TODAY'S RALLY: A NECESSARY STEP See editorial page g i t :4Iati,~ HEATING UP hligh-40 Low-32 Partly cloudy, warmings no rain or snow VOL. LXXIX, No. 72 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, November 21, 1968 Ten Cents Twelve Pages Student groups Law prof T T /-*4A-'k-A&A -1 challenges u to March on, LS maSSS rule SGC, caucus to lead rally on Diag, Charges Hershey present language petitions to Haysgdenes students, rity alumnae meet over bias ruling 4A By BILL LAVELY Radical Caucus and Student Government Council will sponsor a march at noon today to present Dean William Hays of the literary college with petitions demanding the end of all language/distribution requirements.r Over 3500 signatures have been placed on the petitions. They will be given to Hays along with a demand that thej requirements be abolished by the January meeting of the literary college faculty.1 "Forcing students to take undesired courses is not only unsound, but is also a direct violation of a student's right ---to conduct his academic life as he chooses," the petition F ur states. "The LSA College de- prives students of this right by imposing foreign language andi distribution requirements," it continues. SGC ACTION tLast week SGC passed a resolu- iiii ruti iii tion addressed to the curriculum committee of the literary college,' By The Associated Press "compulsion is the least effective BONN-The future of the means of education."I French franc and perhaps other Yesterday, a copy of that res- Western currency remained un- olution was delivered to Hays' of- certain yesterday as a group of fi- fice in a letter. demanding that nancial leaders from around the the curriculum committee recom- world met here to seek an end to mend abolition of the requirements the crisis. at the December meeting of the French and German foreign ex-; faculty. The letter also demanded change markets have been closed that the faculty act positively on for the rest of the week in an ef- the recommendation no later than fort to stem the rush to trade January, 1969., French francs for German marks, "We will continue to collect S Britain announced' foreign ex- signatures against the require- change markets in that country ments until the curriculum com-, would be closed today to curb mittee acts," one of the protest speculation. leaders said. Gold prices climbed 3212 cents "If the curriculum committee in London, where the closing price jdoes not make a recommendation was $40.55 an ounce. Zurich quota- either way by January, we will tions ranged from $40.25 to $40.50. have to assu itaisrcondoni American dollars, which brought continuation of the requirements," 4.2995 Swiss francs Tuesday, were he added. "They have had ample bringing only 4.2948 to 4.2953 time to consider the problem, es-' Swiss francs when the Zurich ex- pecially in light of the apparent student demand to end the re- The "Group of 10," an informal quirements." legal deferments By RON LANDSMAN A University law professor will release a legal memorandum this morning charging that an Oct. 24 "advisory" by Selective Service Director Gen. Lewis B. Hershey still does not comply with the Se- lective Service Act of 1967. Hershey's position, which ap- parently came in reaction to a protest from law professors here and at Yale earlier this semester, only gives' I-S deferments, in ef- fect a stay of induction, to the end of the academic term the stu- dent is in. Prof. Charles Donahue Jr. said the law states that the I-S should extend for the entire academic year and should be available for all second and third year graduate students during the year. According to Donahue, the law allows any graduate student who is called for induction who did not have an undergraduate II-S de- ferment after June, 1967-that is, most second and thrid year grad- uate and professional school stu-f dents-to receive a I-S if he receives an induction notice dur- ing the academic year. A student asks for a I-S only after he receives his induction no- tice, Donahue said, but then should be granted it for the re- mainder of the academic year. Donahue and some of his stu- dents involved in the action feel: very strongly that they have a moral obligation to publicize what they say the law allows. "Hershey is denying by admin- istrative fiat what in fact Con- gress has made law," says Jack Radcliffe, '70L. "We feel obligated to inform other graduate students about this, people who might not know they're protected." Radcliffe himself has received a I-S from his Dearborn, Mich. .:, i Group contemplates possble legal action By STEVE NISSEN Alumnae and advisors of "about twelve" sororities at- tended a secret meeting with an attorney yesterday morning to discuss action in response to the anti-discrimination reso- lutions of Panhellenic Association and the Regents. S. F. State ntJ1s Ieflit San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto was confronted yesterday by ,j State College after visiting with