I WORLD FEDERATION REQUIRES PEACE See Page 4 ir rigaxt :43 1 r Sixty-Eight Years of Editorial Freedom M, CL( VOL LXIX, No. 119 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1959 FIVE CENTS Nineteen Seek Seven Seats as SGC Votingi !?ein * * * * * * * * * TWO OTHERS GET POSTS: Patterson Chosen New Union President By BRU4CE COLE "~" " At 9:30 p.m. last night, Thomas Patterson, '60, was chosen presi- ., dent of the Union. John Goodrich, '60BAd., was named executive vice - president= and Martin Newman, '60, adminis- trative vice-president by the selec- tions committee composed of' members of the Union's Board of Directors. Discussing his plans for the Un- ion, Patterson said he would like to see the Union be more active in cultural and academic areas on_ campus. -Daily-Allan Winder VOTING BEGINS-Polls workers and supervisors will punch student identification cards and stamp valid ballots today and tomorrow as an estimated 6,000 students vote for Student Govern- ment Cbuncll fiembers, class officers and various boards. Class, Board Posts. Also To BDeFi led ,1 By PHILIP POWER With a weather forecast of light snow and cloudy skies, Elections Director Richard Erbe, '61, predicted a 6,000-vote turnout for the Student Government Council elections which begin today. The election, scheduled to run today and tomorrow, will fill seven vacant places on the Council from a record field of 19 candidates., Open positions for senior class officers, the Boards of the engi- neering college and Student Publications an| the Board in Control of Intercollegiate Athletics will also be filled in the voting. Erbe remarked that students will be able to vote at one of six polling places from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. today and from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. fConsidering Extra Night For Playbill By JUDITH DONER The speech department is con-. 4 sidering running all productions in next sesaon's "Playbill" series for four nights, , Thomas Skinner, 'Grad., announced recently. "It is presumed that if we sell out three nights of season tickets, we will run every show Wednes- day through Saturday," the pub- licity director of the speech de- partment productions said. Under the present policy, only tlie two operas have been allotted four performance dates. Sixteen hundred season tickets, constituting 72 per cent of the available tickets, were sold for the 1958-59 Playbill series, Skinner re- ported. .This figure is compared to 127 season tickets sold for last season..- Students Sell More Skinner attributed this rise to the sales made during orientation, and registration week. "It is al- ways more effective to have stu- dents selling to students," he in- sisted. "Kids were talking about the theatre season-they never had be- fore." Two bonus shows, free of charge, were offered to season ticket purchasers. "You have to have a good fi- nancial base in order that you can try something out of the ordinary," Skinner gave as his reason for the high percentage of tickets sold on a seasonal basis. "The campus sale went on for two and a half weeks before we be- gan our city-wide sale," he 'con- tinued. -Folders, which included order blanks, were then distributed to 2,500 to 3,500 people. Want Students "If we could fill our theatre with a maximum of students every night, we'd be very happy," he said. "It's primarily an educational theatre both for the students per- 4when the polls close tomorrow. Voting booths located' on the Di- agonal and in the Engineering Arch will be open both days from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Polling Placesj At the Slab, a concrete area south of Angell Hall, and the Natural Seience Museum, polling places will be running from 8 a.m. to 12 noon,. and from 1 to 4 p.m. today and tomorrow. Votes may be cast in front of the business administration school from 10 a.m. to 12 noon and from 1 to 4 p.m. during both days of the election. Today, the voting booth in front of the Undergraduate Library will run from 8 a.m. to 12 noon, and from 1 to 10 p.m. tomorrow. f Count Night Set The votes are to be counted at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the Union Ballroom, Erbe said. Running for the Council are Conrad Batchelder, '60E; Bruce Bowers, '60; Harry Cummins, '61; James Damm, '61; John Feldkamp, '61; Mike Fishman, '60; Bob Garb, '62; Jo Hardee, '60; Kenneth Hud- son, Spec. and David Kessel, Grad. Also vying for the posts are Casey King, '62E; Morton Meltzer, '61; Babs Miller, '60; David Par- tridge, '6BAd.; John Quinn, '62, Roger S'easonwein, '61; Howard Stein, '61; David Wentworth, '62 and Phil Zook, '60. The regular Student Council meeting scheduled for tomorrow has been canceled because of the election proceedings. The first meeting of the new Council will be at 4 p.m. Friday in the Council Room in the Stu- dent Activities Building. City Council Establishes Old Age Study A proposal to establish a com- mittee to study possibilities of or- ganizing an Ann Arbor Old Age Commission was approved by City Council last night. The committee