'Sensationalized and -Utterly 9 Lewd Material' in Bad Taste i • • -STATE NEWS i -FRANK B. SENGER c

another agonized EDITORIAL

; As of Wednesday morning, THE fensive. We knew, of course, that PAPER has not been banned from the some people who chanced to seethe campus. one issue might be mildly offended, _ Whether it will be, we don't know. The ASMSU Resolution but we can't write for the benefit Whether the Board of Student Pub­ of the WCTU, the Boy Scouts of Am­ lications intended it to be when it The following resolution was passed by a 10-2 vote of the Student erica, or even (Anne Garrison not­ revoked our authorization last Friday, Board of ASMSU Tuesday night, after a discussion and debate on withstanding) the class of 1916. we can only guess. Our guess is that the question of THE PAPER'S loss of authorization. If THE PAPER is not published for it intended EXACTLY that. people with a certain degree of ma­ That's the major reason we've been Whereas, the Student Board of ASMSU feels that the Board of Student Pub­ turity, it might as well not be pub­ so upset. lications' withdrawal of THE PAPER'S authorization was not consid­ lished at all. If our readers find There are plenty of minor reasons. ered in depth; and something we publish offensive, we For example, a prominent university Whereas, the Student Board feels that THE PAPER can be a definite asset would like to be told directly, so official has privately characterized to the student body and the academic community; that we can either state our defense the current controversy as a battle Therefore, be it resolved that ASMSU recommend: or admit our mistake. between those who want "decency" 1) that the authorization of THE PAPER be reconsidered, with any In this case, as it happens, we have and those who want "filth." charges made public to the editor of THE PAPER, and the editor of a defense. Paul Krassner is a lib­ Guess where WE wound up. THE PAPER be given an opportunity to discuss the situation with the ertarian, a (Webster:) "person who Our press clippings are getting Board of Student Publications; advocates full civil liberties." He really impressive. The State News 2) furthermore, that the Board of Student Publications codify and has shown in his writing and showed this morning referred to our printing publicize: in his talk at MSU a deep moral of "flagrant vulgar and inappropriate A) the ramifications of authorization, the rights and responsibil­ concern about the violations of indi­ language," 'condemned our " sensa­ ities of the publication, and the legal liability of the university; vidual freedom—freedom, that is, tionalized and lewd material," and B) the relationship of the Board of Student Publications to the from irrational and immoral re­ wound up calling either THE PAPER content of any authorized publication; and straints on speech or conduct. (Grant­ or some unspecified part of our last C) grounds, if any, for de-authorization of an authorized student ed, a more complete sampling of his issue "trash." publication; and remarks would have made this clear­ On the same page was a letter from 3) finally, that withdrawal of the authorization of any publication should er; but we thought our readers might Mrs. Anne Garrison, a member of the not affect that publication's right to distribute or sell on campus. reasonably expect a preponderance of pub board, calling us "prurient" and This resolution, upon passage, shall be sent to President Hannah, all humor.) apparently accusing us of a "viola­ members of the Board of Student Publications, the editor of the State News, One of Krassner's concerns is tion of a deep human need for social and the editor of THE PAPER, hypocrisy, the irrational prohibitions decency." of certain words in certain situations, The abuse heaped upon us probably words that happen to be the only ac­ ^^eh^^otft^*$0&&M «?trac ^tmax. be—but there's no need to bore any­ curate words availabl e-^-like f **k and when ^JLittle old lady (nobody noticed is that, when the pub board is dis­ one with it; the small insults and in­ f **t. We believe his remarks on the * ••" if she wCs'wfeafing sneakers) walked pleased with other authorized publi­ juries are our own problem. subject were funny and valid. past one of our salesmen, stared at cations (e.g., the State News) it calls There are, heaven knows, a few In any case, we ran THE WORD only him, and simply hissed. in the individuals accused of offend­ BIG questions around: "sensational­ to provide a point of reference for a What can we say? We are frankly ing the readership and counsels or ized and lewd material" and THE remark on American foreign policy, astonished by the uproar. At our disciplines them; it does not hastily PAPER'S right to distribute on cam­ in which he was explaining why on a staff meeting Sunday night, someone drop the whole publication. pus, for two. poster he had applied THE WORD to suggested we treat the whole affair When we were authorized, the pub Dick Ogar introduced Paul Kras- Communism. We can only agree with . as an in-joke between us and the pub board emphasized the need for a sner on stage May 7 as "MSU's Krassner that "any policeman who board. means of insuring THE PAPER'S next crisis." Little did he know . . • says that this appeals to his prurient Black humor, you know. permanence and stability after the He was only half right, though; the interest has a severe psychological Before we take up the question of, current staff had left the university. excerpts from Krassner's talk pro­ problem." God help us, "obscenity," we should In short, it clearly differentiated vided half our present troubles, but If anything else in the article of­ tell you a little more about the pub THE PAPER as a university institu­ his own article on nudity rounded out fended anyone, nobody has told us. board's procedures, which even the tion from its temporal staff. The the situation to a rich, full-blown cri- We think everything in it can be de­ State News managed to find "inex­ question is: if, by some hideous aber­ sis fended, but anyone who feels other­ cusable." ration, the State News had published First, what about Dick's article? wise is welcome to present cogent Everybody knows that we had no the articles in question, would ITS We liked it, personally, but people arguments to that effect. It Is, we warning, no opportunity to defend our­ authorization have been summarily have told us they found it "dry'? or guess, within the realm of possibility selves. What everybody doesn't know withdrawn? The answer should be "dull" or too "scientific," and we that we are wrong. is that Frank Senger, chairman of the obvious. can at least under stand their feelings. We do not consider anything the pub pub board, told us to stdy away from We find it insulting that the entire We CANNOT understand the feelings board has said to fall within the cate­ the meeting because it was almost value of THE PAPER as a voice in of those whose "prurient interest" gory of cogent arguments. Mr. Senger certain no action would be taken. He the community was judged on the ba­ (as the phrase goes) was, it seems, has called both articles "utterly in said that President Hannah personally sis of two articles. If we judged all dangerously aroused by it. bad taste." In what way? WHOSE idea * agreed that hasty action was inad­ publications on a similar basis, very It did not advocate the violent over­ of bad taste? If we were offensive, visable. few (and certainly not the State News) throw of clothing and included none whom did we offend and what good f What everybody doesn't know is that would survive the test. of the words often considered "un­ reasons did they have for being of­ the pub board's requirements for Apparently as an afterthought (no­ printable"; it was a psychological, fended? A gut reaction is not an ar­ authorization deal only with non-edi­ body ever tells us anything around sociological and philosophical dis­ gument. torial (i.e., business and personnel) here), the pub board justified its cussion of the topic, and since it was Mr. Senger has called the reasons standards of procedure, and that many action on the grounds of our "shaky all that, no wonder a few people found for the pub board's action "self- members of the pub board, including financial condition." Suffice it to say It dry. evident." Not to us, not to many the chairman, have frequently said that we are if anything in less shaky Even supposing that parts of it could continued on page 5 that the board was not concerned with financial condition than we have been be found in poor taste (which we the content of the publication. in for quite a while, have worked DON'T suppose), we can't understand Did he think that some observ­ Their less than two pages of vague harmoniously with the University how anyone who bothered to read it Business Office, have heretofore re­ ers might say that the board's rules indicate no guidelines for or could miss its "redeeming social rapid action constituted a viola­ interest in content, so that an author­ ceived nothing resembling a com­ importance," as the other phrase plaint about our finances. tion of The Paper's rights of due ized publication is vulnerable liter­ goes. process? ally to the whims of the individual Yes, there's more, much more— The quotes from Krassner included members, who are protected in their "I suppose," Senger said. for example, Mr. Senger's odd fail­ the words "f**k" and "f*»t." We —froifl the State News, May 16. opinions by an elastic clause in the ure to explain in his one-sentence suppose we could have run them last rules dealing with conduct "prejudi­ letter to us why the board had acted week with asterisks, too, although a cial to the best interests" of MSU. or what the consequences to us would discussion of the difficulty of finding euphemisms for "f**k" and "f«*t" (rather than their originals) might have looked a