An Editorial ..a THE EVENTS of the past week have been the most ominous in a very long time. The threatening shadow of mass suspen- sions in the wake of wars protest have dispelled a once-cherished hope that "it can't happen here." With the revelation last week that Vice-President for Student Affairs Richard Cutler secretly suggested academic discipline for three students involved in an October demonstration, any pre- tense of an improving student-administration rapport has been undermined. Suspicion and mistrust reminiscent of last winter's most disruptive days have replaced any healthy anticipation of a fresh start with the new administration of Robben Fleming, who assumes the Presidency Jan. 1. NONE OF THIS mutual bitterness is good, particularly at a University that prides itself on open inquiry and academic freedom. Nothing that students did during the visit of Rear Admiral S. N. Brown on Oct. 11 warranted the secretive manipula- tions of the administration, which ended in confidential letters to the literary college and Rackham graduate school requesting academic discioline for three of the demonstrators. If the protesters in the North Campus incideit were guilty of violating regulations, there are proper and open legal channels of Joint Judiciary Council that anyone-the Engineering College or the administra- tion-can use. But with , this last viobition of student rights, the breaking point has been reached. We no longer cling to the illusion that the administration will come clean in January. SPECIFICALLY, we propose the following actions to clear the air of accusations and conspiracy which are poisoning ad- ministration-student relations: " The literary college and graduate schools should reject the concept of using academic discipline for non-academic behavior violations, even "until the Presidential Commission report is issued." Though the administrative board of the literary college made the wise endorsement of an all-campus judiciary composed of students and faculty, it also left itself open to hear cases-such as the protest against Admiral Brown-until the planned all- campus judiciary is officially established. (Such a judiciary is to be composed of faculty and students and will be recommended by the Presidential Commission early next year.) Such action, though within the college's authority, is a dangerous reversal of its past record of non-involvement in disciplining non-academic violations. The proper authority for these cases remains Joint Judiciary Council,' and those who urge bypassing this proper channel for "only a month," until the commission's' report is issued, may be rudely shocked by the administration's and the Regents' ability to delay implementation. Despite the best intentions of the literary college board, it will be violating its own t'raditional principles by entering into the area of non-academic discipline. 0 That the secrecy of administrative proceedings have con- tinued unnoticed is in part due to the surprising indifference of its student representatives, who have voiced few qualms that clandestine charges of suspension can be discussed without the- knowledge of the accused. The reason for this negligence is perhaps their lack of responsibility to any body or constituency, except perhaps the literary college steering committee, which itself operates in a shroud of secrecy. The student representatives should reject participation in any further closed meetings, or else resign. * The events of the past week also emphasize the unfortunate inability of the vice president for student affairs to confront University problems. The explanation behind this situation is a combination of the office and the man. The office of vice president for student affairs is in desperate need of restructuring. The post is an administrative anomaly, a position that will inevitably crush its holder between student demands and Regental resistance. With the wider and more responsible role being vested in student government and judiciary, the Office of Student Affairs also needs serious examination. One possibility is instituting a vice president for student services, thereby replacing a paternalistic administrator with a necessary bureaucratic organization supervising counselliig services and other student concerns. Secondly, Vice President Cutle himself is unable any longer to command the respect or receive the cooperation that a high administrative post requires. His latest machinations have con- vinced student leaders-of all political persuasions- that he is untrustworthy. Whatever the wisdom of his actions-and we seriously question his judgment-he is simply unable to represent ;the administration to students effectively, and certainly cannot represent students before the administration. If he continues to occupy the vice presidency, hope of future student-administration rapport will be smothered by a legacy of mutual hostility. THE RAPIDLY disintegrating situation in the realm of student affairs must be correctede quickly. This will require not only a change of policy but it will also necessitate a change in the structure and personalities that determine these policies. Only with a concerted and sincere effort can students, ad- ministrators and faculty resurrect a University community free of suspicion and enmity. -THE SENIOR EDITORS C I P lflrjgaut :4Iaiip Seventy-Se ccii Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVIII, No.79 NSC TO DECIDE: ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1967 TEN PAGE r Ask New Draft Plan for Grads A blue-ribbon interagency ad- visory committee has recommend- ed that the National Security: Council (NSC) permit broad draft deferments for graduate studentsG in natural science, mathematics, engineering and health. There are now about 144,000 first-year graduate students. If the recommendation is accepted, about half of them will continue to be deferred after blanket graduate school deferments expire next year. The other 'half, mainly stu- dents in social sciences and the humanities, will be eligible to be drafted. The NSC is expected to decide the question later this month. The council is headed by President Johnson and includes Vice Presi- dent Humphrey, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, outgoing Sec- retary of Defense Robert Mc- Namara and C. Farris Bryant, Committee 'On Con-Con *-x - u director of the Office of Emer- gency Planning. Educators have been pres ng the White House for a decis.