CLIFFORD S UCCEEDS McNA MARA See P&; 3 SORORITY DISCRIMINATION See Editorial Page gilt~a~ ~E~ait&j CLOUDY High-39 Low-27 More of the same through Sunday Seventy-Seven Years of Editorial Freedom, VOL. LXXVIII, No. 95 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1968 SEVEN CENTS EIGHT PAGES REGENTS ABOLISH CURFEW; THREE POSTS VICE-PRESIDENTS TO LEAVE . Houses To Set I"~ .. a Vistaio P olI*icy Fleming Plans Structural Revision, Reorganization in Student Affairs By STEVE NISSEN The Regents yesterday approved the elimination of cur- few requirements on a one-term experimental basis for all , women students in University residence halls who obtain written parental permission. The Regents also agreed to policy changes which will allow each University housing unit to "determine by a demo- cratic process the hours of visitation by members of the oppo- site sex." Both rule changes apply to all types of University-affil- iated housing including fraternities and sororities. The Regents discussed plans to reorganize the Office of Student Affairs with Presi- LI e'tLI 1 dent Robben W. Fleming and Vice-President for Student " Affairs Richard L.. Cutler. R Both men agreed that the of- 'To Challenge' Court Ruhng On PA 379 Contract Negotiations With Three Unions Proceed During Case By URBAN LEHNER The Regents voted 5-3 yester- day to appeal a circuit court; decision that Public Act 379 applies to the University. PA 379, an amendment to the Hutchinson Act of 1947, allows public employes to organize un- ions and bargain collectively on wages, hours and benefits. The University's challenge of the law has been in the courts since De-I cember 1965. The Regents' decision follows' the Nov. 14 ruling of Washtenaw County Circuit Court Judge Wil- liam F. Ager Jr. that the Univer- sity's. constitutional guarantee of autonomy does not conflict with the legislature's constitutional authority to "enact laws for the resolution, ofdisputes concerning Arthur Ross To Succeed Niehuss Cutler Plans To Resign Position. Stirton Announces June Retirement By PAT O'DONOHUE The Regents yesterday accepted the retirements of Vice- President William E. Stirton, director of the Dearborn cam- pus" and Executive Vice-President Marvin L. Niehuss. The Regents appointed Arthur M. Ross as Vice-President for State Relations aid Planning, a post officially established at yesterday's regular monthly meeting, to replace the execu- tive vice-presidency Rosa' appointment will be effective July 1. Simultaneously Vice-President for Student Affairs Rich- ard L. Cutler announced his intention to resign pending re- organization of his office. Presfdent Robben W. Fleming said Cutler may be appointed to a newly created administrative post, but declined to discus details of the move. Ross will be the senior officer in charge of planning and coordinating the Uni'zersity's relations with the state legis- lature. University President r I Robben W. Fleming said ves- . . 1 tw r-ic+ & A Wilbur K. Pierpont rectorship udaecided rice gust undergo important By JOEL BLOCK changes but declined to spec- University President Robben ulate on possible revisions. Fleming said yesterday that he The Regents also passed a res- had no comment on when a new olution requesting "an expression athletic director would be named from legal counsel concerning the or on when he would make a rights and powers of the Board to recommendation on reorganiza- limit the use, of motor vehicles by tion of the athletic department.+ students."'u There had been speculation They requested "an indication; from the City of Ann Arbor of prior' to yesterday's Regents' the impact upon traffic and park- meetingtthat Fleming would pre- ing problems of any future liber- sent his recommendations on re- alization" of regulations regard- organization at the meeting. NoI ing student driving permits. action was taken, however. The Regents directed Cutler to At a news conference following solicit statements on the problem the meeting, Fleming said, "II from appropriate student and fac- have received a report on the pos-1 ulty groups for presentation at a sible athletic department struct- future meeting. ures, but I have no comment on= Regent Paul Goebel was the sole the subject at this time. dissenter in the decision to liber- In its annual report to the Re- alize residence hall regulations. "I gents, the Board in Control of want to go on the record as oppos- Intercollegiate Athletics statedj ing the resolution," he said. "If that the dispute between the Na-1 my present judgment is proved tional Collegiate Athletic Assoc- wrong, no one will be happier iation (NCAA) and the Amateur1 than I." Athletic Union (AAU) will prob- "The Regents wish to continue to ably not be settled in 1968. foster a climate within which per- The report, signed by Athletic' sonal freedom and responsibility Director H. O. "Fritz" Crisler and, contribute to educational and so- Prof. Marcus Plant of the law cial development," the resolution school stated, "It is quite likely stated.thoth sies ilmakeem The delegation of authority for establishing visitation hours in- porary concessions during 1968, cludes the requirement that new which is an Olympic year, so as{ policies 'be carried within the not to handicap the United States guidelines