INSUFFICIENT ATTEMPT AT MODIFYING PHYS ED See editorial page Sir ujau Z4aiI4 SPOILED High-48 Low-38 Cloudy and cooler, intermittent rain Vol. LXX1X, No. 139 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, March 20, 1969 Ten Cents eSia1reort lsle ctonl se ByIIENRY GRIX School of Education should be relieved of for Educational Development Inc. "The panel believes that many other iary" personnel be - employed to teach heels of the sc Editor the responsibility"; Although Ross and some education institutions are qualified to provide the certification programs or that students go - are likely to A special blue ribbon commission on the * That the school should "seek to in- school faculty members seem pleased with credentials minimally necessary for teach- elsewhere to get certification. designate Wilb education scshool has issued a harsh anal- pose a greater coherence among the tri the report's recommendation, several of er certification," the report states. "A student who really wants to be a Dean Olson in ysis of the school's policies, criticizing both partite responsibilities for teaching, service the school's faculty members have already "Teacher education programs of the teacher-who's bright-has to go else- The panel h the school's faculty and administration and research"; begun to bristle at what they consider to school are pedestrian in concept, mechan- where than the University" complained appointment o and the central University administration. 0 That the school should "consciously be inaccuracies and the "snide, arrogant" istically tied to certification requirements, Payne. health, educati The 52-page report. released yesterday and deliberately strive to lower the degree tone of the recommendations. grossly -even ridiculously -understaffed, But another education school faculty Ross promise contains a barrage of recommendations of parochialism which now seems to per- Prof. Joseph Payne complains the report and quite inadequately supported in member, Prof. David Angus, argues that dertake this y aimed at re-directing the school's goals and meate faculty attitudes"; is given to "general, globalized statements equipment and curriculum materials," the the recommendation is "precisely what we funds for Dean re-aligning priorities. " That "the University close the labora- without adequate quantifiers." report adds. "In short, teacher education ought to do. If we want to train teachers, and make the Chief among the recommendations are: tory school (Uniersity School) as early Payne and other faculty members argue at Michigan is unworthy of the traditions we should put our resources in it and be for next year." * That "the University allocate greatly as practiable but not later tthan June that the report unduly and unjustly cri- and resources of the University." willing to talk about a limited number However, eve increased funds to provide necessary ad- 1970," unless it can "become a center for ticizes the present dean, Willard C. Olson, While Ross argues that report calls for of kids." tional funds, h ministrative services"; innovation, experimentation and research who is retiring June 30. improving and revamping the certifica- Angus, who said he read the report with serious fight a That "If it is deemed politically neces- in education." However, a more specific disagreement tion programs, Payne and others interpret "excitement," was especially pleased by University Sc say for the University to certify students The report, commissioned last fall by is likely to develop over the interpretation the recommendation as a suggestion that the recommendation calling for increasing serves as a tea for teaching-to provide apprenticeship Arthur M. Ross, vice president for state of the recommendation concerning the the undergraduate teaching program the urban education efforts of the school. members inclu experience and basic vocational informa- relations and planning, was executed by a certification of elementary and secondary should be abolished. None of the blue ribbon commission's report and say tion about teaching-the faculty of the six-man panel appointed by the Academy school teachers. The recommendation asks that "auxil- recommendations - which come on the the school is ou Ten Pages hools own appraisal report be acted upon until Dean- ur Cohen takes over from July. Lad special praise for the f the former secretary of on and welfare. d "The University will un- 'ear to provide additional Cohen when he comes in school a high priority item n if Cohen secures addi- e may have to face another gainst opponents of closing hool, which theoretically ching lab. Many faculty ding Angus agree with the closing is overdue because tmoded and its use limited. STUDE TS REJECT LA GU GE REQUIRE E T" SGC PRESIDE TI L R CE RE I S I DOUBT A DISCOUNT BOOKSTORE RECEIVES APPROVAL By ROBERT KRAFTOWITZ Students voted overwhelmingly against the language requirement in partial returns on the Student Government Council sponsored referendum yesterday. The partial returns also indicated overwhelming support