little strange on the pornography page. msu-cia hearing We expected, we suppose, that our film and camp readers would be mature enough not war correspondence to be offended by mere combinations msu-cia jeering of letters when the contexts in which poli. sci. resignations they were used were totally inof- • THERAPEUTIC RAPE Or, Happiness Is Just Around the Corner By RICHARD A. OGAR It did have a sign, though. "Ouer- Whenever I have nothing to do, or cus" something or other. —as is far more frequently the case SERGEANT: "Quercus ..." And —whenever I don't feel like doing at what time was this? anything that has to be done, I amuse COED: 8:37 myself with a little game which I SERGEANT: EXACTLY 8:37? You're call, suggestively enough, "imagina­ certain of that? tive coupling." The object of the game COED: Yes, you see my watch stopped is very simple: run through the morn­ at the moment of . . . ing paper and try to find two separate SERGEANT: "Watch stopped . . ." articles which would have been com­ 3ould you give me a description of the bined if the editors had possessed alleged attacker? (or so the assumption goes) as much COED: Well, he was tall, heavy set, imagination as yourself. about thirty, I guess. ' As an example, let's take two pieces SERGEANT: Hair? which appeared on page two of last COED: Yes. Black. And wavy. He had Friday's State News. The first, by a moustache too. . . Jim Spaniolo, purports to "answer" SERGEANT: Black? an amorphous group which Spaniolo COED: Yes. chooses to call' the "negativists" (never suspecting that every negative SERGEANT: A THIN black mous- implies its own positive). These neg- ativists, he says, have an annoying COED: Well, fairly thin. . habit of pointing out various flaws SERGEANT: Green eyes—a little in the structure of the University, beady? apparently unaware of the fact that COED: Yes. these self-same flaws exist in the SERGEANT: And a U-shaped scar on world OUTSIDE the university. Hav­ his left cheek? ing straightened them out on THAT COED: Yes, but how . . .? Do you point, Spaniolo goes on to urge the know who it is? negativists to stop complaining and SERGEANT: Yes, ma'm,.I do. be thankful that the problems DO ex­ COED: Then you'll have him arrest-. ist, since they provide an excellent ed right away? training ground for life on the out­ SERGEANT: No, ma'm. I'm afraid side; should the flaws be eliminated, we couldn't do that. he suggests, the artificial atmosphere COED: No! But why not? thus created would be extremely det­ SERGEANT: Well, you see, you were rimental to psychic health, as it would raped by Officer Williams. w produce extremely naive students VI COED: You mean he's a COP? whose subsequent entrance into so­ SERGEANT: Yes, he's a police of­ ciety would be accompanied by a form ficer. of delayed birth trauma which he ** ' c COED: But cops can't do THAT, can calls "acute culture (sic) shock." * ** they? "O 2 SERGEANT: Not normally, no. But Now ALSO on page two is a letter e this happens to be his assignment. » from Harry LaBelle suggesting that, 3 COED: You mean he's supposed to go 0) in order to keep our young ladies' D around RAPING everybody? sexual defenses up, the State News O SERGEANT: No, ma'm. Just the wo­ ought to publish "brief notes" on the inevitable conclusion: MSU was lady, her clothes Somewhat men. every rape which occurs on campus. failing to adequately prepare its coeds rumpled, approaches the COED: But why? The Editors, always ready to espouse for life in the real world. My mind Sergeant behind the desk. SERGEANT: We feel it's a necessarj a safe cause, express ^their apolo­ filled with images of little MSU alum­ COED: Sir? - - - gies for the "lack of such stories," nae wandering about the streets of SERGEANT: Yes, ma*mrwhat Cln t3b vers^^nliroi^^nt, you see, tends btit offer in their defense the start­ the Big City at night wholly unaware for you? to be a little too sheltered from real-^ ling statistic that, aside from two of the hideous fate they were tempt­ COED: I've been raped. ity, and we feel that this excessive abortive attempts (each duly report­ ing. SOMETHING, I felt, had to be SERGEANT: Are you absolutely cer­ safety on campus tends to build up a ed, they anxiously add), there has done to correct this gross educa­ tain? That's a serious complaint, you false sense of security. You see, only been one successful rape on tional oversight, and I began imagin­ know. people leaving the university tend to campus in the past five years. ing to myself a scene which might COED: Well, I can't be ABSOLUTELY take a lot of unnecessary chances Taking my cue from the fact that takej>lace sometime in the near fu­ certain—I mean this is the first once they get outside; so we've taken one rape per five years in a com­ ture ... time, and all—but from everything steps to simulate as closely as pos­ munity the size of MSU falls far be­ Scene: The headquarters of I've heard, I would have to consider sible the dangers that lurk out there low the national average, I reached the Campus Police. A young it a rape. so that students get a chance to cope SERGEANT (reaching for the com­ with such things before they leave. plaint book): All right/then. Where It's a way of preventing acute culture did this alleged rape occur? shock. By JIM DE FOREST COED: Under a tree. COED: You mean that if I get raped Screw U. SERGEANT (writing): "Under a after I graduate, I'll be better able During the recent financial diffi­ tree." Did this tree have any dis­ to handle it now? been saved. A160 note that Holden SERGEANT: That's our hope, ma'm. culties in which the State Legislature would not have taken up the entire tinguishing marks or characteristics? reduced the amount of funds allotted COED: No, none that I can think of. continued on page 7 fi^ld, leaving adequate recreating • to MSU, one side of the picture has space available to the South Campus not been presented. This is the Ad­ Complex residents. ministration of good planning and Year after year three or four management that has caused the law­ thousand more freshmen enter MSU makers to cut State's budget. Un­ than the year before. As a state fortunately, we, the students, are the institution we are supposed to take THE PAPER is published weekly during regular school terms by students ones who suffer. In reference, note of Michigan State University. Its purpose i6 to provide a channel for expres­ all qualified in-state applicants, but sion and communication of those ideas, events and creative impulses which the following: must we? If the Administration in­ make of the university community a fertile ground for the growth of human " On the front page of the April 6 sists on cramming more and more learning. It is toward fulfillment of the highest ideals of learning and free edition of the State Journal (upper students into our already stretched inquiry that THE PAPER hopes to help the university strive, by reporting left-hand side) is an article relating resources, the only result will be and commenting on the university experience and encouraging others to do so. the fact that before legislators, Pre­ THE PAPER has been authorized by the Board of Student Publications of a lowering of the quality of educa­ Michigan State University. sident Hannah and other high-ranking tion and of general comforts for all. Please address all correspondence to: officials admitted that the University Why not draw the line and concen­ THE PAPER was constructing, unauthorized, a $5% trate on quality. Quantity is no virtue. 1730 Haslett Road million classroom building. Our Ad­ East Lansing, Michigan 48823 (Office: 130 Linden Street, East Lansing) ' ministrators were embarrassed but While on the subject of cramming: Tel.; 351-5679, 351-6516 promised such a thing would not occur why do students who are placed three • again. in a two-man dorm room required Editor Michael Kindman to pay the same fees as two students Arts Editor Laurence Tate Until recently, several acres of living in a two man room? The in­ Editorial Assistant Carol Schneider paved, lighted parking lot existed convenience is worth financial re­ Business Manager Rebecca Crossley dress. Circulation Manager Gae Anderson south of Wilson Hall. This lot was in Staff Writers ' Louise Bono, Gregg Hill, operation no more than two years Carol Hurlbutt, Bill Kunitz, Douglas Lackey when, a few months ago, it was de­ The MSU-CIA affair influences the Faculty Contributions Char Jolles stroyed. Holden Hall is now being legislature, but much has been said Staff P*rn*grapher ,Richard A. Ogar built on the spot. What is interesting about this without need for further Advertising .."". Jim DeForest, Eric Ottinger, discussion here. Barb Riach is the fact that across Chestnut Road Subscriptions Judie Goldbaum to the east of Wilson Hall is a very Perhaps the State Legislature is m i large open, unused field. This field right, but, as mentioned above, why could have been utilized as the site of must we students be the ones who Holden Hall, and the expensive but suffer. We're innocent! Or are we? short-lived parking lot could have The Land-Grant Farmer Meets The City-Slicker Editor Text and Photos Or, what it was like at the ramparts of the state legislature By ELLIOT BORIN relations with the government that it Stretching his allotted ten minutes loses control of its overseas pro­ to forty-five, John Hannah Monday grams and weakens its traditional ac­ presented the Higher Education Sub­ ademic independence at home. committee of the House Ways and Hinckle said he did not oppose all Means Committee with a capsule overseas projects by universities but history of the world since 1945. that what disturbed him most about Prefacing each paragraph with the MSU's experience was that the pro­ words "if I had the time I would fessors did not speak out about the say," Hannah traced the growth of the fact that they were supporting a dic­ "land grant