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 "You Fellows Go-Right on Talking - I'll Let You Know When I Reach A Decision" Opinions Are Free ;h Will Prevail" - 4' /' I jrf I T torials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all repaints. (rIAL Y-I -v DRAMA SEASON: 'fCandida': Trivialty. Well Disguised By SUCCESSFULLY masquerading as a brilliant performance, an adequate but unimpressive presentation of Bernard Shaw's "Can- dida" captivated an audience at Lydia Mendelssohn last night and al- most persuaded them that it was worth while. The acting was compe- tent, the set was lovely and appropriate, the Shavian lines echoed re- splendently in all their impudence throughout the theatre; neverthe- less, the spontaneity which distinguishes an inspired production was missing and no amount of dredging on the part of the performers couldI succeed in bringing it to the surface. Shaw-worshippers have in the past contended that the plays of Y, MAY 27, 1958 NIGHT EDITOR: PHILIP MUNCK NG LOOKED UP: The Michigan Evolution: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity R - Edo" i, a. sw OC OC 0 moon X La) . t : ...; . . . TIS ANOTHER Michigan tradition that the graduating Editorial Director, among others, writes a farewell edit. My first inclination is to talk about some great problems which affect and trouble all men living today, and especially Americans. These are problems which a sensibly utilitarian educa- tion should prepare us, to face and tackle. Those p oblems would include the social problems of industrial-urban culture-the decline of the family and the institution of marriage, the vul- garism of culture, the superficiality of religion, the Organization Man, the cheapening of busi- ness ethics, the monopolies of business and labor, the uncreativity of labor in a machine age, crime and juvenile delinquency, the inte- gration of the races, nationalities and creeds, the "massification" of education, the great power and centralization of government. More 1f the moment would be the political problems of our United States, which now finds herself very much responsible for the fate-the very existence-of all men. There would be the domestic political problems of political liberties, of inflation and, recession, of proper federal- state-local relations, the problems of pressure groups, of voter apathy and John Doe ineffec- tiveness, of the lack of political courage and executive leadership; and then there is the greatest problem facing our country-that of avoiding a war and reaching a peace settlement with a nuclear-armed Soviet Union. And there are the associated problems of reacting to the hunger, sickness, ignorance, despair and back- wardness of Asia, Africa and Latin America, of participating in the peaceful disolution of colonialism, of fostering a needed interna- tionalism in an age of turbulent nationalism, and of seeking the success of democracy around the world, not necessarily "good old free enter- prise American democracy" or "peoples' democ- racy," but democracy defined, according to the situation, to provide the most in political-eco- nomic-social freedom and dignity for individual men. I said, I would like to talk about these prob- lems which worry me the most, but I won't. There is neither the opportunity to be effective nor are most readers likely to be equally worried about them. Also, there is that bit of wisdom that reform should start home-we should solve our Little Rocks before we try to sell "democ- racy" to Asia and Africa, we should improve the relations of the races in Ann Arbor before we prevent our Little Rocks, we should live in fellowship with the Negro next door before we take the stump for "integration" in the dormitories. Thus, I will talk about what worries me concerning the University com- munity we are all involved in. The emphasis will be on reform. The banner is borrowed from the French Revolution: "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity." IBERTY. I have never been proud of the state of academic liberties at the University. The faculty dismissals and the effect of the Lecture Committee, no matter how well ration- alized, have made this community less than a "free marketplace for all ideas." It has been my experience that faculty are scared, reluctant to call into question existing institutions, re- niaining as apolitical as possible. Students, de- siring free choice in their menu of ideas and speakers, have often been scared off or frus- trated by the Lecture Committee. Though Mc- Carthyism has passed the University has not acted clearly to change the local atmosphere, especially regarding what is expected from the faculty. What is needed is