'U' BUDGET CUTS: SPANKING THE CHILD See editorial page I gilCt ai 4E a it33 FLURRIES High-25 Low--2 Windy and colder except in Florida Vol. LXXVIII, No. 128 Ann Arbor, Michigan, Wednesday, February 28 1968 Seven Cents Ten Pages State Auditor sReport MCause ' Budget Cut Fleming 'Shocked, Puzzled' by Action * * * * * * * * * * * * prPCir Pnt c Commis sion Asks By STEVE NISSEN State Auditor General Albert Lee's report on University fi- nances may cost the University more cuts in its 1968-69 fiscal! budget. S Rep. George .F. Montgomery (D-Detroit) yesterday told The Daily he believes the University has been guilty of "an institu- tional misdemeanor" for "not ac- curately reporting its financial condition to the legislature." Montgomery is a member of the House Appropriations Committee which must consider the Univer- sity's budget request after the Senate finishes consideration of it. Lee's report on University fi- nances is not scheduled for re- lease until about tvo weeks from now, but a preliminary version caused a furor in Lansing Mon- day when the Senate Appropria- tions Committee -net to discuss the higher education bill. Th'! committee cut $3A4 million from Gov. George Romey's request of $64.7 million for the Universiiy's genera fund budg.- Lee's 85-page statement charges that University auditing practices "have resulted in an overstate- ment of expenditures and an un- derstatement of available cash." University Executive Vice-Pres- ident Marvin L. Nienuss refused ICC To Holda Conference On Housing By MICHAEL THORYN With hopes of "stimulating stu- dent co-operative residences espe- cially on campuses where there are no co-ops" the Inter-Cooperative Council (ICC) will hold a confer- ence March 1-3 in the Michigan Union and co-op houses. Over 100 students, faculty, and administrators from 20 campuses? will attend. The Education Chairman of the ICC, Nancy Meyerson, hopes the' conference will solve the iCC's problem of financing for its North Campus Project. Low-cost housing for 200 people planned by the ICC has not been built because of the inability to get a substantial loan. "Our main problem is how to! attract low-interest money to stu- dent co-ops," Miss Meyerson said. The ICC is a non-profit student- owned and operated corporation, which provides low-cost housing for about 300 University students in 11 houses. Since members, work- W ing about five hours a week, do all cooking and maintenance, $4001 per year is saved1 over dormitory costs. President Robben Fleming will wlecome delegates to the confer- ence on Saturday morning. "Co-ops are Student Power" is 0 the topic of a speech by Dr. Wil- liam Birenbaum, President of the Education Affiliate of Bedford Stuyvessant Development and Services Corporation. to comment yesterday on the 3 1 ,l f )I charges leveled by Montgomery or Lee. However, Niehuss said he feels the appropriations recom- mended by the committee are "en- tirely too low." University President Robben WV. Fieming said he vas "muzzled and shocked by the Senate commit- tev'z action." "We are deeply perplexed, about the mechanism the committee used to obtain its figures." he said. "The governor', budget rec- ommendation provicex the ab- solute minimum for our salary and wage program and other mm-1 L V.X,/ X ' K) cuts To Form ' Judiciary Panel Calls' for imal needs," Fleming added. Montgomery warned that the "University is going to have to pay a fine" for its "lack of can- (ndness in repomaiig its financial ffairs "They pretend to spend more than they actually do," he ex- plained, "by shifting funds back and forth in twenty or so dif- ferent accounts that the Univer- sity uses." sWe're not going to knock our- selves out for the University when they didn't knock themselves out for us," he said.- When asked if he thought other universities were also distorting t heir financial posihior3, Mont-1 gomery replied that the Univei - sity is a "bad example' and that} "if other universities do it. they learned how from the University of Michigan." The Senate Appropriationsj Committee yesterr fy moved the' education bill to the head of the debate calendar and plans to push for early action on the measure Early Senate action on the bill would give the state's colleges an- universities less time to apply pressure for raises in their ap- propriations for the coming fiscal year. It has been rumoredi that the University or a group of univer- sities were planning to ask for a special legislative lbearing before V_ house appropriations commie - tee if the bill came out of the senate too low. The appropriations committee stipulated as a condition of the appropriation that no college or university with a non-resident en- rollment exceeding 20 per cent of total enrollment may increase the non-resident total over that of the fiscal 1967-68 year. It is a further condition that 'ny institution