THE MICHIGAN DAILV TUESDiAY.I'kERUIARY 23.1954 u vcas a. a!'1 af4.VL"lFiM 1L NNY iYN t 1 c 4inted By MIKE WOLFF Associate City Editor IT IS GRATIFYING to this writer, who had only lethargy to blame for his six semester exposure to "The Michigan House Plan," to find as high-powered a discus- sion of the quad system as Saturday's IHC- Assembly debate finally getting underway. That the workshop covered an impressive amount of territory is shown by the list of topics which included 12 fields of activity from the place of housing units in the com- munity to improving difficulties in services (i.e. food and telephones). But that the very comprehensiveness of the discussions has in it the makings of the project's ultimate uselessness is also shown by a glance at some of the "ideas" that came out of the four-hour session. Dissatisfied quadders will undoubtably cheer the idea of a oentral committee to Integrate charity drives. Men who cannot get out of the quads soon enough will cer- tainly start depledging their fraternities when informed that residence hall units may soon have alumni association. Eighty cent-an-hour busboys should have little to complain about if they are impressed with the responsibility their jobs entail. And the pervading tone of many of the discussions, that what we need is more "house spirit" is certainly not what the doctor ordered for the majority of quad dwellers whose wants are really quite simple. Students and quad administrators who have long complained about the great yearly turnover which undermines house govern- ment and the general group cohesiveness need turn no further than to their kitch- ens for the answer to why most men leave the quads as quickly as possible. It has been this writer's experience that what disgusts residents most about their "home away from home" and pro- vides the greatest impetus to the frater- nity migration is the undeniably poor food that residents pay for, whether they eat it or not, after standing in long lines three times a day, 30 weeks a year. The very simplicity and materialism of this solution may upset those who, seeped in the long and colorful tradition of the Ox- ford-based Michigan House Plan, have dwelt upon "housespirit" and fancy furnishings as the solution to their problems. But it's a sure bet that an unbiased survey would find most quad residents willing to forgo bigger and better musicales, extended ori- entation programs and other what-not for a meal as good or slightly better than what many Greeks enjoy. Panhel versus Assembly, A Need for Understanding LATEST injection into the stream of cam- pus talk of the sorority rushing contro- versy was Assembly's emphatic statement that Panhellenic should give more consider- ation to individuals and adopt spring rushing again when the vote comes up on March 9. This is well and good: as a loose-knit organization of very independent individ- uals, it's Assembly's place to stand up for its own. But the very assertion of these ideas has incited a bitterness between the two groups that was previously dormant if it existed at all. Misunderstanding has colored sorority- independent relations for long time. Neither group can be expected to have much insight into the other's problems: sorority members, for instance, get their only picture of As- sembly's viewpoint through a nonchalant year in a dormitory. Their apathy about "dorm spirit" results more from unappeal- ing residence hall activities, however, rather than from a snobbish or conceited refusal to participate in anything non-Greek. But for any practical purpose, most inde- pendents are totally unfamiliar with sorori- ty proceedings. This is lamentable, but since the situation exists it's hardly fair for their bystanders' judgements of an intra-sorority conflict to bear much weight. Contrary to many opinions, sororities too are interested in individuals. Without this interest they'd never have been founded. Without it affiliated women wouldn't occupy as many prominent campus positions as they do now. Without it there'd be no tedious post-rushing sessions to assure sororities that the rushees they bid to membership are the ones who can give to and profit from their affiliated life. By no means are the eighteen sororities here situated aloofly, above everyone else, on an Ann Arbor acropolis. It's long past time to explode this stereotyped concep- tion. To maintain a campus equilibrium, Panhel's groups need members. And the two-year trial of fall rushing has pretty clearly proven that this system attracts more women into sororities and keeps the entire Panhellenic system healthier. For a variety of well-hashed reasons, spring rushing is at best a poor second choice. A quick rundown of these