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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1952
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The Court & Segregation
FTER YEARS of delay, the United States
Supreme Court will, in a few months,
rule on one of the greatest and most im-
portant legal disputes between state and
federal government in the history of the
country-whether a state has the legal right
to enforce racial segregation in public
schocls.
Before the Court now are five cases in-
volving enforced segregation in South
Carolina, Virginia, Kansas, Delaware, and
thve District of Columbia. The National
Association for the Advancement of Col-
ored of Colored people and the Justice De-
partment have taken the lead in pleading
the cause of non-segregation.
The precedent which the court must now
either abandon or stand by had its legal
birth in 1896 when the "separate but equal"
doctrine was laid down in the case of Plessy,
vs. Ferguson. The "separate but equal" con-
cet upholds separate educational facilities
for Negroes if these facilities are "equal" to
tl _- of white students.
Since the 1896 decision the "separate
!-*t equal" doctrine has gradually been
whittled down by the court.
Pecently, the Sweatt decision in Missouri
lett standing the "separate but equal" rul-
in". but the court defined equal in such ex-
acting terms that it became questionable
wether any state could actually establish
sur facilities.
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. ,TE OF THE most interesting and signi-
ficant points of this case is the point of
d -, rting which the NAACP is taking in
ar,:Ing the case for non-segregation.
In previous test cases before the court,
#e critics. of segregation have argued
theiv case almost entirely from the stand-
poiut of equal intellectual and education-
P1 conditions. Now, however, the NAACP
1,,? added another criterion-that.of emo-
1on3al and psychological conditions. A
F -fed version of this appeal is that
vn Negroes are forced to attend separ-
r ^ schools, they are bound to feel In-
frnr and humiliated. Negroes, they con-
e- are forced to appeal to the state for
r rights as equal citizens, and that in
iLif Is an admission by the state that
4 y are not equal to other citizens.
T support its arguments, the NAACP has
f' ? a 'statement of experts' which is a
b, ief prepared by 32 social scientists citing
the detrimental social and psychological ef-
fects of segregation on both the minority
and majority groups.
This statement should have tremendous
implications. Given the uneasy position of
the relatively young social sciences in this
country, it will be highly significant wheth-
er the Supreme Court will accept as valid
legal counsel the advice and opinion of so-
cial scientists. This is the first major case
in which the court has been asked to accept=
socio-psychological arguments as para-
mount evidence, and the implications of
this as regards the court's future flexibility
and scope are immense.
Also involved in this case is the -com-
plex state-federal power issue. The chief
problem before the court is to decide the
legality of a state law per se. It is the
age-old conflict between the states and
the federal government in determining the
legal jurisdiction of each.
In the past two decades, a more liberal
and wider interpretation of the court's pow-
ers has gradually come into being. This new
idea of the court in relation to the states
accelerated during the later years of the
New Deal and came to a legally dramatic
climax in inter-state commerce and inter-
state transportation cases in which the
court laid down the law to recalcitrant
states.
Now the issue revolves around the 14th
amendment which guarantees equal protec-
tion under the laws and forbids any state
to abridge "the rights or immunities" of
any citizen.
Those who would argue for non-segre-
gation say that the right of states to fix
local policy is invalidated in this case be-
cause racial segregation goes against the
Constitution (14th amendment.) On the
other side is the argument that the Su-
preme Cour lacks jurisdiction because the,
issue affects the state and does not present
a federal question.
The issues are complicated. But it seems
to this writer that to protect and per-
petrate the broad meaning of the Con-
stitution, the Court should decide in favor
of the NAACP. It should be obvious by
now that there is no such thing as
"separate but equal." The implications of
segregation are such that it is virtually°
impossible to create a social atmosphere
of equality when one race is refused the
same opportunities, both educational and
social, that another possesses.
The states with enforced segregation are
clearly violating the Constitution which
explicitly provides for equal treatment of
citizens.On the basis of past cases, there is
precedent enough for the Court to correct
this violation.
