GOP LEAVES STUDENTS HOLDING BAG See Page 4 Sixty-Eight Years of Editorial Freedom :43 a t t]g p p E ( CLOUDY, COLD _. VOL. LXIX, No. 98 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1959 FIVE CENTS EIGHT PAnG FIVE CENTS N N 7 Dean fea Favors 1 Board Revision Requests Impartial Membership r To Review Future SGC Actions By PHILIP MUNCK Dean of Men Walter B. Rea said Wednesday that the Board in Review of Student Government Council should not include "any member who has an immediate stake" in cases reviewed by the Board. He said that he included himself and Dean of Women, Deborah Bacon, as well as the president of SGC. He said that several mesmbers of the Board were "too -close to the subject" when they were rendering a decision on the Sigma Kappa issue. To Study SGC:Plan f The Board should not contain anyone who has a "pre-determined point of view or vote" on any issue reviewed by it, he added. Dean _ _ _ _ _ Rea who will be on the SGC Plan IFC STATUS:. Fraternity Prospects Hopeful By 'JAMES BOW The prospects look fairly good for local reinstatement of Alpha Phi Alpha, Milton Tarver, '61, fra- ternity president, said yesterday. The Negro social fraternity has been an associate member of the Inter-Fraternity Council since 1955, when it lost its 'house be- cause of financial difficulties. Ac- cording to the Inter-Fraternity Council Constitution, a chapter without a house may be an asso- ciate member for no more than five years, subject to review by the council's executive committee. Alpha Phi Alpha must find a house by 1960 and increase its membership to 20, the IFC and the Office of the Dean of Men stipulated last fall. Present fra- ternity membership is "about 10," Tarver explained. Letter Sent to National When the status of the chapter was reviewed last fall, the frater- _. t Cyprus Becomes Independent After 81 Years of British Rule DEAN WALTER B. REA EonPlan committee IHC Backs' Asrton Note nnolicies By THOMAS KABAKER Inter-House Council praesidiumn last night gave tacit support to the report which Robert Ashton, '59, presented the members of the Residence Hall Board of Gov- ernors the latter part of last week. Ashton began the meeting with the reading of his report, after which he said he hoped he had not offended the group either with the report or the manner in wlhich it was presented. None of the members of the praesidium expressed approval or disapproval of the report, which, contained ten issues .that Ashton saidhe felt needed the considera- tion of the Board.: Ask Reactions Several of those present, how- ever, asked the reactions Ashton had encountered after the pre- sentation of the report. Ashton replied he had received "varied reactions," ranging from "It sh'uld 1) have been done long ago" to "Such complaints should never have been presented to the Board." Y Ashton said he had been ac- cused by several persons of "wash- ing dirty linen in public." He con- tinued, however, to say that this was not his intent. He declared discussions on several of the issues had not led to any progress in these fields and that by present- ing thee issues in writing he hoped he might attract more at- tention to them. Hopes for Reconversion Later in the meeting, Ashton re- vealed hopes of having Victor Vaughn House reconverted into a men's dormitory. The residence originally housed medical stu- dents, but became a women's hous- ing unit during a shortage of living units available to the Uni- versity's women students. Ashton said a conversion of the building would depend largely on the needs of the medical school for such a dormitory. He said that if the medical school did not need the building he felt there was a 50-50 chance of its coming into the men's dormi- tory system, preferably as an up- perclass residence. SGC Appoints 'Study Group Student Government Council ap- proved the appointment of four; members to the Student Conduct .'Study Committee at its meeting; Wednesday. Clarification committee, which may recommend changes in the Board in Review and its powers, said the committee should take enough- time to make their recom- mendations last for some time. The committee is being formed to study the SGC Plan - SGC' equivalent of a constitution - on the request of the Regents who asked Vice-president in Charge of Student Affairs James A. Lewis to "report any suggestions or changes which seem necessary and desir- able." Dean Rea commented that in his opinion, "We were somewhat hasty in drawing up the plan be- cause we were anxious to get the Council into operation. Recognizes Need for Change $ We never expected the Plan to be a perfect one, since conditions are constantly changing and the means for meeting them must also change. I am not surprised that the Plan should need some change." Vice-president Lewis termed the goals of the committee "purely a clarification of areas of jurisdic- tion." He said he did not think the committee would make any evalu- ation of the 1949 regulation re- quiring student organizations to 'be without restrictive membership clauses or practices. This is the clause of which SGC found Sigma Kappa sorority in violation in 1956 and again in 1958. When the Council's decision to -withdraw recognition from the sorority was stayed by the Board in Review, the Council appealed to the Regents. The Regents' order to investigate the area by the Plan's Clarifica- tion Committee was caused by this Sappeal. Vice-president Lewis also said he did not.want to see the com- mittee get into the area of the student regulations booklet. +City rCouncil Allows Change By JOHN DeMOTT The Ann Arbor City