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. Canned Lectures
HE LITERARY college faculty's condem-
nation of the stenographic lecture notes
business met a varied reaction-approval,
disgust and indifference.
The faculty was undoubtedly right in
denouncing the sale of the notes. Paying
someone else to do your note-taking for
you probably isn't morally wrong, but it
is not the most profitable way to use a
lecture.
The theoretical justification for a lecture
system is that it involves a personal element
on a mass basis-a lot of students have a
chance to hear and see somebody talk about
the subject. Buying stenographic notes
amounts to getting another, more informal
textbook and thus missing part of the point
of the lecture system.
Most interesting thing about the lecture
note business is that it indicates a certain
degree of failure on the part of the lecture
system or the lecturers or both.
If people are willing to pay for lecture
notes they must be missing something in
the lecture itself. The University is appar-
ently failing to train students in "intellec-
tual and analytical note-taking" as the
faculty said it should.
Editorials published in The Michigan Daily
are written by members of The Daily staff
and represent the views of the writers only.
NIGHT EDITOR: MARY STEIN
It's hard to see why writing down what
a lecturer says is considered a necessary
part of university education. It might as
well be acknowledged that taking notes on
lectures is a device for pumping in the most
information with the least expenditure of
time and effort-it is, in short, a concom-
itant of an overcrowded university.
That doesn't mean you do better to
further the mechanization process by buy-
ing a little package labelled "Extract of
History U." If there have to be lectures
you might as well use them in the most
profitable way.
But the existence of the lecture-note bus-
iness is a symptom of a problem the faculty
can't solve simply by voting to condemn
the symptom. Undergraduates are perhaps
not learning as much under the lecture sys-
tem as they might in some other way.
Seminars are generally thought to be
so difficult that only graduate students
should attempt to sit in them. But prob-
ably the real reason for limiting most sem-
inars to advanced students is that there
aren't vfry many advanced studlents,
while there are myriads of students in
elementary courses.
Shortcuts to learning - cramming for
exams and mimeographed notes on lectures,
for example-indicate a fundamental disor-
ientation in the way learning is organized.
There's a lot more to solving that probem
than condemning the shortcuts.
-Phil Dawson.
Can't Hap pen Here
"WHAT DID YOU think of Dewey's speech
last night, Joe?"
"O.K. But I don't agree with him that-."
"Lower your voice, Joe. Here comes one
of the profs."
No, it can't happen in this country, but
it almost did, right here on the diag last
Friday. Through a narrow interpretation of
the Regent's ruling of last spring foruidding
political rallies outside of organized clubs,
Dean Walter halted the unorganized polit-
ical debates on the diag.
The act of preventing people from spon-
taneously gathering to discuss one of the
most vital issues of the day is just one
step removed from the suppression of
discussion on any vital topic. Of course,
the Regents weren't thinking of prohibit-
ing individual political opinions when they
made the ruling; but if the ruling is
applied indiscriminately to any situation,
if a rally is interpreted as any chance
gathering which results in a political dis-
cussion, what type of discussion outside'
an approved organization is beyond the
reach of this ruling? Discussion between
two people can just as well be consideredil
a rally under a loose defiifition zA' the
word.a
It's too easy, however, to focus all crit-
icism on Dean Walter. It would be better to
put a major portion of the blame for this
obvious interference with the right of free
discussion on a nervous Board of Regents,
which is overly intent on proving to Mich-
igan taxpayers that no political party is
being officially sponsored by the .Univer-
sity. 'The "no-club, no-rally" ruling may
be effective in keeping Michigan taxpayers
happy and in keeping the old school in the
black, but the Regents also owe some alleg-
iance to academic freedom.
The University is more than an insti-
tution for the accumulation of facts in
specified classrooms and books. Free dis-
cussion-on any vital subject-is essential
to the educational process.
However, as long as the Regents con-
tinue to regard possible criticism from out-
side the University as a factor more worthy
of consideration than the damage done to
academic freedom through discouragement
of free discussion, students can expect more
and more censorship on the voicing of indi-
vidual and group opinion.
