"You Got Elected, Didn't You?"
Sixty-Seventh Year
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1957 NIGHT EDITOR: TAMMY MORRISON
Varsity Athletes Should Not Serve
On Intercollegiate Athletic Board
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Politicians
N SIX WEEKS students will elect representa-
tives to the Board in Control of Intercollegi-
ate Athletics. If the usual pattern is followed,
several big-name varsity athletes will vie for"
the student posts where two football players
now sit.
There are compelling reasons for not per-
mitting varsity athletes to run for the Board.
As long as varsity athletes are eligible to
serve on the Board they will be elected, because
their names are so well-known. Constantly in
the public eye, athletes have a vote-getting
power no other student can match. And be-
cause the chances of a non-athlete being
elected are so slim, candidates for the position
will continue to be primarily varsity players.
ONE CONSEQUENCE of permitting athletes
to run, then, is that it in effect denies rep-
resentation to the 22,000 students who are spec-
tator , not participants.
This is unfortunate because as a group
varsity athletes, have attitudes toward Board
policies that differ from non-athletes. Sitting
on the Board, they represent the feelings and
views of a special interest group.
Another important objection is that their
unique relationship to the Board renders im-
probable an objective view of many Board
policies-those established to deemphasize ath-
letics 'or curb financial aid.
-The Board is entrusted, for example, with
ensuring proper use of courtesy tickets, many.
of which are now scalped. It is charged with
keeping financial aid to athletes within reason-
able limits, athletics in proportion to academic
life, and intramural and varsity athletics in
balance.
In all these problems the varsity athlete is
not a disinterested4spectator-he has a vested
interest.
BECAUSE THEY DEPEND on the athletic
administration in many ways, varsity ath-
letes will be more reluctant than other students*
to criticize administration policies. Assuming
complete integrity and sincerity on the part of
both, it-is nonetheless likely that there will be
an emotional disposition to go along with the
administration on many issues where the better
interests of the University would be served by
thoughtful opposition.
Arguments often invoked by those who favor
permitting varsity athletes to run for the Board
are:
1) It would be unfair to deny them an oppor-
tunity to serve since they are University stu-
dents.
2) They know the most about athletics and
are logical choices for the Board.
3) They are apt to have the greatest interest.
TAE DECISION to participate in varsity
athletics is a free and voluntary one. It
entails almost obvious advantages and disad-
vantages, as does every activity. The important
point is that any student capable of playing
varsity ball can weigh the values for himself.
As long as this is true, prohibiting varsity
athletes from serving on the Board is not
unfair-it simply creates aother value to be
weighed.
The principle of denying representation on
policy boards to those with vested interests
,is widely followed. Professors, for example,
can not serve on the Board of Regents.
Technical ability to perform well on a playing
field does not entail ability to determine sound
athletic policy. Participating in sports and de-
ciding policy require different skills and there
is no reason to assume a correlation between
the two.
As for interest the same argument holds. An
athletes interest in sports is different than a
spectators but this does not mean that it is
greater,
AN ANOLOGY can be drawn between the
Board in Control of Intercollegiate Athletics
and the Board in Control of Student Publica-
tions, which does not permit publications mem-
bers to serve.
Present practice of the Board in Control of
Intercollegiate Athletics denies representation
to the study body and prevents full questioning
of Board policies from within the Board.
We think it would be to the mutual advan-
tage of the student body and the Board in Con-
trol of Intercollegiate Athletics if varsity ath-
letes were not permitted to serve on the Board.
We urge a change in Board and Regent
rules to accomplish this.
-LEE MARKS
City Editor
'Town Talks' a Success;
Means, Not End, Cited
THE SECOND SERIES of Town Talks on
Foreign Policy opened this week and was
witness to an intelligent community eager to
gain fresh insight into the country's problems.
