THE MICHIGAN nATi v Tall' Illt'afllEauti1 "lt~l V.5UJ TUESM, AY, AUGUST 29, 1967 dvisory Panels Facilitate 'U' Communication By BETSY TURNER n the interest of the Univer- community and supportive of general .educational goals of University to provide for an ange of informattion between nts 'and the executive officers e. University" five student ad- y boards to the Vice Presi- swere set up last April. e President for Student Af- Richard L. Cutler originally ived the idea in the spring 66, but a year passed before :ommittees were actually for- ted and functioning. stated in the introduction he structural statement, the ory :committees are primarily ned to facilitate information between the administration he students. The advisory committees were set up in response to student de- mands for more voice in the deci- sion making of the University. "Although the students do not have a direct decision-making role as a result of these committees, this system allots the student a tremendous amount of influential power and also gives the student an' outlet for his opinions," says George Vance, a member of Vice- President Cutler's committee and a graduate student in community adult education. "Both the faculty and the stu- dents are constantly criticizing the administration. It would be a beneficial and welcomed develop- ment if these two groups, the stu- dent advisory committee and SACUA faculty committees could work together and possibly, in that way, clear up a lot of questions and problems," explains A. Geof- frey Norman, Vice-President for Research. The research advisory commit- tee, chaired by David Knoke, '69, has held several meetings this summer, after which the commit- tee report was submittedconcern- ing the area of biological warfare research allegedly going on at the University. Another area of inte- rest to be explored this fall is the availability of research jobs for students in University laboratories. At present, according to Norman, 1800 University students are em- ployed in research departments. "I am well pleased with the in- teraction between myself and the committee," Norman says. "Our main undertaking now is to gain' an understanding of students' in- terest in research. At present, much of our work is done with the applied and graduate schools." Since the committees were of- ficially begun April 1 each has met with the Vice-Presidents about four times. Their concern was primarily in laying the ground work for more intense meetings in the fall. Orientation concerning the workings of each of the respec- tive offices were given to the ad- visory committees and general guidelines for the relationships between the Vice-Presidents and the individual boards were set up. In addition to meeting with the Vice-Presidents, several of the committees have met with sub- committees of the Senate Ad- visory Committee on University Affairs, the executive arm of the faculty assembly. The advisory board to the vice- president for academic affairs, Al- lan F. Smith, has met with both the vice-president and the SACUA education policy committee. In one of the preliminary meetings, Dr. Abraham Kaplan warned the com- mittee that, "in its advisory ca- pacity, they cannot expect to make demands, only gather information, express ideas and give advice." One of the topics to be discussed by this committee in the fall is the rising costs of tuition. The advisory committee for Vice-President Cutler has met for several "informal discussions," ac- cording to one committee member. Such topics as recreation facili- Other topics to be considered ties have been discussed but no by thisegroup are orientationiprac- extensive study has been done. tices and students' participation The advisory committee to Vice- in the introduction of the new President Michael Radock was president, Robben Fleming. formed prior to the creation of Bi-monthly meetings with the the other committees and has been vice-presidents are not open to functioning for over a year. the public and the reports sub- "During the year, the commit- mitted to the executive commit- tee has had periodic meetings with tees are confidential. However, various University officials con- public meetings of the committee cerned with topics which were of with representatives of the admin- interest at that time. Discussions istration present, will also be held were also held concerning the SGC bi-monthly. break with the Office of Student Members of the board can i? .j ij r i i y. .j Each committee is composed of from five to eight members, se- lected by a six man board -- three members from SGC and three from GSC. The appoint- mnents were subject to the approv- al of the two groups. Each per- son applying for a position was re- quired to be a student pursuing an approved course of study, and no person is eligible to serve concur- rently on more than one advisory board. Seventy-two applications were received and 22 persons were finally seated on the boards. The committees are required to meet twice a month with the re- I I, Affairs, and The Daily-Board i Control of Student Publication crisis. This group greatly facilitat ed the information flow," com ments Cleland Wyllie, director o media relations and an assistan to Radock. in nnly ha ramncrarl if 9A mmi- n, "i- of a wy e Iemovau t n per cent oi is the membership of either GSC or - SGC presents a written request, spective vice-presidents and then - r, if recommendation of a mem-tsubtai-rien t ofdthe f er of the Presidential' Advisory to submit a written report of the it Board is made, and approved by proceedings to the Executive Com- a two-thirds vote of SGC and GSC. nittees of GSC and SGC. 4 oice: Radical Consciences in Action By DAVID KNOKE Voice Political Party represents one of the oldest continuing stu- dent liberal-radical organizations in the nation. During its seven years in existence, the structure and function of the group has undergone s e v e r a 1 significant changes. In its latest phase, Voice has been active in bringing the stu- dent-power concept to the cam- pus - and in organizing activities of protest and radical education