CONSCIENCE eN 'SEdrLAB See editorial page C I 4c A6Iit6 AOF :43 a t t NORMAL Low-1s Sunny today; increasilg clouds tonight Vol. LXXIX, No. 108 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, February 7, 1969 Ten Cents Ten Pages REVIEW PLANNED: Laird imposes freeze SBS admitted on ABM to I .. development WASHINGTON iP' - The !Nixon administration has or- Sdered a partialfreeze in ma- jor work on the $5.5-billion U.S. defense against nuclear missiles. h thThe Pentagon said yesterday -:.1 ¢, }hr£: tthat Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird last week directed the Army to postpone any new work f >>>:{< on the antiballistic missile system pending a high level review. The action came after Laird re- ceived sword the House Armed Services Committee would refuse x4:; . xto approve construction of the Sentinel antimissile defense until it had a clarification of adminis- tration plans. The Pentagon's review of the controversial Sentinel s y s t e m' which was approved by the John- son administration, is expected to take until early March. In the meantime, the Army will halt land purchase proceedings and put off starting any new antimissile construction. The Sentinel program has en- j 0 joint listing service By CHRIS STEELE Student Book Service has been admitted to the Textbook Reporting Service, an organization of local book merchants, reversing a long standing policy. In an open letter to faculty members, dated Feb. 3, the reporting service announced that the textbook lists they com- pile will be supplied to Student Book Service. The reporting service which includes Follett's, Over- beck's, Slater's, 'Ulrich's and Wahr's bookstores, sends forms each semester to faculty members requesting they report the books they will use in their next semester's classes. Accord- ing to Ned Shure, SBS manager, SBS had been denied mem- bership every sem ester since - --iso ty s tformation three years ago.11 SBS compiled their own lists during that tine. B a book --Associated Press, SEN. EDWARD M. KENNEDY leaves after inspecting work on the new Sentinel missile site in North Andover, Mass., Wednesday. Work on the project has been halted pending a high-level review in Washington. Early this semester members of ,he' economics and sociology de- partments started petitions d e - manding SBS be included in the reporting service and pledging to submit textbook lists only to SBS until then. countered a groundswell of con- gressional as well as public oppo- BOARD OF G)VERNORS: sition in recent months. Sens. Edward M. Kennedy (D- Mass.) and John Sherman Coop- er (R-Ky.) have been among those in the forefront of recent, efforts to halt deployment of the D Sentinel system. -Associated Press Nixon and Hannah yesterday in' WashingtonI hike irKennedy yesterday applauded By GEORGE MILLER to the Board of Governors by the o 1vLaird's announcement of a tem- The Board of Governors of Res- rates committee of the office of an n 1 to le~v Alsporary halt of the program. TeBoadlsfyGsterdnyreof me University Housing would be' ef- The decision was "important I mended that the Regents approve fective next fall and would con- f1 and courageous," Kennedy said, an average $40 per year increase timue the present level of services (bieb A D J*01) He said it made him believe in dormitory fees. in the dormitories. 1 1"the spirit in the Senate of the; TChairman of the rates commit-. Unite4 States is to work and The board also recommended tee, Associate Housing Director Unr efectes ith Prksdnd regental approval of proposals to Edward Salowitz said that the fee Michigan State University President John Hannah will work effectively" with President create more spaces for the in- hike was necessitated by infla- leave East Lansing June 30 to work full-time in Washington Richard M. Nixon, creasing ratio of male residents. tionary increases in the cost of as director of the Agency for International Development. inSpeaking earlier with newsmen The plans will also account for food, utilities, and employe sal- MSU Trustee Donald Stevens (D-Okemos) yesterday termed the announcement "an im- petted as a result of the lifting Salowitz explained that the on- confirmed that Hannah would accept the AID post. He said portant step forward in trying to of the freshman residency require- ly alternative to raising rates or h1e hopes a new president could be chosen before Hannah bring a halt in the arms race." ment by the Regents last' month. reducing services would be to use departs. Civilian groups in Chicago, De- The rate increase, recommended' the student residences reserve troit and Seattle, all considered in Washington, President Nixon yesterday formally an- as locations for antimissile com- nounced Hannah's appointment, saying he will 'take over plexes, have protested against in-" one of our most challenging stalling the nuclear weapons near on ofourmos chllegin !their cities. In the letter to the faculty the bookstores gave