The first Town Talks, held last spring under
the sponsorship of the local Citizens Committee
on Foreign Affairs, were a welcome contrast
in our age of adult apathy. From hundreds of
local residents,'professors and housewives, pro-
fessionals and novices, were advanced well-
informed, considered observations concerning
Red China, divided Germany, arms to Israel
and foreign aid.
This year, the League of Women Voters and
the Adult Education department of the Ann
Arbor public schools have joined the Citizens
Committee in planning an even more timely
program.
On the remaining Wednesday of February
the meaning of the Hungarian revolution, In-
dian neutralism, and U.S. military strategy
will be considered.
Discussion small groups will pose. new ques-
tions and draw conclusions.
The conclusions themselves are not as im-
portant as the means by which they are drawn.
At Town Talks, no one has an axe to grind,
party'considerations are left behind, and few
flags fly.
The contributing professors, the sponsoring
groups, and the citizens of the community
deserve congratulations and solid support for
their efforts to help form "a sound and wise
foreign policy."
---ALLAN STILLWAGON
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TODAY AND TOMORROW:
Intervention in Aigeria Opposed
To the Editor:
AFTER READING the article
entitled "The Political Scene"
in the Daily Magazine, Feb. 7, I
received the impression that it
left a distorted view of politicians
which requires an answer.
One would never grasp the fact
from this article that politicians
are the members of a profession
which determines what benefits
the citizens of a community do or
do not enjoy.
As, implied from the article,
they also live in a highly competi-
tive atmosphere in which power
is the key element of their think-
ing.
But power is only a tool, and a
tool to be used either to build a
house or to tear it down. Human
beings are the users, with all the
drives, beneficial or non-beneficial,
that carry them in many diverse
directions and into complexes in
which good and bad take many
different shades of meaning.
The politicians most people as-
sociate with the word 'politician'
are the ones who put themselves
in front of a great emotional surge
of the citizenry and exciting or
being excited by the people's emo-
tions they become either famous
or notorious, whichever side of
the fence the observer is on; while
they ride roughshod over all c6m-
mon sense.
However, the great majority of
politicians which should be identi-
fied with the word 'politician in
people's minds, are the great ma-
jority of this peculiar breed who
work from a position less latent
with publicity and who use the
tools of power and compromise,
attack and retreat; sometimes
cajoling, sometimes listening pa-
tiently, with purposes both of ad-
vancing themselves in their pro-
fession and advencing ideas which
they think are worthwhile.
This article says nothing of these
men, and I think they ought to be
mentioned along with the bad
apples which are in every barrel.
-George F. Kareh, Jr., '59L
Study Ban . ,
To the Editor:
READ with interest the report
that the ban on studying in the
cafeterias and snack-bar of the
Michigan Union will be strictly
enforced beginning next term.
This however represents a solution
(be it hoped) of only one facet of
the broaded problem of etiquette
in the cafeterias, and I would like
here to bring to your attention
two others that constitute at least
minor annoyances and embarrass-
ment to many people. These are:
It is or is it not "good form" to
preempt booths and tables by
placing books or coats on them
while one is waiting in line for
service?
If a customer is in line for coffee
only may he legitimately pass
ahead of those waiting for more
extensive refreshment?
It seems to me that there is
much disagreeient or misunder-
standing in the community re-
garding these proprieties, and thus'
that a declaration of policy by the
Union Board of Directors would
clarify the situation; such a dec-
laration in your pages might well
be supplemented by strategically
placed notices.
-James G. Wendel
Reviewers
A short meeting for all're-
viewers will be held in the
Conference Room, Student Pub-
lications Building, at 7 p.m.
Monday. Those who have previ-
ously reviewed for The Daily
and newcomers are asked to
attend.
By WALTER LIPPMANN
THE UNITED STATES is with
good reason opposing the move-
ment to have the United Nations
intervene in the Algerian disord-
ers. The good reason which is, I
hasten to say, not the avowed of-
ficial reason, is that the situation
in the General Assembly is such
that public peace making by means
of open resolutions is for all prac-
tical purposes impossible.
