Sixty-Eighth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY Or BOARDIN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 "We'll Do All The Judging Around Here" ns Are Free Prevail" AT LYDIA MENDELSSOHN: 'Love's Labor's Lost' Unique, Entertaining SHAKESPEARE'S "Love's Labor's Lost" opened last night at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, as the last in the current season of speech department plays. It is indeed a unique and enjoyable production. The keyword of the evening was undoubtedly color, dazzling color. Net costumes, rope-ladder trees, letters written on colored cellophane, and Queen Elizabeth herself (witnessing the play from a box seat) all combined to give the production an atmosphere not at all unlike a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, which may well have offended some sophisticated Shakespeare lovers. But actually, "Love's Labor's Lost" was intended to be just that, a printed ;s The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This aus t be noted in all reprints. 1058 NIGHT EDITOR: BROOKE TOMPKINS GOP-Dominated Legislature Lets Higher Education Down IS A short and simple rule often to beginning students of political hich says that any good government basically, responsive and responsible. h a rule of the thumb is broad andf ubject to dozens of interpretations, ves as a convenient and meaningful f judging the value of a government's the rule to Michigan's Republican- I Legislature, particularly in light of, tly concluded session, and the results ling but complimentary. It is always. id often unfair to flatly label a per. oup irresponsible; such is true of the 'e. The legislators' task in allocating. : state agencies this year was a thank- no group got what it wanted and few e very happy with what they did get. lem of financial deprivation is not > Michigan, although this state. has e most serious problems in the coun- e difficulties can be overcome it will eeting of the finest minds in and out gislature. r, even granting the handicaps the re had this year, its attitude toward lucation can hardly be called respon-. d it. is extremely doubtful if it is re- to the public's growing interest in 1. ie University and Michigan State Uni- ext year will receive approximately a .ollars less for operations than either ng this year. Other state colleges and es also had deep cuts made in their PARENT effect of the Legislature's mizing is a crippling of Michigan's lucation program. Surely the 'legisla- d see this; if any of them did not at, for instance, the reduction in the y's budget would do to operations Dearborn, at Flint and elsewhere. he state it is only because they refused to University administrators or read spapers. Now the damage has been. I University officials are studying the operations to see what can be stopped d with the least damage. iagnanimous gesture of the Ford Mo. >any with its gift of Fairlane Estate for sity branch in Dearborn will be of no til at least 196U, a year later than And if the Legislature is no more with its educational money in the, hie Dearborn opening could be delayed ;her. University extension seryices, and is at the Flint College will also be hurt by the budget cuts. The slowing of activities at Dearborn and Flint is particularly damaging in that branch schools, along with junior col- leges, appear to be the only realistic hope for meetings the coming tidal wave of students. Research projects at -the University will be cut back. From 175 to 200 fewer instructors will be at the University next fall, a loss of val- uable personnel that may be difficult to re- place in better times. And because the Univer- sity cannot even hold its educational staff steady, much less increase. it, capable students will have to be denied admission if a sensible student-teacher ratio is to be maintained. The sizable reductions' this year in the bud- gets of higher educations institutions might suggest the Legislature has no real interest in seeing this area of state service expand further. This, of course, the legislators deny. It seems more plausible, however, that Michi- gan's financial woes were mixed with a great deal of election year politics in all the budget battles. With the exception of the Senate, which can never be anything but Republican- dominated under the present unrepresentative districting system, Michigan Republicans face a rather dismal November. Political observers expect the Democrats to win all the state ad- ministrative posts and possibly even the House. F THE GOP is worried, however, its members in the Legislature this session did not show it and certainly did little to correct the party's declining popularity. The education battle was probably the low point when the Republican's austerity spending program barely survived the attacks of the Democrats and a few independ- ent Republicans who broke with their associ- ates. It should be mentioned that the local Re- publican representative, George Sallade, who often acts more like a Democrat than a Repub- lican, led the fight to raise the higher educa- tion appropriation. But the essential ifficulty, the lack