P'AGE FOUR THlE MICIHIGAN1 DAILY 1 1 L 1 1. .. a v JLW 11"tlb 1 + IT&L11 Ultimate Goal A LTHOUGH STUDENTS are gradually be- ~ ing given greater jurisdiction over the conduct of their own affairs, the University can still place even more faith in their abil- ity to govern themselves. The latest step towards increased stu- dent authority is the Student Affairs Com- mittee's ruling empowering a combined men and, women's Judiciary Council to try infractions of University regulations by student organizations. Under the new regulations charges may be brought by either the SAC or the Judiciary Council for infrations of rules as set forth in "University Regulations Concerning Stu- dent Affairs, Conduct and Discipline." The ruling, however, enables the SAC and the Judiciary Council to act only on regula- tions pertaining to such matters as arrang- ing events, speakers and meetings. In other words, the power to rule on in- fractions of University conduct rules such, as the drinking regulations still resides in the University Committee on Student Con- duct. This committee is empowered to "prescribe standards, principles and rules of conduct for students and student organizations such as to promote the welfare of the student Editorials published in The Michigan Daily .re written by members of The Daily staff nd represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: PAUL BRENTLINGER body and to protect the University from un- warranted criticism." To enforce its regulations, the Conduct Committee has set up a Subcommittee on Discipline which has power "to take action which shall be conclusive in all cases of misconduct falling within its jurisdiction." Although two members of the men's and women's Judiciary Councils are occasionally invited to attend meetings, the subcommittee has no voting student members. It would seem only just that students should be given at least some voting rep- resentation on the disciplinary committee, since it vitally effects the lives of nearly every student on campus. Certainly the Men's Judiciary Council has proven that it can be objective in its decisions and that it, too, is working actively "to pro- mote the welfare of the student body and to protect the University from unwar- ranted criticism. The ultimate goal would be the complete jurisdiction of the Judiciary Council over 'all infractions of conduct regulations, sub- ject to the approval of the University Con- duct Committee. Not only would the University officials be placing faith in the students if they adopted such a plan, but they would also remove much of the antagonism which now results from the Conduct Committee's deci- sions. Students would realize that their own judicial body would be judging them-not a somewhat aloof faculty body. -Jim Brown. Direct Aid THOUSANDS of Chinese students, a few hundred of them at the University, are stranded in this country without means of support, visible or invisible. They are students whose homes are in occupied China and can expect no finan- cial aid from the Nationalist, or Com- munist government, nor from their fam- ilies. What is worse, few of them can look forward to any help in the near future from our own government. The government made a step in the right direction by allocating $500,000 of unused ECA funds for the use of Chinese students in the U.S. However, the money was orig- inally slated for the physical rehabilitation of China, and the government therefore stipulated that the funds were only for scientific and technological students. This on the assumption that they would be most instrumental in rehabilitating China when they returned home after their studies. In a sense this is true. But the govern- ment seems to have neglected the fact that in post-war years, students in cul- tural fields will likewise have a sizeable contribution to make to the growth and development of their country. So far no provision has been made by the govern- ment for Chinese students in the humani- ties or social sciences. At present, the only means these students have of maintaining themselves is through private donations. The International Center is acting as the clearing-house on campus for these private gifts. Direct student-to- student aid could do a great deal. -Fredrica Winters. VD RATHER BE RIGHT: New Approach By SAMUEL GRAFTON WASH1NGTON-After interviews with a number of interested parties here, it seems to me the only way the Taft-Hartley issue can be settled is not by "compromise" but by a new approach. The sticking-point is injunctions. Labor hates anti-strike injunctions, and quite prop- erly so; they are a throwback to the period of our immaturity. We got along without them during a troubled decade, and to go back to injunctions now is like leafing fran- tically through a faded 1929 calendar in search of fresh, vibrant, thrilling ideas with which to solve the problems of 1949. BUT MOST of the "compromise" proposals on Taft-Hartley act repeal would allow injunctions-not