-Alice Bogdonoff
-- a
ON THE
Washington Merry-Go-Round
MATTER OF FACT
By JOSEPH ALSOP
BNN,Germany-The Schaumburg Pal-
ais, from which wise old Conrad Ade-
nauer rules this country, can serve as a
pretty good symbol of what has happened
in Western Germany since the end of the
war.
Like most of Germany, the once proud
and pretentious Bonn residence of the
Princes of Schaumburg-Lippe was very far
from improved by the war. None the less,
it was about the best that Bonn had to
offer, when the new West German govern-
ment was established. To serve Adenauer
as the equivalent of the White House, the
battered old place was first hastily patch-
ed up; then entirely refitted in the rather
bleak, efficient modified North-German-
Lloyd style that so many Germans like
nowadays.
And in its new guise, with its fresh white
paint, its sternly tidy gardens, and its air
of incipient prosperity, the Schaumburg
Palais seems to proclaim, firmly and even
with a certain smugness, Germany's power
to build a new life out of the ruins.
Here reigns-for the present at least,
reign is the nearest one can come to the
right word-Conrad Adenauer, one of the
truly remarkable men of the west. Aged
but indestructible, the leader of the Chris-
tian Democrats, the Chancellor of West Ger-
many, offers his visitors, an impenetrable
facade of irreconcilable contradictions. '
He is so provincial that he hates to be
more than fifty miles from his native
Cologne. Yet no one better understands
men, nations and the world. He is notor-
iously wily. Yet when he says he will do
something, he invariably meets his con-
tract. He is profoundly cynical. Yet he
has worked and is working towards a
bold ideal of a democratic Germany in-
corporated in a United Europe.
At this moment, Adenauer towers over the
German scene. An accumulation of fearful
illnesses and wounds has at last removed his
great adversary, the brave, tortured and ter-
rible Dr) Schumacher. The able and mo-
derate Dr. Ollenhauer, the new chieftain of
the Social Democrats will hardly oppose
Adenauer in the manner of Schumacher,
who transformed German politics into a
sort of perpetual duel to the death between
Adenauerrand himself. With Schumacher
gone, Adenauer has no contemporary, and
no equal.
At this moment, moreover, Adenauer can
look around him and see many causes for
satisfaction. The Bonn government, the
experiment that once seemed so frail and
almost hopeless, has at last become the true
government of Western Germany, with an
authority recognized by the whole German
people. Simultaneously, West Germany has
achieved an extraordinary recovery. Factor-
ies and houses are everywhere replacing
rubble and ruins. Jobs are opening for the
great mass of postwar refugees and unem-
ployed. Hard Vork and bold enterprises are
making Germany a decent place to live
again. For any leader of a people, all this
must mean much.
But Conrad Adenauer is one German
who will always tell you: "It is foolish to
talk only about Germany. You cannot
discuss Germany nowadays without talk-
ing too about France and Italy and the
other nations which compose the Europe
of the future, and about this Europe' re-
lation to the West." And in this matter
of "building Europe," Adenauer can also
point to great progress.
The Schuman plan has passed and has
been put in operation. At Luxembourg Jean
Monnet and his team of Germans, Italians,
Belgians and Netherlanders are even now
preparing to open a single, united, European
market for coal and steel, and to give Eur-
ope a coal and steel industry worthy of a
market of 150,000,000 people. Earnestly
working with the other nations' represen-
tatives, Adenauer's ex-Trades-Unionist De-
fense Minister, and his two quiet-spoken,
singularly lucid-minded generals, Speidel
and Heusinger, have allbut completed prac-
tical, detailed planning for a European
Army.
For his part, Adenauer is sardonically
certain that he can get the German parlia-
ment to accept both the European army and
the so-called contractual agreements which
will officially end the allied occupation. He
can look forward, indeed, to the time when
a securely defended Western Europe will
put the capstone on its own work of re-
construction, by placing above the Schu-
man plan and the European Army a truly
European political authority.
One can see, in truth, why Conrad Ade-
nauer has reason to appear confident.
