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SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1955 NIGHT EDITOR: HARRY STRAUSS
INSTEAD OF FACTORY:
Counseling SystemNeeds
More Personalized Atmosphere
THE PRESENT academic counseling service out of the office without much chance for
is badly in need of a more personalized discussion.
orientation. IN OTHER cases, where there are a large num-
Despite the fact that this is a large univer- ber of concentrates, there are four or five ad-
sity, there is no need for the factory-like atmos- visors, and the student is never assigned to
phere in the counseling offices. Aside from one particular counselor. Instead, he sees
the insufficient number of academic advisors, whichever man is available, as he did during
the main problem seems to be that those serv- his first two years. Even within the departments,
ing are not fully aware of the various problems the problem of old arises-the cdunselors know
with which a student is faced when choosing about their particular field, but little beyond it.
courses, much less a field of concentration. It is quite obvious that more counselors are
The freshman student Is assigned to an aca- needed. But even if more men agree to give up
demic advisor for his first two years. In a great valuable time to advise students on courses, the
number of cases, he finds himself tossed back problem will not be solved.
and forth between two or more advisors. The First, the freshman should be assigned to one
advisors are from all departments of the univer- advisor who will work with him through his
sity, thns in many cases they are unfamiliar first two years. If possible, interests should be
with courses in fields other than their own. similar. When he reaches his field of concen-
During the second half of his sophomore year. tration, he should again be assigned to one
the student must choose his field of concentra- man for his last two years.
tion. Needless to say, very few have, at this early TYPE of training program should be set up
date, decided the exact field into which they whereby all advisors will be acquainted with
want to go upon graduation. Perhaps this courses outside their own fields, in addition to
should not be, but there is little place for them definite requirements, cognates and the like
to turn for help in making the big decision. Un- within their departments.
less he is interested in the field in which his Freshman and sophomore advisors should be
advisor teaches, the sophomore receives little made aware of the requirements and opportu-
help In deciding his major. True, he can go to nities in all departments of concentration, in
the various departments and talk with people addition to being informd of and about spe-
there, but most departments have few facili- cial curricula and area programs.
ties, aside from pamphlets written to entice, With a show of more interest in the student
rather than inform, and his problems, the advisors can go a long
Once the choice has somehow been made, the way in dispelling much of the criticism lev-
student is assigned an advisor within his field elled at them. By taking a little more time to
of concentration. But this does not end the explain questions which puzzle students in the
problem. In many departments there are so entire matter of course selection, a more per-
few advisors in comparison to the number of sonalized atmosphere should evolve.
concentrates that the student is rushed in and -Louise Tyor
TODAY AND TOMORROW:
Dulles' TV Show Fals Short
By WALTER LIPPMANN THERE WAS NOT even a hint of these de-
WATCHING the performance which was put velopments in the Tuesday show and that
on at the White House on Tuesday eve- was, it seems to me, disturbing. For if in the
ring, it was painfully evident that television coming encounter with Moscow and Peiping
plus professional stage management is not nec- our own public opinion is crystallized on the
essarily what it professes to be-a new and half truth which was Mr. Dulles's theme, the
better way of informing people, of letting them Administration will not have the kind of in-
see and hear directly and at first hand what formed support in Congress and among the
their officials are really like and what their people which it will need to have.
officials are really thinking. The essentially new thing about the new
These stage-managed shows with props made policy is that it rests on a new appraisal of a
out of the White House furniture, with live worldwide tide of popular feeling, and that it
officials reciting or reading the script, are is shrewdly designed to make the Soviet Union
not a new and advanced form of journalism stand forth as the champion of what the
and true reporting. They are fiction and thea- peoples want.
ter meant to give the illusion that they are If the new policy of neutrality and disen-
true reporting. gagement is given a free run, if it is merely
This is by way of saying that the picture denounced with stereotyped phrases, the So-
painted by Secretary Dulles of the great move- viet Union will be in a position to monopolize
ment of things in the world today was true and to exploit an enormous wave of popular
only as far as it went, which was not very far, feeling. This is the desire for escape from
Ere painted a picture of the Soviet Union re- nuclear warfare, a longing comparable with
ceding because of the unity and strength of the longing in the Asian peoples for freedom
the Western nations. - from the white man's rule.
