SFacultyorale By JEAN SPENCER and NORMA SUE WOLFEW University faculty morale is presently holding up well under the pressure of outside job offers, but prospects for the future look grim. This is attested by a Daily survey of 11 of the University's 15 schools and colleges and 25 of the 29 departments of the literary college. While University staff members have received what was described as "an unusual number of offers" - well over 200, according to the survey - only 55 professors are reportedly leaving'thus far. "But if things continue as they are for the next month in Lan- sing and the next year at the University, the situation wilt be criti- cal," Chairman Leo Goldberg of the astronomy department prophe- sied. Younger staff members, in particular, find salary increases tempt- ing, although not necessarily because of fear of the state cash crisis. Hit Science, Math The mathematics and science departments and the engineering school have been hardest hit. Prof. G. E. Hay, chairman of the mathematics department, re- ported that he has lost five key men of his staff of 57. With the department's strongest topologist going to Harvard University; two other staff men are consequently leaving. One of these professors had just been hired for the 1959-1960 academic year when he received word of the topology "raiding." Prof. CENTER OF A C Hay said he therefore accepted an offer with another university. tinues, faculty me f -. Thirteen members of the mathematics staff received offers from industry and other; Remains High Despite U' Crisii other schools, with one professor approached by five different schools. Prof. Hay estimated the total number of offers for the department at 22. "A fairly common salary increase offer is $3,000," he said. "One man was offered $5,000 additional." "But there won't be a collapse," he asserted. "The present unrest presents only a minor annoyance to people and a slight desire to get away from the atmosphere we're living in." Prof. Hay said he has noticed some difficulty in hiring people: They question whether or not they will get paid next year. "The long-range view," Dean Stephen S. Attwood, of the engi- neering college, said, "seems to be 'I know I. can weather the storm for a short time, but can I do it for two, three or four years?' Notes Continual Pressure "The situation is a continual pressure," he continued. "A lot of people are sitting on the edge now and unless the University is able to make substantial raises next year, we'll feel it the following year." Attwood attributed faculty losses to "uncertainty here, attrac- tive salary offers elsewhere and normal turnover." His college has received the greatest number of job offers and the highest proposed salary increases. "We have had 25 job opportunities, offering a range of increase from 30 to 80 per cent," Attwood said. Of these offers, six have reportedly been accepted. A professor in chemical and metallurgical engineering will head a department at the University of Notre Dame. Five other engineering professors have requested leaves of ab- sence to work for airplane companies in California. "But the difficulty here is that we have no assurance that they will return," Attwood added. ' "If we miss a payday, some will undoubtedly leave permanently," he affirmed. Prof. David Dennison, chairman of the physics department, de- clined to comment. Losses in the chemistry department are not as severe as those in mathematics, the applied sciences or other pure sciences. One of 30 men in the department is presently resigning, according to Prof. Leigh Anderson, chairman. Grade Present Problem To him, the greatest problem seems presented by graduate stu- dents from other universities. "Actually, these outside graduates, potential members of the fac- ulty, are not coming here because they hear the faculty isn't being paid." Will the problem be solved when the financial crisis is resolved? "No," Prof. Anderson replied, "this fiasco in Lansing may hurt the University for a long period of time." There has been "no indication of a drop in staff morale" in three of four natural science departments, the survey showed. Prof. James T. Wilson, geology department chairman, said simply, "I have noth- ing to report." Prof. Kenneth L. Jones, botany department chairman, noted, "There has undoubtedly been some restlessness; on the whole, I've See FACULTY, Page 2 CRISIS-As Michigan's financial turmoil con- embers are receiving lucrative Job offers from schools. i STUDENT ACTIVITIES : PRO AND CON See Page 4 Y Sixty-Eight Years of Editorial Freedom OAaii4P VOL. LXIX, No. 168 IHC Orders Investigation Of Structure