-George Reviere.
Man to Man
THE HAPPY little GOP theme song now
goes:
"Tom Dewey has taken the original tack
of blandly ignoring the opposition's cater-
waulings and denunciations. His approach
has been to show his own proud, confidence
in America, thus challenging other people
to look to their own confidence and self-
respect."
The reference is to the Truman-Give-'Em-
Hell campaign.
But the Dewey innocent smile wears thin
when one considers the machinations of the
Republican Party-not just its No. 1 boy.
The system ras been to let the lesser
dignitaries carry the main political attack.
No. 2 boy, Sen. Robert Taft, contributed
the demise of the Taft-Ellender-Wagner Act,
which would have greatly improved the
housing situation, but would also have cast
credit on Democrats Ellender, aid Wagner
and the Truman administration in general.
A strong, stand would have forced the House
to pass it.
No. 3 boy Haorld Stassen donated his
vocal cords to the common effort, with
such idiosyncracies as "even Truman has
used the Taft-Hartley Act eight times!"
He failed to mention that as the nation's
chief administrator, his job is to enforce
the law, no matter how distasteful it is.
On down the list the story is the same.
The House Un-American Activities Com-
mittee repeatedly lashed out at the Pres-
ident and Attorney General Tom Clark for
refusing to divulge information relating to
the loyalty of government officials. Of course
all the data they requested, and testimony
they accepted from such "witnesses" as Eliz-
abeth Bentley, had been in FBI files for
years. And heading the bureau is J. Edgar
Hoover, who once assured the American
Legion that he would "get" every Communist
he could lay hands on. Hoover is efficient.
Actually the clean politics of the Repub-
licans is the dirtiest type of all-the kind
that cannot be effectively answered in
simple debate.
Although the campaign is at the half-way
stage, it isr not too late for Dewey to take
off his kid gloves and to do battle on a
man-to-man basis.
-Craig H. Wilson.
MATTER OF FACT:
'New New Deal
By JOSEPH ALSOP
CHICAGO-When the Republicans were
beaten in 1932, it was six years before
the dead stump of the party began putting
out such vigorous new shoots as Thomas E.
Dewey, Harold Stassen and Henry Cabot
Lodge, Jr. It was sixteen years before the
new growth pretty well covered the party's
Harding-Coolidge-Hoover era deadwood. And
it is precisely this obliteration of the old-
style Republicanism that now virtually as-
sures Dewey's election to the Presidency.
If the situation here in Illinois is any
test, the Democrats will not have so long
to wait for their comeback. Even now,
in their moment of disaster, they have
found new men with new ideas, Adlai
Stevenson and Paul Douglas, to nominate
for the governorship and senatorship.
Stevenson and Douglas may well be beat-
en. Yet they constitute a startling con-
trast, none the less, to the tired old party
hacks the Republicans kept on trotting
out for so long after the Hoover debacle
in 1932.
IT IS FURTHER interesting to note that
while Paul Douglas's work in Illinois
established his claim to the Senatorial nom-
ination, the selection of Stevenson for the
governorship was suggested from Washing-
ton, by the most eminent of the surviving
New Dealers. Ed Kelly, the retired satrap
of the Cook County Democratic machine,
has long admired Supreme Court Justice
William O. Douglas. And it can now be dis-
closed that Justice Douglas proposed the
nomination of Stevenson, whom he had
come to know and like during Stevenson's
service in Washington.
All this is a pretty far cry from the be-
havior of the great Democratic city machines
in the past. Even as recently as 1944, Ed
Kelly himself was one of the Northern bosses
who blocked his friend, Justice Douglas,
for the Vice-Presidency and forced the
choice of Harry S. Truman because he was
politically regular. If you talk to Jake Arvey,
Kelly's successor as Cook County leader,
the apparent anomaly is rapidly explained.