a lot of injunctions, you understand, just a few little special ones in the field of "national emergency" strikes. Such compromise attempts will create more difficulties than they will solve-as was shown in the House last week when a com- promise proposal, embodying "national emergency" injunctions, failed completely to split the right-but did split the left. And, in the end, a strategy that was supposed to win right-wingers- over to moderate liberalism, ended by leading some liberals over to labor injunctions; however reluctantly, and with whatever good motives, it was they who moved, not the other side. Many voted as they did, of course, only for strategic reasons, to get as much as they could, or to stall off and kill the Wood bill, and without be- lieving in injunctions at all. But in the continuing talk now being heard among Congressional Democrats to the effect that any successful Taft-Hartley act compromise must include "national emer- gency" injunctions, there is danger that it is liberalism which may be shifting its sights, not conservatism. * * * IN THIS SITUATION, it seems to me we should go back to the idea offered three months ago by Mr. William Davis, former chairman of the War Labor Board. Mr. Davis suggested that "national emergency" strikes be handled, not by injunction, but by temporary seizure of the plants involved. This was, if you will pardon the allusion, the method Roosevelt used, and he knew at least as much about handling labor prob- lems as anybody who has been orating lately. IT IS THE grown-up way. Mr. Davis point- ed out that injunctions, after all, don't settle issues, and that it is important to get issues settled, which seems like a reasonable approach. Plant seizure puts pressure on employers as well as employees in any "'na- tional emergency" strike situation, which injurctions certainly don't do; an em- ployer confident of obtaining an injunction is under no particular compulsion to be reasonable. Under Mr. Davis' idea, an im- partial board would determine wages and profits during the seizure period. The public would be protected, without any need for forcing men, by court order, to work for somebody's private and perhaps unreason- able profit. * * * ONCE THIS POINT were settled, I don't think there would be much trouble about disposing of other Taft-Hartley act features. The non-Communist oath business is a fad- ing notion; even strongly anti-Communist labor leaders don't think it is very effec- tive. The idea of balancing the non-Commu- nist labor official oath with an oath by employers to the effect that they, too, are not Communists or fascists, or whatever you like, is merely amusing. What's the penalty in case an employer refuses to sign an oath that he is not, say, a car- telist? He'd be denied the right of collective bargaining, which might not make him sore. One can hear an employer, telling his men, regretfully: "Sorry, boys, I can't bargain with you, through any Federal agency, because I didn't sign the oath." * * * IF THE IDEA is to protect the public against "national emergency" strikes, Mr. Davies has shown us a way. The only argu- ment the opposition could bring up would be to work on fears that seizure might lead to socialism. The answer is that Roosevelt used this method, and the amount of socialism thereby produced is still too small to be measured by any instrument however pre- cise and refined. (Copyright, 1949, New York Post Corporation) LookingIackj 50 YEARS AGO: A new sidewalk was built from the Law Building to State Street and across the campus to North University. Spanish-speaking graduates were given opportunities to teach in Puerto Rico at $1,200 a year. 30 YEARS AGO: 'Pane wa ,. r an za n m lr q1 o n -. -Daily-A. Jackson, D. Thomas DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Letters to the Editor- Mae The Old Ruts HERE HAVE BEEN blasts and counter- blasts on the Student Affairs Commit- tee's new rule which aims to cut down oni discrimination in student groups-it's time to examine what the University has done on its part. For example, there are only a few schools and colleges here that still require information on application blanks about race, religion or national origin. "'The business administration school wants to know the ancestry and place of birth of the applicant's father and mother. The public health school requires the applicant to state his race. And the Medical School wants to know his religion. Six schools re- quest photographs. This is not to imply that the schools that request information about race or religion necessarily discriminate in admissions. But it seems to me that they should explain on their application forms what they use the in- formation for, or else eliminate those ques- tions. I do not mean to suggest, either, that getting rid of such questions would elim- inate discrimination. Surely it is clear by now that changing procedures and meth- ods will not by itself change irrational prejudice. But it is also clear that, if the old ruts in which organized intolerance moves are not flattened out, it will continue to run its course with unchanged or deepened ef- fect. -Phil Dawson. (Continued from Page 2) Dr. George Gamow, Professor of Physics, George Washington Uni- versity; auspices of the Depart- ment of Astronomy. 