"Mr. Stassen Will Now Explain Our Position" I Sixty-Seventh Yeer 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 5 15 'Whien Opinilons Are Fre~e Truthb Wil Prevail' Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1957 NIGHT EDITOR: RICHARD TAUB / SGC Enrollment Committee Must Be Alert to Subtleties STUDENT GOVERNMENT CODUNCIL'S ac- Stion Wednesday in calling for the establish- ment of a student-faculty-administration com- mittee to study the effects of rising enrollments may well turn out to be one of the Council's most significant actions in its two-year history. The results of the action will riot be appar- ent for many months. But if a top-flight com- mittee is appointed by SGC, the Faculty Senate and President Hatcher, and if -it conducts a thorough-study, it could prove a potent force in shaping the University's educational policy. Rising enrollments are the number one edu- cational problem in America today. A sharp and -sustained increase in the birth rate of the students now reaching college age and a steadily increasing percentage of college at- tendance by those students have conspired to present the nation's colleges with the alterna- tives doubling in size in a generation or failing to educate the nation's interested youth. FACULTY RESOURCES - the number of trained men entering the teaching profes- sion - show every sign of falling hopelessly behind in the attempt to keep pace with the growing student population. The prospect for 20 years from now is edu- cational factories on a scale far beyond any in existence today. The University's projected enrollment figures of 40,000 or more by 1970 are illustrative of the general trend, and the general sharp decline of American academic levels, never outstanding by European stan- dards, seems inevitable. The questiton before the new committee is not, however, the status of American education in general; its decline is inevitable. The ques- tion is more realistically the role the Univer- sity is to play amidst the decline, and how greatly the school's much-discussed obligation to the state will sweep it along with the tide. The SGC study committee which recom- mended the establishment of.the new tripartite group has outlined a number of aspects of the problem. The University's responsibility to the state, for example, is deserving of considerable attention. What are the population increases for which Michigan's higher education institu- tions. must prepare? How should the Ann Arbor campus, which has thus far maintained a rea- sonably high quality of education, fit into the general scheme of Michigan colleges - Michi- gan State University, University branch schools, the many smaller colleges and univer- sities, the growing junior colleges? But the effect of expanding enrollments will doubtless occupy most of the committee's time. Assuming the legislature resumes its former willingness to provide the physical facilities for expansion, what will be the effects on educa- tional standards, intra-University communica- tions and student psychology? Can the Univer- sity maintain both the quality of its faculty and its present student-faculty ratio? Would admissions standards be lowered if the pro- portion of applications accepted is no more than kept at its present level? Can the cur- rent degree of student-faculty communications be maintained: would possible increased class- room size seriously impair that communica- tion, would teaching methods decline in person- alization and penetration, would any out-of- classroom contact be still possible? OTHER problems of communications would involve the faculty vis-a-vis the adminis- tration (where already contact and under- standing leaves much to be desired), commu- nications within the student community be- tween those with like aptitudes and interests, and interchanges of ideas within the faculty community, both between departments and even within them. And perhaps the most highly speculative area of all, but perhaps also the most inter- esting, might be the question of the psycholo- gical situation of the individual student: is he emotionally equipped to cope with a sea of strange faces, in which he may well have no niche, with even bigger housing units, class- rooms, and campus boundaries. Can he feel he is a part of a community so large, and if not, is a further