Arvey is no political goo-goo, but he is an
intelligent, energetic and capable organiza-
tion man. And he is trying to rebuild the
old Cook County machine, from foundation
upward, on an entirely new pattern.
In the old pattern, before the 1930's,
the great urban Democratic machines vot-
ed their masses of untutored immigrants
like sheep, securing their loyalty by little
favors, Christmas baskets and the like.
Then during the 1930's and early 1940's,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt served as the
"best precinct captain" of the urban or-
ganization, as Arvey puts it.
Now, however, the city machines have to
deal with a much better educated, more
independent second generation in all the
great racial communities of their cities. And
this second generation has moreover been
taught by Roosevelt to expect all sorts of
service and assistance from the government.
(Continued from Pae 2)
Series, Thursday evening, October
14, at 8:30, in Hill Auditorium.
Miss Anderson will sing a pro-
gram of songs and arias by Han-
del, Caladara, Legrenzi, Schubert,
Ponchielli, Griffes, Quilter; and
will close with a group of Negro
spirituals.
A limited number of tickets are
still available at the *offices of the
University Musical Society in Bur-
ton Memorial Tower. On the eve-
ning of the concert tickets may be
purchased tat' the Hill Audit oriinxi
box ofic afterti 7 o'clock.
Events Today
Engineering Council: Meeting,
7:30 p.m., W. Engineering Bldg.
Institute of Aeronautical Sci-
ences: Meeting 7:30 p.m., Rm. 348
W. Engineering Bldg. Dr. A. M.
Kuethe will evaluate the follow-
ing N.A.C.A. films:
"Fundamental Nature of Air-
flow Separation,"s"Study of Ai'-
flow by Means of Siioke,"
"N.A.C.A. free Spinnini Wind
Tunnel."
Varsity Debate: Weekly meet
ing, 7:30 p.m., Rm. 4203 Angell
Hall. New registrations will be
accepted. Students who cannot
attend should see Mr. Nadesau in
Rm. 3208 Angell Hall on Thurs-
day or Friday afternoon of this
week.
"We Ain't Got Anywhere Yet
Throw Hm Overboard"
-K
CT's
D4B
D \r
I'D RATHER BE RIGHT:
Deimal Thught
Letters to the Editor
By SAMUEL GRAFTON
MR. CHURCHILL'S explanation at Llan-
dudno that nothing stands between Eu-
rope today and complete subjugation by
Communism except the atomic bomb is stu-
pefying. Thus is the most complicated sub-
ject in the world finally simplified down to a
point at which our entire future safety is
said to lie in something that can be wrapped
in a sheet of brown paper, or perhaps stowed
in a trunk. Our civilization now depends on
an object. How lucky for us that we have it!
But then, the thought quickly follows, What
an accidental thing the survival of our
civilization is, if it hangs on the possession
of this one article.
And so all the thousands of years which
it has taken to develop our side of the
world have done their work to no purpose
except to bring us to a point at which, if
we didn't have something that can be hid
in a closet, we would be dead.
Of all the dismal speeches which have
been uttered since the end of the war, this
is the most dismal. For if Mr. Churchill is
right, then it is not ourselves upon whom
we can depend any longer, nor upon our
rightness, if we have rightness, nor upon
our characters, but upon something we
happen to possess, something in our hands,
half-weapon, half-talisman.
Our new doctrine that force and force
alone is going to shape the future of the
world, a doctrine which we once used
furiously to reject, here reaches what
might be called its purest recent expres-
sion. Yet, somehow, as one studies Mr.
Churchill's simple little equation to the
effect that the atomic bomb equals safety
and that nothing else does equal it, one
has an uneasy feeling that he has left a
great deal out. Maybe the whole world, in
fact.
THIS, THIS, he says, alone saves us. This
is the barest portrait of the world that has
ever been drawn; it resembles the side of
the moon rather more than it does this living
planet, earth, for with Mr. Churchill's an-
alysis the story of our times becomes a
story of things, not people.