having an enroll- ment of non-residents less than 20 per cent of total enrollment shall not raise that percentage by more than five per cent of non- resident enrollment for the pre- vious year. "Michigan's out-of-state tuition is already the highest of any major Istate university in the nation," Fleming said. "An increase of $348 (per student), reported to be pro- posed by the Committee, would put; the University completely out of line with other universities," he warned. Fleming said he would urge the Governor to intervene in support of his own recommendations lesti serious damage be done to the Uni- versity. P I Runoff Spot Negro Leader Leads White Conservatives In Congressional Race JACKSON, Miss. UP - Negro{ leader Charles Evers won a run- of f spot against a white conserv- ative last night in a special elec- tion for Southwest Mississippi's congressional seat. Running against six white op- ponents for the 3rd Congressional District post vacated when John' Bell Williams became governor last month, Evers posed the first real Negro challenge of the cen- tury for a seat from this DeepC South state. Evers had 31 per cent of the vote with an estimated 80 per cent of the votes counted. with two white Democrats battling for the other spot. Charles Griffin of Utica, who was on Williams' congressional staff, led State Sen. Ellis Bodron, Vicksburg, for the other spot in the runoff. With 245 of 309 precincts re- ported, the count >tood : Eversa 25,027; Griffin 19,967: Bodron' 14,078; Troy Watkins 7,990: Joe Pigott 6.816; Republican Hagan Thompson 4,392; and David Per- kins 2,207. Evers told a cheering crowd of supporters in Jackson that he would win the runoff election "All the Negroes voted for us." said Evers, "and I'm proud to say7 that many of the whites voted for us, too." Federal election on;,ervers were on hand to watch Il e voting i the 12 county area 'U'-Wide Counc11 By MARTIN HIRSCHMAN and DANIEL ZWERDLING The President's Commission on the Role of Students in Decision-Making early this morning requested that the Re- gents ' establish a tri-partite University-wide rule-making body and suggested that "it is the primary responsibility of students" to establish a central judiciary. . A University Council (UC) would replace the Office of Student Affairs as the University's rule-making body for students. OSA would be re-organized as the Office of Student Services and would be run essentially by students. The Commission also recommended that the vice-.presi- dent for student affairs'be renamed the director and vice president of student services ' -Daily-Bernie Baker THE COMMISSION on the Role of Students in Decision-Making issued its final report last night. Seated in the Student Government Council conference room are (left to right) SGC President Bruce Kahn; a Daily reporter; William Steude, director of student-community relations; Commis- sion Chairman Prof. Inis Claude of the political science department; and Prof. ?Maurice Sinott of the engineering school. MAY WRITS FOR 'METRO: WSU Editors Win Battle and that students "play a major role" in his selection. UC, which would replace the Campus Council of the commis- sion's draft report, would be com- posed of equal numbers of stu- dents, faculty and administrative officers. The University President would serve as chairman. All UC rules would require. ratification by Student Government Council and Faculty Assembly. The commission also reconi- mended all student, faculty and aministration meetings tend' to be open - to public observattoni Sw=heiever possible. The proposal on the judiciary allows students to form the body which would hear cases under UC rules and act as an appellate body. Student judiciaries would have original jurisdiction in all non- academic cases. In addition, the commission urged student judic- iaries in the 'individual schools Council Asks End to School Defermnents WASHINGTON (P-The Coun- cil of Graduate Schools in the United States appealed to Con- gress yesterday to abolish all col- lege draft deferments and turn to a random lottery of 19-year-olds to fulfill draft quotas. The council, which represents major universities across the coun- try, also strongly opposed desig- nation of certain subjects to which students would be eligible for de- ferment. Under the new rules only those graduate students in the medical or related fields may be deferred in the future. Students in college SPRING BREAK With today's paper, The Daily ceases publication for spring break. We will resume publica- tion Tuesday, March 5. The district has about 195.000 voters, with pernaps 70,000 of them Negroes. Man:; of the Ne- gro voters were registered during civil rights drives spearheaded by Evers, who once said he would never be a political candidate. The congras-oi al seat became vacant when Williams. who I- .1d it for 21 years, resigned following his election as governor last No- vember. 