presidential leader- ship, leadership to restore some vigor in the climate of debate here, leadership that would speak boldly and with conviction to the Re- gents, Legislature, Detroit newspapers and the people ofathe state, telling them the University, as long as Harlan Hatcher is president, must tolerate former or present Communist math teachers in keeping with the spirit of a univer- sity-brave leadership which would rally most people of this community to the side of anyone who would speak for such ideals. I think Ameri- cans-ask the British-have taken the Ameri- can Communist threat far too seriously. Com- munism will gain only to the extent that our democracy is weak; McCarthyism and its ves- tiges are one weakness. Using another definition of liberty, the ex- eessive rules of University paternalism tend to work against a student's maturing. Especially in the dormitories, the working assumption of administrations is that the student is sinful by nature and must be restricted as much as possible by a university which assumes respon- sibility for him. Nobody can have alcohol in their rooms; women must be in by 10:30. Rules applied to students have a peculiar ability to foster those things they try to prevent. Classroom academics is a third area where more liberty is wanting. -The hum-drum of note-taking, textbook reading and regurgitating on exams is a corruption of the educational process. Again, the working assumption is that students are dependent and irresponsible. The result is that learning is becoming a chore, a game of note-taking and memorization in preparation for passing exams, and exams are coigto hP faa.A.rr3 not4vipA ihi.41, P~.. citement of intellectual challenge. A broadening of the Honors Program philosophy is needed, where students are trusted to work and think on their own, in consultation with a scholar. And then there is the classroom liberty prob- lem of teachers who insist on students adhering to their intepretation of the material. EQUALITY. I think that this dormitory room- mate assignment policy issue has been blown up beyond its merit by impetuous liberals. The University policy of considering race 'and religion as factors of compatability in the freshman year is essentially sound in theory, though there may be abuses of it in practice. Random selection is folly. But, there is evidence that certain University officials have interfered excessively to discour- age such practices as inter-racial dating. Again, paternalism rears up. Fraternity membership selection, with its clear racism and sectarianism, is the greatest abuse of equality which the University tolerates under its roof. But I do not think that more strict University regulations, at this time, are the answer to this problem which is certainly larger than the Ann Arbor campus. I would hope that of IFC and local chapters could pro- vide leadership in the national organizations to bring about the dissolution of written and prac- ticed discrimination. If we could calculate the damage done to the United States' international position because of discrimination foreign students have encoun- tered here, I think it would be large. Foreign students, in attempting to find private housing in Ann Arbor, have lost face as they would not in Moscow, in Paris, or even in London. Again, I do not think this is an area where the Uni- versity should get tough with the discriminating landlords. Continued but increased diplomacy behind the scenes seems the best path, and University, City, churches, student and citizens groups should not be afraid to bring pressure to bear, in concert. In many other areas the foreign students could be better integrated into the campus scene. I think more should be roomed in the .dormitories; the International Students Associ- ation should have a seat on SGC, both for practical and psychological reasons; there should be more opportunities for them to show their stuff, as in the Campus United Nations and the memorable World's Fair. FRATERNITY. My utopian dreams for the University would define it as "a community of scholars, both the teachers and the taught, who are here cooperating as friends to share and develop wisdom, knowledge, character and statesmanship." The University is far short of such a fraternity, for there is far too little fraternity. Most of us partake of our professors' knowledge for one hour, three times a week, but no more, and the opportunities for those intimate student-teacher friendships where one can learn of character, wisdom and statesman- ship are not present to any degree. Perhaps there is an unrealistic desire. Maybe the school is just too impassionately big, the teachers too few. Maybe professors