This dramatic and attractive picture leaves IT IS WISHFUL and indeed highly conceited
Out one of the great and determining develop- thinking for us to tell ourselves that we are
ments of our time-namely, the increasing leading from strength and that our adver-
tendency of the smaller, most vulnerable na- saries are leading from weakness.
tions to pull away from the military orbits of For when every allowance has been made
both of the two great atomic powers. What for the economic troubles in Russia and in
Mr. Dulles talked about was at best only half China, the fact remains that in reaching out
the truth. The other half of the truth is that for the support of the masses of mankind who
with their new policy the Soviets are riding want to disengage themselves from nuclear
a wave of the future with good prospects, if warfare, the Soviets are by way of acquiring
we do not look out, of attracting wide popular new and very popular strength.
support in Europe and in Asia. (copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc.).
INTERPRETING THE NEWS:
Reds Aim at Breathing Spell
"Hey - Maybe A Parking Place"
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND:
Peace Pact Might Work Now
By DREW PEARSON
(Editor's Note-Drew Pearson's col-
umn today takes the form of a letter
to his daughter, Mrs. George L. Ar-
nold.)
Washington, D.C.
May 17, 1955
DEAR DAUGHTER,
If editors gripe about my col-
umn these days, it will be entirely
your youngest son's fault. He is
raising cain with my work.
As you know, I usually get up
about 6 a.m. to write a column
when the phones aren't ringing
and congressmen complaining. But
since he's been living upstairs I
tiptoe in to take a peek at him
about 6 and no matter how quiet
I am he usually hears me and is
bouncing up and down inghis crib,
gurgling and demanding to be
picked up.
Also he is sopping wet. So I
change him. Whereupon he waves
his feet and gurgles with such
glee at having those wet pants off
that I cannot possibly go back to
work but go downstairs and warm
a bottle. Well by that time my
morning is shot; so I get him
dressed and take him down to my
study while I sit at the type-
writer, and he proceeds to crawl
all around my desk pulling out
papers and old timetables that
should have been destroyed long
ago but which my secretary hasn't
dared touch for fear I will bite
her head off,
* s *
WELL, WE HAVE a good time,
though I don't get much work
done. And I still think some so-
lution should be found for ba-
bies with wet pants. They are so
uncomfortable. I have tried to find
a solution, but can't. I have tried
changing him just before I go to
bed at midnight.hButhe's still
sopping early in the morning.
Our scientists have split the
atom and developed the hydro-
gen bomb. But nobody has any
solution for a baby's wet pants.
Perhaps there just isn't any.
I am writing this on your
youngest son's first birthday. And
'I have been thinking of the re-
sponsibility the statesmen of the
world carry on their shoulders on
behalf of this one -year-old baby
and all the other children of the
world who grow up to face the
prospect of atomic war.
It isn't their fault that their
elders have bungled. It isn't their
LETTERS
To the Editor
State Thanks *..
To the Ed~itor:
fault that we have so perfected
the weapons of war that if war
comes today it might destroy all
civilization.
* * *
THAT'S THE KIND of world -
through no fault of their own--
these children will have to live in.
And those are some of the things
I can't help thinking about when
I change your young son's pants in
the morning.
However, I begin to detect a
few faint signs of hope on the
horizon-not so much because of
the leadership we have given but
because of the Kremlin's failures
in Russia.
The Big Four conference this
summer could hold a lot for the
future of your one-year-old and
his two elder brothers. But we
backed into it by accident instead
of leading the world into it.
Mr. Dulles agreed to it only be-
cause the British Conservative
government insisted on it as an
election gesture, and because An-
thony Eden was worried sick he
would be defeated next Thursday.
Politics is no good reason for hold-
ing vitally important diplomatic
conferences, yet politics is what is
governing our foreign policy to-
day-both domestic politics and
politics to help our allies abroad.
I REMEMBER when you were
a small baby and I was on a spe-
cial assignment for the New York
Times to accompany Secretary of
State Frank B. Kellogg to Paris
to sign his treaty to outlaw war.