Yet there are also grim danger signals.
As in Britain, so here in Germany, the
whole economy is at the mercy of the
American business curve. A slight Amer-
ican recession can precipitate a deen Ger-
man depression; and depression will open
the way in Germany for the neo-Nazis
who are are already growing bolder. By
the same token, the European army, al-
though passed here, can be defeated in
Paris, and this defeat will soon bring down
the whole structure of European unity
and Western defense.
"The roof is on; the walls are up," said
Adenauer the other day, in his quiet, dry
manner. "But if the roof is not carefully and
quickly put on, the hard weather of our
times will soon destroy everything that has
been built up in these last troubled years."
It seemed a good message to an America
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DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN
with DREW PEARSON
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WASHINGTON-At the big White House
farewell dinner which President Tru-
man gave for his cabinet, Gov. Adlat Ste-
venson stood in the reception line alongside
the President, shaking hands with guests.
Spying Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Ives, his
brother-in-law and sister, Adlai said:
"Welcome to the White House. I told you
I'd get here before Eisenhower"
"I always knew we'd get to see Adlai in
the White House," shot b'ack his sister to
Predent Truman. "But we hoped it would
be for more than one evening."
NEW JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
MOST IMPORTANT spotlight in the en-
tire Eisenhower administra'tion will be
focusl on the Justice Department after
J, 20. Because of the corruption issue,
a ,t Justice does, how it prosecutes, who it
u r°nts will be watched more carefully
than sny other department.
s a reb'der of American morale, Jus-
t'r will also be all-important. For the
P m an pulhc badly needs a restor-
of confidence in honesty of gov-
o m1icfortunate by product of exposing
cc > ion is that everything about govern-
m is dishonest, anrd no government offi-
' to be trusted. Young men who once
i _ d to serve in government, shun such
se! Je. Conscientious officials already in
go .,rnment become ashamed of their pro-
This is the kind of atmosphere which
ev- nfiually rots any democratic system,
eventually would make for Communism.
Present Attorney General James Mc-
Granery, after getting off to a slow start,
is now doing a good job of cleaning up
corruntion spots. But much more im-
per-tant is the personnel which will run
t,'e Justice Department under Eisenhower.
The man who will pick the personnel and
manage it under new Attorney General
Brownell is William Rogers, former counsel
for the Senate investigating committee, now
to be deputy Attorney General. A Republi-
can who got crime-busting experience under
Dewey, Rogers came to Washington when
the Republicans controlled the Senate in
1946. Taking over direction of the old Tru-
man committee, he did such a good job
that the Democrats continued him when
#hey rewon control of Congress in- 1948.
And it was Rogers, working under a
Democrat, fair-minded Sen. Clyde Hoey
of North Carolina, who exposed a lot of
DP=:.ocratic influence peddling-the deep
i' yes of General Vaughan, the five-
pr-centers, and confirmed this column's
exposes, such as the operations of John
peared in court, some judges might be in-
fluenced by the fact that in the future he
will pass on their promotions; so he leaned
over backwards, gave up all court- appear-
ances.
This is the young Republican who is
on the lookout for diligently, honest Re-
publicans dedicated to public service, the
kind recruited in the Roosevelt adminis-
tration to operate the Justice Department
and U.S. Attorney's offices throughout the
country.
Upon his operation will partly depend
restoration of confidence in government.
NEW TAFT-HARTLEY
THE MAN WHO will have a great deal to
say about the hottest potato in the new
Congress-revision of the Taft-Hartley Act
-is a 51-year-old Pennsylvanian, Congress-
man Sam McConnell, who says:
"I've never ducked a hot potato in my
life and I don't intend to start now."
As chairman of the House labor com-
mittee, McConnell, a Republican, is bound
to come into conflict with fellow Republi-
can Bob Taft, who wants to do his own re-
writing of the Taft-Hartley Act. McCon-
nell, on the other hand, thinks it better to
junk the entire act, write another one.
