REGENTAL- APPOINTMENTS -$ee' editorial page '1 5k itgaui :4Iaait MIGHTY CHILLY Hfigh-24 Low-14 Cloudy and chance of snow flurries VQ[ LXXIX, fICo 113 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, February 13, 1969 TenCents Ten Pages Guard 900 troops in Madison From Wire service Reports The W i s c o n s i n National Guard was called out yester- day to put down student dis- ruptions on the strike-trou- bled University of Wisconsin campus at Madison. Gov. Warren Knowles ordered 900 guardsmen to active duty on the 33,000-student campus. He said the university "will not be closed down.",t Major violence was averted yes- terday afternoon as protesters 4 blocking entrances to major class-. room buildings allowed students to pass. Several fistfights broke out between demonstrators and counter-demonstrators. But riot- equipped police prevented full- scale trouble and arrested six students. Although 'latioinal Guard roops gathered at an unspecified point outside the campus area, a sched- uled rally by demonstrators went on without incident. Later it broke up into "liberation school" groups assigned to plan today's activities. Nonviolent protest began Friday after the school administration re- jected 13 demands of black stu- dents. The demands include the -creation of a separate black studies department and the ad-, mission of 90 black students who were ousted from Oshkosh StateE University after a violent ,protest there last November. Demonstrators launched ieass- room boycott and rallies Monday, but the protests did not draw{ widespread student .support. Counter-protesters at Windsor University in, Ontario, Canada. 4 may precipitate violence in their efforts to evict some 150 students occupying theology offices. I ordered to U of Wisconsin Senate ma y By SAM DAMREN i - special to the Daily LANSING - The chairman of the key Senate Appropria- tions Committee yesterday said the University will re- ceive enough state funds this year to provide an increase in faculty salaries. Sen. Charles Zollar (R-Benton Harbor) said, however, that it was too early to determine how large the increase over last year's ap- propriation would be. His comments came following the first day of the committee's hearings on the University's bud- get request. A 6.9 per cent increase in faculty salaries is the top pri- ority item in the University's re- quest for a $12.6 million increase over last year's appropriation. Zollar also said that the com- mittee would - probably oppose a decrease in the ratio of students to faculty. He noted that without large in- creases in state appropriations over the last 10 years "the Univer- sity has maintained all its levels of productivity." The University would have to form a priority list in view of the tight fiscal budget this year, Zol- lar added. Vice President for State Rela- tions and Planning Arthur Ross said University officials "are hope- ful for an increase from the conm- mittee, but realize that this is a very tight fiscal year." The University's request for a $75.9 million appropriation alrady has been cut to $67.2 million by the governor last month. committee increase I L's for ' --Asociated Press POLICE ATTEMPT TO RESTRAIN student demonstrators .at the University of Wisconsin yesterday. The students were trying to block the operations of city buses in the third day of protests over black student demands. Late yesterday, National Guard troops were called into Madison as the demonstrations intensified, GREA TER 'INFLUENCE: Sociology group lists demands for voice in tenure decisions By CHRIS STEELE dell and from a department letter and RICK PERLOFF to Assistant Professor James C. Moore, Jr. telling him his chances About 60 conservative students' A group of graduate and under- for a favorable tenure recommen- unsuccessfully tried to storm the graduate sociology students last dation next year were, in his occupied building Tuesday night, night demanded changes in the words, "very slim." and planned to return. tenure and hiring procedures in 40 A school official said the uni- versity will not be "blackmailed" into rehiring a fired professor, which is one of the student de- mands. Also at issue is amnesty, open committee meetings, and student representation in hiring- firing deliberations. Hiring-firing policies i e also the issue at Michigan State and the University of Chicago. MSU was quiet yesterday, but the re- porting of four-letter words in the student newspaper, the State News, drew angry reaction from some readers, MSU demonstrators have dramatized their demands for the ;rehiring of Bertram Gal'- skof, controversial psychology pro- fessor, and for admission of more poor students by staging hit-and - run seizures of buildings. At Chicago, radical sociologist Marlene Dixon turned down the . school's offer to rehire her. A spe- cial committee recommended yes- terday that she be rehired, but only for one year. Students. oc- cuPying the administration build- ing in suppor.t of Mrs. Dixon met last night to consider ending their two-week-old sit-in. that department. An undergraduate sociology group also met last night and formed a student union to express grievances within the department. The tenure statement, made by the Student Committee on Tenure and Hiring, results from the denial of tenure to Assistant Professors Thomas Mayer and Morris Frie- In the statement the committee proposes "to undertake a compre- hensive review" of the tenure riW- cisions on Mayer, Friedell and Moore. The statement also calls for a continuing student role in evalua- ting tenure candidates. Further- more, students would like a "structural change" to insure a Social work student union11 picks delegates By LORNA CHEROT The Social Work