Nixon inaugurated as 37th President WASHINGTON (AUP)-Richard Milhous Nixon became the 37th President of the United States yesterday, pledging "to consecrate my office. my energies, and all of the wisdom I can sum- mon to the cause of peace among nations. Following Nixon's speech, jeering antiwar demonstrators tried to stone the President's car during the inaugural parade. But club-swinging police beat back an attempt by about 1,000 pro- testers to overrun their lines. Nixon's limousine sped up abruptly as a couple of large rocks and pieces of garbage rained within a few feet of him. The President, pointedly ignoring the dem- onstrators to wave at crowds on the opposite side of Pennsylvania Avenue, was never in danger in the bullet-proof black limousine. The Washington Police Dept. said that 81 arrests were made. At 12:15 p.m. the 56-year-old grocer's son from Whittier, Calif. somberly repeated the 35- word oath of office. Moments earlier, Spiro T. Agnew, a Greek im- migrant's son and former governor of Maryland, capped a meteoric political career when he took the oath as Vice President and became the first man in line of succession to the presidency. Thousands huddled under threatening skies on the windswept Capitol Plaza as Chief Justice Earl Warren for the fourth and last time in his life administered the oath to a new President- this time to one who long has been his political foe. Cannon boomed a salute and Nixon heard, for the first time, "Hail to the Chief" played for him. It was eight years from the day he had watched John F. Kennedy become President on the same spot after defeating Nixon in a tight election. Minutes after taking his oath as the 37th American President Nixon told massed thou- sands in the Capitol Plaza: "For the first time, because the people of the world want peace and the leaders are afraid of war, the times are on the side of peace . "After a period of confrontation, we are entering an era of negotiation." The 17-minute inaugural address was de- 'livered rapidly and in low key. It was inter- rupted nine times by brief, almost perfunctory applause. There was strong applause at the close but no sustained ovation. The President promised to pursue at home the goals of full employment, better housing, excellence in education. But he warned that "we are reaching the limits of what government alone can do." "What has to be done, has to be done by government and people together or it will not be done at all," the Republican President said. The effort nust be that of a united people, he em- phasized. "To go forward at all is to go forward to- gether," he said, and added: "This means black and white together. as one nation, not two." Nixon said that one of the most important tasks for the future is "to lower our voices." "We- cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another-until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices. See NIXON; Page 10 Police arrest protesters .. -Daily--Jay Cassidy , ,as the President rides (rn . OPPOSING NIXON: A SPORTING GESTURE See editorial page YI rL 3kt4A-a :4E ait APOLITICAL Hlgh--40 Low-30 Cloudy, chance of light rain. U I Vol. LXXIX, No. 93 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, January 21, 1969 Ten Cents Ten Pages _ . Forum to discuss Assembly " hits css r/ required courses. - '!A I State officials doubt. increase in U' budget By LESLIE WAYNE By DAVID SPURR The controversy over language and distribution requi'te- ments in the literary college will reach a crucial stage in the open forum of the college faculty today. is ruptwn By ROB BEATTIE Senate Assembly yesterday slap- 1 * Student leaders of the campaign against required courses ped the hands of student demon-I plan to urge immediate faculty action at the forum. The strators and The Daily by "reaf- firming a policy" that persons not meeting, however, was called only for students and faculty to enrolled in a class may only be exchange views on the issue, and is not a regular session of admitted to the classroom "bys Students *challenge LSA uit comiedsurndivrtep- By FRANK CARTER and R OY GORDET The literary college student steering committee and the organ- izers of a group challenging the committee clashed last night at the regular committee meeting. Bill Bleich, organizer of the opposition group, and Simon Benninga, chairman of the present committee, disagreed over the po- tential and functions of possible representative committees in the college, The proposal for the new steer- ing committee first came up Sun- day night at a meeting of repre- #sentatives from seven depart- mental undergraduate s t u d e n t the faculty. No formal action is expected. "We want them to move into an official faculty meeting," Student Government C o u n c i 1 President Michael Koeneke, s a id."If they don't do it tomorrow, we ex- pect a special faculty meeting within the next week to take ac- tion on our two demands." Today's forum is at 3 p.m. in the Natural Science Aud. Radical Caucus and SOC have joined in demanding that all