for the second referendum, which proposes that SGC expand its discount store to include a discount book store. The referendum called for initial funding of the book store by a special assessment of $1.75 per student for the fall, 1969 semester only. With the first day's balloting tallied, the vote was 2194 to 887 for abolition of the language requirement. The vote on the book store referendum was 2679 to 685. RESULT OBSCURED BY ERRORS IN COUNTING Student Government Council's Credentials and Rules Committee refused last night to declare a winner in the balloting for SGC president. A dispute over the counting of the votes threw the elec- tion into turmoil after elections officials discovered an error in the method of the tabulation of votes. The president-vice president slates of Howard Miller- Mark Rosenbaum, Bob Nelson-Mary Livingston, and Marty McLaughlin-Mark Van der Hout are apparently still in the running. According to Bob Neff, SGC vice president, the error was Panther White Joan Shemel Carol Hollenshead Shelley Kroll Darryl Gorman Jorm long distane cancelled The Universitys experiment with long distance calling from dorm rooms is over-at least for a while. Communications manager Wil- liam Turner explained last night that the experiment is being dis- continued after one day because the number of long distance calls made by dormitory residents "was jamming the Centrex system com- pletely." The counting of the second day's balloting has been delayed until today because of the large number of miSmarked ballots. Election Director Dale Jurcisin said the ballots would be gone through by hand in order to cor- rect the mistakes. Literary college faculty members have been debating the present language requirement for several months. No official action has yet been taken, although a general Howard Miller Mar studies degree has been proposed* - which would not require language ELECTED REPRE SGC set the referendum three --_ weeks ago in order to provide the faculty with a clear indication of student opinion on the issueg professors will be inclined to change their votes because of a By L:AURIE HIARRIS student referendum, one college Newly-elected representatives to the Tenants' Union assembly last Several SGC members fear the night set up procedure for carry-. referendum may have lost its ef- ing the rent strike through the feet because the votes of literary summer according to the recom- college students were not counted mendation of the strike steering separately. committee. Their main concern is that the Assembly members are elected literary college faculty might not by striking tenants and have final view the results as an indication voting power to act for the that students in their college favor Tenants' Union. The assemblyl abolition of the requirement. members will eventually elect a A separation of the votes was new representative steering com- intended orginally.. but an error mittee to replace the strike steer-G See STUDENTS, Page 7 ing committee. made in the counting of sec- ond and third place votes. Un- der the "multiple transferable ballot system," the second place votes on the ballot of the candidate receiving the least number of firstr place votes are added to the totals of the re- maining candidates. If no candidate receives a ma- jority of - votes, the process is repeated by dropping the next lowest candidate and adding his second place votes to the remain- ing candidates. " If a student gives his first and second place votes to candidates who are subsequentl,' eliminated, G k Rosenbaum Marty McLaughlin Bob Nelson Mary Livingston SENTATIYES: Fs establish su bletpolicy i I" Turner said engineering lems will have to be solved the system can be tried However, he did not know would be possible. prob- before again. if this Each assembly member is elect- fund, or not pay at all, Denton A vote on' the proposal was de- ed by ten tenants in the same said. layed until the representatives can apartment building. If there are The steering committee also take it back to members of the less than ten striking tenants in asked non-strikers to pay their union for their opinions. one building, a representative is landlords no more than is received Another issue was the status of elected for ten tenants of the same for their apartment, even if this present negotiations. According to landlord. is less than provided for by the Stuart Katz, Grad, a member of Peter Denton, Grad, presented original lease. the steering committee, "there the steering committee's recon-i If subletting is impossible the hasn't been any landlord who will mendation that strikers sublet committee urged non-strikers not recognize the union." ar tnts andhv the to pay their rent at all. A representative from Ambas- that voter's third choice is given to whatever remaining candidates received it. ,Last night, however, after two of the six candidates were elimi- nated, the tabulators mistakenly counted all first, second, third and fourth place votes on all ballots. This resulted in many ballots be- ing counted