. )r c es te IO nal llu acuity, Administration Examine Athletic (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first in aseries of five articles explain- H. O. "Fritz" Crisler, athletic director, sees athletics as a con- collegiate sports. "The idea that athletics is a kind of church is ri- this is fine. As long as it makes no ry is a series of interviews with a cross-section of people on campus, to tribution to the students' educational experience. Both inter-collegiate diculous," he says.-else. what they think the role of athletics should be.) and Intra-mural athletics, he says, are important supplements to the. Athletics have value in so far as theycontribute to one's total Dean of Women Deborah Bacon By RICHARD TAUB "fundamental and basic aims" of a general education. experience, he explains, but no more. The American university today as c In fact, he sees -a possibility that competitive athletics might do reflect the culture of its country, she The University athletic department will have an operating budget Athletics also teach a "respect for law and order." There are in In dage, Stuses a rn h t competeihe ays bu t rhaps ot Justr"Prime ore than a million dollars this year. addition social advantages of an "emotional nature." Student ath- moral damage. Students learn how to compete, he says, but perhaps Not Just "Prne ver the last seven years more than six million dollars was spent letes, he explains, have. the opportunity to be doers rather than in this world we need people Who are less interested in competition. The American people are no lon capital improvements. watchersThey-learn poise 'under fire. And they havethe opportu- He says there are healthy facets to athletic activity. "Nobody's prime ministers and other leaders as The department mot only involves varsity athletes, but every nity to ,meet students from other schools.. the worse for a good long walk in the country." But it seems, the And just read the newspapers or The departmet ~not onlyinvolves varity athlete, but everyprofessor adds, that inter-collegiate athletics, especially football, "hassewhtagatarofurctr hman who, comes to the University and all other students inter- Football, he points out, also provides the funds for the intra- Very little to do with health." part of r c tu d in participating in extracurricular sports. mural program. The athletic department is now working on facili- Atrletics ShduldtbeeFuh-part of democracy, she continuea.W n an occasional, Saturday in the fall, more than one hundred ties for North Campus. Athletics Should e Fun person, as wellas In grooming leade isand people come to watch the football team in action. . E . Boulding of the economics department do s not Athletics should be fun, he declares, and if it is not fun, there can concerned with the top 10 per cent." Play a Large Part see it this way, however. be no justification for it. "But here the program seems rather grim," The Americans are a competitv Clearly athletics, especially inter-collegiate athletics play no le say. want competitive athletics. 11 part in University life. Athletics Not Educational THe has no objection to inter-collegiate athletics, he is quick to Dean Bacon also sees athletics as But how can one justify this role? Are inter-collegiate athletics He says the belief that athletics has educational value is "bun- pint out. "'If the department wants to go ahead and establish a of aggressions for the fans as well able for the University? Or are they harmful? I combe." He objects strongly to placing any moral value on inter- separate professional organization and pay the participants salaries, See BIG, p 2 J7 f a lis ,e re 5. as pag t. FEWER DISADVANTAGES TO FALL RUSH 4r SfrE Sixty-Seven Years of Editorial Freedom See Page 4 M. LXVIII, No.120 ANN ARBOR, MICdHIGAN, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1958 FIVE CEN' , J I I I .*, * * * * * * * * J.S. Launches Successful Vanguard Satellite L tUv R TT T -ri-' - l [hird Navy Effort vow Circling Earth 'Moon' Expected To Stay in Orbit Of Record 2,500 Miles from Earth CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (P)-The Navy's Vanguard, a finely- !ed space rocket, fired the free world's second satellite into orbit and the earth yesterday. Clicking like a fine watch in its arrow-true climb into the blue the Vanguard hurled its tiny, radio-equipped aluminum "moon" an egg-shaped orbit so ideal that it may travel through space to 10 years. It weighed only three and one-fourth pounds and was only 6.4 hes in diamteter, but it was equipped to gather much of the infor- ;ion needed before m'anned vehicles could venture into space. Students Ask No Picture For Housing By LANE VANDERSUCE Meeting last night for the second ime, a group of students inter- sted in dormitory roommate >lacement asked that the Univer- ity not request pictures or prefer- mces of any kind on the housing %pplication form. The group also suggested that students could be ,assigned . to 'ooms as their applications were eceived, with any difficulties which arose being handled "ac- ,ording to normal procedures." "Normal procedures," the group aid, were those presently in;use ,o separate incompatible room- mation needed. before manned vehicles could venture into space. Tracked Quickly' Minutes after the world's small- est but highest-flying satellite be-. gan its globe-circling journey, the high-pitched whine of its radio signals was picked up by tracking stations. Its voice joined that of Explorer I, the first United States satellite launched here Jan. 31 by the Army's Jupiter-C missile. The third man-made moon now, orbiting in space, the Soviet Union's dog-carrying Sputnik II, is silent. Sputnik Dropping The 1,120-pound Red satellite is losing altitude, and American scientists expect it to plunge to a; fiery death in the world's dense atmosphere about April 14. Sputnik I, first of the Soviet moons, disintegrated Jan. 4. John P. Hagen, director of the Vanguard project, said the new American satellite is 'vln traveling at' a little better than 18,000 m.p.h. in an orbit that will swing it as far as 2,500 miles out in space and bring it as close to the earth as 400 miles. The beautiful performance of the Vanguard overcame the Soviet numerical superiority in space,] See NAVY, page 37 ON RECESSION: President, Governors To Confer BULLETIN WASHINGTON OP) .