FRESHMAN SUPPLEMENT :Y L Sir iAan Dait FRESHMAN SUPPLEMENT Seventy-Seven Years of Editorial Freedom VOL LXXVIII, No. 1 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1967 FIFTY-FOUR PAGES The Hatcher Years: A Legacy of Laissez- a ire' Harlan H. Hatcher ill end h many ways, some obvious, some 15-year term as University Presi- subtle. dent. in December. This article is an analysis of his presidency writ- President Hatcher's administra- ten by Leonard Pratt, Daily Asso- tion has a mixed record to show ciate Managing Editor, 1966-67. for these struggles, which is cer- tainly more than many presidents A mn e r i c a n universities have across the nation can claim. Yet changed more during the last 15 in many areas in which the ad- years-during the term of office ministration has succeeded it has of President Harlan Hatcher- done so almost in spite of itself? than during any other period in and seldom through its own their history. efforts. A mushrooming research estab- President Hatcher has run a lishment, soaring enrollments 'and caretaker government when the campuses increasingly divided in- times demanded innovation. to segments unaware of one an- While the University has tre- other's existence have set the beled in size - and certainly at stage for the certain and dra- least trebeled in complexity-its matic educational changes to fol- administration has r e m a i n e d low in the next two decades. stagnant, that of the immediate U n i v e r s i t y administrations post-war university in which throughout the nation were pulled Harlan Hatcher gained his ad- in many directions by these ministrative experience. changes for which few of them This was an experience of -ad- were ready. Many could not stand ministrative "laissez - faire" in the pressure and their colleges are which college deans and depart- now showing signs of wear in ment chairmen - later, research officials-were left to run their nances should best be placed to respective shows with only mini- shore up sagging programs or be-k mal budgetary coordination from gin promising new ventures. central university officers. The President's own reluctance It is this attitude more than to ask the vital questions which anything else which has left the growth problems imply, and the University its legacy from the recurrent attempts by his vice- Hatcher years. In many ways it presidents to enhance their own is a good legacy. administrative empires, have only Colleges and departments whose made things that much worse. executives and professors were ready for the challenges of the knowledge explosion - law and1 medicine, for example - have come through the past decade- and-a-half well. Others - many. languages and humanities - have] had heavy going. Even the segments of the Uni- versity which have done well in this period, however, have grown haphazardly and in absolutely no relation to one another. There1 has been no rational central: guidance to decide, for example, where additional University fi-] Periodic faculty revolts have arisen over this issue, and severalI brilliant administrators have left the University because of it. President Hatcher's impact on the campus' academic atmospherej has been similarly motivated ahd similarly mixed. On the one hand, except for a b s u r d dormitory regulations which passed on in the early 1960's, this administration has academic areas and, compared to many other universities, is often listened to whenever it rouses it- self out of its general lethargy toward the University as an in- stitution. But on the other, the adminis- tration has never considered itself as a defender of students' and professors' rights when those, rights are challenged, be it by the House Un-American Activitiesf Committee or the Ann Arbor po- lice. President Hatcher, for ex-k ample, fired two professors who refused to testify before HUAC in 1954. The only area in which President Hatcher's record is en- tirely negative is that of state relations. The President is any- thing but a politician and hasI hardly top priority in the Legis- lature around budget time and the yearly increases which have been forthcoming have often been taken up by more rapidly-expand- ing state colleges with cheaper programs than the University's. The President's natural reserve has hardly helped this steadily- deteriorating situation nor has it made the University any friends in Lansing during a period in which they could have been very helpful indeed. President Hatcher's administra - tion has thus been a loose one, but the freedom it has given the campus has. been costly.I The University is an adminis- trative hodgepodge. Some pro- grams have more money thanj they need while others go beg- ging. Graduate and undergradu- ate programs coexist uneasily on inadequate budgets. Library main- tainence suffers and faculty sal- aries fall. The only attempt in the last 10 years to solve the prob- leis of University growth is a residential college that is dying on the vine for lack of financial support. Essentially the University has become a corporate institution without a corporate philosophy of administration. It is immense, dli- verse and powerful but has had no one to guide it. And in a sense, perhaps that- is as it should be, for a guided university may well be a contradiction in terms. In any case it seems likely that the University will not long exist in this state. Its President-elect, Wisconsin's Robben Fleming is one of the new breed of col- lege administrators, organization- minded and determined. It is cer- tain that he will spend much of his future time fighting the legacy of the Hatcher years, and to what effect no one knows. been generally careful about in- been described by close 'associates fringing upon student and faculty as a man who would rather paper rights. The University's faculty over a conflict than resolve