e;4r Mt. ligan 3aly 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 "There Are Many Different Paths To Socialism . .. "When Opinions Are Free Trutb Will Prevail" a' e " , _ Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1958 INIGHT EDITOR: PETER ECKSTEIN ScR SSArEtLL-Es .' SGC Should Recognize Injustice Done Sorority v A^ AS STUDENT Government Council considers the status of Sigma Kappa sorority, one con-= sideration should and probably will be upper- most in the minds of the Council members: the great injustice which has been dealt the local chapter. It was never accused of willfully discrim- inating in its membership practices, nor was its good faith in accepting University recogni- tion called into question. Yet it is the local which will undoubtedly bear the brunt of any action taken as a result of last week's accurate finding of a violation of University regulations. The local's actions during the current crisis have not been exemplary, it is true. A strohg protest against the summary dismissal of its sister chapters at Cornell and Tufts would have been better received by those who strongly be- lieve in the philosophy of the 1949 regulation on membership restriction than was the lo- cal's silence on the moral issues involved in its national council's action. But a young chap- ter whose status is so seriously threatened must possess exceptional courage to take so strong and risky a stand, and the local's caution was certainly understandable, at least as long as it could hope its national would support it. And there is little which such a demonstration of good faith on the part of the local could have accomplished, since the national's good faith, not the local's, was the issue at hand. FOR THAT reason the injustice being done the local did not, as some have claimed, make SGC's finding against Sigma Kappa any less valid or less justified in the face of over- whelming evidence of discrimination by the sorority's national council. The injustice may not be blamed on SGC. It only acted in accord- ance with regulations which have been on the books longer than Sigma Kappa has been rep- resented on the campus. The injustice may be entirely attributed to the national officers of Sigma Kappa, who last year misrepresented their sorority's member- ship policies to SGC and apparently to the lo- cal as well. The actions at Cornell and Tufts constituted a breach of faith with SGC, which granted recognition conditional on an open membership policy, and especially a breach of faith with the local chapter, which accepted emotional and physical allegiance with a na- tional and counted on it for support and com- pliance with University standards. Although it is not responsible for the in- justice, SGC should, in considering the local's status, give maximum consideration to the wishes and needs of the local consistent with its finding of a violation of regulations. THE COUNCIL is bound by that finding to do certain things. It is hard to imagine, for ex- ample, that it can allow any further initiations of Sigma Kappa members so long as the vio- lation exists, nor under such circumstances can it allow the local to functio) indefinitely as Sigma Kappa. But it can give the members of national Sigma Kappa a chance to erase the black mark on their sorority's name which will exist so long as the national council's decision on Cornell and Tufts stands unrepudiated. SGC can, for example, postpone any final withdrawal of recognition until either the national has indicated its unwillingness to call a conven- tion this summer or until such a convention has had an opportunity to act. To wait until Sigma Kappa national held its regularly scheduled convention in 1958 would be to negate the meaning of last Wednesday's action. Nothing short of a full and satisfactory explanation or a sincere offer to reinstate the dismissed chapters would be convincing evi- dence that Sigma Kappa does not discriminate, and 1958 would be too late. The Tufts chap- ter, which had its charter withdrawn, has al- ready established itself as a local organization, and by 1958 the Negro woman in the Cornell chapter will have graduated without being ini- tiated into Sigma Kappa. An offer to reinstate at that distant time would be a hollow gesture indeed. F RECOGNITION is ultimately withdrawn completely, the local chapter has indicated it will not try to remain as a group at the Uni- versity. If so, it would be a loss to the campus. But the "consensus" which the local's presi- dent expressed at the Council meeting is not necessarily final, and should the sorority re- consider, SGC should out of fairness do every- thing in its power to make possible or easier the transition to a local sorority. In all its considerations, the Council should not let distaste for the haughty action of Sigma Kappa's national council