Kellogg and his treaty were ahead
of his time. But he was proud of
his treaty, and, though a Republi-
can, he didn't want it to be
claimed as a Republican victory.
He wanted it to be an American
victory, an American milestone
for peace.
Today what we need is another
treaty to outlaw war. And this
time, with the world facing awe-
some, gruesome atomic-hydrogen
destruction, the terms of such a
treaty might well be kept.
Today also we need the same bi-
partisanship that Kellogg started.
Today, in contrast, when Secre-
tary Dulles goes abroad and when
Eisenhower sits in the White
House, they are much more con-
cerned about what Senator Know-
land will think than about what's
good for your children and the
millions of other children who
represent the future of the United
States.
What Senator Knowland says
about Quemoy and Matsu is rela-
tively unimportant. Whether Ei-
senhower and Dulles are elected
to office again is also relatively
unimportant. What matters to
millions of children in another
war is important.
* * *
AND TODAY we have been wor-
rying about two little islands off
the China coast, mere spits in the
ocean which nobody ever heard
about until Senator Knowland
made them famous; when instead
we should be watching the big
things that are happening in Eu-
rope, where the people of Russia
and the people behind the fron
Curtain are getting so restless that
they're almost in silent revolt.
This, according to all my infor-
mation, is why the Kremlin has
become conciliatory of late. This
is why the prospects for peace
look better. For, though we've fall-
en behind Russia on many types
of weapons, I think we have un-
wittingly developed one all-impor-
tant secret weapon-the Russian
people.
In the long run, you can usually
depend on people to react the
right way, and the restless stir-
ring of the people behind the Iron
Curtain against their Soviet rul-
ers today is the most important
development since the end of the
war and is why I feel quite hope-
ful that maybe your youngest son
who throws my papers on the
floor and disrupts my mornings
will grow up in a happier more
peaceful world.
AT THE MICHIGAN:
'SAC' Only
114-Minute
Commercial
"STRATEGIC Air Command" is
a 114-minute commercial for
the United States Air Force.
It offers a highly chauvanistic
line of propaganda which is typi-
fied by one airman's comment
that SAC ". . . is the only thing
that's keeping the peace," a very
debatable generalization.
As it is presented on the
screen, "SAC" offers no plot, only
a non-dramatic situation and an
endless stream ofrairplane scenes,
in which Air Force paraphernalia
is exhibited in such a manner as
to convince Americans that their
country has the very best Air
Force.
The situation reveals how Car-
dinal baseball star "Dutch" Hol-
land (James Stewart) is recalled
into service for a 21-month hitch
in the SAC. His wife (June Ally-
son) is happy about his new job.
* * *
FOR APPROXIMATELY an
hour and t w e n t y minutes,
"Dutch" alternates between mak-
ing flights and rushing into his
wife's arms. Once he crashes a
plane, but the chief purpose of
the maneuver is to show how skill-
fully SAC rescues its men.
During the last half hour or
so, the wife becomes apprehen-
sive about the business, but
"Dutch" grows to like his job.
Fortunately, he is discharged
with a sore arm and the couple
fly into each others' arms, but
not before "Dutch" has tested all
the latest SAC equipment.
Stewart and Miss Allyson have
ittle to do except crack a few
jokes about domesticated family
life. Since they have played hus-
band and wife before (e.b., "The
Stratton Story," "The Glenn Mil-
ler Story"), they look properly
domesticated.
* * *
ASIDE FROM THE perpetual
airplane scenes, there are some
lovely VistaVision shots of sun-
rises, sunsets, and clouds through
which the planes fly. But the film's
dramatic tone is so bland, even
these cannot supply interest.
In keeping with the Air Force
theme, the Michigan theater has
posted a i r p 1 a n e photographs
about the walls of the lobby.
Moreover, there are numerous Air
Force displays. One of them, a
series of slide-like images project-
ed on a miniature screen, bears
the ominous title, "Think It
Over."
If there is any credit due the
picture, it is that sitting through
its continuous airplane sequences
gives one the realistic illusion of
spending 21 months in the Stra-
tegic Air Command.
-Ernest Theodossin
AT THE ORPHEUM:
Inspector'
Forces FMoral
IN J. B. PRIESTLEY'S "An In-
spector Calls," a supposed po-
lice inspector, Alastir Sim, inter-
rupts a family dinner party as the
members toast the engagement of
the daughter and a noble's son.