reasons: in fall the weather is more favorable; everyone re- turns to campus relaxed, rested and com- paratively eager to start school again, and the ridiculous semester-long "contact rules" needn't be feared by anybody. If Panhel regressed to spring rushing, in- dependent women would obviously have nothing to lose. When their finals were over, they could follow University advice and leave town to visit home or friends. Only the amused ones would remain to watch sorori- ties, compelled by rushing, to remain in Ann Arbor. Rushing, on the heels of finals, isn't much fun for anybody-but after a long summer's layoff from academic life, it can be enjoyable. Then there are rushees. For them, the rushing process is completely optional, and in too many cases they decide that after finals a change of scenery does them more good than a possible pledge pin. The results are obvious: fewer rushees, smaller chapters, weaker sororities, overburdened independ- ents. For asserting the voice it should have used long ago, Assembly is to be congratulated. But how about a consideration of the Pan- hellenic viewpoint, too? -Jane Howard "Care To Hear Something?" . r'- . ,(LG r {C'r I . E - ,z. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN I pOAY SWAP INFORMPOP Wag Ovit ALLIES r_ The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the University of Michigan for which the Michigan Daily assumes no editorial responsi- bility. Publication in it is construc- tive notice to all members of the University. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 2552 Administration Building before 3 p.m. the day preceding publication (before 11 a.m. on Saturday). TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1953 VOL. LXIV, No. 96 Notices The firstHatcher Open House of the new semester Is scheduled for Wednes- day, Feb. 24. from 4 to 6 at the Presi- dent's home. Everyone is cordially in- vited to attend and meet President and Mrs. Hatcher. LS & A Students. No courses may dropped from your original elections after Fri., Feb. 26. 1 Petitions to the Hopwoood Committee concerning questionsof eligibility must be in the Hopwood Room by March 1. Choral Union Rehearsal for all mem- hers will be held in the Choral Union Rehearsal Hall in Angell Hall, Tues., Feb. 23, 7 o'clock sharp. Please be seat- ed on time. Selective Service Qualification Test. It is recommended that all men, those in ROTC included, take the Selective Service Qualification Test which will be given April 22. Applications should be sent by mail to Ann Arbor Selective Board No. 85. 210 West Washington St., and be postmarked before midnight March8 . Mary L. Hinsdale Scholarship, amount- ing to $104.94 (interest on the endow- ment fund) is available to undergrad- uate women who are wholly or par- tially self-supporting and who do not live in University residence halls or cnity hnfi.q Girl with better than - YL, , ,f, f -. , ca v. ;; 7 t .. r ^" . **fl 4+ .MtS~ .44 ,J ,. ,.f4 hi ON THE' WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND WITH DREW PEARSONI __ _ _ :ry + MUSIC + And please, let's not hear about costs. Maids who do little more than change the linens once a week, staff assistants whose number does not seem to justify their mea- ger tasks, can and should be eliminated. A little cooperation from quad student gov- ernment in service areas such as these should go along ways toward directing more money toward better meals and hence to- wards a more permanent and satisfied dor- mitory population. Education En Masse ".--With an estimated enrollment of 25,- 000 slated for 1960." This huge fig- ure which is the prospective enrollment of the University is an indication of one of the touchiest problems presented to American educators today. There are two theories of higher educa- tion: one is to educated the top 2-5 per cent of the nation's youth who according to arbitrary standards are mentally equip- ped to carry on the affairs of the nations. The other is that higher education should be extended to the individuals ranging in the upper 25 per cent mentally. Obviously, if the latter more democratic method of education were pursued, huge en- rollment figures would result. The possibili- ty of having 25,000 students attending the University is already conceivable. And be- cause it is impossible to keep up facility ex- pansion and an increased faculty with a stu- dent body increase of nearly 8,000 in six years, the problem is destined to become acute. Lecture courses will have to include as many as 300 students; recitation classes will. increase to 50 students or more; discussion sections will in fact be small lecture sec- tions, and discussion itself will seldom occur. The only way to avoid education 