AFTER REFERENDA: STUDENT ACTION See editorial page Y 131k i an ~~aiti COOLER High-50 Low-20 Cloudy and mild, Clearing towards evening Vol. LXXVIII, No. 133 Ann Arbor, Michigan, Saturday, March 9, 1968 Seven Cents Eight Pages 1 Sororities Moving to Oxford Despite Protests By LEE WEITZENKORN and SHARON KORMAN Two sororities will most likely occupy Vandenberg and Goddard Houses of Oxford housing next fall despite continued protests from current residents and the Student Advisory Commission on Housing (SACH). The Regents unofficially ap- proved the housing request from Alpha Kappa Alpha and Delta Sigma Theta sororities at a special meeting last Saturday. Formal vote on the proposal is expected at the official Regents meeting next Thursday and Friday. The housing assignment is part of the University's efforts to ,offer equal opportunity to all students, explained Vice President for Stu- dent Affairs Richard Cutler. "The majority of girls in these sororities are Opportunity Award students," added John Feldkamp, director of University housing. "Offering housing to these soror- ities is a gesture to make the Uni- versity more attractive to Op- portunity Award students and to Negroes," he said. SACH, an advisory body to Feld- kamp, opposed the move on the grounds that University housing should be open to all applicants on an individual basis rather than to "self-selective social groups." However, Feldkamp insists the housing arrangements were not made with the sororities as units. The girls are applying individually as part of an ; equal opportunity program. "I support the University's posi- tion on fraternities and sororities, which is that we don't house fra- ternities and sororities as such. We would not have allowed a white group to move in," he said. Many of the present Oxford residents are upset by these ar- rangements. Not only will Vanden- berg and Goddard Houses be closed to those who wish to reapply, but Noble House is being converted into a men's co-operative and will also be unavailable to women. Cutler has said that present res- idents wishing to return to Oxford will be accommodated. But two of the six cooperatives houses are language houses for French and German, two will belong to the sororities and one will be men's housing. "The Regents have promised res- idents a place in Oxford coopera- tives, but that probably means Ox- ford Apartments," said Sandy Weurding, '70. "I might as well get an apart- ment and I don't want a regular apartment," she added. "They held off on their decision for three months and left us all up in the air for a place to live." Feldkamp had offered to hold Noble House for present residents, said Ricci Wiley, '70, if they col- lected 30 signatures on a petition. If 100 girls petitioned, Feldkamp said he would save all three houses. However, after 61 signatures were collected, "some representa- tives from the co-ops met with f Feldkamp and he told them the petition didn't hold," Miss Wiley said. Feldkamp explained the report about the petition was inaccurate. "I've never operated on the basis of bindng petitions," he said. "They can be used for recommendations but I cant be bound by them." Pan-Hellenic Association sup- ported the move along with the sororities involved. Ellen Heyboer, '69, Pan Hel president, said the na- tional organizations of the two sororities do not finance housing - unites for the local chapters. "All other national sororities do," she explained. Delta Sigma Theta president Retha Wellor\s, '68, said, "Oxford wasn't being filled before we asked to live there. Now all of a sudden everyone is feeling a deep attach- ment to Oxford." "We don't have the funds to build a house and we couldn't find one to buy," she added. The arrangement is limited to two years. Cutler said he expects the sororities to obtain permanent, private facilities during that time. Miss Heyboer said the Univer- sitys decision to offer housing to both sororities is part of the re- cruitment campaign for Negro stu- dents. "In most cases, the University says 'come' but then doesn't take the responsibility once they are here. They've recruited, and prom- ised equal opportunity but there isnt. The Oxford housing offer is not a solution, but. it's a start," she added. Feldkamp noted that the new arrangements will give the Negro sororities a chance to compete with other sororities on campus since a house is a vital part of sorority life. He also believes the move will be an important step toward end- ing discrimination and segregation in the Greek system. 