are just too busy with publishing, researching, adminis- trating. Maybe students are not desirous of this intimacy, or perhaps somewhat afraid of being friendly wth those icons stuffed full of knowledge-the professors. But I think such an intimate community would restore an excite- ment to learning and provide for full maturing of the student. Not only could students, faculty, administrators, and Regents cooperate aca- demically, but their concerted attention could be focused on problems where we all share a stake-the financial plight of our school and the higher education it seeks to foster (Oh what pressure we could bring to bear on Lans- ing in concert!). the proper role of athletics in this "community of scholars." To the building of this intimate community I would first recommend presidential leadership to restore the focus on academics, leadership that would unite this university behind some- thing more worthwhile than our football team. Nothing would do this school as much good as for Mr. Hatcher call to this community of students, faculty and administrators down to the Stadium some afternoon and tell us collec- tively why we are here. Second, students and faculty should have increased opportunities for contact outside of class. I would recommend greater faculty involvement in the residence halls, more student-faculty committees, and more just plain fraternizing such as discussions at professors homes, special academic pro- grams, even increased athletic competition and socializing. The initiative must be taken by the faculty and administration. For, when the summing up comes for a senior, what one remembers as most valuable are the men one has learned wisdom, knowl edge, character, and statesmanship from, the substance they shared with you to make you a fuller person. I would like to recognize some of the great individuals I have borrowed from on their off hours. Regents Connable, Thurber and Power. Administrators Hatcher, Lewis, Nei- huss, Robertson, Nelson, Hale, Bingley Williams, 'i . . '; ; " ::', ' ,r:. -- s, y. . } w . , : = _ - - >. «% ,, ""; F k y t. - i { r ., i;. vi d r % .. :". J fix . . s . .7, r - Q K +pt9s8 'i=fs WASHrrtGTo :! r s SUNG a _31, 4A z .x their deity do not and cannot age.' of Shaw's earliest plays (1895) and despite its occasionally spark- ling moments and witty attempts at iconoclasm, it is full of the dust of a quickly receding age. No mat- ter how radical "Candida" may have seemed at its first perform- ance, today it seems to be no more than a bit of conservative trivial- ity wearing a mask of self-con- scious humor. It may be heretical to say so, but with the exception perhaps of the last act, the play is dull, slow-moving and occa- sionally boring. THE STORY, to begin with, is inconsequential. Candida is the charming, ageless wife of a pom- pous minister with Socialist ten- dencies who adores her. One of his proteges, an eighteen-year-old poet named Eugene Marchbanks falls in love with Candida and forces her to make a choice be- tween her husband and him. Aft- er much debate, rhetoric and con- fusion, she chooses "the weaker of the two." And that is the whole of the plot. Several extra characters are thrown in by the author to make the play seem more complex than it is, and to provide vehicles for his characteristic mockery of British so'ciety. Perhaps the most interesting way to view the play, and these characters in particular, is to see it and them in relation to Shaw's later, better works. Mr. Burgess, Candida's father is a prototype of. Alfred Doolittle, as well as an endless procession of similar rascals. Miss Proserpine Garnett is of the same genesis as Mrs. Pearce in "Pygmalian" and of all the other humorously self- righteous, prudish and sharp- tongued old maids that appear throughout Shavian drama. So much for the tirade. At the same moment that one realizes what nonsense can find its way to the stage, one must also won- der at the talent that can make much. Shaw drowns out hr faults so lhtle naterial seem like so by,the sound of his voice, and one finally succumbs to enjoyment of the noise. - *s * :'!tom This is not true. "Candida" is one 1-." DAILY OFFICIAL THE CULTURE BIT: AThe End of the Affair By DAVID NEWMAN AS OUR ship sinks slowly into the west, leaving four years of college and one-and-a-half years of "Culture Bits" behind, we write what is known in the trade as The Farewell Column. (Let's hear those throbbing violins, Maestro!) The main message is, like, Goodbye. But it strikes us, as large tears drip steadily on the type- writer keyboard (which makes typing a hazardous jol ... jov jo& . . . JOB) . . . it strikes us, we were saying, that this might be a good