THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1952 -1 IFC's Bias THE INTER-FRATERNITY Council lasti December went on record for a high- sounding program of educational work to- wards the removal of discriminatory clauses from fraternities. In the words of IFC's president, the so- called Acacia Plan is "the fairest and most constructive policy regarding the removal of discriminatory clauses." At that time, Harry Lunn, author of the proposal; promised it would not be a do- nothing policy, but rather a concrete plan of non-coercive progress towards the removal of bias clauses. The Acacia Plan has been on the books for three months-enough time to give a fair indication of its practical operation. The record is clear-perfectly clear. It's blank. The Acacia motion promises an informa- tion and counseling service to the fra- ternities. After a fashion, there is one-the discarded material of the study committee and a file of Daily articles on the Group SAC Plan THE ANTI BIAS clause proposal scheduled to go before President Hatcher and the Board of Regents is only a faltering step in the continuation of the Michigan Plan. New campus organizations with bias clauses will be denied recognition by SAC through the definite power of the Michi- gan Plan but existing groups can scarcely be touched by the new proposal. Last year's anti bias clause proposal stat- ed.that by October of 1956 all organizations still having bias clauses would be denied recognition by SAC. But that proposal was vetoed by outgoing President Ruthven last spring. The present bruised and battered plan lost the time limit in the process of being abandoned by IFC and rescued again by SL. Without the time limit it is half as effective as its predecessor. SAC has no specific power to make the plan effective. It only states that SAC will not recognize any campus group which has bias clauses and isn't attempting to remove them. Biased groups can report that they are attempting to remove the clauses-and keep reporting the same year after year. SAC has to recognize them as long as they are attempting. In this way the proposal exists only as a rambling fence through which biased groups can easily slip. It points out the University as a hypocritical institution. Action is supposedly being taken to remedy a bad situation when actually nothing is being done. In its present form the anti- bias clause proposal is nothing but good intentions. Restoration of the time limit will give it the power to defend itself. -Carol Hershey The Salesman A MERICANS walk with lighter, more care- free, step lately because of the benign dispensation of a leading cigarette firm. We had the stoop of our own shoulders lifted at breakfast the other day when we spied our benefactor's advertised permission to "stop worrying about cigarrette irritation.* So we did, it was as easy as that. Just ignored the fool thing and turned to other matters we'd been sort of neglecting lately, like underarm odor, the ring around the bathtub, several characteristics our friends don't mention, and the future of mankind. All this punctuated by a staccato, hacking cough. --Zander Hollander Program Dynamics study of the bias problem. Thus far, none of the houses have bothered look- ing in the musty files-probably they've forgotten about the existence of the "in- formation and counseling service." The pres- idents of the clause houses lave not been told about the "service" or been encouraged to look into the available material. The plain fact is that IFC has not lifted a finger towards implementing its "construc- tive" plan. At a recent Executive Council meeting, the problem of whether to take an active lead in informational and counseling service was brought to the attention of the,group. Observing that campus attention had been focused elsewhere recently, the IFC leaders decided to follow their traditional policy of doing as little as possible. Action on the Acacia proposal would pre- sumably be carried out by the IFC Human Relations Committee. Since the enactment of the Acacia Plan, this committee has con- sisted of one man-a chairman. No report has been given by this "committee" since the Acacia Plan's passage. If total inactivity is "fair and construc- tive", then it must be conceded that the IFC is one of the fairest and most con- structive bodies on campus. But, many fraternity men expect from the organization which represents them vig- orous and positive leadership in solving from within one of the most troublesome prob- lems facing the fraternity system today. They have a right to complain loudly that the present drift in IFC policy is the worst sort of sham and hypocrisy. The composer of the Acacia resolution, stated on this editorial page on December 14 that "There was no argument over the fact that the clauses should be removed from Michigan fraternity chapters ; . . The IFC established a policy, then, and prepared plans to carry 'out the provisions of its poli- cy"-i. e. educational and counseling work with clause houses. Obviously, inactivity is not the intent of the motion. This interpretation of it by the IFC leaders has not made it the "large stride in the right direction," its authors hoped for, but rather a thinly disguised ex- cuse to drop the issue-an interpretation its writers would disavow. The evidence is irrefutable. The evasion