compartmentalization of that community either possible or desirable? The dangers of enrollment expansion may be exaggerated. The University has doubled in size every generation for many years, and if this has proven disastrous its signs, are not overly dramatic. But the effects of expansion --that which we have experienced and that which we presently face -- are probably more subtle, and we will never waken some morn- ing to some sudden evidence that education continues to exist in name only, that the com- munity of scholars we had known is no longer a community. THE NEW committee faces the unenviable Job of detecting subtleties and gradual en- croachments and then letting the students, the faculty, and administration know when it is time to apply the brakes, when we are cheap- ening education faster than we are expanding it, if in fact that point has not been reached already. -PETER ECKSTEIN .. ." e sv.-r pos n 7O- ; ~N)G { 9 loop"g SECOND SEMESTER EXAMINATION SCHEDULE COLLEGE OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND THE ARTS HORACE H. RACKHAM SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION SCHOOL OF NATURAL RESOURCES SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING COLLEGE OF PHARMACY SCHOOL OF NURSING SCHOOL OF MUSIC May 31 to June 11, 1957 For courses having both lectures and recitations the "Time of Class" is the time of the first lecture period of the week. For courses having recitation only, the "Time of Class" is the time of the first recitation period. Certain courses will be examined at special periods as noted below the regular schedule. Courses not included in either the regular schedule or the special periods may use any examination period provided there Is no conflict or provided that, in case of a conflict, the conflict is resolved by the class which conflicts with the regular schedule. Degree candidates'having a scheduled examination on June 10 and 11 will be given an examination at an earlier date. The following schedule designates an evening time for each such examination. The instructor may arrange with the student for an alternate time, with notice to he schedtuling committee. Evening Schedule for Degree Candidates Reglr Mon. Mon. Tues. Tues. ExagTie June 10 June 10 June 11 June 11 9-12 AM 2-5 PM 9-12 AM 2-5 PM Special Mon. Tues. Thurs., Fri. peial June 3 June 4 June 6 June 17 Period 7-10 PM 7-10 PM 7-10 PM 7-10 PM Each student should receive notification from his instructor as to the time and place of his examination. REGULAR SCHEDULE £r.* -y WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Johnson Guts USIA By DREW PEARSON TEXAS' Senator Lyndon John- son, the astute and charming Democratic leader, has a persua- sive way of putting his nose al- most against another senator's, then telling him how much he loves him and how important it is to work together. Lyndon was busier than a bird dog doing this during the debate on cutting the United States Information Agency budget last week. Two huddles were especially sig- nificant. They were with Sen. Jack Kennedy of Massachusetts, who's been boomed as vice-presi- dential running-mate with Lyn- don in 1960; and Sen Joe Clark of Pennsylvania, second Democratic mayor to be elected in Philadel- phia since the Civil War. Previously, Clark and Kennedy had challenged Johnson's steam- roller tactics in cutting the United States Information budget. John- son presided over the appropria- tions hearings on the United States Information Agency, printed some 1,200 pages of testi- mony, then expected his col- leagues to read it and vote intel- ligently in less than 24 hours. THE TRUTH is that the hear- ings were not printed until Mon- day night, were not delivered to Capitol Hill until Tuesday, and most senators did not see them until Wednesday morning, the day they were asked to vote. "The fact that none of the sen- ators have had time to read the many pages of testimony - to cut the heart out of an agency which is vital to the country's in- terests is almost irresponsible," complained Senator Case of New Jersey, Republican. Later, Johnson was seen huddl- ing with Democrats Clark and Kennedy. He told them, separate- ly, this was a personal issue; that as chairman of the subcommittee which recommended cutting the United States Information Agency he must have their votes. He got 