'en masse" and the drowning of individuals in huge classroom mobs is to stiffen University entrance requirements and admit only the 2- 5 per cent of the nation's youth in this and other schools. But this is clearly contrary to the democratic ideal of a well educated body politic. Who has an answer to the paradox of mod- ern higher education? --Pat Rone Rackhamn Auditorium. Griller String Quartet THE FINALE of this year's Chamber Mu- sic Festival was in a sombre tone, as the Griller.Quartet programmed three works all focusing on melancholy or an intense sustained lyricism. As such the concert, tak- en as an integral part of thethreetconcerts on the series as a whole, seemed to repre- sent an Adagio or a slow movement. This was unfortunate since it came after the high-spirited program of the Reginald Kell players on Saturday evening. For Satur- day's concert, with the dance-like character of the Milhaud Suite, the driving and pene- trating dynamism or color of Bartok's Con- trasts, and the brilliant, beautifully obvi- ous architectural clarity of Beethoven's Trio, Op. 1 No. 3, functioned as a third move- ment, a Rondo. Thus Sunday's concert, act- ing as a slow movement, became anti-cli- mactic. The only excuse for this kind of programming would be that to justify com- mercially the contrast of the Kell Players with the Griller Quartet, the Kell Players would naturally be placed between the two concerts by the Griller. Such reasoning rarely has musical validity. Sunday's concert by itself as distin- guished from the series as a whole was, - however, respectable in all ways. It began with five Bach fugues, from the second volume of the Well Tempered Clavier, which were lucidly adapted for strings by Mozart. The Griller gave a clear and straight-forward performance, though a fast fugue would certainly have been wel- comed since all five were very slow. The afternoon's contemporary piece was Edmund Rubbra's Quartet No. 2, but the contemporary must be taken quite spar- ingly. Rubbra, a British composer, does not ' compose in a strictly contemporary idiom. The harmonies were late Beethoven, Brahms, romanticism, nineteenth century, as were the melodies and general mood. For this reason the work was unable to commun- icate much of living emotional content, but was more an intentional archaism with- out the vitality the nineteenth century had for itself. But there was something unmis- takenly contemporary about it. The big- gest fault with works of similar nature, a length and structure more tedious than the most 'diffuse and verbose of late nineteenth century masters, was not true of this piece. Its length was carefully considered and kept within bounds. The rhythmic energy of the Scherzo seemed just the right thing to keep work moving, and the timing and general craft of string quartet writing were most certainly not by an amateur to com- position. The Griller gave an understand- ing performance. , The Griller, perhaps not the best en- semble technically, are capable of inter- pretations that are alive, as their playing of Beethoven's monumental lyric epic, the Quartet in E-flat, Op. 127, demonstrated. Giving emphasis to the points of total fo- cus and mood change in the second move- ment to give more lyric vent to its subse- quent melody, and realizing the vigor and vitality of the last two movements so neces- sary to relieve the heightened tension caus- ed by the intensity of the second movement, they were able to give the work its proper expressive and structural shape. Though all this was occasionally clouded by imprecise playing, particularly in the third movement, or unsure attack, nonetheless the under- standing was there. In fact this might eas- ily sum up the artistry of the Griller, i.e. keen interpretations with good but not matching technique. -Donald Harris sororit ynouses. sirs t etrLa WASHINGTON-Secretary of Defense Wilson is burned up over average scholarship and need will be the way Adm. Arthur Radford has been slipping around the considered. Application blanks, obtain- White House behind his back to see the President. able at the Alumnae Council Office, Michigan League, should be filed by Radford by-passed Wilson and went straight to Eisenhower to March 5. get Air Force technicians sent to Indo-China. He talked the President Lucy Elliott Fellowship. This fellow- into the ilea without even taking it up with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. ship for 1954-55 is being offered to wom- Again last week, he pulled the same maneuver. Radford slipped en graduate students from any college in to see Eisenhower and persuaded him to increase the number of or university who wish study here or to graduates of this university who