And in leaving all this out, Mr. Churchill
has also left out such matters as our ability
why, for three years, the Russians haven't
bothered anybody, why they have sat quietly
at home, why they have not blockaded Ber-
lin, why they have been meek and compliant.
The atomic bomb would have been the
perfect explanation for all these things. But
since none of these things have happened,
then perhaps there is something wrong with
Mr. Churchill's pure and simple equation to
the effect that the atomic bomb has been
and is the safety of Western Europe.
Ile has put into his equation Russia's
fear of the bomb, but he has left out
Russia's reactions to her own fears, and
the West's reactions to Russia's reactions,
and he has left out all those other similar
items that pile up and build up to the
point at which men, finally, do peculiar
things, regardless of who has what article
hidden away in what closet.
It is a sad speech, because Mr. Churchill
is a formidable man, and a great one, and
I can remember when he did not have quite
so much respect for force, and for physical
objects and circumstances in this physical
universe. I can remember when he didn't
even think it was a decisive fact that Britain
was without rifles.
Copyright, 1948, New York Post Corporation)
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Delta
Business
Meeting,
Sigma Pi, Professional
Fraternity: Business
8 p.m., Chapter House.
Ushers Needed for Stan Kenton
(Oct. 17) and Horace Heidt (Nov.
20) Concerts. Only those inter-
ested in ushering for both con-
certs and perhaps similar concerts
later need apply. Register at Hill
Auditorium today from 5-6 p.m.
Modern Poetry Club: Meeting,
7:30 p.m., Russian Tea Room,
Michigan League. Discussion of
Warren's "Original Sin" and
Hodgson's "Eve," in Oscar Wil-
liams Anthology.
Sociedad Hispanica: Meeting, 8
p.m., Glee Club room, Michi-
gan Union. A musical program
is planned featuring a talk
by Mr. Jose Oritz on Latin Amer-
ican music and piano selections
by Manuel Rios.
Deutscher Verein: Meeting, 8
p.m., Rm. 3A Michigan Union.
Slides on Nurnberg Trial to be
shown.
Open Bowling: The bowling
alleys at the Women's Athletic
Building are open Tuesday
through Saturday evenings, 7:30-
9:30. University students and
guests are welcome.
United World Federalists, Gen-
eral Chapter Meeting, 7:30 p.m.,
Hussey Room, Michigan League.
Agenda: (1) Election or remain-
ing officers. (2) Discussion of
Minimalist vs. Maximalist World
Federation. Speaker's. Every
member is asked to bring at least
one potential member to this
meeting. The EVERY-MEMBER-
GET - A - MEMBER Membership
Drive commences with this meet-
ing.
All Students: Anyone interested
in trying-out for the staff of the
INKWELL, a student publication,
meet in Rm. 1430 University Ele-
mentary School, 7 p.m.
Women of the University Fac-
ulty: Afternoon Tea, 4-6 p.m.,
Rm. D, Michigan League.
Roger Williams Guild "chat" at
Guild House 4:30-6 p.m.
Lithuanian Club: Organiza-
tional meeting, 7 p.m., Michigan
League. All students of Lithuan-
ian descent urged to attend.
Agend fdr Student Legislature
Meeting, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 7:30,
Anderson Rm., Union Cabinet Re-
port:
Cabinet Report:
1. Committee reports are to be
turned in to Rm. 2.
2. Constitutional changes.
3. Report on Men's Judicisry.
4. Appointment of two mem-
bers to Men's Judiciary.
Campus Action Committee:
1. Vote registration report.
2. Report on Better Business
Bureau.
3. Report on Philippine Drive.
4. Student Poll Report.
5. List of campus organizations,
Culture and Education Commit-
tee:
1. Report on Student Experts.
2. Report on Town Hall.
3. Report on class on Parlia-
mentary procedure for members.,
4. Project on job placement.
5. Report on Faculty rating pro-
gram.
6. Traditions revival.
Public Relations Committee:
1. Newsletter.
2. Philippine Drive aid.
3. Articles in DAILY about Leg-
islature projects.
