'MIICHIGAN FOLLIES' See rage 4 Y Sixty-Eight Years of Editorial Freedom Daitli V SNOW, COLDER XIX. No. 88 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1959 FIVE CENTS EIGHT PAGES (ayne's Faculty Responding to Appeals, Regents 3rakes Merger Request Study of Hilberry Proposal For Control of WSU by Regents By THOMAS HAYDEN Wayne State University's faculty council movedyesterday to .ke its president's plan to place the school under the University ard of Regents. At the same time, the council, composed of 40 faculty members, animously urged an immediate and thorough study of the merger posed by President Clarence Hilberry. In effect, the second of the two proposals passed endorses the n. suggested by Rep. Charles Boyer (R-Manistee), calling for an ension of the terms of the present Wayne Board of Governors. r Election of a new six-man Board, Ask* for Review of everance VETERANS' GROUPS: Pay Change Spokesmen Oppose Use, ''Alumna Sees Star 'Dimming' Wayne State University's star is fast rising, while the University's is dimming, a Wayne English teacher -and University alumna -said last night. Prof. Thelma 0. James por- trayed the Detroit school as "young and vigorous" and not "hampered by traditions and size" as is the University. Needs Consideration She warned that any merger under the University Board of Regents should be preceded by careful consideration. Prof. James pointed out a "splen- did Michigan way" which, she said, might not be compatible with Wayne's "distinctive patterns," She cited "vast" differences In the two schools' athletic programs and the fact that Wayne, attended largely by commuting students, does not have a system for housing student on campus comparable to the University's. Feels Warmly Toward ' M "I feel very warmly toward the University," Prof. James, who took her undergraduate work and mas- ter's degree here, emphasized. But "I'm afraid the University is becoming a little too big and im- personal," she continued. To make it still larger is not ---n1'nflu is scheduled for April. Under the Council's recommen- dation, the present board would continue in office until the merger study was completed. The recom- mendation was sponsored by Prof. Alfred Kelly of the Wayne history department, and Prof. Glenn Howell, of the engineering school. Asks 'Open' Attitude The recommendation, Prof. Kelly said, asks the Wayne administra- tion to maintan an "open" attitude towards any legislation in Lansing. "We're not sponsoring any spe- cific bill in the legislature," Kelly told The Daily, "but the proposal does imply the Boyer plan is sound." He explained that he did not wish to see the merger issue "swal- lowed up" by the "fast-approach- itg" April election. "It is unlikely that there will be a merger if the election proceeds as scheduled," he claimed. Merger Improbable Prof. Kelly added that a merger would be improbable also if the Legislature adopts the bill spon- sored by Sen. Edward Hutchinson (R-Fennville) which would allow the governor to appoint a ruling board for Wayne. By approving the Hutchinson plan, the Legislature would fore- close any chance for a merger, Prof. Kelly said. He stressed that the recommen- dation was not unfriendly towards a merger but merely was an at- tempt to gain time to study the proposal, which would ally the two schools under the Regents while leaving them autonomous. Support Resolution While 21 Council members of the 33 present voted in favor of the Kelly-Howell resolution, support was unanimous for establishment of a study committee to consider the "wisdom and feasibility" of the plan for coordination. The Council called for a com- mittee composed of the faculties and administrations of both schools and "prominent" public citizens, Prof. Howell, Secretary of the council, said. The group would study the vari- ous facets of the merger and even- tually make a recommendation favoring or opposing the proposal. i Given Okay Dismissed Personnel To Get Year's Pay By JAMES SEDER The Regents yesterday adopted a Faculty Senate-recommended Bylaw governing severance pay to academic personnel dismissed be- fore the expiration of their ap- pointment. Faculty members who are dis- missed by the University will be entitled-with some exceptions-to a year's severance pay. The changed Bylaw was drawn up by a Faculty Senate committee chaired by Prof. Merwin H. Water- man of the business administration school. Several Set Up Vice-President and Dean of Faculties Marvin L. Niehuss ex- plained that the Waterman com- mittee was one of several set up by the- Senate after the so-called "Nickerson-Davis case" to reex- amine faculty dismissal procedure. Niehuss said that the affair "un- questionably called attention" to the whole faculty dismissal ques- tion, but that both the Senate committee