Purpose, Potential To Undergo Study By DAVID BLOOMGARDEN The Presidium of the Inter- House Council last night told its president to choose a committee which would study IHC's preseni structure. The motion ordered IHC Presi- dent Boren Chertkov, '60, to ap- point a group to investigate the purpose, function and potential of the organization. The commit- tee is to report back to IHC the first week after the Thanksgiv- ing recess and recommend any necessary changes. Chertkov said the organization had two choices. "We could have discussed specific changes in the constitution yesterday or we could have set up a study committee.' The first idea was abandoned because the Executive Board be- lieves that it has a responsibility to try to make the IHC success- ful under the present constitu- tion. Thus the study committee was established to see if the or- ganization could function under the present constitution. The IHC president said that "a series of criticisms, including the recent Hinsdale House disruption, caused the executive board to re- alize the importance of setting up such a committee." Serving on the committee will be two members of the faculty, two members of the administra- tion and at least three represen- tatives from the men's residence halls. Under the present IHC con- stitution, the Presidium must ap- prove the appointments to this. committee. In other business the Presidium approved the following as chair- men for IHC committees: Big Ten secretariat, Hugh Witemeyer, '61, IHC Judiciary chairman, Louis Jaffe, '60, House Services, Barrett McGregor, '61, Academic-scholar- ship, Cliff Venier, '61, Rush study, Edward Berne, '61, and assistant to the administrative vice-presi- dent, Edward Cohen, '60. Soviet Tactics Draw U.S. Ire GENEVA (A - In a crisp two- minute speech United States Sec- retary of State Christian A. Her- ter admonished the 'Soviet Union yesterday to stop accusing the West of preparing for an aggres- sive war. Associates said Herter was seek- ing to clear the air in negotiations over Germany. The Secretary of State was obvi- ously annoyed at the charges bandied about in the conference both by Gromyko and East Ger- man Foreign Minister Lothar Bolz. He warned Soviet Foreign Min- is ter Andrei A. Gromyko that such accusations can lead to seri- ous tensions in the Big Four For- eign Ministers Conference. Herter's intervention highlight- 'ri......ati~~~ ~~~ #h ~ +R nrfn ". n A ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1959 FIVE CENTS . .... ".. ... .. vases raaa eas __ ___. . I I ur7 .. .w, Tables Selectivity Report By JOHN FISCHER The Selectivity Study Committee of the Interfraternity Council recommended to the IFC Executive Committee last night that a program of positive action toward the "eventual elimination of arbitrary discriminatory restrictions and prac- tices" be initiated. The report was tabled in order for the Executive Committee to facilitate further study. The committee, chaired by Fred Wright, '59, also recom- mended that the IFC "while maintaining the necessary and basic principles of free membership selection by individual fra- ternities, be opposed to selectivity practices which are based on race, nationality or other similarly artifiicial criteria, rather than individual merit." However, Wright emphasized the importance for the IFC to recognize that these practices "present a question of attitude, which is ultimately more important than that of legal re- strictions." Therefore the committee recommended that the IFC, "in- stead of attempting coercive measures, should endeavor to "as- sist local chapters and work directly with their national organ- izations toward the voluntary elimination" of the practices. In order to effect this the Study Committee asked the Exec- utive Committee to alter the IFC administrative structure by having the Fraternity Services Committee devote about "half its time in the area of membership selection" Wright said "such a change would provide the greatest opportunity for continuity in policy and effort." PICK WOLVERINES: Conference Track Meet Set To Open Here Today By JIM BENAGH ELIGIBILITY: .Big eTen Standards Tightened By FRED KATZ Big Ten faculty representatives tightened Conference eligibility rules yesterday in the first day of its three-day spring business ses- sion The faculty group will combine with Conference athletic directors this morning to decide the future of the present Rose Bowl pact which expires next year. Early speculation saw renewal of the series as remote. However, an unprecedented secret ballot in which the proposal might be passed isn't being ruled unlikely. Neither is a postponement