Sixty-Eighth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN "When Opinions Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Truth Will Prevail" STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 1-3241 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers " or the editors. This iss t be noted in all reprints. SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1958 NIGHT EDITOR: JOHN WEICHER International Center Report Merits Careful Consideration SGC'S RECOMMENDATIONS on the Inter- their inclusion on the Prospectus. But basic national Center-enlarging the staff and services such as counseling foreign students studying a possible new building-are sound and arranging tours and trips for them were and deserve administration consideration. Ob- rightly felt more essential and the former were jections to these improvements will be largely cut back or dropped. financial. Even with the curtailment of a number of The recommendation "that the president of the proposed services, according to Davis, the SGC meet with the president of ISA to discuss Center is "at the moment a bit over-extended." the possibility of having an American student Typing this semester's directory, for example, on the Board of Directors" apparently concerns must be done piecemeal. selection of such a student and the liaison role he would play. That additional student partici- AND TO ANYONE who has visited it, the pation would be beneficial by increasing com- present International Center, hanging on munication both ways is undeniable. the corner of the Union where it joins West And the suggestion "that the housing com- Quad, is quite cramped. A new building, or at mittee established by Vice President Lewis least a trade with Religious Affairs for Lane consider the possibility of working with the Hall as was once proposed, is necessary, al- Center in studying improvements which could though not immediately so. be made in housing for foreign students;" most Student liaison with International Center ambitious of all in a sense, is likewise sound. is an extremely acute need, brought on in large In all these areas definite need can be part by the 5% enrollment of international demonstrated. The International Center pro- students. While liaison with American students spectus for 1957-58, according to Center Direc- is a common problem, it is especially acute here. tor James Davis, includes a number of projects As for accomodation of foreign students, the which "haven't gotten off the ground." Areas SGC report treats this problem first, and concentrated on, he explains, were determined rightly so. As Jean Scruggs' committee noted, on a priority basis, the chief limitation being "The problem of housing is intensified because staff size, the foreign student is in large part a graduate student, who must therefore look for off- AMONG THE SERVICES set forth in the pro- campus housing. Because housing which is spectus in which success has been either available to American students is not always negligible or qualified, is advising American equally available to foreign students, and also students about studying abroad. Counselor because they are new in this country, they need Russell Hanson keeps a file of information on more guidance in finding housing." foreign universities, their scholarships, ad- While the Center's files are valuable to mission requirements, costs and curricula, but international students .looking for housing the as Davis explains, the, Center doesn't dare greater effort Vice - President Lewis' group publicize this area too much because they would could give would be preferable. be "swamped" if any great amount of interest Because the International student popula- were generated. tion on campus is growing constantly, the four Likewise cut back have been programs deal- problems recognized- by SGC will get worse ing with visiting scholars and professors and before they get better. The Council committee with the wives of foreign students. These areas is to be commended for its report. Action is would also be worth developing, and the Inter- urged. national Center staff felt them to be so, thus --THOMAS TURNER THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS: Dean.Bacon's Public Relations "Couldn't Have Happened At A Better Time" _-4 y SxTm..)~ t- ~ P' ~. WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: :IkeConfident He'll Last ::>' By DREW PEARSON CHORAL UNION SERIES: Myra Hess Performs Beethoven Dramatically DAME MYRA HESS gave a recital last night in Hill Auditorium. Some pianists, as they grow older attain a certain stature and then gradually decline, unable to force their fingers to strike the proper notes. Not Myra Hess; she keeps getting better and better. Dame Hess played Mozart's Rondo in D Major, K. 485, Adagio in B Minor, K. 540, and Gigue in G Major, K. 574; followed by the Schu- bert A Minor Sonata, Opus 41, Bach's Partita in B-flat Major, and Beethoven's C Minor Sonata, Opus 111. Although she played with a score in front of her at all times, she need not have referred to the printed page. The music was obviously a part of her. The first two Mozart selections are well known, and Dame Hess played them carefully and sedately. The Adagio, in