MISU: MISUSE OF PROTEST See editorial page Cl dOir iau &IIAI FRIGID 1Illgh--23 Lair-9 'Sunny aud quite cold } a Vol. LXXiX, No. 1 06 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, February 5, 1969 Ten Cents Eight Pages NON-VOTING MEMIERS: SRC re student commends LSA mass meeting student plans union Regent plan creation of By NADINE COHODAS - way for requests to seat alumni which deals with the restructuring The Student Ryelations Commit- and University employes. Further- of the Office of Student Services. tee last night proposed that the more, he said selecting students This section includes methods for Regents "shall seat, without vote would be difficult "unless SGC student decision-making at the but with full speaking privileges, reforms itself." University. two students designated by Stu- Fleming also said that one An ad hoc committee has been dent Government Council." alumni representative already had revising the bylaws since June. T asked to be seated and was re- That committee's original proposal The recommendation came de- fused. He indicated that the Re-, dealing with student representa- spite a letter from President Flem- gents probably would reject any tion asked the Regents to seat ing which expressed reservations student representation. only one student who would about formally requesting student SRC's proposal was made as "speak for students during the representation on the Regents. part of their consideration of the Board's deliberations." Fleming said it would open the section of the University bylaws Robert Greene, an associate dean of the medical school, said Itthe presence of only one student on, faculty committees has in the alli'II' a past seemed "to intimidate" both the faculty members and the stu- dents. When at least two students to accept os have been invited, the meetings are more relaxed," Greene added. Prof. Arthur Mendel of the his- EAST LANSING (A)-The Board of Trustees cleared the tory department added that the{ effect of having one student at way yesterday for Michigan State University President John Regents' meetings would be like A. Hannah to accept a post with the Nixon administration. "having a policeman watching The board, meeting in private session at Hannah's East over." Lansing home, granted his request to "continue discussions" Several members indicated that h+ A Tasking the Regents to seat the stu- Nk / -ML- qbwlqw M/ -M -ML -M Class strike possible; sit-in motion dr~pped By CHRIS STEELE At a mass students voted and to stage a action on the March 3. meeting on language requirements last night to establish a literary college student union class boycott if the faculty takes unfavorable language requirement at its next meeting, A call for a disruptive sit-in in Dean William Hays' office today was approved on a first vote, but was reconsidered and defeated at the request of its sponsor, Radical Caucus, because it failed to gather a large enough vote. The motion for the student union was made by Daily Editor Mark Levin. He called for a referendum on the lan- guage requirement to be held in the next two weeks. In making his proposal Levin called a,disruptive sit-in "a very ineffective tactic" which would not bring effective "pressure on faculty mem- - regaraing nis appointment as chief of, the Agency for inter- national Development (AID). "We agreed to let him talk about the job and accept it if he wants," said board chairman Don Stevens. There was no discussion of a possible successor should, Hannah resign, Stevens added. The names of former Govs. -- -- -- ''G.Mennen Williams, John Swainson and George Romney arv r have been "thrown around" by observers, Stevens said, but "no one is in and no one is out" in the possible search for ru ts . cUitIa new MSU president. dents would constitute a strong step toward complete opening of the meetings. Mendel suggested the Regents consider a proposal similar to the one accepted by the literary col- lege faculty Jan. 30 which calls for complete open meetings but al- lows for executive sessions. All votes are taken in open session, however. Prof. Loren Barritt of the ed- ucation school disagreed slightly with Mendel and said he saw "no reason why students cannot sit bers." A disruptive sit - inI would only result in suspen- sions and arrests, he said. Several Radical Caucus memn- bers voiced objection to the stu- dent union proposal. Eric Chester, Grad, said "It's a stall." He con- ceded the disruptive sit-in might fail but said the real question was "intimidation." "Are we going to let the legislature and the faculty intimidate us?" he asked. Parlimentary action followed in' which an unsuccessful attempt was made to combine Levin's pro- posal with the Radical Caucus- sponsored sit-in. Levin'& proposal? was eventually passed by a vote of 105 to 96. A short discussion of the im- plementation of Levin's motion followed the one hour debate on -Daily--Jay Cassidy Radical (aucus member