8 p.m., Rack- ham Lecture Hall. The public is invited. University Lecture (in Spanish). "Sentido y forma del Barroco como pericdo historico." Professor Joa- quin Casalduero, New York Uni- versity; auspices of the Depart- ment of Romance Languages and Sociedad Hispanica. 8 p.m., Fri., May 13, Rackham Amphitheatre. The public is invited. Academic Notices Doctoral Examination for Perry Max Johnston, Zoology; thesis: "Early Development of the Large- mouth Black Bass, Micropterus salmoides salmoides (Lacepede) and the History of the Germ Cells through the Period of Sex Differ- entiation." 9 a.m. Thurs., May 12, 3091 Natural Science Bldg. Chair- man, Peter Okkelberg. Doctoral Examination for Wim- burn Leroy Wallace, Psychology; thesis: "The Relationship of Cer- tain Variables to Discrepancy be- tween Expressed and Inventoried Vocational Interest." 9:30 a.m., Thurs., May 12, 3121 Natural Sci- ence Bldg. Chairman, G. A. Sat- ter. Doctoral Examination for Albert William Saenz, Physics; thesis: "On Integrals of Motion of the Runge Type in Classical and Quantum Mechanics." 2 p.m., Thurs., May 12, East Council Room, Rackham Bldg. Chairman, Otto Laporte. Doctoral Examination for Henry Clay Bryant, Pathology; thesis: "Some Humoral Aspects of Hep- atic Cirrhosis in the Male. A Mor- phologic Study." 7 p.m. Thurs., May 12, 1562 E. Medical Bldg. Chairman, C. V. Weller. Doctoral Examination for Ed- ward Eugene Irish, Education; thesis: "A Determination of Mate- rials Dealing with Soil Conserva- tion and Suitable for Integration into Courses of High School Sci- ence for General Education." 10:30 a.m., Fri., May 13, 4015 University High School. Doctoral Examination for For- rest Glenn Averill, Education; the- sis: "The Development of Public Education in Grand Rapids, 1826- 1906." 2 p.m., Fri., May 13, 4019 University High School. Chair- man, A. B. Moehlman. Doctoral Examination for Paul Franklin Chenea, Engineering Me- chanics; thesis: "The General Theory of a Continuous Mediur;." 4 p.m., Fri., May 13, 411A W. En- gineering Bldg. Chairman, H. M. Hansen. Directed Teaching, Qualifying Examination: All students expect- ing to do directed teaching in the fall term are required to pass a qualifying examination in the subject in which they expect to teach. This examination, for all fields other than science, will be held on Sat., Mary 14, 8:30 a.m. Students will meet in the library of the University High School, Rm. 2200. The examination will consume about four hours' time; promptness is essential. Please bring bluebooks. Students who expect to do their directed teaching in science '(biol- ogy, chemistry, physics, general science) will take the examination at 1 p.m. on Sat., May 14, in Room 1011 of the University High School. College Honors Program: Ap- plications for the Degree Program in Honors in Liberal Arts should be made before May 15 at the office of Professor Dodge, Professor Ar- thos, or Dean Peake. Applications are being received from second- semester Sophomores with a B average or better for a course in Politics and Ethics, an interde- partmental program continuing through the Junior and Senior years. Students in the program will study in seminars certain ma- jor works of Plato, Aristotle, Au- gustine, Hobbes, Hume, and Dewey. The seminar course carries five hours credit. Courses carrying five or six additional hours are re- quired each semester. These in- clude courses in the Bible, Basic Greek Ideas, the Intellectual His- tory of Europe, Political Theory, and Shakespeace. An honors es- say is required in the second term of the Senior year. Concerts The Collegium Musicum, under the direction of Louise Cuyler, will present a program at 8 p.m., Thurs., May 12, Rackham Assem- bly Hall. It will include music for a brass ensemble, music for voice and instruments of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, a group of madrigals, two fantasies for strings and excerpts from Il pomo d'oro by Cesti played by a special Chamber Music Orchestra con- ducted by Andrew Minor, and sung by Norma Heyde, soprano, and Evelyn Wohlgemuth, mezzo-so- prano. This is the final program to be given this semester. The general public is invited. Carillon Recital: Percival Price, University Carillonneur, will play another program in his current se- ries of recitals at 7:15 p.m., Thurs., May 12. Program: Spanish, Ger- man and Mexican airs, Fantaisie 6 by Professor Price, and the aria "Caro nome," from Verdi's Rigo- letto. Student Recital: Mary Lown, organist, will present a program at 8 p.m., Fri., May 13, Hill Audito- rium. Compositions: Buxtehude, Bach, Mozart, Bingham, and Du- pre. Miss Lown