of the intent of the motion is inexcusable. Will the IFC ever have the courage of its convictions? If the majority of the house presidents agree with the present implemen- tation of the Acacia Plan-and it must be re- called it was passed by a slim margin under highly questionable procedure,-then they should pass a simple resolution embodying the actual IFC policy, and renouncing all further 'action on bias clause removal. -Crawford Young Dance Class IT was obvious to those taking the masterj class in modern dance from Jose Limon last week that dance instruction at the Uni- versity is painfully inadequate. There is actually no dance department here on campus. Classes in modern dance are taught lnder the auspices of the physical education department. Often the teaching of these courses is taken over by physical education majors who have no real knowledge of the techniques of modern dance. They know only what they have learned through the classes taught here. The practice of having students teach class is common in the department. The skills of basketball or volley ball can be learned with less than a year of work. Un- fortunately for those interested in learning to dance, a year is not sufficient to make even a fair dance teacher out of anyone. Exceptions can be made to this, particularly in the entire year, 8 hours a day are spent in learning to dance, otherwise it is im- possible. Good dancers and good dance teachers dedicate their entire lives to the profession. Here, it is believed, blindly perhaps, that a few courses, taught by an inadequate depart- ment can make a dancer out of anyone. Courses in modern dance composition are also included in the list of dance courses offered. These may be taken by the student before he has a chance to acquire any of the basic techniques. The excuse given is "they are being taught to express themselves." This is the same as request- ing a child with no vocabulary to express himself through speech. On a campus of the size and reputation of the University there should be an in- dependent dance department taught by teachers of quality and ability. A teacher needn't be the finest dancer in the country, indeed, many dance teachers never dance for their classes. It is necessary, however, for the teacher to have a strong background in dance and to be able to teach it, with the proficiency expected of a professional in any field. Admittedly, it would be almost impos- sible to draw such famous innovators as Martha Graham, Jose Limon, Doris Humphrey away from their schools and work in New York, but there are many young dancers without their own schools and without big names, yet well known in their field, who would be interested in a situation that would permit them to con- tinue with their own work, teach a re- duced program, and have a steady income. They would then have the same status as a Composer or Author in Residence. If such an arrangement could be made, the Upiversity would have as fine a dance department as any liberal arts school in the country --Jo Levine Spring Fever T HAPPENS all of a sudden like. We pull down our coat collars and discover dry necks. We lift our heads slightly and notice peo- ple have faces. We lift our heads slightly more and no- tice blue sky and sunshine are not just fic- titious cliches. We walk up marble steps to vaguely fam- iliar classes and trip our sunbathers-we come out of less vaguely familiar classes, and become sunbathers. All of a sudden we begin to walk about aimless like and notice a couple of buds, a shabby old robbin, that the Arb gate is open. All of a sudden we wonder sort of. Why blue books? Why grades? Why anything? Why? So its raining today. So it might snow tomorrow. The birdies didn't come all the way from Florida for nothing. -Jan Winn [CURRENT MOVIES At The Michigan .. TlE LAS VEGAS STORY, with Jane Russell and Victor Mature. OOH! This picture is not necessarily good. Jane Russell is uu to her usual form. but she fails to pull this one out of the fire-- she may even push a little. She uses up her stock of facial expressions-mad, hap- py, and nothing-in the first reel, and after that there is not too much to distinguish her from the rest of the scenery. Victor Mature, who doesn't even man- age to open his eyes all the way for this picture, stumbles his way through love scenes, sentimental bosh and a helicopter- automobile chase to the death. The whole thing turns out to be no more than a large frame for la Russell to slink around in; if that's what you want, take it. A fifteen-minute short subject about col- lege songs features the University Glee Club. While the singing is enjoyable, the shots of campuses across the country prove a little Yi. f' 1 "If You're Going To Try To Win, I Won't Play / I, * ..!1 .t, e4 <*j '7 '.4'' Rio- SPONTANEITY is a wonderful ti.... Thursday night, for no appreciable rea- son, some 2,000 students devoted six hours and immeasurable energy to a wayward trek from dormitory to dormitory in pursuit of nothing. With absolutely no pushing from, anyone, group spirit-which this campus allegedly lacks completely - became the keynote of the evening. t On the other hand, for over a month, major campus leaders have attempted to arouse a sense of spirit, of competition with Texas 'U', and rally students around to the point of donating blood. The cause was worthwhile, the drive backers were sincere, yet, when the drive ended Friday, only a little over 1,000 pints had been donated. -Diane Decker tettePJ TO THE EDITOR The Daily welcomes communications from its readers on matters of general interest, and will publish all letters which are signed by the writer, and in good taste. Letters exceeding 300 words in length, defamatory or libelous letters, and letters which for any reason are not in good taste will be condensed, edited or withheld from publication at the discretion of the editors. 