philosophy" of service, tatorship in the name of democracy. the spread of Communism in Europe, After Hinckle, the next to appear the history of Indo-China and the his­ was the much - maligned Wesley tory of the university's over seas pro­ Fishel, a long-time friend of Viet­ grams. namese dictator Ngo Dinh Diem, who Turning to Vietnam, Hannah stated started contradicting Hannah almost that the university had started its pro­ immediately after he began testifying. grams there reluctantly. He claimed Claiming that people in the field that four staff members sent to study had a "different perspective" from the situation were "unimpressed" and administrators in East Lansing he that only the repeated urgings of the admitted knowing from the day he Diem government and the State De­ "inherited" the program, in 1956, partment persuaded MSU to enter into that certain members were CIA the contracts. JOHN A. HANNAH WARREN HINCKLE agents. Hannah admitted that it wa&under- 4A Big University' 'Who made decisions?' Fishel replied to Ramparts'claims stood at the time that the program that he was responsible for MSU's would involve training a replacement accepting the project by stating that force for the French civil police. Project staff members said certain gating the job applications of the he merely acted as a go-between In defending the results of the pro­ individuals "looked like and talked three new men because they were for the Diem regime and the Foreign gram Hannah cited the more than 200 like intelligence people." nominated directly by the CIA. Operations Administration of the State publications about the project. Proudly proclaiming that he had Sheinbaum charged that these Department, with the FOA handling He also stated that we had learned found a copy of the gun inventory agents acted in complete secrecy, the negotiations with the university. sheet printed in Ramparts (presum­ that no one was allowed in their of­ "I had nothing to do with university two things from the experience. The ably he read the location in No. 13 fices and that they reported directly first is to fimit ourselves to projects of "The Paper"), Hannah tried to to the embassy. acceptace," he said. involving education and the second to Fishel seems to believe that the allow the individual academic de­ explain it away as an appendix to a Sheinbaum insists that he spoke "work-plan" designed to show what to Hannah about the alleged agents same "sightseeing group" that Han­ partments involved to decide whether nah described a s "unimpressed" they wanted to attempt a given project. was needed to train and equip a police at least once.. force. In Sheinbaum's opinion the Vietnam were most influential in persuading Hannah chided those who make cri- "It is true our people helped iden­ project produced nothing of value ac­ the university to undertake the as­ ticisms based on "today's know­ signment. ledge." tify what was needed and they might ademically and succeeded in removing have helped in seeing that these were several good professors from campus In response to Ramparts' charges "I don't defend American policy in distributed," he said. for years at a stretch. More seri­ that he was "the Biggest Operator of Vietnam, I don't exactly understand ously he feels that the program com­ them all," Fishel described his per­ it," Hannah said, adding that at the In answer to committee chairman Jack Faxon's query as to whether this promised the spirit of academic and sonal life while in Saigon. Even though time the university's decision seemed intellectual freedom that is necessary his salary was adjusted for a twelve­ a wise one. made MSU part of the purchasing procedure Hannah replied, "That's an for the proper functioning of an in­ month work year (as was that of the Under questioning from the seven- interpretation you could make." stitution of higher learning. He be­ ^emt^^S^niinitteei Hannah, Arthur t'^$&$t discussing the "phase-out" lieves that faculty members cannot &randstarter, chair man of the School of the "spy" program in 1959 ("we and will not function in a "clandes­ of Police Administration and Public tine," restricted atmosphere. Safety, and Ralph Smuckler, acting knew we didn't want 30 people in dean of International Programs, put Police") Smuckler admitted that it Sheinbaum said, "It is not coin­ may not have been proper for the cidental that MSU which 10 years ago on a veritable Punch and Judy show. university administration to get in­ A sample disagreement was over had one of the best political science volved in a program concerning coun­ departments in the country is this hiring staff for the counter-insur­ ter-insurgency. gency program. Hannah claimed they spring witnessing the departure of the were recruited openly, while Brand- Despite this admission by the Dean, last but two or three of this group." statter implied he had used personal Hannah later stated that he would Sheinbaum believes that in sub­ contacts in Army intelligence to get make no apologies for the overseas verting the interest of academic hon­ them. program. esty to those of the government we Asked whether the first person so "When the objective history is are being guilty of the same sins we hired was released from the program written in 30 or 300 years, we will always accuse the Russians of. come out well indeed and Mr. Hinck­ He says, "There is a far cry from le' s saying I'm a liar and my denying being a service to the community to it will make no difference," he said. being extensions of the state." The second witness before the com­ Warren Hinckle, editor of Ram­ mittee was Stanley K. Sheinbaum, parts Magazine, was the next witness STANLEY SHEINBAUM former campus coordinator of the to testify. Citing statements by former Vietnam project and now coordinator CIA head Lyman Kirkpatrick, Sen. The Man With The Golden Connections at the Institute for Democratic Stu­ Leverett Saltonstall and members of dies, a congressional candidate in the program alleging MSU involve­ other personnel), Fishel estimated it California and author of the^intro­ ment with the CIA, Hinckle accused cost him $5,000 of his own savings duction to the Ramparts article. Hannah of either dishonesty or ignor­ to live in Vietnam. In addition, he ance in denying these charges: said that he has more rooms in his In his statement, Sheinbaum at­ home in Okemos than he had in the tributed the controversy stirred up by "If in fact Hannah did not know of "opulent villa" Ramparts claims he the article to the general public's the existence of the CIA in the period growing anxiety over the'implemen- inhabited in Vietnam. Fishel also con­ of 1955-57 . . . who was making the tends that what Ramparts calls his tation of the government's Vietnam decisions at MSU at that time." policy. "chauffered limousine" was really "Was it Hannah, or was it assis­ a "stripped-down Plymouth." Somewhat unexpectedly, Sheinbaum tant professor of political science did not condemn the entire MSU pro­ The last person to appear before Wesley Fishel?" the committee was Adrian Jaffe, Pro­ ject. He praised the individual mem­ Hinckle also alleged that Hannah bers of the staff and the work of fessor of English. Jaffe, not a mem­ V;FSLEY FISHHL "lied" when he stated that the sus­ ber of the MSU project, taught at the • . such MSU creations as the National 1 pected CIA agents put in a full day's University of Saigon on a fellowship, 'Stripped-Down Plymouth Institute of Administration in Saigon. work on the project. early, Hannah replied that he did not He admitted to sharing the guilt of the 1957-58. In documenting this charge, Hin­ Jaffe told the committee that the know. Brandstatter said there was other academicians who did not speak ckle referred to the book, "Techni­ "no question" about the man's record out about the alleged CIA infiltration Vietnamese people could not distin­ cal Assistance in Vietnam: The Mich­ guish between the policies of the Diem and that he was not released until of the program and the repressive igan State University Experience," his contract expired. Smuckler vol­ measures of the Diem regime. regime, the university "advisors," by Professors Robert Scigliano and and the State Department because unteered that the man had left five "We were innocents. Those of us, Guy Fox, both former project mem­ or six months early. all three w«re involved with deten­ including myself, who knew of the con­ bers. tion camps, the secret police and other As in his press conference April nection (with the CIA) went along with According to Hinckle, the authors accoutrements of the police state. 