BINDING ARBITRATION: EXCEDRIN FOR SGC See editorial page Lw A 4I a itF NOT SPRING lNig1--45 Loa--22 Partly cloudy, less cold but still not warm Vol. LXXIX, No. 141 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, March 22. 1969 Ten Cents Eight Pages ., .. _ ... -- - -- EiabtPoae I I SGC By RON LANDSMAN Managing Editor and MARTY !;OTT The impasse in the Student Government Council presidential election was still unsolved yester- day as candidate Howard Miller refused to accept any solution other than the certification of the present results as verifying his election. Yesterday, following his refusal to participate in a three-way run- off with runners-up Bob Nelson and Marty McLaughlin, he turned down a suggestion from SGC Vice President Bob Neff for binding arbitration of the dispute. 'The only two options now open are unacceptable," Neff said yes- terday. "Either SGC can hold a run-off between Nelson and Mc- Laughlin or it can count the bal- election dispute lots the way Miller wants. Both are illegitimate." The controversy centers on Mil- ler's insistence that the present results are sufficient to certify his election. The problem is further complicated by the failure of the SGC election rules to specify what should be done in the present situation. All the parties concerned agree on some basic rules of the trans- ferable ballot system. In counting ballots, the lowest candidate's votes are eliminated and the sec- ond choices on those ballots are distributed accordingly. This was done for the three lowest candi- dates, leaving Miller with' 2133 votes, Nelson with 1676 and Mc- Laughlin with 1669." The SGC Credentials and Rules Committee (C and R) decided a three-way run-off election should be held. Their decision was ap- proved by SGC Thursday night. Miller at first accepted that de- cision, but yesterday refused to join any run-off election. He says McLaughlin should be eliminated and the second choice votes on his ballots distributed to see if either of the r e m a i n i n g candidates achieve a majority. This has already been done. Elections Director Dale Jurcisin said yesterday. Although he did not have the exact count avail- able when contacted last night, he said the results leave Miller ahead of Nelson by less than a hundred votes. They also leave Miller without a majority of the total number of votes cast in the presi- dential election, he added. Miller, however, said Nelson's votes should also be eliminated. and the second choice votes on his ballots counted. If that g Miller a majority of the total vc cast, then, he thinks, he should certified president. Jurcisin said that Miller wo have a majority of about 200 v in that case. However, C and F not willing to use that proced Neff, who is on C and R,s earlier such a procedure has justification. He said the assur tion before the election was t they would go down to the1 two candidates, and if no one1 a majority then, a run-off wo be held. "The assumption that we wo do it that way went unchallen then," he said. "There's no rea to change now." Miller and. his running m Mark Rosenbaum, said yester they held no such assumpti be held if no one had a major remains ives "We considered a run-off would McLau otes after one candidate was left," they he is 3 be said. arbitra "I wasn't aware that Neff's mis- is call uld conception was rampant," Miller recount otes added. At pre R is Neff yesterday also cited a hind N ure. statement from Tom Brown, di- place. said rector of; student-community re- Neff no lations. Brown was SGC president recount Mp- a year before the present system becaus hat was first used and was still work- He esti last ing with Council when it was in- about1 had troduced. Bind uld - Brown said the original sense of yet be1 Council was to eliminate all but Ther uld one more candidate than the num- was to ged ber of seats available (two in this bers or son case) and that the majority would accepta have to be attained from the orig- serveo ate, inal number of ballots cast for Theire day president. accepte ion. That leaves the question of what McLa rity to do with McLaughlin's votes. choices unsolved ghlin said last night that willing to accept binding tion. If a two-way run-off ed for, he will ask for a t and abide by it, he said. sent, he is seven votes be- Nelson, who is in second indicated that a manual t has not yet been taken e no one has asked for it. mated that it would require 100 man-hours of work. ing arbitration, which may held, is also a key issue. proposal forwarded by Neff have three faculty mem- r administrators who were able to all three candidates on the arbitration board decision would have to be ed by all. aughlin sees four possible -a three-way run-off; a two-way run-off; the declaration of Miller as president on the basis of a majority of votes when he and Nelson are left; or a Miller victory when all candidates are eliminated but himself. Miller initially said he would accept arbitration if it would not lead to a three-way run-off, but then said he would not accept it at all. "It is clearly a case where there is no need for arbitration," Rosen- baum said. "That would tell 50 per cent of the student body that their votes were meaningless," he explained. Miller and Rosenbaum maintain that to ask the faculty to arbitrate would be like asking it to arbitrate on the language requirement vote following the 5-2 vote for aboli- tion. See SGC, Page 8 _1 Regents to end T p s ed rue Set $40 boost in dorm rates The Regents yesterday unanimously approved an average $40 increase in residence hall fees beginning this fall. ' Room andboard