SUNDAY MORNING See editorial page Y SfrPi4rn :4Ia ity SNOWY I l gh-33 Low-14 Overcast and colder r Vol LXXIX, No.104 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday, February 2, 1969 Ten Cents Ten Pages Faculty to consider reform plans a report in time for the March of the faculty. By RON LANDSMAN The literary college faculty meets tomorrow but it seems unlikely it will take any action in response to student demands for an end to language and distribution requirements. The students, led by Radical Caucus, have scheduled a mass meeting for Tuesday night to consider their response to faculty action or lack of action. The faculty session, a regular monthly meeting, follows by four days the special session which decided to open faculty meet- ings to the public and press. At that meeting, an hour-long discussion of language and distribution requirements proved to be inconclusive. During the discusison a number of reform proposals were considered. Prof. Robert Hefner of the psychology de- partment proposed that the appropriate goal of the college should be giving students "a cosmopolitan world view." The motion asks for the curriculum committee to begin de- visinigappropriate programs to fulfill that end. Although Hefner's motion calls for the end of the present language requirement, it does not specify whether that should precede or follow the institution of the new require- ment. It would probably take at least until next semester to devise a program. Another plan, which Radical Caucus lead- ers say they find acceptable,/was given to Dean Hays two weeks ago by Prof. Peter A. Smith of the chemistry department. His proposal would abolish the require- ment and make elementary language ability acceptable for advance placement credit. Un- der present college policy, students can be relieved of the requirements by showing proficiency in a foreign language, but can only receive advance placement credit for courses above that level. The motion has not been officially sub- mitted to the faculty yet and could not be voted on until a meeting after this one. The college has a layover rule prohibiting final action on a motion at the first meet- ing at which it is i5resented. It is generally considered very unlikely the faculty would suspend the rules to.con- sider Smith's motion. Prof. Theodore Buttrey chairman of the classical studies department, finds Smith's proposal unacceptable because it tacitly forces the burden of language instruction on the public school system. He says language cannot be taught there because of lack of ability and funds. Supporters have argued that the proposal has merit because students learn languages easier when they are younger. Prof. James C. O'Neill, chairman of the Romance languages department, noted that the very idea of hav- ing requirements was being called in ques- tion and suggested that it be kept in mind. Prof. Harvey Brazer, chairman of the economics department, advised the faculty to recognize the cost of requirements under a 120 hour degree limitation. If certain courses are required, he said, the faculty should con- sider whether those required courses are as valuable as other courses students c o u 1 d elect in their place. Whatever the merit of these proposals, the curriculum committee of the college 'is also working on the language problem. It has been for more than a year now and expects to submit 3 meeting Prof. James Gindin, chairman of the com- mittee, says the only thing that could keep his committee from having its report done on time would be a general disruption of the University by students, implicitly because of faculty failure to act on the requirement tomorrow. A whole range of proposals are also before the curriculum committee now. One which at least a few members of the committee seem to support was submitted by Prof. Wil Liam Cressey of the Romance languages de- partment when he appeared before the com- mittee a few weeks ago. He . suggested a "contact" requirement, either two years of high school or one year of college language instruction. But despite the wide range of possibilities before the faculty, action still seems unlikely. Many professors prefer to wait until the cur- riculum committee submits its report at the next faculty regularly scheduled meeting in March. -Daily-Andy Sacks' Sit-in at Dean Hays' office PROBATION RECONSIDERED: Rent 'strike group may Social work Stud ents win face conspiracy charge eciial vote on By DAN SHARE hey is out of town for the week- 1spiracy statute is a general, broad District Judge S. J. Elden said end and his office declined to based law designed to cover a last night he was'informed the comment on any investigation of wide variety of offenses. county prosecutor is investigating rent strife activities. The alleged threats. to extend the rent strike steering committee The rent strike steering com- probation were directed to Barry for possible criminal conspiracy mittee is the central organization -Cohen, '70, and Janet Handy. charges. responsible for the soliciting of They received letters last week pledges to withhold rent. asking them to meet with their In, addition, two members of Under Michigan law a con- probation officer, Ronald Rinker. the committee who were convicted spiracy consists of any group of The two met with Rinker sepa- of criminal trespass last October two or more people who conspire rately that afternoon. claim District Court officials have to violate a law. It -is a felony "Rinker told me he was in- threatened to extend their pro- punishable by five years impris- structed by Judge Elden to find bation. onment and a fine of $10,000. .out if wards of the .court might; County prosecutor William Del- The