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The University's 'Moral Code':
Don't Get Caught
N A MASS round-up last Saturday, 58
University students were caught in the
Arboretum for violations of drinking regu-
lations.
These were the unlucky students-the
ones that got caught. Countless numbers
of other University students were also
drinking on Saturday night, in apartments,
at the island, at Beer Mountain-they were
luckier.
The contrast illustrates a familiar yet
important theme. At Michigan, the prem-
ium is unfortunately placed not on being
moral enough to comply with the laws, but
on being clever enough to escape defection
when breaking them.
There is something fundamentally wrong
with a system of regulation that encourages
evasion of the law. The rules and regula-
tions at the University of Michigan make
it practically mandatory that the normal
teenage student spend four years artfully
evading them.
Apartment parties, a common enough
diversion, are against SAC regulations;
spontaneous parties (those not registered
with the Office of Student Affairs ten
days in advance) violate regulations;
parties not chaperoned by at least two
couples over the age of 26 are outlawed;
and of course, all parties involving alco-
holic beverages are against the law.
All of the above mentioned offenses are
certainly widespread, not only at Michigan
but at almost any American college. It is a
rare student that spends four law-abiding
years at the University.
And so, unless he wishes to deny himself
the forms of entertainment most popular
with teenagers, indeed with most people-
including faculty members and administra-
tors-the Michigan student learns early that
to break the law cleverly is acceptable-
but he must not blunder, he must not be
foolish enough to get caught.
Obviously the case at hand is one of de-
gree. No one would seriously suggest that
all regulations be dropped. But at the same
time, by burdening their lives with a num-
ber of rules that attempt to impose a moral
code not common to their society, the Uni-
versity is perhaps failing its students.
It is failing them because it is not in-
culcating in them any sense of moral
obligation, much less the proper one. It
is not pointing out that obedience to es-
tablished law is prerequisite of good citi-
zenship. Rather, it is every day showing
them that one can break the law-if one
does It with discretion.
The years of prohibition form a shameful
chapter in the reading of American history,
but yet they taught the government a valu-
able lesson--morals imposed from above, not
inherent to the society they control, cannot
lead to a law-abiding, ordered citizenry.
Neither can many of the futile, petty regu-
lations of the SAC and the state of Michi-
gan.
Prohibition taught us another lesson--
when stringent regulation is imposed
against the wishes of the vast majority,
enforcement becomes necessarily spotty,
ineffective, and subject not to respect,
but to scorn and derision.W
The number of illegal parties at the Uni-
versity testify to the sanctity with which
the student regards the SAC regulations.
Perhaps, in time, those who make the rules
that govern our University activities, will
also learn the lesson of the mass roundup.
-Lee Marks
The Committees Reflected
In Stagnant Water
HE PROBING spotlight of that unique
institution known as the investigating
committee has turned its ever-diligent and
ever-conscientious eye toward another as-
pect of the American scene-the educational
foundation.
In terse words of no uncertain mean-
ing, the staff report to the Special House
Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt
Foundations charges that these founda-
tions are financing "idea, and practices
incompatible with the fundamental con-
cepts- of our Constitution."
What are these heretical influences of the
endowed foundations? The report's answer:
tehey have freed education "from the natural
safeguards inherent in the American tradi-
tion."
Norman Dodd, who is director of research
for the committee, suggested that the num-
erous foundations, which include Ford, Car-
negie, and Rockefeller, "are building up a
social science that might change American
thought."
We ask the committee 'to consider these
charges carefully. We ask them to find the
foundations guilty and to award them for
their guilt.
These are dangerous times when even the
words "free thought" have become suspect.
And it is at this time that the guilt of the
foundations is most impressive. Have they
become "propaganda machines?" They cer-
tainly. have. They are supporting the sub-.
versive idea that happens to be the basis of
- our constitution-inquiring minds.
No state is as corrupt as a state which
fears change. Our sacrosanct "tradition"
that the committee is so anxious to defend
only originated because radicals like Jeffer-
son and Samuel Adams recognized that
change might improve things.
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At Hill A uditorium - .-.
University Symphony Band, William D.
Revelli, Conductor; Edwin Franko Gold-
man, Guest Conductor. Emil Raab, Vio-
linist; Marvin Anderson, Cornetist.
