libraries will be glad to receive from members of the faculty books and other acceptable libarary materials destined for the Joseph Ralston Hayden Me- morial Library of the University of the Philippines during the week April 7-12. Those whose contributions are too large for them to bring in person are re- quested to telephone their names and addresses to the office of the Director of the University Library (University 750) indicating ap- proximately the number and char-; acter of the materials they wish; to contribute. It is urgently re- quested that all such messages should be left by April 5 so that house collections may made on April 7, 8 and 9. University Community Center f 1045 Midway Willow Run Village Thurs., April 3, 8 p.m Maundy Thursday Service of Interdenomi- national Church. Friday. April 4, 8 p.m.-Good Friday Service, Interdenonmina - tional Church. Keep Wednesdays open to at- .1 tend the spring talks on homes and books. Women students referred to3 specific housemothers for supple- mentary housing by the Office ofl the Dean of Women for the fall semester, 1947, are reminded that a reservation becomes final only I!ij 4-w when the applicant pays the nec- essary deposit to the housemother and sign in triplicate the con- tract form presented by the house- mother. As soon as one copy of this contract is filed in the Office of the Dean of Women the reserva- tion is complete. The B'nai B'rith Hillel Founda- tion will be open week-day eve- nings during vacation from 7:30 to 10:30 but will be closed this Friday evening and all day and evening this Saturday and Sun- day and next. Ann Arbor Conference on Hos- pital Planning under the auspices of the College of Architecture and Design will hold sessions from Thursday evening, April 3, through Saturday afternoon, April 5. Thursday and Friday evening meetings will be held at the Mich- igan Union at 8:00 p.m. On Fri- day, meetings will be at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. in the Library, Architecture Building, and on Saturday at 9:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. in Room 102, Architecture Building. All persons profession- ally interested in hospital plan- ning are invited to attend any of the sessions. The United States Employment Service, Washington, D. C., an- nounces openings for Meteorolo- gists and Meteorological Aids for forecast centers at air bases serv- ing military and civil aircraft in stations outside of the United States for the U. S. Weather Bu- reau. Further information and method of application may be ob- tained from the Michigan State Employment Service, 312. E. Huron, Ann Arbor. The United States Civil Service Commission announces examina- tion for probational appointment to the position of Aeronautical Re- search Scientist with a national advisory committee for aeronau- tics, for research minded scientists with training in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, and Mathe- matics. The U. S. Civil Service Commis- sion announces examination for probational appointment to the positions of Photostat Operator and Microphotographer; also Food and Drug Inspector, and Medical Officer. The City of Detroit Civil Serv- ince Commission announces ex- amination for Medical Superin- tendent, Maybury Sanatorium; Building Inspector; Calculating and Posting Machine Operator; Typist and Stenographer; Tech- nical Aid (General, Business Ad- ministration and Medical Sci- ence) ; and Art Curator. For informationuon above Civil Service examination, call at the Bureau of Appointments, 201 Ma- son Hall. Lectures Furniture Industry Lecture: Mr. Renzo Rutilli of the Johnson Fur- niture Company, Grand Rapids, will speak on problems of design in the furniture industry today at 10 a.m. in the East Conference Room in the Rackham Building. All students in Wood Tech- nology Program in the School of Forestry and Conservation are ex- (Continued on Page 5) EDITOR'S NOTE: Because The Daily prints EVERY letter to the editor (which is signed, 300 words or less in length, and in good taste) we re- mind our readers that the views ex- pressed in letters are those of the writers only. Letters of more than 300 words are shortened, printed or omitted t the discretion of the edi- torial director. Extra Special To the Editor: THIS IS AN ITEM you may find of interest. This noon, like every other noon in the week, I sweated out the line at the Un- ion to eat dinner. As per usual I took the "special" which consist- ed of: Spanish meat balls Potato or vegetable Salad or dessert Beverage . . . 58c While vigorously enjoying the gustatory delights of Spanish meat balls, I bit down on some- thing hard. Upon removing it from my mouth, I found it to be a dime. Something new has been added. Since when does the Un- ion serve American treasure in their Spanish meat balls? I don't believe this item is included in price of the 58c special. The first explanation that will pop into your mind is that the dime dropped onto my plate when I received my change. That pos- sibility can be eliminated for my change was 30c, a quarter and a nickel. (I had salad and dessert.) I have reasonable assurance that the meat balls are a recent product because the dime is a new 1946 Roosevelt dime. -J. I ).French On Greek Loan To the Editor: YOUR PUBLISHED version of my recent letter regarding the Greek loan contained a misquota- tion confusing the text of my mes- sage, and I should like to reassert the opinion which I had original- ly intended to express My fundamental argument was that no one looks well in the garb of a guardian angel, not even the U.S., and that if we hope to cham- pion democracy and self-deter- mination, our first concern should be the development of a virile UNO. Indeed, we recognize that de- lay may cost us the Greeks, but who knows better than we the painful shortcomings and appar- ent inefficiency of democratic procedure - we must expect to encounter delay and at times de- feat in any major UN issue. This is the price of the system; the only other alternative is recourse to the traditional arms race. If we are trying to persuade the world that democracy can work, this is our zero hour, and it calls for actions, not words. To go "over the head" of UN is a lamentable admission of our distrust in the organization or evidence of a na- tionalistic foreign policy, founded on the traditional lines of power politics and reking with self- righteousness and hypocrisy rem- iniscent of the -old "white man's burden." -Arthur C. Upton Minorities THE E D I T O R, I A L "Palestine Question" by Russell Clanahan, which appeared recently in the Daily, represents a