I t'AGE TOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1$, 1953 SAC & Academic Freedom Sis WeekTwo Views By HARRY LUNN Daily Managing Editor C LARIFICATION of the Tuesday action of the Student Affairs Committee setting up regulations governing Academic Freedom Week is necessary in light of the widespread charge that the SAC rules are in themselves a travesty on academic freedom. Student Legislature members had reason to be alarm- ed by the section of the regulations which they considered the very antithesis of free thought and expression, but an understand- ing of the background of SAC's action places a large share of responsibility for passage of the regulations on SL itself. SAC was given a very inferior presenta- tion of the program to which it was asked to grant approval- a presentation that showed no understanding of the need for responsibility and identity in setting up such program. Therefore SAC felt com- pelled to establish responsibility and iden- tity before giving official University ap- proval to the program. The-Committee did this in four ways: 1)It placed overall responsibility for the program with SL. 2) It sought identity by specifying that all votes on reports, resolutions or recommenda- tions be taken by division of the house and recorded, and by requiring members of the majority opinion to sign any motions before they could become valid and part of the offi- cial record of the proceedings. 3) It provided for identity in the case of literature distributed at meetings by requir- ing that such literature be designated the opinion of its publishers and not necessarily of the University or students-attending the meetings. 4) It promoted a further sense of respon- sibility by declaring the foregoing measures official SAC regulations with violation there- of falling under established authority and procedure. With the exception of the signature see- tion of regulation two, SL accepted these provisions without protest. In disputing the requirement that students sign mo- tions they endorse, SL members argued that the measure was at odds with their own academic freedom policy and would intimidate students from signing motions they might believe in because of fear of "future reprisals." SL members also acknowledged that leg- islation or reports from the proceedings should npt be represented as University stu- dent opinion, thus providing the flaw in their own argument, for there can be no guarantee that action taken at the meet- ings would not be represented as student opinion in the press or by inference in sub- mitting recommendations to public bodies. s w " s IN DISCUSSING the Academic Freedom Week program, SAC members recognized that this series of meetings would be unique in that no one group would be involved as when the Young Democrats or Young Re- publicans hold a meeting. SAC members were especially concerned about the special conference workshop and plenary session since this type of meeting is usually under- taken only by one group or set of groups un- der conditions in which certain quorum and membership requirements must be met. The Academic Freedom all-day confer- ence, has no such requirements and is open to anyone wandering in who could draft legislation, spearhead it through a meeting and disappear along with those who attended the meeting. In short, the meeting would be open to the most flag- rant manipulation and would expose the Academic Freedom Week Committee, SL, and the University to the irresponsibel ac- tion of small cliques with the consequent misrepresented newspaper publicity. Quite obviously SAC action was based, on concern over what might emerge from such a conference, but as much as we condemn the aura of suspicion and fear in America today that makes any unpopular view sub- versive and its supporters disloyal per se, we must emphasize that SAC has the re- sponsibility of seeing that such meetings are not deliberately manipulated and do not add to this climate of fear, particularly that settling on the educational sphere. The only alternative to the signature requirement was a regulation that no res- olutions of any type be allowed, certainly a less desirable requirement. We do not feel that the signature requirement was an ideal solution; it was merely the only one available if the important question of identity was to be solved. Should the principle of identity be dis- carded by SAC, a provision that all reports or resolutions be clearly marked as opinion only of students attending the meeting might be adopted. However, refusal to sign a motion which might be unpopular is in itself an ironical commentary: an admis- sion that freedom of expression is non-exist- ent and academic freedom a