M PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1951 _. _. I FROM FLYING TO HISTORY: Kamikaze Pilot Becomes 'U' Student' * " * * By CRAWFORD YOUNG Less than seven short years ago, Yukihisa Suzuki was a member of the Imperial Japanese "Kamikaze" Corps. C And now the former pilot with a historical flair is in his second year at the University, dedicating himself to a study of Japanese- American relations-whose disrup- tion almost brought his life to a premature close. It was only a timely attack of bronchitis, followed by a few well- placed American bombs, that Su- zuki managed to miss a "suicide mission." In early 1945, the des- perate Japanese government de- cided to turn their entire Air Fleet of 3,000 planes into one mass Kamikaze. SUZUKI, WHO had served in the Japanese Naval Air Corps, was shifted in December, 1943 to an air base near Tokyo, where groups of doomed pilots waited. The airmen, confused and de- moralized, but hoping somehow to survive the war, awaited the fateful telegram from Tokyo which would sentence them to an involuntary heroism. Occa- sional practice flights in the old, rickety planes broke the mono- tony. But at an opportune moment in his training program, Suzuki fell ill-and lost some of the flying time needed for a Kamikaze as- signment. Before he was ready to fly, American bombs virtually de- stroyed the Kamikaze air fleet. * * * SUZUKI RECALLED that when the time came for a group of sui- cide pilots to make their supreme sacrifice on the alter of patriotism, there was a period of "celebration" But more important, he came out of the war with a desire to write, to transcribe his experi- ences as a Kamikaze pilot. With the English he had picked up in his college days, he set about putting his story on paper. Meanwhile, he got a job with the historical division of the Su- preme Allied Headquarters in Tok- yo. There he met Louis Doll, a Uni- versity graduate and now a profes- sor at Bay City Junior College. Doll became his benefactor, and helped Suzuki com eto this coun- try in the summer of 1950. x * YUKIHISA .. former Kamikaze i fALTHOUGH SUZUKI had stu- died at two Japanese universities Sforfive years, the University only allowed him fifteen hours of trans- fer credits. This leaves him a 27- year-old sophomore. The onetime pilot, with the help of a childhood friend at the Am- erican embassy in Tokyo who now lives in New York, interested Blue- book magazine in his story re- cently. It will be printed in three installments in .the December, January, and February issues. De- cember Bluebook will go on sale --Daily-Malcolm Shatz tomorrow. A SUZUKI mrw. k SUZUKIs rTo follow up his first literary pilot writes his story venture, Suzuki is now working on * * * a more ambitious project-a 700 ironically enough, ornamental page study analyzing the back- green parachutes. ground and psychology which led Then they took off. j the Japanese to war. s Writing, Suzuki hopes, will con- SUZUKI FOUND himself still tinue to be an important sideline alive physically after the war end- for him. Upon his graduation in ed, but shared the mental de- 1954, he plans to return to his na- pression which gripped all Japan. tive Japan, probably to teach and It was commonly believed that the further investigate the develop- Americans would shoot all Kami- ment and promotion of Japanese- kaze pilots. American relations. SL To Seek Free Grid Programs The ten-cent program issue will again go before the Board in Con- trol of Intercollegiate Athletics to- morrow. The Student Legislature will re- quest the Board to publish a small, inexpensive football program for free distribution to all students at each home football game. ANTICIPATING resistance on financial grounds, SL will offer to help foot the bill of these pro- grams. According to cabinet mem- ber-at-large Phil Berry, the total bill for 16,000 programs per game for a season could be as low as $500. Since -the controversial ten- cent programs were banned from University property last year, SL has been pressing the Board for a permanent settlement. Last year, the Legislature was permitted to supervise the sale of the cardboard ten-cent programs.] But this year, unlicensed vendors on University property were ar- rested by the Ann Arbor police. * * * AS A COMPROMISE, the ath- letic department this year issued folders at registration giving line- ups for the whole season. However, SL contends this was ineffective.' Bob Perry, '53, student repre- sentative on the Board, expressed confidence that any proposal, if a promise of financial cooperation were included, would have a goodj chance before the Board. -Daily-Larry Bestmann ROUTED RODENT-Frustrated number 58 receives therapy from the guiding hand of the research assistant. * * * * * * * * * Frustrated Rat Shows Leftist Trend a, _ __ * * , <"> fbr the chosen. Emotion and na- tionalism were well-lubricated with quantities of sake, Japanese rice-wine, while the flyers ate a final ceremonial meal. Exhorted by their superiors, salved with sonorous praises for the contribution to the country they were making, the pilots donned new flight suits with a rising sun on the back-and j Ann Arbor Vicinity Named Site for New Reformatory The outskirts of Ann Arbor have been chosen as the probable site for a new reformatory for young offenders, State Corrections, Commissioner Ernest C. Brooks revealed yesterday. Tentative plans call for a cottage-and-dormitory type institution. It will house 500 to 600 first offenders from 14 to 21 years old. * * *# THE ANN ARBOR AREA was chosen for the new reformatory because of the medical and psychiatric facilities of the University. Serving to relieve the pressure on present overcrowded state pri- THANKSGIVING Program of T h7 e speech department will serve up a Thanksgiving special at 8 p.m. today and tomorrow