0 Van Wylen Defends Research As Relevant Faculty Function Judge Rulespen Housing,Anti-Riot Bills Draft Order0A Dismissed Challenge State Legislature i} { By GREG ZIEREN Dean Gordon Van Wylen of the engineering school yesterday de-' fended classified research as part of the "intellectual and academic activity of the faculty which tmakes them current and rele-I vant." Van Wylen spoke at a Guild House noon lecture. Van Wylen said that research allows researchers to be active participants in their field of knowledge and effective teachers. "I have no regret that the 4dassified research issue came up," he said and described the controversy as "a healthy in- quiry." But, while commenting favor- ably on the Elderfield report, he added, "Having no classified re- search is a simple answer to a A complex question." Only seven percent of the $10 million spent on research pro- grams at the University goes for classified research, Van Wylen said. About half of these programs are classified for access only," he added. Van Wylen cited three problems concerning the issues of classified research. First, he expressed con- cern that too much of the gov- ernment and economy come out of the Department of Defense and called for "a greater effort to have the department limit its *activities to those concerned with defense." An alternative proposal, he sug- gested, would be the funding of basic research through the Na- tional Science Foundation. DEAN GORDON VAN WYLEN House on class The second problem he noted was that of priorities. "With the limited amount of time and mon- ey available to departments andj the faculty, are things like classi- fied research the most impor- tant?" he asked. "Issues of classified research are secondary to general questions of Hershey Letter Held From Wire Service Reports to the Senate floor Wednesday, supporters; who had expressed licans met for 'a cauus one-hai 'Personal Opinion'; LANSING-The Michigan Legis- but was sent back to the Appro- hope for quick passage. It was also hour before the vote for reom- NSAlature is currently faced with some priations Committee Thursday for a setback for Gov. George Rom- mission, Lockwood and other mod- mTo Appea Stit of the thorniest issues to come a study of fiscal implications. The ney, who has come out strongly in erate GOP l'eaders failed in an at- before that body in recent years, Senate voice vote was considered support of the bill. tempt to keep the bill on the floor. WASHINGTON voPewA federal including open house, state aid to a major initial victory for op- Senate Majority Leader Emil Opponents of the bill voting for judge has ruled that he cannot private schools and anti-riot legis- ponnts of the bill. Lockwood said Wednesday he was recommission were led by Sen. overturn a Selective Service rec- lation. The open housing legislation confident the bill would pass and Robert Hubert (R-Birmingham) ommendation that draft boards Perhaps hottest of all is the pro- would' prohibit discrimination in that he would oppose any attempt and included most of the 20 Re- reclassify for prompt induction posed open housing bill. The bill, most real estate transactions. to send the bill back to commit- publicans in the Senate. Huber some antidraft and antiwar dem- which was killed in the last session The recommittal vote marked a tee. cast one of two votes Wednesday onstrators. of the Legislature, was reported sudden reversal for open housing However, when Senate Repub- opposing the move which brought U.S. District Court Judge Geoige - the bill to the floor from the state Hart ruled Thursday that draft ....affairs committee, but was over- director Lewis B. Hershey "mere- 7 . ; .r. y, ' ruled by a surprise bi-partisan ly expressed his personal opinion" . vote. in a letter Oct. 26 to local boards. "..Sen. Frank Beadle (R-St. Clair Hart dismissed a suit filed by ;chairman of the Appropriations the National Student Association, ..Committee and one of the few Students for a Democratic Society Republican supporters of the bill, and Campus Americans for Dem- x..*],Y ," r. ".. . promised to do his best to see that ~ ocratic Action to have the delin- 4Y ....k ' . . i it was returned to the floor. Even quency provision declared uncon- t.<. h if it does 'return to the floor, the stitutional. .bill likely will have been amended NSF e and watered down to the point N. . l"where it will not be recognizable," Seveal smlar suits are filedaid Sen. Coleman Yog(D- around the country by individuals f 11 ' saiC n seeking to reverse their own re- . x a:,. t 4+ <{A measure that would give state -Daily-Mike Feldberg classifications. The NSA suit, .financial aid to parents of children (left) spoke yesterday at Guild which attorney Jerry Wulf said in private and parochial schools ified research. will be appealed. is believed to be is still awaiting consideration by the only attempt to declare the committees in the state legislature. foreign policy and the role of our Hershey directive unconstitutional. Educators and school boards government," Van Wylen