aircraft carriers on active duty from 13 to 14. wish to pursue their studies at anoth- Radford took the Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Robert er university. The fellowship, amount- ing to $750, is awarded on the basis of Carney, along with him, but didn't bother to clear it either with personality, achievement, and scholar- the Secretary of Defense, his boss, or the other Joint Chiefs with ship ability. Preference is also shown to whom he is supposed to cooperate. tho women doing creative work. Ap- plication blanks may be picked up in The first time Radford by-passed his boss, the Secretary of De- I the Alumnae Council Office. Michigan fense said nothing. The second time, he hit the ceiling. Wilson figures League, and should be returned by April 1. that part of the heavy expense of running the Defense Department is1 due to the inclination by the brass hats to get the bit in their teeth PERSONNEL INTERVIEWS. and run away with things. This is especially easy when another Thurs., Feb. 25:F The Household Finance Corp., Chi- military man is President of the United States. cago, Ill., will visit the Bureau on Feb. So long as he is Secretary of Defense, Charlie Wilson intends to 25 to talk with men June graduates, SSfiBus. Ad. or LS&A, about the firm's run the Defense Department. If, on the other hand, the military are Accelerated Training Program. going to run the Defense Department, he'll resign. The State Mutual Life Assurance Co., of Worcester, Mass. will have a repre- Senate Sights-New York's 75-year-old Sen. Herbert Lehman sentative on the campus on Feb. 25 to strolling down the corridor, holding hands with his wife . . . . The interview June and August men grad- uates, Bus. Ad. or LS&A, for positions gum-chewing Democratic leader, Texas Sen. Lyndon Johnson, being as Home Office Group Sales Representa- out-chomped by Maryland's Sen. John Marshall Butler, sitting across tives, Underwriters (prefer students the aisle . . . . Delaware's quiet Sen. John Williams, the scourge of with math courses), and Accountants. Swift & Co., Chicago, Ill., will visit the tax chiselers, waving affectionately to his wife in the Senate the campus on Feb. 25 to interview June gallery . . . . Mrs. Pat Nixon, wife of the Vice President, growing more men graduates, Bus. Ad. and LS&A, in- beautiful and her hair a deeper red every day. (Other Senate ladies terested in sales, Accounting, Office Administration, and Production. The want to know the name of her new hair rinse.) ... . Maine's attractive company would also like to talk with Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, the only lady member, wearing a fresh June graduates in Mechanical, Archi- red rose-sent her every day by a Washington auto dealer . . . . not tectural, or Civil Engineering as well as women June graduates for employ- to be outdone, North Carolina's dignified Sen. Clyde Hoey shows up ment in Chicago as stenographers or each day with a red carnation in his lapel . . . . Handsome Sen. John clerks in the company's Commercial Bricker of Ohio running his hands over his silvery locks, making sure Research Dept. The Operations Evaluation Group every wave is in place .. ... Washington's bachelor Sen. Henry "Scoop" (Washington, D.C.) of the Massachu- Jackson dashing around the Senate in a shabby brown sweater .... setts Institute of Technology will have Tall, slim papa Robert Kefauver listening intently from the Senate a representative at the Bureau on Feb. gallery while his son, Estes, debates the Bricker amendment . . . 26 to interview mathematicians, physi- Idaho's self-conscious Sen. Herman Welker glancing up at the Sen- ate press gallery to see whether folks are watching . . . . Sen. Fred Payne of Maine presiding over the Senate with professional poise, booming out parliamentary decisions. (He's had more hours in the T cal chemists, and physicists at the Mast- ers and PhD level for positions on its research staff. Students wishing to schedule appoint- ments to see any of the companies listed above may contact the Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Administration Bldg., Ext. 371. PERSONNEL REQUESTS The Division of Personnel, Richmond, virginia, has announced an opening for a Wildlife Education Specialist (Male) who will serve as an information tech- nician and as associate editor for Vir- ginia Wildlife magazine. Applicants should have a B.S. in wildlife manage- ment. forestry, biology, zoology, or re- creation, should be between, the ages of 23 and 40, and should have had at least I yr. of work in the field of pub- licity and public relations either in school or in outside employment. The Woods Hole Oceanographic In- stitution, Woods Hole, Mass., is in need of a meteorological technician. Require- ments include practical knowledge of electronics and skill in using lathe and other machine tools. The Green Bay Health Department, Green Bay, Wisconsin, has an opening for a rodent control officer on July 1. Candidates should be well trained in animal ecology. For additional information about these and other employment oppor- tunities contact the Bureau of Appoint- ments, 3528 Administration Bldg., Ext. 371. Lectures University Lecture, auspices of ie Department of Fisheries, School of Na- tural Resources. "Problems and Di- coveries in the Metabolism of Lakes as Disclosed by the Use of Radioactive Isotopes," Prof.