4. League organizational proj-
ect.
6. Report on Essay contest.
Varsity Committee:
1. Report on basketball seating.
2. Homecoming plans,
3. Report on Pep rallies.
NSA Committee:
1. Plans for weekly newsletter to
explain NSA to the students.
2. Privilege plan card.
3. Report on Olivet situation.
Social Committee:
1. Money projects.
2. Planning social dates fqr
next year.
3. Student Legislature party.
4. Ruthven tea.
Elections Committee:
1. Report on meetings with
prospective candidates.
2. Band on election day.
New Business:
1. Student poll on political
preference for presidential, gu-
bernatorial, senatorial and con-
gressional candidates.
Coming Events
School of Business Administra-]
tion: Faculty -Student Coffee
Hour, 3-5 p.m., Thurs., Oct. 14,
League Ballroom.
Arts Choral, Lit College Choir,
7 p.m., Thurs., Oct. 14, Rm. 506
Burton Tower.
Association of Interns and
Medical Students: First meeting
of 1948-49, 7:30 p.m., Thurs., Oct.
14, Michigan Union, Room 3-A.
Business meeting, and symposium
by students who visted Europe
this summer.
ThegDaily accords its readers the
privilege of submitting letters for
publication in this column, subject
to space limitations, the general po-
icy is to publish in the order in which
they are received all letters bearing
the writer's signature andsaddress.
Letters exceeding 300 words, repeti-
tions letters and letters of a defama-
tory character or such letters which
for any other reason are not in good
taste will not be published. The
editors reserve the privilege of con-
densing letters.
S ,s
Objects
To the Editor:
THE ORDER BY Dean Walter
forbidding student discussions
on the Diagonal is by far the most
serious infringement not only of
academic freedom but of freedom
of speech that any university cam-
pus has seen in thirty years. Dean
Walter, acting in behalf of the Re-
gents, says in effect that any
group of students discussing poli-
tics on the campus is violating
university regulations and there-
fore subject to disciplinary action.
This interpretation of the ruling
is almost unbelievable. It is not
only aimed at the Wallace Pro-
gressives who are considerably out-
numbered at these "rallies," but at
every single student who might
possibly be interested in politics
and political discussion. Almost
every campus organization has al-
ready gone on record condemning
the rule forbidding political speak-
ers and rallies on campus. This
rule is serious enough in itself,
but when the meaning of the rule
is stretched to such a fantastic
degree as to forbid a free exchange
of ideas, it is time for students to
act.
I urge all students to protest vig-
orously and positively to'President
Ruthven and Dean Walters, and
by letters to The Daily.
-Calvin Lippitt.
* * *
To AVC
To the Editor:
THE FOLLOWING is a copy of
a letter I have sent to the
University Chapter of AVC.
In accordance with the pledge
I had previously given, I resigned
as chairman and as a member of
the U. of Michigan Chapter of the
AVC upon the failure of the chap-
ter to take a stand discouraging
the continued membership of
Communists in the organization.
Although I wish to thank the
membership for your kindness in
requesting my return as a mem-
ber, I must refuse to do so; not
because of personal disappoint-
ment, but strictly as a matter of
principle.
Communism is one of the most
pressing problems facing the
world, the United States, and
therefore the American Veterans'
Committee. Anyone who has given
even the most perfunctory atten-
tion to world events since the
close of World War II should
realize that the Communist phi-
losophy, as exemplified by the ac-
tions of the government of the
U.S.S.R., both within and without
Russia, completely denies at least
one of the most basic tenets of
liberal belief; namely, that the
individual, as such, has a certain
worth and has rights, privileges,
and immunities which must be
protected at all costs.
Definitely, the Communists in
the U.S. are among the individuals
whose rights must be protected by
liberal organizations such as the
AVC. But members of the Com-
munist Party have no inherent
right to belong to AVC, and since
U. of M. Sailing Club: Meet-
ing, Thurs., 7 p.m., Rm. 311 W.
Engineering Bldg.
