TIME FOR CHANGE ON P.A. 379 See Editorial Page, hL Seventy-Seven Years of Editorial Freedom :4Iait t# BLAND High--33 Low-iD Cloudy; no snow VOL. LXXVIII, No. 92 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1968 SEVEN CENTS EIGHT PAGES Panel Considers VPS ~LY w w - e w~ iwsi iehuss, 0 Iopu, w J i op~i Stirton r Bylaw Expected Revision Florida U Post To Retire Afte By KEN KELLEY Dean Stephen Spurr of the Rackham School for Graduate Studies is among four top contenders for the chancellorship) of the seven state-supported Fiorida universities..:.... Rolert Lynch. director of information services for the University 'fFlorida ('in Gainsville),* confirmed that Spurr «is in the running. Other candidates for the job are Harold Crosby, president of the noffered" he said. "Im very happy here " Th total enrollment of esev largest campus is at Gainsville wih 17,500bytudents. Each college.. . . . . . *.* ~ Xk'.. responsible to the chancellor. Former chancellor Broward Cul- e Sr dpepper resigned Jan. 1, reportedly becas e of disagreement be w en 'Fed Up' N Last year Kirk vetoed 32 educa- tion bills. The 32 Kirk vetoes were partially responsible for the resig- Preident J. aye Rei tz. AT he time Weitz said he was "fed up > ;with thearchaic educational sys- - Kirk objected to the appoint- ment of Weitz's successor, former - ~. Florida Supreme Court Chief Just- ice Stephen O'Connell, charging Vice-President Nih there was "dirty dealing," and de--- mandreingted reigainr of thd bmlnairuse chiranof the Flor- NATIONWIDE CHECK: ida regents, Chester Ferguson dicato." utFergso refset Dean Spuerw trmda "a U ' Race prilyrsosbefrteresig X7~-,~ ~natioThefLniversity of Florida u wit th rhiduainlss *Regents To OK.New Miandatory Age Limit By MARK LEVINt Two University vice-presidents are expected to leave their posts- in the wake of a proposed revision in the Regents' by- laws, which would regjuire top executive officers to retire at age 65, The Daily learned yesterday. Executive Vice-President Marvin L. Niehuss and Vice- President and Director of the Dearborn Center William L: Stirton would both be affected by the revision. Niehuss is 65, while Stirton will turn 65 in March. Both Niehuss and Stirton refused to comment on their possible retirement. The recommended rev_,S on would require the president and the vice-presidents to etirewatu65. Formerly the retire- ment age for top administrators was set. at 70. Administrators be low the rank of vice-president would not be affected by the by-K1 ? uss I 'ice-Presid Breakdown Re New Officers By MARTIN HIRSCHMAN 5 Voice Political party last night elected Paul Haywood, Grad, its dent newspaper, the Alligator, then By ROB BEATTIE new chairman. "We've committed ourselves to getting war research off campus," said Haywood. He listed this as one major thrust of Voice action for this term.t 4 Other Voice objectives include getting the University out of the Institute for Defense Analysis and the establishment of the right of students to make their own non- academic regulations. Haywood also wants to requit e any recruiter who comes to cam- pus to speak to students who 4uestion his right to interview at the University. This demand means that recruiters must speakI with demonstrators. Also elected to Voice posts were *Julie Wrigley, '71, secretary; Rar,- dy Jacobs, treasurer; Bruce Le- vine, '71, chairman for the coin- mittee on internal education; Phyllis Schindel, editor of the4 Voice newsletter; and Douglas Burke, Grad, chairman of the Fishbowl committee.C called for a protest strike against1ya Kirk, but postponed any action Beginning with the fall term when D irk agreed to call a special of 1968 the University will com- session of the Florida legislature pile statistics classifying studentsI to seek ways of finding more on the basis of "race or national money for the state universities, origin." Ferguson appointed a subcom- This will be done to fulfill re- mittee of the Florida regents to quirements of the U.S. Depart- consider appointing a new chan- ment of Health, Education, and ,ellor. The subcommittee's chair- Welfare (HEW) which surveys all man, Clarence Menser, declined educational institutions to deter- to say that he had spoken to mine if they are complying with Spurn, but said "we wil be inter- IeCiilRht Act ofy1964. viewing all possible candidates in; The University was required to the near future."T any of the areas mentioned in the{ questionnaire. These included ad-t missions and recruiting policies,c University housing and other fa-l cilities, financial aid programs,; extra-curricular activities, and! off-campus housing. Beginning with the fall senes-t ter, the government will z equie e "firm figures" rather than esti-r mates in their reports. This re-s quirement will have to be met by: all educational institutions. The 'information contained in the reports is used by HEW to de-t termine to what degree minority; group students make use of facil- ities and services of schools. TitleC Six of the 1964 Civil Rights Act' states that no institution shall re- ceive federal financial assistance if it discriminates on tae basis of race or national origin. The statistical reports will not be the only criteria for determin- ing whether or not institutions are complying with the civil rights act. If the report filed by the inves- tigating team concludes that d%- crimination exists, HEW will hold' hearings giving the institution a chance