The inspector tells them that a
young girl has just died at the in-
firmary and he has come to in-
quire about her. The parents are
angry that the party is interrupt-
ded the brother, sister, and fian-
cee are politely uninterested.
The inspector questions them,
and one by one they realize that
they have, individually, wronged
a girl, presumably. the same one.
BY FORCING them to relive the
the actions of their respective
relations with the girl, the inspec-
tor brings them to the realization
that they are each responsible to
other people for their own actions.
Receiving news that the inspec-
tor is a fake, the group, except for
the brother and sister, immediate-
ly lose all the humility which they
had so recently learned. They
again resume their cold, selfish
lives of indifference and disdain
for the responsibility of their own
actions against humanity.
The inspector then vanishes
from a closed room after the po-
lice have called to say that an in-
spector is on his way to question
the family about a young girl's
death.
* * *
T TNTIL the film starts to moral-
ize too obviously, it is very good
entertainment.
Sim has penetrating power as
the mystical inspector; each of
the six other major roles are deft-
ly handled. The plot is nicely in-
tegrated so that all the relation-
ships between the party members
and the gril are interwoven yet
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than twice.
SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1955
VOL. LXV, No. 163
Notices
Any veteran who will attend the
summer session, and who is interested
in establishing a veterans' organization
please call Robert McDivitt at NO-
3-2270.
Late permission for women students
who attended Drama Festival programs
Mon., May 16 through Thurs., May 19,
will be no later than 11:30 p.m.
STUDENT GOVERNMENT COUNCIL
Summary of the proceedings of the
meeting of May 18, 1955
Approved:
Sailing Club to participate In regatta
at Clark Lake, May 21, 22 Student Re-
ligious Association clothing drive June
1-9 (change of date).
Name change for Freshman Engineer-
ing Council-to Freshman Engineering
Class Board.
Appointments:
Joint Judiciary Council-Roger An-
derson, Merritt Green, Ralph Goldberg,
Martha Walibillich, Andrea Snyder
University Housing Committee: Tur-
ker Karamizrak, Al Williams, Taufiq
Khoury
Calendaring Committee-Dan Webb
Activities:
Gothic Film summer showings
Wolverine Club: May 23, 24, 25-Sign
Up for Block M, Barbour Gym; Sept.
22-Block "M" Mass Meeting Hill Au-
ditorium; Sept. 30, November 18 Pep
Rallies, Ferry Field
Book Exchange:
The Campus Affairs committee has
assigned three members to work with
the manager and assistant manager of
the Book Exchange as an operating
Board for 1955-56. Recommendations for
operational structure will then be sub-
mitted to the Council.
Authorized for a trial 'period, Gothic
Film Society to admit paying guests to
showings other than those from the
Museum of Modern Art.
Reported close to 4,000 books collect-
ed in the Books for Asia Drive.
Established a central board for sum-
mer operation: Hazel Frank, Richard
Good, Deborah Townsend.
Counselors for Summer Session Pro-
gram at the Fresh Air Camp. Men and
women, seniors and graduate students.
Eight hours credit in education, soci-
ology, psychology and social work, plus
instructional fees, room and board pro-
vided. Counselor positions still open.
Also, position open as camp nurse. For
descriptive bulletin and information
call NO 3-1511, Ext. 2158.
The following representatives will not
be at the Bureau of Appointments for
interviews but have the following va-
cancies:
Bakersfield, California (Kern County)
-Teacher Needs: Early and Later Ele-
mentary-Kdg.-8th Grade.
Glen Ellyn, Illnois-Teacher Needs:,
Physical Education for-Boys;hSupervi-
sor and Consultant of Music (Elemen-
tary).
Mount Carroll, Illinois (Shimer Col-
lege)-Teacher Needs: Biology; Eng-
lish; Education.
North Chicago, Illinois (Community
High School, District No. 123)-Teach-
er Needs: 9th Grade English (main ac-
cent will be on reading improvement);
English-Journalism (to handle publi-
cation); Social Studies-Audio Visual
Aids; Speech Correctionist.