Michigan omnibus con- be subject to criminal conspiracy -------- - charges arising from activity in dthe rent strike and warn them their probation might be extend- i all L cilii djta s a ed ," Cohen said. Miss Handy said her conversa- tion with {Rinker as essentially' the same, but that Rinker told her I'It IOfl~h *EOSEE1 E "Judge Elden is concerned that what we are doing is illegal." Probation for the two was orig- WASHINGTON (A)-Proposals volunteer Arny," Rivers said. "I inally set at three months but is to eliminate the draft and create think I would rather have a mix- subject to extension at the discre- an all-volunteer Army may run ture of reserves and regulars. I tion of the judge for a period not into trouble when and if they think that mix would be best for to exceed two years. reach the House Armed Services the country." When asked to describe the Committee. Rivers said one of the reasons substance of the conversation with Chairman L. Mendel Rivers, (D- he would be against a wholly Cohen and Miss Handy, Rinker SC), without taking a firm posi- volunteer Army would be its al- said "It's a highly confidential tion for or against the proposals, legiance to the Defense Depart- matter and I don't feel 'I can dis- hinted broadly in an interview he ment and the President and not cuss it." is opposed to the creation of a to Congress. Elden denied the court is well paid, all-volunteer profes- "I believe a reserve officer is threatening the pair with an ex - sional Army, more likely to talk to -his congress- tens ion of probation for activity man than a regular officer, " he in the rent strike. But he admits "I'm not at all sure I'd favor a s he "had Mr. Rinker check the newspaper to see who is involved.' President Nixon carrying out a "Mr. Rinker's role was to warn campaign promise, asked Secre- the participants they might be in u rsestary of Defense Melvin R. Laird peril of violating 'the probation cmsThsd y to eelop a pa ofagreement," Elden explained. commission to develop a plan of Violation of the probation agree- action for eliminating the draft, ment would mean immediate re- During the election campaign vocation of probation and serving Nixon promised efforts to elimi- of the original sentence-in this nate the draft at the end of the case 23 days in jail. Vietnam war and move toward a However in a discussion with d res US volunteer Army. Cohen last Friday Rinker said In a radio speech Oct. 17, Nixon that it was the extension "of pro-1 By ERIKA HOFF said: "If we find we can reason- bation that was being considered, A Nursing School rule prohib- ably meet our peacetime manpower not revoking probation. needs by other means, then we The legal implications of joining iting the wearing of blue jeans by should prepare for the day when of the rent strike have been dis- student nurses i the medical 1 the draft can be phased out of cussed by law students and organ- center was the center of contro- American life. izers from the rent strike. versy at the last' meetig of the '"I have looked into this question They indicate that tenants are nursing council. very carefully. And this is my be- adequately protected from any re- Although the rule was originally lief: Once our involvement in the talatory evictions or suits by made by the students on the Vietnam War is behind "us, we Michigan law, and report that the f W 7 - committees BOriginal reform plan amended liv faculty By IMBEATTIE Social work students yesterday won virtually equal representation on 13 of the school's 17 major faculty com- mittees. The restructured committees will be composed of 4n equal number of student and faculty members, with a fat- } ~ ulty chairman who votes only in case of 'a tie. The plan for student representation, which won approval from the school's faculty yesterdlay, is a modified version of the proposal of a student-faculty committee. The proposal I was supported by the Social Work Students Union, which declared last week that it -- ---_- _ would accept "nothing less than the '50-50' plan of equal s representation." During the seven-hour faculty session which produced the deci- sion, the students met across the hall to consider possible action in case the faculty refused to ap- prove the proposal, The students decided to call a p o r s meeting of all social work students ,;.r:.;.."""":::::this afternoon to express student .. ...reaction to the faculty's decision. By RICK PERLOFF The 'deans and governing fac- All around he countr there ar Associated Press ulty of the school still retain final University g r a d u a t e students s decision-making power on all is- working on their dissertations, but Ssy sues the graduate school has little idea The faculty voted to exclude where they are. student representatives from the To keep track of these Grad faculty advisory, faculty search, students, the University is initiat- St des c i ti ie sit=inhuman subjects and doctoral pro- ing a program of "continuous en- gram committees. rollment" next term under which The plan supported by the every graduate student working students also left students off the on a dissertation must register an- Faculty Advisory Committee and nually, perhaps paying a $20 fee, left all final decisions to the deans According to assistant deanBY- and faculty. Aon Groesbeck, the student would However, the students had Special To The Daly dicate the officials will not con--Granting total amnesty to h be required to send his depart- --Grntin amnsty sought voting rights on the search CHICAGO-University of Chi- j cede to any of the students de- students involved in the sit-in; committte hich recruits new fac- mental committee a statement of cago students, remained in con- rmands. -progress