president Robert Smith. Classes w day after having been cancelled Nov. 13 when racial violence erup sembly voted not to teach classes and students reported a 70 per c classes that were held. Meanwhile, black militants announced at a n - -- -- nnw n mic - h"; 4" a Tnn dC 11hirh lof Gk the irp The possibility of initiating legal action against the Uni- versity or Panhel was reportedly discussed although no final decision was reached. The attorney, Lawrence Smith of Grand Rapids refused to comment on the case when contacted last night but acknowledged "a client-attorney relationship exists" between him and the alumnae and advisors. I Several of the women present at the meeting refused to disclose who had retained the attorney and what funds } were used to do so. They also - Sdeclined comment on the na- A ture of the meeting which waslits held at Ann Arbor's exclusive City Club. One alumnae advisor who re- fused to attend the meeting andIdoeu m cne t asked not to be identifed said "only the sororities which did not sign Panhel's original non-dis- crimination agreement were in-on1co d vited to the meeting." That group consists of all but six of the Uni- By STEVE KOPPMAN versity's 23 sororities. The majority of the University's Graduate Assembly last night sorority members were unaware criticized the recent circulation of the secret meeting and several of a document on student conduct expressed dismay at the behind- by the Graduate School Executive the-scenes maneuvering. Board. Smith, acting as a representa- The document distributed to all 5 tf'T2tive of the alumnae, talked with graduate departments, listed crit- eering students at San Francisco several University officias and eria on non-academic student ere scheduled to resume yester- terday afternoon including Bar-- conduct, including disruptions of pted. However, the faculty as- bara Newell, acting vice president Uiest ciiy ent successful boycott of those for Student Affairs. GA objected to the Executive iews conference that they would He specifically discussed the Board's action partly because it final disruption. More than 1000 Panhel resolution requiring all felt the document would be cir- sororities which refuse to abolish culated only after the graduate alumnae recommendations to sub- school faculty members on the mit each recommendation they Executive Board had consulted receive to Panhel. The recom- with GA. mendations would be kept on file GA further reaffirmed its reso- as evidence should discrimination lution of Sept. 25 on student con- charges arise, duct. This resolution would require The Regents, at their regular GA's approval for any Interim monthly meeting last week, de- rules on conduct and the replace- lared use of binding and required ment of the student-faculty In- recommendations to be in viola- quiry Board by an all-student velations made by others . tion of University Bylaw 2.14 juiarl Discussion of race relations in-whcpribt srinaonn judiciary. volved a dispute over the cause of which prohibits iscrimination in Appeal from this body to the white predominance at the Uni- student organizat's motion, in effect Executive Board could only be versit and in the RC.Both re- made if the students involved were verityandin he C. othre-I makes the Panhel resolution pro- ungil cruitment and curriculum reformhibiting use of these recommenda- found guilty. GA also demanded (aimed at broadening the RC's tions, official University policy the Executive Board forward these emphasis on Western humanities Any sororities not complying recommendations to all graduate to include studies in African and with the ruling will not be per- organizations and departments. Eastern cultures) were offered as mitted to rush in January. In other action, GA voted 14 to possible methods of generating Smith, yin discussions with Mrs. 12 to defeat a resolution stating greater enthusiasm for the RC I Newell and the Panhel officers, the University should limit its among black students. suggested the possibility of only formal jurisdiction over all stu- The final session included re- requiring "negative" recommenda- dents to strictly academic conduct. marks by Inter-House Assembly tions to be submitted to Panhel. The resolution is almost iden- president Jack Myers, '71, who ob- He met with the Panhel officers tical to one presented by Prof. jected to the financing of im- in the office of Miss Diane Ann- Martin Gold to the University provements for the RC's East ala, advisor to sororities for the Civil Liberties Board last month, Quad location with dormitory re- Office of Student Organizations. Had it passed, it would have con- serve funds. Myers also attempted She said that while Smith did stituted GA's opposition to a plan to give RC students some idea of not specifically threaten legal for a University Judiciary to pass the "stereotypes and possible mis- action he "alluded to the possi- on student conduct. conceptions of the 'typical RC' bility of a court case on the mat- Debate on this question center- student." ter." He mentioned that "a few ed on the comparative damage Proposals offered at the final of the nationals have lawyers of which could be done to defendants evaluation session will be brought their own" who are interested in by civil authorities and the pro- to the attention of the RC Re- the case, Miss Annala explained. posed University judiciary in the presentative Assembly. See ALUMNAE, Page 9 event of campus disruption. 