TRAMPLING ON BERKELEY See editorial page CJ r , i I!IILI ~~i~aitF WRETCHED Hligh--42 Low-30 Considerable cloudiness; chance of light rain Eight Pages ".I...I I .."JI\..' LI VOI. LAAIA, NO. t123 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday. February 25. 1969 Ten Cents t _. .. _. _.I/ ....... ....... ...i f . v. Ten Cents Eight Pages 0 Kelley hacks student'voting Asks change in election law voter residency requirement By LESLIE WAYNEfu State Attorney General Frank Kelley yesterday-called for a change in the election law to permit all students to vote at Y the place they habitually sleep, keep their personal effects and have their place of lodging." However, the attorney general's opinion is not legally binding and legislative action is needed to implement the t ruling. Under present statute, students can neither gain nor lose a residency while attending an institution of higher learning. City clerks have often interpreted this law as requiring students to show additional proof that they are legal residents of a given community. The state requires that a pros- pective voter be 21 years old by the time of the election, a resi- dent of Michigan for six months, 9 and a resident of the town in which he will vote for 30 days be- callS for fore he is registered. Kelley's statement was part of a response to a request by Sen. a r vs Anthony Stamm (R-Kaamnazoo) ren t talks askingwhether "studenthood was a relevant factor in determining By BILL LAVELY residericy requirements," Stamm says he plans to intro- Republican candidate for mayor duce legislation asking that the Prof. Richard Balzhiser yesterday city administrator ignore whether announced his intention to lead or not potential voters are stu- EMUS1 the feuding rent strike steering dents. committee and Ann Arbor land- Stamm maintains the present lords into negotiations, statute governs only electors d In an attack on his Democratic those already having declaredS opponent, Balzhiser criticized Prof. their residency-and does not pe Robert Harris of the Law School tain to students making their in- for his "reluctance to get involved" itial residency declaration. in the rent strike. A l t h o u g h Kelley rejected. However, a itc Stam's interpretation of the e a s k c ed Balzhisrs cosncern forl theisting lawe, Stamm claimed Ke 4tudent tenants "hypocritical." Ie'I uikrsoneadquaiid "If one checks the record for answers indicate the attorney gen- By JIM NEUBACHER "If onet c ecshe ril eorda eral would definitely support a the past 10 years, he will see that change in the election laws. Some 400 Eastern Michigan it is Balzhser and his Republican Wallace Segendorph,Kassistant University students held a rally thle oage wouarspudnsingf attorney general, said Kelley in- and an educational meeting yes-. theutr aus student housing tended to do more for the students terday to support demands that situation," Harris said. but was legally prohibited from university officials grant amnesty Balzhiser, a professor of chem- changing the intent of the law. to 13 persons arrested during cam- cal engineering, said he did not Kelley's ruling said that by pus demonstrations last week. Intend to mediate the dispute, but showing relevant facts such as The aiernoon ially was carried only to "act as a catalyst" which age, lack of parental support, fai- off without incident, in contrast would initiate bargaining between ily location, employment in the to the nearly violent confrontation students -and landlords." community and property owner- wihocre atTusa "RI feel it is in the best interest comnt n rpryonr which occurred last Thursday fhee it i bin the bet t ship, a student can rebut any when students rallied to protest of the city to bring the two parties previous residency requirement, the arrests of 12 persons who re- to the conference table and stopj However, since the ruling does; fused to end a lock-in at the EMU the building of further tensions not change the law, Ann Arbor administration building. between them," Balzhiser added. City Clerk John D. Bentley said Balzhiser said he has conferred he expects it will not have much Student leaders yesterday also with the rent strike steering com- influence on registering procedures called for increased support for mittee and with the University in Ann Arbor. an attempted class boycott, begun Office of Student Housing, both "It really sounds pretty much last Friday. Boycott efforts have of whom expressed a willingness like early rulings which haven't not yet gained significant student to participate in such discussions. been enforced by law," he added. support. *1e is waiting to hear from the City Attorney Peter Forsyth The students will continue to realtors. said the ruling is "merely a re- picket all university buildings to- Nancy Holstrom of the rent See KELLEY, Page 8 day. Another rally is scheduled strike steering committee said «for 1 p.m. Balzhiser had met with strike leaders over the weekend to dis- jce cuss his proposal. Ctjo r c14p "We told him we had always! *een interested in serious negotia- tions with the landlords and that we would talk to the landlords on the condition that the Tenants Union be recognized," she said. John Feldkamp, director of Uni- From Wire Service Reports spawned by student complaints versity Housing, said his office Major college campuses were about academic standards, food had reacted positively to Balzhis- quiet yesterday although students service, dorm conditions, and Pr's offer, held buildings at Stillman College armed campus police. "We have offered before to sit in Tuscaloosa, Ala. and at Rut- School President Harold Stinson in at a meeting between landlords . gers University. oe sdent off thecapu and tenants, and we are still will- ges ves .ordered students off the campus ing to," Feldkamp said. Students at both the University Sunday, but at least 75 stayed last Balzhiser was uncertain how the of California at Berkeley and San night-locked inside the union.! landlords would react to the pro- Francisco State College. where They have established their own posal. Several real estate manage- prolonged strikes have been mark- rules of behavior and curfew, and Wment firms contacted yesterday ed by violence, limited their action apologized for a broken