The alignment of the blocs in
the Assembly does not now per-
mit the United Nations to exert
an even-handed pressure where
there is an issue between West
and East.
If, therefore, the General As-
sembly were to take over the Al-
gerian problem, the net effect
would almost certainly be to en-
courage the Algerian Arabs '-to be
irreconcilable and to refuse those
compromises which will be neces-
sary if there is to be a peaceable
settlement. Far from promoting
peace, the United Nations would
almost certainly find itself pro-
moting disorder.
In my recent article, I cited the
voting strength of the various
blocs among whom combinations
must be made to produce the two-
thirds majority whichis needed
for an important resolution. The
basic situation may be summarized
in this fashion: that it takes fifty-
two votes to pass a resolution, that
it takes twenty-seven votes to veto
a resolution, and 'that while nei-
ther the Easterners nor the West-
erners command amajority, each
has a veto.
Thus, when there is a major is-
sue, be it over Hungary, Suez, Ga-
za, Aquaba, Kashmir or, for that
matter Algeria, the two vetoes are
enugh to stop the General Assem-
bly from acting at all. This dead-
lock can be broken only if cer-
tain of the great powers - on the
Western side the
the Eastern side
or India, switch
Nnited States, on ,
the Soviet Union
sides.
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THIS IS what happened in the'
Egyptian affair when the United
States voted on the same side as
did the Soviet Union and India.
There was no stalemate and the
U.N. took effective action to com-
pel the withdrawal of Britain,
France and Israel from Egypt.
But there has been no correspond-
ing switching of sides, as there
needed to be, to apply equal pres-
sure to Egypt.
There has, of course, been no
equal pressure about Hungary and
none about Kashmir. If Algeria
were taken up by the U.N., the
whole pressure would be on
France, and none on the Arab Na-
tionalists.
The fact of the matter is that
the veto is always applied one way
and it is not always applied the
other way. For that reason the
General Assembly is proving itself
to be incapable of carrying out
the prime purpose of the United
Nations, which is to promote the
peaceable settlement of conflicts.
This situation is so bad, so pro-
vocative of disorder and so dan-
gerous to the peace that it would
be intolerable were nothing being
done about it. Something has to
be done about it, and what is be-
ing done is to try to work out in
private understandings what could
never be avowed or put to a vote
in the General Assembly.
This is illustrated by the Israeli-
Egyptian deadlock over whether
Israel shall or shall not right the
wrongs she has committed with-
out assurances that Egypt will
right the wrongs that she has
committed.
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THE PRESSURE on Israel to
withdraw without any public as-
surances would make no sense,
would indeed be grossly unujust,
were it not accompanied by pri-
vate assurances that Egypt will
not in fact again blockade the
Gulf of Aqaba and will not again
use Gaza as a base for guerilla
war.
If there were no good reason to
believe that Egypt will in fact
concede what she will not in prin-
ciple concede, the President, Mr.
YDulles, and Mr. Hammarskjold
would in morals and in equity be
in no position to apply pressure
to Israel.
It is sometimes said that the
action of the U.N. in Egypt is in
fact directed to the restoration of
the status quo ante, and that that
was so bad that it must not be re-
stored. That is not, as I under-
stand it, a correct description of
whait is going on in New York.
What the Secretary General is
trying to do is to restore .not the
status quo ante in fact. For both
sides violated the armistice and
he does not wish to restore the
violations. What he is trying to
restore is the status quo ante in
law - that is to say the rules of
the armistice.
A new agreement to observe the
old armistice would, if it werere-
spected, solve all the important
points now at issue between
Egypt and Israel. The old agree-
ment has the peculiar merit that
every party to the conflict has al-
ready signed it.
The question is whether this old
vehicle can again be put on the
road. The answer to that question
is that this can conceivably be
done - given a supreme exercise
of private diplomacy, not only on
the part of the heavily laden Mr.