for doubles will be $1040 per person, $40 above last year's figure. The price of a single will jump $50 to $1130, while triples will be let for $950 per man, an increase j of $30. Rates for Fletcher Hall, Oxford and Bates Housing will also include small increases over this year's fees. The increases had been recommended by the Student Ad- 6 visory Committee on Housing, the Board of Governors of the Residence Halls, Inter-House Assembly and the University Housing Committee. During discussion of the housing fee pro-. posal, Regent Robert Nederlander expressed some hesitancy -- --- _ __ at increasing the dorm rates. "It g o e s against my grain to raise this kind of money for stu- etr oit dents," he said, noting that con- tinual increases in tuition and_ dorm fees were making it more difficult for poorer. students to at- schools tend the University. But President Robben Fleming 1 mexplained the residence halls are one of the University's auxilliary IyIL I jenterprises - operations which Wom n Members of to must be self-supporting. W O111iI S bas-relief, entil By The Associated Press Vice President for State Rela- i.1 n preparation Detroit public schools may be tions and Planning Arthur Ross LiberailOI (See story, Pag forced to close early this year due noted that the increase was only _ ___ - to ackof und sas Spern-four per cent, compared with a tendent of Schools Norman Drach- general consumer price index in- POSSIBLE PROSECUTION: ler. . crease of about nine per cent over the past two years. o r in fees, "I am seriously worried that we were not increased last year. might not be able to finish the Vice President and Chief Finan- cliool' school year," Drachler told 350 vial Officer Wilbur K. Pierpont o f c a, students and parents at Western ; High School Thursday night. "The See table of new dorm i i school system does not feees onae neight. - 41i enough funds to provide all chil- I fe an p eight. dren with a good education," he Ask retroactive change in rule By MARTIN HIRSCHMAN The Regents will retroactively abolish the physical edu- cation requirement at next month's regular meeting: This became clear yesterday, as the Regents declined to act on a proposal to abolish the requirement only for students who enter the University on or after June 1, 1969. There was unanimous verbal agreement among the Re- gents yesterday that abolition should apply to all students - even those graduating this May. Vice President for Academic Affairs Allan F. Smith, who drafted the bylaw amendment, told the Regents he would revise the proposal in time for action at the April meeting. Smith said that if the Regents then approve his newly- f I I I- A -Daily-Peter Dreyfuss cal Women's Liberation groups yesterday put up a- banner of protest beneath a tled "The Dream of a Young Girl," on the front of the LSA Bldg. The action was for a demonstration they will hold at the Miss Ann Arbor beauty pageant Saturday. e 8) charge Argus g pornography SF State' stalls on amnesty drafted proposal, s t u d e n t s graduating in May will not be subject to the requirement. The Regents also asked Smith to remove f r o m the proposal a provision requiring entering fresh- men to undergo*testing and coun- selling by a unit of the physical education department. Instead, these services would be made op- tional. Proposed changes include re- duction of the number of non- credit physical education courses to be offered in the fall term and the introduction of several new courses. At yesterday's meeting. Smith brought up the questions of mak- ing abolition retroactive and of requiring students to attend test- ing and counselling sessions while, he explained his proposed bylaw amendment. Smith said the problem of mak- ing abolition retroactive had not been extensively considered by any of the groups consulted in draw- ing up the recommendation. He added that reaction had been mix- ed to making the counselling and testing compulsory. "I'm willing to say that if we don't feel it is a valid requirement, let's make it retroactive," said Re- gent Robert Brown (R-Kalamaz- zoo). Discussion of the physical edu- cation requirement ended w h e n President Robben Fleming s a i d "We'll assume there is a consen- sus of the Regents," and Smith of- fered to prepare a revised propos- al for the April meeting. Land set aside for The Regents yesterday set aside 20 acres of land on North Campus for sale to fraternities and sorori- ties for 'consti'uction of housing facilities. The assigned land, located at the northeast corner of Glacier Way and Huron Parkway, would provide 18 sites and a four-acre recreation field. The land assignmentB was prompted by the requests of sev- eral fraternities and sororities'for available sites. However, members of Tau Delta Phi, the fraternity which has made the most urgent request, yesterday expressed dissatisfaction with the regental action. Tau Delta Phi President Marc Van Der Hout said he had expect- ed the Regents to approve the sale of a lot to his fraternity in addi- tion to authorizing the general land allocation. Tau Delta Phi members are presently living in an apartment building, Van Der Hout explained, and he fears many will de-activate if they cannot be sure the fra- ternity will secure land for a new house. See REGENTS, Page 8 said, added that costs haver risiBy JIM BEATTIE Argus might be charged with," Theie ae 30.00 stuent inespecially fast for services upon There are 30.000 swhich the housing sste relies County Prosecutor W il i a in but assumed it would be "obscen- the school system. . heavily. He estimated t h a t the Delhey said last