established by the representation at the Olympic Board of Governors which pro- games." vides for: the proper balance of Plant is secretary of the Board academic, social and political as- in control of Intercollegiate Ath- pects of residence hall life; the letics and president of the NCAA. maintenance of good taste; the Plant said last night that, it meticulous safeguarding of the was more of a hope than a pre-x rights of minorities; and the utili- diction that both sides will hold zation of the experience and ad- their fire. "This report was writ-! vice of educational staffs of the ten before Christmas and things1 houses." are changing every day," Plant; Regents Alvin Bentley, Robert said. "As far as the United States1 Brown and Paul Goebel voted Track and Field Federation isi with Matthaei and Cudlip in concerned, the moratorium oni favor of the appeal. Regents the dispute is still being enforcedt Robert Briggs, Gertrude Huebner until Nov. 1, after the olympics.I and Otis Smith voted against. "I can only hope that the AAU See REGENTS Page 2 will have a reasonable attitude, in this matter so as not to impair public employes." the United States' chances in the The University recognized two{ Olympics this summer." unions-Washtenaw County Build- The board's report also in- ing Trades Council and the Inter-N cludes a financial statement for national Union of Operating En-; both the fiscal 1966 and 1967 gineers-following elections o6r 1I years. The financial report points ganized by the State Labor Me- OSS. out that in fiscal 1967, $291,000 diation Board, with the proviso of tuition fees were automatically that a University victory on PA channeled into the account for 379 would make any negotiated! debt service on the Univesrityl contracts void.- i jJ iii, Events Building "and do not any Two other unions - AmericanI longer constitute a receipt of the Federation of State, County, and Arthur M. Ross board." Municipal Employes and the University vice-P The report notes that football Building Service Employes Inter- Relations and PI receipts, basketball receipts, and national Union are still petition- comRlissioner of basketball television r e c e i p t s ing the board for elections in cer- the U.S. Depar from fiscal 1967 were collectively tain bargaining units. An SLMB since 1965. down $180,000 from fiscal 1966. decision and vote is expected in It explains the reduced football the next few months. Ross, 52, has bi receipts were due to the fact that Regent Frederick Matthaei Jr. his post as profe 1967's Ohio State University and said the decision "represents rns at the Michigan State University con- no anti-union bias." fornia at Berkele tests were away games. "We just want to clear up the government posit The Board reported that the constitutional question," he said. a member of th Big Ten event which caused the Regent William Cudlip agreed. ulty since 1946. greatest concern was the Illinois "That was the spirit of my mo- Ross received slush fund scandal and its im- tion," he said. arts degree magn plications. See 'U' Page 2 Harvard College HoweWarnas Against Tac tUsed b 'Radical Resis tat w Vice President Arthur i' o* New Mediator l I Admilistraft1'n , newly appointed accepted into Phi Beta Kappa resident for State honorary society. He earned a anning, has been PhD. degree at the University of labor statistics in California ih 1941. He has been tment of Labor a lecturer at George Washington and, Michigan State Universities. een on leave from Atomic Energy Panel essor of industrial In the period from 1953 through niversity of Cali= 1958, Ross was a member of the ey to serve in the President's Atomic Energy Labor ion. He has been Management Panel, and has since e California fac- served as a member of various presidential emergency boards and his bachelor of fact-finding boards on atomic a cum laude from energy. in 1937 and was Ross was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 1960. At California Ross has held a number of important faculty com- ic !J mittee posts. From 1964-65 he was chairman of the Emergency EX- ecutive Committee of the Berke- ley faculty, following the "free speech" demonstrations on that campus. terday that the new post will have three functions. Ross, he explained, will be: -a contact man with the State Board of Education -a man "who would quarter- back" the University's relations with the state legislature, and -a "senior advisor and consul- taut" to the president and other vice-presidents in both academic and physical planning, and defin- ing the University's objectives. Ross will be assuming some of the duties previously assigned to Niehuss, whose retirement as Ex- ecutive Vice-President becomes ef- fctive June 30. Fleming said yes- terday that Niehuss, who is 65, will continue to serve the Univer- sity in some capacity. President Robben W. Fleming indicated that he would not ap- point a new director of the Dear- born campus to fill the vacancy left by Stirton's retirement. The campus will be administered by a dean in an arrangement similar to that used for the University's Flint College, Fleming said. . Ross has been on leave from his post as professor of industrial re- lations at the University of Cali- fornia at Berkeley to serve as com- missioner of labor