22, Hannah denied ever having any it." complain that the alleged agents re­ contract with the CIA. Sheinbaum'claimed that it was ported directly to the embassy and In addition, he accused the univer­ -When asked whether he would ex­ Smuckler who first informed him of worked on secret activities impos­ sity of getting into a position det­ this connection. He alleged that the rimental to campus projects and un­ pect staff members who suspected sibly to evaluate in terms of the pro­ acceptable to "95 to 98 per cent" of certain individuals of being CI A oper­ number* of men in the CIA unit was gram. the faculty. atives to bring their suspicions to raised from two to five in 1957. In answer to questioning, Hinckle him he replied: According to Sheinbaum, Smuckler defined the "university on the make" Jaffe found it hard to believe that 9* . * "Yes and no, it's a big university. ordered him not to bother investi- as one which is so concerned with its continued on page 5 Dreyer's "Passion of Joan of Arc* By DOUGLAS LACKEY with the tiresome excuses that Grif­ Films A nd Camp fith's films require ("You must rec­ ognize that in those days . . /') •-Last year Andrew Sarris, film effects fairly undiminished through These( films, after 30 years, have critic for the Village Voice, wrote a time, while music and drama can be lost none of their powerful and im­ legative notice on William Wyler's continually brought alive through mediate appeal. All that is required 'Best Years of Our Lives" in which fresh, contemporary performances. are a few explanations of devices le commented "there are no such Cinema gets the worst of both worlds; r they employ that are not now in use; things as classics of cinema." Sar­ it lacks the stability of sculpture, once these are given, full rapport ris contended in his review that this and yet cannot be revived through new is possible. film had once been great, but that "performances." The second argu­ I will concede that the film med­ now it had decayed and was an "ob­ ment is that film presents overwhelm­ ium imposes great problems upon the solete masterpiece." He further im­ ing technical difficulties for the ar­ artist. This is why genuine master­ plied that this would be the case with tist, so that he never fully gets con­ there is no reason to accept is un­ pieces are so rare. Films are us­ all film "classics," due to the nature trol of his work, unlike the painter, less nothing else whatsoever offers ually expensive; they must be sub­ of the medium itself. who applies each stroke like a mon­ itself as an explanation. sidized by a large audience, and there These views raise some interesting arch. The parts of the movie that are J^et us look more closely at "ob­ is continuous pressure to bend to their problems in esthetics; they raise es­ out of control, then, are those that solete" masterpieces. Sarris be­ taste* They are also extremely luc­ pecially pressing problems for me, will decay with time and ruin the lieves that these films have grown rative, and the director is constantly since I direct a film society that makes whole film. A third contention is that bad with age, but is it not simpler victim to a Tiost of vultures—like its living by showing old movies. Can the strong sense of realism imparted to 6ay that they were bad in the first Guido Anselmi in "$&." Technically a work of art be a true masterpiece by the film image (more strong, per­ place? Can we not say that these films the difficulties are immense; the at one time, and not at a later? If haps, than in any other medium) ties were unduly praised upon their ap­ film is a combination of different not, why then do so many old films, the film down to its own time. Thus pearance, perhaps because they used media—photography, music, drama— hailed in their own time, today ap­ we can tell that "The Group" was technical innovations ("intoler­ and it is difficult for the director to pear clumsy, ludicrous, "campy"? made in 1966 and that a film in the ance"), or had sentimental appeal subordinate them all beneath a con­ Why, for example, will people watch 1930's was made back then, because ("Casablanca"), but that now a more trolling purpose. But these are prob­ 1930 fashions in "The Group" with­ "The Group" cannot shake off all the considered judgment shows them to lems that are all soluble, and indi­ out blinking an eye, and yet burst conventions and appearances of the lack the control and depth of feeling cate nothing that would permanently into titters at the first sight of wide year in which it was produced. This that produces lasting art? From the preclude the making of masterworks. lapels in some film made IN the argument lends support to the second, bad judgments of past critics one We should stop, therefore, either 1930' s? since this "automatic realism" ties cannot argue to the bankruptcy of the making excuses for old films or down­ It must be noted that this problem down the artist; he cannot choose to whole form; some "masterpieces" go grading them all indiscriminately, and is not a practical one concerning the^ be a realist—he must be one. sour, but all need not. apply to them the same standards we preservation of old film negatives, The second argument is plainly Even more telling than these the­ would in any other form. The many like those faced by the makers of false; every medium imposes its oretical arguments against Sarris*s masterpieces now obsolete were never newspaper collages. Many great films necessities; I do not think the cinema view is my belief that there really masterpieces at all, and there is no of the early period, and even modern unusual in this respect. The film are masterpieces that have not at all reason to believe that today's true films that depend heavily on evoca­ director is able to exert near total declined with age. I need not precede masterpieces (like "L'Avventura" tive photography (e.g. "Jules et Jim") control over the screen's succession showings of Eisenstein's"Potemkin" and "Hiroshima Mon Amour") will have suffered from physical deteri­ of images—witness any recent film or Vigo's "Zero for Conduct" or soon decay into the camp of tomorrow. oration, but Sarris*s view is that, of Antonioni. If it is true that the even if they were perfectly preserv­ film director rarely exerts full con­ PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS ed, they still would lose much of their trol, that is a mere matter of fact, artistic value. Neither is Sarris con­ not a theoretical problem. WKAR FM WEEK OF MAY 20-26 tending that the film artist deliberate­ The third argument I find rather r ly creates ephemeral objects, like the curious. We do not downgrade, a pri­ FRIDAY, MAY 20 tenor Franco Corelli is the pro­ 6:30 a.m. "The Morning Program/' clas­ gram's subject. contemporary musical compositions ori, realistic paintings of past ages sical and modern music, plus 8:00 p.m. "The Toscanini Era," hosted by that are designed to come out dif­ (eg. Ribera's works), and claim that news and weather summaries, Gary Barton. Tonight's compo­ ferently at every performance, or they will inevitably decay with time. hosted by Mike Wise. (Every sitions include: Beethoven's Monday through Friday, 6:30 - Symphony No. 6 in F; Kodaly's like "happenings" that by definition And I do not think the film director 8 a.m.) "Hary Janos Suite"; Tchaikov­ exist but for the moment. The serious is forced into realism; film may pro­ 8:00 a.m. News with Lowell Newton (Ev­ sky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasie- film director intends his film to last, vide a greater opportunity for realism ery Monday through Friday) Overture; and highlights from *w* ** 5A • — -- _— .„. ...Pucinni^s *?La Boheme/I..,, 1JBW- but the nature of the medium, thinks than any other form, but it does not 8:15 a.m. **TheScrapbook," mtrsicandfea-- 10:00 p.m. "Richard Heffrier Interviews" .. tures with Steve Meuche. (Ev­ Sarris, prevents him from succeed­ do so "automatically;" realism is an Dr. Allan Fromme, clinical psy­ ing. ery Monday through Friday) effect that must be achieved, worked 1:00 p.m. Musical, "Oh What a Lovely chologist and therapist. Sarris offered no theoretical argu­ for, just as in any other form. (A War!" MONDAY, MAY 23 ments to support his views; I can cube shot from the side appears a 7:00 p.m. (Special) "Coda on 39th Street: 1:00 p.m. Musical, "Camelot." think, however, of three. The first square; to present a cube the camera End of an Era/' a tour through 8:00 p.m. "Opera from Radio Italiana/' is that cinema is not a plastic or must be deliberately placed, and the the Metropolitan Opera House on Domenico Cimarosa's "The Im- its last day of opera. pressario in Trouble." visual art form, like sculpture or more detailed the realism, the more 8:00 p.m. Opera, Puccini's "La Boheme" 10:00 p.m. "Music of Today," the compo­ painting, but is more closely related work is required.) , starring Renata Scotto, Gianni sitions of John Cage. Poggi and Tito Gobbi. to drama and music. New painting and The first argument is overly vague rt TUESDAY, MAY 24 sculpture seem to preserve their and based on untestable premises; 10:30 p.m. Mahler's Symphony No. 7 ( Song 1:00 p.m. Musical, "The King and I". of the Night") performed by the 8:20 p.m. Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. Utah Symphony Orchestra. 1, performed by pianist Rudolf SATURDAY. MAY 21 Serkin and the Philadelphia Or- \ 1:00 p.m. "Recent Acquisitions," new re­ - chestra. cordings played and discussed by 9:00 p.m. Mahler's Symphony No. 8 ("Sym­ Gilbert Hansen and Ken Beachler. phony of a Thousand") perform­ Ann Arbor Students For A Democratic Society 2:00 p.m. "Album Jazz/' uninterrupted ed by the Rotterdam Philharmon­ music hosted by Bud Spangler. ic Orchestra. 3:00 p.m. Live from Interlochen, a concert WEDNESDAY. MAY 25 by the Michigan Honors Orches­ 1:00 p.m. Musical, "First Impressions." PRESENTS tra. 4:00 p.m. "Musicians Off Stage," an in­ f 7:30 p.m. The day's second concert from terview with tenor George Shir­ Interlochen, this time by the ley. Elektra Recording Artist Michigan Honors Band. (Live) 8:00 p.m. "FM Theater," Anne Jackson, 10:00 p.m. "Listener's Choice," classics Eli Wallach and Alan Arkininthe •' — by request until 1 a.m. Phone - contemporary Broadway comedy, • " 355-6540 during the program. "Luv." SUNDAY, MAY 22 THURSDAY, MAY 26 2:00 p.m. The New York Philharmonic in 1:00 p.m. Musical, "Babes in Arms." . Concert. 4:00 p.m. Anna Russell lectures on "How to 5:30 p.m. "Musicians Off-Stage," harpsi­ Write Your Own Gilbert and Sul­ PHIL OCHS chordist Sylvia Marlowe is in­ livan Opera." terviewed. 9:00 p.m. "Jazz Horizons" until midnight, 7:30 p.m. "Panorama of Italian Opera," with Bud Spangler. in concert *i * Hill Auditorium, University of Michigan Red Cedar Review *4 "Ochs is angry, clever, perceptive" —hLY. Times A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS Tickets $3, $2.50, $2 by mail: Available at the door VOICE office, S.A.B., *1 and in East Lansing at U-M, Ann Arbor, Michigar On Sale Friday Paramount News Center Union International Center Next Week: • FRIDAY, MAY20 8 30P.M Grand River at Splro's Berkey and Bessey 2v A I Believe In The Fighting Man. . .

