Sixty-Seventh Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 I- "AhA You've Come Back To Me" "When Opinions Are Free Truth Will Prevail" :3"r~i . AA., Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1956 NIGHT EDITOR: CAROL PRINS __... __ _ y , ;:' Y ~ "'' -x ' s r, : 1 ,; HILL AUDITORIUM Soprano Displays Fine Musicianship JN THE ART of singing as practiced by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, there has been a progressive refinement which has followed a consistent, devoted and high minded route. The result as it was demonstrated last night, is tightly disciplined to the point of equilibrium. It is a highly civilized art: and as an inevitable result, there has been a narrowing down of the emotional palette. The songs sung last night to the best advantage (and one would suspect that Miss Schwarzkopf found these most to her taste) were numbers which were introspective and aloof in outline; intellectual even in their emotive content; quiet and usually slow in tempo. Nobility and devotion were their content, and they were sung with these quali- ties. Such were the numbers like Bach's "Bist du bei mir;'" Handel's "Care selve;" Schubert's "An die Musik" and the Romanze from Rosa- r44 An Open Letter to SGC's Newly Elected Members l~ 4 STALIN THE election is over. After two weeks of campaigning, putting up posters, attending meetings and speaking all over campus, University students have elected you their representatives. Now you're a campus leader, and maybe it's not the first time. To all of you, whether you've been there be- fore, or it's your first time round, congratu- lations., Your responsibility to the University's 22,000 students has never been greater. You're en- trusted with a grave task-that of preserving and extending the student voice. The next few months will be the most crucial in Student Government Council's short ex- istence. What SGC accomplishes from now on will determine the Regents' decision next spring. THE ISSUES you face are important ones, SGC does not concern itself only with the bicycle problem. It has shown maturity Icy tackling problems which have plagued the Ad- ministration and faculty for years. It has dealt with the touchy, emotion-filled questions of teferred rush and Sigma Kappa. There is a possibility that SGC can become something very rare in student governments -an effective, deliberate, mature, unafraid body. Whether it does or not is up to you. -TAMMY MORRISON K- I AY i ^i. r , L'_ k=' F1 - _ T' . z Ci r f f ,,''' "'' , " .:,. V -' Z"--Y Steering Committee Conference '..:: A FACULTY MEMBER commented the other day that it is "getting impossible to get an education around here any more." Whether or not we agree with the comment, one of the high marks of the University of Michigan is that if it is true, something can be done about it. Tonight's Literary College Steer- ing Committee Conference will pool student and faculty resources in a discussion of one aspect of the whole problem of higher education. Topic for discussion will be, "Can We Liber- alize the Literary College Curriculum?" Though we would suggest that there are more basic questions to be asked and answered before this particular one, the area of curriculum does need debate and these more basic questions will necessarily come out in tonight's discussion. We wonder, first of all, what the educational policy of an institution should be in admission of students. Should we confine a lot of educa- tion to a few students, or spread a little to a lot? If students of differing abilities are ad- mitted, should the average intelligence of the group hold down the student who is more ad- vanced? ONCE the student is here, what should the liberal arts school attempt to do? Should it train the student comprehensively in an area of natural science, of social science, a humanity depending on what specific vocation he plans to enter? Or should it develop in the student a broad ability to think, to interpret, to analyze wit. little attention paid to any one of the present departmental fields? , Having decided the objectives of, a liberal arts education, are the present requirements of the Literary College and its departments real- istic? Should there be an even greater com- partmentalization than at present among the students and faculty members of the indi- vidual departments? Or should the disciplines overlap, with more provision made for inter- departmental courses? These are questions which tonight's discus- sion will pose. And if the possibilities of getting a real education at the University have dim- inished, the answers and follow-through from the discussion will be a step forward in making