it. C has an extensive say about their Education budget increases are PRESIDENT HATCHER Regents I Pos one Fail To Set Size o nitio: 8 ' ' 0 Decision oil- ---ARM Budget State Appropriation Falls Short of Needed Revenue By LAURENCE MEDOW Associate Managing Editor An appropriation of $59,160,- 998 for the University for fiscal 16,74_63 was approved - by both houses of the state Legislature July 12. The figure represents the lowest percentage increase over last year's appropriations given to any other state-supported school. It is only $1 million more than last year's $58.1 million and falls $3.1 million short of the amount recommended by Gov. George The state appropriation was de- Romney. termined by first deciding on the The appropriation also leaves minimum budget on which the a $4.7 million deficit when added University could operate. Antici- to all other revenues from the pated income from sources other $83.2 million necessary to con- than state funds, mostly student tinue existing University programs fees, was then subtracted from at their present levels, according that amount to arrive at the to statistics filed with the orig- state appropriation figure. inal budget request last Spring. The Legislature used current The bill indicates the deficit in-state fees to determine the should be made up with an in- revenue from in-state tuition, but crease in out-of-state tuition rates used $1650 for out-of-state tuition of about $650. instead of the current $1000 per - year. Seek More Data, Additional Study Regeni s Remain at Presidethial Call; Date of Future Meeting U t rai By PAT O'DONOHUE The University Board of Regents, in a special meeting July 15, delayed action on the University budget and the level of expected tuition hikes pending further investigation of revenue sources for the coming year. The Regents indicated an "adjustment of the student fee schedules" was likely and authorized continuation of opera- tions and payrolls at existing levels for the rest of July. The Board added that the tuition increases must be carefully considered so to "make sure that no University stu- dent will be prevented from continuing his education be- a cause of insufficient financial e support." The Regents' actions were ex- Go U pected, since earlier in the week Executive Vice-President Marvin f L. Niehuss had confirmed thatll e there woud be a tuitionincrease a je for the fall semester. He did not speculate on the size of the hike. By DANIEL OKRENT However, Vice-President for An increase in r id nt h ll .1 Current Draft Law Retained Until 1971 The appropriation is $16.3 mil- ion short of the University's orig- >^x inal request, which was intended - to cover commitments for faculty- and non-academic staff salary increases, new laboratory equip- PRESIDENT-DESIGNATE ROBBEN FLEMING, o n the left, discusses the University's pressing fi- men brar. anancial problems with Regents Gertrude Heubne r and William Cudlip at their July 15 meeting. programs. The proportion of the burden for providing the additional NUMEROUS VARIABLES: revenue needed by the Univer- By GAIL SMILEY Under the provision of the new draft law, all male, undergradu- ate students satisfactorily pursu- ing full-time studies cannot now be inducted until they reach the age' of 24, unless the President finds that the needs of the armed forces require the termination or substantial restriction of such de- ferments. rthe act extends the Selective Service system until 1971. The new law was passed in the Senate by a vote of 72 to 23, and in the House by 377 to 29. It specifically prohibits the John- privileged - has no protection from exposure to the draft." President Johnson, however, has authority to defer vocational school students and apprentices. Kennedy also objected that there is no ban on racial dis- crimination in appointments to local draft boards.E Managers of the bill said the ban on drafting men by lottery was included in the measure be- cause the administration had not yet agreed onddetails. They said Congress would promptly consider authorizing a lottery when the administration submitted a spec- sity that falls on in-state and out- of -state students is up to the Re- gents. Executive Vice President Marvin Niehuss explained that although the Legislature recom- mends a large non-resident fee increase, "they can't tell us how to charge to raise the money we need." The higher education appro- priations bill approved by the House and Senate was worked out in a special conference com- mittee. The figures are very close +n r io A itlIOO1.r'.r..r2 hK G' t y t 5 Funds, Projectei ci ?1TArh~~d1b Govern 'U'Ex son - proposed lottery system, lfIpln the Senate before the passage of FAIR, (fair and impartial ran--b dom system. Present policy is to take the an income tax package which will President Johnson had also oldest first, starting with 25 year raise about $180 million in new suggested that the federal govern- olds and working downward. Un- revenues this year. The appro- ment recommend mandatory der the new law 19 year olds will priation bill dulled a trend of standards for the local draft be drafted first along with others yearly increases and allocated the boards, effectively cancelling any as their deferments expire. How- smallest percentage increase for local discretionary power. This everthe President has.rfull the University since 1958, the was lsoprohbitd bythenewauthority to reverse the age prior- year of a deficit budget in the law. It specifically bars the a- i ties. state. doption of any national test to determine exemptions in a wide ' " " range of professions. deemn xmtosi ieContreioie-ups Dely Under the law that expired June 30, individual draft boards o colh thedir own ge disetion otupletion of BurSley Hall whether to defer college students; under the new law it is manda- tory. However, discretionary au- By