Jim Thomas is a former MSU student who We make our holes comfortable as Though our complex holes seem long, month-long. During operations dropped out of school to Join the-Marine possible while we occupy them, whe­ quite settled, we possess America's we live in shallow holes bare of at­ Corps in Vietnam. He has been stationed ther that process involves complicat­ traditional urge for moving. At fre-_ mosphere. We seldom unpack to heat "near Danang" since the beginning of April. ed improvements like sandbagged quent bijt irregular intervals, we leave rations, never change clothes, shave This is the first of a promised series of essays on the life of an American fighting walls and ramparts, shelves, a spe­ home on operations pursuing the Viet or wash. We drink water from the man.—The Editors. . cial place to sleep, even a roof of Cong. Projected two - day walks paddies, rivers or Vietnamese hous­ ponchos, or something as simple as through the boottttocks become week- es, spicing it with soapy, antiseptic By JIM THOMAS removing rocks that dig into us. The more familiar luxuries are packed to halazone. • The guilt of my laxity in not send- holes cannot, however, be made pest- us by villagers; rotten ice, writing At each halt, we begin to dig and ind you something for publication has proof, watertight, or both shady and paper, an occasional soda, perhaps to improve. At some time between built itself to proportions I can't breezy. Nor can they provide cook­ poisoned. These luxuries, however rock-removal and sandbagging, the manage, so this exploded onto paper. ing and sanitary facilities. small, materialize like miracles when new hole becomes home. Now, for a while, I can live with my­ Ants of several sizes, mosquitos we spend a few nights in one 6pot. self. of all kinds, sanct-fleas, lice, beetles If the subject is shopworn, it may to four inches long, centipedes, spi­ have the merits of its defects--ac­ ders, mites, wasps, true bugs and cording to a store-owner of my ac­ the larvae of all that have larvae The Traditional Rose quaintance, the way to sell an old ar­ wriggle, buzz, prickle and just plain ticle is simply to keep putting it on crawl over us. Snake holes we learn When whippborwills were whirling display, perhaps with rewrapping. to tolerate, for their occupants often Against the moon, above the fields become quite pet-like, controlling Of home, crying their rain-crow notes, If this is lacking in philosophic I wa s told- of mottled eggs laid close overtones, there are several reasons toads, frogs, mice, and some insects. The poisonous snakes we recognize , Under logs, while naturalists why. Reading the article will make Bemoaned the lack of a nest. one apparent—my job of combatting die quickly; giant rats live on. When it rains, our holes seep full, w t Vietnam and the Viet Cong exhausts Poets go down archives into the years, both the capacity and the desire to and during endless nights of guard watch we almost feel our feet rotting. Scrabbling pens preserved to feed "conceptualize" those very battles. A few reflections, to fill Then, too, this is kindergarten, what When the sun strikes skin like the blast from a hot oven, we rig our Professors' spacious cogitation. everyone in my position knows, but But oh, the traditional rose, what you can't know. And no amount roofs, debating afresh whether sun or trapped, superheated air is hotter. Pressed to retain its memory, of philosophizing will ever bring you Evokes remembrance of romance— ; closer to the basics. I hope I have We rig ponchos high so the wind can done so. That instruction, as I've circulate inside, and spend the day •• told you, is what I want your readers striving to stay within a tiny square And poetry may infuse paper to get; for I believe in the fighting of shade. After a rain, no breeze With delicacy precious man and what he goes through—not blows, so we take down the shade, As a butterfly wing, inviting what he does nor what he has done hoping the hole will dry before night­ The touch which would smear vein and color, to him. After kindergarten, more ex­ fall and the next rainfall. We walk a Tracery of letters and visions. position and expostulation—all right? few yards behind our homes, dig The trick is to capture the breathing thing, smaller holes, and attend to our per­ Not accidental immortality, HOW WE LIVE sonal needs. When, during the dry Thought it meet the needs of a species. seasons, there is enough water, we JIM THOMAS near Danang bathe in helmets. The smart ones May 7, 1966 stay clean-shaven because of heat, Once or twice a month, any ser­ sand, and insects. viceman in Vietnam can draw a sure When there is time, we heat our laugh by reading aloud part of his rations on a stove made from an empty The Farmer Meets continued from page 3

mail, the type that goes, "We've been can, using the patent paraffin tablets • • + reading about the Orient. Do you have so thoughtfully made the slightest the administration would have kept word. He added that it seemed evident rznuch chance for liberty in Saigon?" bit too small to heat an entire meal. supporting Diem if it had realized that there were intelligence opera­ . Or another, "We want you to tell us -Hot food brings on an honest, clean the burden this put on the shoulders tives active in the program but that everything that happens, now." Or, sweat, opposed to commonplace of any American professor legiti­ they could just as easily have been "Joe, we've been so worried. Can we sweat. We eat C-rations, which come mately trying to work abroad. from the FBI or Army intelligence send something for your cold?" in a case of twelve little boxes, each "The only thing a professor has is as the CIA. To all of us, civilian workers, a meal; the same dozen meals, with­ his intellectual honesty," Jaffe stat­ The committee report will be is­ infantrymen, pilots, even sailors in out variation, to a case. They quick­ ed. "If he gives this up he runs a sued after replies are received to their offshore mansions, come the ly become "little green cans of mis­ risk of harming himself and his pro­ queries sent Dean Rusk, Lyman Kirk- same sorts of heartfelt message. We ery," but methods of modifying and fession/* patrick, Leverett Saltonstall and oth­ have our particular discomforts, im­ disguising their taste multiply, a new "There are many activities which ers involved on the periphery of possible of description to homebodies, one seeming to spring from every are legitimate in themselves that are MSU's Vietnamese tragi-comedy. and the folks' ineffectual comfort- experience with an unadulterated ra­ not legitimate for a university." The report will contain a statement ings and curiosities bring the same tion. Often we go hungry a day or so, Thus ended the "great investiga­ of what the committee believes to be laughter. It is not that we deride until approaching starvation drives tion." After the hearing, committee the facts and, most likely, recom­ their efforts, only that the gulf be­ us again to search for the miniature chairman Faxon stated that he thought mendations for the future conduct of tween two worlds is so maddeningly, can opener. the university had bought guns, though international programs. so laughably wide. From the PX, that wonderland be­ maybe not in the literal sense of the The hearing did make one thing We, the combat infantrymen, live yond our feeble reach, sometimes clear, namely that the university had in holes sometimes, under fire scrab­ come candy, cigarettes, soap; from been caught with its pants down in bled from an Earth hostile to our the mess halls light-years away, Radio Commercial of the Week Vietnam. Someone, perhaps better survival, sometimes, in leisure, al­ oranges, fresh eggs and raw pota­ (from a commercial for the Farm un-named, decided he could apply the most lovingly scooped out. toes. These are helicoptered in; far Bureau Store): "May is a good month theories of land grant agriculture to to fertilize.'"" ^^^^ "land - grant imperialism." Thank heaven he was wrong. EDITORIAL THE PAPER'S special prize for the editorial most perfectly answer­ ing the old tuneful question—"What Yemenite Pins students and professors we have talk­ not withdrawn, the pub board's power are the real things in life to cling Cornelian Rings ed to, not to the Student Board. to withdraw authorization would serve to?"—goes this week to (we assume) What is "self-evident" to Mr.Senger no purpose." Jim Spaniolo of the State News for is "insanity" to many others. Are^ we to assume that the board the following: ". . • the biggest In ANY case, the university can meant to take a purposeless action? event of the year—Water Carnival." have no right to prohibit our dis­ And Mrs. Garrison refers to "the at the tribution on campus. As the State latest (perhaps the last) issue of News suggests, "It's time for stu­ THE PAPER/' SHE clearly assumes The Words of the Prophets Award, dent publications to publish and dis­ that removal of authorization implies Number III goes to the homesick tribute freely on campus"; those who drastic consequences. literary scholar who reached into his find THE PAPER "trash" simply The consequences (except for the prenatal past and came up with the 211 Abbott Road will not buy it. Fine. We accept following for the walls of a Union abuse and the manifold inconveni­ John: "Momism is groovy." (next to btot. Th«otr«) those terms. ences we have suffered) have not yet Tues. - Sat: 10:30 - 5:30 But THE PAPER won the right to been visited upon us. University Sec­ Wed.: 10:30 - 8:00 distribute legally on campus ONLY retary Jack Breslin must now de­ Come — Shop after pub board authorization was cide. We are waiting; we are hoping. granted us. We bothered to get auth­ We are NOT resigned. Paramount Fresh & Replenished orization only because not getting it would have meant effectively bannning News Center Government /