Rimsky-Korsakov; Procession of the
Nobles
Ernest Williams; Larghetto, from Sym-
phony No. 1
Lalo-Fogelberg; Symphonie Espagnole, 1st
movement
Paul Creston; Legend
Stravinsky; Danse Russe, from Petrouchka
Handel; Slov; March, from Scipio
Bach; Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Bach-Abert; Chorale and Fugue
Koff: La Virgen de la Macarena
Vaughan Williams; Folk Song Suite
Goldman; Three Marches
THIS CONCERT was an indication of the
clean, efficient, and brilliant playing of
which the Symphony Band is capable. It
maus a trimnh v fortsforn nolman
The report charges that the foundations
have been used to change school curricula
"to the point where they sometimes de-
nied the principles underlying the Ameri-
can way of life." Congratulations Ford,
Rockefeller and Carnegie, no one else
seems interested in improvement.
The implication in the report is, of course,
that it is up to Congress to decide what the
American way of life will be-and dissenters
be warned. The best citizen is the citizen
who conforms, and he will not be allowed to
decide the best way of conforming.
An example of the foundations' "diaboll-,
cal conspiracy," as chairman B. Carroll
Reece (R-Tenn.), terms it, was a $250,000
grant by the Carnegie Corporation for the
study "An American Dilemma, the Negro
Problem and Modern Democracy," by Gun-
nar Myrnal with the assistance of Richard
Sterner and Arnold Rose, it was cited in the
report as "most critical of our constitution."
A statement at the beginning of volume
II of this study states that the Carnegie
Corporation is "not to be understood as
approving by virtue of its grant any of the
statements expressed therein." According
to the report to the committee, this state-
ment, indicates that the foundation is ab-
dicating its responsibility. Because the
foundation sponsors a critical study, the
report assumes that the foundation is
subversive, and that any attempt to as-
sume an impartial position is avoiding the
issue.
Unfortunately, the report misses the un-
portant point. The foundation is advocatingj
criticism, not any one criticism, because a
state can only survive when it thinks. Stag-
nant water has a foul smell.
Debra Durchslag
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way, quite attractive, and the band arrange-
ment is a brilliant one. Not so much could
be said for the saccharine Larghetto move-
ment by Ernest Williams, Emil Raab of the
School of Music string faculty gave a really
excellent performance of the Lalo piece,
although he had the same difficulties that
most violinists have with intonation on the
high-lying G-string passages. The work
sounded well with band, but the transcrip-
tion seemed a bit thin in spots. Passing over
the work by Paul Creston, which did not
even seem to be adequate movie music, the
first half of the concert ended in high
spirits with the wonderful Danse Russe from
Stravinsky's Petrouchka.
Nearly all of the second half of the pro-
gram was conducted by Dr. Goldman, who
handles a band with consummate ease and
assurance. He has a marvelous sense of
rhythm which kept the performances moving
bouyantly along. However, I was disturbed
by a tendency of Dr. Goldman to empha-
size low brass at the expense of the higher
moving parts. It seemed to me that this
MAGAZINES]
GARGOYLE, vol. 49, no. 4
JOHNNY BORLICKS came running home
from school crying. His mouth spread
across his face in anguish, a face covered
with tears. "Ma!" he cried. "Oh, ma, my
own mother! All the boys are picking on me.
They say I have a big head. Aaaah!"
"You don't have a big head, Johnny. Now
run along and play."
But the same thing happened the next
day, and the next, and each day Johnny's
mother, a patient woman comforted him.
The fourth day Johnny came home with
the same story.
"For once and for all, Johnny, you don't
have a big head. Now please go downtown
and get me ten pounds of potatoes."
"Okay, okay, give me a sack."
"Sack? What do you need a sack for. Use
your cap."
This, a sample from Gargoyle's last
fruit basket of the year, is free; the rest
you will have to put a quarter in the
machine for. The prize, if everything goes
well, is Garg's Vacation Travel issue, iden-
tifiable by its lemon yellow cover holding
the cornucopia of what a veteran group of
editors and assistants think is ripe this
season. They are shrewd pickers. The
current issue is an attractive package with
very few lemons inside.
Poking right into the center of the basket,
as all good housewives do, the magazine in-
sert turns up, this a take-off on the Readers
Digest-Coronet ilk publications, here called
"Mediocrity, an American Magazine." John
Appel's stories on "The Wetback Menace,"
"New Sure Cure," and "The Dog Who Didn't
Forget" happily understand that it does not
take much pushing to get these things gass-
ed up into stratospheric absurdity. The gems
of the insert are vignettes depicting "Life in
these Untied Skates, respectively involving
two heretofore unsung little men, Fred
Kwale, a propeller greaser, and 01' George,
the handyman down at the plant.
Among the travel material, "See Michi-
gan First," a guide to lodgings like the AAA
puts out, manages to be very funny without
trying; while an account of Montague
Wretch's trip to Europe is fairly funny with
a great deal of trying. A playlet, "Walcome
Treveller" satirizes the well-loved daytime
radio nuisance with nice unfriendly vigor.