"We ought to have a simple, understand-
able law that makes sense to the man in the
street," says McConnell. "If that means a
completely new bill, then we ought to have
a new bill."
McConnell's father was a Methodist
minister. McConnell himself is a Presby-
terian with a deep religious conviction
against unfairness to any group, whether
it be a labor union or a racial minority.
He favors a "voluntary" FEPC program;
administered by a federal commission with
power to expose and recommend against
employment .discrimination .because . of
race, color, or creed.
The Pennsylvanian is against the "com-
pulsory" approach, believes public opinion
is sufficient to deal with cases of job bias,
provided they are exposed by a federal com-
mission. He got a voluntary FEPC bill
through the House in the 81st Congress,. on-
ly to have it shelved by the Senate. Mc-
Connell will try' again in the next session.
Still another hot potato will be Federal
aid to education, which created a religious
ruckus in the last Congress. McConnell is
opposed to full Federal aid to education, but
plans to put up a battle for school aid to
needy and defense areas, as well as federal
funds for school construction.
"I'm against anything that would im-
pose government controls on our schools,"
says the Pensylmania congressman, "but
will do everything in my power to give
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the position of City Planner, This
would entail planning, zoning, and
traffic engineering work.
The Standard Register Company, of
Dayton, Ohio, is in need of an Indus
trial Engineer and prefer one who is
familiar with the broad aims of time
and motion study.
C M Inc. of Ann Arbor, has openings
for a Mechanical Engineer. The posi-
tion would entail handling detailed
work in the department, with the pos-
sibility of future work in the sales
field.
The Eli Lilly Company, of Indianap-
olis, Ind., is in need of Associate Bio-
chemists for their Antibiotics Manfac-
turing and Development Division. De-
tailed information in addition to ap-
plication blanks may be obtained.
The New York Civil service Commis-
sion announces an opening for a Public
Relations Aide. The requirements in-
clude either a degree or some experi-
ence in the field.
HallnBrothers,dInc. (Hallmark Cards)
of Kansas City, Mo., has available posi-
tions for women graduating in Febru-
ary interested In Commercial Art,
Light-Verse Writing, Sales Analysis and
Research, Retailing and Merchandising.
Application blanks and detailed in-
formation is available.
For further information on these and
other openings contact the Bureau of
Appointments, 3528 Administration
Building, Ext. 371.
Lectures
Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Se-
ries. "Manpower in the Western Ro-
man Empire," opening lecture, "The
Population Problem in the Later Em-
pire," Prof. Arthur E. R. Boak, Wed.,
Dec. 17, 4:15 p.m., Rackham Amphi-
theater.
'University Lecture. Wed. Dec. 17,
4:10 p.m., 1300 Chemistry Bldg. Profes-
sor F. A. Matsen, University of Texas,
will speak on "Hybridization and Re-
action Mechanisms."
Academic Notices
Doctoral Examination, for John Phil-
ip Davison, Biological Chemistry; the-
sis: "The Influence of Prolonged Fast-
ing on the Distribution of Lipides in
the Tissues and Blood Plasma of the
Adult White Rat," Wed., Dec. 17, 313
West Medical Bldg., at 1:30 p.m. Chair-
man, H. C. Eckstein.
Doctoral Examination fdr Benjamin
Ward White, Psychology; thesis: "vis-
ual and Auditory Closure," Wed., Dec.
17, 7611 Haven Hall, at 9 am. Chair-
man, E. L. Walker.
Doctoral Examination for Eu-Phang
Tsao, Pharaeutical Chemistry; thesis:
"The Preparation of Analogs of Dem-
erol, Amidone and Isoamiddne and the
Reaction of Certain Nitriles with
Grignard Reagents" Thurs., Dec. 18,
2525 Chemistry Bldg., at 1:30 p.m.
Chairman, F. F. Blicke.
