WHO HAS RIGHT TO EDUCATE ? See page 3 Y L arkP :4Z azt Sixty-Eight Years of Editorial Freedom T, UNDERSHOWERS LXIX No. 7& ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1,1959 FIVE CENTS Hatcher Discusses Soviet Training EDITOR'S NOTE: Following is first in a series of five articles University President Harlan cher on his recent trip to the vet Union as head' of a delega- u which studied higher educa- n. This series of articles origin- appeared in The Detroit News. original articles by President cher are reprinted here in full.) By HARLAN HATCHER is almost impossible to. visit Soviet Union and not come r impressed, if not awed, by support which /that nation is ig to the field of education. lis, I would say, was the dom- t conclusion of our educa- il mission to the ,Soviet n. It is not a new conclusion: )t every American group to the USSR so far has re- ed with this same observa- is, however, a conclusion of ralleled importance to the rican public. Yet it is one the significance of which still is great disservice by trying to sugar coat the facts. I do not wish to imply that the Soviet educational system, is not without its weaknesses, nor that it is a model which we should follow. Far from it. In serving the needs of our democratic society, our educational system has done, and is doing, a superb job. It needs to do even better. Describes Mission But first let me say something about the educational mission which I was privileged to head. We traveled nearly 15,000 miles in the Soviet Union and visited edu- cational institutions in such wide- ly diverse areas as Siberia, Cen- tral Asia, Southern Georgia, and the Ukraine, as well as in Moscow and Leningrad. The delegation included Vice- Chancellor F. Cyril James from McGill, University in Montreal, one of Canada's finest; President. 'Norman P. Auburn from the Uni- versity of Akron in Ohio; Mr. Wil- liam C. Pine, director of the Scholarship Program for the Ford Motor Company Fund; and Pro- fessors William Dewey and Lyle M. Nelson from the University of Michigan. Mrs. Hatcher and Mrs. Auburn were also members of the party. Our mission, sponsored by the United States Department of State under the Cultural Ex- change Agreement signed with the Soviet government in 1958, was particularly fortunate in two respects: Visit Timed Well 1) We were able to times our visit to coincide with the height on the status of higher education in those countries. Within the Soviet Union, the delegation's visit was handled by the Ministry of Higher Education, whose top staff members were ex- ceptionally helpful in providing information on matters of special interest to the group. The Minis- try also gave an official luncheon for the delegation at the close of the tour. Among the other official meet- ings were a conference with Pres- ident A. N. Nesmeyanov of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and members of his staff (the Acade- my encompasses the social as well as the natural sciences), inter- views with the Rectors or Pro- Rectors of Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Tbilisi, Tashkent, Samar'- kand, and Irkutsk Universities, and visits to the Institute for For- eign Languages and the Foreign Language Publishing House. Confer with Mikoyan In addition, the party partici- pated in a one-and-one-half hour conference with First Deputy Chairman Anastas Mikoyan on matters of educational and cul- tural exchange. A reception at the home of the American ambassa- dor and a luncheon by the Cana- dian ambassador also were given 'for the group. It is always dangerous to draw conclusions from so short a visit and the members of our party stayed just Jong enough to become aware of many important gaps in the information we were seeking, information which we needed for a clear understanding of some of the specific functions of the So- viet system. After some 10 or 15 days we were confident that we could re- turn home as experts on Soviet higher education. At the end of a month of conferences, inspections, and informal meetings, we had become convinced that we knew little indeed and that any conclu- sions should be left to long-time scholars in the field of Soviet his- tory and education. Perhaps our feeling in this re- gard was best summed up by a Western diplomat who was tell- ing of his long struggle to master the Russian language. After years of intensive study, his vocabulary was excellent, but his pronuncia- tion and grammar still, left some- thing to be desired. In exaspera- tion one day, his Russian teach- er turned to him and said: "And now you know everything, but you know nothing." Education Priority High Nevertheless, it was clearly ap- parent to everyone in the party-- and this was one of the few points upon which agreement was un- animous--that the Soviet Union is placing the highest kind of pri- ority on education in its national planning. Evidence of this is everywhere to be found in actions as well as in words. Witness the following facts: 1) The