misconception all too prevalent among well-in- tentioned but misinformed people today. Mr. Clanahan questions wheth'er Jews are being treated any worse than other European minorities. While the answer, to anyone who has read about the Displaced Persons Camps, is most obviously yes, still this argument is used only by those who seek to excuse their Zionism, or who see in it merely an expediency for re- fugees. The paint i,, not that more Jews than other people are suffer- ing today, but that these other people, having oace been an in- tegrated part of their background, will soon be able to fit back into their places; while the Jews. never accepted on an equal basis and maintaining at best a precarious footing in the economic and social structure, have had their few bonds to their "countries of ori- gin" irrevocably severed. Mr. Clanahan suggests that we take a long-range view of the matter: solve the problem of Eur- ope, and the problem of the Jews will solve itself. (He does not men- tion what the DP's are to be doing in the meantime). It was his ideo- logical ancestor who put the "tol- erance-to-minorities" clause into the treaties after World War I, and those who are taken in now by this same ephemeral promise are the sons of those who were murdered in the pogroms immedi- ately following the publication of BILL MAULDIN Letters to the Editor.. the treaties and continuing till to- day. The Jews have for centuries tried to help solve the world's problems, in the hope that ulti- mately their own would disappear, They haven't. Now we have decid- ed to build our own home instead of providing the mortar for other people's sky-scrapers. Judith Laikin. Hare PR Plan To the Editor: LAST week an t"exupanation" of the Hare plan appeared in the Daily in response to inquiries as to how it happened that over 10 per cent of the ballots in the recent election were "discarded" for "insufficient p r e f e r e n c e." Since this "explanation" was hopelessly garbled on the way to the printers, I promised to give a better explanation in a series of letters. In some elections under the Hare plan, there is a rule requiring voters to indicate a certain num- ber of choices. There was no such rule in last week's election. Every properly stamped, clearly marked ballot was "valid." In fact, many ballots indicating only one or two choices were definitely counted in the final piles of winning candi- dates. At the beginning of the count there were 60 piles of ballots, one for each candidate; every proper- lY stamped ballot was placed in the pile of that voter's first pre- ference. At the end of the count there were 24 piles, one for each winning candidite, and each con- taining exactly 108 ballots (the quota). There was also an extra pile of ballots which had been dis- carded during the count because they had been redistributed so many times that all their prefer- ences had been exhausted. The ob.iect of the count is to transfer the ballots from t the original 60 piles to the final 24 piles which represent winning candidates, in such a manner as to give each group of voters representation proportional to its size. This transfer is accomplished as fol- lows: As soon as the number of bal- lots in the pile of a particular candidate reaches 108 (the quo- ta), he is declared elected. Ex- actly 108 ballots from his pile are tied in a bundle and placed aside; the surplus ballots, if any, are redistributed according to the next choice indicated on each. Any ballots coming to a winning candi- date after he has been elected are redistributed in the same manner. Between the election of one win- ning candidate and the next, can- didates running at the bottom of the list are eliminated one at a time, and all of their ballots are passed on to other candidates. If a ballot comes up for redistribu- tion, either from the pile of an eliminated candidate or as a sur- plus ballot from a winner, and no next choice is indicated, it goes into the discard pile. The effects of this process will be explained in another letter. -Bob Taylor Ebony Magazine To the Editor: JUST TO CALL your attention to the fact that Ebony Maga- zine is now on the shelf in the General Library of the University of Michigan as a gift. Ebony is a pictorial depicting Negro life and culture. -Rev. David A. Blake, Jr. 1MiyiVui Dit Coal Holiday' JOHN L. LEWIS was condemned in a Daily editorial yesterday for calling out 400,000 miners for a week of mourning for the 111 men who died in the Centralia mine ex- plosion. The unwarranted assumptions upon which this editorial and this type of thinking are based should not go unchallenged. People who jiump to this hasty con- clusion side with the country's reaction- ary elements in deciding immediately that Lewis I'as seized upon the disaster as an opportuity to retaliate against' the gov- ernment. This is the obvious conclusion we are likely to reach as long as we ignore the present fact, the possibility of a sin- cere motive and the actual effect of the mnourning period. Enemies of labor in general as well as the anti-Lewis thinkers would have us be- Wanve that the miners will remain out of the mines in the continuation of an undeclared strike as Secretary Krug is apparently an- oNE OF THE THINGS Americans have a right to hope for is happiness, pursuit f and it is violating no top secret to sug- st that at the present moment we are not ry happy, When, after policy has been ยข.abisled. 1ann1nnines" ia t+ nt-' ma ticipating. At present we have no basis for believing this other than the personal pre-. judices of our own or of the people who attempt to influence our thinking. Let us then consider what constructive benefit the miners' period of mourning will have. Aside from scaring a lot of people into expecting a prolonged coal strike, the so-called "holiday" will serve to focus public attention on the working conditions in the mines. Of course this action is going to antagonize a lot of people, people who don't like labor, who don't like trade unions and who don't like Lewis. So what? It is worth the cost. In this most recent explosion 111 miners were killed. "The enormity of the tragedy is certainly cause for a thorough investiga- tion of safety conditions in the mines." runs the argument of those who oppose Lewis' action. Nonsense. Major tragedies are per- iodically inflaming public opinion momen- tarily, but the interest of the people quickly dies. The Winecoff Hotel fire made the nation fire-conscious for a couple of weeks last December but another 10,000 persons will die in preventable fires again this year. 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