-Indus- trial production slumpel In Feb- ruary to the lowest level since December 1954. - The Federal Reserve Board reported yesterday its index dropped three points to 130 per eent of the 1947-9 average. WASHINGTON (T -President Dwight D.Eisenhower yesterday invited nine- governors to meet with him Wednesday to discuss his, plan for stretching out the period of payments to Jobless workers. The White House announced President Eisenhower had sent telegrams to each of the nine members of the executive com- mittee of the Governor's Confer- ence. The telegrams went to: Gov. William G. Stratton of 11- linois, executive committee chair- man, and the other committee members, including Govs. John E. Davis of North Dakota, Orval E. Faubus of Arkansas, Luther H. Hodges of North Carolina, Joseph B. Johnson of Vermont-, Goodwin J. Knight of California, Ednund S. Muskie of Maine, Albert D. Rosel- lini of Washington, and George B. Timnmerman Jr. of South Carolina. The telegrams went out on a day that' produced: a report from the Federal Reserve Board saying that in February "industrial production, employment, incomes and retail sales again declined." Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said the meet- ing is strictly about the Eisenhower administration's plan for extend- ing the period of unemployment compensation. President Eisenhower will send his plan to Congress Thursday or Friday in the form of a message, Hagerty told newsmen. ia-pio Appointed New Union President By RANH IANGER Barry Shapiro, '58, was named Union president last night. Russell Berman, '59, is the new executive vice-president and Rich- ard Schwartz, '59, administrative vice-president. Although the announcement of r. the new officer§ was expected around 9:45 p.m., it wasen't until an hour later that tle'tension was broken. Tp Continue Musket Although excited, Shapiro man- aged to answer questions regarding the future of Musket, the Union's musical show. "Every effort will be made to continue the show, and prospects look as though this will be possible," he said. Outlining goals for next. year, Shapiro mentioned that he "would like to see both graduate and affili- ated students brought into the Union to a larger. degree." Other plans of the new officers. include making the Campus United Nations a semi-annual event, meeting every semester. Chosen by Committee -Daily-David Arnold The selection of Union officers NEWLY ELECTED - Union Senior Officers for next year (left was made by a selections com- to right), Administrative Vice-President Richard Schwartz, Presi- mittee, after the candidates peti- dent Barry Shapiro and Executive Vice-President ussell Berman tioned to be accepted. This year's wdetarSapiteB committee was composed of Dean were elected last night. of Men Walter Rea, chairman; Roy Lave, Grad;. T. Hawley Tap- ping, general secretary gf the alumni association; Donald May, '58; Charles Kriser, '58BAd; Prof. Otto Graf of the German depart- ment; and Robert Nederlander, By The Associated Press 158L, SINGAPORE - President Sukarno's Indonesian army claimed yesterday it had regained control of the airport and harbor at Medan in North Sumatra and that insurgents' had withdrawn from the City Attorne strategic city. " " " The claim was called false by the rebel radio at Padang in Central Gives Opin on Sumatra, which Sunday announced capture of the island's largest city by troops who mutinied against the Sukarno regime. City Council last night heard an * * * * opinion by City Attorney Jacob HAVANA-Thousands of Cuban civic and professional leaders Fahrner that a city party com- called last night for President Fulgencio Batista to resign "to save mnittee has the right to choose a Cuba from anarchy and chaos." replacement for a candidate dis- *rr n. qualified by changing residence. The opinion was asked for last WASHINGTON-The House Agriculture Committee overwhelm- week after the resignation of ingly approved yesterday a resolution calling for a one-year freeze on Councilman Frank A. C. Davis. farm price supports and acreage allotments at or above present levels. !' i7 a Report Due Today It met on the eve of the Resi- dence Hall Board of Governors meeting-which today will release the finished parts of the survey requested by the Board. The finished parts will include a breakdown of how freshmen are assigned-the'major bone of con- tention in, the current roommate placement discussion. The group appointed a five member steering committee to direct future activities of the group. *Five on Committee' Members of the steering com- mittee are: Alan krebs -Grad., Mathew Norman, '59, Berkely Ed- dins, Grad., Oliver Moles, Grad., and Linda White, '59. The group also voted to make slight changes in its statement of principles.. "that the University should not manifest any policy which may serve the ends of segre- gatibn ... (and) that the Univer- sity should not elicit information in any form with regards to race YPSILANTI TEENAGERS: Pump Helps Youths Steal Gas from Automobile A home-made, automatic siphoning apparatus was discovered by Ann Arbor police last night in the car of three Ypsilanti teen-agers charged with larceny of gasoline from an auto. The complex equipment included a special gas storage tank in the trunk of the car and connections enabling the windshield-wiper motor to create suction by which gasoline could be removed from another car's tank. Sight of the apparatus caused one veteran officer to remark that "nobody in the department's ever seen 4 hook-up like that" before. Seen Near 'U' Hospital N c-v ~ ~n . ...-+ I- - '-. & -..3.. .--------- -.i1.3 « Sot,