two, three or four, times, if the voter had selected more than one of the top four candidates. Elections Director Dale Jurcisin announced last night that elec- tions officials will meet today at noon in the SGC offices to recount all ballots and determine the winner. Although a computer was not used to tabulate the vote, com- puter sheets served as ballots and were fed through a mechanical sorter which employed an optical scanner to read the ballots. Tabu- lations were done manually by elections officials. See CONFUSION, Page 7 BSU asks new board,, for Dail Ron Thompson, chairman of the Black Students Union, and Daily Editor Henry Grix met yesterday with University President Robben Fleming 'to discuss the current controversy over Daily editorial policy. At the meeting, Thompson et- plained the new BSU position- that a new all-student board for student publications be established which would determine editorial policy and staff appointments. In a statement issued last night, Thompson said, "It is our opin- ion that the Daily does not nor foes it intend to ever represent the interests of anyone ion this campus but the 11 senior editors. Thompson also challenged the recent ruling by the Regents which gave outgoing Daily senior editors the sole power to appoint their successors. Previously, t h e former Board in Control of Stu- dent Publications selected the new editors on the recommendation of the outgoing seniors.. - "If the Daily were owned by the 11 editors then our Alterna- tive would be simple, not read it. However, The Daily is owned by the Regents of this Univer- sity. In other words, The Daily is just as much ours as it is the 11 senior editors'," Thompson con- tinued. "As all other units of this University, therefore, The Daily must strive to be representative of the University community." "Unfortunately," the statement said, "the Regents of this Univer- sity have passed legislation t h a t will continue this misrepresenta- tion. Their ruling allows for the editors to have complete freedom in the selection of their successors and in determining editorial pol- icy." Grix responded that The Daily, "like any other student organi a- ;,, - - -___" rnam .aC4tl4. . nr i The experiment would have al- lowed dorm residents to make long distance calls from their rooms between 6 p.m. and midnight if{ the calls were collect, credit card, or charged to a third number. Dorm residents will now have to return to their phone booths. I amount of the sublease paid into the escrow fund. If it is not possible to sublet, the striker either should pay the full amount of rent into the escrow Denton claimed that if a sum- mer tenant does not pay his rent most landlords would not find' it economically advantageous to bring him to court. If a tenant does eventually lose an eviction case, there is still time to pay before final judgment, Dentonf sador realty indicated that when 50 per cent of their tenants will join the union, they will recog- nize it. Summit Associates held' talks with strike leaders the past two days though no agreements were reached. Katz said that they are at least Regents mni By MARTIN HIRSCHMAN The Regents are likely to approve a proposal to abolish the physical education requirement at their regular monthly meeting today and tomorrow. However, the proposal submitted by Vice President for Academic Affairs Allan Smith - would , not apply to students presently enrolled in the University. In addition, students enrolling on or, after June 1 would be required to confer I - NOT RETROACTIVE endrequired approve abolition, but added tl)at he had tional cour not yet discussed the question with them. which woul He said he would bring up the question of dividual scl making abolition retroactive in his con- The Rege sultations with the Regents today. proposal to Under Smith's present proposal, the de- halls. The partment of physical education would Residence create a Physical Fitness and Sports Ap- Committee praisal and Guidance Unit which "would Assembly h interview and test every incoming fresh- crease aver man." In other phys ed ses, and 14 classroom courses ld be given credit by the in- ools and colleges. ents will also take action on a increase fees for the residence Board of Governors of the Halls, the Student Advisory on Housing, and Inter-House have all recommended an in- aging $40. action, the Regents are ex- said. beginning to deal with the union The lengthy and expensive pro-- though not on a recognition basis. cedure that is necessary to bring a tenant to trial. for eviction will also be effective in continuing the" strike, said Dale Berry, a law stu- dent on the strike steering com- Et mittee. Berry added that there have COUNCIL SEATS: been 19 summons issued so far Hollenshead (E). and that these people will come nto court about two at a time. At White (E)........... this rate, the semester willmbe over Kroll (I)........ before the court can handle any Shemel (E).......... additional summonses. Berry said. Gorman (E) .. 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