0', ON THE Washington M erry-GoRound with DREW PEARSON, WASHINGTON - Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson, the man chiefly in charge of rearming the nation, has written a letter to Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas, so far confidential, giving' the shock- ing admission that he has no schedule for the armament program. This is the equivalent of running a railroad without a timetable. And it points to the probability that the President will have to get a new mobilization chief or else let arms production continue in its present bogged-down, helter-skelter condition. When Wilson flew to Key West last December to discuss the arms program with President Truman, he told the press that arms produc- tion "was right up to our own schedules" and increasing at the rate of $l.000,000,000 a month. But Senator Johnson, chairman of the Senate Preparedness Sub- committee, doubted this. He had previously warned that production was lagging, which was one reason Wilson made his hurried trip to Key West. So, following Wilson's statement, Senator Johnson wrote the mobilizer and asking the pointed question: "What are your produc- tion schedules?" Oh Feb. 21, Mobilizer Wilson replied in a brief but revealing letter. Slightly paraphrased, it read: "I presume you are referring to my statement to the press at Key West .. . the word 'schedules' was not meant to be taken literally . As a result, my meaning was misunderstood. I meant to say that the military production is keeping up to my expectations." In this confession, Wilson revealed the amazing fact that he has no military production goals. He also revealed the basic reason why aluminum is now "running out of our ears," and why there is so much steel on hand that the steel industry privately woul just as soon have a strike in order to use up the surplus. In other words new raw-material plants were set up without any co-ordinated scheduling with military production. * * *1 * LAGGING ARMS ON TOP OF THIS, the military program is bogged down far worse than the public realizes. To illustrate, here are some shocking facts that the enemy already knows about, but which the American people don't: 1.In Korea today the Communists are firing twice as many artillery rounds as we are. Obviously they are well supplied, while our troops have to hold back. In fact, we are so short of shells that the Army has given shells priority over anything else. 2. The only jet fighter plane we have equal to the Russian MIG is the F-86 Sabrejet. Yet Russia is now producing MIGs at the rate of 3,500 a year while we are producing Sabrejets at the rate of only 200 a year. In other words, Russia is outproducing us at the rate of 18 to 1. 3. According to our estimates, the combined airplane production of the United States, England, France and all other NATO countries is not equal to Russian plane production and will not be for another year. 4. Russia now has a combat air force of 20,000 planes, over half of them up-to-the-minute jets. Probably we have a bigger total force when it comes to bombers and transport planes, but we are about 50 per cent below Russia when it comes to combat planes and jet fighters. 5. Russia has about 10,000 planes in mothballs, ready for an emergency. We have only 8,000 planes in mothballs, and since we have run out of spare parts of these older planes, we are now cannibalizing the mothball planes in order to get parts. 6. We have sent Europe less than half the military supplies we promised one year ago, NATO was organized on the theory that Europe would supply the men, we would supply the material. I But though we have supplied men-despite a huge unemploy- ment problem in some parts of Europe-We have fallen down on supplying planes, tanks, weapons. It is our recent about-face and the demand that Europe supply more material that has disrupted European economies and led to the government crisis in France. These are some of the facts that the American public doesn't realize; also why American industry suddenly finds itself with surplus aluminum and more surplus steel at a time when materials were supposed to be tighter than ever. ** * * CHINA VS. SOVIET THE PENTAGON has just received an intelligence report, regarded as highly reliable, that Russia plans to cut off Manchuria from Communist China and set it up as a separate Soviet state. This would strip China of its richest province, checkrein its growing military might and keep it under subjugation as a Russian-communist vassal state. It is no secret that the Kremlin is uneasy about China's surge to power, and that Stalin personally doesn't trust the wily Chinese communist dictator Mao Tse-Tung. The Korean war has not only strengthened Mao at the expense of Russian equipment, but also has made him a popular communist hero. As