us from the campus. & When authorization was withdrawn, SINO-AMERICAN "CULTURE-FEST" Over 1,500 Paperback Political Science we assumed the board intended once Films: Peking Opera—"Young Swal­ again to ban us. And one of its most lows (Spread Their Wings)"--Chi­ Titles In Stock prominent members, James Denison, nese acrobatics. Thursday, May 19, Sporran Bookstore (we quote the State News) "said 8:30 p.m., Room 32 Union. Donation 211 Evergreen Monday afternoon that if THE PA­ 50 cents. All welcome. 7 a.m. - 11 p.m. 223-225 Ann Street PER'S permission to distribute were East Lansing What Makes Hannah Fudge:? By JOHN P. DELLERA i > Michigan State has probably sur­ may ask our proud president one more for the university to do something years ago we accepted too much gov­ vived the obnoxious pother of Ram­ day to run for the U.S. Senate. of this sort, official action would have ernmental influence in the project parts, and in a way, we should all be Mr. Hannah's explanation has most been required. because we mistakenly believed the happy: happy that our degrees will likely been eagerly lapped up by most Unofficial, informal arrangements overall experience would be helpful still have economic value in spite of taxpayers, and probably the legis­ such as understandings between in­ to Michigan State University"? the institution's name on the face, and lators will be more than eager to dividuals might be a little different. We are all equally capable of an­ happy that poor Dwight Eisenhower plunge in May 16. It is well for all, Suspicion that such arrangements swering the questions "why"?—and we might note, that though the solil­ might have been made is increased certainly protection of MSU's other oquy is to be performed in the spank­ by Hannah's statement that the famous overseas projects and even protec­ ing new Appeals Courtroom in Lan­ call he received from Washington was tion of the university and its per­ CLASSIFIEDS sing's Prudden Building, there will be not from Eisenhower, Nixon or John sonnel from the embarrassment of no sanction to tell the whole truth Foster Dulles, but was from "some­ old mistakes are the most obvious are clean and nothing but the truth. Mr. Hannah one very high up." One "someone possibilities. But it is difficult to is to reassure the legislators that ev­ very high up" not excluded by Hannah conceive of any real excuse for a^ de­ erything is all right and they needn't is Allen Dulles, and the president's liberate attempt to distort or hide the Coming Events worry so long as the annual appro­ refusal to identify his called might full and complete truth. NELSON ALGREN will" be in East priation is large enough; in such possibly have been an exercise of Lansing Thursday, May 19, at 9 p.m. things as this, it must be said, our "discretion as the better part of The university is supposed to be the in Spiro's back room, to give a president has ample experience. valor." At least Mr. Hannah's hand­ mainstay of free inquiry, integrity of reading and discussion of his works. And so it seems that quietude will ling of the issue somehow prods the ideas, and abhorrence of political Called by Ernest Hemingway the proselytism or the selfish use of greatest living American writer, Mr. soon return to what Russell Kirk imagination. M Algren's books include "A Walk on calls "the happy campus," and we On the other hand, maybe Hannah knowledge. In truth, the academy's the Wild Side/' "The Neon Wilder­ may all soon resume our roles of never did know that the CIA intended entry into politics is an ever more ness," and "The Man with the Gold­ being pacifically happy. to use MSU. Maybe he meant to say, prevalent phenomenon around the en Arm." Copies of his books will world which has made this rather be available. $1. While the impending exercise in "The university never knowingly pro­ futility will probably mark the end vided cover . . . ." It is at least con­ idealistic role more difficult, but Poet, Folksinger, Guitar player Fred­ of most public noise, however, there ceivable that he never suspected CIA while any 1955 collaboration with the erick Eckman will give a reading and should be little doubt but that Michi­ agents were busily working at their CIA or any misconception of a project discussion of his works Wednesday, may have seemed proper enough in the May 25, at 9 p.m. in Spiro's back gan State has indeed suffered consid­ own end of the building, driving their $ room. Mr. Eckman, poet-ln-resi- erable damage in the aftermath. The own cars, etc., etc., as Scigliano face of the difficulties of being vir­ 1 dence at Bowling Green University, true measure of the loss may never said. Maybe MSU was, indeed, "on tuous, it was nevertheless a viola­ is the fifth and final poet coming to be free of its distinguished cloud the make" in those days, and univer­ tion of what should be this academic East Lansing this year in the Pro­ cover, in part because it was just sity officials sought to avoid unplea­ trust, and anything less than a candid files Series sponsored by Zeitgeist. avowal now can only increase the $1- this aftermath—the official university santness in their quest for the all- statement to "set the record straight" round "happy campus." severity of the misbegotten act. MAY 20, 685. Battle of Nechtans- —which has wrought the damage mere. King Brude led the Picts into President Hannah's 'ludging" on I wonder through it all whether the battle and defeated the invading North­ rather than the relatively trifling pro­ the matter of guns is more obvious, administrator-politician can fill the umbrians, whose king was slain. This fiteering of magazine publishers. and, with CIA influence, it brings us role of running a university: a role H victory destroyed Northumbria's mil­ It might be helpful for present which seems rightfully to belong to itary power. Celebrate this great to the point of present concern: why day. UFCP note—motion for the an­ purposes to contrast the accounts of the ambiguity? Why, if Professor the scholar. Mr. Hannah has on more nual celebration tabled indefinitely. the "M.S.U. Affair"--just one more Scigliano could state authoritatively than one occasion demonstrated the M20M. time, if even this is palatable—by that "we called them CIA" did Pre­ mutual exclusion of the two roles, • recounting the views of project lead­ sident Hannah seek to leave the im­ and once again there is unfortunately Service er Professor Robert Scigliano and pression that such knowledge was no question as to his identity. This University President John Hannah. only a "suspicion" among "some"? fact has all kinds of Ideological sig­ DON'T PERISH These two gentlemen probably Know Why has so much been lert to the nificance consistent with "the science, YOU COULD WRITE PROFESSION­ What There Is To Know, but they imagination of the observer reading of idiocy" whether it be left or right, ALLY—if you took the time to learn. seem to disagree on some popular is­ the university's denials? Why didn't but we will do well to confine our You could also TYPE your thesis sues. The former said on campus Hannah say, after all, "Yes, eleven concern to MSU and its hierarchy. yourself, couldn't you? But if you're writing your dissertation now or just that Stanley Sheinbaum told him CIA preparing an article for publication, men were working in the Vietnam y you can be Sure you say what you project though such information mean. Let your ideas get through should not be publicized. His view is LETTERS your words. Help your readers enjoy your papers. Whatever your writing corroborated by former CIA Director difficulty, call the Students' Rewrite Lyman Kirkpatrick who, when inter­ Service (353-3693) for efficient, ex­ viewed at Brown University, said that YOU Might HaVe KnOWn Or, It Only Hurts When You Lough perienced cutting or editing at rea­ the CIA had contracted with MSU; sonable rates. Foreign students'pro­ blems cheerfully tackled. Hannah said in a news conference Well, you should hav seen it com­ off the important things in the uni­ that CIA personnel were not operating ing. You were going to get slapped versity like Water Carnival, TG's, PUBLISH under cover provided by the univer­ down sooner or later. After all, re­ and sports! sity, and his view is also corrobor­ vealing Hannah to be a palindrome But have no fear, your president Personal ated by Kirkpatrick who later said wasn't too bad but the "John" story is here. He will see to it that the Need time to think things over. Ouak- that he could have been misinformed. and that PORNOGRAPHY by Richard passive, apathetid student body will be er worship is based on silence. East Lansing Friends Meeting. Discus­ Pressed by questions, Hannah added A. Ogar (not to be confused with provided with a publication and peo­ sion, 10; Meeting for Worship, 11; a slightly different color to his pre­ Richard J. Ogar, award-winning and ple to run it that will do nothing to H Sundays. Visitors welcome. Corner pared statement by saying "suspi­ upstanding vet student, as the State disturb them. And also, that free, of Trowbridge Road and" Arbor Drive cions" were abroad within the team independent papers by the students, (Capitol Grange). For information, News pointed out so ably) demanded call ED 2-1998. Transportation, 351- that the CIA had infiltrated the pro­ action. All this, not to mention at­ for the students will soon perish from 5217. ject without the university's know­ tacks on the State News, fine piece of this university, so help us Hannah! ledge, though he didn't have any such journalistic endeavor that it is, and the Daniel Drew Atheists, agnostics, humanists, and suspicions himself; there was no fraternities—how much is the univer­ confused believers: if you're around question in his mind one way or the here this Summer, stop by the Alum­ sity community supposed to take? ni Memorial Chapel on Sundays and other, in other words. Thank God the State News is AD­ M catch the "Celebration of Life" ser­ As to the purchase of weaponry, VISED so the students don't have to Inconsistency? ies sponsored by the Student Religious Liberals and the Unitarian-Univer- Hannah caught hold of a good thing worry about the quality coming from I quote you, somewhat Inaccurately . sailst Church. and declared a little dramatically there—we know what it's going to be perhaps: "Hence, modesty—the fear that MSU had never bought guns. In a like. (Anyhow Charles C. Wells would of nakedness—is a manifestation of V ATTENTION EGOTISTS! Worktohelp panel discussion, Wesley Fishel also never write the things you do and I'm distrust, a fear of the truth . . . But someone else this summer. Work- took too much advantage of Ramparts* because modesty is merely a symp­ camp volunteers needed: half to three sure he wouldn't bring his Commu­ s months in U.S. or Canada. Physical indiscretion, for it seems well es­ nist, radical, filthy speech friends tom is no reason for refusing to at­ 1 labor or social work. Seven U.S. tablished that no weapons or police here to corrupt us.) tack it ... " And slightly later in a camps definite; three others waiting gear was, in fact, purchased by the Besides, you guys aren't so hot— related context: "There seems to be volunteers. Free room,, board. Pay university. But Scigliano adds a new no justification for leaving the doors your own travel. Write now: Interna­ you didn't get mentioned in this tional Voluntary Service, 1116 East dimension to the question by saying month's Harper's like the State News off. This might possibly be justified 54th Place, Chicago. that while technically, no such pur­ and The Michigan Daily did. (The if it did any good ..." chases were made, in effect they Daily was mentioned as an example Under the presupposition that "The were. The MSU personnel were the of the best in college newspapers Paper" makes no claim to purport only advisors to the procurement of SPECIAL!!! and our own S.N. was mentioned in a unified and consistent view of things, 4 police equipment, and apparently, connection with the Schiff case cen­ neither of the articles referred to "The Paper" is beginning a special whatever they recommended was, in sorship and editor resignation—more proposes any action less absurd than "Pornography" section of its class­ fact, requisitioned for the Vietna­ fame for good old MSU). This article, the other, and nay criticism thus ifieds column, now that it is free to mese. by Jeff Greenfield, SL former editor derived would be a begging of the print anything it wants, uncensored. In view of differences in chosen of the Wisconsin paper, spouts num­ question. Get in on the ground floor! Run your emphases, there is probably nothing erous scurrilous ideas—like, "a free On the other hand, if such a claim very own pornographic ads (ex.: which President Hannah said with re­ student press, even if it is often im­ is made or alluded to, one can only "Sleep Communism! Just $2. Call gard to these questions that Professor mature, emotional, and disrespect­ imagine