their reason for including SBS as an attempt to save the faculty "additional work" of filling out forms for both the service and SBS. The letter also akdexpressed a desire to give the fa- culty the "most reliable, cbmpe- tent and complete system of or- fund. which pays for capital im- dering textbooks." provements on dormitories. The letter does not mention the If the fund were used, it would faculty petitions but does "thank" mean a drastic cut in the level faculty members for "bringing the of capital improvements and new matter to our attention." construction on the dormitories. When asked if the faculty pe- On residence hall planning, the titions had influenced their de- board gave approval to a report cisions to include SBS, the man- submitted by the committee on' agers of Ulrich's and Follett's said residence hall planning of the they would give "nothing b u t Office of University Housing. written answers to written ques- The recommendations of the re- tions." The manager of Slater's port were to: asked not to be quoted, on the --Hold two nouses of West Quad matter. Another manager, w h o in reserve to account for the un- wanted to "keep his name out certain demand for spaces by of the paper" said they were "not either male or female students; influenced" by the faculty peti- -Convert Coman- House in tion. SGC to study eredit union Student Government Council last night created a committee "to study the feasibility or organizing a Student Credit Union." The pro- posed union, to be modeled after the Employees Credit Union, is seen by its major proponent. Gene Smith, chairman of the Student Consumers Union, as an alterna- tive to Ann Arbor banks. If the union were created, it would hold cash deposits and in- vest the capital. Students 'would be able to withdraw against their deposits. In other 'action, Council author- ized the sending of a letter to the "Women's and Men's Physical Education Department concerning the P.E. requirement and how it is graded." Se,*eral Council mem- bers object tq the present grading system, which based on attend- ance. . / The megting was routine in other aspects. The council took no further action on resolutions approved last week regarding the Senate Investigating Committee on Campus Disorders, and the Senate Appropriations Committee. assignments." Hannah was not available for comment yesterday. A source on the House Armed Services Committee said Chairmani L. Mendel Rivers (D-S.C.) served oQiyf1 V-t111 I+O N4TC'! Baits housing from junior and1 senior women to sophomore, jun- ior and senior men: -Reduce occupancy in Oxford Seeley apartments from four to three women. --Give further consideration tn. , Explaining the reasons for the move, SBS manager Shure said, , "they were up against the wall because of The Daily and the fa- culty petitions, but they didn't complain." law schiool reforms Black Law Students Alliance said last night that should the law school faculty fail to approve a preferential admissions policy at today's faculty meeting, it would indicate "bad faith in its supposed committment to the training of black lawyers." The new admissions policy would allow the law school to ad- mit black students who do not qualify for admission under nor- mal standards and would provide supplementary summer courses to remove the handicap these stu- dents would have in the school. Jack Davis, BLSA representa- tive on the law school's special admissions policy committee, said yesterday "this proposed change in admissions policy is not a mt ter of lowering the quality of stu- dents, it is just taking into ac- cdunt other variables." "The black student has often had to work while .getting his un- dergraduate education, has often been deeply involved in civil rights work, and has often pos- sessed poor writing skills because he attended inferior southern un- dergraduate schools," said Dav- is. The faculty has taken this into account, but not nearly as much as we would like them to," he added. Last September the BLSA pre- sented the law faculty a list of nine grievances, including a re- quest that black students be re- cruited for the freshman class in numbers proportional to the black population of Michigan. The group feels that the 1 a w faculty's response has not elim- inated these grievances despite the fact that some demands, such as placing a black student on the admissions policy committee, have been met. There are 27 black students en- rolled in the law school, and there are no black faculty members. BLSA menmbers say they have taken the responsibility of en- couraging more black students to apply to the law school but feel that a change in admissions pol- icy is needed to get more blacks into the school. However, BLSA members said their grievances concern issues much wider than just law school admissions policy. "The law faculty seems unwill- ing to recognize the black point of view," said Davis. "They bring you here and then try to make