and the Regents had considered the Bylaw change by itself, not in relation to the Nick- erson-Davis case. "The Bylaw change is not retro- active," he explained, and "did not tie in" with that case. Prof. Moise 'Pleased' Prof. Edwin Moise of the mathe- matics department, who was a member of a committee set up by the Ann Arbor chapter of the American Association of Univer- sity Professors to study a report by the national AAUP censoring the University on this case, said that he was "very pleased to hear of the Regents action. "But I doubt that this Bylaw change in itself will be enough to cause the AAUP to remove the University from the blacklist." Prof. Mark Nickerson of the pharmacology department and H. Chandler Davis of the mathe- matics department were dismissed from the University after they had refused to testify before a House of Representatives subcommittee on Un-American Activities (the Velde Committee). One issue was the Regents' re- fusal to grant severance pay. Ot .Fund in Lash (risis LANSING (P)-Spokesmen for organized veterans in Michigan refused yesterday to budge from their opposition to using the 50- million-dollar Veterans Trust Fund to help meet the state's cash emergency. They presented their views to Gov. G. Mennen Williams in the executive office. The commanders of the eight major veterans organi- zations returned to the governor's office after an hour-long conference with him earlier in the day and then a private discussion among SGC Plan; Recognition Clause Ambiguty Cited Refuse To Rule in Sorority Case; Claim Concern Lies in Jurisdiction By ROBERT JUNKER Review of the Student Government Council Plan was called for by the Regents yesterday. This came in response to SGC and Faculty Senate appeals to overrule the Board-in-Review's decision in the Sigma Kappa case. Section Called Ambiguity In a prepared statement the Regents called attention to the "ambiguity" of the section of the plan concerning recog- niton of student organiza-' themselves. Their statement read i Red Offers Fresh Plan ! For Berlin WASHINGTON (AP)-Russia's Anastas I. Mikoyan suggested yes- terday a three-point plan for settlement of East-West differ- ences over Berlin. He also told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Commit- tee Russia might be willing to dis- cuss withdrawing its troops 500 miles east of the Elbe River. The Deputy Soviet Premier talked at a closed-door luncheon meeting with the committee members. Asks Berlin Access Sen. J. William Fulbright (D- Ark.) said Mikoyan proposed a program calling for: 1) Free access to Berlin, free elections for West Berlin only and removal of all outside troops from Germany. 2) Asking the United Nations to participate in guaranteeing the freedom of West Berlin. 3) A permanent international commission to administer the af- fairs of West Berlin. U.S. Would Withdraw Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D- Minn.) said discussions of with- drawing Soviet troops 500 miles east of the Elbe also would in- volve withdrawal of free world forces 500 miles to the west. That would move United States forces out of all northern Europe and pull the Russians back of Po- land. Sen. Humphrey said he believed this comment from M i k o y a n showed some flexibility of position. on the part of the number two Soviet leader. Two-Hour Conference The session with the senators followed a conference of more than two hours between Mikoyan and Secretary of State Dulles. The two arranged to meet again at the State Department later in the day. Sen. Humphrey said the sub- ject of troop withdrawal came up when he asked Mikoyan if the Soviet Union would go along with a disengagement plan for Central Europe advanced by Foreign Min- ister Rapacki of Poland. in part, "We unanimously agree that Ono tampering, changes or altera- tions affecting the trust fund are acceptable to the organized veter- ans of the state." Most Would Be Lent Gov. Williams had proposed lending the bulk of fund securities to hard-up State universities to pledge as collateral in obtaining bank loans. As he left the governor's office, Frank J. Lada, State Commander' of Amvets, said, "Personnaly, my position still is strictly hands off." Had No Alternative Lada had no alternative, unless it was to dip into the state retire- ment fund, for the cash the state' needs. The governor had rejected this as without "moral justifica- tion." In brief, the governor's plan is to lend the bulk of securities in the Veterans Fund to hard-up state universities for use as col- lateral in negotiating bank loans. Gov. Williams said he was against outright liquidation, some- thing he reminded the Veterans! Group leaders that the Legislature could decide on at any time. The governor argued that his plan assured preservation of