1 menralotofaemn, b ut state eiective accept no compromise in their ten demanus wm cc, oine org but powerfulbanks and teasuie The curriculum committee has Service DirectorCol. Arthur Hol- police have been stationed just outside the campus. wof r the bal'rctnkaintesuries planned to poll a random selection mes deniesrtat any I-S defer-- -- of the world s richest nations, ret of undergraduates regarding the ments have been given for cases in West Germany's Economics requirements. However Neff called such as Radcliffe's. 12 STUDENTS MAY LEAVE: Ministry. Nations included in the the committee's action a "stalling Radcliffe and others believe group are Belgium, Britain, Can- tactic." there is some deception on the part ada,- France, Italy, Japan, the of the Selective Service in grant- Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, DELAY TACTIC ing I-S deferments which they say ,s the United States and West Ger- "A large majority of students I they needn't give, trying to pre- ssm.eq m , many. opposes the requirements, added vent legal appeals from those stu- A West German government' Neff. "The questionnaire will not dents who would know about the spokesman said the group dis- be circulated until next year, and laws, while still being able to By BARD MONTGOMERY college next term to present their cussed possible devaluation of the the results will not return until draft the others who don't, The probable departure of up reasons for leaving, franc. International support for March at the earliest. The whole Holmes disagrees sharply with to 12 members of its 200 member The second transferring stu-s the franc was also discussed. One idea is to delay the committee's Donahue on the legality of the freshman class this week caused dent commented on the involve-t or the other seems likely, although decision." Selective S e r v i c e procedures, the Residential College (RC) to ment that she believes is expected French President Charles de Gaul- "Some faculty argue that elim- "There are many people who can I suspend classes for a day and a of an RC student. She felt that toC le has already rejected devalu- inating the requirements would interpret the laws in many ways," half of critical self-evaluation. benefit from the RC environment,e ation, calling it an "absurdity." lessen the prestige of a Michigan he said last night, "and this is A committee appointed by the one must become entirely commit- The French franc's troubles be- degree, Neff explained. This is a just one of them." He says the RC's Representative Assembly ted to RC activities, tq the ex- gan last spring. The large wage falacious view of education. A current procedures are perfectly scheduled a series of conferences clusion of University activities. liberal education is a personal'legal, to explore the disappointments Both students regretted t h a t raises granted to end last spring s c Holmes also says that Hershey's, which students have encountered RC students do not participate asf the ideals of some external so- advisory of late October had noth- in the college. Prof. Alan Gus- a group in University activities. 1idence in the franc and French-!, ii~1~ I ii IU~ciety," he said. v + men began investing their money in foreign markets. Last week the Radical Caucus members s a i d pace of this movement increased they would submit the petition to and France lost $350 million of anyone in the LSA office, and that its reserves. ' they would stay until the petition West Germany has been under was accepted. ing to do with the protest by theI University and the Yale law professors. "Hershey's memor-j andum affects graduate students in any draft classification not otherwise deferable." It was done in consideration of the individual pressure to raise the value of its Hays said last night he would student, he says. "We don't want mark because of the substantial be in his office to accept the peti- individuals hanging around wait- 0 amount of foreign currency in- tions today. "I think the students ing for induction. We'd rather vested in German currency. The have a right to come to me with see them continue their studies:" West German mark is considered their petition," he added.