Council approved a change in its annexa- tion regulations last night. The modification was designed. to permit a firm or, industry which is within physical reach of city water facilities, but which is not in the city proper, to use these facilities. The problem results from the fact that some city water mains extend outside the city limits, in the anticipation that this land will eventually come within the city. The change in regulations pro-' vides that any concern which avails .'itself of these facilities must pay the equivalent of Ann Arbor taxes for their use, and must agree to annex to the city as soon as physically possible. The old regulations had provided that a concern must be within city boundaries to receive any city services. The modification was specifical- ly designed to allow an old Ann Arbor firm to use the city's water. facilities upon the opening of its new plant on the south side of the city. The Council also approved the annexation of several plots of land at its meeting, one of which was over one hundred acres in1 size. Three Ann Arbor firemen were cited by the Council for the heroic rescue of four children from as blazing State Street home on February 5. The firemen who were - commended are Captain Emersonl F, Ehnis, Richard K. Hartman, and Eugene Zulz. ' In further action, the Council approved a $119,000 bid on a 135-x Group Plans Counseling Conference Seasonwein Reports Meeting 'Probable' By JEAN HARTWIG The possibility of a Student- Faculty Conference on counseling is "pretty much definite," Roger Seasonwein, '61, one of the two student members of the Univer- sity Counseling Study Committee, said yesterday. Although no specific plans have been made for the event, which will "probably be held just before or just after spring vacation," it has been endorsed by Vice-Presi- dent for Student Affairs James A. Lewis and Prof. Lowell Kelley of the psychology department, chair- man of the committee. "The purpose of the conference would be to promote a means whereby the faculty, students and administration can communicate," Seasonwein explained. A hearing on the Counseling Re- port is also being considered by Student Gdvernment Council. The final decision for such a program depends on the amount of interest expressed to the committee by stu- dents. Send Letters to Leaders To provide an opportunity for students to express their opinion on the Counseling Study report, letters to leaders of student or- i ganizations will be sent by SGC next week. The letter, intended to stimulate discussion by the executive officers of the organizations on the report, will request a summary of the dis- cussions to be sent to SGC. Specific requests for reactions to the recommendations of the re- port and the facts contained in the report will be sought by the Coun- cil, as well as suggestions for implementing the report by or- ganizations as well as individual students. Seasonwein said he wasn't sure about the nature of the responses expected from the letters, but add- ed that "all recommendations will come to the attention of the pro- per authorities." Results Apparent Already He pointed out that some bene- ficial results have already come from the report, such as the meet-' ing of University counselors and the publication of the counseling' booklet summarizing the commit-' tee's decisions. Student opinion would concern, such areas as juniors and seniors; signing their own election cards and the use of professional coun- selors by the University. Booklets containing a summary of the counseling report will also be sent to the organizations with the letters requesting opinion "just on the theory that some of them might readit," he added. MARTIN TARVER . . . heads chapter CAPE CANAVERAL (JP) - A power packed Atlas ICBM blew apart with a brilliant flash of white flame three minutes after launching early today. The 80-foot "Big A," key weapon in the missile race with Russia, exploded on its own when a mal- function occurred just before en- gine burnout, Air Force officials announced. It was the seventh time an Atlas had broken apart for one reason or another in 21 launchings con- Iducted since .June, 1957. Trouble After Burnout The huge war rocket bolted aloft at 12:38 a.m. (EST) on what reportedly was a 4,900 statute mile ocean-spanning shot aimed at checking out reliability and ac- curacy. The trouble developed after burnout and separation of the twin booster rockets as the main sustainer engine proceeded to push the rocket up to the blazing speed needed for the space journey. Atlas appeared to perform smoothly at the start as it roared up atop a plumelike tail of white fire. After 60 seconds it curved high. in the black sky and pro- ceeded toward the Southeast as a faded dot of light. Last Explosion in September At the three-minute mark there suddenly was a splash of white against the sky as the 120-ton missile broke up. The last Atlas explosion came ,MSU Seeks Med School EAST LANSING (P)-Michigan State University yesterday asked the legislature for property now occupied by the Boys Vocational School in Lansing for a possible third medical school in the state. "Michigan State has long felt that when a third medical school comes, it should be here," John A. Hannah, MSU president, told the State Board of Agriculture, the university's governing body. The state presently plans to transfer the vocational school to Whitmore Lake, near Ann Arbor. "The point we're making, "Press, ident Hannah said, "is the Boys' Vocational School will be vacated. If we're going to have it, it ought to be made now that we want it." The