Bernard Elbaum calls for sit-in "Should he accept the director in at the executive sessions of the. r ship of AIDfinal detals i- irRegents." GIRLS FOR PHI EP: worked out at the Feb. 21 meet-od SRC also accepted the section I ing of the trustees," said an offi-'of the bylaw which establishes a vial board statement.policy-making board for the vice CAMBRIDGE, Mass. V(P)-The president of student services. r T d) ' t Harvard faculty of arts and sci- Hannah discounted reports ear- The board would "set general ences voted yesterday to request lier this week that he would re- policy" for the office and would the Harvard Corp. to withdraw sign his MSU post to accept the be composed of the vice president., academic credit from any course AID job.}- five students, and four faculty By LANIE LIPPINCOTT by a offered by the ROTC program. He spoke of a possible shared- members. The chairman would be Plans to make Phi Epsilon Pi ioda The faculty also voted to termi- time plan by which he would work selected each year by the board. the first co-ed fraternity on cam- eA nate faculty appointments of pres- at both jobs until the end of the Fleming said in his letter that pius were announced at last night's " ent ROTC instructors as soon as academic year in June. the existence of the board might Fraternity Presidents Assembly I' possible. Hannah added that he would weaken the power of the Vice (FPA meeting. close The vote was 207 in favor and meet with Nixon tomorrow in President for Student Services. "The University Housing Com- a d 150 opposed. Washington. Greene, however said the board mittee reviewed the proposal and twee Dean Franklin L. Ford said the The MSU campus itself was would give the vice president found it had violated no Univer- tion 'tygoes co-ed i .._. similar experiment at Stan- University. He described the as a logical extension of the mitory system. In the co-cd dormitories a e relationship, not necessarily tting situation, develops be- n men and women. In addi- to this a co-ed fraternity will ide an answer to the sterility the dorms, and will create a e intimate atmosphere," he he physical structure of Phi will accommodate the exper- nt, Jacobson explained. The se's recent addition has a se- te stairway and firedoors. A decision will be communicated to the Defense Department which will be asked to decide whether to continue the courses on a non- academic basis. The faculty vote also requested that the university discontinue al- lowing the ROTC program free use of university buildings. Col. Robert H. Pell, director of the Army ROTC program, said he: will not request that the Defense Department continue the program on a non-academic basis at Har- vard. "I'm bitterly disappointed but not as surprised as I might have been a few weeks ago," Pell said.' "Times are changing, and the precedents at Yale and elsewhere have made this predictable. There may well be a backlash in the academic community. "I have a strong feeling that ' feelings exist contrary to this elsewhere in the nation." Pell added. Invited student representatives were permitted to attend the closed session. A similar session several weeks ago was cancelled when members of Students for a Democratic So- ciety invaded the meeting hall and refused to leave. quiet yesterday as organizers of a protest over the firing of assistant professor Bertram Garskof turned to leafleting' and dormitory or- ganizing. Nearly 1000 students staged a three hour sit-in Monday in the school's administration building, occupying two of the four floors and closing some of the offices. Tactics of confrontation and; disruption were tentatively ruledE out at a meeting Monday night after the sit-in. Students decided then to organize support for a class boycott and general strike "sometime in the future" on the Garskof issue. Nearly 30 students sat in the administration building for a brief, time yesterday. Others spent the day distributing leaflets across campus and making plans for an educational meeting which was held last night in the student union. A review board of 't h e MSU psychology department recom-' mended in November that Gars- kof not be given a tenured three- year contract when his currentf contract expires Aug. 31. The' board cited "inadequacies" in' Garskof's teaching practices as grounds for non-renewal. 