particular, became a sublime movement through her bold, deliberate attack. The Gigue is a curious polyphonic piece, whose theme, if Mozart had. added two more notes, would have been a genuine note row. The rest of the program before intermission was taken up by the Schubert sonata, which is a long, relatively unknown work. Dame Hess played all the repeats except one, but this did not add to the value of the work, and in fact de- tracted from her understanding interpretation. DAME HESS has by this time become famous for her Bach. Everything she plays, the Partita included, is her very own. One can not call her interpretation "free," yet the printed page does not re- veal her phrasing. The way she brings out each voice is peculiar solely to her. I have never before heard such rhythmic playing of the Courante and Menuettes, nor such a stately Sarabande. If the Bach was the typical Myra Hess, then the Beethoven Sonata was the unusual, because such beautiful playing is rare in any pianist. First of all she was powerful. She attacked the first movement more forcefully than most male pianists. Her blazing tempo was awe-inspiring. * *' * YET, SHE did not hesitate to be delicate and to dwell on each note, making certain the bell - like sounds, along with the bursts of thunder emanated from the piano exactly right. Dame Hess's best and most try- ing performnance of the entire recital was the second and final movement of this sonata. It is a series of variations in various tempos from the solemn and in- trospective andante to those which can be genuinely classified as jazz. It is a monumental work, whic I have heard played by Bachaus and- the late Gieseking, but not with the vigor, and above all the under- standing of Dame Hess. WItEN SHE had finished, a moment of silence fell over the audience, which overflowed onto the concert stage. Dame Hess, al- though called back several times, played no encores. Speaking to the audience, she said she did not think encores should be played after a work of such stature, and she is right. But, she continued, she had played in Ann Arbor seven times and she had two lucky numbers- seven and thirteen. When she plays in Ann Arbor for the thirteenth time, she pro- mises "all the encores you want." This will indeed be a privilege, as it was last night for us to listen to Dame Hess sitting so simply, so absorbed at her instrument, playing Beethoven. --Arthur S. Bechhoefer HE MOST INTERESTING news this week was the performance of Dean of Women Deborah Bacon sponsored by the Political Issues Club. The audience consisted largely of antagonists of the dean, and she from the beginning acted belligerently toward them, until both sides 'became worked up into an unbecoming emotional state. Members of the audience shouted at her and at each other, and on several occasions the dean threatened tb leave the room. At the very end one student asked Miss Bacon what it was, if all was well with the residence halls, that had everybody so excited, and thereby came close to putting his finger on the most striking feature of the meeting-the lack of confidence and trust in the Dean of Women felt by at least pne seginent of the student body. THE SPECIFIC ISSUE on which most sparks flew was not necessarily one for which Miss Bacon holds complete responsibility - policy toward League houses - but one on which she defended vociferously the administration posi- tion. It seemed anomalous to many members of the audience, this one included, that a Uni- versity which lends its name to League housing and goes so far in imposing its will on moral questions on the Leagues houses, e.g. liquor is forbidden to be kept in student rooms, men's calling hours and areas are limited, rents and health standards are regulated, does not con- sider it to be within its province to require that landladies not discriminate against callers on grounds of race, religion or nationality. Surely if the University can delimit student conduct on sex and drinking in the house and land- lady conduct on how much rent is charged and what type of facilities she offers, it can require that she not close her doors to members of different races. Of course, this would require more than that the University see its role as advocating certain moral principles, which it clearly does in the case of League ,houses. It would also assume that the University consider non-discrimination to be one of those moral Editorial Staff PETER ECKSTEIN, Editor JAMES ELSMAN, JR. VERNON NAHRGANG Editorial Director City Editor - DONNA HANSON .Personnel Director CAROL PRINS ...............Magazine Editor EDWARD GERULDSEN .. Associate Editorial Director W LLIAM HANEY ......Feature Editor ROSE 7?ERLBERG ..........Activities Editor JAMES BAAD ........................Sports Editor BRUCE BENNETT ............ Associate Sports Editor JOHN HILLYER ............ Associate Sports Editor DIANE FRASER .............. Assoc. Activities Editor THOMAS BLUES ...........Assoc. Personnel Director BRUCE BAILEY ..........Chief Photographer principles and that it stand ready to stand up and say so. This, unfortunately, has yet to be demonstrated, and the lack of such demonstra- tion is a problem which includes, but goes beyond, the office of the Dean of Women. AS A FOOTNOTE we would hesitate to see go unrecorded Dean Bacon's remarks con- cerning The Daily at Tuesday's meeting. By virtue of position, the dean complained, she is forced to read The Daily every day, .whereas her more fortunate audience could take it or leave it. She is appalled at the number of in- accuracies found in the paper. "Why, no fresh- man or sophomore would dare to turn in a theme with as many inaccuracies as are found in The Michigan Daily." Her amplification in- cluded only one rather vague allusion to the notion that The Daily-she did not say when or where-may have overlooked to point out the obvious fact that the administration only as- signs roommates for incoming freshmen who do not choose a specific friend tQ room with. With the addition to those non-freshmen who do not exercise their right to pick roommates we would agree, but we would hesitate to suggest that this makes the University's policy in as- signing roommates any less worthy a topic of discussion. . *' * THIS WEEK saw two events which indicate that the climate of opinion on campus has shifted nearly 180 degrees since the days when Preston Slosson was forced to debate with left- wingers in off-campus areaslike bookstores and churches because University facilities were denied them. The lecture committee unenthusiastically permitted former Daily Worker Editor John Gates to speak later in the month, and Edgar Snow, once accused of strong left-wing ten- dencies, was able to urge that Americans face the reality of Communist China. The point with Snow is not that he was allowed to speak, since faculty groups do not need lecture com- mittee a'pproval for'their speakers, but that he was invited in the first place and that his speech was not the occasion of any public controversy. The Regents by-law on lectures forbids stu- dents - sponsored public speeches advocating overthrow of the government, advocacy of im- moral conduct or "violation of the recognized rules of hospitality" and requires "that such meetings and lectures shall be in spirit and expression worthy of the University." On the Gates question, unfortunately, the student rep- resentatives report that the lecture committee persisted in interpreting the by-law to include the character of the speaker rather than of the speech. Equally unfortunately, the Regents have yet to dispute this interpretation. But the fact that so controversial a figure as Gates was approved represents a real step forward. PRESIDENT EISENHOWER told Republican congressional lead- ers the other day that he was confident his private arrangement with the Vice-President for Nixon to become Acting President in case of his own disability, would "never, have to be put into effect." "Some people," the President said, apparently referring to Dem- ocratic critics of the disability pact, "are exaggerating the signifi- cance of this. It was just a pre- cautionary arrangement with the Vice-President. "I do feel rather strongly that we should have a Constitutional amendment to deal with the ques- tion of a Presidential disability," he explained. "However, this takes time and my arrangement with Mr. Nixon was solely to deal with possible complications while such an amendment is in the process of ratification." IN A JOVIAL manner, Ike add- ed: "Let me assure you gentlemen that I have every intention of serving out my term of office. There are no doubts in my mind that my health will not interfere. None of us can foretell the future, of course, but I feel confident that the precautionary measure we have taken will never have to be put into effect." The President also informed Republican leaders that he soon planned to send a proposed amend- ment to Congress that would eliminate a spending restriction in the super highway act, so that an additional $600,000,000 could be spent on the highway program next year. This, he said, would help to shore up the national economy and might even have a- beneficial effect on the current recession, if road contractors can begin tooling up in advance for the additional fed- eral spending. The government is saving about nine per cent on road contracts now being let, due to unexpectedly low bids, which indicates, the President said, that contractors are "hungry" for the work. WAYNE 40RSE of Oregon is a versatile senator. Leaving a tough debate on the Senate floor last week, he flew to Baton Rouge, La., to exhibit his Red Devon cattle in the Louisiana State Cattle Show. Showing cattle is a skilled job. It's not one for a novice. The senator from Oregon, however, was his own herdsman, expertly managed his own cattle in the show ring. Afterward, Dr. A. E. Darlow, Vice-President of Oklahoma State College, who served as judge, came up to Morse. "Where did you learn to show cattle?" he asked. Morse replied that the credit belonged to his father, who had taught him as a boy. "I've heard a lot about you," said Dr. Darlow, "but I never ex- pected to see you under these circumstances." "You probably heard I've got horns," said Morse. "But I hope I've demonstrated that the horns are on my cattle." * * * MEMBERS of Congress com- plain about secrecy in the execu- tive branch of government, but here is what happened inside the Senate Labor