- F. Ronald Hayes, Zoo- logical Laboratory, of Dahousie Uni- versity, Halifax, Nova Scotia, wed., Feb. 24, 8 p.m., Natural Science Auditorium. Academic Notices Biophysics Coloquium. The first meet- ing will be held Tues., Feb. 23, 4:30 p.m. (tea at 4:15), 3126 Natural Science Bldg. Dr. C. Levinthal will speak on "The Biological Function of Desoxyri- bonucleic Acid." Geometry Seminar. Wed., Feb. 24, 7 p.m., 3001 Angell Hall. Prof. N. Kuiper will speak on "Linear Families of In- volutions." The Language Examination for Can- didates for the M.A. in History will be given on Fri., Mar. 5, at 4 p.m. in 447 Mason Hall. Dictionaries may be used. Students who wish to take the examina- tion must so Inform the secretary of the History Department by February 26. Applications for admission to the Doc- toral Program in Social Psychology must be in the office of Prof. Theodore M. Newcomb, Chairman, 5633 Haven Hall, on or before March 5. Part II Actuarial Review Class. Tues., Feb. 23, 4:10 p.m., 3010 Angell Hall. Please note the change of room. Seminar on Surface Wave Phenome- na by Dr. Robert C. F. Bartels, Mathe- matics (Eng.), sponsored by Department of Aeronautical Engineering, This is a continuance of the seminar given last semester by Dr. Bartels. Tues., Feb. 23, 1504 E. Engineering Bldg., 4 p.m. All interested are invited. Events Today The Graduate History Club will meet tonight at 8 p.m. at the Clements Li- brary. Professor I. A. Leonard, of the History Department, will speak on "The First Amerloan Historian." Refresh- ments will be served. Members and oth- er interested faculty or students are in. vited. The Congregational- Disciples Gull, Tea at Guild House, 4:30-6 p.m. I (Continued on Page 5) . THE EDITOR chair than anyone else, including the Vice President, who is the Sen- ate's official presiding officer.) CAPITOL CAPSULES IKE'S FACT PAPER-President Eisenhower now sends out a "Fact Paper" to all bureau chiefs, giving the official White House policy line on important questions. He has been working on a "fact paper" explaining what officials should say when asked about the very em- barrassing question of the 2,200 so-called "security risks." which are now turning out to be about 10 per cent of that figure. BIG BUDGET DEFICIT-Assistant Director, of the Budget Rowland Hughes has admitted behind closed doors that the Eis- enhower budget was based on two assumptions,: 1, That unem- ployment has already soared over 3,500,000, and the crisis in Indo-China will cost triple the Eisenhower estimate . . . . Gov- ernment economists now predict privately that the deficit will be at least four dullions more than the President figured. .. 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. r r' !_- 0 SCuRREN'r117mQ')/ IE S At Rackham Lecture Hall ... NANOOK OF THE NORTH, directed by Robert Flaherty IN 1922, an explorer with a camera left a small trading post off Hudson Bay hop- ing to find copper in the upper reaches of Canada's snowy wastelands. The mineral de- posits he discovered were of little commercial value, but he returned with a film record of the activities of an Eskimo named Nanook which thirty-two years later is serving as a keystone of a movie festival commemorating the film work of the man who is today rec- ognized as a major artist in the medium. "Nanook of the North" is, simply enough, the story of what an Eskimo does in order to live. Since the conditions of climate and land do not permit the Eski- mo any additional activity but 4hat of seeking his food, the film consequently is a complete record of a way of living. Lifej is hunting walruses, building igloos, calm- ing hungry dogs-a thoroughly elemental, unembellished existence, the purpose of which is at all times clear. Robert Flaherty's contribution to this is a rare understanding of what Nanook's life technique is startling only because he never loses his place. He separates his characters from strange, seductive habitats and "quaint" native customs. Most of all, his work has a point of view: it is one of opti- mism, but never false optimism. He