Student Union yesterday elected stu- dent representatives to 11 faculty committees despite a petition from 80 social work students challenging the legiti- macy of the union. The union's 50-some members include representatives from each of the social work school's equivalent of depart-" ments, the "methods" programs, and the elected officers of the union. student role in departmental le- cisions. Members of the committee :d- mitted that Mayer. Friedell and Moore were being used "with their approval," to focus student at- tention on the issue. Student evaluation of the professors_ will use the methnW employed by the departmen's tenure, committee in making its decision. "We hope to show he faculty's method is not reliable" the studentrcommittee expects to come up with different = esilts! than the faculty. Kramer says the methods us d by the sociology department are "very liberal on paper," but not in practice. Part of the procedure consists of informally questioning students about the teaching tbility of professors. Kramer said the tactic of pa-: rallel evaluation in the tenure decisions was temporary, however. In the future students will attempt to "revise the criteria" used to judge teachers, he said. This cri- teria will lean more heavily on teaching ability. The committee's statement says that the data on Mayer, which has already been gathered3 by another University group, shows "he is a fine professor." After forming a student union,; students at the undergraduate soc- iology meeting, agreed to draw up a specific list of grievances to pre- sent to a mass meeting of sociol- agy students next week. One sociology student said stu- dents are interested in playing "a more active role" in the -depart- ment's decision making, in changing the requirements for a , major and in extending credit for sociology courses to four hours. The students at last night's pre- , liminary meeting said that the I undergraduate sociology union is separate from the graduate stu- lent organization. Tenants rna'y trie Saturday1 The rent strike probably will; begin Saturday even though the Ann Arbor Tenants' Union has not reached its original goal of 2,000 pledges to withhold rents.1 At a meeting Tuesday organi-t zers of the strike voted to ask the 1,350 tenants already pled-] ged to strike if they are willing to start withholding their rent al-; though less than 2,000 tenants9 have pledged to join them. A poll at the meeting showed that most of the organizers be- lieve the pledged tenants will fa-j vor beginning the strike on sched-j ule. The organizers, themselves, did not vote to begin the strike because their constituents had agreed to withhold rent only if there were 2,000 pledges. However, many of the organiz- ers said their pledges are anxious to begin immediately since the tenants believe any delay might lessen the strike's effectiveness. The organizers said T u e s d a y they wanted the tenants *to be informed of the facts and not be "duped" into striking. David Shapiro, Grad., a mem-' ber of the rent strike steering , committee, said. "The committee can't coerce tenants to join the l strike. If they decide that 2,000 pledges is their criteria, then they won't withhold rents," he added.,j However, Barry Cohen. '70, al- so a member of the steering coin- mittee, said that it is "highly rea-. sonable" the Tenants' Union will receive 2,000 pledges soon. This is ; based on the rate of incoming pledges in the last two weeks | which indicates 1,850 pledges will ' be in by Saturday and the full 2,000 shortly after. The rent strike steering com- mittee also claims that presently I' there are enough tenants pled- ged to withhold rent from c e r- 3 tain realty firms to conduct a suc- cessful rent strike. -Daily-Peter Dreyfuss Prof. Robert Harris, mayoral candidate Harris states goals to student 'backers By BILL LAVELY More than 100 students met fast night in support of s ty.. v civi rlgls, civi liu ,i 'The choice facing the state,' gnd war on poverty. he told the committee, "is that if He stressed the need to begin it wants to maintain the Univer- federal programs in the city such sity as one of the outstanding as low cost public housing, model universities in the country, then cities, and public transportation, the hard budget choices must be which he claimed have been neg- made.". lected by the Republican admin- - "Ift we are going to maintain istration. uties itioareamong theunve to!"There is no shortage of ideas move forward," Fleming added. for reform," Harris said, "but Dlsthere is a real need for muscle be- Despite Zollar's expression of hind the enforcement of those satisfaction with the Unversity's reforms." productivity, Fleming said meth- I Questioned on his view of the ods of increasing production vir- student rent strike, Harris said tually have been exhausted. that he believed collective bar-1 Fleming said the workloads of gaining by tenants was an appro- professors are already too heavy, priate tactic to use against but Sen. Garland Lane (D-Flint) landlords. But he refused to en- questioned this statement. "The dorse the rent strike because he professors are not in their offices believes that a mayor is obligated1 working," he said. to "maintain neutrality" in mdi-t Lane said he made this dis- vidual economic disputes. covery during visits to several Harris said that through public1 state colleges and universities last housing programs on a scatteredz year. site basis, concentrations of pov- University officials, however, erty could be broken up and re-I submitted figures showing that the placed with decentralized andt a v e r a g e University professor racially heterogeneous neighbor- spends about 57 hours a week in hoods.I teaching, research