Soviet Union is putting approximately 2.5 per cent of the national budget into higher edu- cation exclusive of medical edu- cation. In the United States, the figure is slightly less than one per cent including medical education, which is one of our areas of high- est cost. 2) University professors and teachers are among the highest paid groups in the Soviet Union. The average full professor, for ex- ample, earns two or three times the salary of a factory manager, a doctor, or other professional per- son. If he is a member of the So- viet Academy of Sciences or writes See HATCHER, Page 3 Legislature Gives 'U' $33.4 Million Increase of 3 Million to Be Used Largely for Faculty Salary Boost g BULLETIN LANSING - The higher education bill failed to make it out. of a conference committee in time for passage early today, but will go to the Legislature for final consideration this afternoon. The University's budget appropriation is not in jeopardy, however. The House of Representatives yesterday tacked on two amendments to the education bill, forcing the bill back, to conference committee. Four of six committee members recommended deletion of both amendments. One would have in effect forced the University and Michigan State University to end closed circuit telecasts of their football games. By THOMAS HAYDEN special to The Daily LANSING -- The University welcomed a "return to nor- malcy" yesterday as the House of Representatives slammed through a record budget appropriation for higher education. The University received an expected $33.4 million of a total $101.5 million approved by the House as it hurried to pass appropriations bills be- o fore the end of the fiscal year "payless paydays" for the sixth at midnight. straight month. The $33.4 million appropriation "With a new budget, we should is the largest sum ever earmarked be back in normal operation this for University operating expenses, s u m m e r," Vice-President for by more than two million dollars. Business and Finance Wilber K. Provides Increase Pierpont reported. The figure provides for 'an in- Legislative complications will Thease ovgrteprvdesit'snbud- hold up immediate passage of the crease over the University's bu-higher education bill, althougly get of last year of $3,367,275, in- the University's $33.4 milion ap cluding $500,000 for an InstitutethrUritys$3.murnd of Science and Technology. ,propriatdon is assured. More than two-and-one-half Two amendments tacked onto million dollars will be used for the bill by the House-have been faculty salary, raises.- referred to' a House-Senate con- "Since (faculty salaries) is our ference committee for joint study. area of greatest concern, 'and the The first amendment is a $25,- onean which ge aefet cra h000 boost proposed for the State one in which we have felt inereas- Lbrary ing copettio-inthepas yer, The other is aimed at halting we are naturally pleased to have closed" circuit, telecasting of sports this support from the Legisla- events by state universities: Each ture," University' President Har- school's appropriation would be lan Hatcher said in Ann Arbor slashed by the amount they real- yesterday. ized from the telecasts. Aids Progress Must Eliminate Flaws For unless we take a long, hard, critical look at our own educa- tional system, unless we eliminate some of 'the weaknesses which have crept in over the years and, even 'more important, unless we 'are willing to provide the kind of support which is required by the age in which we are living, then surely we will be unequal to the challenge which confronts. us. And if we lose in the field of education, then we, most surely shall lose in every other field of human endeavor. These are unsettling words, IL know. They are words which will be criticized by those who would prefer to do nothing. Unfortun- ately, they happen to describe the' situation as I see it and, I believe, as the other members of our dele- gation see it. We do ourselves a HOME AGAIN-On his return from a six-week visit to Russia in May, President Harlan Hatcher was greeted by his daughter, Anne Linda, and University Vice-President Wilbur K. Pierpont. to some areas, such as Irkutsk in Siberia, which have not been pre- viously open to United States edu- ncational groups. In preparation for the trip, most of the members spent almost a year in study concentrated in our main fields of interest - the humanities and social sciences. While we were naturally alert to guages, student life and response to the curricula, the role of the faculty in academic planning, and the function of administration in Soviet universities. During the month which we spent in the Soviet Union, our delegation held 22 official confer- ences with leading Soviet educa- tors and scientists, supplemented by innumerable informal meet- ings with students and faculty members. We also visited the Uni- versities of Helsinki and Warsaw to obtain first-hand information i of the academic year instead of a wide range of educational