85. Only one Democrat, Neuberger of Oregon, stood up to vote against the powerful, persuasive Democratic leader of the Senate. What Johnson did not tell his colleagues was that he did not tell the truth in presenting his de- mand that the USIA budget be gutted. * * * ON AT LEAST three important points, Johnson deliberately mis- led fellow senators. They were: 1. He charged that the USIA was competing with American press associations, when two let- ters had been read in the hear- ings, from the Associated Press and the International News Serv- ice, stating this was not the case. 2. He charged that USIA had added 200 press employees, when actually it employed 200 Filipino and Lebanese printers and book- binders to publish propaganda in Manila and Beirut. 3. Johnson accused USIA of spending $1,400 a week on a jazz band TV program in Mexico City, when actually three pilot shows only had been staged in Mexico City. However, senators who had no chance to read the hearings had no way of knowing that Johnson was not telling the truth. What Johnson did tell them, and told them eloquently, was that USIA was headed by Arthur Larson, the architect of "Modern Republicanism." This, on Capitol Hill, is a dirty word. Larson not only wrote the Eis- enhower bible on Modern Republi- canism, but foolishly delivered a speech on April 16 in Hawaii, blasting the New Deal. A man who needs to get appropriations from a Democratic Congress doesn't make such a speech. * * * RESULT: Johnson tore him to pieces in committee hearings, scarcely let him testify, put poli- tics ahead of propaganda and the importance it plays in the cold war. Larson was a poor witness in the first place, but when Johnson finished, he was a dishrag. Then Johnson cut almost 30 per cent out of the USIA budget re- quest and demanded that the Senate vote on this before any senator could possibly read the hearings. In contrast, Rep. John Rooney, Bt coklyn Democrat, held 11 d,'ys of careful heamnrgs, stuck to pro- paganda problems, not politics, pruned so judiciously that the USIA can still function with his recommended 105 million dollars. With Johnson's cut - down to 89 million, some of the most im- portant United States propaganda in the cold war will be eliminated just as Russia is stepping up its cold-war budget. (Copyright 1957 by Bell Syndicate Inc.) MONDAY TUESDAY (at (at (at (at (at (at (at (at (at (at (at (at (at (at 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 8 9 10 11 1 2 3 Time of Class (at 8 SSaturday, June 1 Monday, June- 3 Tuesday, June 4 Friday, May 31 Thursday, June Q Thursday, June 6 Friday, June 7 . Saturday, June 8 Tuesday, June 4 Monday, June 3 Saturday, June 1 Wednesday, June 5 Friday, June 7 Saturday, June 8 Thursday, June 6 9-12 9-12 9-12 9-12 9-12 9-12 9-12 9-12 2-5 2-5- 2-5 2-5 2-5 2-5- 2-5 Time of Examination ' SPECIAL PERIODS LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND THE ARTS Botany 2, 122 Friday, June 7 Bus. Ad. 11 Thursday, June 6 Bus. Ad. 12 Thursday, June 6 Chemistry 1, 3, 4, 8, 14 l Saturday, June 8 Chemistry 183 Saturday, June 8 Economics 51, 52, 53, 54, 101, 153 Friday, May 31 Economics 71 Thursday, June 6 Economics 72 Thursday, June 6 English 1, 2 - Friday, May 31 French 1, 2, 11, 12, 22, 31, 32, 61, 62 Monday, June 10 German 1, 2, 11, 32 Monday, June 10 Naval Science 102, 202, 302, 402 Wednesday, June 5 Political Science 2 Tuesday, June 11 Psychology 167, 173, 226, 256 Friday, May 31 Sociology 1, 4, 101 Wednesday, June 5 Sociology 60 'Saturday, June 8, Spanish 1, 2, 22, 31, 32 Tuesday, June 11 TUESDAY PANHEL endorsed a set of for the fall semestera before the Panhellen adoption. In this they did n out." The endorseme -one that has no rul be'no pre-rushing- strength, and a basic Panhellenic "sisters." With this decision lenge of following th they are not conside all women on campus Assembly, want a set maturity of the indi AT THE MEETIN pressed emphaticc would not possiblya looking at the code- They claimed that y conscience and that 'never been proved; wouldn't it? Are some has a hard time jud been tried, let alone s It is true that an on the interpretatio makes of it. Are thos work saying they don interpret it or do th don't trust themselv Any definite restri dents place on sorori- Edito RICHARD S RICHARD HALLORAN Editorial Director GAIL GOLDSTEIN ..... ERNEST THEODOSSIN JANET REARICK . A MARY ANN THOMAS DAVID GREY......... RICHARD CRAMER .. STEPHEN HEILPERN. JANE FOWLER and ARLINE LEWIS..... JOHN HIRTZEL ....... Busin DAVID SILVER MILTON GOLDSTEIN WILLIAM PUSCH ... 