of, po- litical statesmansh In the Legislature, was not to be overcome. This lack of leadership that cannot see a public interest beyond a balanced budget, has presented higher education with. the ticklish problem} of improving, or even maintaining, educational facilities and oppor- tunities with less money. And it has done this on the eve of surging enrollments and a re-. newed and heightened interest in all of educa- tion from the ground up. If educators fall to solve this problem because of insufficient fi- nancial support from the government, then only the legislators and other politicians can answer for the consequences. -DAVID TARR ,,MM ta O'ooi STATE BUDGET BATTLE: Party Discipline Holds the Line TODAY AND TOMORROW: The Summit Stalemate (EDITOR'S NOTE: Following is the second of two articles on the Legis- lature's handling of the University appropriation for 1958-59. This article deals with the political considerations behind the Legislature's action.) By MICHAEL KRAFT Daily Staff Writer TIHR©W together a Democratia governor with five terms be hind him and a Republican-con- trolled Legislature which has, painfully witnessed the decline of the state GOP. Add to the governor a touch of presidential aspiration and coat the rural legislators with the fear of losing more, influence to the big cities. Season the entire mess with a strong dose of unemployment and falling tax revenues. Let it sim- mer under the capitol dome and then hope that somehow the many state-supported agencies clamoring for financial nourish- ment will manage to meet their. growing needs. THIS YEAR, as traditionally since state Republicans began to. realize Gov. G. Mennen Williams. wraps a growing amount of pub- lic support in his bow tie, they tried to hold the line on the Gov- ernor's attempts to please his con- stituents. Much of the Legislature's posi- tion is influenced by a sincere concern over the effects of the present recession and the unde- sirability of adding new taxes to the state's already topsy turvy tax structure. They hope that solutions may be found in the tax study being conducted by economists from the three state-supported universities and coordinated -by Prof. Harvey Brazer of the University econom- ics department. But in the meantime, Republi- cans held the line. Perhaps be- cause of the governor's last- minute statement predicting a de- ficit, they were more effective. The appropriation recommenda- tion from the always-conservative Senate Appropriations Commit-, tee, headed by Sen.. Elmer Porter (R-Blissfield), managed to sur- vive the Senate floor vote, the House Waysand Means Commit- tee, and finally, two conference committee reports which reject- ed the Sallade amendment added during the House floor fight. One vote decided the Univer- sity's appropriation for the 1958- 59 fiscal year, but Republican leaders in the House had to wait a long time for it. Fifty-six is the magic number needed to pass measures in the House. Saturday, after three days of overtime sessions, leaders fi- nally rounded up enough Rlepub- licans to approve the 30 million dollar appropriation for the Uni- versity. Patience may not be the most rewarding of virtues, but it does allow time for applying political pressures. With 61 Republicans and 49 Democrats in the House, the Republican position should have ready access to a majority. * * * BUT 12 REBELS, led by Rep. George W: Sallade (R-Ann Arbor) succesfully added an amendment boosting the total Senate appro- priation, for higher education,, $87,762,000 to last year's figure of $90,144,000. Five Detroit Demo- crats did not vote for the amend- ment, but supporters of higher, education still managed to gain the necessary tally of 56. The bill then went to a con- ference committee to find a com- promise between the Senate ver- sion of $30,000,000 for the Uni- versity and the House measure approving $30,929,000. By some strange coincidence, two of the members representing the House, Rep. Arnell Engstrom (R-Traverse City) and Rep. Har- old Phillips (R-Port Huron), were among those opposed to more money for higher education, and the' report supported the Sen- ate position. Friday, the group of Republi- cans remained firmly attached to the amendment and the House re- jected the conference committee report. But Saturday, after a GOP cau- cus, ,Speaker of the House,George M. Van Peursem emerged confi- dent that the session would soon. end. He was right, for the Repub- licans returned to the fold and gave him the bare minimum of 56 votes. If the bill failed to pass, Gov. Williams would have been prac- tically forced to call a special session. The possibility of the Governor yelling to the state that the Republicans failed to provide for higher education seemed to bother eight of the rebel repre- sentatives. REP. JAMES WARNER (R-Ypsi- lanti), who voted against the Sal- lade amendment, abstained from the first conference committee re- port vote and supported the sec- and report, said, "We either had to accept it or not have an appro- priaton." A member of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. War- ner, said he had tried to convince the majority of the committee that the ' Senate appropriation should be increased. Failing to do this, he had to support the committee's stand or "jeopardize my position," Rep. Warner said. And so, party discipline holds the line firm.. tan shee r traimet To some, the play is a bit of a puzzle piece. It abounds' with topical jokes and allusions that are dif- ficult to catch, and once caught, more difficult to understand. 