is a pupil of Fred- erick Marriott; given in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Music degree, the program will be open to the pub- lic. Events Today Arts Chorale: No meeting to- nigt. Regular meetings will con- tinue next week. NSA Travel Bureau will be open from 4 to 4:45 p.m., Office of Stu- dent Affairs. Gilbert and Sullivan Society pre- sents "Patience," Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m., Pattengill Auditorium, Ann Arbor High School. Student-Faculty Hour: 4-5 p.m., Grand Rapids Room, League. (Continued on Page 5) The Daily accords its readers the privilege of submitting letters for publication In this column. subject to space limitations, the general pol icy is to publish in the order in which they are received all letters bearing the writer's signature and address. Letterseexceeding 300 words, repet- tious 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. * * * Fresh Air Camp . .. To the Editor: ON BEHALF of the Fresh Air Camp Committee, I should like to express appreciation for the ex- cellent work done on Tag Day. The 700 students who took active part in this campaign made it pos- sible for the generosity of the cam- pus to be expressed. It was fre- quently remarked: "Everyone has a tag." This Tag Day is truly an all- campus project. Also, students are members f the Fresh Air Camp Executive Committee which is re- sponsible for planning the camp program. Some 40 to 50 students will be actually working as coun- selors this summer. We extend to University. students an invitation to visit the camp while it is in operation this summer. Seeing the campers will repay you for the help you have given. -W. C. Morse, Director * ,.* Shame ... To the Editor: SHAME ON YOU for allowing Arthur Kennett's solecism with the word "fulsome" to appear in Tuesday's May Festival criticism. "Fulsome," which was used to de- scribe contralto Tann Willaims' singing, happens not to mean full and voluptuously rounded, but foul, noisome and disgusting! Go look the word up and sin no more. -Bradley Stevens (EDITOR'S NOTE: It also means "lustrous or wanton," according to Webster. Kennett had thought of using "meretricious," but decided against it.) * * * Improve .. . To the Editor: I DO NOT WISH at this time to talk about intangibles and cam- pus conservative and liberal ideas, but I would like to reply to Miss Friedman's listing of the Union and Student Legislature projects carried out this year. Miss Friedman, in Editor's Note in Saturday's Dail, tried by list- ing the-SL and Union activities'to say that the Union accomplished next to nothing when the SL did many deeds of great benefit to the students.... The obvious mistake she has made in her listings is. she has singled out each SL accom- plishment and grouped or left out the Union activities. She lists the homecoming dance as on accom- plishment for the SL and as one activity for the Union she lists "weekly membership dances." This title includes approximately 50 weekend dances, six specialty dan- ces, one Union Formal, and co- sponsorship of the forth-coming Tennis Ball: . . . But equally as bad, she leaves out Union activi- ties, such as: publishing of a text- book list, publishing the M-Hand- book, a course on parliamentary procedure, mixer dances, Winter Carnival, travel service, campus talent files working with the Alum- ni Association in listing alumni in town during football weekends, and handilig the men's orienta- tion program. Many other activities can be listed in the Union's favor, but from this relisting, Miss Friedman, I ask you and other students to weigh these projects and in your own words "draw your own con- clusions." One last question to Miss Fried- man: Why cannot these two or- ganizations work together for the common betterment of the stu- dents, and let the SL coordinate the students' activities instead of trying to destroy and pry into worthwhile projects of organiza- tions as you suggested in your edi- torial? The whole idea of listing the projects is in error; both groups have their place on the campus. I Guests: Chemistry and Physics departments. Co-sponsored by As- sembly and Panhel. International Center weekly tea for all foreign students and Ameri- can friends, 4:30-6 p.m., Interna- tional Center. don't believe Bob Holland called for the outright abolishment of the SL. but he is fighting for hon- est student government not inter- mingled with liberal and political policies. We should strive for the betterment of these organizations and not list what one or the other has done in an effort to show thrt one is worthless. Our watchword should be "improve," not "destroy." . --Dick Allen Past Union Exec. Council Member * * * Aore from Ryan.