the possibilities greater. -RICHARD SNYDER Editor Suggestions And an Epitaph ON THE campus scene: An old institution meets its demise with the, opening of tonight's sophomore show. The idea of student-written, student-directed pro- grams has long been existent in the form of the farce-comedy Union Opera, which is also being converted to a "professional" musical comedy. Perhaps it is merely a disposal of time-hon- ored Michigan traditions (for instance, is there a woman left on campus who feels conscience pangs when she enters the Union front door?) Or perhaps, because of the use of a co-ed show, the excuse that there was Insufficient time to prepare a student script is valid. We wish both groups luck in their undertak- ing, but we mourn the passing of their prede- cessor. * * * One thing that remains to be explained: How can the United States of America elect its president in one day, while the student body of the University takes two to choose seven Student Government Council members? * * * The 140 foot crane lying daintily across the Diag yesterday somewhat impeded progress to and from classes. Suggestion to the Plant Department: it would help academic pursuits if constriuction work were to be carried on between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and eight in the morning. -J. R. + - t; = , .. . .. - 'yrh. 'Jr. +iSS ER"e I,L}'f$TOCK -'ST c TODAY AND TOMORROW: The A tlantic A iliance Hard Core By WALTER LIPPMANN THE Atlantic Alliance has been passing through a serious ~est which has made clearer than ever before its lasting strength and its present limitations. They might be summed up by saying that where the issue is national survi- val, the alliance is certain; where the issues are concerned only with nlational interests, there is not necessarily a common policy. Thus in the Middle East the British and French national in- terest is very much more impor-- tant than the American. The allies were so little able to agree on a common policy that for a time they could not even consult. Yet, when the Soviet Union -threatened Britain and France, this country stood up for them instantly and without hesitation. The allies could differ up to the point where the survival of any of them was threatened. * * -* IT IS A HELP in trying to un- derstand the alliance to look first to its hard core. This is a defensive union of the North Atlantic na- tions - primarily, of Britain, France and the Low Countries in Europe, of Canada and the United States in North America. This inner core is, as regards defense against external attack, intimately connected with the whole Atlantic community of nations. This com- munity includes all the Americas and all of Europe which, when it is free to do so, is turned westwards towards the Atlantic Ocean. The inner core, that is to say the military alliance within the Atlantic community, is bound to- gether for a common defense by ties that are stronger than the terms of a treaty or the formula of a policy. It is bound together, one may say, by the nature of things as we have learned to know it over two centuries of historic experience. In great wars, the na- tions on the two sides of the North Atlantic ocean have always been, and may expect always to be, in- volved. For the Atlantic Ocean, contrary to what was once the popular belief, is not a sea which divides America from Europe but one which binds them together. * * * THE MEMBERS of the defensive union have important interests, which in varying degrees they re- gard as vital, that extend beyond the Atlantic community, into the Pacific, into Asia and into Africa. Here there are differences as to what is vital, as to what should be done, as to how it should be done. they hung on to our coattails when Our European allies have differed with us about the Far East where we wanted to move forward. We have differed with them about the Middle East, and we have been hanging on to their coattails. The unending task of diplomacy on both sides of the Atlantic is to §ee to it that when the allies diverge, they to do not separate, that they settle their differences before they imperil the defensive unity within the Atlantic com- munity. * * * - IN THE long run the cardinal task of the Atlantic alliance is to work out a new relationship be- tween the Atlantic community and the nations which are emerging from colonial status. During. the dispute over the Franco-British intervention in Egypt, an influen- tial official was saying in Wash- ington that we could not ride two horses much longer -- what with our ties to Western Europe and our sympathies with the revolt against colonialism. He was, I believe, pro- foundly mistaken. To ride those two horses is just what we have to do. It is our interest, it is our duty, and if one may use grandoise words, it is our mission to be at once ally of the West and its principal mediator, seeking the ac- commodations by which the libera- tion of the subject peoples can be accomplished without precipitating a world war. 