Board's resolution did not exclude the possibility that thet school site could be used for' an- other purpose by MSU. But it did stress the long-range desire for a1 medical school at Michigan State.1 The Board delayed action on a plan to consider all MSU graduate< students as Michigan residents1 either immediately or after six months for the purpose of pay fees. President Hannah explained that MSU was losing many well-quali-i fled students to other universitiesc where graduate students auto-1 matically are recognized as resi-1 dents.i AFTER TIREE MINUTES Army Atlas ICBM Explodes in Air September 18 on the first attempt to shoot the missile the complete 6,325-statute-mile intercontinental range. Since then seven of the Convair weapons have been launched suc- Nomznating P~rocedure Announced A new procedure for nominating the president of the senior class of the literary college was an- nounced by Lou Susman, '59, pres- ident. Petitions for president may be obtained at the office of Assistant Dean of the literary college James A. Robertson. Those running for the position will fill out the peti- tion including a two-page typed statement of his aims and inten- tions concerning the office itself. The petitions will. then be con- sidered by a literary college board consisting of the president of the senior class, Susman; chairman of the literary' college steering com- mittee, Sarah Weiner, '59; a mem- ber of the steering committee and a member of the literary college faculty, neither of whom have been specified. After reading the submitted petitions, the board will interview. the candidate and submit a slate of acceptable candidates to Stu- dent Government Council's Elec- tions Committee. Petitioning, which opened yes- terday, will end at 5 p.m. Feb. 27. Interviews will be held March 2 and 3 and the final slate of candi- dates will be announced March 4. Petitioning procedure for all other senior offices of the literary college is the same as last year, Susman added. Andrews .Dies In Fire Here Charles J. Andrews, chief of the Ann Arbor Fire Department from 1902 to 1939, died in a fire in his bedroom about 8:45 a.m. yester- day. Firemen said a discarded cigar- ette apparently started the blaze' by igniting sheets and blankets on Andrews' bed. The fire destroyed the bed and burned through the hardwood floor beneath. Firemen found Andrews under a table near a window. He was taken to St. Joseph Mercy Hospi- tal, where he was pronounced dead of smoke inhalation. He was 88 years old. Andrews had served longer with the Fire Department than any other man since its organization.; He joined the department in 1898,+ became chief in 1902 and retired in 1939. nity was, not meeting the neces- sary requirements, William G. Cross, assistant dean of men in charge of fraternities, said yes- terday. A letter was sent to Alpha Phi Alpha national with specific rec- ommendations to the Epsilon chapter "to.insure proper demon- stration of fraternity activities on the University of Michigan cam- pus." "Membership should increase this semester," Tarver said. "The biggest problem is establishing an alumni house corporation and finding an alumni adviser." The, fraternity scholastic aver- age, which is required to be 2.25 for reinstatement, is "above a two point," Tarver estimated. Prospective Adviser Found. He said that a prospective alumni adviser has been found. 'By next year we should have an active alumni corporation," he con'imented. The corporation is required to supervise the pur- chase and maintenance of a fra- ternity house.-\ Other requirements which Tar- ver said have already been met, include: 50 per cent of the fra- ternity's membership regularly participating in extra-curricular activities; regular participation in intra-mural sports; an active so- cial program; regular attendance at IFC meetings and functions; and a positive and constructive pledge training program. cessfully, including the first suc- cessful ICBM range flight Novem- ber 28 and the 35-day Atlas satel- lite which soared into orbit De- cember 18. The main mission of the abor- tive flight was to send a blunt- shaped nose cone hurtling to a spot of water just short of the Ascension Islands at the far end of the ocean range. Explosion 'Surprise' An explosion at this stage of the Atlas program came as a surprise. Missile ex~erts had felt that Atlas was six months ahead of the origi nally planned schedule to make it operational. Atlas is being groomed as the sturdy workhorse of the United States missile arsenal. The Air Force plans to use Atlas to boost a space probe to the planet Venus this June and to carry the first man into space when that program is ready. The last Atlas test was a highly successful one conducted over a 3,400-mile range February 4. TutorsG IV Individual Instruction (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the last in a series of articles concerning the departmental honors program of the literary college.) By RUTHANN RECHT The junior year of both the economics and botany departmen- tal honors program is conducted on a tutorial basis. "Last fall we attempted to select students on the basis of the grades they received in the beginning courses in economics, Prof. William B. Palmer of the economics depart- ment said. The course was started this fall. It provides one hour of credit and gives highly individualized instri c- tutor two students each. "The cusses the books with his tutor. Choice Left to Student Five staff members volunteer to tntor two students each. "The type of work done in the junior program is left largely to the