'But asidesfrom these problems, the play is rich in .humor, both subtle and brash, rapid pace, and most important, a great variety of col- orful poetry. Like any good farce, the plot grows rather complicated, but it might be summed up as the 'story of the King of Navarre and his three companions, who vow to forsake love and devote them- selves to scholarly endeavor. They do not; of course, succeed. The acting was generally good, with neither any exceptionally fine nor disappointingly poor per- formances (an unusual occur- rence in speech department pro- ductions).- Brendan O'Reilly as the King, and Lorraine Small as the Prin- cess of France, both showed com- petent but not outstanding ability. CC C A FINE sense of comic expres- sion and timing were seen in several minor roles, especially Joe Brown as Constable Dull, L. Beck as Moth, the Page, and Howard Green as Don Adriano. Bea Minkus once 'again has shown her near-professional mas- tery of facial expression and voice control in the role of Rosalne. Her male counterpart for best act- ing is Howard Poyourow, as Berowne. But top laurels for the produc- tion must be given to four people behind the scenes: scene designer Ralph Duckwal for his imagina- tive use of a propless multi-level stage with effective lighting and a contour curtain; Marjorie Smith for her colorful array of costumes; and composers Bob James and Donald Young for their interest- ing background music. Their efforts, together with con- tinuous action, except for one intermission after the fourth act, combined to maintain the spirit of the play on a high and rapidly moving dynamic level, funny from beginning to end." All in all, the production is an interestingly new treatment of Shakespeare, and quite an enter- taining one at that. -Dale McGhee LETTERS to the - EDITOR ... (Editor's Note Letters to the Edi- tor must be signed, in good aste, and not more than 300 words in length., The Daily reserves the right to edit° or withhold letters from publication.) Sacred Court . . To the Editor: NOT FAR from the rude Engine's Arch, Mysterious with strange tales of lovers' tryst - And beside the ancient halls, Where slim Slide Rule holds her sway, Was reared A castle all bright and gay. Hallowed for Knowledge to hold - her somber court,. This castle vaunted of every, aid, To serve her votaries with the ut- most comfort; Every art that she unfurled, Was used to serve her pleasure more. To ease the eye, its stately halls were bathed, In a light rich and w h i t e as Hellos' lamp; And hues of every sort - yellow, pink, blue and red - Were subtly wrought by conscious, Art, - To soothe tired heart and eye. Across the halls, here, there and everywhere, One could see the rich oblations At. Knowledge's altar strewn, In ages past and times present- The rich offerings of books, old and new. x But, alas! to p r o f a n e chaste Knowledge's somber court, In stealthy steps and whispers hushed, Comes mocking in and lurks in corners lone,' Giddy and dewy-eyed Aphrodite Pandemos -- ,D iL I EFICIAL BULL IETIN1' The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the Univer- sity 'of Michigan for which the Michigan Daily assumes 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. Notice :for °Sunday Daily due at 2:00 pin. Friday. FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1958 VOL. LXVIII, NO. 145 General Notices Regents' Meeting: May 22, 23 'and 24. Communications for consideration / a this meeting must be in the President's hands by May 13. The Annie E. Shipman Stevens Schol- arship: Women students wishing to ap- ply for the Annie E. Shipman tevenst scholarship in the Martha Cook Bldg. for the academic.year 1958-59 may se- cure application blanks from the Direc- tor of the Building. The recipient Is chosen on the basis of personality, scholastic ability, financial need and contribution to group living. Applica- tions must be completed and returned by May 3. June Teacher's Certificate Candi- dates: All requirements for the teach- er's certificate should be comgpeted b' May 16. These requirements include the teacher's oath, the health statement, ansd the Bureau of Appointmentsm-Y terial. The oath can be ,taken in Room 1439 U.E.s. The office is open from S to 12 and 1:30 to 4:30. Summary of action taken by Student Government Council, April 23, 1958. 1 Approved minutes previous meeting. Approved appointments: Interviewing and Nominati g Com- mittee: Donna Wickham, Ron Gregg, Barbara Maer, Jo Hardee, chairman. Reading and Discussion Committee, Roger Seasonwein, Pat Marthenke, Student Activities Building, Admin. istrative Board: Mort Wise. Committee to explore possibilities of modifying drinking regulations: Da-s vid Kesse CBarry Shapiro, Sue R