farce. We feel it is better to sign a motion than to hide be- hind the title of a nebulous committee. THE WILL of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and gen- uine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by sec- rp . uns Arh A, i~l frcz tn ir_ r_ By ALICE B. SILVER Associate Editorial Director THE MOST significant implication of the Sudent Affairs Committee regarding the identity of persons voting for a resolu- tion in the Academic Freedom Week con- ference is that a principle must have a name or names attached to it and that name must be available for examination by anyone who cares to examine. (The anyone could be the Michigan State Police, the FBI, the Un- American Activities Committee or simply SAC, SL or the University administration.) All this is involved in the neat word "re- sponsibility." The question is responsibility to whom for what. Mr. Lunn asserts that the responsibility is to the SL and the University in general for any ideas which might emerge from the conferences. Again the implication is clear. SAC members, as Mr. Lunn fully admits, are simply afraid. They are afraid that certain undesirable people (specifi- cally LYL members) will "pack" the meet- ing and push through certain undesirable ideas. They are afraid that certain Detroit newspapers will pick up the undesirable resolutions and represent them as the product of student opinion. Therefore "responsibility" must be fixed. As SL concluded Wednesday night the way in which SAC fixed responsibility was it- self a contradiction of freedom.To illustrate we may take a hypothetical case. Suppose ten people were at the meeting who were known to the group as LYL members or thereabouts. One of those persons proposes a resolution which condemns the methods em- ployed by a certain investigating committee at a certain hearing. Other members of the group agreed with that resolution but they know that the ten LYL members will vote also for the resolution. Thus if they vote for it they must put their names down with the ten LYL members. The choice will be a difficult one at best and certainly an un- fair one. Mr. Lunn asserts that "refusal to sign a motion which might be unpopular is in itself an ironical commentary: an admission that freedom of expression is non-existent and academic freedom is a farce." It seems to me that the cart has been put before the horse. Mr. Lunn places the blame on the individual because he is afraid to sign. Actually the blame does not fall there but on the pre- vailing atmosphere. The SAC in this case has contributed to that atmosphere. It has made perfectly clear that certain ideas are unpopular and that we must be exceedingly careful to point out just who are the sponsors of those ideas. It is indeed tragic when we must gear our actions to what the Detroit papers or a legislative committee will print or think. But if the SAC does feel it absolutely neces- sary to "protect" the students and the Uni- versity then it could have been done as Mr. Lunn suggests and then forgets: All resolu- tions could be affixed. with the statement that this resolution reflects only the opin- ions of this "ad hoc" group and not the opinions of the student body In general. In this way both the University and the group members would be "protected." The philosophy of the SAC rule is ter- rifically distressing. That philosophy seems to be a complete negation of the demo- cratic ideal that opinions can fight it out in a free market place of ideas. In the market place of the SAC, the goods must be neatly labeled, the prices fixed, and the consumers "cleared" before they can buy or sell. DRMA RA At Lydia Mendelssohn.. ELIZABETH THE QUEEN by Maxwell Anderson IF WE HAD our choice all our subjects, would learn the lessons Sir Anderson has to offer-you can't trust a man; you can't trust a woman; you can't trust a Queen and you can't always trust the speech depart- ment. We may have been a woman who loved her wine and crossed her legs and dis- played her boots but we were certainly not the painted strumpet of the speech department's "Elizabeth." Perhaps the court was Oreoccupied with our virginity. Anderson has it so but the speech depart- ment players have omitted the lustier mo- ments, the better that delicate damsels might return to their convents before the stroke of eleven. It is difficult to say whether it was the actress, Frances Retz, or the director, Wil- liam Halstead, who decided the character- ization of Elizabeth but we couldn't help wishing she were a bit more womanly and less shrewish. Despite this handicap, Miss Reitz turned in a thoroughly competent performance. She was consistently what someone had de- cided Elizabeth must be and had a mature sense of timing Joel Sebastian as the man who won Eliz- abeth and her kingdom and lost them both a- . ar cceart .1lcare .n.,arpnlnn. 