will be composed Cites Art Festival On the cultural level, he cited this year's Creative Arts Festival to be held in April as an example. Several departments of the Uni- versity will have special exhibits and programs in the field of crea- tive arts under Union auspices. A project on the academic side is the student counselling service which the Union will put into ef- fect also in April. University authorized upper- class and graduate students will act as counsellors to underclass- men. It is felt that the underclass- men will be more at ease talking to their fellow students than they do in talking to a faculty member who always seems to be too busy to give full attention to course elections and any individual prob- lems students may have, Headed Orientation This past year Patterson was the Union executive councilman in charge of University affairs and in this capacity he was head of the Union's section. of freshman orientation. Goodrich and Newman were in charge of the Special Events com- mittee which is working on the Creative Arts Festival and the Stu- dent Services committee which is in charge of the Airf light to Europe trip, respectively. Ieke Offers Conference WASHINGTON (P) -President Dwight D. Eisenhower last night offered Russian premier Nikita Khrushchev a summit meeting this summer, provided foreign ministers can pave the way for settling the Berlin crisis. At the same time, in a televi- sion-radio report to the nation, President Eisenhower accused Rus- sia before the world of raising the possibility of war in demanding that the United States, Britain, and France get out of West Berlin. As he has done many times be- fore, President Eisenhower stressed that the United States intends to stand firm against the Soviet de- mand. This, he said, will minimize1 the risk of global conflict. -Daily-Juan Rodriguez NEW OFFICERS - John Goodrich, executive vice-president, Thomas Patterson, president, and Martin Newman, administrative vice-president (left to right), were chosen last night as the new senior officers of the Union by a selections committee composed of members of the Union's Board of Directors. NEW SGC PLAN: Clarification Committee Gets Faculty Proposal Faculty members of the Student Government Council Plan Clari- fication, Committee presented a "rather more liberal departure from the SGC plan" at last night's meeting, Committee Chairman Prof. Charles Lehmann of the education school said yesterday. The faculty plan, the first to be presented by the Committee, was not intended to "patch up the present plan," but to consider SGC in an "entirely new setting," he noted. Although the committee will not Assembly iNiehuss To Present Suggestions Ohr By BEATA JORGENSON Other Competi Associate City Editor B y PublicitGi A five-part recommendation on:.B women's housing will be presented to the Board of Governors of the By ROBEF Residence Halls by the Assembly There are more 'competiti' Association Housing Committee to- day, Chris Wells, '59Ed., Assembly ulty members from other ins' first vice-president, said. remember," Vide-President at Included in the recommendation Niehus said yesterday. are the status of Barbara Ann This pressure of faculty Little House, Markley Hall, as an this year by the national publ upperclass house; the re-location of Jordan and Mosher Halls, and crisis, he declared. the stating of dormitory prefer- Institutions elsewhere knov ences for women returning to the payments to the University a residence halls. of it, Niehuss said. He added The committee is suggesting that Little House be continued as an that offers from other insti- upperclass dorm for the year 1959- tutions do not constitute lost 60. Before any further recommen- faculty members and that he dation on junior-senior housing is observed no "mass exodus" of made, it is felt that another year of evaluation is necessary by a University faculty to other in- committee of Assembly. stitutions. To Give Priority Salaries Run Higher With regard to the re-opening Many salary offers from other of Jordan Hall in the fall of 1959, institutions run 25 per cent higher it is suggested that the women than the faculty men are getting now living in Jordan Hall-Markley paid at the University, while some be given first priority in returning offers from industry are twice to Jordan of Mosher-Jordan Hall. what the University is paying, This class will retain its fouiclass Niehuss said. status. The numbers who have accept- Jordan was closed in September ed offers elsewhere are not sub- to make plumbing repairs. stantially higher so far this year Mosher Hall, which is being va- than in former years, he added. cated in September to make simi- The current University finan- lar improvements, will then move cial situation is only temporary, to the second, third, and fourth Niehuss emphasized, and most floors in the wing' now being va- faculty members realize this., The cated by Jordan women in Markley state currently owes the Univer- for the year 1959-60. sity $6.8 million in back pay- Too Spread Out ments. The fifth and sixth floors of tTo Maintain