"Could You Just Tell Me, Is There Ever A Good Time?" | LEGISL 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, MiICH." Phone NO 2-3241 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This mus t be noted in all reprints. SDAY, JUNE 24, 1958 NIGHT EDITOR: LANE VANDER SLICE -d~.A A V L V Ii 1 Better Use of Space Needed in Colleges. By DAVID TARR Daily Co-Editor WHILE PATTING Michigan educational institutions lightly on the back for making reasonably good use of their instructional space and facilities. a legislative study committee this month called for even better utilization of physical plants and cited some frightening figures to back up its recommendations. In its ninth study report, the Legislative Study Committee on Higher Education said Michigan colleges and universities are using their facilities "far beyond the average level of utilization found in colleges The University's Summertime Offerings S AN American composer once wrote, it's "summertime and the liv'n is easy." The istrating lines of the University, inescapable Registration, the Administration Building d in front of the local movies are consider- ly shortened. Saturday classes have gone to hibernation, Friday classes are being held a minimum, at least in the eight week urses, vacant benches are available on the ag, and it is hoped that peace, quiet and apty desks can be found in the Undergradu- e Library. With an Ann Arbor enrollment of about ven thousand during this, the sixty-ninth immer Session, the University seems to as- me a more leisurely and less crowded ap- arance. Also, there are changes in the na- re of enrollment. For many of those on cam- is, particularly the increased percentage in raduate School, this is in the only contact th the University. Much of this is the outgrowth of specializa- n. Special courses and special conferences draw together those in the same field and the invisible gap of indifference or ignorance to- wards other areas of academic interest seems to mount, YET THERE remains the common purpose for attending and a University's reason for existence . . . study and research. This in it- self, when undertaken honestly and energeti- cally, is enough to dispute the "liv'n is easy" attitude. Intellectually, it can never be so. For as in the fall and spring session, the University makes its essential and characteris- tic offer . . . stimulation. Primarily, it stems from the classrooms, the libraries and lectures. But especially during the summer session, with the theme of "Religion in Contemporary So- ciety,", the Speech Department Playbills, and the Music School's concerts, the extra stimu- lation makes summertime in Ann Arbor easily interesting. --MICHAEL KRAFT Daily Co-Editor Y A tt.3 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Adams:Many--Find d By DREW PEARSON 'mpty Dearhorn Center Echoes Hopes -WO BLUNDERS by the state legislature this year will result in curious phenomena xt year-and the lawmakers will be the zly ones able to afford an explanation. As the wind whistles through the vacant aildings at Dearborn and as the nation issues ore urgent cries for scientific advances the niversity will still be sitting in the back- ound-waiting and hoping. May's legislative cuts of almost one million >llars in ,the University's operating budget r next year will result in two drastic effects. hese results have implications far more aching than a mere postponement of plans. HE FIRST result of the legislature's "aus- terity budget" is that the Dearborn Center ll open a year later than planned. The build- gs will be ready to open in the fall of 1q59 'scheduled-but there is no money with hich to assemble a faculty and administra- on. If this had happened five or ten years ;o-it would not have been viewed with such arm. But in the context of today and of the ture this could be the worst possible time r any delay of advances in higher education. Next year the majority of "war babies" will ready to attend college. This is the begin- .ng of the crisis which collge educators and Iminstrators have tried to prepare for during ie past five years. This will be the time of excessive overcrowding in schools of higher education and a time of increased demands on the facilities of these schools. All this planning is no longer for the far distant time in the future-it is for the present. The University initiated several five-year plans to prepare for the onslaught of "war babies" . . . but the many plans have been' thwarted and the postponement of the Dear- born Center opening is just the crowning touch on all these frustrated efforts. The second drastic effect of the legislative cut became apparent, when the Regents voted to indefinitely postpone the organization of the Institute of Science and Technology. The implications of this