Rackets Committee when Sen. Pat McNamara, Michi- gan Democrat, moved that there be no more secret sessions. "Certain members on the Re- publican side are leaking their versions of these committee ses- sions to the public," McNamara said. "They have been claiming that the Democrats are protecting Walter Reuther. . "The only fair thing to do," con- tinued McNamara, "is to make public the full record of these hearings, then the press can spe who is protecting whom. I there- fore move that the hearings be. made public." By a vote of seven to one Mc- Namara was overruled. McNa- mara was the only senator voting for the right of the public to know what happened in a meeting which had nothing to do with national security. (Copyright 1958 by Bell Syndicate, inc.) DALY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the Univer- sity of Michigan for which the Michigan Dailyaassumes no edi- torial responsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3519 Administration Build- ing, before 2 p.m. the day preceding publication. Notices for Sunday Daily due at 2:00 p.m. Friday. SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1958 VOL. LXVIII, No. 113 General Notices Summer 'Housing Applications fo graduate and undergraduate women's housing will be accepted from women now registered on campus beginning at noon, Mon., Mar.10, at the Office of the Dean of Women on the first floor of the S.A.B. Applications will be ac- cepted for residence halls and supple- mentary housing. Faculty, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: The freshman 5-week progress reports will be due Wed., March 12, in the Faculty Counselors Office for Freshmen and Sophomores, 1210 Angell Hall. Reminder: New initiates of Sigma XI and members planning to attend the Initiation Dinner on March,12, should send their reservations by Monday, March 10, to Sigma Xi, Rackham Bldg. The Michigan Chapter of the Society of the Sigma Xi announces the Dinner for Initiates to be held in the Ballroom, Mich. League, 6:15 p.m., Wed., Mar. 12. Dinner to be followed by Sigma Xi Na- tional Lecture, "The World of Fine Particles" by Dr. John Turkevich, Pro- fessor of Chemistry, Princeton Univer- sity. Lecture at 8:00 p.m. in Rackhani Lecture Hall and is open to the public. Concert Composers' Forum will be held Friday evening, March 14, in Auditorium A of Angell Hall, instead of, Wednesday. March 12, as incorrectly listed on back of January 12 program. South Quadrangle Music Committe presents the second program of the Spring series at 1:30 p.m. Sun., Mar. S in the West Lounge of the Quadrangle. The program includes a baritone solo- ist, a bassoon soloist and a clarinet quartette. Academic Notices Doctoral Examination for Soon Tahk Choh, Physics; thesis: "The Kinetie Theory of Phenomena in Dense Gases," Tuesday, March 11, 2038 Randall Lab. at 9:00 a.m. Chairman, G. E. Uhenbeck. Doctoral Examination for George Ed- ward Dombrowski, Electrical Engineer- ing; thesis: "A small-Signal Theoryof Electron-Wave Interaction in Crossed Electric and Magnetic Fields," Mon.. March 10, 3076 E. Engineering Bldg at 2:00 p.m. Chairman, W.-G. Dow. Placement Notices Beginning with Mon., March 10, the following schools will have representa- tives at the Bureau of Appointments to interview for the 1958-1959 school year. Mon., March 10 Detroit, Mich. (South Redford Schools) Elementary; Jr. H.S. Core; Math; Science; Girls Counselor; Boys Physi- cal Education; Choral Music (woman); Sr. H.S. Core; Physics (Radio/Electric- ty); Biology; Math; Latin; French Spanish; Industrial Arts (Auto-Metals/ Electricity); Art Vocal Music; Instru- mental Music (String Band); Drafting/ Design; Girls Counselor. Warren, Mich. - All fields. Tues., March 11 Boron, Cal. - Elementary; Band/vo- cal Music; Special Education; H.. Science/Math; English; Girls Physical Education, Livonia, Mich. - All fields. Niles, Mich. - Elementary, Visiting teacher; Corrective Reading; English; Social Studies; Business Education; Girls Physical Education. Wed., March 12 Lansing, Mich. - All fields. Thurs., March 13 Anaheim, Cal. (Magnolia School Dist.) - Elementary; Librarian. Deerfield, Mich.-Elementary; Math/ Science; Spanish/Social Studies. Hastings, Mlch.-Girls Physical Edu- cation; Homemaking; Social Studies English; Chemistry/Math or Chemistry Social Studies. Royal Oak, Mich. - Elementary; Ele- jnentary Art; Elementary Physical Educ.; English; Social Studies; History; In- dustrial Arts. Fri., March 14 Norwalk, Cal. - Elementary; 7/8th English/S.S. Core; 7/8th Industrial Arts 7/8th Home Economics; Special Edu- cation; School Nurses; Guidance Coun- selor; Elementary Instrumental Music. Toledo, Ohio -- Elementary; Girls Physical Education; Music; Art; Spe- cial Education (Slow Learnois; Speech Therapist, Deaf). For any additional information and appointments contact the Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Admin. Bldg., NO 3-1511, Ext. 489. PERSONNEL INTERVIEW8 AT THE ENGINEERING SCHOOL March 12, Wed. STROMBERG-CARLSON COMPANY, Div. of General Dynamics Corp., Roch- ester, N.Y. - BS & MS in E.E. for Re- search, Development, Design and Pro- duction. INLAND STEEL COMPANY - INDI- ANA HARBOR WORKS, East Chicago, Tnd n ~- .