said, ex- Hershey's letter to the 4,084 local across the state have denounced plaining the third problem, boards said demonstrations, "when the bill, including the Detroit and He added that keeping Dow they become illegal, have pro- Ann Arbor Boards of Education Chemical Corp. recruiters off duced and will continue to produce the Michigan Association of Sec- campus and cancelling all classi- much evidence that relates to the tMondary School Principals, the fied research contracts "really is 'basis of classification." Michigan Education Association, not solving any basic problems."ancitns u pn caSnd be impressed by it." The NSA suit contended the let- and a citizens group called Spend - - - ter was treated as an order rather Taxes On Public School (STOPS) than a comment, and claimed it The House is ready to take was a blow against free speech be- final action on a bill which would cause students feared that if they -Daily-Mike Feldberg give cities, counties and townships OtookdparteinhrdemonstrationsdtheyDle tethe right to declare a local state t e1C1ss ollok rthr de trmtns andthya (iie '8 ti S Can(didlates' Views of emergency, during riots. besdrafted. Opponents of the bill, led by 'bef / ,/jl" 6 8 Negro lawmakers from Detroit, 1t dr u Lists Reasons have charged that it is "total- ithdrawals Hart,inhissoral opinion, based 'Choice '68 Cancellations: Neroamakders fromsDetoit, his decision on the following tion." liaison officer between ROTC and grounds: The bill defines a riot as "five the University, both claim this -The letter had no legal effect,ua cI or mor persons, acting in concert isnttecs.-Teei osuch was not binding on the boards, and townfullyin enagey in vioklent- is not the case. "There is nosuhctownglyegaeivoet asntbnigo h ors n ptyagreement to that effect." Wil- was merely the general's personal cnutitninlyo ekes rams said. opinion. By HIENRY GRIX Republicans, former Vice-Presi- Representing Halstead, John ly causing or creating a serious Davies denies he is flunking. If last night's "Choice '68" dent Richard Nixon and New Belisle of the Socialist Workers risk of public terror or alarm." "I received an "A" last semester -Individuals who believed their teach-in serves as an indication York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, one Party outlined a three-plank plat- A similar bill was passed by the and was doing ok this semester," draft status was changed for il of the upcoming presidential race, Democrat, Sen. Eugene McCarthy, form including immediate with- Senate yesterday. he said legal activities had recourse to the choices definitely appear to and one socialist worker's party drawal from Vietnam, black con- A resolution proposing a con- The situation drew the atten- other administrative and judicial be limited. Representatives for all candidate, Fred Halstead, had trol of black communities "by any stitutional amendment to prohibit tion of the administrative board remedies the prospective candidates didn't their views expressed by proxy. means necessary" and support of ability to pay tuition plans at largely because of the implica- -Amendments to the draft law even show up. But representatives for Presi- socialism. ste-supporte coe and u- tions of the rule concerning the last summer prevented court re- Of the eight politicians sched- dent Johnson, Alabama Gov. Rockefeller's spokesma Bob versi ouse Thursday remainder of the two year pro- view of local board actions until uled to be represented, only four George Wallace and California Gorsline, '69, would not tke ubut The amendment would outlaw gram. the time of induction. had representatives appear. Two Gov. Ronald Reagan were unable prcte that his candidate pro- Michigan State University's "slid- to appear and "Choice '68oa represen- vides "the very viable alternative ing scale" tuition system approved FAVOR SGC RESTRUCTURING tative for Sen. Robert Kennedy to the present adr'iinistration." last year by the MSU Boardof _____________________________(D-New York.'However, he was hesitantto pre- Trustees. The plan charges stu- The-eacYik aog.. dict if and when Rockefeller dents varying tuition fees depend- Th1e' te-in sdt ing on their parents' income. ,BEFORE ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD: Late Attempt To Drop Creates Confusion on W By RON LANDSMAN An attempt by an honors stu- dent to withdraw from a second semester Reserve Officer Training Corps course has resulted in more Misunderstanding than anything else. Sam Davis, '71, asked to with- draw from Military Science 102 in the sixth week of this semes- ter three weeks past the dead- line - was refused permission by instructor Maj. Andrew McVeigh, and Col. H. K. Reynolds, com- *mandant of the University's Army ROTC unit. Davis, who refuses to attend any more ROTC classes, then