4.n DREW PEARSON: Washington , Merry-Go-Round TUCSON, Ariz.-Harry Dexter White, the alleged Communist spy, whom Attorney General Brownell has just exhumed from his five-year-old grave, was a Treasury official whom I knew slightly in Washington dur- ing World War II. A wizard in monetary matters, he was always intensely pro-Rus- sian, but at first I attributed this to the fact that he had been born in Boston of Rus- sian parents and that we were allied with Russia during the war. At the San Francisco Unlt&d Nations Conference in April 1945, hoW't I first began to be suspicious of Harfy White. General Eisenhower at that time had pul- ed American troops back from the outskirts of Potsdam to the River Elbe, in deference to Russian protests, and I recall that, when I broke this story, Harry White, whom I saw in San Francisco in April of 1945, protested against it. Harry Truman, incidentally, who had taken office only a few days before, was much tougher on the Russians than Gen-, eral Eisenhower appeared to be in Ger- many; and "Chip" Bohlen reported that when Molotov flew to Washington en route to San Francisco, Truman gave Molotov the dressing down of his life. Bohlen, who acted as interpreter, said he had never heard one top official scold another in such a manner. Shortly after that I picked up the first trail of the Russian spy ring in Canada- a story which took several months to nail down. Harry White's name entered the pic- ture. It was difficult to prove that White was involved-at least to the point of being safe from libel. But it certainly looked as if White was one of the men the Russians came to for secret information in Wash- ington. * * ,, THE EVIDENCE was such that I took it to my old friend, Fred Vinson, who had just been made Secretary of the Treasury. To the best of my recollection this was in midsummer of 1945 and before the FBI sub- mitted its report on White to the White House and various members of the cabinet. I told Vinson that while I could not be certain about White, it looked to me as if he were not only intensely pro-Russian but had been linked up with the Russian spy ring in Canada. Vinson thanked me for the information, made no comment, but later I noticed that White left the Treasury. Later he turned up with the International Monetary Fund. I never asked Fred Vinson what happen- ed. He was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court some time later and removed from the realm of political comment. But I did ask J. Edgar Hoover. I had learned that subsequently certain Justice Depart- ment officials considered putting White's case before a grand jury and that Hoover had been opposed. When I asked Hoover about this he gave the perfectly plausible explanation that he had White under observation, warted to keep him that way in order to track down any other Americans and Russians he might be doing business with. If White was pro- secuted immediately, the other members of the spy ring would be alerted and it would be impossible to catch them. About a year and a half later, White's name was placed before a federal grand jury which failed to indict him. Vincent Quinn, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the criminal division, has stated that the evidence was not conclusive enough to bring an indictment. My own information was similar. It was obtained largely from British sources, not from the story given by Elizabeth Bentley. Indirectly it came from Igor Gouzenko, the code clerk in the Russian Legation in Ot- tawa, who eventually spilled the beans to the Royal Mounted Police. Gouzenko indi- cated that there was a man in the U.S. Treasury the Russians contacted for infor- mation, he was not quite clear as to who he was, though the signs pointed to White. (Copyright, 1953, by the Bell Syndicate) CURRENT MO VIES THE FOXES OF HARROW with Rex Har- rison and Maureen O'Hara THROUGH the magnolia scented atmos- phere of old New Orleans strides the the figure of a man who with fearless aban- don gambles for fortunes, wins his way into creole society, and weds respectability. He manages all this while surrounded by the heaving bosoms of Southern beauty. Could this be, yes I am afraid it is-another pic- ture about the ante-bellum South. By combining every possible cliched- line and Currier and Ives print plus some of the unoriginal ideas of that voluminous author Frank Yerby, Hollywood has man- aged to just reach its mediocre average. Stephen Fox (Rex Harrison) is the gam- bler turned Horatio Alger. Through some astute cheating he wins a plantation (Har- row) and a wife (Maureen O'Harra). Like Jason in Medea his overwhelming desire is to achieve immortality through his child, but death ends his dreams. i cLeteiitot top 4 Funds for Booklet..