door. withheld comment. to small picket lines and indoor Dr. Stinson conceded that the Balzhiser said he will recom- meetings. students' academic grievances are, mend to the City Council at its Predominantly Negro Stillman justified, but he refused to fire next meeting that an ordinance College has been shut down fol- the man who shot a student in be passed making it a misde- lowing a classroom boycott and the leg last fall while serving as meanor for a landlord to withhold occupation of the union buildino a campus cop. The officer was de- fraudulantly a damage deposit. late last week. The protests were moted to a maintenance man, however. The students in the building at Y1 Court Dack Sthre small Presbyterian-affiliated uprem e schoo say they will allow them- selves to be arrested if the police " are called in to evict them. i school rotests Meanwhile yesterday black stu- dents seized a classroom building on the Newark, N.J., campus of WASHINGTON (I)-The Su- School officials do not possess ab- Rutgers University. preme Court told public school of- solute authority over their stu- The eight or 10 students who ficials yesterday they cannot pre- dents. seized the building were members vent pupils from peacefully ad- "Students in schools as well of the Black Organization of Stu- vocating causes which may be un- as out of school are 'persons' un- dents, which has been protesting popular with school officials. der our Constitution," Fortas add- university admissions policies and * The ruling . involved public ed. He also said students "are pos- admissions officers, both of which schools at the elementary-sec- sessed of fundamental rights which they have called "racist." ondary level. the state must respect, just as Barricading themselves early Although the ruling might con-' they themselves must respect their yesterday and forcing classes to ceivably be applied in some cases I obligations to the states. be moved to other buildings, the The decision undercut school black students threatened to de- of disent at colleges, it did not ostrv th gnhnn1 gwitrhhnnrd LSA Comny langu curriculum iittee asks gage options -Daily-~Larry Robbins studi(eitM 1picket Ipresiden~It's lionli ss rally at EMU, ss strike support By DAVID SPURR A majority of the literary college curriculum committee last n i g h t recommended changes in the present lang- uage requirement that would enable students to substitute sequences in non-language departments. A separate minority report also was drafted which recommended replacing the present language re- quirement with an entrance re- quirement. The majority report recom- mends options for required lang uage study which are subject to. consideration by the departments involved. The recommendations .r include: - a four- course college se- uece in th hitor and develo q e c int e h s o y adment of the English la ngua ge, in - cluding Middle English; -two years of experience in mathematics- ; a sequence in communica- .. "}". ions science: - a sequence in linguistics. In addition, four years' study of a language in secondary school x would satisfy the requirements.daily-Larry Robbins The report, which representedDiiLayRbin ten committee members, also rec- Cormtnillee debates proposals ommended several administrative chances in the requirement, in- tfackssuchaeag ornoB lacm ajor uversational instruction in element- ary language courses. Both the majority and minority reports will be submit ted to the recom m e1l monthly meeting March 3. The six members in the minority faction, which included the three By RICK PERLOFF student members, wetreomm ereendd: s-replacing the prescomended: The literary college curriculum committee last night ment with a college entrance re- unanimously recommended the establishment of an inter- quirement of two years' secondary disciplinary concentration program in Afro-American studies, school study of a foreign lan- to become operational in the fall. guage; The faculty is expected to approve the committee's --requiring one year of college recommendation at its April 3 meeting. admitted without meeting the re- The proposal for the concentration program was sub- quirement. mitted by a subcommittee of the curriculum committee and The report also recommended will go before the executive committee of the college tomor- that individual departments not row, for what is expected to be routine approval. require more than two years In- In its present form the program introduces five inter- !centrators. fdisciplinary courses, a senior seminar and three introductory Students met again last night for ern "educational" sessi-)n. There strike leaders called for Ycontinued pressure on the Emu t Y t ' Y t 3 a r 1 t : 1 administration to meet the de- niand for amnesty as well as the demands of black students who began the demonstrations last week. Disruptions began after nearly 75 black students locked them- selves into the administration building early Thursday to em- phasize a list of ten demands. University officials ordered the protesters to clear the building. Twelve demonstrators who refused to leave were arrested. After the arrests, an angryj crowd of more than 500 gathered outside the home of EMU T Prat - of five to ten years in prison and fine up to $1000. The black student demands in- elude: tuition based on family in- come: appointment of a black vice president for minority affairs: inistitution of a black studies program with blacks controlling the curriculum: --establishment of M a r t i n Luther King and Malcolm X scholarships; -creation of an all-black, coed dormitory. At yesterday's rally. black stu- dent leaders explained their posi- tion. Some complained that only 100 of EMU's 700 blacks are sup- i \ltAU )IAU U11G 11Vi11G VI .1'11Vlu r-lub- 4.1-- \_ _L - ident Harold --Violence porting the black demands. The two separate recommenda- eybk onbhern Volce r Ron Thompson, a student- at tions were finalized after eight nearly broke out when police ar- rested one of the speakers at the the University here, told the hours of debate yesterday and a rally on charges of inciting to riot, crowd that blacks in Ann Arbor full year's study of the require- a felony which carries a penalty are supporting the demands of ment. the EMU students. A major