-n so that graduate schools can bt gin to make plans to deal with enrollment. Educators are wor- ried about the effect any decision wil lhave on size of the graduate! school enrollment. An American Council on Educa- tion (ACE) report issued earlier this year warned that if present draft laws continue as they are, graduate schools will soon be filled, with "women, medical students! and cripples." A number of graduate schools are now placing all male appli- cants on waiting lists, pending a decision by the NSC. The University is undecided at present as to how to deal with the enrollment problem. Bar Recruiters At Columbia University, how- ever, President Grayson Kirk has barred military recruiters from campus in protest of the recom- mendation for a change in grad- uate deferments. Some educators are strongly; opposed to the committee's recom- mendations on the grounds that Spock,260 Jailed in NY Rally Attempts to Close Iiiduction Center Stopped by Police NEW YORK A - More than 1,000 s h o u t i n g demonstrators against the Vietnam war vainly tried to close a Lower Manhattan armed forces induction center yesterday. More than 260 of them delib- erately had themselves arrested, including Dr.'Benjamin Spock and poet Allen -Ginsberg. As the demonstrators chanted "Peace now!," a counterpicket, Nelson Havis, from the Queens County Council of Veterans of Foreign Wars, told newsmen: "They seem to be rooting for the Viet Cong." Many of the demonstrators had been briefed in advance on the tactics of civil disobedience to provoke arrest. The ranks of the protesters included the young and the old, hippie types and the well- dressed. 'A Big Zero' Lt. Col. James J. McPoland, commander of the Whitehall Army induction center near the tip of Manhattan, called the five hour antiwar demonstration "a big zero." ' McPoland said there was no interruption in the center's daily processing schedule for 250 in- ductees. Sponsors of the demonstration had hoped to attract 5,000 or more protesters against Vietnami Police estimated about one fifth that number showed up outside the 81-year-old building, which houses the induction center on a square block facing Whitehall Street. -Associated Press An Iowa City policemen shoots a spray of the chemical mace into the face of a University of Iowa student taking part in a demonstration on campus of recruiters from the Dow Chemical Co., makers of napalm. Mace, which has the'effect of c ncentrated tear gas, is the latest weapon police have added to their crowd control arsenal. The I:wa City demonstration ended in the arrest of 18 of the 200 demonstrators who had forced their way into the Student Union, site of Dow's inter- viewing, chanting "We want our rights and we don't care how. We want a revolution now." ' \ 7 T / '7 T T'Z1. T'1 T T" r !'V T1 1 '7 1 if-ts tbstaele grantingbroaddefermentsin na- F csi jI lFRE NCLEAR: By GREG OXFORD After two hours of debate, the Student Government Council Sel- ect Committee on the Constitut- ional Convention failed Sunday to come to any decision on a select- ion method for convention dele- gates. Two proposals were suggested. One called for at-large elections similar to the SGC elections. The second proposal asked -for open petitioning by which any studentj with 150 signatures would become a member of the convention. The committee voted, 5-3, to send a resolution to SGC stating that the existence of the Select Committee or the subsequent existence of the convention does not affect SGC's legitimacy until the changes proposed by the con- vention are ratified by the stu- dents in a campus-wide vote. The Select Committee w a s created last week by SGC to sol- icit and evaluate proposals for the format of the convention and then report back to SGC. SGC will make the final plans for convention format. The committee also voted to send letters to student organiza- tions asking that they submit pro- posals for consideration at the committee's next meeting this Sunday. Commenting on the possible "raisons d'etre" of the conven- tion, SGC member Judy Green- berg, '68, said Monday that a member of the College Young Re- publican Executive Board told her several weeks ago that "the constitutional convention is the last chance for a conservative group to regain control of the student government on campus." In reaction to Miss Greenberg's statement, Tom Westerdale, Grad, also a member of SGC, charged that "the proposal 'by the cabal See COMMITTEE, Page 2 neering and health after June and denyingsthemsto students in the social sciences and humanities would cause great bitterness andd resentment among the contrast- ing students and faculties. Gradu- ate schools would split down the middle. The forthcoming decision is ex- pected to affect mainly first-year, graduate students because those already studying for a master's