-. To the Editor:5 NE XT WEEK the Student Leg- islature plans to distribute on campus a free booklet on Aca- demic Freedom. The purpose of the booklet is educational; it aims at acquainting students with many aspects of the issue by presenting the viewpoints of numerous stu- dent organizations and up to ten faculty members. The SL Subcommission on Aca- demic Freedom believes that to sell the booklet would result in failure to give it sufficient distri- bution. Printing of the booklet, however, will cost at least $300, and since the SL can defray but little of this expense, contributions are urgently needed. Faculty members, students, and student organizations concerned with the success of this under- taking please mail your contribu tions as soon as possible to Paula Levin, Student Legislature Build- ing. -Charles Sleicher SL Subcommission of Academic Freedom Radulovich ... To the Editor: I WOULD like to air the follow- ing views of mine about the rejection of the Radulovich mo- tion by S.L. In most of the editorials and news items appearing in the Mi-1 chigan Daily about this issue, the "stupidity" of S.L. not taking a stand has been brought about. All the 17 members who voted against the Neary motion have been shown by the Daily to be childish, irres- ponsible, and non-representative of the student body. Nobody has tried to understand the basic ma- turity and lack of emotionality shown by these legislators. I be- ing one of the 17 would like to elucidate the situation as I under- stand it. Just because the President of an organization moves a motion does not mean necessarily that it is the best motion in the World, and that it must be passed. Nor does the rejection of such a mo- tion mean any vote of no-confi- dence in the president. The duty of each S.L. member is to think rationally and without emotion on each motion which is represented on the S.L. floor. If I remember correctly no one of the 17 people opposing the motion expressed the opinion that it was not in the realm of S.L. to take a stand. To say that (and it has been said by the Daily) would be to put words in the mouths of the 17 of us. The main idea of the opposition to the Neary motion was that it was not a good motion and if passed would neither represent facts nor would help the University Senior con- cerned in any way. Rather it was felt that it might spoil Mr. Radu- lovich's case. . The fault for the fact that no stand could be taken by the S.L. on the issue lies more with the supporters of the motion. In an attempt to suffocate discussion and to get their motion passed due to lack ofhdiscussion they forgot the fact that lack of dis- cussion could very well have kill- ed the motion and the issue; and that is what happened. Since a motion was passed to vote on all pending questions by a certain time, the opponents of the Neary motion did not have any time to present a good substitute. But I am glad these people refused to be intimidated by the attempts of the supporters of the motion and voted the motion down as it stood. -Rajesh Gupta * * * Smith Act Trial . . . 4. To the Editor: IT IS JUST such abuses of the right of free expression as those made by Luce in his letter to the Daily of Nov. 10 that have done so much to discredit both Ameri- can Communists and their de- fenders in the eyes of those of us seriously concerned with the pre- servation of our freedom from b o t h Communist s u b version abroad and hysterical-minded cur- tailments at home. The comments made in that letter concerning * the Detroit Smith Act trials con- stitute both an unfounded and willfully insincere attack upon our judicial system of impartial administration of justice under law. You state, Mr. Luce, that docu- ments written 20 or 30 years ago are irrevelevant to the present trial. To the contrary, I would assert that they are a part of a context of background both neces- sary and relevant to an under- standing of the defendants' pre- sent activities, and as such that they are admissible under rules pertaining to the introduction of evidence. Moreover, as you failed "Maybe We'd Better Not Go Back Either" -E p friendly hands which can jeopar- dize future educations and careers. Further, in ruling that any lit- erature distributed in connection with the proceedings be stamped with a statement saying it does not necessarily represent the Uni- versity or students at the confer- ence, the University violates the freedom of the press, which free- dom carries with it the right to distribute printed matter without having to affix the