0.T-TA flY tC WTlEVY ? l Panhel's Honor Code* LLENIC Executive Council on contact rules Monday will be admitting sor- unrestricted contact rules ority women aren't grown-up enough to be and yesterday placed them trusted with self-enforcement of a problem iic board of delegates for ' that faces and affects them all equally., not choose the "easy way IF ALL HOUSES unite with a positive atti- nt of an "all honor" code tude and pass an "all honor" code, they les but only says there will would please the majority of affiliates and - required courage and more important would not alienate indepen- c belief and trust in their dents from the sorority system. "f , they took on the chal- A THOROUGH understanding and adherence ieir "high ideals," showed to the rule by all women, affiliated and in- ering only themselves but dependent, both old and new students, would and that they, along with make the rules more powerful and effective of rules that assumes the than others could possibly be. vidual. Unrestricted rules would also strengthen Panhel and make it more unified. If sororities 1G several delegates ex- can put a stop to their internal rivalries and opinions that such a code instead support it wholeheartedly they will work. These women were raise the somewhat wavering opinions many -with a negative attitude. have had about their actions lately. ou can'tJudge a person's anhel Executive Council also presented an since honor codes- have idea that they thought would help all sorority It wouldn't work. Why women realize the importance of the code. They houses afraid to try? One suggested each sorority member sign a pledge houssomething that has they would be on their honor not to pre-rush omething that has not and to report any violations they saw. "all honor" code depends LTHOUGH this is rather Juvenile, it would on that each individual , wu who feel that it wiil not bring the honor code down to the individual n'e whorfee thairt"sillrs"tlevel and make each one realize their responsi- n'y trusttheir"bstes"te bility to Panhellenic. Since an unrestricted ey hesitate because they code depends so much on the individual, per- ? s haps house presidents should also strongly con- iction which house pres- sider including such an honor pledge. ty women when they vote It all boils down to this: sorority women talk about their high ideals and faith and trust in one another. Here's a chance to prove them. pOogaap--ELIZABETH ERSKINE New Books at the Library orial Staff 7 SNYDER,. Editor Davis, H. L. - The Distant Music; NY, Wil- LEE MARKS liam Morrow, 1957, City Editor ........... Personnel Director Jean-Aubry, Gerard-The Sea Dreamer; NY, . . Magazine Editor Doubleday, 1957. . .te Edatr EDiretor Lohbeck, Don - Patrick J. Hurley; Chicago, . ...... Sports Editor Regnery, 1957. ,.Associate Sports Editor Marquand, John P. - Stopover, Tokyo; Bos- ton, Little Brown, 1957. ........ Women'd Co-Editors B tGS' ......... Chief Photographer Barrett, John G. - Sherman's March Sft Through the Carolinas; Chapel Hill, Univ. of ness Staff North Carolina Press, 1956. Associate Business Manager Dos Passos, John - The Men Who Made the . Advertising Manager Nation; NY, Doubleday, 1957. 2-5 2=5 2-5. 2-5 9-12 7-10 p.m 2-5 2-5 2-5 2-5 9-12 7-10 p.m. 2-5 2-5 9-12 9-12 9-12 4 COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Comment on lecture Series Plan A. E. 130 C. E. 20 C. E. 21 C. E. 22 C. E. 151 Draw. 1, 22 Draw. 2, 33 Draw. 12 E. E. 5 E. M. 1 E. M. 2 *E. M. 1, 2 English 10, 11 I. E. 100, 110 I. E. 120 M. E. 2 M. E.32, 132 Naval Science Physics 53 Physics 54 Saturday, June 8 Wednesday, uJne 5 Friday, May 31 Monday, June 10 s Friday, May 31 Friday, May 31 Tuesday, June 11 Monday, June 10 Wednesday, June 5 Monday, -June 10 Wednesday, June 5 Tuesday, June 11 Wednesday, June 5 Saturday, June 8 Friday, May 31 Monday, June 10 Tuesday, June 11 Wednesday, June5 Tuesday, June 11 Friday, May 31 9-12 9-12 2-5 9-12 2-5 2-5 2-5 2-5 9-12 9-12 9-12 9-12 9-12 9-12 2-a 9-12 9-12 7-10 p.m. 9-12 2-5 L rill Lecture Ban . . To the Editor: THE LECTURE BAN instituted at this school during the last few years is a particular blot