Hammarskjold, but also by the
President, and not only in Cairo
and Jerusalem and New York but
also, it may be, in Moscow.
1957 New York Herald Tribune
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Museum of Art, Alumni Memorial
Hall. American Paintings from the Uni-
versity of Nebraska Art Galleries, Feb.
10 - Mar. 10 Hours: 9 a.m - 5 p.m.
weekdays, 2-5 p.m. on Sundays. The
public is invited.
General Undergraduate Scholarship
application forms may be obtained at'
the Scholarship Office, 113 Adinistra=
tion Building Basement. Applicants
may be enrolled in any of the under-
graduate units of the University and
should have financial need and an
academic average of "B" or better. Ap-
plications must be completed by March
1, 1957.
Tryouts for the 3rd Experimental
Playbill presented by the Department
of Speech will be held at 7 p.m. Mon.,
Feb. 11, Room 252, Temporary Class-
room Building.
Lectures
University Lecture in Journalism.
§)ouglass Cater, Washington corres-
pondent of The Reporter magazine,
will speak on "The Role of the Pres
in the Conduct of Government" Mon,
Feb. 11 at 3 p.m. In the Rackham Am-
phitheatre.
Concerts
Student Recal by Emerson Head,
trumpet, assistedby Virginia Catanese,
piano and harpsichord, and Einore
Crampton, violin, 4:15 this afternoon,
in Aud. A, Angell Hall. Head I a tpu-
pil of Clifford Lilly, and his -recital
will be open to the general public.
Faculty Recital by Ava Comi Case,
associate professor of piano in the
School of Music, 8:30 this evening, in
Lydia Mendelssohn' Theatre. Brahms'
Variations on an Original Theme, Op.
31, No. 1, and Debussy's Trois Etudes
and Beethoven's Sonata in F minor,
Op. 57. General public admitted with-
out charge.
Student Recital: Lawson Jones, pian-
ist, will perform works by Bach, Beet-
hoven and Chopin at 8:30 p.m. Mon.
Feb. 11. in the Rackham Assembly Hall
in partial fulfillment of the require-
ments for the degree of Doctor of M-
sical Arts. Open to the general public.
Chamber Music Festival: The Quar-
tetto Italiano, composed of Paolo Bor-
ciani and Elisa Pegreffi, violin; Piero
Farulli, viola; and Franco Rossi, cellist;
will perform In the three concerts of.
the 17th annual Chamber Music Fes-
tival in Rackham Lecture (Hall play.
ing all numbers from memory. Tickets
are on sale at the offices of the Uni
versity Musical Society, Burton Me-
morial Tower and will also be on sale
in the lobby of the Rackham Build-
ing one hour preceding the beginning
of each performance.
Academic Notices
The Extension Service announees the
fonlowin classes to be held in Ann Ar-=
bor beginning Tues., Feb. 12:
INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT 7:30 p.m.
229 West Engineering Building
Fifteen weeks. $22.00 -
PSYC1tOLOGY of ADJUSTMENT 7:30
7:30 p.m.
(Psychology 51, two hours of nder.
graduate credit)
r 171 School Of Business Administration
Fifteen weeks. $22.00
THE RECORDER AND ITS
MUIC 7:30 p.m.
Intermediate Course
435 Mason Hall
Fifteen weeks. $22.00
WATER COLOR AND GOUACHE
PAINTING 7:30 p.m.
415 College of Architecture
Fifteen weeks. $22.00
Registration for these classes may be
made in Room 4501 of the Administra-
tion Building on South State Stree
during University office hours and on
Saturday morning, Feb. 16, 9:00 a.m. to
12:00 noon, also in Room 164 of the
School of Business Administration,
Corner of Monroe and Tappan; from
6:30 to 9:30 p.m., Mon., through Thur.,
the week of Feb. 11.