fu- ture meetings of the faculty be open to the public and that all language and distribution require- -ments be abolished. For tomorrow's forum to become an official faculty meeting, 100 faculty members must declare special meeting and make specific subjects open to debate and action. It is not likely that will happen, since regular faculty sessions often do not attract a quorum. If the demands are not acted on, Ithere may be a mass sit-in nextI xvwee'. in the off ice of literary col- lege Dean William L. Hays. Radi- 'cal Caucus and '.',C have plannedj explicit permission of the instrue-_ tor." The resolution was I heresult of the student disruption la 't No- vember of a class taught by Prof. : A group of prominent st University officials there wa revenues" for higher education increase taxes, President Robb Meeting in closed session,: committees of both chambers Henry Bretton of the political request for a $75.9 million al science department and a Daily year, the University+ submitted article describing the incident. but was granted only $63.3 mill The students entered the class-t.aiov.ryilliam-Miklikenuwy roo pton encoureartyicipatiod -d:including his suggested alloca in theistudent strike called for Legislature'dohorrow.aThe election day. A Daily reporter and whLehsa uentmwTe photographer also entered the final appropriaton to the Uni- room to cover the incident. versity will be made withap- Following a complaint by Bret-' proval by both Senate and ton, the Senate Advisory Commit- Hoe le t p tee on University Affairs--the as- I H e request fothe eeityi sembly's executive committee-dk yu cm f eats onrtheortions dted theorce s oluioy, bfter ie Nntamotipsib i' yp hcul ee ak o,-amepromiSeinte Aproaprijatiods drates dthe resoltion. ter briet tCommittee Chairman Charles Zol- discussion the proposal was passed lar (R-Benton Harbor). Formal without dissent.heimpropdhtionstcomkitteeshk'rynns Theresolutionstates, "It is thentues Wy-r iiegottinsittreeheadeco sense of the Senate Assembly that gHdsilrr insdy; wi-l n be icusseon- no prso no reulary eroled ~rier~i"'Rsidiic Vone gt: Parnoi' * week in February. noprsonnotegulnRes-eseneA Arsa ri aKPresident Fleming saidthe Uni- or registered in a course shall be lasersghywaforold had Leshedatur, allowed in the class room in which rer veity wans to the Lltume the course meets, except by ex-"hsseh- y sdeib period." plicit permission of the instructor Av e r y n e w 111 o f U Other topics discussed' in- in charge." eluded:; Commenting on the resolution. -Capital needs, especially for Prof. Irving Copi, chairman of By DANIEL OKRENT After all, you asked me to come offers the opportunity to get a teegneigsho n h the assembly, said the policy was Fut~ure Editor hee-I didn't ask you." truer viewv of the writer and hi lteraylengen;c~o n h a kind of "common law" privilege; It is almost impossiblie to ex- n ecntne;~profession, of how he finds him-, reusth'Uiriy'wl of a faculty member. He admitted press how unalike Jerzy Kosinski hndheasntinhort is speech, self in his profession, how he con- -ArqetheUn)stywl that the faculty had no means and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., are. shrt ut as of theI; submit later this month for an Jr., are.~~~~~~~~ ducts himself once in it. aporaint oe rjce to nfrceit plic, utsai te o, otalostimosibl-i'stype that would never make you aporaint oe rjce r oeoutorefirmeoiybad the aculty's totast impssibleis regret asking him here, and by; Vonnegut, who will be here for increase in medical school enroll- position in regard to intruders.! When Vonnegut strode onto the tetm efnseh aeyutowes answers Kosinski's shy ment; In other action, the assembly! stage in Rackham Lecture H all quite glad that there were two sensitivity with robust ribaldry; he __A "gener~.l discussion" of tui- aproved a revised plan for the: last night, before he had finished Wrtr-nRsdnei n r smtpoia hr oisii tion:; admrission of students to its Re- three sentences he was saying, bo hsya.t vnpyial h w _h ed fteFitcm See ASSEMBLY, Page 7 "This speech' will be very short. It made you glad because it men are absolute opposites. tate legislators yesterday told as "a question of additional n since they do not expect to en Fleming reported. members of the appropriations s questioned the University's llocation from the state. Last d. an almost identical request lion. ill submit his budget request, Lion for the University, to the Second Czech burns self Originally called to exchange a mass strategy meeting next Mon- information among the seven stu- day. At that meeting, Radical Cau dent groups, the Sunday meeting cus members will advocate the sit- turned to the proposal for a new;i. steering committee and considered The faculty is not expected to possible structures, and relations take any decisive action on re- to Student Government Council. quired courses until it hears from The committee, which will be the college's curriculum commit- considered further at another tee, which is currently reviewing meeting next