UAC'S CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT See editorial page' . :Y t Th4j COOL High-66 Low-45 Partly clouly, little chance of rain !o!. LXXIX No. 25 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, September 27, 1968 Ten Cents NO WALKOUT: 0 Ten Pages High school continues debate on suspensions By BILL LAVELY A 4 Athreatened student walkout at Ann Arbor High school to pro- test the suspension of three nMale students for non-confownin'g hair styles failed to materialize yester- day. About 150 students rallied ,at. the school flagpole following' dis- missal at 12:30 p.m. rather than' participating in a scheduled walk-out at 11:40 a.m. At a meeting of the Ann Arbor Board of *Education Wednesday night, Supt. W. Scott Westerman had warnet that any students 'participating in the planned pro- test would be' "immediately sus-! pended." The controversy began -when three students were advised in writing that they would face sus- pension unless they tiimmed their hair. The students continued to "attend classes until Monday when; Mqelvill es ,b. rol in ,Cu they were informed by a school The recen'tly established griev- officials and the school policemen ance process begins with a griev- that they could no longer attend ance committee and procedes to school. the school system's director of About twenty' students waiKed human relations, Ronald ' Ed- out of school Wednesday morn'ing monds. Final appeal may be made in reaction to the suspensions of t'o Westerman and the board of' ,the three. Leaflets were distributed education: calling for the walkout yesterday The unwritten policy on hair at 11:40 a.m. styles forbids male students from Two students were suspended wearing hair that falls over the for Wednesdays walkout Fnd for collar and sideburns that extend distributing' literature without below the lower lip. Beards are administration approv'al. not perimtted. but mustaches are Yesterday's 'rally was held to allowed. encourage students to attend Besides the five who have been sanctioned open forum to be held suspended apother student. Nick in the school auditorium at 12:30 Kazarinoff, has been told to cut p.m. today. his sideburns or face suspension Westerman, at the Board meet- on October 1. "I will not cut my ing Wednesday night told about sideburns," he said yesterday. 25 parents that before students 'At the board meeting Wednes- walk out, they should allow the ;day night, Kazarinoff's father, matter to be handled through the Prof. Nicholas Kazarinoff of thet school grievance process. math department, called the hair policy insane. "The school is for YT' kids and education is the name Iast u .S . of the game-not hair," he said. Prof. Kazarinoff was' a 1966 school board candidate.- SGC ap proves incorporation November ballot to include proposal for student levy By LESLIE WAYNE Student Government Council voted last night to in- struct its executive board to organize the Council as a cor- poration. Under terms of the incorporation proposal, the Council will exist in two forms - s a corporation and in its present form as a student organization. Council members will re- main in the present body and will also comprise the board of directors of the corporation. "This move is the first step towards a student run, stu- dent controlled organization for student services," said Michael Davis, grad, who introduced the proposal. As a student organization, SGC- will continue to grant recognition to campus organizations, originate non-academic projects and re- l~u o i i n ceive its yearly allocation from student fees. s des e As a corporation, SGC will be ase legally autonomous, non-profit p organization with the ability to enter into legal contracts under draft change its own name. itam1ala By PHILIP ILOCK , "When we were in Guatemala Ten years ago Thomas Melville we were in effect told that our job was a 'Roman Catholic priest was to preach the gospel and not preaching the gospel to Guatemal- to live it," said Melville; 'our su- an Indians whose total efforts in periors were helpful just as long -life were designed to' merely keep as we were ineffective." them alive. "When we began to try to really At that time Melville's wife, help the peasants, especially in Marjorie, was a nun attempting our attempts to start collective to teach the daughters of the farms, we were accused of preach- Guatemalan upper class that 95 ing 'creeping communism' when per' cent of the country did not all along we had been preaching .share their way of life. 'creeping Christianity'," he added. Oan May 17 Thomas and Mar- Before they left the church the jorie along with seven other Melvilles became involved in or- Americans who have seen f ir s t ganizing the Guatemalan Indian hand their country's foreign pol- peasants in collectives. Melville , icy at work allegedly walked into spoke of the terrorism which the ,a Catonsville, Md., draft board, peasants received from both the took ,out all the 1-A files and land-owners and the military. burned them with homemade na-, "Soon some of the leaders of the palm, collective organizations began to Thedisappear without warning. There consequently no longer members Ws no doubt where they had gone of the Catholic clergy, told their and who was responsible" Mel- i respective stories last night at y wle said. M The Melvilles say they both experienced similar problenis. "We 1 both saw the effects of American House ~~ s influence on the country," s a i d Mrs. Melville, "and we faced the " e11echoice of