you white." notice in a letter to Laird that the -"v U i ~1i~ai1 u Stevens said Hannah would c4i Uieiers LU l-dii'U adb ' converting West Quad into a ful-! Also under the agreement all stay on in East Lansing until' committee wants a definitive ad-thsorswlsaeinrmin stmy on E L n t inistration statement on the By RICK PERLOFF it should decide on the specific ly coed dormitory, the stores will share iformation June on a part-time basis. "He'll As approved by the board, the and all book lists will be m a d e beprogram Journalism concentrators met statement of all the provisions of week," he said. "It doesn't mean the committee last night and elected two under- this participation since the chair- increase in residence hall fees, public. He explained some lists is against the ABM," this source graduate representatives to serve man of the department and two which include room and board had previously been kept secret Stevens indicated that this pro- said. "Mainly the committee is with voting power on the depart- faculty members were absent from amounts to $30 a year for a triple' untl just before the beginniyg of cedure complied with the wishes waiting to see what President ment's faculty committee. Two the meeting," the letter stated, room, $40 for a double room', and m classes, butuder the new Sys- of bothHannah and MSU's Board Nixon and Mr. Laird want to do." graduate students, entitled to the Cannell had urged the students for a sigle room. h tem lists woul be avaylabre o At his news conference yester- same privileges, were chosen sev- ,iu his letter to hold an election' questioned that increase might be piled. "Particulars will be worked out day Nixon said whatever decisions eral weeks ago. to choose representatives. at the trustees meeting next, Laird makes in the Sentinel re- The undergraduates elected are The students are now members the lifting of the residency re- week," he said. view will be based on U.S. security Charles Creecy, '69, and Greg of the faculty-at least at faculty thuifting ofte th ridencte- needs.to send app0.roxewiatsely40pocten- Tear g s/it Stevens said a faculty commit- needs. Warfield, '70. committee meetings, said Perl- to send approximately 400 poten- tee would be chosen to select Nixon made clear, as he did T faculty committee, which berT s. tial dorm applicants seeking off- Hannah's successor and that there during the presidential campaign, will now consists of 11 professors! The student representatives, campus housing this fall. J 'f ff would be "some student involve- he considers the "thin" Sentinel and four students, sets policy for however, will not have access to Director of University Housing m e n ment" in the decision. defense a shield not only against he department, handling such job applications of specific po- John Feldkamp told the board IOWA CITY, Iowa (A)-A tear the nuclear missiles Red China is)mtesa eue aut eri-'esr.Te ilhv oc that the effect of the rate hike Possible successors to Hannah expected to have in the 1970s but ment and curriculum changes. in general policy decisions in the should not. further increase the gas bomb went off at the rear of include former Governors G. Men- also against weapons of the Soviet Undergraduate student mem- area of hiring and firing. number ostudentseking of the University of Iowa's Memorial nen Williams, John Swainson and Union. bership on the committee was for- "We won't be dealing with per- campus housing becauseeking off-surveys Union last night as about 1,200 George Romney, Stevens said Umally granted by Prof. Charles sonality questions per se," Perl-s persons gathered for the final ses- When the Sentinel defense plan Cannell of university students have shown son gat d for ses- Hannah is currently chairman was announced in late 1967, Sec- nalism in a letter to two jour- T berg added. that dorm living is cheaper than Sion of a Student Power Sym- ofteUiedSaeaivlRgti'eayosDfneRbetSmc students who serve on aij The students also elected rep- artetlv. posium. of the United States Civil Rights retary of Defense Robert SM-informal advisor student-faculty resentatives to serve on some apartment living. Commission. However, in, an- 'Namara said its main purpose was committee minor committees within the de- "It appears to cost about $1,200 Officials reported no injuries nouncing the AID appointment, to guard against a Red Chinese, In his letter to Robert Perlberg ; partment including the library to live off-campus, compared with because of the incident, but the Nixon said Hannah would have to attack. and Shirley Hatchett, '69, Can- and housekeeping commit the $1,000 price of a double room lounge was vacated and the meet- resign the civil rights post. "I do not buy the assumption nell said, "the faculty is in agree- Their duties are concerned with in a dorm, he explained. ing was moved to a ballroom in Hannah was assistant secretary that the ABM system . . . was memt with the principle of stu- improving