tutor and students," Prof. Palmer said. Some papers are assigned to junior students but none of these are of substantial size, he noted. "We planned to have two or three meetings with all the tutors and tutees but had only one this semester," Prof. Palmer said. "All students, in the first semes- ter of the senior year, read texts, books and journals which are dis- cussed at weekly two-hour semi- nars," Prof. Shorey Peterson of the economics department said, Study Growth of Ideas The reading has been partly a study of the historical development of economic ideas, in order to achieve some sort of high-level synthesis. This follows the array of more specialized courses that have been taken after the broad elementary course, he continued. Another theme of the first semester has been a somewhat critical examination of capitalism' in various important aspects, Pof. Peterson added. In the second semester of the senior year the students do indi- vidual projects which result in a substantial paper. In these papers they can exploit their fields of special interest and competence. Weekly two-hour seminars are also continued during the second See ECONOMICS, Page 8 u. Council Opens Petitoning Petitioning for senior class offi- ces, memberships on the Board in Control of Intercollegiate Athletics, Board in Control of Student Publi- cations and Union Student Direc- tor positions opened yesterday, ac- mvrii o Richard Erh '61. Riots Ended By Peaceful Conference' Leaders of Britain, Greece, Turkey Sign Peace Agreement LONDON OP) - Peace came to Cyprus yesterday after four years of violence. A five-party conference reached agreement on independence for the island after 81 years under the British flag. An historic document estab- lishing the Mediterranean island as a republic was initialed last night in a London hospital room by the prime ministers of Britain, Greece and Turkey. Prime Minister Andrew Macmil- lan and Greek Premier Constan- tine Karamanlis carried the offi- cial document to the bedside of Turkish Premier Adnan Men- deres, recovering from injuries suffered in a plane crash outside London Tuesday. Third Session Final The agreement came in the third and final session of a con- ference dogged by rumors of dis- cord and snarled by the Menderes plane crash. Archbishop Makarios, 45-year- old exiled leader of the Greek Cyp- riots, ended up by signing the agreement after dropping earlier objections to some of its clauses. With Turkish Cypriot leader, Dr. Fazil Kutchuk - who also signed - Makarios accepted Brit- ain's proposals that military bases on Cyprus remain under British control. - The'agreement - actually a complex series of documents - also was signed by Greek Foreign Minister Evanghelos A v er o f f Turkish Foreign Minister Fatin Zorlu and British Foreign Secre- tary Selwyn Lloyd. Makarios 'Happy The three prime ministers ini- italed a cover document, making it official. "I'm very happy with the ac- cord," said Makarios in his hotel suite. Asked if he would be returning to Cyprus, the bearded archbishop smiled and replied: "Yes, in a few days." He is expected to be the first president of Cyprus. Makarios was sent into exile by the British in 1956. The British charged he supported the Greek Cypriot underground, Eoka, which backed its demands for union with Greece with bombs and bullets. The agreement at las heals the serious rift between NATO part- ners Greece and Turkey. SGC To Run Willopolitan Stdent Government Council will sponsor a chartered bus service, Willopolitan,- to Willow Run and Metropolitan airports March 27, according to Philip Zook, '60, Stu- dent Activities Committee chair- man. Buses, making six runs from the University during the afternoon, will stop at the Union and some spot on the Hill, he said. The exact place has not been decided. Information sheets, application blanks and return envelopes for the purchase of tickets will be sent to students in the residence halls and distributed through the travel agencies. Tickets, which will be sold through the mail and in the SGC area, will be collected by the bus drivers. No provisions have been made for a return trip, as difficulties were encountered in selling return tickets in similar plans made in previous years by the Wolverine Club and the Union. Regents Plan Meeting Today Tus i n rtir,.ww nf . e. r .: t INDEPENDENT ACTION: Arabs Are Pro-Arab, By LANE VANDERSLICE 'Glubb Claims A man who lived with-and led-Arabs for over fifteen years yesterday backed up Arab claims that they are trying to pursue an independent course of action. "We are inclined to interpret everything they do as either "pro- American or pro-Russian," Sir John Bagot Glubb, for seventeen years head of the Arab Legion, said. "This is not true," he said, "Arabs are pro-Arab." There has been somewhat of a reaction in the Arab world against the Russians, he said. "Two years ago, any educated Arab would not have said that Russia was a danger to the Arabs. I think they are finding Russia not quite so altruistic as they had expected," Glubb said To Appear Tonight University Platform Attractions will present Sir John Glubb in "A Soldier With the Arabs" at 8:30 p.m. today in Hill Auditorium. Much of Glubb's discussion centered on Jordan, where he spent his years in command of the Arab legion, the; army of Jordan. A British citizen, Glubb was asked for political reasons to leave Jordan in 1956 by King Hussein. . In response to a question, Glubb said that "secure" was "perhaps rather a strong word" for King Hussein's position in Jordan. :: ;; ....... :..k ,.. , ".. .:,..: . .. ... .. ,