degree by last June 30 were See related story, Page 2 granted a one-year deferment from Oct. 1, 1967, sufficient time to complete their course. President Johnson, in a draft message to Congress last March,, recommended that all graduate school deferments except for medical and dental students, the bull of those in the health field,, be eliminated. Vitally Essential' Administrative Board Action Must Have Faculty Approval By STEVE NISSEN Daily News Analysis Although most of the details of the recent controversy over "aca- demic" discipline are finally known, itdiscstillnotaclear what impact the affair will have upon future 'disciplinary action. The policy statement of the literary c o 11 e g e administrative: board still must be apprnved by the faculty. The statement called for a broadening of the board's jurisdiction until a new campus- wide judiciary is set up according to the recommendations of the Presidential Commission on the Student Role in Decision-Makilpg. before the Presidential Commis- sion recommends a new judiciary. Several members of the literary, college board admit they are not{ desirous of hearing these cases. The board is really a reluctant judiciary; but in the face of pres- sure from the Regents and the, OSA, they felt obligated to assume an expanded judiciary .role. SomeI board membei's think a tripartite (administrators, faculty, students) judiciary is a better alternative. Other probleis are apparent in the new system. Clearly, it is now, up to each individual college to take disciplinary action against student demonstrators. It is possible for several stu- dents who participate in the same demonstration to receive totallyj different punishments. Whereas a student in the literary college ,might get off with a warning, a more conservative school such as the Engineering College might ex- pel,students involved." Each University school is ex- PntA dr to e n1tu announce'its '° l' pemeu Uo eenail y L~uc u own particular policy. 2,000 Police In light of President-designate Prior to the demonstration, Robben Fleming's recent speech. which is scheduled to be renewed at Michigan State University daily during the week, 2,000 extra condemning disruptive protests, policenien . had been assigned to the establishment of a new judic- overtime to control crowds in the iary may not clear up the situ- area. Estimates of police strength ation, in that Fleming may ask on the scene ranged as high as the administrative board to con- 3,200. Reportedly the new judiciary unit The revised draft law subse- would be composed of nine stu- quently passed by Congress and dents and three faculty members. signed by the President last June Since the faculty will not meet' specified, however, that the NSC, again until mid-January and the in effect the President, should Commission's report is due about. continue to defer graduate stu- the same time, it is quite possible dents in any fields deemed vitally that the administrative board's essenuai i4-nL+e ±main~al i nc+ . -- ,.-- tinue to apply academic sanctions against "disruptive" protesters. At any rate, a confrontation next semester should be expected. Voice-SDS leaders will not easily relinquish their right to carry on such protests. The University ad- ministration has been embarras- sed by SDS protests and has now, f o u n d an effective counter- measure. Somebody has to give in. essential to the national interest. However, draft protesters whom Selective Service Director Gen.' Lewis B. Hershey termed deleter- ious to the national interest may go the head of induction lists. Hershey has issued a directive stating that persons who burnk their draft cards, and those who4 continually demonstrate against United States policy in Vietnam may be subject to reclassification as 1-A. The American Civil Liberties3 Union has filed suits in severalE states, challenging the power ofj the selective service to establish punishment for offenders of the draft laws. NEW APARTMENTS: Student Tenants Hold Rent from Charter policy will never be implemented. Doubt Furthermore, there is some doubt whether the faculty would actually approve th'e board's policy statement. Several members have expressed serious reservations about such a decision. Procedural aspects of an ex- pended judiciary role for the board also need to be worked out. Will the accused be granted coun- sel? Whose responsibility is it to notify the student? Most of the members of the board agree that it was a serious mistake for Vice-President for Student Affairs Richard Cutler to fail to inform Karen Daenzer, '70, of the charges levied against her. The affair has left many mem- bers of Student Government Council incensed at the lack of due process for the accused stu- dent. Presently, several are draft- ing a letter to Cutler asking that he resign his post. They hope to have SGC approve the letter at its regular meeting tomorrow. Students Leaving? It appears likely that should a demonstrator be brought before the board for discipline, the stu- dent members of the board would be asked to leave the meeting. Three members of the all-student literary college steering commit- tee sit on the board. Though the legitimacy of the OSA's direct use of the lit- erary college board as a discip- linary channel has been disputed, it appears that the administration has an airtight case. Normally, disciplinary affairs are referred to the Joint Judiciary Council. Last March the Regents re- solved to condemn disruptive be- havior, stating that "We particu- larly note and commend the in- tention to apply academic discip- line in the event of any such con- By DAVID SPURR Students also complained that Over 120 "humiliated and 'en- their rooms were unfinished in raged" tenantsuof theaplushane August, and that some of them are Albert Terrace apartments on not yet completely done. A tenant Geddes Road havep sgenapet- who has taken part in organizing tion refusing to pay their rents to the strike said that apartments Charter Realty until construction lacked curtains, shower doors, of the building is completely fin- towel racks, some appliances and ished b air conditioners in August, and ishd. 