should be evident when one listens to the nation's pleas for more scientific advances-but the legislators closed their ears and purses to the cries. The setbacks for the Dearborn Center and of the Institute for Science and Technology indicates the oblivious nature in which the Legislature cut funds-it fails to signify pro- gressive action for the nation, state, or uni- versity. The University's prayers for an improved financial condition for the state haven't been answered ... all it can do now is wait ... and hope. -JOAN KAATZ and universities generally." But, the committee said, this isn't good enough. Here's why: By 1975 Michigan institutions are expected to have three times the number of students that were attending last fall or roughly 429,000 students. It would take about a billion dollars in new capi- tal outlay in the next 18 years to provide plant facilities at the pres- ent rate of value per student for the expected enrollments. This amounts to about $59 million per year, a slightly fantastic figure as any legislator, lobbist or university administrator will quickly ac- knowledge. As the report humbly notes, "It seems unlikely that sums of the required magnitude can be pro- vided at once, or even for the next few years . . ." And so, "The only solution seems to be a consider- able improvement in the rate of utilization of present plant facili- ties." What to do after maximum utilization is achieved is anybody's guess. BUT THE report does come up with a number of suggestions to improve space utilization, some of which may evoke some unpleasant' remarks from students but would clearly help educate more people at a relatively lower cost. The sugges- tions include: 1) Scheduling more classes at such hours as 8 a.m. and in the late afternoon, evenings, and Sat- urday mornings. 2) Reducing the number and shortening the length of vacations and putting schools on a year- around academic basis. 3) Devising new methods of scheduling class hours that would make complete' use of available space. 41 Considering educational plans that require less class attendance by students and permit them to do more study on individual initiative.1 5) Reappraising the necessity for present volume of laboratory courses, which require three times as much floor space as regular classrooms. 6) Reappraising the value of maintaining highly specialized courses requiring special class- rooms for relatively few students, and particularly in duplicating such specialized facilities in several institutions. Effective use of space is facil- tated by keeping specialized space to a mirnimum that is absolutely essential to meet the. needs _cof courses, the report said. The committee, appointed two years ago, will wind up its work this summer and publish a sum- mary of its surveys into all phases of college operation and needs. WASHINGTON-The last grid- iron club dinner featured a skit on Sherman Adams which was so rough that Adams canceled his reservations to come to a re- peat performance the next after- noon. The skit showed him tele- phoning to the Federal Communi- cations Commission for TV chan- nels for favored Republicans to the tune of the song: "Sugar in the mornin', sugar in the evenin', Sugar at supper time, FCC's our baby And TV ain't no crime." There was a lot of truth behind this jingle. Perhaps that was why Adams didn't want to see the skit a second time. There was also great truth behind ,Eisenhower's statement last week that he needed Sherman Adams. But there was no truth whatsoever be-. hind Adams' statement that his calls had never been "intended to affect the decision of any offi- cial of the United States govern- ment." To understand whether Sher- man Adams was telling the truth regarding his relations with Ber- nard Goldfine, and in order that. the American public may better understand how the Eisenhower administration operates, it's im- portant to take a comprehensive look at the activities of Sherman Adams. He occupies the same position in the White House as that of Matt Connelly under President Harry S. Truman. Connelly's job was to make appointments for the President. If you can decide who can or cannot see the President, tremendous power and favor comes your way. Connelly went far beyond this one duty, but never anywhere near as far as Adams. * * * EVERY REPORT requiring af- firmative action that comes to the President's desk is initialed "O.K. -S.A." "If the paper doesn't bear Adams' initials, the President re- turns it with a query, "What does Sherm say about it?" Adams pre- sides over staff meetings, which used to be presided over by Tru- man and Roosevelt. He attends meetings of the National Security Council. He pulls wires with Con- gress, despite the fact that an efficient liaison officer, Gen. Wil- ton Persons, is appointed