prejudice its attitude toward the local, nor should it let sympathy for the local interfere with orderly enforcement of the University regulation which Sigma Kap- pa has violated. -PETER ECKSTEIN Fighting Fans Mar Toronto Hockey Game AN INCIDENT at the Toronto player's bench near the end of Monday night's game mar- red what had been an extremely exciting hockey game. It is true the Toronto players were a bit ruffled after seeing their chances of victory dim with Michigan's last minute goal. This type of let down is only natural in a highly competitive sport such as hockey, especially after a team has played four games in five nights. The hostile treatment accorded the visitors by some Coliseum fans was in extremely bad taste. What they intended to prove by fighting with the opposing team is difficult to under- stand. Acts of this type only bring Michigan fans a bad reputation.. And when the Michigan team plays games away, this reputation of its fans is carried over into the treatment of the team at opposing arenas. -BRUCE BENNETT l1 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Khrushchev Emerges on Top By DREW PEARSON LETTERS to the EDITORT Letters to the Editor must be signed and limited to 300 words. The Daily reserves the right to edit or with- hold any letter. Who's to Blre. -? . . To the Editor: I have noticed that many resi- dence-halls connoisseurs have the mistaken opinion that the Board of Governors, the various quadrangle directors, and/or the dieticians are entirely to blame for the substandard quality of dorm food here. But the blame does not rest on their shoulders. The quality of residence halls food does not de- pend on people as much as it does on that great material asset, money. The reason there is not enough money is the story of the failure of a system and the failure of an obstinate group of men to realize the failure of the system. The scheme that has failed to provide enough money for an ade- quate dormitory diet is the so- called "self-liquidating" system, the idealistic theory which says that over a period of time the in- come from students' room-and- board fees will be sufficient to off- sett: the debt incurred in build- ing a dormitory, the cost of up- keep, and the setting aside of funds to provide a share of con- struction costs of the next dorm, when an increasing enrollment demands it. This is a good plan, provided University enrollment increases only slightly from year to' year. But if the enrollment mushrooms, as it is doing now, the system can't keep up. It is so busy paying up unpaid construction costs of the dormitory already in existence that it cannot save enough money to build a new one when it is needed. The obstinate group of men is the Legislature, which believes that it should not have to spend any money on something that should pay for itself. So it re- fuses to devote any part of the whopping annual University bud- get to construction of new resi- dence halls, and instead allots huge sums of money to University "expansion.'' What the Legislature should re- alize is that along with expansion of facilities there will be an ex- pansion of enrollment. Since the University cannot itself provide needed new dormitories to house the increased number of students, the Legislature should now under- take to provide construction costs for new dorms. Without a huge debt saddling it, the self-liquidating system then would work; more money could be allotted to the food budget, re- sulting in improved meals; and s t u d e n t room-and-board fees could be reduced substantially and still provide enough upkeep and food budget finances. The recent food riot was not completely negative in its effects. It has started people thinking about the dorm food situation. I hope it has started those who can do something about it thinking. David C. Lyon, 'iG Winter is u Cumen in . . To the Editor: IN the midst of these engineer wizards, And these fierce winter blizzards, I look forward to the great reward, Returning to California, Where "It never snows on Wil- shire Boulevard." Walter M. Nunn, Grad. THE see-saw of power politics inside the Kremlin has put party chief Nikita Khrushchev on the upgrade again. The reason is that even though the full might of the Red Army has turned loose against the Hun- garians, the revolt against Com- munist rule in this brave little country is still going on. This puts Khrushchev in the position of saying "I told you so," because he had opposed using the Red Army against the Hungarians. U.S. sources in Russia report that the Kremlin shows every sign of being confused and jittery over what to do next. Now that the Red Army has embarked on a policy of bru- tal reprisals, it cannot turn back. It is certain to be moreuruthless than ever. Top administration officials have been instructed by President Eisenhower to try to