eventually fighting the 4 7.3 IDOf U.S. in Guatemala or coming back to the states and trying to prevent < U.S. intervention before it hap- d "P pened. I suppose we were ideal- Cgistic to think that we could do anything." From Wire Service Reports Last May they did do some- The House nar iith o- thing. Using a recipe for home- Many parents at the meeting were concerned that their children were being forcibly kept out of school before the grievance com- mittee had made its final decision. "Aren't the students innocent un- til proven guilty?", one mother, asked. Prof. Avedis Donabedian of the Medical school, father of a sus- pended senior, complained that due process and even courtesy has been ignored." Several parents asked 1or a ci-Daily- Andy Sacks Si)ger Harry Belafonte received two standing ovations from the crowd at the University Events Building during his concert last night. Appearing with Belafonte was singer Jackie DeShannon. ED SCtH OOL: Commtee reduces list The corporation will be financ- ed largely through an assessment of its members - the students. A proposal to contract a direct levy on the student body will appear on- the November SGC election ballot., University enrollment stands at 38,021 this fall, considerably high- er than figures predicted last winter when draft deferments were elimilated for graduate stu- dents. ^ ,. ,, CA "Incorporation would guarantee1 The enrollment figure is, less that the student body decides our than one half of one per cent allocation." Davis said. "In this lower than the figure which was way they can have a direct voice projected a year ago by Univer- in determining our political and sity officials when they requested social policy." appropriations for the , current 7n wrii~in toaecccicr ho t~_year. mortorium on further suspension until the hair police is settled. Westerman- indicated that t his would not be done, however. The superin tendent admitted to the parents that it is "very dif- ficult to introduce rationality" into disputes over hair regulations. But he urged students to use the legitimate grievance processes. and nqt to walk out. The grievance procedure was born out of a racial dispute at Anni Arbor High last May and June. The dispute was kicked off by the distribution of a curriculum ques- tionaire considered discriminatoy by black students. A number of students w ere suspended tuinv the unrest and classes weve can- celled for several days. One of the 21 demands of the black students at that time for months. The echoes of tt cry will start m-inging in Ann boi- next week. A gi-oup of students, faculty and -a r-esidents made plans last ght to boycott at least one of in Arbor's supermarkets starting st Thursday if it continues to ack California grapes. Theboy- tt is part of a nationwide effort help the grape pickers in a fight r recognition of their union. The goup of about 25 met in e UGLI and decided to concen- te their efforts on one or two res for the time being. Although final decision was reached, the SP's at Huron and at Stadium considered the main targets the action. under the National Labor Rela- tions Act because it represents farm workers. Farm workers are also specifically exempted from the child labor provisions of the Fair- Labor' Standards Act, Although the UFW has been successful in winning support among the workers at farms it has attempted to organize, its attempts to force collective bargaining by sti-iking have been thwar-ted, it says, by the ready availability of Mexican labor. Although UFW's activities have been certified as labor disputes by the Dept. of Agriculture, a law which prohibits the use of foreign labor in such areas is apparetly not being enforced very rigidly. The UFW, seeing that it vas having only minimal success with its strike tactics, started a ra- tional boycott against the grapes of its taraet farm__-the Grniman sociate deap of the School of Social Wor , and two colleagues, Prof. Rosemary Sarri and Prof.! r d os Phillip Felin. the .project and expects to wvork + r dt ' ' C sposor the study, and re-fud en - aud o n i at least another year. T he O E O 1 7 af c l*so s rV ]Gth s ud , nd e - n s it yearly. From Wire Service Reports the one at which he was speak- "We have a gentleman's agree- ment to be funded for.,n e xt NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.-The ing. ea," Vinter says. This year he dean of Rutgerss Collyge hs The assembly would receive the proposed that an assemby of stu- Iproposals, complaints and com- W arren says his proectg" sdents, faculty, alumni, parents ments of any member of the col- been given a high priority." Hes and trustees be formed to serve lege community, Groman said. has not sufferied from fundi as the major representative and The members of the assembly cplanned by the National Ing deliberative body of the college. I would then report to their con- suts ofanealth Tesgsto waIdebstituency the attitude of other stitutes of Health. The suggestion was made by ;elements of the college as gath- "The ghetto is a persistent pat- Arnold B. Grobman at a special ered from debate in the assembly. tern," Warren points out. "It is in-. convocation of 6,300 ufl'dergradu- Before making the proposal accurately equated with idea of ates at the school. about the assembly, the dean the slum." "The assembly would not be a commented on "rational student In exploring the ghetto prob- legislative body," Grobman said. power," lem Warren and his roarah as- "The student council and Rutgzers " -- *-.. - - s ,m