Payments Markley now occupied by Jordan will resume its original designa- We're doing our utmost t ee tion as Bush House, a four-class that payrolls are met," he added. residence. The reason that Bush "The University's first interest.is is not being allotted to Mosher is in its staff and we intend to keep that the six floors in Markley are paying the faculty." too spread out to govern efficiently.. He added that salary increases Also included in the Assembly for next year are "essential." The recommendation is the suggestion University, in its budget request, that in stating the preference in has asked for an additional ap- dormitory choice'for the next year, propriation of $3,155,278 to pro- each woman will be given three vide a nine per cent faculty pay choices, one of which must be increase. either their present residence or He declared that until the fi- Markley. nancial stringency of the last year Early in the year, the housing or two, the University has held its committee ruled on changing dor- own with other institutions con- mitories in midsemester. Due to cerning salary increases, but that the vacancies in the system this additional pay raises are needed See ASSEMBLY, Page 8 to keep competitive. Record .Field .Finishes Rounds of Campaigfning By JEAN HARTWIG With the polls opening today, the Student Government Council candidates have given the main planks of their platforms at the latest open houses and a speial program Sunday on WCBN. Morton Meltzer, '61, advocated more legislative power for SGC on WCBN's "SGC in Action" show. He also said representatives on release the specific points of the program until it is discussed more thoroughly, Prof. Lehmann said the powers of SGC 'were extended by the plan, in his opinion. Alternative Proposed The proposal also includes a "more formalized way of permit- ting other segments of the Univer- sity to be heard," he added. An alternative Council plan pro- posed by the administrative com- mittee members was "largely a clarification of specific items of ambiguity of the present plan, but didn't really change the structure In a significant way," he noted. Because of the lack of time, the committee did not finish question- ing Vice-President for Student Af- fairs James A. Lewis, who pre- sented the plan., Students Give Plan A plan from the students on the Clarification Committee will be presented at the next meeting, Prof. Lehmann said. This delay was caused both because of the lack of time for discussion and the request of the students for another week to formulate a single pro- posal. Discussion of the plans centered around the two major issues of limitation of SGC power and pro- tection of all segments of the University. y AllYn On Probation The entire Yale undergraduate body was put on general proba- tion yesterday because of two out- bursts last week in which 41 stu- dents were arrested. The probation - general and indefinite - carried a threat of immediate expulsion for any of the 4,000 undergraduates who publicly misbehave in the future. This misbehavior specifically snowball fights in the streets of New Haven. In Thursday's incident, stu- dents pelted motorists and city police with snowballs. Twenty- five students were arrested. An estimated 1,500 students jeered police marchers in the St. Pat- rick's Day parade, and again hurled snowballs at them. Sixteen students were arrested and charged with breach of peace. Po- lice used clubs- to break up the melee. Yale President A. Whitney Griswold accused the students of "boorishness." CANDIDATES TRY: 'Hyde Park' Sabot I 'the Board in Control of Inter- collegiate Athletics should be elected by the students. "I would limit the areas of SGC power as much as possible," Casey at e o en s King, '62, said, explaining that j"every time the Council has passed a decision in the past se- By SELMA SAWAYA and ANITA FELDMAN mester, a lot of students have been disgruntled." He also said it Student Government Council candidates who appeared on the is not the function of tGC to dis- Diagonal yesterday to present their platforms were sabotaged by two gruntle large numbers of students. energetic foes of student government. Cut Bias Clause Taking a stand on the benches diagonally across from the can- Calling for a repeal of the 1949 didates, Brian Parker, Grad., a native of England, brought the biggest bias clause ruling, Conrad Batch- round of applause when he claimed that students don't vote because elder, '60E, also includes a pro- of apathy toward SGC, but because "they're just not interested!" gram for more student forums in As Parker grew more voluble, students began slipping away from his platform. He would also elim- the candidates to listen and cheer him on. inate all non-elective members of Speaks on Function the Council. Michael Bentwich, Grad., from Israel, took the "soapbox" when "«Baby Miller, '60, doesn't want to Parker began to grow hoarse. Bentwich declared the essence of SGC's cge the basic structure of function is to "merely determine at what time an organization can whiCh better renresentation of ,: : '