4 . :T ;C i '( '1 'C t ' t ' Ic By TRACY BAKER and MICHAEL DOVER Special To The Daily DETROIT - The editors of Wayne State University's student newspaper have won a victory in their battle with the WSU's ad- ministration over the Metro, a new inter-campus paper which they publish. Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Joseph L. Sullivan yester- day dissolved an earlier court or- der which had forbidden staff members of the South End from contributing to the Metro. The original order was granted at the instigation of WSU's Board of Governors. However, South End editors Art Johnston, Anthony Zineski and Alan Fisk still must appear in court Friday to show cause why they should not be held in con- tempt of court for distributing the Metro's first edition to the Uni- versity and thirteen other Detroit area campuses. The Metro included an article written by Johnston. He claims however that he didn't receive . t' t': 4; t Gj I f'' the court order unil iter the' Metro had finished its press run. Johnston claims tat WSU president William R. Keast sought the original court order as part of a "personal vendetta" against the South Eni, which has published many articles critical of him since Johnston, was ap- pointed last spring. The editors also face disciplin-' ary action from WSU's Commit- tee on Stuwcnt Conduct, a disci- plinary board compcsad of three deans, an mdninistrator, a mem- ber of the laculty and one stu- dent. So fq-,. accordins to John- ston, no :tudent h > been found who was 1ling to serv - on the board, wnii has summoned the ee to a, . ai on c'ijfl;;es of EXPANSION PROPOSED Pass-Fail S ti By DAVID MANN The literary college's pass-fail option, initiated 18 months ago, has caused a con- tinuing controversy in all parts of the Uni- versity community. Although the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CLRT) has not yet completed its review of the pass-fail program for the literary college Curriculum S Committee, proponents of an extension of the option hope to have a new policy es- tablished by this fall. The literary college Student Steering Committee has proposed that all students beyond the first semester be allowed to elect one course per semester on pass-fail, ac- cording to committee chairman Diane Lynn Salta, '69. The only area in which courses could noc be elected on pass-fail would be those in the student's 'major field under this rs Continuing from the present antiquated system." Pass- fail teaching is more demanding of a teach- er, he says, whereas the ?ld system protects bad teachers and their methods. The curriculum committee of the literary college has been "discussing the extension of pass-fail for some time. A recommenda- tion is still quite far off," says Prof. Roy Pierce of the political science department, chairman of the committee. He explained that the language and natural science re- quirements would have to receive in-depth reviews. Those courses have the greatest request-to-drop rate in the college. "Putting troublesome required courses on pass-fail would merely be a glossing over of the symptoms." says James W. Shaw, asso- ciate dean of the literary college. "It would not really be getting to the heart of the issue. "'t has been very difficult to reach any kind of consensus on pass-fail among the Controversy Hagiwara. The problem with a D cutoff, he says, lies in the large turnover bf tc.ach- ing fellows. This results in many new and inexperienced teachers each semester. It takes teaching experience, says Hagiwara, to determine whether or not a student who receives a D should pass the course or fail it. The only conditions Hagiwara insists on are a minimum grade of C to pass the 232, or' terminal course, and the keeping of grades on students' records. This is for the convenience of graduate schools in admit- ting students, he says. Shaw also recognizes the problems in- volred in the D cut-off proposed by the steering committee. "In sequence courses, especially in language and mathematics, the question is not only who passes but who proceeds to the next course in the s e'uence." he says. Complaints about the language iequire- CityC11sic On Mornill The Ann Arbor City Council is considering a ban on parking on all city streets from 2 a.m. to 5 a.m. daily. This move would be primarily aimed at counteracting the ex- pected influx of autos brought on by the abolition of student driv- ing regulations by the University. City Administrator Guy C. Lar-r com, Jr. proposed the move to the City Council last night. Larcom said that the proposal is not a new concept, but the de- sirability of the early-morning ban has been discussed for years.' The council, he said, has had a policy of "creeping extension" of this parking restriction. Abolition of 'student regulations would only speed up the necessity for imposing the parking restric- tion, he explained. "I don't want people to think the regulations I'm talking about are necessarily retaliatory. They will be needed anyhow." The Regents passed a resolu- tion in January requesting "an expression from legal counsel concerning the -rights and powers of the Board to limit the use of motor vehicles by students." They also requested "an indi- cation from the City of Ann Arbor of the impact upon traffic and parking prob!