**" To the Editor: MiR. WALSH concedes that Bob Holland, as president of "a small but substantial campus or- ganization" has a certain amount of prestige on campus. I would like to ask Mr. Walsh if he considers the Union nmbership of 16,000 students small, especially in com- parison to the numbers which co- prise those groups which receive so much space in The Daily-AVC, IRA, Young Progressives, and the late lamented MYDA. Why rom, ota doy, when some of those groups got every one of their members together they still didn't have enough people to keep me out of Dascola's barber shop- even though they did rate head- lines for two straight weeks in The Michigan Daily. Rothschild begs the student body to ignore the old campus organiza- tions which have become "feudal castles" and to cast their lot with those groups which are run by and for the students-referring direct- ly, I suppose, to NSA, The Daily, and the Student Legislature. Well, 9 r. Rothschild, I've been on this campus four years, I have a pretty good idea of what is going on, and I don't think the NSA is repre- senting me because I don't even know what NSA stands for, I certainly rise to protest that The Daily is acting for me in its editorial policy at any time on any subject, be it local, national, or in- ternational. And if you claim that the Student Legislature is acting under a mandate from the student body, then what happens to the opinions of the 14,000 students who did not even bother to vote In the last elections? Now just a word to Don McNeill who covered Holland's speech for The Daily. It just so happens that I was present when McNeill dis- cussed the speech with some of his fellow "workers" at The Daily of- fice the following day. I am in no position to say, Mr. McNeill, whe- ther your coverage was accurate. However, I can feel somewhat safe in saying that it must have been terribly difficult for you to keep it unbiased. I still have more to say on this subject. -Potsy Ryan End and Beginning THE UNITED STATES, Britain, France and Russia have ended their final quibble on the lifting of the Berlin blockade. The blockade itself is to be raised today; a full-dress meeting of the foreign ministers is to be held May 23. So after all the months of tension the most amazing siege of history Tro-ubadours IN THE ANNAUAL flurry of attention that descended upon the May Festival, a group of earnest young University musicians -fondly referred to by their listeners as the Two O'Clock Troubadours-was sadly over- looked. Motivated by a unique concept of the proper concert hour, this band of male revelers has assiduously refrained from in- truding upon that time of day devoted to studying and has confined its recitals instead to the more propitious hours pre- ceding the dawn. It is no ordinary repertoire offered by the Two O'Clock Troubadours. They may occa- sionally stoop to "The Whiffenpoof Song" or the unimaginative use of harmony. But most of their selections are magnificently dissonant eulogies of beer, flavored by an indiscriminate choice of vocabulary. Strange to say, these conscientious per- formers have not always been pleasantly received. Instead of enthusiastic applause, -and the most stupendous counter-siege- comesquietly to a close. Future writers of textbooks-if there be a future and textbooks-will set down the details of the blockade and its western an- swer in wonderment. They will exclaim, in sharp italics, over the Russian attempt to cut Berlin off from outside supplies. They will exclaim even more sharply over the logic-defying airlift that Kept Berlin alive and set Soviet cloggings at nothing. But the historians will have to go on from their colorful accounts of the super-human activity that defeated the blockade. It is to their following chapters, rather than to those of a dramatic present, that we ought to be turning our attention. An end to the Berlin blockade means, by long-range calculation, almost nothing. The blockade was set up because East and West disagreed on the path to be blazed for Germany. The blockade collapsed, most probably, because the Russians found it use- less and worse than useless. But the dis- agreements that created the blockade con- tinue, far from solution. Is the American-British-French mark of western Germany to be accepted for the whole of the Reich? Is the Ruhr to be segregated from Germany or slotted into a German-renewal program? Is a new and more-or-less self-reliant government to be established for western Germany, and is it to be extended eastward? The questions multiply with amoeba- splitting speed. And the end of the blockade, Fifty-Ninth Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the 'Board In Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Harriett Friedman ....Managing Editos Dick Maloy ...............City Uditow Naomi Stern.......Editorial Director Allegra Pasqualetti ...Associate Editor Al Blumrosen ........Associate Editog Leon Jaroff .... .Associate Udto Robert 0. White ......Asociate Editot B. S. Brown ............Sports Editor Bud Weidenthal ..Associate Sports 34. Bev Bussey .....Sports Feature Writes Audrey Buttery.......Women's Editos Mary Ann Harris Asso. 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