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc. munde. The first was stunningly sung with control and nobility. The aria by Handel, for example, was given a very elegant reading; with a ,show of complete breath and dy- namic control. All the singing showed fine line- al articulations and clear diction. There were light and fast numbers, but all it showed an interior qual- ity. They seemed to verge on solil- oquies and all of them, one can honestly say, had everything to do with fine feelings, polite society and culture. And somehow, they seemed not to be dramatic. The two arias from Mozart were delivered well, in like manner. One greatly admired, however, the way in which by vocal color alone, she differentiated the characters of Zerlina and Cherubino. 4* * * MISS SCHWARZKOPF'S voice is a warm, clear and supple in- strument, seamless from the top of the range to the bottom, and managed effortlessly, both as to dynamics and pitch. The tones were usually ear-ravishing. She is a phenomenal technician and a musician of great taste--and she never faltered last night in dis- playing her musicianship. , She sang with less restraint (or reticence) after the intermission. The ,psychological world inherent in each of the lied were etched with care and awareness: and even if one felt that she was still con- templating her interior landscape in the lieder by Brahms, Schu- mann and Wolf, she gave lie to those who would claim that she is merely a miniaturist in the songs by Hugo Wolf. "Kennst du das Land," for example, was de- livered with dynamic force and brilliance that begged for orches- tral accompaniment. Her, rendition of the aria from La Boheme "Donde lieta usci" seemed less successful, not for any vocal deficiency, but her approach seemed too serious and heavy. The accompanist, George Reeves, left much to be desired. He was too retiring, and was frequently wooden and listless. -A. Tsugawa LETTERS to the EDITOR Return to, Shelter? To the Editors: T HAS occurred to me to wonder how this university community will react to the recent events in the Middle East and Hungary. Will we return to our shelters, to the library stacks and to the football stadium, perhaps with a sigh of relief that "it's all over"? Is this university a sanctuary from the painful moral decisions which arise from these events, or is it the testing ground for the answers to take form in our own generation's contribution to the world? We are all half a dozen or more years older than some of the Hun- garians who have died for their nation these past weeks. And yet we are not half the age of those heads of state who will meet to try to pick up the pieces. This letter is no appeal for firm and resolute minds. If there be any such, who can honestly say they have struggled with the com- plexity of the issues, more power to them. I cannot lay claim to such a state of mind. I do not know if we, as a nation, should meet the oppression of any aggressor with violence. Nor do I know if we should stand by and watch the fondest dreams of Voice of America come true for a brief moment, only to be crushed by Russian steel and fire. The best I can do is to couple my own tentative, unsatisfactory thoughts with the intense desire to hear the ideas of my fellow stu- dents and the faculty. I would propose action on two levels: 1) that one or more faculty panel dis- cussions be held, wherein those who feel they can countenance counter-aggression on moral and- or practical grounds would con- front those who do not; 2) that small groups of interested students and faculty be formed to attempt a sincere evaluation of the prob- lems involved. -Richard D. Mann, Grad. j DAILY' OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an of- ficial publication of the University of Michigan for which the Michigan Daily assumes no editorial responsibility. No- tices should be sent in TYPEWITTEN form to Room 3553 Administration Building before 2 p.m. the day preced- ing publication. THURSDAY,NOVEMBER 15, 1956 VOL. LXVII, NO. 4 General Notices Automobile Regulations will be lifted for Thanksgiving vacation from 5 p.m. Wed., Nov. 21 to 8 a.m. Mon., Nov. 26, 1956. National Teacher Examinations: Ap- plication. blanks for the Feb. 9, 1957 administration of the National Teach- er Examinations are now available at 122 Rackham Building. Selective Service