-;i-s of any fu- ture liberalization" of regulations. The Regents' action came in. the wake of a Student Govern- imiprope iy and without author- and colleges and all other existing or apprentice school may be de- izationei t d tgenera!pub-I student courts to join the central ferred until they complete their ato believe tha th,.r pvatejudiciary when it is formed. training. u to believe tthe ofeir private A split on the judiciary issue The council's position paper newspaper was the official news- had been expected but a com- said the rule barring future draft paper of WST. promise proposal written by Prof. deferments for graduate students Willian Iorter, chairman of the imposes serious planning burdens journalisrhi department, brought Ion universities which rely heavily students and faculty together. on graduate teaching assistants to ler h an Student members of the com- teach some freshman courses. mission had favored the establish- The council stressed its accept- " ment of a student-controlled Joint ance of.the principle that military University Committee (JUC) tosanceo incipat military hear cases under UC rules and to service is an obligation of every act as the appellate student court. able bodied citizen. Several faculty members ap-' "We believe that this obligation al traffic would also force the city proved the JUC proposal but wish- should be borne equally by all citi- to move more rapidly in widening ed to give the faculty of the in- zens and that neither graduate nor such streets as Packard, Hill and dividual school or college the opt- undergraduate students -should be Maynard. Larcom, said, ion of remaining outside the sys- deferred pr exempted from such Councilman Douglas D. Crary tem. service," the statement said. questioned if the city was expect- Another faculty proposal gave The statement said a system of ed to provide "free garaging fa- the individual school or college selective service should be design- cilities" on the city streets. He original jurisdiction in all cases ed to create a minimum of dis- pointed out that it interferes with concerning UC rules. ruption and uncertainty in the city services, "including snow re- 1 In the area of student housing,|lives of those eligible for induction moval, refuse collection, and the commission recommended the , and that the selection process street cleaning." University move "as quickly as should take place at "a natural Councilman James Riecker took possible to a policy in which dor- time of transition." a stronger line. "I can't help but mitory living is not compulsory at The council defined this as the feel the University is afraid to any level." In addition, the pro- completion of high school. Stu- make this decision and is trying posal would change the Board of dents who, under present law, have to hang it all on us," he said. Governors of the Residence HalNs been deferred to pursue a bacca- "When the University officials from a rule-making body to a laureate or higher degree should have been afraid to stand up to "policy-coordinating group" and not be inducted until they have students, we've had to. I'm -ick of increase the number of students completed their immediate objec- it." t t<;ng on the Board. tives, the council statement said. State Education Board Nears Completion of aster Plan' By JILL CRABTREI A revised draft of th Board of Education's long ed plan to consolidate p planning among Michiga public colleges and univer nearing completion. The proposed State P Higher Education aims at ating a critical shortage c educational facilities by e ;E e State -await-; program an's 11 sities is lan for' elimin- of state elimina- Thes plan was then sent to a; citizen's committee chaired by former Michigan Gov. G. Mennen Williams for criticism. organizations of the 11 campuses affected by the plan, but the com- mittee was never formed. "We couldn't get the idea to " ",t y 'v.E, ., :n 4ZT c rb rtl The plan is presently "all torn gen," Smith says. "We ent out to pieces by committee aciton," feelers to Deans of Students at all Smith says. As soon as the criti- the colleges, but received only a cisms have been incorporated into few responses, and some of those the plan, it will be sent to univer- were non-committal." sity and college presidents, the De- Discussed for nearly a decade, nartment of State. and other in- the Rtate Plan was originally con- r