Sociology Colloquium. Dr. Horace
Miner, of the Sociology and Anthropol-
ogy Departments, and Dr. Max Hutt,
of the Psychology Department, will
speak on "The Algerian Arab: An In-
terdisciplinary Approach to Culture
Change," at 4:10 p.m., Wed., Dec. 17,
in the East Conference Room, Rackham
Building. Everyone welcome.
Course 401, the Interdisciplinary
Seminar on the Applications of Mathe-
matics to the Social Sciences, will meet
on Thurs., Dec. 18, in 3409 Mason Hall
at 4 p.m. Mr. Bruce Biddle of the Social
Psychology Department will speak on
"Some Expectation Theory."
Engineering Mechanics Seminar. Pro-
fessor Paul M. Naghdi will speak "On
the Flexure of Thick Plates on Elastic
Foundations" at 3:45 in 101 West En-
gineering Building, on Wed., Dec. 17.
Geometry Seminar. Wed., Dec. 17, at
4:15 p.m. in 3001 AngelliHall. Mr. C.
Buck will talk on "Algebraic Content
of the Generalized Stoke's Theorem."
Applied Mathematics Seminar will
meet Thurs., Dec. 18, at 4 p.m., ,247
West Engineering Building. Mr. R. K.
Getoor will speak on "Classical limit
theorems of probability theory." Re-
freshments will be served in 274 West
Engineering at 3:30.
Concerts
University of Michigan Choirs, May-
nard Klein, Conductor, will present
the annual Christmas Concert at 8:30
Wed, evening, Dec. 17, in Hill Audi-
torium. The University Choir will open
the program with compositions by Ga-
Silent Night, and Holst's Christmas
Day.
The general public will be admitted
without charge.
Events Today
S.A.E.-A.S.M.E. Joint meeting today
at 7:30 p.m. in Rooms 3-K and L at
the Union. Three speakers: "Mr. A. F.
Welch on "Automotive Instrumenta-
tion"; Mr. W. C. McIntyre on "Ride
Engineering"; and Mr. D. R. Hubbs
on "Automotive Insulation."
Board of Representatives meeting at
4 p.m. in the League.
SRA Intercultural Committee meets
at Lane Hall, 7:30 p.m.1
Pershing Rifles. Drill meeting and
informal initiation will be held at
1925 hrs. in the Rifle Range. All ac-
tives and pledges are required to at-1
tend. Bring gym shoes.I
Delta Sigma Pi. There will be a busi-
ness meeting 'at the chapter on Wed.,
Dec. 17, at 7:30 p.m.I
U. of M. Aviation Club will meet7
at 7:39 p.m., 1500 East Engineering
Building. Anyone interestedin learn-
ing to fly or in getting cross-country1
time, both at reduced rates, is cordial-j
ly invited. Call Dick Fox, 3-0521, Ext.
310, for any additional information.
The Research Club will meet in the
Amphitheater of the Rackham Build-
ing at 8 p.m. Prof. Kenneth Pike will
present "A Monolingual Demonstra-
tion." The meeting is open to members
only.
Undergraduate Botany Club will
meet at 7:30 in 1139 Natural Science.
Dr. Dansereau will be our speaker. It
is important that all members at-
tend, since elections will be held for
next semester's officers.
Society for Peaceful Alternatives.
Meeting 7:30 at the Michigan League.
Tohru Ishimitsu, a Japanese student,
will give an eyewitness account of the
Hiroshima atom-bombing. Wym Price
and other guitarists will sing peace
songs and the coming all-campus
peace conference will be discussed.
Ulr Ski Club meeting at 7:30 p.m.
at the Union. There will be a movie,
"How to Ski," with a talk by a ski in-
structor. Also, a representative from a
sporting goods storexwill discuss
equipment and show examples of the
various types of Skis, boots, etc. Plans
for future trips will be discussed in
detail.
Westminster Guild Christmas vesper
Service at 5 o'clock in the Sanctuary of
the First Presbyterian Church. Every-
one welcome.
Wesley Foundation. Morning Matin
7:30-7:50. Mid-Week Refresher Tea,
4:00-5:30.