International Center weekly tea,
4:30-6 p.m., Thurs., Oct. 14. Host-
esses: Mrs. Arthur L. Brandon
and Mrs. H. L. Pickerill.
Alpha Phi Omega, Service Fra-
ternity. Regular meeting for
members and prospective pledges,
Michigan League, Thurs., Oct. 14,
7 p.m. (not at the Union as previ-
ously announced).
Hawaii Club: Meeting, 7 p.m.,
Fri., Oct. 15, Rm. 3A Michigan
Union.
I.Z.F.A. Wiener Roast, Sun.,J
Oct. 17, Island. Meet at W.A.B.
2:30 p.m. (Hillel in case of rain).
Nominal fee. For reservations
contact Sam Hack, 1120 Forest
Ave., Phone 9431, by Thursday.
Handicraft and Sewing Groups
of Michigan Dames will hold a
joint meeting at the home of Mrs.
Gaylord Finch, 1225 Kensington
Drive, Thurs., Oct. 14, 8 p.m.-
Plans will be made for the White
Elephant Kitchenware Sale.
Fifty-Ninth Year
1
their membership in that pE
belies any possibility of their b
truly liberal, I cannot believe t
they are desirable members
AVC. Further, from bitter
perience I realize the impossibi
of working with Communists.
Obviously, the majority of
chapter, whether from mispla
idealism or political naivete,
agrees with my opinion on
subject. Therefore, having m
my position clear and hav
fought as best I could for
principles, I must, regretfully,
associate myself from this ch
ter of the AVC.
--Dave Babsor
Backing
To the Editor:
N AS MUCH as Tom Dewe
not as wealthy as some of
other candidates, he is forced
circumstance to accept the I
ronage of the dirty capital
Henry Wallace, on the other ha
being a dirty Capitalist himsel
keeping the Commies around
to see what the opposition is
to.
At any rate, I don't see i
Tom is any more responsible
the people who are supporting:
than Henry is.
-Lee E. Pat
e * *
Methods
To the Editor:
SOME PEOPLE who misin
preted my column in last S
day's Daily have suggested thf
was' putting a stamp of appr
on the outcome of the AVC fi
The fact of the matter is 1
I was dealing with method
strategy, in an attempt to dem
strate that campus politics is
vigorous and realistic as statt
national politics.
In no sense do I approve.the
sulting victory for the fac
which would condone, and ind
invite, Communist participat
If the organization were a bri
club I could not support tl
who might wish to know the pc
ical persuasions of the memb
But since the organization is
some degree at least, a polit
group which wishes to main
the liberal label, I fail to see ]
the fight could have been avoiq
And since it is inconceivable
me that a totalitarian philoso
can work in harmony with
eralism I see nothing reprehens
in the attempt of the losing
tion to maintain the integrity
the organization.
It is, to my mind, unfortur
that thetoutcome was what it
It is to be hoped that the issue
not be laid to rest without
attempt to recoup the loss.
-Lyman H. Legter
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1948-49
Looking Back
30 YEARS AGO TODAY:
The Governor of Michigan issued a proc-
lamation closing all churches, theatres, and
public halls because of the frightening num-
ber of lives the Spanish influenza epidemic
was taking in Michigan.
20 YEARS AGO TODAY:
When freshman hazing was the rage on
the Michigan campus, the answer to why
Oriental students never were annoyed b:'
sophomores was demonstrated. It seems the
student from across the Pacific knew Ju
Jitsu.
10 YEARS AGO TODAY:
A bitter controversy over pulchritude hit
the Library steps as a Daily wandering news-
paper reporter asked students: "What is your
opinion of tho legend. for mi of five.
BARNABY
The old Hedisch esta
Barnaby! It's been solI!
John! The property the town
was intending to buy from the
Hegdisch estate for the new
S cchnnl ,'nnovI I4 hae tn cnld
Oh, I'm sure an agreement
can be reached with the
The house on that estate
is where my old friend
Gus the Ghost is living!
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