JOHN GRAY and dining and recreational fa- thority to draft graduate students cilities for 2000. These facilities is continued. According to the 900 students will be housed will be available for the use of New York Times, President John- beginning this August in Bursley residents of the Vera Baits Hous- son plans to limit graduate de- Hall, the University's new North ' ing complex, located adjacent to ferments in the future to those . Campus addition to the dormitory Bursley. studying medicine or dentistry system. Although the complex will Residents of Vera Baits, which The new law further requires house 1180 students when it is has no dining facilities of its own, that a claim for deferment o completed, delays in construction will be offereti selective meal con- grounds of being a conscientious will force nearly 300 male stu- tracts at Bursley. They will be objector be based on religious dents originally assigned to Burs- able to buy contracts for dinner, grounds. ,This is in contradiction t be ae lunchbreakfast and dinner: to a recent Sup:reme Court de- comnverted double rooms in one of 'lunch and dinner; or all three. By WALLACE IMMEN with all other requirements set Ay e t e by the state, working closely with Any attempt to list the the controller's office in deter- building plans of the University mining estimated costs, it must in detail would be obsolete beforecontinueetimadcotsaitnmyst it was printed. Not because the ntin anit s a y administration doesn't know whatw Another financial threat has ai- lis needed, but because the Univer- ways been low funds in the state 1 sity has not committed itself to a treasury and University requests any rigid schedule for adding new have always received drastic } facilities, explains John McKevitt, slashes. This year's cut of a $24.1 assistant to the vice president and jmillion request to $9.3 million al- chief financial officer. location is actually considered a Planners Yhave to be concerned with long-range needs because so many variables are subject co~ change before ground is broken for any building, he adds. But firm commitments must eventually beV made and the University has ar- I ranged its plans into priority lists.r The most important factor gov- erning speed of expansion, of . course, is money, most of which must be received from state capital outlay appropriations. The Ui- versity submits its priority list to the state legislature every year, . but funds have recently been hed up by legislative actions. One of the stumbling blocks has: been Public Act 124, a law which requires that the State Controller's Office act as the contracting agent for all state-supported ir ojects. Because this provision reioves he decision-making authority from -- / Academic Affairs Allan F. Smith fees for University housing, pre- told WXYZ-TV in Detroit that the cipitated by a general cost in- University might raise tuition as crease has been recommended to mnuch as $300 In some schools the University Board of Regents iiin io nat the end of August. Smith said John Feldkarnp. for th aemic AgyearbeinnngbyDirector of University Housing that the budge cut by the Legs tattebeft cualtbyathvebuLegis- The current "average" fee paid success when compared to some lature left 'no alternative but by dormitory residents, about $950 succss hencompredto omeraise tuition sharply." past allocations.s t per year, will be increased by ap- Fund Shortages University President H a r 1 a n proximately $50, pending the Re- This year, the fund shortage be- Hatcher requested the moves after gents' approval, Feldkamp ex- came so acute that Gov. George a brief review of the University's plained. Romney had even asked that allfinancial situation with regard to The Regents' decision is expect- new construction be halted as an the $59.1 million state appropria- ed at the same time as their dis- austerity measure. Fortunately, tion approved i Lansing. The ap- closure of tuition increases for the this problem was solved with the propriation leaves a deficit of $4.7 coming academic year. approval of a state income tax. million from a minimum Univer- All housing units except Vera Supplements to state monies are lity operating budget of $3.2 mil Baits Housing on North Campus See ONGRANG Pae 8 lion which includes student fees are expected to be included in See LONG-RANGE, Page 8 and a small amount of other reve- ae epte tbku. noes.the rate hike. IThe Legislature believed the' Discontinue Maid Service University could make up the dif- Also included in dormitory ference by increasing out-of-state economy measures will be the tuiti. discontinuation of maid service ion.to student rooms. Feldkamp said Vice-President and Chief Finan- that this will represent a $10-$12 cial Officer Wilbur K. Pierpont la- ter clarified the Regents' action yearly sam g ped ege labor Feikap itd :: h lbo by. saying that "payrolls for Julycotashehifrsnfrte will be at the higher rates estab-cotashehifrsnfote lished for the fiscal year 1967-68 fee increacs, In order for the for all members of the faculty and University to remain on a com- staf mbfhepetitive basis with local business- es, an across-the-board increase "Because of the problems creat- for clerical, labor and service em- ed by this gap, a bit more work ployes is being implemented. eld- will have to be done," Hatcher I ikamp said that this would mean told the Regents. The Board is anhrai sould5en presently on call by the President. student help in the residence They will meet when "enough halts, elpninthewgesiee data" is available in order to de- $1 ls bringing the wage level to termine the exact amount of ad- . perr. justment in student fees and final Married-Stud ent tt ousoinrg passage of the University's oper- in addition to fee increases for .1tng budget for the coming fiscaldomtreaen iceses vea~rexpected in University married- '' R"