Other travel features include a "Guide to
Europe" art-spread by Marc Goldstein-very
good; And a south seas story, "I am a Tri-
pod"-adequate conventional.
Undoubtedly the unique contribution to
this issue is Editor Larry Pike's story, "The
Jungle Party," a piece of work which
evolves more seriously than Gargoyle
material is accustomed to doing. This,
to my mind, is fine. Many times in past
issues we have had stories that began with
tantalizing promise, only to end in de-
pressing nonsense-chaos. "The Jungle
Party" is humor, but it also discharges the
responsibilities it undertakes. It is fresh
and brave and moral-a good parting gift
to have from Pike.
In the art department, the tried crafts-
men (Deutsch, Ross, Scott) are, in this issue,
joined by a fourth luminary, the aforemen-
tioned Marc Goldstein, whose Rorschach
technique (very valuable in the Traveller's
Guide) is ornately eschewed for a two-page
spread in the center of the magazine depict-
ing a courtly pillow fight. This is the main
art piece of the issue, but many other things
are good: Leilla Deutsch's page of More New
Faces and her illustrations for both of Pike's
pieces, Stu Ross's cartoon-kick on certain
events of legend; and Foreign Editor L. H.
Scott's ads and spot sketches, grievously re-
duced to less than his usual dimensions.
Also in the issue is a Selective Service quiz
which misses, an epistolary venture named
"The Postman Always Brings Mice" that is
formula, and One Of A Series on the Great
Ideas of Western Man (Dwight D. Eisenhow-
er: "Fore!") This is abstract.
An important retraction from the last
number also appears, and the editors de-
serve credit for their repeated and forth-
right insistence on the matter: Red's Rite
Spot opens at 9 a.m. Sunday, not 5 p.m.,
as previously reported.
In this issue of Gargoyle you get a free
pine needle to play your Ensian record with
too.
--Bill Wiegand
German Unity .Problem
WHEN GERMANY surrendered nine years
ago, four zones of occupation were cre-
ated, one each for Britain, France, the Unit-
ed States, and the Soviet Union. This was
deemed a convenient way for the Allies to
administer the first phases of the surrender
terms. It was never intended that Germany
shouldybe permanently partitioned. Over
four years ago, Britain, France, and the
United States put their zones together and
enabled the Germans there to have free elec-
tions and build their own political commun-
ity. The Germans in the Soviet Zone have
been denied that unity and that opportunity.
This division of Germany cannot be per-
petuated without grave risks. For no great
people will calmly accept mutilation. The
partition of Germany creates a basic source
of instability. I am firmly convinced that ai
free and united Germany is essential to
stable peace in Europe and that it is in the
interest of all four Occupying Powers.
To The Editor:
0 SAY THAT the reporter who
wrote the article on Vandalism,
Petty Thievery in Residence halls
was reporting the facts wrong is
not true as he did not commit him-
self. He stated that they were ru-
mors which some students believed,
but the article is misleading and
incomplete. It is incomplete enough
to lead the reader to believe that
the fifth floor "Angells" are living
in constant fear of theft or having
their rooms ransacked by somer
mentally disturbed individual.
"The room of one Angell House
resident was reportedly ransacked
... " Reported by whom to whom?
Those of us who know more about;
the ease than what was printed;
know her room was not ransacked.
No room on this floor was.
Yes, we were split up into vacant
rooms throughout the dorm, butl
for a two week period while the
unpainted corridor was painted. I
must admit, however, that some of!
the "reported" incidents may have
had great bearing on Dean Deb-1
orah Bacon's decision to let theE
painters start on our floor, but we
did not need the. "cleaning up"
any more than any other corridor;
Like Our Floor .. .
"Run Along And Shoot Pool Or Something"
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Weddntwant to be separated, parently this is not the case.
It wad ourfloor whic tbensuraged many improvements have been neither be a blight on the Univer-
It was our floor which encouraged, made which should result in better sity's reputation, nor disappoint Fortunately, one of these duelers
Dean Bacon to let us move back in made w hour n betrs sity. has already served his term of of-
stunts. We have four new colors of society.
when the painters finished. flash cards, a new public address -Paul Dormont fice and has been succeeded, I un-
We like our floor. The spirit is system, and a new method of de- * * * derstand, by a person of weightier
great and the unity greater. The signing the stunts and manipulat-N r mien, from whom a more solid ap-
Angell House president-elect, vice- ing the cards. The work done in , Near' " . . . proach can be anticipated. But
, replacementris.notetheranswer tn
president-elect, social chairman- preparation will be in vain how- To The Editor: iteplaceme is no ar thanswerthi
and two Angell House judiciary epver, without tudeenthusiastcic s j HOW THOUGHTFUL of the Cin- water fight was only another symp-
members are fifth floor "Angells." necessary to make the system work. ema Guild to cut fifteen minutes tom of that spirit of levity and dis
Let's clear up the misunder-, For these reasons we urge all out of "All About Eve" so that we respect for tradition against which
standing. students to participate in the sign- could enjoy the cartoon and be Mr. Swift has been warning.