at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre with its first laboratory bill of plays this year. Featuring works of three distin- guished playrights, the entire bill will be directed and staged by stu- dents in the advanced theatre courses. SPECIAL: One-Acts To Open Today * * * * By GAYLE GREENE Number 58 is frustrated. Number 58 is a small tan rat, bred at the University, whose one purpose in life seems to be knock- ing his head against the wall of a large black machine. "What we are trying to do," the research assistant said as he plac- ed number 58 on a small wooden platform, "is to find some effective means of therapy that will elimin- ate the senseless behavior of this frustrated creature." * * FROM HIS perch on the wooden platform the frustrated rat Is face to face with the tool of his frustration-the Lashley jumping apparatus. Within the rat's vision are two windows which the experimenter, Paul Ellen, research assistant, has covered with contrasting card- board cards-one painted white with a black circle in the center and the other painted black with a white circle. These cards can be locked se- Union Plans Trip To 'Oklahoma' . Students will have an oppor- tunity.to see the all-time hit musi- cal "Oaklahoma," Friday, Nov. 30 when the Union will make its third theatre trip of the season to Detroit. Tickets at $3.90, which includes a seat at the show and round trip bus fare, will be on sale between 3 and 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday next week in the Union lobby ticket booth. CHRISTMAS CARDS U. of M CARDS CURRIER & IVES RUST CRAFT ETCHCRAFT FOUNTAIN PENS PLASTIC PHONE COVERS GIFTSTATIONERY Typewriters, Sales, t Service, Rentals 1 MORRILL'S 314S S.State St. Phone 7177 curely or left free so that the rat may easily knock them out of place and gain access to a dish of food. If the rat jumps against a lock- ed window, however, he falls down upon a, piece of tarpaulin stretch- ed across a frame a few inches from the floor. "BECAUSE OF HIS frustration,, number 58 always jumps to the left," Ellen said. "Whenever I place the card with q white circle on the left I leave the window un- locked and the rat jumps unhesi- tantly through the window to a dish of food. See," he said, tapping 58 on the tail, "he jumps to the left." "Now, however, when I switch the black circle to the left, watch his behavior. He knows that the black circle is always locked." Al- though 58 hesitated warily, he fin- ally jumped-again, to the left. "His fixation simply won't al- low him to jump to the right, even if I leave the right window completely uncovered and place a dish of food inside where he can see it," Ellen explained. "This rat is only one of 80 em- ployed in our research which Prof. Norman R. F. Maier of.the psy- chology department is directing," Ellen said. "We know that frus- trated animals can't express their learning and we are trying to find ways to break the fixed response which is a result of their frustra- tion." * * # "NUMBER 59 IS my pet," he said, picking up a dark colored rat with a patch of auburn fur. "She always jumps to the right. During our experiment, however, rather than jump to the right and in- variably hit her head against a locked window she has been jump- ing to the table placed about a foot to the right of the apparatus -still to the right," he pointed out. "Since we have been applying therapy, guiding her by force to jump to the opposite side, she is beginning to jump toward the windows again, and very gradually is losing her fixated response," he said placing the object of his com- ments on the jumping platform. This guidance orforcing method seems to be the only successful therapy we have found, Ellen com- mented. However we are also try- ing punishment and reward thera- py as a method of varying the rat's response. In the meantime plump, seem- ingly healthy, but actually frus- trated young rats will continue to give vent to their frustration. * .Ia Cdaa Featuring Genuine ITALIAN SPAGHETTI and RAVIOLI with Salad, Rolls, Coffee Also SANDWICHES and SHORT-ORDERS sons, the reformatory will not be< as restrictive as Jackson prison. Brooks said that he will ask the 1952 legislature to appropriate $5,000,000 for the institution. The request was filed with the state budget office. It will then be up to that office to decide if it should be placed on the budget submitted to the legislature. About one fourth of the total Michigan prison population is i.7.fy{u .y, tiJ,:,'.r: :.:{"!: i.:.nY: ._' ,A:tq is (t" t composed of 14 to 21 year olds serving first offense terms, Brooks added. "We don't need any more insti- tutions in Ann Arbor," commented one University student upon hear- ing the news. A graduate student refused to comment. "I'm prejudiced," he said, "because I spent three years in a reformatory." WASTE TIME! SH, D IT ST :RVICE . 22c APIECE GEORGE BERNARD Shaw's sa- tiric comedy, "Passion, Poison and Petrifaction" is a 19th century type melodramatic farce, a take- off on the melodrama's of Shaw's time. Appropriate intrigue and con- flict is provided by a jealous hus- band, a Beau Brummel type lover, a fickle young wife and a revenge- ful poisoning. Tennessee Williams' lyrical fantasy, "The Case of the Crushed Petunias" is also on the bill. Its setting is Miss Simple's Notion Shop in Primanproper, Mass. Under the direction of Catole E. Eiserman, '52, the play stars Charlotte Matthews, '52, and William Broeckner, '53. "Santa Claus" by E. E. Cum- mings is an expressionistic play dealing with modern morality. Cummings has represented the better nature of man in the title character who is duped by Death and told to become a scientist. Santa's conversion leads to hate, a chase and a killing with an un- usual switch in which he gets the best of death in a triumph of good over evil. 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