the department's stu- Two bther groups will be con- the same building. of defense for manpower and per- simply for the purpose of protect-' dent /participation both in facul- dent facilities. sidering the rates and planning There were no immediate ar- sonnel in the Eisenhower adminis- ing ourselves against attack from ty meetings and in departmental Students already serve on the recommendations before t h e y rests after the bomb was set off tration (1953-54'. He has been Red China," Nixon said. He said committees." suen-acuy committee, an in- reach the Regents. near a fire exit president of MSU for 27 years. See LAIRD, Page 10 "The group did not feel that formal group consisting of three Te StHuent, A isy Commn- T ,_ _ '_-'-'_____ '''prfsostwgadtendhe' tee on Housing, which is respon-# The speakers at the symposium professors, two graduate andtreesible to Acting Vice President for were Harry Edwards of Cornell undergraduate students. Student Affairs Barbara Newell, University, a black separatist ad- SUPPORTS APPRENTICE SYSTEM InadtotoPrbraniStdtAfisBraaNel, In addition to Perlberg and is expected to act on the pro- vocate; Tom Hayden, a founder Hatchett, who represent Sigma posals at its next meeting in two of Students for Democratic So- Delta Chi and Theta Sigma Phi,, weeks. ciety, and DeVere Pentony, a the two professional journalism Inter-House Assembly will also member of the San Francisco eis s c sonoraries, Tim Sullivan, a jour- discuss the recommendations. State University faculty. g i sis concentrator, was elected ---_______________ to serve on the student-faculty committee. this system is usually unsuc- with the girl he has been dat- learn as little or as much as The committee .does not haveZ cessful, he said. ing. you want. any policy-making power. Its ma- Th epusdgolofali- He didn't condemn professors Contrary to the common li- jor function is as an advisory eral education decreed by most -who use grades in order to give beral arts college viewpoint that group to the faculty committee. leeductindcedymt"tomake people their students a better under- there is a distinct "minimum" Perlberg said some definite pro-somedefinitepro colees is "to mke pepl- standing of their achievements. amount everyone should know posals to improve the curriculum ar with the liberal arts ail- But he said they should think in order to get along, it is of- will probably result from a sec- cording to Becker. He says that twice about sending those grad- ten quite obvious, Becker said, and meeting of journalist concen- By STEVE KOPPMAN istered to vote in Ann Arbor Since eorJinC to Becker. He says that y S E Vla Psud N y es-nprobableoectionnArh Dy tun i ... . P toAn lffC!PW~l l'P}.}PV I~a t~~i}' V~li ~f11'} n ad Ant}Prp i~ 9 nt" Cl~l Pnll Pf f~' lP~f t!PII - . . __i ' E I 1 s 1 E i i I r ! SOC jok By LAURIE HARRIS A standing room crowd jam- med Aud. B yesterday to hear Prof. Howard Becker of North- western University tell them why "schools are a lousy place to learn anything in." The lee- ture, originally scheduled for a small lecture room in Angell. Half was moved to the auditor- ium because of the large turn- out. Becker emphasized that in- formation from a variety of re- search shows that schools in- variably fail to do what they intend to do. This failure be- comes more obvious as the cur- e support Impaign in reality this is not true. In- stead, "schools give examina- tions and ultimately train peo- ple to take them." This in it- self does nothing toward mak- ing people more "humane" he said. He pointed out that grading systems now in effect often bar eS UOH1UteWlr 'ly IIy be used for other purposes. Becker advocates that "the universities should stop giving degrees" and then tests and certification would all yield to the apprenticeship system. He believes "on the job" learning is superior to a se- mau you aun unieeu a erat education at all. A man can make a living do- ing just one thing all his life, he said, if he can do that one thing well. A man apprenticed to be an iron worker never takes written tests. When he is ready to walk across a girder that is seven T~rcor sceauea or ext«ee. Some 70 law students met yes- probable Election Day troti He envisages more courses terday to coordinate their efforts estimated at between 15,000 and oriented toward the professional behind the candidacy of Robert 18,000, any substantial registration 1rwad and a course l dphotog- Harris, Democratic candidate for of students could decide the elec- seem to object to. mayor of Ann Arbor. tion. The last mayoral race was "However, it's conceivable there Harris, a professor at the Law decided by only 1,500 votes. may be some disagreement on School will square off against The major barrier to registering other issues," he added. A possi- Republican candidate Prof. Rich- students are the regulations gov- ble area of disagreement may con- ard Baltzhiser of the chemical e erning city residence requirements.