Sunday, would have the problem. Their report will one student member from each probably be completed in March. department that has a represen- tative body. The new committee * would also claim to be the legiti- mate steering committee to exer-. cise the committee's right of se- lecting student representatives onS faculty committees. Benninga said of the sugges- tion, "I can't conceive of organiz-. ing in some departments, like bot- By STEVE KOPPMAN any, physics or math. It couldn't BSE;O A possibly be representative. I'm "Two of these records for three pessimistic about organizing," he asked an incredulous shopper. added. An enthusiastic crowd greeted' "I'm optimistic," Bleich count- ered, ing of Student Government Cou: According to Bleich, the com- versity Discount Store Sunday n mittee will concern itself with col- Council member Larry Deitch lege-wide reforms which wouldn't $2,000 worth of records were sol( be appropriate for consideration night. Store managers said they by the departmental groups. ordered records which immedi Benninga said he hoped "it has out. , been clear we would be happy to o t d see any effective group that is "Art students are really t more representative than the pres- this." said one customer. The st_ t; r; e dollars?" the open- ncil's Uni- night. said over d the first y have re- ately sold 'hrilled by ore has in- RECGORDS SOLD OUT - Heavy trade at SABl But the contrasts are good to have. Vonnegut, who rose to Cat's Cradle and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater from the levels of Col- lier's and the Saturday Evening Pdst, can show the would-be writers among us a life and an approach to art that really might be more relevant to us than Ko- sinski's. The audience at Rackham was titillated by Vonnegut; his spoken humor is unique, of a form which readers of his books immediately recognize. But just as I probably' couldn't get you to laugh by lead- The University's accounting procedures for determining enroll- ment figures were discussed exten- sively, Fleming said. Since state appropriations to the various universities are based on enrollment figures, a miscalcula- tion in this estimation can either give the school increased finances or can force cutbacks in other areas. "We told the legislators that our estimates in the past years have never been off more than See LEGISLATORS, Page 7 - - - - PRAGUE (M-A second Czecho- , slovak set himself afire yesterday while his countrymen mourned the torch suicide of student Jan Phi- ach protsting the Soviet occupa- tion. President Ludvik Svobodia an- nounced the second burning oc- curred in Pilzen, 48 miles from Prague. Palach, 21, set himself afire Thursday and died Sunday. The official Czechoslovak news agency CTK said the Pilzen man was Josef Hlavaty, a 25-year-old brewery worker, divorced and father of two children. The agency said he suffered second-degree burns and that reports indicated he would .live. Prague radio said. the burning occurred at 8 p.m. on Dukla Square and that Hlavaty was in a state of shock with burns on 66 per cent of his body. The radio said if there were no complications he may be saved. It said the motive was under in- vestigation. Speaking of the Palach death, Svoboda said, "I have just received the shocking report that in Pilzen, in a similar manner, another young man laid his hands on his life. "On behalf of your parents, on behalf of our country, on behalf of myself and in the name of humanity to which we are jointly committed, I request you stop these terrible acts." Another attempted burning-for unknown reasons-was reported vac a ,in vi idn r.qt.1 iingrv. supplies, and stationery. Cigarettes sold for 26 cents a pack. SGC Treasurer Dennis Webster said he was encouraged by the large turnout. "If we continue like tonight, or even half of tonight, we'll be OK," he said. Webster said the store was formed at this time because of increased student in- terest and the support given the venture by President Robben Fleming and the Regents. At their December meeting, the Regents discussed the discount store and gave the idea their informal approval, according soon, Webster noted, but there are no plans for an SGC bookstore. "We would need $100,000 capital, and the effort wouldn't produce any great sav- ings for students," he said. "The stores don't make most of their profits on texts." Present plans call for the store to be open 9:15 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily, with the probable addition of evening hours next week. Webster said the store can "beat the prices" of the local stores, "because we're designed to break even. We're not set up to make a profit." T~ n-ritinf nffring lw - ie. We ing aloud a selected paragraph from Cat's Cradle, to put some of!sc his words from last night into, type would also do little good. .The reason for this is formnore thai, content. The hilarities of.) Vonnegut's fiction can not be lift- LOS ANGELES (')-one of two brotherssought in the slaying of ed out of context, noi' can ther-nTIT.A fac