inter- having to make it during the sum- ests, we were most concerned with mer months when most Soviet the present place and function of schools are not in operation, and literature, the humanities and the 2) We were permuted to travel arts, the study of foreign lan- Science Institute To Be Set Up By STEPHANIE ROUMELL The State Legislature in Lansing granted the University half a mil- lion dollars for the establishment of the Institute of Science and Technology, a project that the Legislature failed to subsidize over. a year ago when it was first ap- proved by the Board of Regents. Plans for the Institute began to' evolve when a group of the Uni- versity's scientists and scholars formed a committee, following the advent of Sputnik, to discuss the implications of Russia's achieve- ments. Their unanimous conclusion was that Russia was already ahead of the United States in numerous scientific and+ technological areas. Educational Base' The committee attributed Rus- sia's achievements to her long time and carefully maintained educa- tional system. For the United States to hold a leading role in science and tech- nology, the committee concluded, will depend on our production of scholars and research work of the highest degree of competency. The University proposed the Science and Technological, Insti- tute to carry out this objective. The Institute aims at strength- ening the University's instruction to give its students th'e educa- tional experience needed for rapid scientific advances. To Add Impetus Added impetus will be given to carefully selected areas of basic and applied research to meet the demands of our rapidly advancing technology. The Institute will establish a center for scientific and tech- nological instruction, research and service at undergraduate and grad- uate levels. It will be staffed by University faculty members as well as, new, outstanding young men who will be attracted by the pro- gram. A system for administering scholarships to students who will teach or do research in science and other colleges, universities, high schools, and even elementary schools to help stimulate interest in careers in science. The operation of the Institute will be similar to the Phoenix Pro- ject. It will work as far as possible through the existing schools and departments, giving them grants for projects and activities. These grants are to be extended to other colleges and universities of the state as well. Only where its purposes cannot be carried out by the present facilities and staff will the Institute hire added man- power and set up research and educational programs to further its objectives. The Institute will be set uppin the University's graduate school, and it is to, be administered by a director and a board of faculty. This executive committee will be aided by an advisory committee of state-wide representation. Besides the basic funds provided by the state, financial aid for the Institute is expected from business and industry, foundations, private individuals and the Federal gov- ernment. It is contemplated that the In- stitute will undertake creative re- search in promising new fields, thus attracting new types of in- dustry to the state. To Hold Faculty Another benefit of the program is that it will help recruit and re- tain top faculty members at a time when industry and other univer- sities are drawing them away, it has been noted. Regent Roscoe Bonisteel called' the Institute "a program to meet an immediate educational need in scientific fields of knowledge." He went on to emphasize that the University has no intention of neglecting its non-scientific de- partments. "In setting up this In- stitute," he said, "I am sure that we want it clearly understood that we in'no, way expect to lessen our progress and efforts in other edu- cational fields such as the hu- manities." World News Roundup By The Associated Press BERLIN-Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, ignoring angry Com- munist outcries, flew to West Berlin in a United States Air Force transport yesterday for today's West German presidential election. He also ignored grumbling in his Christian Democratic Party and the possibility some members might bolt his candidate on the secret ballot. He predicted thee election of the party candidate, Heinrich Luebke, his agriculture minister. * * * WASHINGTON - After seven and one-half months on the job, Lewis L. Strauss yesterday stepped out of the cabinet post the Senate refused to let him keep-Secretary of Commerce. The White House announced his formal resignation, submitted a week ago. The President's letter of accept- ance, dated last Saturday, praised Strauss highly and expressed Eisenhower's "personal sadness" at his leaving. * * * MOSCOW - The Communist Party's Central Committee has been told the task of installing modern equipment in Soviet in- dustry is too big to be managed in the current seven-year plan. Accordingly, the Central Com- mittee has ordered some shortcuts and will concentrate in fields Grant To Talk On Soviet Aid James P. Grant, deputy director for program and planning of the International Cooperation Admin- istration, will open the summer lecture series on "The Challenge of Soviet Expansion" at 4:15 p.m. tomorrow.