and related "The alternative to bussing chil-< activities. dren to schools to achieve income Fleming added that increasing and racial heterogeneity is to givei class loads is not a feasible meth- the poor the option of living ini ad of increasing productivity of those neighborhoods if they choose the University. to," Harris said.f In response to an inquiry from Public housing would also help the committee. Fleming said the alleviate the squeeze on black res-t use of new technology, such as idents in the north central area of See HEARINGS, Page 10 See HARRIS, Page 10 N EXT WEEK ' The organization recently has come under attack by students who say the union has not been representative of the entire stu- dent body in its fight to gain a greater voice for students in school affairs. However, Peter Loeb, union om- budsman - who represents all ag- grieved parties whether they are union members or not - yester- day did not act on the petition upon the strong recommendation of union members. If the union had acted on the petition, it would have had to postpone the election of repre- sentatives in order to present a re- ferendum- to the whole student body which would outline a new constitution for the union. Because the deadline for elect- ing student representatives to faculty committees is Feb. 19, un- ion members say they would have had to ask the faculty for more Jime to select delegates. However, the faculty is n o t scheduled to meet again u n t i l March, so student representation on committees would have been delayed 'another month. Social work students won t h e right to equal membership on faculty committees Feb. 2 as the faculty accepted a modified ver- sion of a student-faculty commit- tee proposal which was supported by the union. A a lnnof hlnwek ne -ipi n-nr There has been speculation that t h e appropriations committee Prof. Robert Harris of the Law School in his campaign for might make further cuts before1mayor of Ann Arbor. sending the higher education ap- Harris, a Democrat, will face Republican Prof. Richard propriations bill to the Senate. Balzhiser of the chemical engineering department in the Yesterday's hearing opened xxith April 7 city elections. a plea by President Robben Flem- ing for enough money to "main- Outlining his campaign platform at the meeting, Harris tain the quality of the Univer- said he would dedicate the mayor's office to the three issues ct!of i il riahft ivil lib rtiPs . West Quad to di*scuss chlanges By JIM NEUBACHER 'Residents of West Quad will meet tonight to decide which two houses in the Quad will be "put on reserve" and possibly closed down or converted to offices next year. The meeting was prompted by the recommendation of the Hughes Committee on Dormitory Plan- ning which asked that two of the houses be taken off the housing market for next fall. Members of the Hughes Com- mittee met with about 60 residents of the Quad last night to explain the basis for the committee's deci- sion. Statistics presented showed a possible 568 vacant spaces in the dormitory system next year. If the vacancies materialize, two houses in West Quad will be converted to offices or convention rooms to save money. At the meeting last night, stu- dents demanded they be given the final authority to decide which of the two houses in the Quad be put on reserve. However, University housing officials promised only. that the opinion of the students would be taken into consideration. "We can't leave this decision to the whim of a group of emotional .students," said Leon. West, direc- tor of West Quad. However, students were not satisfied with simply an advisory role, and demanded that their de- cision be bindinng. Jack Meyers, president of Inter-House Assembly and member of the Hugher Com- mittee, promised to work to in- sure that the recommendation made by the residents would be followed by the housing officials. One group of residents, led mainly by staff members, questioned the validity of the de- cision to close two of the houses. "This is not simply a dollars and +A r vmamtt, " co "n, nid Phil Mur- AVAILABLEz LSA course evaluations By MARY RADTKE Bewildered students looking for the safest way to fill up 15 credit hours next fall will be gambling less in their course selection this term. Data from the course evalu- ation questionnaires distributed in classes last December should provide students with a new guide to literary college cur- ricula. "Hopefully students will be able to iudge for themselves general interest were evaluated, although courses like Math 115, 116, taught by teaching fellows, and courses in which the pro- fessor is leaving or the content is being changed significantly were omitted. The evaluation has two parts -an objective section where various aspects of a course were rated from excellent to poor and a subjective section where stu- dents could comment. Each objective course rating tain course, department enrolled in what the are. what percentage of concentrators are that course, and anticipated grades 'ready and a lot of time" says Karen Bonwit, also a member of the evaluation committee. "We've started, but we need help." she adds. In addition to student views, the evaluation includes itate- ments from instructors in near- ly half of the courses surveyed. One copy of the data compiled from each of these courses will be available for instructor's use. "We see ourselves as working fnr hn+ h.+,,1nf. n- a fnne i-, " t ;< i t l 1 t i 1 The computer will bind the results by department, and three copies of each department's evaluations will be made. The committee will put at. least one of these copies from each de- partment in the student coun- seling office. "We didn't try to put the data _m_