time to review the past and see what we have culled from the vast mass that is Michigan. When we (eager, wide-eyed, ever questing) first began writing this column (eager, wide-eyed, ever questing), there was only one problem that confronted us. Would there be enough stuff to write about?' Was Ann Arbor real- ly as cultural as all get out? A few senior editors shook their balding heads, whispered that the University was a cultural void and hightailed over to the State to see "The Attack of the Crab People." Others, however, rallied round, eager, wide-eyed, ever questing. Actually, it worried us a little, but not much. * * * WE KNEW, as did everybody, about the big stuff: May Festival, Drama Festival, MUSKET, Speech Dept. and like that. This is a big school and enterprises like those are almost mandatory. It's fine that we have them, but it's to be expected. Nobody's knocking him- self out about May Festival but the Publicity Chairman. What we didn't know, soon learned and always found . most, gratifying was the increasing ac- tivity by scores of small, busy groups that were really working to promote their singular cultural activities on campus. With a min- imum of ballyhoo and plenty of non-apathetic dedication, these groups are filling any number of gaps, making positive contribu- tions and steadily gaining sympa- thizers. The Art Students Guild, The Hillel Players, The Folksong Society, Alpha Rho Chi architec- ture fraternity, The Modern Jazz Society, WCBN, The Readers Theatre, The Contemporary Lit- erature Club - these and others like them are to be congratulated and supported. We have tried to tell about most of them this year, but no doubt we goofed and missed a few. In any case, we kept hearing of new ones every month. Such activity is, in its own funny way, inspiring. * * * THEREdhas been a great deal to see and do in the lively arts over the past four years, and many's the concert or production we wish we could have seen. And there are some we wish we hadn't seen. But much remains memor- able. Searching, our currently cram-clogged cranium, we re- member just a few of the high spots ... a brilliantly sung "Fal- staff" in 1955 with Robert Kerns perfect in the title role ... Marion Mercer convulsing audiences in scores of shows, especially a wild- ly funny drunk scene in an other- wise dismal play called "The Clugstone Inheritance" . . . the DAC's moving "Sleep of Prison- ers" . . . Elizabeth Schwarzkopf's perfect concert . . . Walter Geise- king's last thrilling concert in a packed Hill Auditorium ... MUS- KET showing the campus that. Union Opera was pretty awful, after all ... Speech Department's glittering "Misanthrope" . . . the wise and knowledgeable Malcolm Cowley enhancing the campus ... Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond. playing a transcendant blues in Patengill Auditorium . . . Archi- bald McLeish's Hopwood speech . Kim Novak's dance in Picnic (Whoops! How did that get in here?) . . . and more, we'r'e sure, if we could sit down and remem- ber for a few hours. On the personal side, there are four years of real kicks and mem- orable soirees with the Gilbert and Sullivan Society, the excitement of working with GENERATION, watching it go from a heavy-loss magazine to three sell-out issues this year, and the jolly fun of re- ceiving irate letters from Elvis fans after we failed to treat "Love Me Tender" and "Jailhouse Rock" with the proper respect. Oddly enough, we find ourselves with all sorts of potential topics for future columns and no more columns. Sorry we never got to the TV Studios, the Michigan Singers, the local booking agents, the history of the Hopwood Awards and a few more. So that's the "Culture Bit." And if you'll cut those syrupy violins, Maestro, we'll pack up our picas and cut out. Sob. "CANDIDA" is one of those plays that must be fun to act. The characters are caricatures and ex- aggeration is impossible. Carmen Mathews was slightly miscast in the title role, being not quite what Shaw seems to havehad in mind for the part, but considering her last-minute appearance in Ann Arbor, she did a gracious and outstanding job. Wesley Addy as the Reverend James Morell was less pompous than he might have been but de- spite this was persuasive in his characterization. Dick Davalos, the poet, was a sufficiently inane member of the younger genera- tion, while Sylvia Short, Ralph Purdum, and Philip Tonge in the "character" roles contributed a great deal of humor to an innocu- ous but amusing evening. -Jean Willoughby BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the Unier- sity of Michigan for which The Michigan Daily assumes no editor- ial responsibility. Notices should be, sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3519 Administration Building, before 2 p.m. the day preceding, publication. Notices forpSunday Daily due at 2:00 p.m. Friday. TUESDA*, MAY 27, 1958 VOL. LXVIII, NO. 172 General Notices The General Library will be open 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Memorial Day, Fri., May 30. Divisional libraries will ob- serve regular schedules on May 30, e- cept the Astronomy, Bureau of Gov- ernment, and Museums Libraries which will be closed. On Sat evening, May 31, the Under- graduate Library will remain open un- til 12 p.m. On June 1, regular Sun. hours of 2-6 p.m. will be observed in the General Library, and 2-12. p.m. in the Undergraduate Library. The Un- dergraduate Library will maintain this customary schedule on Sun., June 8, but the General Library will be closed on this date. The Medical Library will observe regular hours throughout June, including the Sun. schedule of 2-6 p.n. Graduate Reading Rooms in the Gen- eral Library will be open additional hours Fri., May 30, from 7-10 p.m., and Sat., May 31, from 1-5 p.m. Hours in the Music Listening Room (417 Mason Hall) have been extended to cover 1-6 p.m. and 7-10 p.m., Thurs. and Fri. May 29 and May 30, and Man. through Thurs., June 2-June 5. Sat;.; May 31, the hours will be 9 a.m.-12 m, 1-6 p.m., and Sun., May 25 and June 1 hours of opening are 7-10 p.m. The Listening Room will be closed beginning Friday, June 6. Divisional libraries will observe tieW', regular schedules during the-eam - tion period.Any exceptions to custom- ary hours of opening will be posted In each library. Starting Tues., June 10, and contin- uing until the opening of Summer Ses- sion, the General Library and the Un- dergraduate Library will close at 6 p.m. Divisional libraries likewise wi go on reduced schedules at this time. Recommendations for Departmental Honors: Teaching departments wishing to recommend tentative June graduates from the College of Lt., Science, and', the Arts, and the School of Educ. for departmental honors (or high honor. in the College of L.S.&A., should rec- ommend such students in a letter de- livered to the Office of Registration and Records, Rm. 1513 Admin. Bldg., by noon, Mon., June 9, 158. Attention June Graduates: College of Lit., Science, and the Arts, School of Educ., School of Music, School of Pub. Health and School of Bus. Admin. Stu- dents are advised not to request grades of I or X in June. When such grades are absolutely imperative, the work must be made up in time to allow your instructor to report the make-up grade not later than noon, Mon., June 9, 1958. Grades received after that time may. defer the student's graduation until a later date. The next "Polio Shot" Clinic for stu- dents will be held Thurs., May 29, only from 8:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 445 p.m., in the Health Servie. All students whose 2nd or 3rd shots are due around this time are urged to take advantageofmthis special clinic, Students, are reminded that it is .not necessary to obtain their regular clinic cards. Proceed, to Rm. 58 in the base- ment where forms are available and cashier's representatives are present. The fee for injection is $1.00. Regents' Meeting: Fri., June 13. Com- munications for consideration at thi meeting must be in the President's hands not later than Tues., June 3. All Male Students who complete their academic year in June and desire cer- tification for Selective Service purposes should file Form 5S5109. Students in all schools except Engineering, Law, Medicine, Dentistry, and Rackhani should file Form SSS109 at Window # 1513 Administration Building. Those students in the above named schools should complete the forms in their respective school offices. Commencement Exercises - June 14, 1958: To be held at 5:30 p.m. either in the Stadium or Yost Field House, de- pending on the weather. Exercises -will conclude about 7:30 p.m. Those eligible to participate:9Grad- uates of Summer Session of 1957 'and of February and June, 1958. Gradu- ates of the Summer Session of 1958 and of February 1959 are not supposed to participate; however, no check is made f those taking part in the ceremny but no tickets are available for those, in these classifications. Tickets: For Yost Field House: Two to each prospective graduate, to be distributed from Tues., June 3, to 12 noon on Sat., June 14, at Cashier's Of- fice, first floor of Admin. Bldg. For Stadium: No. tickets necessary. Children not admitted unless accom- panied by adults. Academic Costume: Can be rented atrMoe Sport Shop, N. Univ. Ave., Ann Arbor. Assembly for Graduates: At 4:30 p.m. in area east of Stadium. Marshals will direct