- The speech, which will be given. in Aud. A, Angell Hall, will be "The Impact of Soviet Foreign Aid on United States Policy." The Rus- sian lecture series, which is open to the public, is jointly sponsored by the Summer Session and the Committee on the Program on Russian Studies of the literary college. Three Bills Completed BULLETIN LANSING - The Senate ap- proved mental health and pub- lic health appropriation bills early today, upon the recom- mnendation +df a conference committee of both houses. LANSING (P)-Working against' the clock, lawmakers sent three more spending bills to Gov. G. Mennen .Williams for signing yes- terday, but there was no chance the 1959 - 60 budget could be wrapped up before the midnight1 deadline. State government thus will em- bark on the new fiscal year without spending authorizations for many of its agencies and departments. Other bills dealing with higher education, health, mental health and state safety and defense were destined for negotiation 'by House and Senate conference commit- teese appointed to resolve inter- chamber difficulties. As rogress "While the appropriation does not provide for all of the Univer- sity's critical needs, it will permit us to make urgently needed prog- ress" ' in this area, President Hatcher continued. He called the Legislature's ac- tion "gratifying indeed," and said, it "should help to demonstrate to the nation that the State of 'Mich- igan still highly values. its great educational system. It couldn't have come at a more appropriate time." President Hatcher added that "the University is pleased with the Governor and the Legislature in recognizing the need for an In- stitute of Science and Technoolgy .. (it) could well mark the be- ginning of a period of substantial economic growth for the state of Michigan." The University's last payroll check under its expired 1958-59 budget was received froth the state yesterday, thus keeping the University on an even financial keel and escaping the threat of Slap at .Up In effect, the amendment is a slap at the University and Michi- gan State University who chtan- neled telebasts, of their football games on closed circuits, forcing the viewing public to pay. Lansing observers indicate both amendments will be killed in com- mittee, thus pushing the bill to Gov.. G. Mennen Williams for final 'approval. A third amendment--to increase the appropriations to smaller col- leges-touched off' lively speeches by B'ouse members, some opposing the "monster" universities-Wayne State, Michigan State anct the Uniyersity. Against 'Monsters' Rep. E. D. O'Brien (D-Deroit( asked support of the smaller col- leges, "not the monster univer- sities." He said the public is "getting poor value for its tax dollars." All three major universities could be handled more efficiently and with better educational achieve- ment if they were smaller, O'Brien claimed. "There are some creditable ac- tivities, I would assume, which could be done without," he argued. He declared himself against any budget increases except for salary adjustments. Blasts Big Schools O'Brien blasted the large uni- versities for not supplying adequate, information to the Legislature, and hiding behind their constitutional status when asked where state-ap- propriated monies are spent. "They supply information only when faced with the' threat of re- duced appropriations," he said. Rep. John Lesinski (D-Detroit) acknowledged that "over the years we've created these monsters - now we must sustain them or de- stroy them. I'm not in favor of destroying them." However, he continued, "we can best serve the public in the area of Quartet To Perform ROTC Rifle Range Comes Dowen where quick results may be ex- Th fl f the Re pected in the race with the United Office ri Terainge orpse eserve States for world industrial leader- quick extrainng Corps is ue for ship. The Committee has just con- Demolition of the building di- cluded a five-day meeting to size rectly behind the West Engineer- up Soviet industry at which Pre- ing Building and across from the mier Nikita S. Khrushchev was Undergraduate Library began this the main speaker. The results week with completion of the pro- filled more than three pages in ject expected within 30 days. two Soviet newspapers. The ROTC will move its rifles to the North University Building, formerly the Plant Department Long Suffers Building, where room has been al- lotted for 20 to 22 firing lanes in the north portion of the building. M ore Trouble The range is scheduled for com- pletion by the end of the summer COVINGTON, La. (IP) - Two in order to accommodate ROTC new kinds of trouble hit Gov. Earl sessions during the fall semester. | Long of Louisiana yesterday-his A ndgn ..%n in - .b -e s ti.