Voter registra hon closes Friday, larch 7 MICKEY MANTLE RETIRES! See Page 9 i5 r Sir igtAan haiti, NOT BADL Jligh--43 Low-18 Partly cloudy today; worse tonight Vol. LXXIX, No. 128 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday, March 2, 1969 Ten Cents Ten Pages F Lit school faculty FBA ignores food supply scandal meets tomorrow onl language issue which may be offered at the meet- ings." O'Neill declined to specify yes- terday which of the half dozen or By RICK PERLOFF back-up meeting place if the turn- After almost five month's debate, out is too large for Aud. A. Bothr a settlement on the literary col- Monday's and Tuesday's meetings By LANIE LIPPINCOTT The Fraternity Buyers Association has an office in the SAB, a permanent office manager, and 56 member fra- ternities, sororities, and co-ops whose interests it must represent by obtain- ing low prices on food (especially since the members are paying three per cent of their food bills to the FBA). Yet now that the Riopelle Packing Co. is being tried for shorting Sigma Nu on meat, the FBA has not bothered to call a board meeting or to inform its members of the case. If the practice of shorting weights on meat is as widespread as some offi- cials think, the scandal may be cost- ing fraternities, sororities and co-ops tens of thousands of dollars each year. On Feb. 11, officials from Washte- naw County, Wayne County, and the state, alerted by Sigma Nu steward Carl Stevens. witnessed a meat delivery by Riopelle to Sigma Nu in which the weight of the meat was short of the listed weight from one to 84 ounces on all but two items. Robert Harter, a Washtenaw County Weights and Measures official, said. "The violations were so flagrant that we didn't even bother to throw the water out of the bag when we weighed the meat." On most of the items the weight listed by Riopelle was the gross weight rather than the net weight: in other words, the order was not just the weight of the meat but included the weight of the wrapping too, which is against state law. Furthermore, the figure for labeled quantities were in whole numbers- hamburger patties were labeled 10 lbs., when the actual weight was 9 lbs. 41 oz As Stevens says, "They can give you more and round it down: but they can't give you less and round it up." On the $181 order the price was off by $9.26, says Sigma Nu treasurer Doug Beck, only "the order was off more when you subtract the weight of the packaging." In another instance, Harter weighed an order Feb. 6 with "as many flagrant violations," although he did n'ot wit- ness the delivery. He says the order was off "percentage-wise, almost the same high percentage." Stevens says, "If the trend we've been watching continues over a year, at the rate of over 5 per cent and less than 10 per cent, we lose about $300 a year to Riopelle." Sigma Nu has bought meat from Riopelle since 1961. Riopelle is one of three meat sup- pliers authorized by the FBA, and a major supplier on campus. Riopelle was arraigned Feb. 11 and charged with selling food products with a false weight. Earnest Neuvirth, one of the owners, pleaded not guilty to the charges. The trial is set for March 18 in District Court. FBA manager David Moeller says, "I'm not overly concerned at this point. In the majority of the houses Riopelle is doing a great job. I'm let- ting it slide until after the trial. "Next fall I'll make my move. We will be taking action if it warrants it -if he lost his license," says Moeller. "It's a matter of taking him off the authorization list. But it depends on if we can get other suppliers doing the same service." According to Harter, even if Riopelle is found guilty, the company will not lose its license. The company, says Harter. is being charged with a mis- demeannor. "They will pay a small See FBA, Page 10 lege language requirement may will be held at 4 p.m. finally be reached early this week A large turnout is being ui as the faculty goes into two full by faculty members, incluc meetings to consider the question. Prof. James O'Neill, chairmai SA special Tuesday continuation' the Romance languages dep. of Monday's regular session was hme at. called by the executive committee and pean William L. Hays last In a memo dated Friday, week in the expectation that the 28. he urged all senior fac problem couldn't be settled dur- members of the department to ing the regular meeting tomorrow. I The Natural Science Aud. has on hand to prevent the passag been reserved for both days as a any foolish, piecemeal resolut Language grads lo retain funds rged so motions which have been pro- ding posed he considers "foolish" or id of ,"icma. "art- O'Neill's action was not taken lightly by some faculty members. "It is clearly