I I Sixty-Eighth 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 "When Opinions Are Free Truth Wi Prevail" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This mus t be noted in all reprints. AY, APRIL 4, 1958 NIGHT EDITOR: LANE VANDERSLICE Fraternity Presidents Assembly Compromises Expansion Policy "As I Was Saying We're Not Going To Lose Our Shirt" r° \ -L-e FROM MIXED MOTIVES: Free World Invests In Human Welfare (EDITOR'S NOTE: The following article is a reprint from an editorial page of the New York Times.) AREPORT from the United Nations shows that the free world in the last two-year period has extended about five and a half billion dol- lars in aid to the less privileged countries. The United States has con- tributed more than half of this sum. Other major donors have been France, Great Britain, Australia, Canada and the Netherlands. Accurate information on what the Communist world has done is not available. A State Department estimate is that a billion and a half dollars has been "promised" in this period and that commitments, usually on a loan bass, have been met. The comparison is not exact, however, since the fiee world fig- ure refers to sums actually ex- pended, not "promised." DAILY There is no profit, however, in making propaganda comparisons. OFFICIAL What is important is that the free and relatively prosperous states BULLETIN have assumed an obligation to as- sist those that are less fortunate on a scale that could not previous- (continued from Page 2) ly have been imagined. The idea IN DENYING Tau Epsilon Phi permission Tuesday to form a colony at the University, the Fraternity Presidents Assembly made a poor decision and, seriously compromised its expansion policy. If the fraternity system is to expand with projected enrollments, this fra- ternity should have been admitted; its denial sets a dangerous precedent by allowing the interests of a small group block action of the whole. The objection to granting permission came from the wishes of the seven predominantly Jewish houses who want to preserve the status quo and be- able to maintain their own "selec- tivity." Their main objection centered around the belief that there are not and will not be enough extra Jewish men in the coming few years to support an eighth predominantly-. Jewish house. TEP were to rush next spring, as the mo-\ tion would have allowed, the predominantly Jewish houses now on campus would have had to go through the minor inconvenience of re- vising and improving rushing procedures. Any new group, such as TEP, coming into the fra- ternity system has to buck fraternities with es- tablished reputations and sounder financial systems. These houses are already here and have settled themselves, whereas a new fra- ternity has no secure foundation other than the time and energy its members are willing to put into it. A new house will work hard to get the men it needs and this in turn will force the fra- ternities already here to improve their rush- ing or be ready to settle for second-best men. Such self-improvement will ultimately be a great benefit to the system as a whole. T HERE ARE already enough men to form another fraternity wiMi predominantly Jew- ish membership. According to figures present- ed at the IFC's Executive Committee meeting March 27, the average predominantly Jewish fraternity has 55 to 56 actives,-while the aver- age house can hold only 36 men; in addition, none Of the houses has fewer actives than it can accommodate. If out-state enrollment drops next fall, there is a possibility that the addition of another predominantly Jewish fraternity would hurt those already on campus; however, the motion presented to the fraternity presidents required the Executive Committee'to give final approval to the colony in the fall. The committee would be able to decide on the basis of out-state en- rollment whether there would be enough Jew- ish men on campus to make a new colony feasible. THE MOST distressing thing about the de- cision was the fact that a small number of speakers were able to talk down the motion in the face of this evidence. Consequently, the presidents took the most conservative position possible - denying TI permission to colon- ize. The fraternity system is in the midst of an expanding University; they must be ready to expand with it. This conservative policy will ultimately bring nothing but trouble to the fra- ternitie.s In the words of Lou Kolb, IFC's executive vice-president, "Gentlemen, we must move for-j ward with the University. If we stand still while everything else goes forward, we will, in fact, be moving backwards." --PHILIP MUNCK trars- -rw4$ £..rac-res 4TOI'5 'Posr P.,a WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: yA Letter from Grandpa f >