- I Donahue warns that the dis- one of the world's stable curren- He noted however, that "the tinction in the II-S classification cies, and invites foreign, invest-'rules are set by the faculty and that the Selective Service fails to ment. not by me." See 'U', Page 9 kin opened the series of discus- sions Tuesday evening, explaining that they were intended "to pub- licly elicit the discontented feel- ings expressed within RC. "We must compare our environ- ment to the literary college to de- termine, insofar as possible, to what extent our problems are a special function of the Residen- tial College environment," he ex- plained. Committee member Pam Sea- mon, '72, asked two students who plan to transfer to the literary Both also agreed that continual exposure to the same persons in all aspects of living at the Col- lege constitutes a "forced com- munity" detrimental to privacy.1 In the ensuing debate, several; students contended that privacy, could only be preserved individ- ually. They pointed out that the RC does not compel intensive so-, cial intercourse, while it does offer: the opportunity for relationships, founded on extensive common ex-, perience. A favorite target at the first discussions was the RC language requirements. A student who plans I to leave at the end of the term called it, "rigid and inflexible.'" He claimed that the program's ad- ministrators "will not listen to you." ANN ARBOR STUDY ROSE BOWL: Newest epidemic By MURRAY FUNN Rose Bowl Expert Professor Charles Maurer, head of the RC language program, said Four years ago, when Eric Pergeaux first came to the University in its defense that it is not a bur- from his native France, a triumphant Michigan football team was just den peculiar to the RC. "The returning to Ann Arbor after a 34-7 drubbing of the Oregon State literary college has not abandoned Beavers in the ROSE BOWL, its own requirement,"-he observed, "and it does not appear that they Pergeaux didn't get very fired up .about this news at the time, will do so." since he didn't know from nothing about football. The second sessiwscnn- But voila, times have changed! This year when Michigan travels to the New Year's Day classic, Pergeaux will be there. In fact, his bags are already packed. Yes, this Frenchman has ROSE BOWL fever., According to Dr. R. Bowl of the University's renowned Health' Service, many 'U' students have come down with ROSE BOWL fever. "I look through all my medical journals" quote Dr. Bowl. "But there is no know cure for this rare disease." ed with interpersonal relations at the RC. Dean James Robertson said that it is not possible to avoid constant exposure to the s a m e' people in the RC, and "this is at once a risk and an advantage. In' this way we learn to have conver- sation," he noted, "we learn to re- SCU4 By ROBERT KRAFTOWITZ Although it used to be hear-, say that Ann Arbor merchants were reaping great profits at the expense of University students, SGC's Student Consumers Un- ion believes it has finally docu- mented the longstanding rumor. SCU will release in January a survey comparing consumer prices of sundry items in and out of Ann Arbor. SCU leaders say. the survey 'will demon- strate clearly the extent to which students are being goug- ed by Ann Arbor merchants." "We compared the average overall prices of incidental items like toothpaste and shampoo at stores in the central campus area with the average prices in Birmingham, Michigan stores," explains Larry McKay, SGC co- surveys like State Drugs and Ralph's Market list prices which are 3 percent higher than Birming- ham's. Prices in the State Street shopping district are about 5 percent higher. "When we surveyed the S. University shopping area, we discovered that stores are aver- aging prices 11 percent high- er than Birmingham's," McKay. adds. The average prices in Birm- ingham were calculated from a survey of three stores in three separate areas of the city. Twelve stores were studied in Ann Arbor. SCU is now examining the figures in order to discover the reasons for the wide gap in prices. "There are two significant 4- prices ance exists because students buy incidentals in small quantities and not in one big shopipng ex- cusion. "Housewives buy a large amount of items all -at once," McKay says, "and after two or three times they begin to real- ize how much excess money is coming out of their pockets. "A student, on the o t h e r hand, buys a few incidentals at a time, and probably doesn't realize that the extra dime he is paying might be due to de- liberate price swelling." When the price list is re- leased in January, it will be ac- companied by a consumer di- rectory to guide students to the most reasonable stores in each geographical area. At the present tine, SCU' is also conducting a similar sur- vpv f fnrR nrien0, He went on to describe some of the symptoms of ROSE BOWL veal ourselves and accept the re- fever: "Students who didn't know where the Michigan Stadium was, now find themselves wandering mistily through it come a Sunday afternoon, clad in their maize and blue 'M' sweatshirts." "Others," he chortled, "have been running wildly across the Diag, TV tickets Tickets for the closed circuit TV broadcast of Saturday's football game with Ohio State ' 6 ';{'k'ti ... ...