possible for t h e Feb. language department group to ulty pack the meeting," says P r o f . Harvey Brazer, chairman of the 'be economics department. e of "Hopefully the turnout will be ions large enough so that it won't be swamped by language people," he adds. Others do not forsee so serious a f problem, however. , "If the language department is urging its professors to go to the meeting, it's their business," com- ments Prof. Wilbert McKeachie. chairman of the psychology d e - partment. S.F. strikers get ultisomatum F romi ire Service Report~s r - Im/mm. ii 4/ + ^r! McKeachie says he has not sent By CHRIS STEELE any memoranda on the language The University will find ways to support language teach- I requirement to his department, ing fellows whose status might be affected by changes in the which is the largest in the college. There are few predictions coin- language requirement, a top administrator says. ing out of the faculty now on what "I don't think language teaching fellows should worry. will happen in the two meetings. The University will marshal support as best we can," says Four major proposals have been Vice President for Academic Affairs Allan F. Smith. made so far: i There are approximately 135 teaching fellows in the LSA curriculum committee, which three departments most frequently chosen for satisfaction of would maintain the requirement the requirement, French, Spanish and German. These grads but allow two-year sequences in receive between $3600 and $4000 for teaching; most are de- math, communications sciences. pendent on this income. linguistics or English to be sub- Smith says the University would be able to find ways to - The minority report of the reallocate student aid funds to students who depend on curriculum committee, which L--- teaching f e 1 l o w income would replace the graduation re- t h r o u g h shifting various quirement with an entrance re- quirement of two years of foreign r "language study in high school. .L a n d lo d s Each year the University spends' - A proposal from Prof. Ro- a total of $8-9 million for graduate bert Hefner of the psychology de- support, Smith explains. Part of >artment to establish a 10-hour s te, to C the grant is for payment of teach- credit hour study of a foreign ing fellows while other funds are country and its people. designated for scholarships and -- A proposal from Prof. Peter various other forms of student aid. A. S. Smith of the chemistry de- stri ers Smith says this money can be partment which would establish reshuffled to provide for changes a new degree, bachelor of general By JUDY SARASOHN in the number of teaching fellows studies, and eliminate most dis- needed for basic language classes., tribution requirements, including Two Ann Arbor landlords start- If changes in the present lan- language. ed eviction proceedings yesterday guage requirement create a drop The Smith proposal is the latest against several striking tenants. in the need for language teaching to enter the field, and it seems A tenant of a third landlord, fellows, Smith believes money to have confused the situation. meanwhile, charged him with tak- presently used to pay them could "I could make a prediction were ing personal property from an be transeferred to other depart- it not for the new Smith pro- apartment rented by a striker ments and replaced in the lan- nosal." says Associate Dean Alfred Striking teachers at San Francisco State College were expected to answer an ultimatum last night to inform the administration whether they will return to work Monday, or be fired. Acting President S.I. Hayakawa rejected a request by the local teachers union to discuss the strike situation today. He said he wanted an answer to his ultimatum SAturday night. The attorney for the some 200 striking faculty said he would recommend that the teachers return to their jobs Monday, after a nearly 60-day walkout. Meanwhile, at the nearby Berkeley campus of the Uni- Hockey clampionship versity of California, 250 po Guardsmen used tear gas to' disperse a crowd of protesters. The police had trouble dispers- ing portions of the crowd as they moved ahead of them, blocking traffic around the south campus area. The protesters were finally broken up by a heavy rain and darkness. The 28,000-student campus has been in turmoil since Jan. 23, when students began striking over such demands as the establishment of a Third World college. Since that time there have been 153 arrests. There were these other campus olicemen and t - The Wolverine Icers won their second straight Big Ten Hockey Championship last night by shut- ting out Wisconsin, 2-0. Goalie Jim Keough turned away 38 Badger blasts in collecting his second shutout of the campaign. Don Deeks scored for Michigan in the first stanza and Merle Falk iced the victory with an early third period tally. STRIKE ON 30 CAMPUSES: eight National locked out yesterday. Tenants at 549 Packard. 