come up with a dramatic gesture of friendship to all of the enslaved people in the satellite countries. Ike has told his staff that we must take some spectacular steps to reassure the satellite people that we have not forgotten them. One idea still in the planning stage is to set up a large airlift operation to carry food, clothing, and medical supplies into the sat- ellites. Various advisers warn, however, that this would risk war. ** * BEFORE THE Civil Aeronautics ok'd the new jet transport plane for civilian passenger use, it did a unique thing. Eighteen C.A.B. officials took a somewhat hazard- ous experimental flight from Se- attle to Los Angeles in the first model of the forthcoming Boeing 707. CAB board member Joey Adams took over the controls for ten min- utes of the flight. Adams is a Ma- rine reserve flyer and has been checked out in both jets and heli- copters. It was the first time in history that the CAB has gone direct to to an aircraft factory to obtain technical data. However, with a new age of air travel dawning, the board realized that unique prob- lems will develop. Safety regula- tions, schedules, airline financing, all will become obsolete or revolu- tionized when the big jets take over the airways in 1959. Besides the Boeing plant in Se- attle, the CAB visited the Doug- las Plant in Los Angeles where another giant jet transport, the Douglas DC-8, is on the drawing boards. Like the Boeing 707, the Douglas DC-8 will make present airliners look like Model T's. * * * IT NOW LOOKS as if Uncle Sam may be forced to supply oil to Egypt as well as Western Eur- ope. The Egyptian government has asked for emergency oil to replenish her dwindling reserves. see how we can turn down Egypt as long as we are shipping oil to Britain and France. A confidential State Depart- ment cable from Vienna reports: "Total Hungarian refugees ar- rived, 92,325. Departed, 21,947." The State Department expects another 100,000 to sneak across the border to freedom during the months ahead. Most Austrians have given up their Christmas money to help care for the refu- gees. Meanwhile, American aid still has not reached Austria in signficant quantity. Congressman Jim Patterson, Connecticut Republican, is circu- lating a petition among his col- leagues, demanding that the State Department refuse to recognize the Hungarian puppet govern- ment. DISAGREEMENT over Hun- gary: Secretary of State Dulles and Henry Cabot Iodge, our Ambassa- dor to the UN, are bickering over American policy toward Hungary, Secretary of State Dulles and Hen- ry Cabot Lodge, our Ambassador to the UN, are bickering over Am- erican policy toward Hungary. Lodge wants the United States to refuse to recognized the new Hungarian puppet . government. But Dulles says no. He thinks ap- peasing Russia might bring a softer policy by the Kremlin. Dulles is anxious to reassure Rus- sia that we have no ulterior de- signs on her satellite empire. Lodge, however, favors not only cutting off diplomatic relations with Red Hungary but also refus- ing to seat the Hungarian delega- tion in the United Nations. Natural gas headaches: It looks as if Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson, both oil-minded Texans, will not take the initiative in bringing up the controversial Natural Gas bill next session. (Copyright 1956 by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) 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 TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3553 Administration Building before 2 p.m. the day preced- ing publication. Notices for Sunday Daily due at 2:00 p.m. Friday. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 12, 1956 VOL. LXVII, NO. 66 General Notices Social Chairmen of Student Organi- zations are reminded that the calendar is closed to student sponsored activi- ties for ten days prior to the beginning of a final examination period. For the present semester, no such activities can be approved beginning Jan. 10. This means that the week-end of Jan. 5 is the last weekend on which social events may be scheduled. Requests for the approval of this weekend should be registered in the Office of Student Affairs not later than Fri., Sept. 14. February Graduates must place orders for caps and gowns at Moe's Sport Shop, 711 N. University, before Dec. 21. sa and gowns are required for Com- mencement Exercises Feb. 26, 1956. Trained fencers - men and women, students and faculty members - are invited to meet and fence with a new- ly organized mixed fencing group Wednesday evenings in the main sec- ond floor room of the W.A.B. located at Forest and North University. Foils and some protective equipment can be provided. Usual time is 7-9 p.m. but this week only the time will be 8-10 p.m. Spectators are welcome. Fencers unable to participate at this time or de- siring further information