-. - lldire evl i e. EA Ac I ,4 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Sociological Rationale for Integration To The Editor:. WISH to make certain theoreti- cal and practical points which seem to have some impact on the problem of integration in Resi- dence Halls. Mr. Hale held last Tuesday night that there are two problems involved: 1) The University assumes that the incoming students do not have a clear understanding or insight into the problem of living and since the University as an educa- tional institution aims to ac- complish "to educate" the stu- dents, we have to "start fresh" without any assumptions concern- ing the insight and understanding of human relations. 2) We have to respect the per- sonal liberty and rights of the stu- dents when they are in the Uni- versity. *' * * THESE TWO points seem to me to be contradictory. If we are as- suming that an incoming student does not have an understanding of human relations, we cannot respect his opinion, because their opinions and attitudes concerning life might be erroneous and faulty. And if we regard and respect their opinion, for instance, giving them a room- mate of their own choice, we are reinforcing their past attitudes which we think are not right. Dean Bacon reiterated that we allow the students to room with someone of their choice because the students have expressed their of the student is primarily er- roneous and baseless. Studies in psychology and also in public opinion polls show that a prefer- ence for something is not the same thing as the need for something. It is commonsense knowledge also, that we do not let anybody do what they prefer. There are cer- tain rules of the game and one has to follow them. Moreover, the expression of opinion depends on lots of things. For example, research findings emphasize the environmental con- ditions where the opinion is being expressed. They also show depend- ence upon the implicit intentions of the person asking the question, (such intentions are communi- cated to the respondent due to the nature of the questions etc.). Therefore, it seems unscrupulous to accept the preference of stu- dents, especially when we realize it is, not measuring real needs of the students. 4' * * 2) RESEARCH findings show that in the area of, race relations, stated opinion is not a reliable basis for prediction of behavior. The classic example1 of course, is the study in which LaPiere (a well - known sociologist), after traveling throughout the United States with a Chinese couple, wrote to the hotels and restaurants which they had visited, asking if the establishment would accept Chinese as guests. What he found was that over 90 per cent of the rpnnnrnts (all nf whnm aictally Other studies show the effect of social climate or social atmos- phere. What they tell us is that interracial contacts take place in social contexts where the indi- vidual is responding not only to persons from another ethnic group but also to what he believes proper in such relationships for those whose social and personal ap- proval he needs and seeks. Therefore, if the students of the University think that they need support and help from Uni- versity authorities they would most likely respond towards cer- tain things according to the wishes of the University authorities. . * * * THERE ARE wrong and right ways to initiate desegregation. If a person is interested in promoting policies of desegregation, one has to be honest and objective. One cannot fight the emotional prob- lems of the populace by denying the reality of the problem and by saying that since it is emotional problem, there is no answer to it; or even by threats and counter- emotional outbursts, as Dean Ba- con did Tuesday night. The psychological fact about behavior is that all behavior has certain emotional correlates; and so saying that such a problem is emotional does not really answer the question, nor, needless to say, solve it. .. Dean Bacon mentioned that all adolescents have tendencies to revolt aainst the 'father-figure'. might evoke this kind of response. And the individual might gen- eralize the stimulus which ulti- mately evokes a similar generalized response. In the above discussion I have presented certain problems. I in- tend to point out that the re- search findings show that the promotion of desegregation is possible due to help from certain sources in the society. Four fac- tors contribute towards it very highly: 1) Positions, taken publicly by individuals or groups who carry an aura of moral authority or of extremely high prestige (for ex- ample, the Supreme Court, The President of the United States, church figures). 2) The attitudes and behavior of the general population of the com- munity or the region. 3) The statements and practices of persons in authority in the particular situation such as the employer or the school superin- tendent or dean of men and wom- en. 4) And the behavior, expecta- tions, beliefs, etc., of other mem- bers of one's own group with whom one is in direct personal associa- tion. * * * ON THE BASIS of the above discussion I would like to make the following suggestions in this direction which might be helpful: 1) University authorities know that we have in this University nne of the laorget snialre search * ,A :