the fund at least during the period the bonds were pledged as securi- ty for loans, possibly five or ten years. Regents Favor Bond Transfer For Payrolls The Regents said yesterday they "looked with favor upon any move which will provide funds as soon as possible" for the University. They thus granted approval to Gov. G. Mennen Williams' scheme to transfer $38 million to the Uni- versity and Michigan State Uni- versity from the Veterans Trust Fund. "We will continue to study this c a r e f u 11 y," Vice-President in Charge of Business and Finance Wilbur K. Pierpont told the Re- gents. He said payroll costs have been cut 10 per cent because of the state's inability to pay the University its monthly payments. The bonds will be used as col- lateral for loans to the University from banks, and the interest on these bonds will pay interest costs on the loans, Pierpont explained. HANK FONDE .. . back to Michigan L Name Fode New Varsity Back Coach By FRED KATZ Hank Fonde, a football coach with the winning habit, yesterday was appointed by the Regents to an assistant coaching position for one year beginning Feb. 1. The new Michigan mentor will be in charge of the backfield, tak- ing over the post vacated by ex- teammate Bump Elliott, who moved up to head grid coach the first of the year. The official announcement, three days after Fonde's thirty- fifth birthday, came as little sur- prise. It had been rumored to be in the offing for over a month. Successful Coach Fonde brings to his alma mater the state's most successful high; school coaching record. In ten' years 'at the Ann Arbor High School helm, Fonde's teams com- piled a total of 69 wins, six losses and four ties. Included in the dazzling decade' that began in 1949 were nine con- ference titles in the tough Six-A League, seven undefeated seasons and a victory skein that once stretched to 40 games. Elliott and Fonde have been close friends over a period of years that dates back to the middle 1940's when they were the Wol- verines' number one and two right halfbacks, respectively. On 1947 Team In their last year together they were an integral part of then- head coach H. 0. "Fritz" Crisler's 1947 Big Ten and Rose Bowl cham- pions. Only 5'7" and 155 pounds in his playing days, Fonde is called by ex-head coach Bennie Oosterbaan, who was backfield coach then, as "the best back, pound for pound, I've ever had." Fonde was the only person con- sidered for the backfield job., See QUITS, page 6 tions. It stated the Regents' primary concern was with matters of Juris- diction, not in the "merits of in- dividual cases as such." The Regents returned the mat- ter to Vice-President for Student Affairs James A. Lewis. He will work with the Senate and SGC to suggest clarifications or changes in. the present Council plan. Sent After Decision Both appeals were sent to the Regents after the Board-in-Re- view overruled SGC's decision finding the sorority in violation of University regulations concern- ing discrimination. .University President Harlan Hatcher said the Regents' decision in effect upheld the administra- tion. Regents Irene Murphy and Eu- gene Power explained that both sides believed themselves right, and both SGC and the adminis- tration could cite evidence for their cases. Possible Conflict Regent Murphy noted the "pos- sible conflicting statements of jurisdiction" in the SGC ' Plan. For complete text of statement, see page 5 There was "no other decision open to SGC than the one they reached," Regent Carl Brablec said. Regent Power said the Regents should not decide specific cases but should act on their causes. Since there are certain areas of ambiguity in the Council Plan, "the fault (of this dispute) lies with the Regents," he added. "We favor student govern- ment," Regent Power added. Record "Magnificent" Regent Roscoe Bonisteel termed SGC's record "magnificent." Regent Murphy suggested the dispute's source may lie in the "negatively stated" University regulation on discrimination. She urged the 1949 statement - "Rec- ognition will not be granted any organization which p r o h i b i ts membership on the basis of race, religion, or color"-be put in posi- tive terms, Should Not Be Bound Groups on this campus should not be bound by the mores of oth- er parts of the country, she added. Lewis said the administration as- sumes on the basis of the resolu- tion passed by Sigma Kappa Na- tional last summer saying the sor- ority would abide by the rules of each campus that "Sigma Kappa here is free to pledge anyone." The Regents statement said in part, "The Regents are naturally concerned with the right of Uni- versity living groups to govern their own affairs, including the freedom of choice of members, within the framework of Univer- sity policy and not by requirement of a