'that most of these problems con- Hilbert Beyer, Charter's rental tinued into the next two months. manager for Albert Terrace, said There was no heat when the yesterday that he was "willing to cold weather set in, the petition sit down and discuss" the situation states. Heat was turned on Octo- with any tenant individually. ber 10, but went off several times Beder refused to talk with any after that. During malfunction, spokesman from the striking the temperature of the interior of groups about the problems of any the building was 44 degrees Fah- one apartment. renheit, a violation of a city or- Charter also has refused to meet dinance. with the Off-Campus Housing Unlit stairways, without rail- Bureau's Mediation Board at this ings, present for four weeks were. time. also in violation of a city building A petition signed Nov. 1 by al- code, and lack of weather strip- most all of the building's 130 ten- ping under doorways violated an- - -- _, other city ordinance. Students By JIM HECK Dean Stephen. Spurr of the Rackham School of Graduate Studies announced yesterday that the executive board of Rackham would meet today to discuss the faculty's role in determining dis- ciplinary action for graduate stu-. dents. Spurr said that Eric Chester,' Grad, and Sam Friedman, Grad, two students Vice President for Student Affairs Richard-L. Cutler had recommended for disciplinary action, would not be individually discussed at the meeting. "Discussion is confined to aa review of graduate school policy," Spurr said. Two students,/Aepresentatives of Graduate Assembly, will attend the meeting with. full debate privileges. Spurr sent a letter yesterday to Chester and Friedman inform- ing them that Cutler had sent him a letter recommending each of them for disciplinary action. Spurr showed, the letter to the two students.. Spurr would not comment last night about the letter he sent Chester and Friedman, but told The Daily he would release a A copy of a letter written by Vice-President for Student Af- fairs Richard L. Cutler that appeared in the Dec. 2 Daily is authentic. The letter was written to Assistant Dean James Shaw of the literary college regarding discipline for ,.t.. L _- hh lit- Rack ham To Review IDis ciplinary Policies carbon of it after the students had given him written permis- sion to do so. Last March, several graduate student members of Voice heckled Sen. Philip A. Hart (D-Mich.) and Rep. Gerald Ford (R-Mich.) during a meeting here. At that' time, the executive board turned over the matter of disciplinary action to the individual depart- ments. At that time, Friedman I received a severe reprimand from, the sociology department. If the matter is again turned over to the individual depart- ments, informed sources feel that Chester's case - and probably Friedman's-will be dropped. The sources indicated, however, that Friedman's case is more "innocu- ous" because he has already re- ceived one reprimand. Grace- Paley, a sponsor of the demonstration, claliled p o 1 i c e clubbed some demonstrators with nightsticks and charged them with horses. Officers had been ordered in advance to protect the constitutional rights of the pro- testers, but also had "a clear mandate to act when action is needed'. 'Respect'Dissent' Mayor John V. Lindsay ex- pressed himself as satisfied witil the police handling of the dem- onstration. He declared: "The po- lice are doing every thing in their power to respect the right to dis- sent, and I am, too." The New York picketing and civil disobedience was part of "Stop the Draft Week," which featured demonstrations.beginning Monday in cities from coast to coast. In New Haven, Conn., a Yale University chaplain tried unsuc- cessfully to hand over a batch of documents, described as draft cards and other military papers, to the FBI office there. Acceptance was refused. Forty eight persons had turned in the documents Mon- day during a demonstration by about 11-00 war protesters. About 50 demonstrators carrying banners staged a silent vigil in Wilmington, Ohio, in support of James R. Weesner Jr., who refused to report for induction there yes- terday as directed. A graduate student at the University of Cali- fornia, Wessner is married to a granddaughter of Cleveland indus- trialist Cyrus Eaton, himself a critic of U.S. actions in Vietnam. FlamingCreatures' Trial' = A Test of- Artistie License By JILL CRABTREE case on the side of the defend- First of a Two-Part Series ants as a friend of the court. On Dec. 11, the months of con- Editorials focusing or artistic free- troversy surrounding the Cinema dm, principles of law enforcement, Guild "Flaming Creatures" case ' and, the relationship of the Uni- will come to a climax when the versity of .the community have case comes to trial in circuit court been written in The Daily and the he'e. Ann Arbor News. Elliott Barden and Mary Barkey, University President Harlan former University students, and Hatcher has issued a statement E'len Frank, '68, members of the decrying the decline in taste in Cinema Guild board when "Fla- American society but praising tm in'y (reatu es" w s confiscated. Cinema Guild as "a creative and ..