statistics in the U.S. Department of Labor, a post he has held since 1965. Fleming said the new post was created because of the need to re- late long range planning and "selling it to the state legislature. I thought it would be advisable to combine in one man the du- ties of planning and dealing with the legislature." Ross said yesterday that "part of my job now is to testify before Congress on problems of unenm- ploymenta' He appears before Congressional committees "five or six times a year" and thus has had some experience in dealing with legislatures, he said. "I am very delighted that I'll See THREE Page 2 1UIter S A History OfDispute Vice-President for Student Af- fairs Richard L. Cutler's an- nouncement that he intends to resign pending a reorganization of his, office signals the end of one of the most colorful admin- istrative chapters in University -history. Cutler is expected to leave his office sometime this summer or fall. He may assume a new ad- ministrative post in the .Univer- sity, according to President Rob- ben W. Fleming. During Cutler's tenure the Uni- versity liberalized numerous regu- lations affecting student conduct. The latest and most sweeping came yesterday when the Re- gents agreed to exempt freshman women from the. dorm curfew and let students in university living units make their own regulations. Although he has been vice-pres- ident for three years, the 42-year- old child psychologist has been perhaps the most controversial figure at the University. He has drawn fire from some quarters for a number of actions. The latest was an unsuccessful attempt to have 'academic units discipline three readers of the campus chapter of Students for a Democratic Society for their role in a protest against a visiting Navy admiral. He was also in the center of. tur- moil for his role in turning in the names of 65 students and faculty affiliated with three campus polit- ical groups to the House Un-Amer- ican Activities Committee in August 1966. Cutler made an un- successful attempt in November 1966 to invoke a ban on disruptive sit-ins. By AVIVA KEMPNER Suicide?". Howe called the re- an opening to violence." Howe ad- Writer - in - Residence IrvingI sistance movement an "elitist, mitted, however, that he would charged last night that tactics of manipulative activity run by a follow extreme resistance only if radical resistance endanger dem- tminority to oppose its will on the "all militant paths were hopeless ocracy and the anti-war cause. majority." He warned that such and nothing could be done." He Howe spoke before about 200 a "leftist assault on civil liberties also warned that college kids in people in a symposium at Lydia will unleash the people on the the movement will "render them- Mendelssohn Theater. right who posses greater skills." selves helpless by either burning themselves out or being de- "Certain tactics, such as block- Arguing that the resistance stroyed." ing the draft boards, shift the movement was necessary Prof. Deeds of Violence focus from the issue of ending Thomas Mayer of the sociology Mayer asserted that not all acts the war and endanger democratic department said that the move- of government were acts of de. values," Howe said. ment "desires to use non-legiti- mocracy. "America has lost its Answering the topic question, mate channels purposively to in- essential character - the ability "Radical Resistance: Success or I stitue changes in a corrupt Amer- to check evil." He also stated ean society which cannot be used that the 'deeds of violence come for its own transformation." Ra- not from the men in opposition dical resistance, he continued, to the government but from those offers a "double rescue from the behind the law, especially evident political abyss and from the in this century. moral tarnish in America.'" John Bishop. Grad, argued that He also served as chairman of the Committee on University Wel- fare and on the Committee on Privilege and Tenure. From 1954 until 1913 Ross was director of the University of California Institute :f Industrial Relations. Professional Works Among the many books Ross has co-authored are "Trade Union Policy" and "Industrial Conflict." He has also contributed several articles on economics to trade journals. Two of his most recent articles are "Full Employment: The Role of Government. and Ed- ucation" and "The Next Twenty Years in Manpower." Ross is married to the former Jane Noble and has four children. e- Heart Surgeon To Visit ' t c t l . { i . {# }3i t Need for Resistance resistance tactics were not good. Barry Bluestone, Grad, who He presented the alternative of also advocated the need for the supporting any candidate who resistence movement, described would be running against Presi- the potential dynamics of resis- dent Johnson. "We need power tence. "I hope it will chop away which comes from the institution- from the middle until all con- al structure of society," he ex- sciences are touched, and get to plained. the people within the movement Final Goal in order to consolidate them." However Bluestone admitted he Howe, however, stressed the dis- had "tried legitimate channels but tinction between civil disobed- realized that they were not work- ipn, nnd isruntion. 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