--Gerry Mankowski up this Wednesday, Thursday, and home on time. True, the cut ruin- Although I was kept awake by
Fifth-floor Angell Friday at Barbour Gym. ed the continuity of the movie and last night's fracas, and indeed
--Jim DeLand omitted the emotional climax, but locked out of my room by one of
Cheerful Fifth . . . Joyce Lane j three cheers for Porky Pig and the participants (who escaped over
Block M Chairmen Daffy Duck. the roof), my denunciation of these
To The Editor: * --Four satisfied customers actions is not from personal mo-
OFFICERS of Angell House 7iLversity's Repuhitioi Lyle Parr tives. I feel that for the good of
and also residents of the fifth Al Orange the Law School in general some-
floor, we would like to comment on To The Editor: Sheldon Wigod thing must be done.
the article concerning petty thiev- " T IS OF MOMENT to the Uni- Norman Bolton Sincerely yours,
ery in Saturday's Daily. There are versity because the University * * *-Robert B. Campbell, Law '54
several points of misinformation has a reputation to uphold." So C ag Needed . . . * . .
that we would like to clear up: spoke President Hatcher in Fri-
1) No theft of money has been day's Michigan Daily, in reference To The Editor: Not a Business . . .
reported since spring vacation: 2) to the future of those who were
The room of the girl receiving the honored at the Honors Convoca- HE LACK of understanding and To the Editor:
telegram was not ransacked; 3) tion. I think that the President's sympathy which has been man-
We were moved out temporarily to statement could apply as well to ifested on this campus for the sus- ONGRATILATIONS again to
facilitate the painting of our the final decision concerning the pended instructors and the sub- Silver, Voss and AuWerter for
rooms. We are now happily back three suspended faculty members. poenaed students is not only shock- a great editorial. It was clear,
on the fifth floor Angell-the most In recent years, many universi- ing but frightening when we rea- cogent and always to the point.
cheerful in the dorm. ties and colleges have succumbed lize that this apathy and antagon- It really is amazing that some
We feel that this is purely a to the political pressure of con- ism are the indications that we are insignificant Congressman and a
personal problem that should not formity by suspending and dis- a considerable distance down the subcommittee of Congress can
be distorted or publicized. This missing academically competent road of strict conformity of: bring such pressure on a big, pres-
problem has caused enough trouble faculty merely because their po- thought and expression which tige university such as the Univer-
to the girls without undue pub- litical ideas were not of the ortho-- leads to the abrogation of the con- sit f Michi But th b
licity. We feel quite sure this is dox variety. It need hardly be stitutional protections of the free- fact remains ...such pressure is
not unique to our particular car- added that this political pressure doms in our democracy. act eing sugh ear.
ridor. has been provoked in great part Our democracy, any democracy, actually being brought to bear.
--Carole Brumbaugh by Congressional investigating cannot survive for very long unless Perhaps the answer lies in the
Joanne Clark committees such as the Clardy sub- its citizens are free. As a people, new role of the administrator of
* * committee. or as individuals, we are not free if a university. It is a role not for
Block 11 Sign-up There are two notable excep- we are handicapped with unneces- educators or academicians but for
tions, namely Harvard and Chi- sary psychological inhibitions; if men skilled in public relations and
To The Editor: cago. These institutions have been we are the acquiescent victims of fund raising. Both these are wor-
HE MICHIGAN football team able to withstand the political preventable diseases; or if we nur- thy endeavors but it is certainly
brought its spring practice to a:pressure, and have retained all ture irrational prejudices against unfortunate that these university
close with the playing of the intra- faculty who were called before those'of our fellow men who hold administrators are not concerned
squad game last Saturday, and Congressional investigating com- opinions different from our own. I primarily with free education,
from the showing in that game it mittees. I think it is not unlikely' seem to remember being taught for
appears that we will have a thrill- that there is a definite connection years that our nation was founded If the thiee faculty members are
I dismissed we will know that our
ing football season next fall, between the outstanding educa- because a few men "held that it
With the team doing so much to tional reputation of the two and was not a crime" to differ in be-: administrators are really no dif-
provide the best in football, every the support they gave their facul- lief from their fellows. ferent from the administrators of
student should welcome an oppor- ty. To quote President Hatcher's The citizens of a democracy can- a business corporation. And believe
tunity to show his appreciation, Honors Convocation statement fur- ; not wholly delegate their duty of it or not the University of Michi-
and such an opportunity will be ther: thinking to the pompous profundos gan Is not a business corporation.