went to Prof. Otto Graf, chair- man of the Honors Council, and the administrative board of the literary college. The board was informed that Davis would not be allowed to drop the course without also taking an "E" in the two remaining semesters of the undergraduate ROTC pro- gram. The Board decided to check this with an official source, the 1967-68 literary college catalog. The section under military science reads in part: "A cadet may drop the basic nonscholarship course, if he so desires, during the first few weeks of the first term. A cadet who remains in the basic ROTC program after dropout period is expected to complete the basic course of ROTC (four terms1 however, this requirement may be waived in hardship cases; for ex- a student has taken the first course, he cannot drop the pro- gram until the end of his sopho- more year, except by permission! of the commandant. Anderson said about five years ago an agreement was made be- tween ROTC and the University' that a student could not drop after the deadline unless he had the permission of the unit's com- mandant. But Reynolds and the Adminis- trative Dean Robert Williams, 1-1 1-11 , Lon-ton iaies rroposea tnanges By RICHARD WINTER Daily News Analysis A narrow choice of alternatives for restructuring Student Government Council will confront students voting for constitutional convention delegates on Tuesday and Wednesday. Reorganizing election procedures appears to be a primary concern among candi- dates with substantial Council changes secondary. At least one slate, however, proposes a radical approach to the whole concept of student government, authority and power. This group of 16 literary college candidates led by Ruth Baumann, '68, has formulated the idea of a student union which would be aimed at giving student demands both power and legitimacy. The union would be a separate entity from any student govern- ment, but both would necessarily be working towards the same goals, Miss Baumann said. .Membership in the union would be entirely voluntary, and based on payment of a membership fee, she explained. Eventualy she hopes the size of the union would be big enough does not provide fair representation of student opinion. A variety of remedies for this alleged condition have been suggested: -geographic apportionment by population. Specified geo- graphic areas would have their own representative on the council. -ward apportionment by housing unit masses. Under this sys- tem, the campus would be divided into complexes of large living units, each group with its representative. -apportionment by type of housing unit. This system would classify students according to the type of housing they live in, with delegates from each type of unit. -representation by schools. The number of members from each school would be proportionate to the enrollment of each school. -a mixed system, combining the "ward" system in the case of major housing units, and the "at-large" system for the rest of the campus -membership in student government. This is the idea of the student union, but in this concept, the union becomes student gov- ernment itself. While all students are not represented here, those interested in student government will supposedly receive better, erment Council general elec- tions next week and will includea"r"o " the Vietnam war. Financed by a r Tb a l Time Magazine, "Choice '68" will Anti-W ar 0 Alu n conduct similar student ballots at A L WUn rw Ar 9.00 mllprrct a niniI'S Auril 24. CLOVIS, N.M. (9")-A nine-of- given choices of finding Noyd in- Speaking for Nixon, Bob Edge- ficer military court martial found nocent, guilty of willful disobedi- worth, Grad, explained his can- Air Force Capt. Dale Noyd, who ence of a lawful order, or guilty didate hopes to secure "greater objects to the war in Vietnam, of the lesser charge of failure to freedom for the individual than guilty yesterday of willful dis- obey. he has ever enjoyed before." obedience of a lawful order. The prosecutor, Maj. Roy Smith, McCarthy's proxy, Jerry Du- 'h or hnwa eesdu-contended in final arguments that pont, candidatepfor the Second it was a simple case of Noyd will- Congressional District, said "crime til today, when defense attorneys fully disobeying a lawful order, al- in the streets is a pseudo issue" will present arguments on extenu- though the prosecution did not and his candidate is attacking the ating circumstances before sen- contest the character and sinceri- "problems underlying the mani- tencing is passed. ty of Noyd. festations of violence." Five Years Since the defense was not al- The maximum sentence is five lowed to question lawfulness of the years imprisonment at hard labor order or to base a defense on reli- )OOKS! . and dismissal from the Air Force. gious compulsion to disobey the I