careful- ly withdrew throughout his career from ev- ery project that would have attempted to neutralize the communication of his own attitudes about what men were. A demonstration of what makes Flaher- ty an artist was supplied, unwittingly, by a companion feature on the opening pro- gram: "World Withoit End," a film de- signed to show the work of the UNESCO- organization around the world. Nominally made "in the Flaherty tradition," the fea- ture turned out to be a lengthy, disorgan- ized hodgepodge that wore its good in- tentions like so many ornaments. In spite of the fact that the two sections of the film (dealing with UNESCO work in Mexico and Thailand) were directed by highly regarded names, Paul Rotha and Ba- sil Wright; the material photographed was generally purposeless and the sound track (with authentic folk music) practically ir- relevant. Narration was condescending and I'if ~ lI A ~ n F v.J ----, . .... ._ zr-- . DULLES IS HAPPY-President Eisenhower has been advised by John Foster Dulles that the Berlin Conference actually improved prospects for peace with Russia-even though it failed to settle any problems . . . . Dulles sent a special report to Ike at Palm Springs saying that Molotov's stubborn stand in Berlin clearly shows the Rus- sians are gravely worried about developments inside the Iron Curtain .... Because of this uncertainty, Dulles claimed, Premier Malenkov will sit tight and make no aggressive move in Europe, for at least one, perhaps two years . . . . (Not as reassuring as Igor Gouzenko, who told me Russia was not likely to take the offensive for 10 years.) Naturo Resources ... handling natural resources for I good or bad the next meeting of To the editor: the Young Democrats will be de- voted to a discussion of this prob- HE CONDITION of America's lem. natural resources when our -Roy Van Dyke generation "runs the nation" de- Young Democrats pends upon how the present Ad- ministration treats them. Therefore, we feel it is well to progress (or lack of it) in this ! field. These would seem to be major Sixty-Fourth Year questions: Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan underthe 1. What degree of responsibility' authority of the Board in Control of should the Federal government Student Publications. take in the field of natural re- sources? Editorial Staff 2. Has the present administra- Harry Lunn.........Managing Editor tion taken the proper responsi- Eric Vetter..................City Editor bility? Virginia Voss.........Editorial Director Mike Wolff........Associate City Editor Democrats generally agree that Alice B. Silver..Assoc. Editorial Director *** *R ARMY CATERER THE ARMY Chief of Staff's office has just granted a special, un- !the Federal government h a s Iiene . iUmonerter.....Associate Editor HE strong responsibility in this area Helene Simon.........Associate Editor precedented promotion to the enlisted man in charge of decor- and feel that sufficient funds Iau Gaeerg......oc.Sports Editor ating the tables at the Fort McNair officers' club. He is John Sabitini, should be allotted to the Interior Marilyn Campbell...... Women's Editor who was promoted overnight from a Sergeant to a Chief Warrant Department to carry out an in- Kathy Zeisler....Assoc. Women's Editor Officer, though it usually takes written examinations and four years' telligent program. Chuck Kelsey.Chief Photographer service for nvnnePlc to mk tha Wtaraf t dlalT77+, ac VU Ira yue else L mae e ewarrant graae. Reason for this sudden promotion was that Sabitini threat- ened to quit the Army and go back to private catering. It hap- pens that the high Pentagon brass do most of their entertaining at the Fort McNair Officers' Club, and they like the way Sabitini decorates their tables. So, in order to appease him, they rushed through special orders to make him a Chief Warrant Officer. The order was disapproved by the Army Personnel Section, but' the chief of staff's office overruled the personnel section and made Sergeant Sabitini a Chief Warrant Officer in charge of Fort McNair. parties. With this principle as a guide Business Staff we evaluate the amount of mon- Thomas Treeger......Business Manager ey asked for natural resources in William Kaufman Advertising Manager the budget. We find that Republi- Harlean Hankin....Assoc. Business Mgr. can budgets reduced the amount William Seiden......Finance Manager requested in 1954 and 1955 to re- Don Chisholm.....circulation Manager Sversethe trend of increased ex-Telephone NO 23-24-1 penditures since the end of the Te1_ phneN__23-24- _ war. Are we to believe that the need for natural resource development has declined since the Republi- AMember }ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS