BLACK AUTONOMY See editorial page Y AOV A6P ftftr4tgan DaVitr FLAKEY ligh-33 Low-i 4 Variable cloudiness; snow flurries Vol. LXXIX, No. 111 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, February 1 1, 1969 Ten Cents Ten Pages NEWELL COMMITTEE: Regis te re d housing L .SA to hike enrollment, proposal criticized lower out-state admissions Barbara W. Newell John C. Feldkaip Board backs YGree' No rth Campus move By LANIE LIPPINCOTT The Committee on University Housing supported at a special meeting yesterday a petition from five fraternities tot buy land on a 20 acre site on North Campus.t The fraternities, Tau Delta Phi, Alpha Sigma Phi, Delta! Sigma Phi, Psi Upsilon, and Sigma Phi Upsilon have indi- cated an immediate desire to relocate on the University's{ North Campus property. The committee's recommendation must still be considered by the Student Advisory Committee of Barbara Newell, acting ;vice president of student af-t By JUDY SARASOHN A proposal which would re- quire all students under 21 to live in University approved housing met with strong dis- approval yesterday from the student operating committee of Barbara Newell, acting vice president of student affairs. In a joint meeting yesterday with the Student Advisory Com- mittee on Housing (SACH), the operating committee tentatively rejected the proposal which SACH passed last month. Presently, only junior women who live outside the dorms must live in housing registered by the University. To be registered, land- lords must meet five criteria set by the University including use of a University approved lease. Several members of the oper- ating committee said the proposed regulation would not benefit stu- dents, but only restrict them. It would not achieve any real con-t cessions from landlords, they said. One committee member called the proposed regulation "unneces-- sarily paternalistic." For the pro- posal to be worthwhile and ac- ceptable to the operating commit- tee, he said, the University must place greater restrictions on what constitutes approved housing so as to make registration meaning- ful. Bernard Elbaum, '71, of the1 operating committee, said unless the University stiffens require- ments for landlord registration with the University, the proposal would not be of any value. "The University has the power, to provide a viable force for the students and a Tenants' Unionj with this regulation if the stu- dents determine the demands on- the landlords," said Elbaum. Elbaum called for an optional eight month lease, a rent ceiling, and proposed that the University hold damage deposits and Ia s t month rents. Currently University approved housing must me'et five condi- tions: the landlord must obtain a certificate of safe occupancy from the city;c - the- landlord must register with the university and state if t Inereases to favor resid ent fi'eslimeii By MARK LEVIN Editor Literary college freshmdn enrollment will increase by over 200 next fall, but with 50 less out-of-state students. Under an agreement reached yesterday between the col- lege's Executive Committee and the Office of Academic Af- fairs, freshman enrollment will rise to 3186 projected spaces, compared to the 2895 freshmen who registered for 2970" projected spaces last fall. Total college enrollment is expected to remain below the maximum figure of 11,800 students set by the college faculty in 1965. Under the 1965- LeVeque plan for "controlled college growth", h o w e v e r, freshman enrollment was to be limited tor 3100 spaces. "The basic University posture{ has been that we accept all quali- fied Michigan residents," explain- ed Vice President for Academic Affairs Allan F. Smith. "We were able to stick to this policy until last year when 159 qualified in- state applicants were not admit- ted for lack of space. "Currently the University has over 400 qualified in-state stu- dents for whom there is no room," Smith continued. "The changes in enrollment policy will take'up most of this excess." The number of freshmen appli- cants is 17 per cent above lastt year's level. University officials, are unable to explain the rise in the number of applicants. Smith said the increased en- rollment level is 'not uermanent a4 asks civil dlS S 1 1V EAST LANSING 0A' - Michi- gan, State University President John A. Hannah urged yesterday that civil authorities be called In when dissentert disrupt the or- derly processes of the university. In what was expected to be his farewell "State of the Uniiver- sity" address, Hannah told a fac- ulty convocation "to continue (a) firm position." Hannah also told the faculty he would accept the directorship of the U. S. Agency for International Development if the Sens)te e o ii -Dti1'---Peter Dreyfuss IDe411 Robe rtson rapjs withIi circu1s-goers Education circus: Chaos ' Sorority li e * decrease Sorority rush has dropped almost 25 per cent this year, leaving 150 vacancies in the sororities. Only 862 women signed for rush, compared to 1154 last year. Of the rushees, 428 have pledged, * 42 less than last year. Rush was expected to fall due to bitter controversy last term over b i n d i n g recommendations and charges of discrimination. Two sororities were forbidden to rush after they refused to sign a non-discrimination pledge. The new policy allowing sopho- more women and all freshmen to live off campus was also expected to deflect women from rushing. According to rush chairman Mary Teahan "Sophomore apart- fairs, before it reaches the, P 1 a n t Extension Committee and finally the Regents. j John C. Feldkamp, director of University Housing, said there were two key factors in the com- mittee's decision to support the fraternities' development