a result, Stalin sees in Mao a possible Chinese frankenstein who might eventually chal- lenge Russian supremacy. To block this, the Kremlin has cooked up the scheme of setting up a rival dictatorship in Manchuria and splitting Mao's strength in half. The powerful jet air force and Russian military stocks, now based in Manchuria, would probably go on to the new Manchurian satellite. However, Mao is reported to have got wind of the Soviet scheme and is rushing trusted political lieutenants to Manchuria to take over the political reins. At the same time, his agents are keeping close watch on the military stockpile in Manchuria, though the air force is still under Rnsian control. Tel heeeeee ... To the Editor: WAS perambulating Observa- tory Street last Thursday night. At about 9:30 p.m., a group of co- eds, whose team formation resem- bled that of the Minnesota for- ward wall, came from out of an orange colored sky and charged violently towards the New Wom- en's Dormitory. One waved a pair of gentleman's unmentionables and shouted "Weee! Look what I got from the South Quad." Five minutes later, a disorg- anized group of male students ran frantically from the New Women's Dormitory. Many were gleefully waving various foundation gar- ments and one shouted, "Wow! Look what I got from the fourth floor of Alice Lloyd." I paused for a few moments and reflected. Where else but in Amer- ica can something like this happen? -E. Sterling Sader * * * GOP Convention .. . To the Editor: JT SEEMS that Zander Hollander is running true to form in his editorial "Republican Convention". It is another jumble of misrepre- ented reporting that some of us have grown to expect from Mr. Hollander. He claims "This was the glar- ing disparity between the vote of the 50 delegates who turned thumbs down on a motion endors- ing Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for the GOP nomination, and the more than a hundred delegates and spectators who applauded the motion wildly when placed on the floor." Therefore, Mr. Hollander infers, we should have adopted' the resolution. The facts however are that the meeting was filled full of people that Mr. Cargo brought with him precisely for that pur- pose, i. e. to railroad the resolu- tion through. The delegates, and not Mr. Cargo's crowd, represent the country, 'and it was they who voted against the resolution. I hope Mr. Hollander does not wish to imply that if a person is 'able to get wildly cheering friends to a meeting that what they want should be passed. It might also be wise to point out that it was one of the delegates who requested that the spectators be quiet so the actual sense of the coiwention might be felt. No one (or certainly not many people) had dny objection to Mr. Cargo's resolution of racial and religious equality of opportunity. That is why it was left on~ the books. However, Mr. Cargo had absolutely no right to be a dele- gate at the convention. Cargo was not- ruled out on a technical irregularity but rather for good reason. No one can be a delegate from his district unless he has either been elected as such or appointed alternate from that district. Mr. Cargo was neither elected nor appointed alternate. He claimed that he had spokendto a delegate from Manchester and he gave him his oral o. k. for him to be a delegate. However under longstanding rules of the conven- tion no delegate can assign his vote in absentia. In order for Mr. Cargo to have been a delegate, a Manchester delegate would have had to have been at the conven- tion. There was no Manchester delegate there. In other words, Cargo, had no more right to be a delegate to the convention than I, as a spectator, had. -Ned B. Simon * * * Psychology 31 .., WEDNESDAY, a disillusioning experience, which unfortu- nately is a typical manifestation of the class-room attitude of too many American students, has made us think even more poorly of the U of M student. Wednesday, during the time that Dr. Heyns usually devotes to psychology 51. he permitted Dr. Lebow to spe'ak to the lecture class about participating in a group dynamics project. When Dr. Lebow had finished speaking at 2:40, Dr. Heyns began to give his lecture. He was greeted by hisses and boos. He started to speak again, and again he received the same greeting. Most of the class evidently expected to be dis- missed then. Abruptly putting away his lecture material, he was halted by some encouragement from the class, and asked for a concensus of opinion. Upon receiv- ing a mixture of "yesses" and "nos," he compromised and said he would lecture for only 10 min- utes. There was still some grum- bling in the auditorium, but he did continue to lecture for 10 minutes. Dr. Heyns, far more lenient than most professors here, has patiently waited till 12 minutes past the professor who has been more than fair in his relationship to the stu- dents. Perhaps Dr. Heyns wasn't hurt, but we feel hurt for him, and ashamed of ouselves as mem- bers of that lecture class. It seems that students who sup- posedly come to this University for an education, do their best to avoid getting that education. -Sandra Gotshalk SDA Policy .. . To the Editor: A CAMPUS-WIDE distribution of an excerpt from the Con- gressional Record, quoting the text of the Students for Democra- tic Action Bill of Rights for Stu- dents, is currently underway. The