division among coin- * After the rally, some 300 stu- mittee members became apparent ; dents marched on Sponberg's early in the debate when the com- uet .house for half an hour without mittee considered the feasibility incident. of an entrance requirement. tisurvey courses which will Eisenhower serve as requirements for a major. In addcition tn thenu-mrp b ieddown ican history. Leade s of the Third World Liberation. Front were meeting during the day with a. special faculty committee appoint- ed by acting President S. I. Haya- kawa. They planned a general strike meeting late yesterday eve- ning to report on the discussion. The San Francisco State Amer- ican Federation of Teachers chap- ter, which is also .on strike, has been considering a settlement pro- posed by the California state col- lege trustees. At the evening meeting. stu- dent criticised Sponberg for not following standard EMU procedure in handling the demonstration. An EMU policy report on mass disturbances prohibits the presi- dent from taking disciplinary ac- tion until he consults with faculty representatives and student lead-I ers. The students say Sponberg did neither of these things. Students and EMU officials met Saturday with no results. EMU administrators refused amnesty and said that civil authorities had informed the university they would charge the .protesters even if the university dropped charges. Prof. James Gindin, committeel chairman, suggested that abolition of the present requirement, with possible replacement by an 'n- trance requirement, would illow individual departments to set their own language requirements. "Only four per cent of the stu- dents enter the college without any foreign language experience," Gindin added. Prof. Carl Cohen of the phi'o- sophy department objected that such an entrance requirement would work "to the marked dis- advantage of the German depart- ment," because most high schools do not offer German. Mark Rosenbaum, '70, a repre-# sentative of Student Government Council, spoke in favor of aboli- tion. See LSA, Page 8 i a At Berkeley, students were hold- Black students walked out of ing meetings yesterday afternoon the meeting and negotiations have and evening to discuss the issues not resumed. The blacks demands in their five-week-old strike., have not yet been discussed. s *iuuiav u e new cuss recoverri about 20 hours in already existing advanced courses in several areas WASHINGTON (P - Former will constitute a major. President Dwight D. Eisenhower The program would be admin- SPt iistered by an interdisciplinary yesterday progressed smoothly to- committee composed of students ward recovery from high-risk ab- and faculty. The chairman of the dominal surgery to remove an in- committee would coordinate the testinal obstruction. introductory courses. The first introductory course The five-star general took small and a prerequisite for the other sips of water and his life signs- two is a study of Afro-American pulse, blood pressure, breathing history. The second course covers and temperature-remained stable, black cultural developments and officials at Walter Reed Army the third offers a survey on the Hospital announced. socio-economic problems of the But Army doctors said Eisen- black community. hower "will have to be watched The five interdisciplinary cours- especially carefully during the es include studies in black ac- next two weeks." complishments in the arts, an The former president, who was examination of black economic in- near death last August from his stitutions, an analysis of the re- most recent heart attack, under- lationship between blacks and the went 2 hours and 20 minutes of American political system, a study surgery late Sunday night for the in the psychological aspects of removal of scar tissue that was l American racism and an evalua- blocking the passage of food tion of the various methods of ed- through the intestine. ucating black men. Individual students would set up their own senior seminars, where they could participate in group discussions or do research on specific topics. The disciplines in the program s 5 would include anthropology, econ- 'e sp omics, history, music, political sci- ence and sociology. Some of the courses presently respondants, such as their offered which would be included cumulative grade point average, in the program are sociology their reason for selecting the courses in race and culture c o n- course. -cussi aeadclueeon Members of the course evalu- tacts, studies in urban commun- ai n esy othatthe hose e to ity, music courses in twentieth atindsay th n alt-Uyhoestycentury music and history cours- expand to an all-University es in the civil war and the Amer- study next year. ia iy Co-chairman Frank Viviano, ican city. '69, says Engineering Council The professors who are teaching has asked about an evaluation courses which may eventually be for engineering school courses. been officially consulted yet The Law School, the Medical However Prof. Nellie Varer of School and the schools of pub- Ho, ve, ro_-Nlli Vrne o LSA COURSE BOOKLET Evaluation draws mixed r By TOBE LEVF The long-awaited course eval- uation booklet opened to the public yesterday amid m i x e d reviews. Many of the students w h o consulted the booklet said they found it helpful. But most of them complained about the highly technical form in which student evaluations of m o r e than 500 literary college courses are compiled. The booklet contains evalua- student consensus with fewer questions would be an improve- ment," Louik said. Barbara Engel, '72, said she found the booklet "useful in de- termining which courses were extremely bad." However, s h e added that it was very difficult to discern shades of difference for courses between the two ex- tremes. Edie Spielman. '72, also found the evaluation useful. "There is enough data on higher level than 550 literary college classes. All freshman courses and many upperclass courses are included, unless the professor or curri- culum is being changed. The booklets were not pre- pared for publication because printing would have delayed their distribution until after ad- vanced classification for next fall, which began last week, said Pamela Friedman of the student counseling service. The Association for Course