in conjunction with Students for a Democratic Society, the na- tional leftist political organiza- tion to which Voice is affiliated, Voice is firmly grounded in the belief that "participatory democ- racy" must lie at the basis of any viable organization. Meetings are open- to the general public and officerships are rotated on short- term bases. However, the decen- tralism of the organization has not prevented the continuing membership from being carried by a small, cohesive group of stu- dents nor has the desire to spread responsibility among as many members as. possible prevented much confusion among the gen- eral public-particularly Univer- sity administrators who are often volubly confronted by Voice griev- ances - as to the aims of the party. Actually, the appelation "Po- litical Party" has become some- thing of a misnomer; Voice has not availed itself of such formal political chanels as -running can- didates for SGC since affiliating with national SDS five years ago. During that time, having become more attentive to national issues such as civil rights and opposi- tion to war, the picket-line and sit-in have become favorite tac- tics both as political strategy and as publicity devices. During the past year Voice was most noticeably instrumental in sponsoring with SGC the draft referendum and the subsequent sit-in confrontations with the ad- ministration in an attempt to end class-ranking for the Selective S e r v i c e; informational - pickets against CIA recruiters on campus. Seven members of Voice were arrested in Toledo, Ohio, in May on charges of "disturbing the peace" when they attempted to disrupt an Armed Forces Day pageant which featured a military assault by national guardsmen on a mock Vietnamese village. Voice also played host to the national SDS' convention which was quickly routed to Ann Arbor when accommodations for some 150 delegates could not be found at the intended Antioch College site. Key decisions at the SDS convention to oppose the draft and the war in Vietnam by form- ing draft resistance unions and agitation both within and outside the armed forces will probably see implementation locally by Voice in the coming months. Many of Voice's activities are not so dramatically visible. In- dividually, campus radicals may have allied themselves with the Vietnam Summer Project, a sum- mer 'teach-out" program aimed at organizing discussion groups on the war on the neighborhood level. Other Voice members have been actively engaged in the Children's Community, a vigorous radical elementary education experiment. In the past, Voice has supplied talent and hands to the now de- funct Free University of Ann Arbor and many of the several teach-ins (the concept of which first originated among faculty and students at the University two years ago) on such topics as the Vietnam war, South Africa, China and student power. Another en- terprise which has been eclipsed but may be revived is the Stu- dent Economic Union (UMSEU) which, while it was active suc- ceeded in gaining a wage hike for student employes and sending members to testify before state legislators on economic conditions for students at the University. The outlook for Voice does not appear bright. National SDS hiked dues to $10 a year, the de- funct student - power movement has drained energy from further large-scale confrontation for some time to come, and declining mem- bership has been in the offing since the University turned mem- bership lists over to the HUAC in compliance with a subpoena last fall. In Voice's earlier phase,, be- tween about 1960 and = 1963, a great deal of intellectual activity and idealistic fervor on the part of founders like Tom Hayden, Alan Haber and Robert Ross built Voice and SDS into a broadly- based, wide-ranging organization such as it has not been since the departure of these charismatic individuals, Perhaps the most spectacular demonstration in which Voice has participated was the October, 1965, sit-in at the Ann Arbor draft board in conjunction with the International Days of Protest, in which 38 students and faculty were arrested. About two-thirds of the persons accused of tres- passing chose not to plead guilty and the case is currently being appealed through the higher courts. More important recrimi- nations from the protest were the changing of draft deferments by the boards of several of the men under orders from the Selective Service headquarters. The subse- quent outcry by civil libertarians resulted in the restoration of de- ferments in most cases. Coming to a conclusion about the probable future of Voice is difficult because of the protean nature of the organization. At times the group appears to be fighting a rear-guard action for the simple right to survive against declining memberships, an un- friendly administration and cops on campus. But should an issue arise in which radical consciences are roused to action-such as the eviction of students from their apartment on the basis of race- the durable Voice membership is sure to be on hand to draw atten- tion to injustices. i i f E { i LARGEST COLLEGE FACILITY: Radio 640 Beams Signal To 12,000 Listeners By DAVID BERSON The student operated radio station WBCN is the largest col- lege broadcasting facility in the nation. Housed in the basement of the Student Activities Building, the station reaches a large group of undergraduates with a varied program schedule. Although its broadcast signal can only be picked up in the dormitories and a few scattered housing units, the station in re- cent years has accumulated some 12,000 listeners, making it one of the major stations in the area. The station is completely man- ned and governed by students with one of the largest staffs of any student organization, and each year it takes on new stu- dents in announcing, engineering, advertising, and news capacities. WCBN. moved to the SAB two years ago from its offices in dormitories, and its present stu- dios are superior to most profes- sional radio stations. There are three fully equipped broadcast studios, a large newsroom with 7 i 1 i 1 United Press International