Bill states forthright attitudes on particular questions of student po- litical and governmental rights and needs. T h e statement opposes "a spoon-fed educational program," and declares that "totalitarian dogmas can be defeated openly and fairly without the curtailment of the political liberties of their opponents." In generalized reference to the present campus effort to lift Lec- ture Committee curbs on political expression, this national state- ment demands that student or- ganizations be "free to invite and hear on campus speakers of their own choice." The SDA "views with apprehen- sion the increase of unwarranted restrictions placed by many col- lege administrations and State legislatures upon thesrights of stu- dents to organize groups ... (and) to hear speakers of their own choice." Students should "resist infringements on these rights by State legislatures." The SDA National Bill of Rights urges popularly elected student government. It comments on press freedom, faculty advisers, work- ing students' rights, and other vi- tal campus issues. The Congressional Record ex- cerpt is lengthy, but it is worth- while and incisive. All members of the academic community, stu- dent, faculty, and administrative, ought read it carefully, and, wherever possible, follow it close- ly. , --Ted Friedman President; Students for Democratic Ac- tion Seat Takers .. To the Editor: I WOULD personally like to ex- tend my thanks to the house- mothers and other "elders" who annexed some 20 center balcony seats for the Senior Night perfor- mance of JGP and refused to move even when the seniors who held those seats showed them their ticket stubs. Their utter rudeness should re- ceive a standing ovation from all those absolutely devoid of man- ners. -Ber Miench Oath for Mob .. . To the Editor: SUGGEST that the University compel every student to reply under oath to a questionnaire which will reveal whether he was one of the hoodlums who partici- pated in mob demonstration on March 20. Let trespassers be turned over to the civil authorities for prosecution. Innocent people should welcome a questionnaire which will expose criminals. -Edward March a r -I DRAMA ROCKET TO Odets. At the THE MOON, by Clifford Arts Theatre Club. It's a play studded with the poetry of people's speech, the terror of seemingly or- dinary people living their seemingly ordin- ary lives. Odets takes the essence of each of our lives and rolls it up into a fierce work of art. And the Arts Theater Club has re- vealed the creative power of the playwright in a production that is one of the finest,in its history. The Club has again proved that plays aren't "dated" simply. because they are concerned with problems whose details are no longer troubling us. The basic difficulties of men and women trying to live in health and dignity in society are problems that are always with us, and it is this fundamental concern that is the universal appeal of "Rocket to the Moon." It is not simply a play about the frustra- tions of dentists in New York during the depression. It is, much more, an affirmation of peo- ple's unquenchable thirst for beauty and goodness in the face of their own inadequacy and despair and ignorance. It is a play about the torment of reaching freedom through the total acceptance and affirma- tion of necessity. Even the emotionally stunted dentist's wife can cry out, "A woman wants to live with a man, not next to him." They want and elemental, but otherwise she was the very prototype of the modern shrew as the dentist's "credit-manager" wife. In the minor roles, Harry Elton gives a fine demonstra- tion of the selfish joylessness of American promiscuity, Strowan Robertson is better than usual but should be more careful not to throw away the lines of his wonderful speech beginning with "Love is a jumping off place," and Bob Lanning, who also di- rected, is responsible (as actor) for one of the greatest moments in the production, although his big speech in that scene, "If only they invented hydrants in the streets which give out milk and honey!" seemed too shrill. It has been suggested that there are "hints" in this play of "Death of a Sales- man" and "Born Yesterday". But the ob- verse of that statement has more validity: the two latter plays contain hints of "Rocket to the Moon". For Ben Stark, Odets' hero, is a better, more deeply realized man than Willy Loman. Rejecting the temptations of money and romantic love so that he can struggle to face his real self, Ben understands, however dimly, the false values that threaten the emer- gence of wholeness and integration in American life. And it is a funnier play than "Born Yesterday" because its humor bubbles up out of the despair its charac- ters, as an antidote for that despair. Cleo Singer, the dentist's attractive secretary, I Sixty-Second Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board of Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Chuck Eiliott.......Managing Editor Bob Keith................ City Editor Leonard Greenbaum, Editorial Director Vern Emerson ..........Feature Editor Ron Watts ........Associate Editor Bob Vaughn ..........Associate Editor Ted Papes..............Sports Editor George Flint .'...Associate Sports Editor Jim Parker .. . ..Associate Sports Editor Jan James ..... 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