on his dissertation. trol of the school's administration The students' demands include: -Payment of all time lost by ul e e Failure to submit the statement University employes because of Associate Dean Robert Vinter Falrtosmithsaeen building yesterday as the prlotest -Rescinding the decision not the sit-in. claimed that "the search commit- would have the same effect as the over student participation in the to rehire sociology Prof. Marlene tee membership was refused be- student's dropping out of school, firing and hiring of faculty en- Dixon, allegedly because of her The number of students parti- cause the Regents' bylaws dele- The program, approved in prin- tered its third day. radical political activities; cipating in the sit-in fluctuated cased the Rgts'ylaw ele- T y p pprschool's executive The chol'sadmnistatin hs -warding students and fac-! from 100 to 500 yesterday, The gated the authority of recruitingciabythesol'exuiv The school's administration has -Awrngsdesan a-rm 0to0 ytrd.Th faculty to the dean." board, is designed to speed up stu- remained silent concerning the ulty equal power in the firing and school has an undergraduate en- Dean Fedele Faun, however, dents' work on the dissertations. sit-in but informed sources in- hiring of all faculty members; rolmen0 said, "The issue was not closed "It is an extremely unpleasant (, i a t q 2 r i council, the nurses are beginningI to realize the impracticality ofI their decision. Mary Thompson, representative 4 ofthe. sophomore class, proposed that the present dress code be re- vised. She presented, a petition signed by nearly two thirds of the' sophomores in the school request- ing that they be allowed to wear "grubs" to class. The reason the sophomore class i is petitioning, she said, is that the nurses come into contact with, dangerous chemicals and they feel lab coats do not provide ade- quate protection. Sally Griffin, '69, president of the nursing council, said t h e nurses are only allowed to wear 4 jeans to chemistry classes because they are not directly connected with the medical center. This year, however, sophomores in nursing have only 10 minutes between a microbiology lab in the Chemistry Building and a class in move toward an all-volunteer strike will begin when 2,000 stu- armed force. dents have signed pledges to re- "This means that just as soon as frain from paying rent or signingj See ARMY, Page 10 new leases with struck realtors. CRITICIZES STEERING COMMITTEE Group asks LS student union By LARRY EISENBERG The literary college student steering committee, under fire recently from fellow students, is now faced with a movement to replace it with a student union in the college. The issue was raised at a re- cent meeting of an informal group called the Interdepart- mental Co-ordinating Commit- tee. It is composed of repre- canta .va. rn.m th a n iviilnI ex-officio student members to each of three important college units-the administrative board, and the curriculum and admis- sions committees. In a series of resolutions ap- proved at a recent meeting, the co-ordinating committee called for the replacement of the LSA steering committee and the for- mation of the student union by next fall. The co-ordinating group would replacea the steer- by the faculties of the depart- ments. History, economics, pol- itical science and English were all begun that way. Simon Benninga, chairman of the steering committee, is ad- mittedly critical of his own committee. "I have felt for a long time that something better than the steering committee was, needed and I think that the student un- inn mi-h h the answer "he process clause for students charged with cheating and pla- giarism were all begun by the committee." Other steering committee mem- bers took a similar stand. They say they will support the for- mation of the union, but they would have to be sure that the union could function and sur- vive. But the critics of the steer- ing committee don't have quite and a graduate eniollmen t0 of750 At 1:00 p.m. nearly 1000 stu- dents and faculty attended a mass r'Aeeting called by Dean Wayne C. Booth of the College of the Uni- versity of Chicago to discuss the{ students demands. The meeting was held in re- sponse to those students sitting-in who claimed the lack of commu- nication between student and fac- ulty was one of the major causes, of the sit-in. Over 100 faculty members joinedI the meeting at which a resolution supporting the protester's demand for amnesty was passed. The, meeting was adjourned until to- day when the students' other de- mands will be considered. Although the administration has not voiced anv snnort for the at the meeting. I threw it open to the meeting so that if the fac- ulty had wanted to allow repre- sentation on the committee they could have." "It seems to me," he said, "that we voted against student repre- sentation because the search com- mittee is a final decision-making group like the governing faculty." See SW STUDENTS, Page 6 1 experience," says Groesbeck, "for a student, upon finishing his dis- sertation after 10 years work, to walk in ready to take an oral ex- amination and then find his dis- sertation all out of date." One student took 38 years to complete his dissertation, Groes- beck says, and he w a s finally granted an honorary degree. "In all fields today, there is the danger of a. b o o k coming out which contradicts all the student is trying to prove. Where would that leave him?" Groesbeck adds. Ralph Lewis, associate dean of the graduate school, recalls the problems engineering grad 'stu- dents faced several years ago when a degree was changed to incor- porate computer techniques. , r~Y . . ,_ 2 .,l ...in _ 4S rl Y .' :A: .. _ }tit ';