Sophomore Cabaret meeting for the
Central Committee and all floorshow
at 7:30 in the League. It will be an in-
formal get-together and all are urged
to attend.
Congregational Disciples Guild. Mid-
Week Meditation, Douglas Chapel,
5:05-5:30 p.m. Supper discussion on
The Mature Mind, 5:45-7:15. Caroling
party, meet at Guild House at 8:30.
Le Cercle Francais, Deutscher Ver-
ein, and La Sociedad Hispanica will
have a joint Christmas party at 7:30
p.m. tonight ingthegMichigan League.
There will be singing, dancing, and a
presentation of "The Little Match
Girl." All members and their guests
are invited andrefreshments will be
served. Undergraduate women mem-
bers of the club may get 11 p.m. late
permission for caroling.
Roger Williams Guild. Meeting for
meditation and breakfast Thursday
morning at 7 a.m. Discussion of our
Guild program and the place of our
Guild onrthe campus. We are anxious
to meet with all Baptist students.
Coming Events
Kappa Phi. Christmas party Thurs-
day at 5:15. Please bring your finished
project, and fifty cents worth of small
gifts for children, wrapped. There will
be caroling after the meeting, ending
with refreshments.
Ukrainian Students Club. Meeting of
all Ukrainian students on Thurs., Dec.
18, 7 p.m., Madelon Pound House, 1024
Hill Street. Christmas party. Club pic-
ture. Guests are welcome.
The Arab Club will sponsor a panel
discussion, "U.S. Policy and the Near
r'i l_ l flamp Nomm,
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.tette'4 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.
Rosenberg Case..
To the Editor:
WE WOULD LIKE to suggest
" that interested persons make
known to the President their views
on the Rosenberg case. We are
sending the following letter:
President Harry S. Truman
White House
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mr. Truman:
We can not banish from our
minds a very uneasy feeling about
the sentence for the Rosenbergs.
We are very much concerned about
the cruel and unusual punishment
being meted out to them. We can
not forget their children. We can
not overlook the extreme and emo-
tional statements made by the
judge in passing sentence, state-
ments which simply do not cor-
respond to the facts nor to com-
mon sense. We can not ignore this
dangerous precedent being set in
these hysterical times. We can not
easily sit by and watch the Rosen-
bergs die.
We, therefore, appeal to you to
exercise your right as President to
correct this injustice by lessening
the sentence imposed against the
Rosenbergs.
-Arnold Tannenbaum
Nancy Morse
Irwin Goffman
Ruth Griggs
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Rosenberg C e,...
To the Editor:
I REALIZE THAT by writing this
letter I might stir up some of
the Progressives on campus but
that's all right, since they are al-
ways good for a laugh. To begin
with I would like to say that it
was with great interest that I read
the advertisement last Saturday
concerning the Rosenbergs. I say
this because I think it is an ex-
ample of the deluge of propaganda
that is being circulated in this
country claiming that the Rosen-
bergs received an unfair trial, are
being mistreated, are martyrs,
ect. Frankly I can't see what all
the fuss is. The Rosenbergs have-
n't a leg to stand on from a legal
viewpoint. They were given a fair
trial and had every safeguard of
the American legal system.
I think the advertisement last
Saturday is just an example of
some of the "hogwash" that the
people are goig to be subjected
to during the next month, pre-
ceding the execution of those trai-
tors. These "liberals," as they like
to call themselves, are merely try-
ing to create a lot of propaganda
out of the whole situation. It
seems doubtful that they have any
genuine interest in the welfare of
the Rosenbergs themselves, except
as a tool for their own propaganda
purposes. I think their hypocrisy
is best shown in their propaganda
of the last few weeks in which
they claim there was a "so-called"
anti-Semetic taint to the Rosen-
berg trial. In reality there was
no anti-Semetic taint to the trial.
The Rosenbergs could have just as
easily have been of German, Irish,
or Italian background and the
penalty would have been the same.