Examination: Stu- dents taking the Selective Service Col- lege eQualification Test on Nov. 15 are requested to report to Room 130- Business Administration, at 8:30 a.m. Thurs. An Intensive 12-hour course on "Pro- gramming for the Type 650 Computer" will be given starting Dec. 3 from 4- Mon., Wed., Fri., Dec. 3, 5 and 7, Mon., Wed., and Fri., Dec. 10, 12 and 14, Please call Mrs. Brando Ext. 2768 for further informaiton. Mary L Hinsdale Scholarship, amounting to $138.19 (interest on the endowment fund) is available to un- dergraduate women who are wholly or partially self-supporting and who do not live in University residence halls or sorority houses. Girls with better than average scholarship and need will be considered. Application blanks, ob- tainable at the Alumnae Council Of- fice, Michigan League, should be filed by Dec. 1, 1956. All new women on campus are invited to a tea given in their honor by the residents of Marth, Cook, on Thurs., Nov. 15, from 3:30-5:00 p.m. Former Michigan women are also welcome. Agenda Student Government Council Nov. 16, 1956: Michigan Union 4 p.m. Minutes of the previous meeting Officers' reports: President Football scheduling, 10th Annual Conference on Higher Education, Nov. 21. Vice President Treasurer -Election results Student Representation: Final Report. Campus Affairs: Moral Rearmament. Education and Social Welfare: Student Leadership Training Conference. Coordinating and Counseling: American Rocket Society, constitution; Metal- lurgical Society, requests recognition. Activities: Nov. 19 Assembly Assoc, Fortnite, Lydia Mendelsohn; 23-25 ;NSA Regional International Student Relations Seminar, Union. 30, Women's Physical Education Club, Barn Hop, Barbour; Dec. 1, Mortarboard, Senior Society, Scroll, Career Conference, League, 2-5 p.m. Old Business New Business Members and constituents time Adjournment The following student sponsored ev- ents are approved for the coming week- end. Social chairmen are reminded that requests for approval for social events are due in the Office of Student Af- fairs not later than 12 o'clock noon on the Tuesday prior to the event, Nov. 16, 1956 Alpha Chi Sigma, Alpha Gamma Delta, Lawyer's Club, Luther- an Student Association, Phi, Delta Phi, Theta Xi; Nov. 17, 1956: Adams House, Alpha Delta Phi, Alpha Epsilon Pi, Alpha Sig- ma Phi, Delta Chi, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Delta Sigma Phi, Delta Tau Delta, Del- ta Theta Phi, Delta Upsilon, East Quad- rangle, Gomberg, Greene, Hayden, Kap- pa Sigma-Phi Mu, Kelsey, Lambda Chi Alpha, Nelson International House, Nu Sigma Nu, Phi Alpha Kappa,Phi Delta Phi, Phi Delta Theta,' Phi Epsilon P, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Mu, Phi Rho Sigma, Phi Sigma Delta, Psi Omega, Reeves, Sigma Alpha Epsi- lon, Sigma Alpha Mu, Sigma Nu, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Strauss, Theta Delta Chi, Triangle, Trigon; Van Tyne, Winchell, Zeta Beta Tau, Zeta Psi. Nov. 18, 1956: Delta Theta Phi, IHC- -Assembly, Nelson International House, Phi Delta Phi, Phi Kappa Psi, Stock- well, Zeta Tau Alpha. Lectures Third Campus Public Lecture by Le- land Stowe. Mr. Stowe will again open his Journalism 230, Current World Events, lecture to the campus public. Thurs., Nov. 15, 11:00 a.m., Aud. 0D, An- gell Hall. Title: "World-Wide Reper- cussions of the Allies' Disaster in Egypt: Major Immediate Problems and their Long-Term Implications." Research Seminar , of the Mental Health Research Institute. Dr. Fred Fiedler, Department of Psychology, Uni- versity of Illinois, will speak on "Small Group Dynamics," Nov. 15, 1:30-3:30 p.m., Conference Room, Children's Psy- chiatric Hospital. ,. Balrnce in Responsibilities FREEDOM of the student in thought and ac- tion its a problem which has been coming to a head for some time in colleges and univer- sities throughout the nation. This has been especially true in the question of the right of students to invite and listen to controversial speakers. In one area, a university has a responsibility to the student to encourage and promote criti- cal inquiry. It is the bounden duty of educa- tors to help the student arrive at a satisfac- tory approach to maturity by discouraging un- questioning acceptance of statement and stim- ulating a desire for careful evaluation and per- sonal decision. This cannot be fully realized by limiting the directions which the student may use in ap- proaching a question. The young mind must be able to view all aspects of a problem in reaching his conclusions. AT THE SAME time, however, the university bears a very real and strong responsibility Editorial Staff RICHARD SNYDER, Editor RICHARD HALLORAN LEE MARKS . Editorial Director City Editor GAIL GOLDSTEIN..................Personnel Director EERNEST THEODOSSIN...............Magazine Editor JANET REARICK.........Associate Editorial Director MARY ANN THOMAS................Features Editor DAVID GREY-...... . ....................Sports Editor RICHARD CRAMER..........Associate Sports Editor STEPHEN HEILVERN..........Associate Sports Editor VIRGINIA ROBERTSON.............Women's Editor JANE, FOWLER ............. Associate Women's Editor ARLINE LEWIS..............somen's Feature Editor JOHN HIRTZEL.............. .. Chief Photographer Business Staff DAVID SILVER, Business Manager MILTON GOLDSTEIN.....Associate Business Manager WILLIAM PUSCH................Adertising Manager CHARLES WILSON................Finance Manager to the society which it serves. A great many public factions support the educational insti- tution in one manner or another. Their atti- tudes and desires demand serious respect, de- spite the fact that they are often much less liberal than those of the university proper. Should they seek maintenance of the status quo, educators have a responsibility to empha- size the favorable qualities of the national structure and the desirability of preserving this structure. The proper balance which university admin- istrators must reach is delicate. It lies most heavily on the side of the stu- dent. In the search for maturity, the student has an inalienable right to listen to whom he would, to consider whom he would within the limits of the law. University facilities should be made available to all speakers, without re- gard to their point of view. But this freedom should rightfully be modi- fied by educators in compliance with the wishes of the public. Speakers who have shown evidence of profound corruptive influence should not be permitted to appear before a student body with university sanction. HISCONSEQUENCE involves the failure of the university to fully satisfy its primary responsibility to the student. But the necessity for partial fulfillment of obligations to the pub- lic justifies reaching this equilibrium. -DALE McGHEE New Books at the Library Rowse, A. L. - The Early Churchils and Eng- iish Family; NY, Harper, 1956. Yerby, Frank - Capttain Rebel; NY, Dial Press, 1956. Moore, Pamela - Chocolates for Breakfast; Viking, 1956. Hulme, Kathryn - The Nun's Story; Bos- ton, Atlantic-Little Brown, 1956. Dunn, Waldo H. - -R D. Blackmore, a Biog- raphy; NY, Long., Green, 1956. Bremner, Robert H. - From the Depths: The ART INSTITUTE: Another Opening; Another Show THE Forty-Seventh Annual Ex- hibition for Michigan Artists opened Tuesday night at the De- troit Institute of Arts. It will be held over until Dec- ember 23, so that all interested art lovers will have ample oppor- tunity to see what Michigan artists have been up to during the past year. The opening itself was moder- ately successful, with a large crowd of assorted people wander- ing around in varied costumes. Art show openings are notori- ously curious affairs, even in De- trit, where a certain element may usually be depended upon to pro- vide visual competition for the paintings, prints, drawings, sculp- tures, and photographs. Tuesday night was not an ex- ception: one lady with gold leaf eyebrows and long blond hair had quite as large a crowd gathered about. her as fif the Founders' Society Prize painting. Several motorcycle riders in leather jackets and rslick haircuts arrived at one point and searched unsuccessfully for ice cream. The paintings chosen b the jury for inclusion in the show this year formed somewhat unimaginative set, although there were a few out- standing paintings, many of which are listed here. * * * PAULINE CARTER'S "N i g h t City," a fantastic study of, pre- Schiwetz Jr., was amusing; a mas- sive hippopotamus, in g r e e n ,bronze, with another, smaller hippo on its back; atop the sec- ond hippo,a stork-like bird. In another portion of one of the exhibition rooms was an assort- ment of artifacts destined for Eastland, a new Detroit shopping center. Curious readers are advised to seek out Eastland, which will open in 1957. ' University of Michigan artists were well represented, with paint- ings by Dale Eldred, Gerome Kam- rowski, Robert Maitland, David Rohn, Jamie Ross, and Richard Wilt, prints by Richard Sears and Jim Tuckerhand sculpture by Thomas McClure., Interested students and towns- people who may have unfortunate- ly missed the opening are advised that the annual Artist-Craftsman exhibition will be shown at the Detroit Institute of Arts next spring. --David Kessel LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS. by Dick Bibler , V . *1 , 1'! - ,Ii J -___ J > j