of the decision until a later date out of the picture. In action yesterday, the faculty group ruled that a Big Ten ath- lete who withdraws from school the same semester in which he competed must wait one calendar year after re-entering before re- gaining eligibility. The former rule stipulated that only six consecutive months of enrollment was required. An age limit of 19 years was reaffirmed for all alien athletes except hockey players who parti- cipate in outside contests before entering a Conference school. They will lose a year's eligibility IM' To Host Michigan yesterday was named the site of two 1960 Big Ten winter sport cham- pionships by Conference ath- letic directors. Wrestling will be held March 4-5 and swimming at the Var- sity Pool on March 3-4-5. The gymansties meet was awarded to Minnesota and Iowa will host fencing on the same weekend. Ohio State was given the in- door track meet at a previous Conference meeting. for every year they are over 19 in which they compete on foreign soil. The age limit was formerly set at 20 years for all athletes. Also changed tentatively at a previous meeting and reaffirmed yesterday was the requirement of athletes to maintain a 2.5 overall grade-point average in order to receive renewal of full financial aid grants. See CONFERENCE, Page 6 Hatcher Depicts As 'Country Of Ferment' in in fo ?I Michigan, which replaced Illinois as Big Ten indoor track titlists March, begins a bid today to wrest away the Illini's outdoor crown. The two schools begin their battle along with eight othr teams two finals and six preliminary events at Ferry Field at 3:30 p.m. Tickets are still availabe at the Athletic Administration Bldg. r today's contests and tomorrow's slate of 12 finals (beginning at 1 p.m.) Since it is a Conference- sponsored meet, students cannot t/.Y.sYget in on their ID cards. A e dThe only thing that odds- e makers definitely expect is a two- . . team runaway by defender Illi- dead Ilitnois nois and challenger Michigan. Otherwise, the.best authorities are By BUZ STEINBERG split on their choice for a win- ner. Dewey Says Siberia 'Best' For Students By PHILIP SHERMAN If University students go to Rus- sia they should be sent to Siberia, Prof. Horace W. Dewey of the Slavic language department, sug- gested yesterday. Recently returned from a trip to Russia with University Presi- dent Harlan Hatcher, Prof. Dewey pointed out that student visitors would enjoy themselves more at a place like the University of Irkutsk where few foreigners had studied and where they would receive more attention. Moscow and Leningrad univer- sities are the places where for- eigners usually study, so that Americans would be no novelty, he explained. Any intelligent Michigan stu- dent who knows Russian would do very well in Siberia or in any Rus- sian university, Prof. Dewey em- phasized. Reflecting on the language in- struction in Russian schools, which is his primary interest, he reported that the Russians are about to change their already effective language instruction program. Believing that their youth did not converse as easily as they would have liked with English- speaking visitors at the 1957 Mos- cow youth conference, the Rus- sians have decided to emphasize an oral - aural program, Prof. Dewey related. It will be similar in some re- spects, to the University's language laboratory program followed by the German and the romance language departments. Prof. Dewey said that "language lab" facilities at some Russian schools are already superior to those at the University. In one place he saw a laboratory with a collection of about a thousand dif- ferent English language tapes, each of which played for 40 min- utes. The tapes represent the lan- See DEWEY, Page 2 -Daily-Michael Rontal RECALLS TRIP-Prof. Horace W. Dewey of the slavic languages department describes language teaching in the Soviet Union. He recently returned from Russia where he accompanied University President Harlan Hatcher on an inspection of the Soviet educa- tional system. Special to The Daily EAST LANSING - Michigan's netmen stormed through the first round of the Big Ten tennis finals yesterday by sweeping every match they played. The Wolverines took a com- manding lead over everyone in- cluding last year's champs, Iowa. Michigan finished the day with 24 points compared to the Illini's 18, and Minnesota's 12. Leading the "M" netters was captain Jon Erickson who swept past both of his opponents in number one singles. Erickson played steadily and pushed his shots past Keith Anderson of. Wis- consin and Vandy Christie of Northwestern with ease. He took two sets from each by the