Sports and Dance Instruction-Wom-
en Students: women students who
have completed their physical educa-
tion requirement may register for
classes electively in Barbour Gymna-
sium on Mon., Feb. 11 8 a.m. to 12
noon. Instruction is available in swim-
ming, diving, Red Cross Water Course
ming diving, Red Cross Water Safety
Instructors course, fencing, modern
and social dance, and riding.
Mathematics Club: Tues., Feb. 12, at
8:00 p.m. in the West Conference Room,
Rackham Building. Dr. B. A. Galler will
speak on .:Cross Section Theorem."
Instrumentation Engineering Semi-
nar: Research in the Fundamentals of
Automobile Stability and Control will
be presented by Joseph Bidwell and
Robert Kohr of the Engineering Me-
chanics Department, General Motors
Research Staff. Tues., Feb. 12, at 4:30
p.m. in Room 1042, East Engineering
B1lilding.
Organizational Meeting for the Part
II Actuarial Review Class Tues., Feb.
12, at 4:10 p.m. In Room 3010, Angell
Hall.
Operations Research Seminar: Roger
R. Crane, Touche, Niven; Bailey and
Smart (Detroit), will lecture on "A
Model for a Company Operation" 9n
Wed., Feb. 13. Coffee hour at 3:30 in
Room 243, West Engineering Building
and seminar in Room 229 West Engin-
eering Buiding at 4:00 p.m. All facul.
ty members are welcome.
Placement Notices
Beginning with Tues., Feb. 12 the
following schools will have represen-
tatives at the Bureau of Appointments
o interview teachers for the 1957-58
school year.
Tues., Feb. 12
Grandville, Michigan - Elementary;
Elementary Music; Junior and Senior
High Art/minor.
Mt. Eden, California - Elementary
(K-8)
ond semester dues of $1.50 will be col-
lected at this time.
Mt. Clemens, Michigan (L'Anse Creuse
School) - Elementary; English; Shop;
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Economic Sanctions Against Israel
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MBASSADOR Abdul Monem Rifa'i of Jor-
dan, a leader of the 27-nation Afro=Asian
bloc in the United Nations, has called for new,
more effective measures to force final and
total Israeli withdrawal from Egypt.
Some members of the group, particularly the
Arab nations, are pushing for tight economic,
financial, and military restrictions on Israel.
Despite six UN resolutions demanding with-
drawal, Israel stands firm in its determination
to hold out for "adequate guarantees" that
Israeli shipping interests in the Gulf of Aqaba
will not be subject to Egyptian interference,
and that Egypt will not be left free to resume
raids on Israel from the Gaza Strip.
THE MOST DISTURBING fact pointed up
by the deadlock is the impotence of the
United Nations-its inability, or at least fail-
ure, to take any positive, decisive action.
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..............Features Editor
DAVID GREY .....,......... Sports Editor
RICHARD CRAMER..........Associate Sports Editor
STEPHEN EIEILPERN ........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
WILLIAM PUSRI............Advertising Manager
CHARLES WIL.SON ......... inance anage
Desperate pleas from the UN to Israel and
Egypt to "kiss and make up," strongly worded,
oft-repeated censure resolutions against Israel,
and feverish efforts by the UN's top diplomat,
Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, have
proven utterly ineffective. They have served
only to demonstrate the futility, in this situa-
tion, of words without action or threat of action.
Israel remains stubborn and defiant in the
face of scolding from almost the entire world.
Egypt seems equally determined to remain
surly and dictatorial.
THE UN POLICE force cannot presently oc-
cupy Egyptian territory without Egyptian
approval. And Egypt shows no inclination to
give that approval except when it will serve
her own ends. She allowed the UN force to help
extricate her from the Anglo-French occupa-
tion, but is unlikely to allow its interference in
any hostile activities toward Israel.
This is one of the bases of Israeli's fears
and her consequent demand for protective guar-
antees. Her position is understandable.