to explain its position. If the school fails to correct its dis-" criminatory policies, -teps wil be! taken to cut off its fede-al funds. HEW officials hope that enrol)- ment figures will aid fedet al! agencies concerned with higher education in establishing aid pio- grams for minority groups. Institutions like to have the in- formation for their own use to review their efforts and programsI in the area of racial equality, ac- cording to Solomon Arbeiter, CNP Likely T In JuteSChoo law revision. Sources indicate that the Re- gents have generally agreed to the proposed revision, although some individual Regents have object- ions. It is expected that the by- law revision will be approved at Friday's Regents meeting. How- eft Stinoi ever, some sources indicate pass-J age ot the bylaw could be de ayed until later this winter because of other pressing business on the Regents' agenda.1 Niehuss reportedly will announce his retirement after University quested President Robben W. Fleming p~icks his successor. University sources say Fleming will re- higher education coordinator for name and expand the powers of the HEW Office of Civil Rigbts. Niehuss' post in a minor admin- Arbeiter cited the University of istrative realignment. Illinois as an example of one Fleming is reportedly in thej school which has been using such final stages of negotiation for; figures for several years to study Niehuss' replacement. Sources re-; the role of minority students. port the new man is an educatorl from a non-Michigan institution Arbeiter said that only four who is currently on leave and schools have failed to comply with working for the government in the regulations by refusing to Washington. submit reports. Federal aid was . Fleming has not begun to look terminated for Marion Institute for a successor to Stirton. in Marion, Ala., Mississippi Col- The bylaw revision was not in-j lege in Clinton, Miss., Bob Jones itiated by Fleming. The Regentsj University in Greenville, S.C., and are continuously in the processing Freewill Baptist Bible College in of revising their bylaws and have1 Nashville, Tenn. been considering changes in the See HEW, Page 2 retirement age bylaws for some time. Niehuss has been on the faculty O RC VerSed an instructor and research as- B ack A yers slince 1927 when he was appoint-eanisrco-ndeerha-; sistant in the school of business administration. He became an as- sociate professor in the law school in 1936, and professor of in his own right of property with- law and Vice-President in chargej in the school district which is of university relations in 1944. He assessed for taxes." At presentwas named Vice-President and Ayers does not own any property Dean of Faculties in1951. in Ann Arbor. In an administrative restruct- "If I decide to run, we will uring in 1962, the duties of the either fight the law in court or Vice-President and Dean of Facu- arrange for me to buy some lties was split into the Office of property in Ann Arbor." Ayers Academic Affairs and Executive continued. . Vice-President. Niehuss was named According to Richard Bailey, one Executive Vice-President whilef of the attorneys for the School Roger Heyns, then dean of the Board, while the property issue literary college, was picked as, "has never come up before, if the Vice-President for Academic Af- Supreme Court's decisions on the fairs.t former property qualifications for Stirton was appointed a Vice- voting are applicable, it is not President of the University in July,1 necessary for a candidate to be on 1956. Four months later he was 1 the tax rolls. All he has to be-in given additional duties as director laymen's terms - is liable for of the University's Dearborn cam-; taxation." . pus. Probe MSU Book 'Cartel LANSING UP) -- Atty. Gen, Frank Kelley said yesterday he was considering a Michigan State University professor's request for an investigation of possible viola- tion of antitrust laws by book stores in East Lansing. fA decision on the proposed in- vestigation will come "shortly, within the next few days," said a spokesman for Kelley.' Walter P. Adams, a professor of economics, asked Kelley to check into what he termed "the possi- bility that a conspiratorial 'cartel' may currently be o p e r a t in g among the bookstores of East Lansing. "This 'cartel'," he added, "may be in contravention of the anti- trust statutes of the State of Michigan." Adams is a. former economic counsel to the U.S. Senate Anti- trust and Monopoly Subcommit- tee and a member of the U.S. at- torney general's national commit- tee to study the antitrust laws. In his formal request to Kelley, Adams said there was an "ab- sence of price competition" among the bookstores where MSU students buy texts for their classes. He said there appears to be an organization of bookstore man- agers, headed by the bookstore on the MSU campus, with a mem- bership fee of $40 per store per month, "ostensibly for the collec- tion and dissemination of book lists which are furnished by the university's academic depart- ments to the MSU Bookstore free of charge. James D. Howick, manager of the MSU Bookstore, and off- campus managers have denied Adams' assertions of collusion. They said the MSU Bookstore began to supply the off-campus stores with book lists only after the academic departments said they felt it was too great a cleri- cal burden for them to make sep- arate lists and suggested a master list for the MSU store. Not Involved The