comment of any other individual or body. And finally, the ruling making SL responsible for the other pro- visions places SL involuntarily in the position of a gendarme seek- ing conformity to its concept of right and wrong speech, conduct, etc., and makes a mockery of in- dividual responsibility. The net effect of these rulings is to deny the full exercise of the rights stated in the First Amend- ment, guaranteeing freedom of speech, press and assembly. This makes students less than citizens and it makes the University a po- litical police which sees to it that students remain less than citizens. Undoubtedly, if the University wants to be a friend of Academic Freedom, it will hastily repeal these unjust rulings. -Mike Sharpe, Chairman Labor Youth League How To Teach . . To the Editor: Y attempting to crucify the defen- dants in order to further his own career. In attempting to picture these six Communists as martyrs, you have done no more, Mr. Luce, than expose yourself as lacking in objectivity and veracity. I, sir, am a law student. And while I may be entering into a pro- fession marked by a "conserva- tive social unawareness," I do have a sense of responsibility and intellectual honesty that would prevent me from allowing my name to appear beneath a letter such as that to which your name was affixed. --Robert G. Schuur J-44 Law Club SAC Action ; .. To the Editor: IN ONE OF the most outrageous violations of academic freedom on any campus in the country, the University has decided to dictate to the students how they shall run Academic Freedom Week. Any report, resolution or re- commendation adopted by any meeting, including the region- wide Student Conference on Aca- demic Freedom, must be signed uy a majority of those pre- sent, or it will be considered in- valid. This means that the Uni- versity decrees how the students will run their meetings and de- crees what procedures will be us- ed. This means that the University decrees that the vote of all those not voting on any motion shall be counted against the motion. This means that the University decrees that alist of names be made available to the FBI, Air Force, employers, investigating committees, or any other agency, thus violating the sanctity and privacy of one's political opinions, and opening signers up to pres- sure from these and other sources. This means that the University decrees that the students at any meeting connected with Academic Freedom Week water-down and compromise their true opinions if they do not want to risk having their signatures falling into un- I DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 3) Academic Notices The Department of Biological Chem- istry will hold a seminar in 319 West Medical Building at 4 p.m., on Friday, Nov. 13. The topic for discussion will' be "Some Biochemical Aspects of virus- Host Relationships," conducted by Dr. R. L. Garner. Special Mathematics Colloquium, Fri., Nov. 13, 4:10 p.m., 3011 Angell Hall. Dis- cussion on "The Law of the Excluded Middle in Mathematics." Panel: E. E. Moise, R. F. McNaughton (of the Phil- osophy Department), G. Y. Rainich. Moderator R. L. Wilder. Doctoral Examination for Myrtle Soles, Classical Studies: Greek and Lat- in; thesis: "Studies in Colloquial Lan- guage in the Poems of Catullus," Sat., Nov. 14, 2009 Angell Hall, at 9 a.m. Chairman, F. O. Copley, Doctoral Examination for Robert Samuel Lancaster, Political Science; thesis: "The Jurisprudence and Polit- ical Thought of Learned Hand," Sat., Nov. 14, East Council Room, Rackham Building, at 9:30 a.m. Chairman, J. E. Kaltenbach. Doctoral Examination for Earl Wil- lard Smith, English; thesis: "Audio- Visual Methods in the Teaching of Literature in the High School," Sat., Nov. 14, East Council Room, Rackham Building, at 1:30 p.m. Chairman, C. D. Thorpe. Concerts Program of Compositions by Leslie Bassett, Instructor in Composition in the School of Music, 4:15 Sunday aft- ernoon, Nov. 15, in Auditorium A, An- gell Hall. The program will open with Bassett's Sonata for Horn and Piano, performed by Ted Evans, horn, and Helen Titus, piano. Benning Dexter, Associate Professor of Piano, will con- tinue the program with Six Piano Pieces. Three works will be heard for the first time, "Five Songs," sung by Norma Heyde, soprano, with Anita Bas- sett at the piano, "Brass Trio," played by Donald Haas, trumpet, Ted Evans, horn, and Glenn Smith trombone, and "Trio for viola, Clarinet, and Piano," with David Ireland, viola, William Stub bins clarinet, and Mary McCall Stub- bins piano. The Stanley Quartet will bring the concert to a close with the Second String Quartet. The general public will be admitted without charge. Events Today The Labor