to do that job. And despite his sworn testi- mony to the company, he keeps a very careful eye on the regula- tory agencies, supposed to be in- dependent of the White House. The heads of all regulatory agen- cies come over to see Adams at regular intervals, and he goes over policy and personnel. ** * MUCH OF ADAMS' interven- tion with the independent agen- cies does not consist of actual phone calls. Members of the agen- cies know that when he has them power to hire and fire they must conform. Under the law the regu- latory agencies are supposed to have a majority of only one Re- publican under a Republican ad- ministration. The other members are supposed to be Democrats. But by a process of appointing such weak "Republicrats" as Richard Mack, Adams has suc- ceeded in stacking the indepen- dent agencies so that they follow the Sherman Adams line. Technically this is not against the law, but it is certainly against the spirit of the law. (Copyright 1958 by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin Is a official publication of the Univer- sity of Michigan for which Th Michigan Daily assumes no editor- tiresponsibility. Notices soud b sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3519 Administration Buid ing, before 2 p.m., the day preed- ing publication. TUESDAY. JUNE 24, 195 VOL. LXVIII, NO 1-4 General Notices Regents' Meeting: Fri, July 8, vot munieations for consderation at i meeting must be in the Presiden hands not later than July 8. Students and staff of the 1958 Li guistic Institute are invited to opening get-together Tues. June 8:00 p.m. In Rackham AssemblyIHo Prof. Albert H. Marckwardt will pr side. Disciplinary Action in cases of et dent misconduct: At meetings hldt May 14, 20, 22, 27 and 28, cases invol ing 46 students and 1 fraternity We heard by the Joint Judiciary Counc In all cases the action was approv by the Sub-Committee on Discipit 1. Conduct unbecoming student that state laws and city ordinances r lating to the purchase, sale and t of intoxicants were violated: (a) Attempting to purchase Intom cants at a local tavern with fa: identification. One student nn $25.00 and warned. (b) Fined in Municipal Court forr ing a drunk and disorderly perc misused a garden hose and entered private residence without permissic One student fined $35.00 and warn (c) Fined in Municipal Court f driving after drinking. One stude fined $20.00 and warned, (d) Drinking, in violation .oftt law, and driving after drinking.,Q student fined $10.00 and warned. (e) Drinking, in violation of st law and fined in Municipal O Court for being a drunk and diS dery person. One student fined $15 and warned. (f) Purchasing intoxicants for ii nors. One student fined $40.00 (s4 end violation) and given a sev reprimhand. (g) Drinking, in violation of iet law. One student fined $25.00 a warned. (h) Illegal party held, at which I toxicantsi were served to minors. fraternity fined $300.00 andplai on social probation for the fall e mester 1958 (not to include rush i 2. Violation of University divi regulations: (a) Failure to register utoobi One student fined $40.00 (secndI lation); one student fined $5.00; o" student fined $35.00 with $25.00 i pended; three students fined $3 with $20.00 suspended; one stud fined $30.00 with $0.00. suspend one student fined $30.00 with $15 suspended; one student fined $25 withd$20.00 suspended; three stVde fined $25.00 with $15.00 uspendp one student fined $25.00 with $10 suspended; one student fined $20 with $15.00 suspended; one stude fined ;$20.00 with $10.00 susipend4 one student fined $5.00; one stude issued a written warning. (b) Driving without authorizati one student fined '$50.00; one . 1 dent fined $35.00; one student f1 $35.00 with $15.00 suspended; c student fined, $30.00 with $15.00 FA pended; two students fined $25. one student fined $25.00 with $1 suspended; one student fined *21 with $10.00 suspended; one stud fined $20.00; three students fir $15.00; one student fined $5.00 a one student issued a written warni: (c) Driving without authoriatl' and attempt to falsify: One stud fined $30.00 and denied the right obtain a special permit for one mtester. (d) Unauthorized presence of automobiletand attemptto falsi One student fined $30.00. (e) Misuse of special comnmuti permit: One student fined $15.00w $10.00 suspended. (f) Misuse of special business per One student fined $25.00 and driv privileges were suspended for the mainder of the semester. (g) Misrepresentation of facts a conduct unbecoming a student: C student fined $25.00 with $15.00 a pended. (h) Repeated violation of automo regulations concerning parking restricted University lots: One a dent fined $15.00. (i) Unauthorized borrowing: One w dent fined $30.00. .