subcommittee's report was originally supposed to be submitted Jan. 8, but when no candidate was selected it was postponed until Feb. 5. A reliable source indicated that Spurr, a Florida alumnus, was a-likely candidate because the j regents were thinking about re- cruiting someone not involved in Fiorida's politics. The chancellor draws up the budget for each of the seven schools, subject to legis-1 lative approval. Spurr came to the University! from the University of Minnesota' in 1952, and was appointed the dean of the natural resources school in 1962, where he served until his appointment as Rack- Cham dean in 1964. furnish estimates of the number1 of students enrolled by race for the fall semester. According to Ernest Zimmermann, assistant to the, vice-president of academic af- fairs, the totals submitted were 550 Negroes and 700 in the cafe- gory of "other races." The report also required esti- mates of the number of students. in each racial category aarticipat- ing in University housing, athletic scholarships, and financial aidI programs. The University was also asked to answer questions concerning discrimination in ad-' mission policies and student ac- tivities. By WALTER SHAPIRO I Ann Arbor Citizens for New A school whose report indicates Politics (CNP) are seriously con- that some form of discrimination ididering supportinghBiAyers, may occur will probably be visited irecor of the Children's Coin- munity School, as a candidate to "_ - Z -U ~aL I 1 py an rik;W investigating LealTI. Zimmermann explained that, The policies and practices o the the University's report stated that school will be evaluated through there was no discrimination in observation. 'HOUR POWER': Dormitory Teach-In Continues Tonight About 50 students attended a teach-in on visitation policy and women's hours last night at Smit- ty's in South Quadrangle. This was the second of three teach-ins to be held this week sponsored by Student Government Council. At the teach-in SGC members and South Quad residence staff participated in a dialogue with the students who were there. The discussion ranged from student- faculty-administratio. relations to University policy concerning pun- isment of violator of dorm reg- ulations. The teach-in series will continue tonight in Markley Hall at 11:45 p.m. In a special session last night, Markley Council granted a request by SGC for use of Markley facil- ities for the teach-in tonight. The meeting was called after Markley president Don Racheter, '69, declined to act on the request, which was officially made late last night by SGC Coordinating Vice- fill one of the three vacancies on the Ann Arbor Board of Edu- cation in the city election this June. "There's very little doubt thatt running candidates for the School7 Board would be politically rele- vant for New Politics," Ayers said yesterday. "The only realj problem is whether I would be; the right candidate." "There are several potential, handicaps in my running. My age and my 'relative lack of direct experience with the Ann Arbor public school system could be used against me. And perhaps even my association with the Children's Community would be a liability," he continued. 'Model for Reform' "But, my own feeling is that the Children's Community will be a decided asset because I can use it as a model - in some ways - for public school reform. This is vital becase what so seldom is talked about in these elections is what's happening to the kids in the classroom. And no one asks whether what's happening to the kids is good," Ayers continued. The Children's Community is an unstructured experimental school for 24 children, aged four to eight years old, operating out of the basement of the Friend's Cen- ter. According to Bertram Garskof, New Politics candidate for Con- gress, a final decision on Ayers' 01,17.ii.,ov nnri h~,a HPCicirnn on Committee Studies Conversion Of Quad Houses into Offices. By BRIAN FORD surplus is in Vera Baits, Bursley, .- fvfrr 1miin, r it; n in '] 1 The Plant Extension Com m ittee Wes Qauadr l eu s ing h has b n is investigatig the possibilities of West Quadrangle, which has been converting Lloyd and Chicago over capacity for the past three Houses of West Quadrangle from years. "Last fall. the occupamcy residence halts to academic of- was 105 of capacity," MacKay fices. said. MacKay commented that if The Plant Extension Committee surplus housing is to be nade into consists of the executive officers office space, it should be done in of the University and is chaired those buildings where occupany by Wilbur K. Pierpont, vice-pre;- problems exist. ident for financial affairs. MacKay is a member of the According to Director of Uni- three-man group that estimated, versity Housing John Feldkamp, the rental cost .that would have the important decision is when to to be paid to the Office of Uni- convert West Quadrangle into of- versity Housing if West Quad R. Bowyer, superintendent of building service and maintenance; Harlan J. Mulder, assistant to the vice-president for financial af- fairs: and James E. Lesche, as- sistant to the vice-president for academic affairs. John G. McKevitt, assistant to the vice-president for financial affairs, described the committee' investigation as a "tentative and exploratory information gather- ing" to keep officials poste on existing facilities. "Certainly no commitment has been made." According to MacKay, the con- version of the quadrangle into of-