graduates to proper stations. If siren indicates (at intervals from 4:00 to 4:15 p.m.) that exercises are to be held in Yost Field House, graduates should go directly there and be seated by Marshals. Spectators: Stadium - Enter by Main St. gates only. All should be seated by 5:00 p.m., when procession enters field. Yost Field House: Only those holding LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Roommate Report Called Inadequate To the Editor: THE BOARD of Governors' of- ficial statement on roommate selection practices calls for a number of comments. It is indeed unfortunate that the report has been delayed until the last week of classes sincehit is now impos- sible to give it the careful scrutiny it deserves. It is also unfortunate that the Board was unable to make specific recommendations as to the exact wording of room ap- plications and a more specific statement of policy. My comments will be confined to some of the findings and interpretations giv- en by the Office of the Dean of Women. As ;one who teaches sev- eral courses in statistics, I am dis- mayed by the way certain facts have been presented. Let me select three items from this rather con- fusing report. First. Dean Bacon mentions that only 1.5 per cent of incom- ing freshman girls are of a minor- ity race. We then read the follow- ing: "the Office of the Dean of Women places 38 per cent of freshmen girls in a 'mixed' situ- ation; only 0.5 per cent of the re- turning upperclasswomen them- selves selected a 'mixed' racial siatio , Trn has it hen nn- there is a tremendous difference between the two figures. Second. Even more seriously misleading is the following pas- sage: "Over 71 per cent of return- ing women select roommates of similar religion; over 98 per cent select roommates of similar race or color. Yet these are the same 98 per cent who believe in and conscientiously work toward inte- gration . . . the reality of an at- titude wherein 98 per cent of a given group act the same way cannot wisely be ignored." The re- port neglects to mention the im- portant fact that even if all Cau- casians were to prefer a room- mate of a different race, some- where in the neighborhood of 96 per cent would necessarily end up with someone of their own race simply because there are so few non-whites. When we keep this fact in mind, the rest of the con- clusions in the paragraph become meaningless. These figures seem to indicate that one can prove al- most anything one really wants to prove by statistics. Third. The report refers to cer- tain other "findings" of the sur- yey. I quote: "We find (emphasis mine) that constructive attention paid to individual differences and peferences ehieves htter and tually been tried? If not, conclu- sions should have been stated as mere opinion and not fact. To be sure, we are all entitled to person- al opinions. Mine is that if such a study were made, no significant differences would be found. May I suggest that the way to determine which opinion is correct is to con- duct a study! In short, the report from the Board of Governors leaves much to be desired. Perhaps some of the misleading and/or erroneous por- tions could have been avoided if all interested parties had been consulted concerning the survey. H. M. Blalock, Jr. Professor of Sociology New Degree . . To the Editor: IN VIEW of some of the recent campus events such as initia- tions, parades and other noise- making endeavors operating con- currently with classes, I would like to offer a plan which would facilitate the paraders as well as the students. It would alleviate the problem of increasing enroll- ment and would help the incom- ing hordes to discover themselves and become useful citizens. box stuffing. Candidates would graduate at official commence- ments and receive the official di- plomas. Since advanced c a n d i dia't e s could easily oversee the operations of the program to fulfill require- ments and report to the Deans of Men and Women, a cheap source of labor would be available. With a little imagination one can see how such a program would benefit students, faculty, and the new degree candidates alike. It would be welcomed by industrial and civic leaders as it gets directly to the problem of turning out the good, experienced organization man we need. Malcolm" Goldman Column .: To the Editors: WE WISH to compliment Mr. Jim Baad for his very en- lightening column of May 21 con- cerning the University of Michi- gan's philosophy toward athletics. It is high time that these facts were brought forth. We hope that this column reached every stu- dent, for the message was cer- tainly one about which we should all know and be concerned. The students and faculty of the