(J) Unauthorized lending: One a dent issued a written warning. Lectures Notice: A special mathematics I ture will be held on wed., June 25, 4 p.m., Rm. 3227 Angell Hall. Leturei Academician A.A. Dorodnityn, Div tor of Computing Laboratories, Aca my of Sciences, U.S.S.R. Title: '%6 Problems in the Numerical Solution Partial Differential Equations." freshments will be at 3:30, in Sm. p Angell Hall. Guest Lecturer: Dr. Lee Chrism Head of the Music Education Dept. the School of Fine and Applied Ai Bostcn University, will be presented the first of a series of lecturesa demonstrations sponsored by the De of Music Education in Aud. A, I gell Hall on Wed., June 25. 4:00 p His lecture,nentitled "The Function Instrumental Music in the Pattern Education," will be open to the gi eral public without charge. Concerts The Baroque Trio featuring Hay Haugh, tenor, will appear in the s and of the School of Music sumr session concerts at 8:30 p.m. Tv June 24, Rackham Lecture Hall. Trio, consisting of Nelson Hauenste flute, Florian Mueller, oboe, and ME lyn Mason, harpsichord, assisted Harry Dunscombe. cello, will perfc sonatas by Stradella, Bach and Val tine. Mr. Haugl1 has chosen to s an aria by Dietrich Buxtehude anc cantata by Heinrich Schutz. Open the general public without charge. Academic Notice Make-up final examination in h TODAY AND TOMORROW: Strategic Opposition By WALTER LIPPMANN ON THE BILL to reorganize the Pentagon the President got from the House most but not all of what he wanted. Broadly speaking, the House, which is under Democratic control, followed him in everything that has to do with the command of the armed forces. But the House opposed and defeated him on certain basic questions which have to do with strategic planning-fundamentally on the question of whether the high and longer range planning shall be centralized in one staff or shall remain the join responsibilty of the services. During the past months since the President put forward his proposals, it has often been, said that on a military question the country was bound to accept the views of its most famous soldier. But the majority in the House drew a' line between the President's recommendations which they would accept and those which they rejected. They followed Gen. Eisenhower on those military questions where as the former Supreme Commander during the World War he could speak with great experience and authority --on the questions which relate to the command and operation of great complicated forces. But the majority did not follow him in the field where he has not had great experience, and has not earned any special distinction. This is the field of strategic planning. T HUS DURING the Second World War Gen. Eisenhower was a successful Supreme Com- mander. But he did not do the strategic plan- ning of the war. That was done at a much higher level than his, at the level of Churchill and Roosevelt and of the combined Chiefs of Staff. Gen. Eisenhower was in the European theater, the supreme operator, not the supreme planner. When for a time after the war he was in the Pentagon as Chief of Staff of the Army, which was before the Korean war, he did not make a record for strategic insight and foresight. And later, when he became Supreme Commander of NATO, there is little in the rec- Editorial Staff MICHAEL KRAFT DAVID TARR Co-Editor Co-Editor ord to show that he grasped the import of nuclear weapons on the strategical planning' of the NATO forces. There is, therefore, substantial ground for the discrimination shown by the House in following him on operational matters but not on strategic planning. The basic issue between the President and the leadership of the House is expounded in the very able report brought in by Rep. Carl Vinson (D-Ga.) for the Committee on Armed Services. "There are," says the report, "two well de- fined systems of strategic planning and direc- tion of military operations. One is the authori- tarian system, topped by an all powerful single military Chief of Staff supported by an overall Armed Forces General Staff which he domi- nates and controls. This system . . . is super- ficially effective in arriving at swift decisions- a faculty which is possesses because it is shaped to eliminate from consideration alternative courses of action. The second system for stra- tegical planning is exemplified by the Joint Chiefs of Staff," each of whom "is subject to the civilian authority of the Secretary of De- fense ... is free to express and to advocate his views and to present and press for the full, proper and effective employment of the particu- lar capabilities of his own service." What the President asked for was not in name a General Staff system. But he did ask' for something very close to it in principle. He asked for the virtual suppression of the civilian secretaries of the various services and he wanted to