national organization." President Hatcher termed the present dispute "a signal to clari- fy what we set out to do" four years ago in originally adopting the SGC Plan. Seek Geneva Regents Act. Disappoints SGC Leader By PHILIP MUNCK Maynard Goldman, '59, SC's presidentrsaid last night the Re- gents' lack of action on the Coun- cil's Sigma Kappa appeal "wasn't . what I had hoped for." He added that although he was "disappointed" he believed there was "still room for some solution for all." Dean of Women Deborah Ba- con commented that the Regents statement on the question was "the point of view that any regen- tial board would take." Look for Principle They cannot permit themselves to rule on every specific instance of problems that arise, she added. "It is usual for them to look for the principle behind a case." Good will on the part of all parties, she said, would have solved many of the problems S hag faced by means of the "ordi nary communications which nat- urally come out of good will." Most problems can be solved when two parties are willing to sit down and talk things over, she said. "Danger in Tampering* IHC's president, Bob Ashton, '59, said there "is a danger in tampering with the Plan." (The Regents asked the Vice-President in Charge of Student Affairs to recommend any "necessary and desirable" changes in the SOC Plan - its equivalent of a consti- tution.) The danger lies, he explained, in that student government could be weakened. He added that he didn't think this was probable, Hopes Not Substitute David Kessel, Grad., said, "No one expects the Regents to solve our problems with one stroke of the pen but I hope this (the re- gential examination of SOC's Plan) is not a substitute for ac- tion." He explained that in June some of the most valuable members of the Council, from a point of ae and experience, will be graduate ing. U.S. Develops Cheap Atomie Power Plant WASHINGTON W-)-The White House yesterday unveiled a minia- ture atomic power plant which of- ficials said could be produced for about $200 a. nitt. AEC officials hailed the deve- opment as a signficant break- through in the achievement of small size, long lasting power plants which can be used, for ex- ample, to operate the instrunents in space satellites. Donat Says Area's Industry Faces Economic Challenge By DAVID BLOOMGARDEN The industry in the Great Lakes states face a major challenge with the recent formation of the European Common Market, a Parke, Davis & Co. officia'l declared yesterday while addressing the final session of the Great Lakes Industrial Development Council's three-day meeting, George Donat, director of marketing services for the overseas division of the pharmaceutical firm, said that the rate of increase in European productivity has been almost twice that of the United * States since 1952. Imports Impressive He noted that the imports of European automobiles, optical equipment and radios is impres- sive, but even more important "is the favorable growth of construc- tion and electrical equipment, steel and aluminum products, type- writers and office machines." Assembled in Area All these products are made and assembled in the Great Lakes area in keen competition with the Common Market countries. France, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, and West Germany will profit from the formation of the Common Market by the con- solidation of fragmented manu- facturing operations, ease in the movement of capital and labor and use of a mass selling market for their products, Donat commented, Exports in Danger Increased competition from the consolidated countries, he said, will DROP 6-I DECISION: Outskated Ieers Lose to North Dakota Ar ',tBy MIKE GILLMAN Michigan's hockey team-outmanned, outskated, but never out- fought-dropped a 6-1 decision to North Dakota here last night in a contest shortened by the season's first all-out brawl. Play was stopped at 14:42 of the final stanza after Barrie Hayton, Wolverine defenseman, entered the penalty box and started swinging at the North Dakota student manager. Immediately, both benches, fans and police became involved in the most violent donnybrook the Collesium has seen in recent seasons. Officials Call Game After Coaches Al Renfrew of Michigan and Bob May of North Dakota had broken up the hostilities, the officials decided to call the game. With the outcome in little doubt, referee Ed Sabbie feared that tempers would fly again and stated that he was "afraid too many play-' ers would get hurt." Renfrew explained the incident afterward as resulting from the verbal abuse of the Michigan icers by the student manager. The foul language being used was "more than we had to take," Renfrew noted. He added that he didn't blame the fans, who had been listening, for a ,joining in the melee.