identi-" cal score, 6-1, 6-1. Following Erickson's footsteps was Gerry Dubie who also drew a two-match first round. Dubie found his first opponent, Minne- sota's Hugh Tierney, a fast lefty, but after the beginning volleys, he found his range. He defeated the southpaw in two sets 6-4, 6-4. In the quarterfinal match against Gay Messick of North- western, Dubie played aggressively and smothered his opponent, 6-2, Illinois coach Leo Johnson wasted no time naming Michigan the favorite after he arrived in town yesterday. He pointed to Michigan's indoor victory and in- juries to two of his key perform- ers, Del Coleman and Paul Fore- man, as the main factors. "Coleman could be worth 10-15 points if he is well," explained Johnson. "But is is hobbled by a leg injury." Foreman, British Empire broad jump champion, has an unusual foot injury, the coach added. See 'M', Page 6 FINANCES: 'U Regents Set Meeting .For Today The University's Board of Re- gents will hear a report on the University's financial situation at their meeting at 2 p.m. today. They will also consider Student Government Council's resolution disapproving loyalty acts in the National Defense Education Act. The Regents will also approve leaves of absence for faculty, and the appointment of department chairmen. A survey and report on University building projects will be considered. Emphasizes View Change In Students Notes Participation, Vigor about Country By FAITH WEINSTEIN A picture of the Soviet Union as a "nation in ferment" was given by University President Har- lan Hatcher in his speech, "Our Soviet Neighbors," last night. President Hatcher described the new generation of Russian stu- dents as having "a new standard of measure which does not begin at the Czarist level, but much later." It is impossible to predict what this generation will do, but It is certain that they will do some- thing, he said. Their being educated in the Soviet system, and turned loose in a new society "must result in a profound modification," he main- tained. He stressed the violent surge of progress which is sweeping the Soviet Union describing the new technology in which "acres of apartment houses are being built night and day to provide housing for the people." Meets Indian Delegation President Hatcher reported that he had met, on one of his tours, an Indian delegation of engineers, who were guests of the Soviet Union for three months while they studied the workings of the Rus- sian steel plants. "Wherever we turned we could not escape the sense of vigor and participation," he noted. Russia is in a state" of such rapid transi- tion that no one who has not been there can possibly comprehend it, he added. As head of a delegation of schol- ars who went to' Russia for the months of April and May, Presi- dent Hatcher was able to see a good deal of the workings of Rus- sian education. "The Soviet Union has payed handsomely for education," he said, "and my fullest observation shows that they have made it pay." Hatcher "Astounded"' "I was astounded at the breadth of the reading done by students majoring in English," he noted, "especially by the high quality of English spoken by these students who had never had any contact with an English speaking person." The Soviets have the greatest educational incentive system I have ever seen, President Hatcher said, but there is something miss- ing in the overall picture Hof edu- cation as Americans know it. As an example, he cited the case of a arnn of vnung connomics PRESIDENT HATCHER . .. addresses University Opwood Speaker Defines Poetic Form By BRUCE COLE Poetry is the embodiment of the "swaying form," Howard Nemerov, poet and novelist, said in his address to the Hopwood winners yester- day in Rackham Lecture Hall. Speaking on "The Swaying Form: A Problem in Poetry," Nemerov cited the way good poetry probes and shifts and identifies its form with the artistic impulse of the author. Thisform, however, may go against what the public is accustomed to, he noted. The poet used religion as a norm in society, comparing the artistic notion to it The wavin form tries to followreliginn in that both AWARD WINNERS The winners of the 1959 Hopwood Awards were announced yes- terday. Largest money winner was. Joseph Kennedy, Grad., who received the largest single award of $1,400 for a collection of poems titled "The Nest." He also won a major award of $1,000 in the essay division for "Who Killed King Kong." Louis Megyesi, '59, was another double award winner. He received $1,100 in the major drama classification and $1,100 in the major fiction grouping. Other major awards went to Carroll Cox. Grad., who won $800 war