Peaceful negotiation is always the- most de-
sirable mode of attack on international prob-
lems. When such negotiation, however, has
been proven futile, the time has ,arrived for
the institution of more drastic measures.
Thus, the only course of action with any
promise of success now open to the UN seems
to be outright arbitration.
IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN its prestige and
effectiveness, the UN should back up its
demands for Israeli withdrawal from Egypt by
the institution of economic sanctions against
her.
At the same time, Israeli demands for protec-
tive guarantees can be at least partially satis-
fied by a sincere and forceful warning to Egypt
to keep hands off Israel shipping and to confine
TALKING ON TELEVISION:
America After Dark' May Become Brighter.
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By LARDyY EINHORN
Daily Television Writer
WELL, I might as well get my'
two-cents worth in about the
new "Tonight" - "America After
Dark" - as NBC likes to call it.
Probably never in the history of
television has one program drawn
such adverse criticism from the
people and press as this new pro-
gram, seen in the old Steve Allen
time slot.
It's sort of a combination of
"Wide, Wide World", "Monitor",
"Today", and Confidential Maga-
zine. Jack Lescoulie is host at
'New York and anchor man for a
group of roving columnists wh¢
work out of Chicago, New York
and Los Angeles, but who are
apt to appear anyplace that the
"NBC live television cameras"
(Lescoulie's favorite phrase) will
go.
Much adverse criticism came
after the opening show, on which
Jayne Mansfield, Zsa Zsa Gabor
and Dean Martin made some com-
ments which would never have
cleared the censors had they been
THE SHOW has now been on
for two full weeks. Slowly but
surely the kinks are being ironed
out, even though, as is expected
on a show which has multiple ori-
gins, technical difficulties are still
evident. But this type of trouble
is seen on "Wide Wide World"
and "Person to Person", two oth-
er remote programs, and has not
letracted from their popularity.
The program itself has tremen-
dous potentialities for utilizing
the assets of television to a de-
gree which has not been reached
previously. Besides going to night
clubs and theatres to talk to show
business personalities and other
forms of presenting live enter-
tainment, NBC has stated that it
will have the entire facilities of
all its affiliated stations available
for any news story or special
event which might take place
while the show is in progress.
This situation has come up only
once since the show began, the
night of the airline disaster near
the East River in New York. Live
DESPITE the reviews, the show
is seemingly in no danger of be-
ing cancelled. This is due to NBC's
constant effort to present live
late-night-time television. The low
ratings don't matter too much.
Even the popular Allen "Tonight"
program was losing out -to the
current batch of the good movies
which have been recently released
for television.
In most of the major and even
minor television markets (except,
obviously Detroit, which still
hasn't jumped on the good movie
bandwagon) these flicks are scor-
for the late hours.
The second cousin to the To-
night show, "Today", started out
in much the same way. It was at
first not very well received, pri-
marily because televiewers were
not accustomed to that type of
program in the early hours. Simi-
larly, televiewers are not accus-
tomed to this type of program
during the late hours. It will take
at least a few more months for
the program to get organized and
for viewers to accept it.
the average television interviewer.
A good example of offbeat en-
tertainment was seen last Thurs-
day night when the cast, producer
and writer of a new Broadway
show gathered at a New York res-
taurant after their first perfor-
mance to await the reviews. When
they came in, they were read by
Hy Gardner as the assembled
group listened. This is a some-
what a built-up affair, but it
made for an enjoyable few min-
utes.
As you can see, I have spent
most of the time describing the
good points of the new "Tonight".
Enough has been said in the past
two weeks about the" negative
points of the show. If I had re-
viewed the show after the first
night my reaction probably would
have been the same as all the oth-
ers who so emphatically panned
it. But after the first two weeks,
there is some hope as the show
begins to take shape.
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THIS SHOW is not one which
will appeal to all at every moment.