plans - "their willingness to accept the North Campus property, and their funding ability." By STEVE KOPPMAN There wasn't much of a dialogue at the Circus of Education "rap" Sunday night. There were a few monologues, some good guerrilla theatre, and a lot of people screaming at each other. But no dialogue. The rap, billed as a discussion of the learning experience, began amiably enough with statements by four key participants, follow- ed b a guerrilla theater skit at- tacking bureaucracy and imper- sonality in university life, and the alleged irrelevance of learning in the lecture context. But the rap turned into chaos. Students shouted "their thing," hostiley attacking - among oth- ers - James Robertson, director of the Residential College and Dean Stephen Spurr of the grad- uate school. d Robertson told the 400 students seated on the floor of the Union Ballroom that "the heart of any learning relationship is two peo- ple, talking to each other quietly; seriously. It requires a willingness to listen." Robertson added that "maybe one of the two who has more ex- perience, knows a little more." One student responded that "the only good administrator is a dead one." The tone of the meeting had become so bitter by the time Prof. Raphael Ezekiel of the psychology department spoke, that he re- sponded to heckling by simply "I am a human being," and got the biggest applause of the night. Talking directly to academic re- form. Carl Oglesby, former pre- sident of Students for a Demo- cratic Society, called current stu- dent demands for curriculum change and academic reform "vacuous". "If you're asking for student power so th, your leisure can be increased." said Oglesby,'"if you're asking for student power so the demands on your intellect can be decreased; if you're ask- ing for student power so that your life be made more luxurious y e t; then you're entering on per- verse and destructive politics, and you're in implicit complicity with the disaster of the time. "But if student power is going to mean university power in the hands of pti>ople who will employ its capacities to solve the prob- lems which face us-of the ghet- toes, the mountains," and the Third World -- we can have some hope," Oglesby said. Following the general session, and will-be re-evaluated next firmed his appointment by Pres- year. However, he admitted he did ident Nixon. not think the number of appli- Faculty should, Iiannah said, cants -would drop next year. . support and require that when- ever the protagonists of disrup- In order to compensate fo r tion interrupt the .ofderly opera- "freshman under-enrollment" last tion of the university, that at that year, said Smith, 36 new spaces point the university request the will be authorized for the 1969 civil authorities to take whatever freshman class. 180 spaces form- steps were required to permit the erly reserved for junior transfer university to function in accord- students will behmoved to the ance with its objectives-." freshman level. The total nursber Last spring, protesting M S U of in-state freshmen will r-se to students objected to the presence ~2464. of civil authorities on the campus No new spaces will go for out-of- during demonstrations that led to state students. In addition, 50 the arrests of more than a dozen spaces previously reserved for persons. Contingent on the committee's he is the actual manager or if he approval is the, assurance of major has a representative; development by fraternities and - the landlord must agree to sororities on the site along Glacier the University lease or have his Way. . lease approved by the University: - the landlord must agree to Zeta Beta Tau was granted ap- the University's mediation serv- proval to buy North Campus land ice; 10 years ago on the assumption - the landlord must agree to that other fraternities would also "open occupancy," or non-d i s - relocate on the site. Although criminatory renting practices. there was interest among other Semm O RD.tag es fraternities, none bought the land: See BOARD, Page 10 Zeta Beta Tau is now an isolated^ fraternity north of Baits Housing. ' 1 'e t, s !a ;t e 'o E U non-resident students will now be used for Michigan residents. The total number- of freshman out-of- state students in the college will drop to 692, 24.9 per cent of the I 71 a a Feldkamp noted that the situa- tion has changed substantially since the Zeta Beta Tau decision. Five groups backed by strong ac- tives' and alumni interest and fi- nnr on,,,ol nnn,.+nrf n m',. n A 4n 'leaching tellows voice views on proposed language reforms ment privileges were more damag- go. Two others Alpha Delta Phi ing to rush than the recommenda- d go m h Alp selt Ph- tion isue."and Sigma Chi, will sell their cur- Ction issue.' . rent property to the University as Currently 300 women are corn- a parcel, contingent on the deci- peting in open rush at 10 houses sion of bath to accept the Univer- to fill the vacancies. sion of Panhel president Ellen' Heyboer sity's offer. says the problems facing sorori- Alpha. Delta Phi, according to' ties should help improve the Michael Stone, assistant director sorority system. "Now that people of University Housing, has "a have the choice of dorm, sorority clear and present need for ex- or apartment living; people have panded facilities." a more honest picture of sorori- Seven other fraternities have ties. They realize that sororities expressed varying degrees of in- are only one of many opportuni- terest in the North Campus de- ties for living on this campus. velopment-Alpha Kappa Lambda, Rushees are really interested now, Delta Upsilon, Tau Epsilon Phi, while before you weren't always Alpha Phi Alpha, Delta Kappa sure why you were getting them,"' Epsilon, Alpha Epsilon Pi, and she says. Pi Lambda Phi. participants split into small work- shops to discuss specific problems, instate freshmen were placed on and approaches to academic re- a waiting list while the Univer- form. But participants like Dean sity sought some way to accom,,- Robertson left the circus unsure modate them. At least 150 of these of just what it accomplished. students rejected the University's "I wasn't very clear what pur-prvsoa acetn.Th r- poewas served by the meeting,"' maining 150 were left in limbo. said Robertson. "There was no Thsyaovr40i-tesu opportunity to involve the facultye This year over 400 in-state stu- - there was really no purpose in dents will be placed on the wait- their being there, except to serve ig list. as targets." The admissions office will of- "If the intention of the meeting fer these students two alterna- was for an exchange," he added, tives: "it certainly wasn't conducive to -enrollment at the University's that." Flint campus which 'can accom- . The circus was sponsored by modate an enrollment increase; Student Government Council and -- preferred transfer status as the University Activities Center. . sophomores. "Taken as a group." Hannah said, students "are a part of the ablest generation of young Amer- icans this country has ever pro- duced. But, he added, "Universities are at a crucial point in their history." Those who have planned a "co- ordinated attack," Hannah said, "have carefully identified the le- gitimate sources of dissatisfaction among students, and they are cal- lously attempting to weld all of those unhappy for any reason in- to a revolutionary front. "Our task as faculty members must be to retain our sense of judgment and our- ability to dif- ferentiate between those who have good reason to complain because of inequity and human imperfec- tion, and those who seek disrup- tion for the ulterior purpose they have openly already described to us," Hannah said.' By DAVID SPIRR courses be taught on a pass-fail French, Teaching fellows from four The committee will consider language departments aired their Cressey's proposal, with several; views' yesterday on the language others that have been submitted. requirement before the literary ; at its next two meetings. college curriculum committee. Committee C h a i r m a n Prof. James Gindin has said the com- The committee also heard a mittee will have a recommenda- proposal from Prof. William Cres- tion on the language requirement sey of the Spanish department for the' college faculty at its which provides for the gradual March 3 meeting. adoption of a language entrance Most of the teaching fellows at requirement rather than the pres- yesterday's meeting spoke against E sent language graduation require- the language requirement in itsE ment. present form, although they did Cressey's proposal also suggest- favor some type of requirement. ed that 1ll first-year language Jo Shuchat. a teaching fellow in pr ovide foreign studied suggested the University language instruction in countries. Students who abroad for one semester ENROLLMENT INCREASE U requests med school could then be granted the 16 credit-hours needed to satisfy the language requirement, she pro- posed. Gindin then pointed out the "impracticality" of the idea. "It would take several years for the University to establish such a pro- gram," he said. Mrs. Shuchat said she favors some kind of requirement because "American students are too pro- vincial. "We could substitute a two-year requirement of study in literature, culture, art or music of a partic- ular foreign country," she offered. David MacMurray, a teaching fellow in the Spanish department, said he was "suspicious of people who say language is necessary to learn a culture." MacMuray proposed that stu- dents be given the option of cul- tural studies, claiming that "many students would be inspired to learn the language after they had studied a country." Prof. Otto Graf of the German department, a member of the cur- riculum committee, lended sup- port to the idea. "Courses in Asian studies are often recruiters for the Chinese and Japanese language coursens_" he s ii By MARTIN HIRSCHMAN The University has asked the State Legislature -for a supple- mental appropriation of $511,- 650 to expand enrollment of the Medical School. The action increases the to- tal request for state appropria- tions for the University's gen- eral fund to $76.4 million. However, the University's or- iginal $75.9 million request has .,,1:x..--A ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ . L..._ ... ., A l n __ However, the annual increase in appropriations which would be necessary to fund the grow- ing enrollment would drop the second and third year. No fur- ther increase would be required for the fourth year. At the end of the four years, the appropriation for the Medi- cal School would have increas- ed $908,100 with a correction for salarv increases and infl- The M ed i c a l School al- ready suffered a severe fiscal setback when the governor cut $1 million from the school's re- quest in his budget message to the Legislature last month. Of the $1 million, $879,000 was slated for increased salar- ies and the hiring of new fa- culty "to bring the operating support for the present program to a level which will nrro ve unds - The school fell from 27th to 40th nation-wide in student- teacher ratio between 1962 and 1965; - "Planning for the capital requirements needed to keep our clinical facilities, clinical teaching, and patient care fa- cilities at quality levels is ur- gently required." -- The Medical School is :.. _ } ,