whether any of the paper's Scigliano could disagree with. In­ ful (like "The Paper") might be writers is shouting "Go Naked" from 974-6850") FOR THESE OR ANY terpreting the statements narrowly, worthwhile to a college." Well now, the midst of a giggling (and maybe CLASSIFIEDS, call 351-5679 or technically, and superficially, it is just think how many alumni, legis­ shivering) crowd, or is busy behind 351-6516, or leave your ad pre­ probably true that the university never lators, and administrators you would a closed John door—or perhaps bet­ paid at Paramount News, 211 "provided" cover for CIA agents. offend, not to mention (horro r s!), ter, both—in which case the sound Evergreen. "Provided" is an active verb, as op­ perhaps even disturbing some stu­ is deadened a bit. posed to passive, and, presumably, dents and taking their little minds Ryan Overbeek, sti"* One Man's Rationale Upon Leaving MSU or so. On the other hand^ establish­ MEMO ed departments including this one, FROM: Charles R. Adrian will be able to attract outstanding TO: Graduate Students young faculty members. We have done this in recent years and we have an (copies to faculty) outstanding group of new members SUBJ ECT: My resignation coming next fall, all of them from You probably know by now that I fine graduate schools. have decided to resign my position The loss of Mr. Meyer is more here in order to accept a similar serious than is my own. The courses position at the University of Cali­ I have taught can be taught as% well fornia, Riverside. Because Profes­ or better by Messrs. Press, Zib- sor Meyer has also resigned, in order latt, and Karan. To replace Mr. to accept a position at the University Meyer, I have urged the Dean and of Michigan, I thought I should indi­ Provost to permit the recruitment cate to you my confidence in the of an established scholar at the As­ continuing soundness of this depart­ sociate Professor or Professor level, ment and university, even though I and I believe that such permission would not wish to pretend that a num­ will be granted. The chairmanship ber of resignations in recent years itself is important, of course, to the have not been harmful to the depart­ welfare of students and faculty. I see ment. no reason why an individual who can At the present time, experienced do a better job than I cannot be teachers and researchers a re in named to the position. Virtually ev­ * scarce supply everywhere and some ery man, according to the law of invasion of the staff of every es­ large numbers, is expendable. Change 'Ya gotta admit: them fellas tablished department is to be ex­ may be upsetting in that it creates ' pected now and in the coming decade uncertainties, but it is likely to mean have got a swell sense a humor/' a movement toward desired goals. In deciding to move, I am accept­ ing a higher salary in a part of an outstanding university system, but I do so by taking some risks. The un­ Are Student Protests Misdirected? dergraduate body at UC, Riverside is equal or superior to that ot MSU, but from tmngs like this one gets the concerns should be THE QUALITY OF By CHARLES HOLLEN picture of a small, helpless individual the department has only recently be­ Every once in a while, you come THE EDUCATION his university of­ gun a doctoral program. Its chances crying out "Help! Stop! Wait!" for a fers. There are other people, outside for success at the graduate level are across a particularly pathetic, small brief moment, before being buried the university, who will (at least some voice crying out^ against "the sys­ under the inexorable "progress" of good, of course, because of the great tem/' In a recent letter to the editor of the time) carry on the dialogue demand today for admission to grad­ the system." It's sad. All they seem about "off-campus" issues. But if uate schools. UC, Riverside, was for- of the State News, two young ladies to want is a decent chance to study the student fails to notice or concern protested the closing of the Gilchrist and learn. msrely a small, liberal-arts college dining hall. They seemed to realize himself with the quality of the uni­ within the university system. A few Student protests this year, at MSU versity, no one else exists to do it years ago, the Regents decided to the futility of their plea—"We are and elsewhere, seem to have been aware of the University's position and for him. make it a "general" campus, which directed increasingly toward national Why do today's student protests means there will be a number of col­ are resigned to our fate." They only and international political issues, asked for a small concession—"We seem to lack a focus on the quality leges and schools and an eventual such as civil rights and the Vietnam of the education they are getting? Is enrollment of 25,000 students. As a nowJia>va~fte«tudy facilities except our war. This is fine. It shows that to- ^tlSSng room which may only be used it because today's students feel that result of the change, some faculty day*s^students (some uT-them) are they are helpless—that the university (who preferred strongly the earlier •after 7 o'clock. And we have no typing becoming aware of more significant rooms except for a single table in the as a "system" is unassailable? Or plan) have left, and a new. Chancel­ concerns than panty-raids or beer- perhaps because they don't know any lor, Vice-Chancellor for Academic basement, where it is so hot I am chugging contests. But lest we forget, sure we must be sitting on top of the better—they take the multiversity for Affairs, Dean of Letters and Science, there is another, highly vital issue granted because they have never ex­ and department chairman have been boiler. If our dining room must be confronting us—the university itself. eliminated . . . please let us have a perienced any alternative? installed or named. I see an oppor­ little peace and quiet and a nice study Paul Goodman has suggested that No doubt it is SAFER to protest tunity to share in the development area," one of the student's most important about relatively far-away situations of a growing new institution which like Vietnam than ones closer to home. already has an established reputation The chance of retribution in such and fine students. But I am not ac­ THERAPEUTIC RAPE cases is relatively slight. Is that the cepting a "surething."Theprospects reason, for some people? fo£ future academic growth of MSU COED: Golly! And all my life I've backs. The Schiff controversy was cer­ are also attractive. thought cops were bad guys. COED: Oh? What sort of drawbacks? tainly a local issue. But it seemed Finally, I should say that I am not SERGEANT: We try very, hard to SERGEANT: Well, the men on the rape really more of a "civil rights" case, leaving because of a loss of confi­ break that image, ma'm. squad have all been sterilized. We rather than a "quality of education" dence in MSU, even though I do have COED: Well, you've certainly con­ can't take a chance with pregnancy, issue. It focused on procedural mat­ some feelings of dissatisfaction with verted me. you see. ters (the right to distribute literature, our top administration. (I am not so SERGEANT: The boys on the force COED: But don't girls sometimes the right of due process). Important? naive as to believe that other in­ will be very glad to hear that. get pregnant? In the REAL rape, I Certainly, but now what about some stitutions are perfect.) The recent COED (after a pause): Since you've mean? things that are going on in the educa­ unfavorable publicity resulting from really so nice, could I ask a favor SERGEANT: Yes ma'm. tional process itself? the childish Ramparts article or the of you? COED: Well, then, haven't you spoil­ I am hot suggesting that we students inadequate response of top adminis­ SERGEANT: Certainly. ed the whole thing, then? I mean, how should abandon the dialogue about tration to it has nothing to do with my COED: Would you give Officer Wil­ can I learn to cope with the fear Vietnam or civil rights. On the con­ decision to accept the California of­ liams a message for me? of being pregnant if I can't get preg­ trary. fer. This university, I believe as I SERGEANT: Yes, ma'm. nant? But in addition, I hope that we ALSO have always believed, has a future COED: Well, tell him that I have a SERGEANT: That's, unfortunately, will develop an intelligent and rea­ among the finest universities of this class in Berkey every Tuesday and one of the concessions we've had to soned dialogue about questions like country. Next year, once again, our Thursday from seven to eight-thirty make to University policy: if you the following: department will have a superior group and that I walk back .... were to get pregnant, you see, you'd 1. How many courses do you have in of undergraduate and graduate stu­ SERGEANT: I'm afraid I can't do have to leave school. which you write papers instead of dents and a superior faculty. We may that, ma'm. COED: Of course. I'd forgotten. Gee, merely taking, multiple - choice ex­ not stand five standard deviations COED: NO? you guys think of everything! ams? What difference, if any, do you from the norm among departments of SERGEANT: No, I'm afraid not. SERGEANT: We do our best. (Look­ think this makes? political science—few of us can hope COED: I mean, I don't want to be ing up at the clock). Will you be going 2. How many courses do you have ever to be associated with that small selfish or anything, but—well, I'm back to the dorm now? which are small enough to carry on a handful—but we are much closer to really a very timid sort of person, COED: Yes, I suppose so. Why? real DISCUSSION, and how many are three than to two standard devia­ you see, and now that I know about SERGEANT: Well, if you promise not lectures? Do you think this makes a tions. I hope that none of you will take the dangers of acute culture shock and to tell anyone I told you, I'll let you difference? Mr. Meyer's resignation or mine as all that—well, I just didn't want to be in on a little secret. 3. How many professors are there a note of no-confidence in this de­ half safe. COED: Oh, I'd never tell! in your department whom you have partment, college, or university. I SERGEANT: I can understand your SERGEANT (whispering): If you hur­ never seen, because they are away leave with many misgivings, for I concern, and I really wish we could ry, you might still be able to catch on overseas projects? have enjoyed my association with the help you, but you must realize that Officer Jackson over by the Library. 4. Are the best, most learned pro­ university, my colleagues, and you. there are thousands of girls on this He's out on purse-snatching tonight. fessors in your department teaching campus, and we just can't get enough COED: Oh, thank you. (She kisses any undergraduate courses? How men to handle the job. him impulsively). I'll get going right many? COED: You can't? I should think it away. (Turning back at the door) And 5. Are your dormitory living ar­ "A university is what a college r would be rather easy. to think, I used to believe I was rangements conducive to studying and becomes when the faculty loses in­ 'SERGEANT: Yes, it would seem that nothing but an IBM card here. (She terest in students." — John Ciardi I way, but the job does have its draw- exits on a dead run). (Saturday Review, May 21, 1966)

• > Political Science Resignations