Park Ridge, Illinois-Teacher Needs:
Kindergarten; Early and Iter Elemen-
tary; Jr. High Librarian.
Riverside, Illinois- Teacher Needs:
Boy's Physical Education (Jr. High).
Rochelle, Illinois (Rochelle Township
High School)-Teacher Needs: Speech;
Social Studies-Line Coach in Football;
Industrial Arts-Electricity-Metals;Li-
brarian; Home Economics; Girl's Phys-
ical Education-Commerce; vocational
Guidance - Counseling (man); Boys'
Physical Education-Coach (Basketball-
Assistant in Football-Track.
Skokie, Illinois (Skokie District 68)--
-Teacher Needs: Kindergarten, Early
and Later Elementary; Music.
New Canaan, Connecticut - Teacher
Needs: H.S. Librarian; Jr. High Math-
ematics-Science (grades 7 & 8); Eng-
lish-Social Studies (grades 7 & 8); Ear-
ly and Later Elementary (grades 1-5);
Elementary and Jr. High Music-Choral
(grades 1-8); Dental Hygienist.
Lake Mills, Iowa-Teacher Needs: Li-
brarian-English (9th Grade)-7th & 8th
Grade Social Studies or Elementary Art.
Adrian, Michigan (Girls' Training
School)-Teacher Needs: English-Social
Studies (7-8 grades); English-Social
Studies (8-9 grades).
Allen Park, Michigan - Teacher
Needs: Kindergarten; Second; TUird or
Fourth Grade; Jr. High 7th Grade.
Almont, Michigan - Teacher Needs:
Seventh Grade; English-Spanish; Eng-
lish-Library; Industrial Arts; Commerce
(H.S.).
Armada, Michigan (Armac'- Rural Ag-
ricultural School)-Teacher Needs: Kin-
dergarten; First Grade; H.S. English;
H.S. Mathematics.
Boyne City, Michigan-Teacher Needs:
Head Football-Basketball Coach; Jr. &
Sr. High Social Science; Girls' Physical
Education; H.S. Mathematics.
Brown City, Michigan-Teacher Needs:
Commercial; Mathematics-Science; So-
cial Studies-Driver Training.
Coloma, Michigan - Teacher Needs:
B u s i n e s s Education (bookkeeping,
Shorthand, typing, general Business);
Vocal Music.
Coopersville, Michigan - Teacher
Needs: Seventh Grade; Eighth Grade;
General Shop.
Dexter, Michigan (Dexter Agricul-
tural Schools) -Teacher Needs: Indus-
trial Arts.
East Detroit, Michigan - Teacher
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By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
SEVERAL IMPORTANT American policy ar-
guments are going on now against the back-
ground of recent developments in Europe which
Russia may have hoped would have an effect
upon them.
The Daily Staff
Editorial Staff
Eugene Hartwig,....................Managing Editor
Dorothy Myers.............................City Editor
Jon Sobeloff..........................Editorial Director
Pat oelofs......,...............Associate City Editor
Becky Conrad........................Associate Editor
Nan Swinehart.......................Associate Editor
Dave Livingston.................Sports Editor
Hanley Gurwiri... .............Associate Sports Editor
Warren Wertheimer............ Associate Sports Editor
Roz iShlimovitz . ... .. ... °..... Women's Editor
Janet Smith ...... ... Associate Women's Editor
John Hirtzel............. ....Chief Photographer
Lots of Love,
Your Father
1955, by the Bell Syndicate)
Foremost, of course, is the attempt to make
an estimate of what the Communists are really
up to in their softened approach to European
problems. It involves the attitude the United
States will take at the projected Big Four con-
ference.
The size and disposition of the foreign aid
program is before Congress, where for several
years there has been a disposition to cut it down
as rapidly as possible. Sen. George has just
warned that to weaken it in the face of Soviet
blandishments would be a great mistake.
SHELVING in the House of the administra-
tion army reserve program has reopened the
debate over the safety of the current program
for reducing the active force.
After a month of speculation, the general es-
timate of Russia's new sweetness and light
campaign is that it is designed primarily to in-
terfere with West German rearmament and
induce the establishment of a power vacuum
in the middle of Europe.
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