upon the name of this university--a university long known for its free- dom and its intelligent examina- tion and pursuit of new ideas. Its basic premise would seem to be that students of college age should learn their political ideas in the parroting boredom of the blab school. If this is not the foun- dation of it, then it can only be that there is still a humiliating fear of congressional investigation into the academic life of any insti- tution that shows any intelligent interest in examining the seedy economic theories of Karl Marx and his fellow utopians. Now Mr. Eckstein of The Daily has come forward with some pro- posalr in relation to this problem. Mr. Eckstein has suggested that SGC set up a lecture committee which, it would seem, would per- petrate another Lecture Series. This committee would sponsor a series of speakers of varying politi- cal types from arch-conservative to, perhaps, real radical. With a balanced program such as this, no stigma of radicalism n~i r1nnra i-i aton, Cin ,-la crrsin we would like to see, it is a step in the right direction, and the Young Democratic Club would like to go on record as supporting Mr. Eckstein's proposals. The Demo- cratic party has always fought for the fundamental freedom of indi- viduals to improve their aware- ness of the world about them-the political, economic, and social ideas current in their own time that inextricably shape their own lives. It is unfortunate that in an age which we should like to believe enlightened, we find so many per- sons that have forgotten that ig- norance of the issues and the facts is not the basis of democracy and never can be; that intelligence and free discussion are the guard- ians oi freedom; and that without them freedom will not someday die, but is already dead. Then let me assure Mr. Eckstein that he can count on us for what- ever support we can render him. In this day it may be unsophisti- cated toethink in such quaint, inalterable terms as "tight" and "wrong" (they smack of "sin" and "goodness") but we feel deeply that Mr. Eckstein is going in the right direction. The blacks and whites of con- troversy may be gauche but they are splendid colors. And so may as S. David has now turned his wrath on the Pakistani prime minister for stating that the Mus- lim world supported Pakistan on Kashmir. Our prizhe minister, answering a question, said that our relations with the Muslim world were most cordial, as evident from their vig- orous support to us on Kashmir. Thus he did not appeal to the Muslims to support us on grounds of religion, as David claims. He merely pointed out that the Mus- lim world, like the rest of the world, supports us on Kashmir. In David's mind, there does not seem to be any difference between natural feeling of kinship between peoples united by the same values and ideals-the factor that brings Pakistan close to the Muslim world -and religious fanaticism, which has no place in Pakistan. The Kashmir case is 10 years old. Witn the exception of Tndia's friend, international communism, the entire world has supported us because we stand 'for the right of the Kashmiri people to self-de- termination. If Mr. David has any preten- sions to morality, he should direct his advice toward his own prime minister. It ill befits Mr. David to lecture to our prime minister, who iT rik nn iin nv f II 102, 202, 302, 402 I *Conflict Exam. This period is to be used only by those having a schedule conflict in E. M. 1 or 2 at the regular hour. SPECIAL INSTRUCTION LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND THE ARTS No date of examination may be changed without the consent of the Committee on Examination Schedules. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING No date of examination may be changed without the consent of the Classification Committee. All cases of conflicts between X assigned examination periods must be reported for adjustment. See bulletin board outside Room 301 W.E. between April 26 and May 13 for instructions. SCHOOL OF MUSIC Individual examinations will be given for all applied music courses (individual instruction) elected for credit in any unit of the University. For time and place of examinations, see bulletin board in the School of Music. COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION QP.UnTf'. nT 'VI T A' A m T m., L I 1~~ A,-