'broader accountability." In the past. Greene added, the vice president "had little account- ability, except to the administra- tion." SRC chairman Prof. Robert Knauss said he believes the sec- tion of the bylaws which deals with student affairs "is a reaction to the past vice president." sity policy. The Committee wishes them success." said John Feld- kamp, University housing director. The fraternity hopes to accept 16 sophomore and junior women and a maximum of 30 men to live in the house next fall, said Mich- ael Jacobson, president of the fra- ternity. Jacobson said he was inspired prov of tI more said. Th Ep inen hous para the major proposals from Levin, 'couple or a single residential ad- Radical Caucus and another stu- visor will live in the house. dent. The women will be chosen in an 1 The meeting named three stu- i n f o r m a I "non-discriminatory" dents to recommend members of rush situation. Women wvill be a provisional steering committee able to se:. the layout of the house , which would organize the student and will be able to apply to the union. The three students are fraternity this spring. Parental Radical Caucus chairman Marty approval is necessary for women McLaughlin, Ron Landsman, '70, under 21. and Bill Bleich, '69. Jacobson said he expects the co- I The motion for the disruptive ed fraternity to be "the wave of sit-in was introduced by Bernard the future." Elbaum, '71, a Radical Caucus In other action. FPA elected ex- member. His motion called for a ecutive officers to the Interfrater- sit-in in the LSA building to be- nity Council for 1969. gin at 1 p.m. today. Students sit- Gates Moss. '69 Eng., replaces ' ting-in would have locked all 'Bob Rorke,, '69, as IFC presi- Fdooi\s and remained in the build- dent. Moss is Travel Committee ing until the language requirement Chairman for University Activi- was abolished. ties Center. The Radical Caucus motion Moss said lie hopes to provide passed by a vote of 1 4 to 86, but new leadership in IFC to deal ef- I was later withdrawn. fectively with "the manpower and McLaughlin moved to reconsider communication problems of fra- the motion and to defeat it be- ternities and the problem of rush cause there were not enough peo- -trying to get members and try- ple in support of the sit-in. ing to keep them." Radical Caucus had previously During Rorke's' administration, pledged to reconsider the motion IFC was voted the "Iron M a n if there were not 200 people in Award" and the Scholastic Award support. by the National Interfraternity . The vote following McLaughlin's Conference on Dec. 5 as the best m o t i o n w a s overwhelmingly fraternity system in American and against the disruptive sit-in. Canadian universities. The fra- , Debate on how to arrange the t'ernity system is still plagued by referendum on the language re- deficits in house budgets and de- quirement failed to reach any de- clining rush. finite conclusion. Mike Whalen. ' president of -__ Theta Xi, said that "smaller hous- es have been alienated and larg- .j. City funds. i 1 temporary bu's s'ystem By TOBE LEV City Council last night set up an emergency bus system which will operate through Feb. 12. Three buses leased from the St. John Transportation Co, will be driven by city employes. Council will meet Monday night to discuss the city Transit Author- ity's proposal for an interim bus system '.asting 30 days, until a permanent bus system can be es- tablished. The original contract with the St. John Co. was terminated by Council Jan. 27. Council members blamed poor service and the need to subsidize the company- three times as much as had been es- timated when the contract was negotiated last spring, A formal proposal to establish a voter referendum for the per- manent system may also be brought up at Monday's meeting, Last night council members dis- cussed a possible charter amend- ment which would allow them to levy a one mill tax to support a permanent bus transportation sys- tent, which would be run by the Transit Authority. The authority is a special advisory group to council. However, the charter amend- ment met opposition from council members who favored placing the question before the people in the form of a referendum. The Transit Authority estimates the cost of a permanent service at $120,000 a year. Members of the group say that revenues from fares could bring in at least this amount of money if the service is im- proved enough to attract more riders. Police battle Berkeley protesters over black studies controversy From Wire Service Reports BERKELEY-Striking students of the Third World Liberation Front clashed in a violent con- frontation with police yesterday at the Berkeley campus of the manding that a "Third World Col- about 250 who were blocking ac- lege" be established at the uni- cess to Sather Gate, a landmark versity. which divides the Berkeley cam- Chancellor of the university pus. Roger Heyns announced yesterday About 20 picketers attacked the that the black studies program has four arresting officers, who were University of California. been given departmental status. The students, mostly from the In incidents of violence with the University of California and near- police, at least ten people were by San Francisco State College, injured and 21 arrested. The ar- were protesting the lack of student rested were charged with assault- representation on a committee ing police officers, disturbing the formed to create a black studies peace, and resisting arrest. department on the Berkeley cam- Violence broke out when police pus. They reportedly also are de- arrested a picketer in the crowd of joined by 15 campus policemen and a score of sheriff's deputies. Rocks and cans were thrown' and several officers were knocked to the ground. The officers, swinging clubs, k withdrew with while the pickets ate their prisoners er houses disenchanted. Unless remained at the' there is a radical change in lead- rshin the fraternity system is u0mmillee -1- .