Relations Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan, in coopera- tion with the University of Michigan Law School, presents a Labor Relations Law Workshop on the subject "Pro- tected and Unprotected Concerted Ac- tivities," 100 Hutchins Hall, from 10 to 12 a.m. and from 2 to 4 p.m. Pan- Episcopal Student Foundation. Tea from 4 to 6 at Canterbury House. Guest of Honor: Dr. Douglas V. Steere, Profes- sor of Philosophy at Haverford College.t All students invited. Episcopal Student Foundation. Can- terbury Club, 7:30 p.m. at Canterbury3 House. Professor George Mendenhall1 will discuss the question: "Is the NewI Testament a Hoax?" Open House, sponsored by the New-] man Club, will be held from 8-12 at the Father Richard Center. All are wel- come to attend. Psychology Club. Our next field trip1 will be to Eloise State Institution for mental illnesses on Sat., Nov. 14. In preparation for the field trip, Dr. E. B. McNiel will address the club on"Mod- ern Bedlam" today at 3:10 p.m., in 2429 Mason Hall. The details of the trip will be given at this meeting. All those in- terested are invited to attend. Congregational-Disciples Guild. Sup- per Hike meeting at Guild House, 5:15 p.m. Graduate-Professional Group meet-1 ing at Guild House at 8 p.m. Faculty Luncheon with Dr. Douglas V. Steere, Michigan Union, 12:15. Call Lane Hall for reservations. Lane Hall Coffee Hour. Special guests are the faculty and students of the College of Engineering, 4:15-6:00 p.m. Elizabeth the Queen, by Maxwell An- derson, will be presented by the De- partment of Speech tonight at 8 p.m. in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. The box office will be open from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. Kappa Phi. Cabinet meeting today at 4:30 p.m., in the Green Room. All Cab- inet members are requested to attend this important meeting. Hillel. All people interested in work- ing on the "Hillelzapoppin" committee are urged to attend the committee meeting this afternoon at 4:30 p.m. Coming Events S.R.A. Saturday Lunch Discussion. Dr. Douglas v. Steere, noted leader with the American Friends Service Commit- tee, will -discuss his recent visit in South Africa, Lane Hall, 12 noon. Call reservations to 3-1511, Ext. 2851. The Economics Club will meet on Mon., Nov. 16. 8 p.m., Rackham Am- phitheater. Gottfried Haberler, Profes- sor of Economics at Harvard, will speak on "Some Reflections on the Current Future of Business Cycle Theory." All staff members and students in Eco- nomics and Business Administration are urged to attend. square Dance. All students, faculty, and administration invited. No admis- sion charge. Snonsored by S.R.A. Lane "HOW-Not What-To Teach" is a realistic problem in an age where the social scientists are making us more aware of the uni- queness of human personality. "Progressive education," despite Daily Editorialist's Dorothy Myers' adverse comment, is only a step forward from the traditional school of education. The latter school assumes that there is an automatic transmission belt from the teacher to the collective mind of the pupils in the classroom. "Education by absorption" is the implied motto of the old school. "Progressive education" as ex- emplified by the University Ele- mentary School here at the U. of M. attempts to make school an enjoyable and immediately mean- ingful experience for the children. The familiar "3 R's" are taught there but they are taught in re- laxed classrooms in an untyran- nous amosphere. The children utilize projects (Dewey's 'learning by doing') in which their learning experience becomes well integrat- ed in their intellect. A general democratic atmos- phere prevails-not always as qui- et as a monastery-where the children help set their own stan- dards of behavior. (Group dynamics find that groups respond much more favor- ably to decisions of their own making than to "directives from above"). The slower children are not pushed beyond their normal rate of emotional and mental growth and the brighter children are al- lowed to progress fairly much at their own desired rate.. The children at the University Elementary School are certainly not "common child(ren) fitted pnly for common tasks." Rather they are anti-authoritarian kids, trained to think for themselves and plan for themselves. Essentially, "progressive educa- tion" is dynamic-responsive to the child's needs. It is an approach which states, "Let's start think- ing about the kids for once! How can we make education interest- ing for them? And how can we also make them intelligent citi- zens in a democratic community?" -Sol Plafkin, Grad. Sixty-Fourth Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. 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