1520 Hill, and a couple who did not wish to be identified said yester- day they were served summons to appear in court Tuesday be- cause their landlord Edward Kloian was suing for eviction be- cause they were withholding rent. Anne Williamson, '70, a tenant,! at 1520 Hill, said, "I'm glad that we will have a chance to see Kloian in court." Miss Williamson said that she, and her roommates believe they have a good case against Kloian. Naiomi Karow, of 549 Packard, was equally confident, citing vari- our building code violations be- sides Kloian's cut-off of the heat. Kloian was unavailable for com- * ment yesterday. Rent striker at two apartments owned by Summit Associates were also summoned to appear in court Tuesday for failure to pay their rent. Carla Kish, '70. said no one in her apartment had paid their ,ent for February and that one room- mate had also not paid her dam- age deposit or last month's rent. Brian Lang, '71, also a Summit tenant, charged the firm has failed to "provide enough hot; water, proper lighting and heat." He said he was told by Jay Camp- *bell of Summit that it would be too expensive to replace the water' heater. Lang also said that Campbell told him some thought might be given to his complaints if he dropped out of the rent strike and entered mediation with Summit. guage departments by non-teach- Sussman. "I think the majority ing support. report of the curriculum commit- Other administrators say such tee would easily succeed if it drastic changes would not be ne- weren't for that. But I can't say cessary, however, what the exact impact of the. Dean William Hays of the lit- Smith proposal will be." erary college says he does not Sussman also thinks the minor- think there would be any sub- ity report of the curriculum com- stantial effect on the number of mittee has been handicapped by teaching fellows from a change in the Smith proposal. the language requirement. "It had a fighting chance be- Hays says language courses are fore." he says. "but with the at capacity now and could be re- Smith proposal, it would be il- duced in size without cutting the logical to pass both of them." amount of teaching fellows. He also thinks many faculty And if changes in the require- members will be opposed to the ment did result in extra teaching . Smith plan because they feel it fellows, comments Hays, "we would cheanen the college's other See GRAD, Page 10 See FACULTY, Page 10 'U, sci entists to 1gnor of research Misuse i By DAVE CHUDWIN Ross said. He asserted there was University scientists and engi- much faculty sentiment against neers will not take place in Tues- stopping work on a class day. day's nationwide campus research Ross also said many professors stoppage to protest misuse of felt it unnecessary to stage a pro- science and technology. test on the same day as the other "We have no plans to partici- universities. "Something might pate," said Prof. Marc Ross of the well be done later," he indicated. physics department. Prof. John The one-day strike, originally Taylor indicated that the protest proposed by researchers at the would be ignored in the engineer- Massachusetts Institute of Tech- ing school. nology, has spread to over 30 uni- "There was no general agree- versities. Conferences, speeches ment on the form of any protest," and discussions on research prob- developments: -Forty-two black and white college students were arested in Colfax, Wash. by 350 policemen yesterday after they had taken refuge in two churches to prevent five black students from going to Fuedayjail. . Those arrested included mem- lems are planned at many of the bers of the Black Student Union campuses. and their supporters from Wash- ington State University and East- At MIT, speakers will include em Washington State and Whit- Sen. George McGovern (D-SD) er hioSt and Nobel laureates Hans Bethe worth Colleges. and Georeald.e sHThe convictions stemmed from and George Wald. a fight between.the black students A document signed by 48 MIT and members of a Washington professors, and now in circulation State University fraternity Jan. on other campuses, states, "Mis- 15. use of scientific and technical -Fourteen white students. at knowledge presents a major threat Reed College continued to occupy 'to the existence of mankind." the president's office at the Port- The statement goes on to urge land, Ore., campus, supporting a scientists and engineers "to unite demand for a black studies center. for concerted action and leader- -At Wesleyan University, a ship" against "overemphasis on five-foot high cross was set afire military technology." on the lawn outside the Afro- Specifically, the statement ad- American House at the Middle- vises university professors to: town, Conn., school Friday night. s"Devise means for turning re- Black students took over a class- search }applications . . . towards room building on Feb. 21 on the the solution of pressing environ- fifth anniversary of the assassina- mental and social problems. tion of Malcolm X. -"Ask our students to scruti- nize the issues raised here beforeb participating in the construction of destructive weapons systems. -"Express our determined op-3 position to ill-advised and hazard- leave talks ous projects such as the ABM sys- tem, the enlargement of our Black Student Union represent- nuclear arsenal and the develop- atives at Eastern Michigan Uni- ment of chemical and biological versity walked out of a meeting weapons. with university officials Friday At other universities the targets following the university's refasal of the protests vary. At John Hop- to grant amnesty to 14 students kins in Baltimore the work stop- arrested a week ago. page is directed against the University officials explained school's ties with the AppliedIblack student leaders refused to Dhvcir-e Thnrvin'v whirls h nften i ri i +t, ch irr1inn r.ra~mjn'le nn HRC hits Elks Club. for bias By STEVE KOPPMAN The Human Relations Commis- sion has sent letters to 140 mem- bers of the local Elks Lodge No. 325 urging them to end discrimina- tory policies in the organization. The letters were prompted by a recent incident in which a black couple was barred from an al- legedly public event at the local Elks Club. But HRC declared its main con- cern was the national organiza- tion's restriction of membership to "white male citizens." The letter urges a change in local bylaws to eliminate racially restrictive practices. It declares that if the local chapter cannot establish a policy different from national organization policy, the local chapter should dissociate it- self. If this is not done, HRC wrote, members should quit the Elks. "In looking at the general goals and purposes of the organization, says the letter, Vit is obvious that there is considerable emphasison American patriotism, justice and brotherly love. "It also appears that the or- ganization is concerned with the plight of the poor and 'those in distress. It would appear that the goals and purposes of the Elks Club have much in common Iwith the goals and purposes of the Human Relations Commission. "However," the letter continues, "the exclusion of black members of our community from your or-/ ganization ... is an obvious con- tradiction to your other state- ments of concern about the wel- fare of people and the brother- hood of man." "Although it is obvious that private clubs have the right to dis- criminate on the basis of race, it is the goal of this commission and we would hope the goal of most of your members of your lodge to bringaount a racially inclusie NEW STUDENT ROLE English dept. approves reforms By MARY RADTKE Major academic reforms are coming to the English department. Students are now able to satisfy require- ments for any department course except composition courses by simply taking an exam for credit and a grade. 'In addition, undergraduates next fall will be able to enroll in 500 and 600 level courses on a space available basis, with the instructor's permissIon. Priority will be extended first to graduates and then to English concentrators. Members of the English student steering cnmmittee have hen wnrking with the de-_ Nancy Muchnick, steering committee chairman. However, Mrs. Muchnick says she be- lieves students can share the responsibility for tenure decisions without actually being on the department's executive committee, which has authority for tenure. And department Chairman Russell Fraser says he has "a number of ideas about student involvement in tenure decisions which have been discussed with the execu- tive committee and are awaiting presenta- tion to the faculty." Fraser declined to explain his proposals until they have been presented to the fac- ultv Hnwever. he save "it en he taken as However, beginning in the fall exams will be scheduled regularly at the begin- ning of the fall and winter terms, and students will need only to inform the de- partment one month in advance. Students originally proposed that the exams carry no credit, but faculty mem- bers preferred to retain credit and a grade according to Frank Crantz, one of the student members of the curriculum committee. However, a compromise was approved which allows the student to hold the exam grade until he wishes to submit it to the registrar.