-.7 LAW SCHOOL SPEECH 'ReuhrAworking man' By STEVE KOPPMAN It was a little hard to under- stand Walter Reuther yesteday. Speaking to some 300 law stu- dents, the United Auto Workers president, seemed to alternate be- tween the role of liberal father and that of comrade-in-arms as he sketched his view of America's present and future. He declared that America was in trouble because, "our values have been corrupted by the forces of the market place, "Our greatest source of diffi- culty is the gap between the pro- gress we've made in technical and missile system. "We need to put an end to this nonsense. Once you start down that road for a 'thin' system, it's like a little bit of pregnancy. The only defense against nuclear insanity is peace." Reuther also advocated a mas- sive government effort to elimi- nate poverty in America. "We're not going to solve these problems until we're ready to spend as much money on the war for a de- cent society at home as we have been spending on the war in Vietnam," he said. Chatting informally with stu- dents after the formal program, Reuiitheri'exprvessed1his suD nnort of g . pi , U1 I~ y0u11 l The students had been holding dead." the gate for several hours. Pre- The consensus among IFC vious to the arrests, there were members was that Moss would numerous encounters between the "create fervor" within the system. By GEORGE MILLER strikers and police. "He knows the problems and will Late in the afternoon, foutake the time to solve them," Tom A $40 average increase in resi- eplainclothes officers fought their Lovell, a member of Phi Gamma dence hall rates has been unani- way out of a mob at the gate Delta, said.3 mously recommended by the rate whenahy uttemted anothergate jJerry Newport, '70, is IFC's newl committee of the Office of Uni- and fatherly admonitions. Of h eaoh a vice president. He was president versity Housing. black militants who "think they rest.'drof Delta Chi in '67-68 and chaired Several student, student-faculty can team' up contracts", he said', wedge and pushed the demon- this year's IFC Commentary Ser- and administrative groups must "These kids will learn that's not ; strators onto the campus. After a res. Internal Vice-President is Ron consider the report, released yes- the way to change the world. You = 20-minute- confrontation, t h e Natale '71, who is also president terday, before it is sent to the just get into trouble." crowd dispersed. of Sigma Phi. . Regents for final approval. Reuther seemed a bit rattled by About 500 persons, including ~-~ ~ However, all the groups may a few audience questions imply- strikers and spectators, followed L complete their discussions quickly ing that the UAW permitted dis- the police as they marched i n t o L rd iiioves and accept the report, said Ed- crimination in assigning men in Sproul Hall, the University's ad- ward Salowitz, associate housing the shop and in union elections. I ministration building. , " f director and chairman of the rate The Lawyers Guild distributed; 32 state highway patrolmen L10 cR JI1II 1 11(1 committee. sheets before Reuther's appear- were immediately summoned and "Hopefully the Regents will be ance charging that a black mili- they also marched into the hall. WASHINGTON (" - Secretary able to come to 'a decision by tant candidate had been denied Police, using loudspeakers, fin- of Defense Melvin R. Laird said April," Salowitz added. "Consider- election to a vacancy in UAW ally dispersed the crowd. yesterday the Pentagon will seek able evidence for the increase is Local Three's executive board by Earlier, the strikers marched major revisions in the military l provided in the committee report." union and police "harrassment." through various buildings on pay structure as a first step to- Two of the groups considering .proposes increase a recommendation to the Regents. Salowitz explained that the pro- posed fee hike is necessary to compensate for inflationary in- creases in dorm operational ex- penses such as food, wages and water and sewage prices, and to carry out planned dorm improve- ments, maintenance and construc- tion of additional housing. The rate committee was set up by Feldkamp to examine present dormitory rates and recommend necessary changes. The proposed rate increase would amount to $30 a year for a triple, $40 for a double, and $50 for a single. In Oxford Housing, the increase would be $25 a year for a double room in a co-op, and $10 a year for a suite. Rates for other Oxford units would not change. Increases in Baits Housing rates