are urged to call NO 2-2400. Try outs for the annual French play: Thurs., Dec.s13, Fri. ,Dec. 14, Mon., Dec. 17, Tues, Dec. 18 from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in Room 408, Romance Languages Building. All students interested In taking part in the play invited. Those unable to attend may call Mr. Car- cuner, Ex. 405. AGENDA MICHIGAN UNION 3rd Floor Conference Room STUDENT GOVERNMENT COUNCIL DEC. 12, 1956 Minutes of the previous meeting Officers' Reports: President: Board in Review, stay-of action removed. University Calendar committee. Joint Judiciary appoint- ments. Vice President: Treasurer: Finance report. Al Lowenstein Administrative Wing: Final report. Coordinating and Counseling: Americas Rocket Society-constitution. Men- nonite Student Fellowship-requests recognition. M-Handbook Study Committee. M-Handbook: motion National and International: Foreign Student Leadership Program, Report, motion. NSA report. Hungarian Stu- dent Scholarship. Cinema Guild Study Committee: Report Student Representation: Student Ac- tivity Scholarship Military Counseling Public Relations: Progress Report Activities: Jr. IFC, Jr. Panhelleni. Christmas caroling project and mixes, December 18, League Old and New Business Members and Constituents time Adjournment NEXT MEETING: Dec. 19, 1956 Lectures My Client Curly, a radio fantasy by Norman Corwin, will be presented by the Department of Speech as a radio- studio demonstration in the Speech Assembly at 4:00 p.m. today in the Rackham Lecture Hall. Open to the public with no admission charge. Leland Stowe, professor of journal- ism, will again open his Current World Events class, Journalism 230, to the campus public. His topic will be "Red China's Enormous Gamble: Wholesale Collectivization By 1960, And Its Mean- ing to Us." Thurs., Dec. 13. 11:30 am. Aud. D, Angell Hall. Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures, "Greek Architecture in Ancient Italy". by Prof. William B. Dinsmoor of Col- umbia University. Sixth lectre: "Tem pies of the Classical Period", Thurs., Dec. 13, Aud. B, Angell Hall, 4:15 p.m. Research Club in Language Learn- ing is sponsoring a lecture, "Approach and Techniques in Phonetics Teaching at the Summer Institute of Linguistics" by May Morrison. Wed., Dec. 12, 7:30 p.m., Room 451, Mason Hall. Open to public. Meeting of the Michigan Chapter A.A.U.P. Thurs., Dec. 13, 8:00 p.m., Rack- ham Amphitheater. Dr. Ralph Fuchs, General Secretary, A.A.U.P., will speak on "The Progress and Problems of A.A.U.P." Discussion and question peri- od will follow Dr. Fuchs' talk. This is an open meeting. The entire Univer- sity faculty is invited. Plays Juno and the Paycock, by Sean O'Ca- sey, will be presented by the Depart- ment of Speech at 8:00 p.m. tonight in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Concerts Student Recital: Beverly Baxman, pi- anist, will perform works by Bach, Beethoven, Bartok, and Schubert in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree. Master of Music. 8:30 p.m. Wed., Dec. 12, Rackham Assembly Hall. Miss Baxman is a pupil of Ben- ning Dexter. Open to the public:' Student Recital: June Howe, soprano. will sing works by Santoliquido, Wolf, Marx, Massenet, Britten, and Rachman- inoff on Thurs., Dec. 13, at 8:30 p.m. in Aud. A, Angell Hall, in partial fulfill- ment of the requirements for the de- gree Master of Music. Miss Howe will be accompanied by Miss Joyce Noh. She is a pupil of Chase Baromeo. Open to the public. Academic Notices All Mechanics)l and Indus'trial En- 4 a. 4, .4 A. TV Education Poor Substitute THE UNIVERSITY of Detroit's new program to offer many of its freshman courses via television will provide a new high in educational sterility. Admittedly, educational television has values. Laboratory experiments can be shown in minute detail, and facts offered at large lectures can be as easily imparted over television as they can in person. However, placement of even this sort of teaching in the home rather than the classroom defeats the advantages they have to offer. Certainly, the new U-D freshman will be able to sprawl in front of his new UHF T.V. set sipping cordials or even a coke and be more comfortable than he would in the straight backed tablet arm chairs of Angell Hall. But his isolation, both from teachers and fellow students obviates any advantages. Edu- cation, Detroit style, seems to require memori- zation of facts regurgitated during the quiz period provided every three weeks for this purpose. Editorial Staff RICHARD SNYDER. Editor RICHARD HALLORAN LEE MARKS Editorial Director City Editor GAIL GOLDSTEIN ................Personnel Director ERNEST THEODOSSIN............ Magazine Editor JANET REARICK .... .Associate Editorial Director MARY ANN THOMAS. ..... ..FeaturesEditor DAVID GREY ............... Sports Editor RICHARD CRAMER.,.........Associate Sports Editor STEPHEN HEILPERN .........Associate Sports Editor VIRGINIA ROBERTSON....... .. .. Women's Editor JANE FOWLER ............Associate Women's Editor ARLINE LEWIS ............. Women's Feature Editor JOHN HIRTZEL................ .Chief Photographer Business Staff DAVID SILVER, Business Manager MILTON GOLDSTEIN. Associate Business Manager WILLIAMPUSCH................Adertising Manager CHARLES WILSON .... . .Finance Manager ALTHOUGH COMPUTING machines haven't yet been developed to measure its value, give and take discussion between student and stu- dent, and student and teacher is of infinite value in one's education. Only through discussion, and only through the knowledge that learning is a human ex- perience, can the student discover how to think and understand the basic problems of our time or anytime. A student needs guidance from someone more experienced, if only to point up fallacies in thought. It's doubtful that an iconoscope can provide this. Rev. Steiner, director of U-D, pushing his rationalization of T.V. education to rather absurd lengths, speaks of escaping the narrow confines of the classroom. He overlooks that only in the classroom can the student rub elbows with other people work- ing out the same problems. He speaks of the choice of a "first rate T.V. lecturer," or a second rate teacher, when this choice need not be made. Realizing the shortcomings of the program, he plans "social hours" every three weeks where the student can meet his fellows and his teach- ers. Possibilities in this area are astounding. If the student can get near his teacher-after all more than a thousand people might be taking his course at once-conversation could hardly be stimulating and provocative. TELEVISION CAN BE a valuable adjunct to education; it can certainly improve the edu- cational status of those people who can't afford to attend college regularly. But, it should be clearly viewed as a supple- ment to college education, not as the thing itself. --RICHARD TAUB New Books at the Library 'PLEASE STEP INTO THIS VACUUM': Arabian World Frightened of Soviet Embrace . BY WILLIAM L,. RYAN AP Foreign News Analyst BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP)-A dan gerous vacuum is developing east of Suez. Britain has been disgraced in the Arab world and disgraced in Iraq because of her action beside the French in Egypt, and her rapidly diminishing influ- ence leaves a void. "Please, please," said a veteran Arab socialist leader in Iraq, "for the love of God tell the United States to step into this vacuum. Please tell the United States to join the Baghdad Pact now. There is no time to waste." But a young Arab nationalist in Baghdad told me the same day: "Please stay away from the Bagh- dad Pact. Please give us a reason to turn to the United States in our need. If we must have a pact, please give us a pact with a clean name." And another young Arab extremist told me in Baghdad: "Don't give us any pacts at all. Give us sympathy and under- standing. We want to turn to the United States if they let us." On all sides in the Arab world, particularly in Iraq, one hears this repeated theme. "The Arabs seem frightened of Russia fright- ened that events will carry them American influence and prestige have grown tremendously. They ardently want American help. Foreign diplomats, foreign ob-. servers and responsible Arab lead- ers all agree: Never did the United States have a greater opportunity to capture the imagination of the Arab world with bold leader- ship. Never, they say, since the end of World War II has the United States enjoyed such popu- larity in the Arab world as it does at this moment. The Arabs look upon Eisenhower's stand as a symbol of hope. EGYPT'S President Gamal Ab- del Nasser still is the most popu- lar man in the Middle East, but Eisenhower runs second. A sober- ing thought, however, is that the Kremlin ranks third. The Arabs want to be told firmly what must be done' But'they want to retain their pride and dignity. Iraqis-all, apparently, but those directly associated with the gov- ernment of Premier Nuri Said- find no dignity in a further associ- ation with Britain. They say they will never forgive the British for fighting against Arabs on the same side astIsrael. For the Arabs, Britain's name is direction for them to turn-toward the United States. The Baghdad Pact was con- ceived as a northern tier to pro- tect the strategically vital Middle East against Soviet designs. But it has been assailed in Egypt, Syria and Jordan as an instru- ment to maintain a grip of British colonialism on the oil-rich area. In Iraq, opponents of the pact say it means "three more years o.f trouble." The pact, linking Bri- tain, Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Paki- stan, is a five-year treaty which came into being in 1955. ,{ < , .. ,J.