offered this Wednesday, Thursday, "Society wants leadership in civ- of Congressional investigators. Ap- -Bob Clinger, '55
and Friday, from 12 noon to 3 p.m., ic affairs. Perhaps even more than parently the acceptance of injus-
which is the time of the spring leadership it needs from us and tice to others is the price we are
sign-up for the Block M flash card from institutions like ours the willing to pay for our own "safety."
section. This year, as last, the leaven of intelligence and under'- We have an almost instinctive
section will include 1200 seats be- standing among the citizens at' feeling that if we protest, we, our-
tween the 20 and 35 yard lines, large, the ability to distinguish selves, might suffer the same in-
which are the best available to any right from wrong, the courage to justice; and we suppress our newly '
one except seniors. abide by worthy convictions, and awakened sympathies with the per-
The popularity of flash card sec- the willingness to work for the secuted because our "friends and
tions has been demonstrated by common good. Again, judging by ( neighbors" and fellow students
the national publicity given to past performance, I do not think ! behave in a like manner. Still, Si-
groups on other campuses, particu- society will be greatly disappoint- lence means that we acquiesce;
larly those on the West Coast. ed." and if we fail to protest against1ek ':
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To The Editor:
TILL LAST NIGHT I thought
that Mr. Ted Swift's denuncia-
tions of over-frivolity in the Law
School were too extreme. Unfor-
tunately, I have had to reappraise
my judgment. At one o'clock in
the morning the Lawyers Club was
presented With the spectacle of
three leaders of three Law student
organizations noisely drenching
each other with water pistols,
thereby disturbing the study of
many of their fellow students.
Such juvenile activity might be
understood and excused in nervous
freshmen, but it can hardly be,
condoned in men who have a duty
to present a mature attitude and
example to their respective organi-
zations and to the campus at large.
Certainly, anyone can play with a
water pistol, if that is his.concept
of amusement. However in the
case of these three gentlemen I
think that a sense of propriety and
taste would make them confine
their activities to the privacy of
their rooms. More than anyone
else in the Law School, these gen-
tlemen could be expected to dis-
play the dignity of a Chief Justice
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These groups have attained a great
happen overnight. It is the result'
deal of perfection, but this did not
of careful planning, and, more im-
portant, continuous student sup-
port over a period of years.
In the two years since the Woly
verine Club took over the organi-
zation of Block M, much has been
accomplished, and this year again,{
The University of Michigan now
stands at a crossroad. It can dis-
miss the three faculty members
and show its weakness in these
trying times, or it can reinstate!
them and show its courage and;
leadership among educational in-
stitutions.
Let us hope that the final deci-;
sion shall be the one which will
injustice we become less and less
alert to further limitations of our
freedom. Self-expression is free-,
dom, and the secret of freedom is
courage. Dr. Davis, Dr. Markert,
Dr. Nickerson, Ed Shaffer, and
Mike Sharpe deserve our acknow-
ledgement of and support for ex-,
hibiting that courage!
-Frederick W. Burr
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at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- k
nology, on the subject "Models of Eco-
nomic Systems." Wed., May 19, 8 p.m.,I
East Conference Room, Rackham Build-
ing.
Zoology Department will present a
Seminar on Animal Behavior on Thurs..
May 20, at 8 p.m., Rackham Amphithea-
ter. John W. Twente will speak on
Natuiai jelence Buikaing, ati & a.m.
Chairman, P. A. Wright.I
Doctoral Examination for Tony John
Peterie, Wildlife Management; thesis:j
"The Sharp-tailed Grouse in the Upper I
Peninsula of Michigan," Wed., May 19,
East Council Room, Rackham Building,
at 1:30 p.m. Chairman, W. W. Chase.
Doctoral Examination for Lyle Gerald{
Clark, Engineering Mechanics; thesis:
Chairman, Frank Harary.
Doctoral Examination for William An-
drew Paton, Jr., Busitess Administra-
tion; thesis: "The Impact of Inflation
on Corporate Monetary Items," Wed.,
May 19, 716 Business Administration
Building, at 2 p.m. Chairman, W. R.
Dixon.
Doctoral Examination for Lloyd El-
lis Fafes, Education; thesis: "Service
Clubs: Their Relations with Public
Schools," Thurs., May 20, 4015 Uni-
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