a * Unhappy Men At fThe Happy University' creased enrollment means increased ByCHARJOLLES faculty or not." He called the Na­ The Political Science Department, tional Merit Scholarship program "a despite public declaration to the con­ fine gimmick which was ruined by the trary, has disintegrated for a while. unabashed hucksterism with which it The department has disintegrated be­ was promoted." (SN, 5-13) It seems - fore, namely in 1963, but with ad­ to me that Adrian's resignation is mirable resilience has replenished its more than routine. supply of men good enough to catch Scigliano, too, noted that "the in­ the eyes of other schools. crease in enrollment at Buffalo will Bypassing the pep talks one un­ be slower and planned on a state­ doubtedly hears from deans and chair­ wide basis." Meyer has been more men, one can make some revealing vocal with his dissatisfaction than discoveries about the kinds of con­ have the others; besides, he has ad­ ditions that breed resignations, and mitted publicly that he thinks he is thus, the conditions that seem to exist going to a better university. in our Department of Political Sci­ One might argue, then, that the na­ ence. ture of MSU is indeed a factor in the The resignations of department resignations, and that one of the dis­ chairman Charles Adrian, and full satisfactions, however subtle, is with professors Alfred G. Meyer and Rob­ the general intellectual atmosphere of ert C. Scigliano were prompted by our administration. what can .be safely called a coinci­ It has also been suggested to me dence of several factors; broadly that the department itself lacks a speaking, these were the nature of certain internal cohesion. Scholars, the academic market, the nature of cently collapsed. The turnover rate MSU, and chance. To hear the men various members of the Political it was noted, can teach and write at Buffalo, where Scigliano will go, Science Department that the men books anywhere; MSU's Department • talk, one would conclude that the na­ has also been high. MSU's depart­ who resigned in March, 1963, were of Political Science has no exciting ture of MSU wasn't a factor at all: ment has the highest personnel turn­ dissatisfied with the decision^making projects that have grown out of in­ "The men who resigned ... # deny over in the College of Social Sci­ habits Of the administration and the dividual interests and that reflect that their departures are anything ence. future of MSU as outlined in the r^-' some intellectual activity. Instead, more than routine departures for MSU's Political Science Depart­ ports of the Educational Development the department gets involved in var­ greener pastures. ment is particularly vulnerable; be­ Program, known at that time as Pro­ ious kinds of service activities, and "They praised their department and cause its men are good, they get the ject X. the university as a whole leaps into their colleagues. Research funds were offers. It was once suggested (by Project X, or EDP, is a division one service project after another, adequate .... Adrian, they say), that MSU should of the provost's office which coordi­ devoting less and less time and money **They denied that the Vietnam con­ try to stabilize its Political Science nates and facilitates projects de­ to the promotion of intellectual ac­ troversy sparked by an article in the Department by avoiding hiring men signed to cope with increased en­ tivity and quality programs. There are April issue of Ramparts magazine from the Ivy League (i.e., generally rollment and limited faculty and fi­ no common intellectual pursuits, no good men), because they leave too nancial resources. EDP, in the last ongoing professional activities that See related article, page 7 fast; he was, I've heard, shouted three years, has been the name be­ will keep many scholars interested down. hind all those innovations that are in MSU. This lack of social cohesion, The question arises, then, of what oiling the academic machinery of it was suggested to me, could be a triggered their resignations/* (State keeps scholars where they are. Are MSU: an increased use of technology, factor in the susceptibility of the News, 5-13) professors really no more than ac­ programmed learning, more credit Political Science Department toragjd In other words, MSU is so okey- ademic whores, looking hungrily for hours in relation to contact hours personnel turnover. dokey that three of its VIP's and the more money and prestige, no matter (five credit coures that meet three It should be noted that the admins

up-and-coming Joseph Roberts, as­ where? Meyer implied he believes in times a week), standardized multi­ istration gave the College of Social # sistant professor, have resigned, and the distinction between academic pro­ ple-choice exams administered in Science $200,000 at the end of April one full professor and two associate stitution and scholarly challenge: common to all sections of the "mass" for new programs and positions. professors will be "gone" for a year "If I had stayed here after I re­ courses (basic college and introduc­ In the light of the arguments pre­ on research, perhaps (and maybe ceived the offer from the University tory courses) .... sented, we can see the resignations probably) as a prelude to resigning. of Michigan, I would have felt I'm in LaPalombara, the department of three senior members of the Po­ Upon closer scrutiny of the past his­ a rut .... chairman who resigned in 1963, called litical Science Department as the re­ tory of the Political Science Depart­ "It would have been financially alleged faculty unrest over EDP "an sult of chance, of the nature of the ment and of the various statements more advantageous to me to stay at obvious fact." (SN, 3-28-63) Meyer, academic market, AND of deeply made by the men who resigned, one MSU, but then I would have felt that in one of his rare on-the-record rooted discontent based on the per­ can begin to smell deep-rooted dis­ I'd sold out." (SN, 5-13) moments, said, "The so-called Pro­ sonality of this university. satisfaction with the nature of Mich­ While all of the men insist they've ject X and the policies and decision­ igan State. This factor, then, is not been "very happy" here, with "ade­ making^ processes of Provost Ne­ one to be dismissed in our analysis. quate" research funds, "reasonable" ville* s predecessor have probably done 4 ^ One, of course, cannot discount teaching loads, and "pay comparable" more to cause resignations." Protests . . . the influence of chance, although one to that of other major universities, Provost Neville's predecessor was > - shouldn't over - estimate it either. in the same breath they imply that Clifford E. Erickson, who died after continued from page 7 While it's a dramatic coincidence that they all understand the meaning of a heart attack about the same time the learning? If not, how could they be Meyer, Scigliano, Adrian andRbberts academic prostitution. The market Political Science Department lost a improved? (See example above) received offers about the same time may be furiously mobile, and senior hunk of its senior members. Erick­ 6. What kind of luck have you had from the University of Michigan, political scientists may be -getting son, it seems, tended to be some­ recently in getting a book you wanted State University of New York at Buf­ greener offers, but the senior men what authoritarian in his decision­ to read from the library? , falo, University of California at Riv­ in MSU's Department of Political" making processes in an effort to speed There are many more questions erside and University of Sasketcha- Science are not leaving solely for the up the "democratic" procedure, such as these which we should be con­ wan, respectively, still it is signifi­ greenery. which, in a large, complex institu­ sidering. What I am pleading for here cant that they all accepted. It be­ This point brings us to the third tion like the university, can only be is not a blind, unreasoning "lashing comes even more significant when we factor in the drama, the factor that sluggish and, to some, disconcerting. out" at the "oppressors", but rather notice that SciglianQ had already turn­ has been most often dismissed, that The faculty apparently felt like pro­ an intelligent, reasoned dialogue lead­ ed down Buffalo, but reconsidered, is, Michigan State as an institution verbial rubber stamps for decisions ing to some specific protests and re­ interestingly enough, after Meyer re­ of higher education; in other words, made in the name of efficiency and quests for changes. Professor Lewis signed, and after the publication oi liow "very happy" with the institu­ public relations. While authoritarian­ B. Mayhew of Stanford has stated, the Ramparts article on MSU's in­ tion as a whole were these men who ism higher up is understandable, it "During the Forties and Fifties, sec­ volvement in Vietnam. Adrian's re­ resigned? For a perspective on what nevertheless makes for bad morale. ondary education was put on the pan, signation was also, it seems, unex­ one might call the sensitivity of One gets the feeling, especially by and I think rightly so. My prediction pected, and noticeably timely. MSU's political scientists to their reading between the lines, that the is that higher education during the In addition to chance, one can un­ university, we might conveniently turn men who resigned in May, 1966, are last part of the Sixties and Seventies derstand the resignations in terms of to 1963, the year a flurry of resig­ not so "very happy" with hunky- will be subject to the same kind of the nature of the academic market. nations similar to our own occurred. dory MSU after all. serious scrutiny." Much of this scru­ When Meyer referred to the "no­ According to lists of department per­ For example, while Adrian denied tiny must come from us, the students. madic nature of my profession" sonnel in MSU catalogues from 1963- that the Vietnam controversy influ­ We are the ones who should be con­ (State News, 4-21), he could well 65, in 1963-64 the department lost enced his decision, in the same breath cerned. We and our successors are have been referring to the nearly its chairman, Joseph LaPalombara; he called the university's handling of the ones who stand to benefit from it. mad market for professors of po­ two professors, Lewis Edinger and the CIA-MSU project "abysmal," in­ litical science; the demand is so great Lloyd Musolf; two associate profes­ dicating it had actually - disturbed that eastern universities are bidding sors, Samuel Krislov and Sidney Ul- him. In addition, he noted that the as high as $30,000 for senior men in mer; and assistant professor Daniel University of California at Riverside the field. The faculty turnover in Goldrich. was part of a statewide plan for high­ political science departments Granted that individual motives are er education which cuts off its en­ "A man lives by believing in some­ throughout the nation is high; the Po­ varied, complex and sometimes even rollment at 25,000; he also pointed thing^ not by debating and arguing litical Science Department at North­ subconscious. I would nevertheless out that "at California the student- about many things—worship at YOUR western, which has been considered submit on the basis of past State faculty ratio will be a known quan­ church this week."—a National Coun­ one of the best in the country, re­ News articles and conversations with tity. Here you never know if in­ cil of Churches spot advertisement.