At least in the United States the
accused has every opportunity to
defend himself, which is more
than can be said for the 14 com-
munists tried last mnonth in Pra-
gue. If these "liberals" are going
to be consistent in their reason-
ing, I think that they would have
to admit there was a definite anti-
Semetic atmosphere during the
"trial" of those communist lead-
ers in Czechoslovakia.
A trial of that nature hardly
speaks favorably for the Commun-
ist attitude taken toward the Jew-
ish people in recent times. But
psuedo "liberals" seem slow, if
not totally reluctant to point this
out to their listeners and readers!
In fact they seem downright sen-
sitive about the whole affair. May-
be a few more purge trials "a la
Slansky" will disillusion these
"self-appointed crusaders."
-John O'Neil, '53 Law
'New Foundations',. .
To the Editor:
TWO YEARS AGO a new stu-
dent publication called New
Foundations came into existence.
Like many other student voices, its
purpose is to discuss the issues and
questions which all of us as stu-
dents face, and to present solu-
tions.
However, NF presents a view-
point which we do not meet in
our everyday dailies. Its discus-
sions are guided by the philosophy,
of Marxism-Leninism, the philo-
sophy of socialism. In addition,
the editorial staff and guest con-
tributors are motivated by, and
build their discussions around sev-
eral important principles. In their
statement on the principles of the
i'b s a.nn,, Pa 41 a ar
tivities by student groups in be-
half of academic freedom, for
equal opportunities and elimina-
tion of discrimination from all
phases of college life, for equal
rights for women students, and
against militarization of the cam-
pus."
One of the main contributions
which NF makes is to present a
picture of what is happening on
other campuses throughout the
country. For example, in the lat-
est issue, there is an article on
the invasion by the McCarran
committee of the schools of New
York, an investigation which has
already caused the dismissal of
some of the finest educators from
Columbia, Queens, Hunter, and
Brooklyn (Dr. Gene Weltfish, in-
ternationally known anthropolo-
gist and author of Races of Man-
kind, Edwin Burgum, Professor of
English at NYU, etc.)
In the current issue, there is an
article on the murder of Enos
Christianii, a Negro student, writ-
ten by a woman student from
NYU, and an analysis by two law
students of the Court of Appeals
decision in the case of Roosevelt
Ward, Negro leader of the Labor
Youth League and former U. of
M. student, now in jail.
New Foundations also tries to
fulfill the cultural needs of its
readers by publishing short stor-
ies and poetry and creative art
work by student contributors.
Any student interested in seeing
NF can contact me.
-Ethel Schec'htman
'U' Newgate .. .
To the Editor:
ONLY THE strains of seven p
ano movers altering the post
tion of one piano in a certain au-
ditorium, somewhere, give me the
urge to write this letter.
I have noticed that the most
common form of punishment met-
ed out to those who in some way
arouse the wrath of the University
administration or one of its tools
(such as one of the numberless
judiciary committees) is the fine.
Obviously this is not at all fair
;ince some students or fraterni-
ties are wealthier than others and
can pay fines with far less per-
sonal discomfort. I propose, then,
a solution to this problem. We
must have constructed a Unive-
sity Jail, in which students or or-
;anizations, unable or unwilling
to pay assessed fines to so-called
Good Will Aid Funds or other spe-
cified collection agencies, would
remain for a time under guard,
isolated from the rest of their
classmates, in solitary confine-
ment.
In addition to the already men-
tioned benefit, such a jail would
offer a more professional and ma-
ture penalty for wrongdoing than
merely "ineligibility for awards in
competitive activities" w h I c h
sounds rather like a fourth grade
teacher saying: "All those who
talked during the quiz will lose ten
points."
This jail could also be the tem-
porary resting place for the simple
minded students who think they
can drive a car in Ann Arbor just
because they happen to own one.
Indeed, I cannot think of a
singleedisciplinaryproblem con-
fronting the University at present
which could not be solved by the
construction of an official, busi-
ness managed, tax paying, govern-
ment inspected jail-(presumably
coeducational).
-Persse O'Reilly
Sixty-Third Year
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