facili- greatly enlarged its coverage of ties, a record library, executive local and campus events. For the offices, and a conference room past two years it has received the often used as a studio for inter- UPI award for news excellence. view and panel programs. Almost It has become one of the best the entire studio complex was opportunities on campus for stu- constructed by the station's own dents to gain professional on-the- engineering staff. job experience, and several WCBN The station's varied format has alumni are now pursuing careers attracted a wide range of per- in broadcasting. sonalities. On a normal broadcast WCBN is self-supporting, draw- day, the station, programs about ing funds from local and national five hours of rock, an hour of advertising. jazz, several hours of easy listen- The station is governed by a ing music, and ,two hours of clas- board of directors, students elect- sical music, all interspersed with ed each year by the staff and is newscasts. assisted by professionals and in- Station manager Joe Quass- terested faculty members. rano emphasizes that not every- Programs produced by the sta- one need be a polished radio per- tion have been aired on the sonality to join the station's Canadian Broadcasting Corpora- staff, as there are so many differ- tion, and stations WJR, WKNR, ent activities which make up the and WXYZ in Detroit, and over station's productions. the U n i v e r s i t y Broadcasting In recent years, news has been Service. the largest growing department. The station's staff looks for- The station has sent its reporters ward to the near future when the as far as the University of Cali- Federal Communications Com- fornia at Berkeley for documen- mission may grant them a com- taries and news reports and has mercial ,broadcasting license. 4 4 i Student Power Movement Fails* Grievances Rean Unresolved I Tonight we dance, my dear, on the money i saved by buying used texfbooks at FolleW's. How about getting a haircut fist? (Continued from Page 1) At. the meeting Vice Presidents Cutler and Pierpont were present. Vice-President Cutler spoke for Vice-President Pierpont, who re- fused to speak throughout the meeting. The event created more bad feeling on all sides, but it was hardly *necessary-the "Pierpont sit-in" had done the damage. The Regents took notice at the A Sit-In by Voice Members Sparked Last Fall's Student Power Movement U sit-in which seemed to threaten many of them. SGC began to way- the functioning of the University er on its pledge to make the rank- by, tying up the office of a key ing referendum binding (a last- Vice-President, and rumblings minute walk-out had prevented from above materialized Novem- them from formally doing so) and ber 12, when Cutler announced the on the viability of the ' Movement enactment of a sit-in ban. itself. Student Government Council The next teach-in, on Thursday, (SGC), which had been assured drew fewer participants than the the Thursday before that no such four thousand that had attended legislation w a s f o r t hcoming, the first one, and it ultimately threatened to break Its ties with dissolved into disorder, passing no Cutler's office if the ban were not motions and neither accepting nor lifted. That was at a special meet- rejecting the Hatcher proposals. ing on Monday, November 14. Concurrently the faculty was Meanwhile, on 'Wednesday, the considering the question of rank- 17th, SGC elections took place, in ing. Many expressed the feeling which 10,000 students voted 2-1 that to rank was contrary to their against the continuation of the consciences and that they would University policy of ranking stu- not give grades to students who dents for the Selective Service. On didn't want them. Over thirty fa- Thursday, the administration had culty members signed a pledge to not yet retracted the ban and SGC that effect. broke its ties. On Monday, December 5, how- At the same time the adminis- ever, the literary college faculty tration reiterated its stand on voted that there would be no pro- ranking-it would not honor the vision made to allow individual fa- referendum. culty members wishing to withhold On Friday a meeting occurred grades. The administration soon which had been called by Voice, made clear that students who did but which most of the student not receive letter grades would, body had been led to believe was after one month's time, be counted to be a meeting under the leader- as having failed. Dissident faculty ship of SGC. The meeting called members then offered the choice for a teach-in the following Mon- to their students, and there were day. no takers. Over the weekend a "special Early in March SGC appointed committee" met to draw up and members to sit on the Hatcher agenda. The meeting was chaired commissions. The Movement thus by SGC president Ed Robinson officially ended. ,I Save 50%. onyuaifae "That's mighty friendly of them." YOU CAN SAVE TO033%OF by buying used textbooks at Folletts We have the most complete line of new and used texts on campus. 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The course of action to be taken in order to force the administra- tion to discontinue ranking and to retract the sit-in ban was a sit-in of one hour (at lunch) in the lob- by of the administration building. Another teach-in would follow. Thanksgiving vacation interced- ed, but on Tuesday, November 29, 1500 students sat-in, despite Hat- cher's offer to delay implementa- tion of the sit-in ban and to es- tablish commissions on the sit-in ban, on ranking, and to study the University decision- making pro- cess. At this point, however, moderate elements which had been drawn into the movement began to drop off. Hatcher's concessions satisfied IN APRIL the Hatcher commis- sion on ranking reported that the University should continue to rank. The Hatcher commission on University decision-making has only begun to outline its, objec- tives. So, there it was. The University administration acted throughout the year with but one purpose in mind - the preservation of their own power. 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