take away from the Chiefs of Staff their present right to appeal to the Congress. It is this right of appeal which pre- vents any one of the services from being over- ridden by a combination of the other two, and makes certain that on a great issue its views cannot be suppressed and must be debated. IT WAS on this point that the House opposed the President. It is a point of great im- portance. In the President's hot-tempered state- ment of May 28, he described the right of appeal to Congress, which is in the present law, as "legalized insubordination." It is a revealing and telltale phrase. For it shows that the President is fundamentally op- posed to the principle of strategic planning by MIDDLE EAST CRISIS: U.S. on Lebanese Hot Seat By SUSAN HOLITZER Daily Staff Writer' THE POWDER KEG in the Mid- dle East has shifted from Pales- tine to Lebanon, but the United States is still sitting squarely on top of it. As the fighting in that country reached a peak last week, the United Nations sped a team of observers to the scene, and British and American officials were openly considering the possibility of inter- vening on behalf of President Camille Chamoun's besieged pro- western government. To the United States, Lebanon, smaller than the state of New Jersey, is a crucial issue, Situated on the Mediterranean between Israel and Syria, it remains one of the few nations in the Middle East favorable to the western al- lies, a toehold in the area they once controlled. To the Russians, of course, the defeat of the Chamoun government by pro-Nasser forces would constitute one more victory in the struggle for the Arab world. * * * THE ISSUES that began the six-week rebellion are the same areas of conflict which the Leban- ese have been adjusting since they broke with France in 1946. The delicate political balance between Christian and Moslem, pro-west and pro-Nasser elements within the country had finally broken down. As the insurgence spread, the streets of Beirut and even Cha- moun's residence itself were in danger of falling into rebel hands. With the tiny Lebanese army hard pressed to contain the fighting, Americans in the cantial city were quest, thanks to an unexpected abstension by the Soviet Union, reportedly at the behest of Col. Nasser. An advance team was dis- patched from Israel, and UN Sec- retary-General Dag Hammarskjold himself flew to Beirut the next day for talks with Lebanese leaders. In the back of Hammarskjold's mind was the obvious readiness of the United States to use force, if necessary, to preserve the Cha- moun government, and the in- creasing possibility of a Lebanese plea for Anglo-American military aid. A series of rapid-fire conferences in Beirut, Jordan and Cairo ap- parently forestalled this contin- gency, but the United States Sixth Fleet, patrolling the Mediterran- ean, is still reported moving through the area. What puts the American govern- ment on a hot spot is the fact that, no matter'what faction in Lebanon wins, they lose. A rebel victory, of course, would constitute a disaster for United States diplomacy in the Middle East. It would mean the loss of one more country from the dwindling ranks of pro-western Arab nations, and another triumph for Nasser- ism. s* THE INSURGENT forces, led by ex-Premier Saeb Salam, are aiming their campaign primarily at na- tionalistic goals; the entire rebel- lion has strong Pan-Arab ten- dencies, and there is the distinct possibility that, should they win, Lebanon would become the third member of the Syrian-Egyptian UAR. The double danger in this possi- to send troops to Chamoun's aid, Russian charges of aggression might have a strong effect on the uncommitted nations of the world, particularly Eastern neutrals such as India. There is also the possibility that the Kremlin would aim at non- Christian countries with charges that the United States is basing its support of Chamoun on the fact that the insurgents are Moslem and the government predominately Christian. This is a charge they have issued before, often with tell- ing effect. In any case, however, the United States cannot afford to let the matter rest long out of their hands if rebel advances continue. Know- ledge of this has added urgency to Hammarskjold's mission in the Middle East, and it is assumed his trip to Cairo was an attempt to in- duce Nasser to call a halt to the infiltration of Syrian material into rebel hands. The touchy position of the Vnited States has apparently been recognized by all concerned, -and Hammarskjold for one is deter- mined to prevent the fighting from spreading and possibly involving the great powers. The statement from Russia that, "volunteers" are ready to go. to the aid of the rebels has added even more ur- gency. I A :.: ... ';}. .+. °1. : J.. '-. ' of Y% f ....; s .: r ' # :.