night he is in- ity." Drachler says he is very con- cost of operating the dormitories vestigating the Ann Arbor Argus The entire question of the ob- cerned about operating funds for has increased about 14 per cent but refused to indicate what scenity of the Argus arose when the remainder of this year and for over the last two years, charges might result from the in- Superintendent of Schools, W. next fall. He noted that he has Acting Vice President for Stu- vestigation. Scott Westerman, indicated that asked the state legislature for ?0 dent Affairs Barbara Newell as- The investigation apparently the Argus had been distributed on million dollars more in state aid. sured the Regents that adequate followed claims by Ann A r b o r the premises of the high school "That really is not very much- progress was being made in main- High School and Ann Arbor police without being authorized. only $100 a child," Drachler said tenance of the dormitories and in officials that the Argus was "por- "My own evaluation of the Ar-I "Unfortunately, I don't think improving fire safety systems. nographic" and that 'the publish- gus is that it is pornographic, and the state legislature is going to Mrs. Newell also told the Re- ers might be prosecuted. on that basis we should pursue it," aproach it from that point of view, gents the increased rates would Ken Kelley, publisher and edi- he said. "We simply can't toler- and we need help from the legis- I not quite cover higher costs of op- torial editor of the Argus, said he ate this kind of material on our! lature. We need it now," he said.: erating the dormitories next year. "did not know exactly what the premises."" GENERAL STUDIES, 'I. Pioneer High School principal Theodore Rokicki was reportedly By PHIL SEMAS investigating to determine whe- SAN FRANCISCO (CPS}: San ther the paper was being passed Francisco State College, where out in the school building or on students called off their 19-week- the school grounds. Rokicki re- old strike Thursday, was in a fused last night to make any com- state of uncertainty after acting ment on the matter. president S. I. Hayakawa said he Huron High School principal would not immediately agree to Paul Meyers said he did not think proposals for partial amnesty for Committee to define degree By RICK PERLOFF The general studies commit- tee is expected to draw up a proposal today recommending to the faculty the structure of the proposed degree in general stu- dies. The committee, which con- sists of six faculty members and three students, was commis- sioned by the literary college faculty earlier this month to, one of the requirements for ad- mission to the college and the degree program be a two year study of a foreign language in high school. "The younger one learns a foreign language the easier it is," argues Prof. George Piranian of the math department, a member of the committee. "An entrance requirement will en- equrage high schools to teach mittee suggest that all courses a student takes be approved by faculty counselors as they &re now. Piranian recommends 'hat counselling be on a purely volun- tary basis after the student's first semester at the University. "The student would be re- sponsible for wh-t courses fie takes, but would have the op- portunity to reflect on them dicate most students take at least that many advanced course hours already. "It's not so important wheth- er he concentrated in a field but how he has performed in the courses he has taken," he adds. According to Tikofsky Dean Stephen Spurr of the graduate school didn't feel that a degree program which did not have .2iC+ .0%f1inn r n r -nntir i i I i the Argus was being distributed during the hours his school was in session. Pioneer and Huron high schools use the same buildings with Pioneer holding classes in t h e morning and Huron using the fa- cilities during the afternoon. Police chief Walter E. Krasny also issued a statement yesterday claiming that direct steps were being taken to stop the flow of "such literature." But Krasny said the policies adopted by the Board of Educa- tion made it "virtually impossible" to halt the publication of any type of literature in the schools. Meyers said that "he wasn't sure what steps Krasny had in mind," however. Meyers also said "he didn't think the rules of the school board concerning school publications would apply in this case since the Argus is not published in t h e school." T-,1- -,4 I student strikers. {According to an agreement signed by the strike leaders and by ' a select faculty committee ap- pointed by Hayakawa, all those charged with non-violent acts were to be given a "letter of re- primand" and those charged with violent acts would be at most suspended for the rest of the semester. But at a press conference on Friday morning, Hayakawa said, "I cannot agree prior to any hear- ings what the limits of the penal- ties for a given offense will be." He said the agreement contained only recommendations on amnesty and he has not decided to accept them at this time. Hayakawa said that hearings will be held to decide on discip- linary action and if the campus is quiet between itow and April 11, he will consider lowering the harsher penalties. He also said he would wait to lift his ban on ral- MSU trustees name temporary president' EAST LANSING (A)-Dr. Walter Adams, an economics professor, was named yesterday to take onj the job of acting president of+ Michigan State University on April 1. Adams, a Democrat, was namedj to the post by a 5-3 party line voteI of t1 T-nni+. nanfinrPd University, has been on the MSU faculty since 1947. He is to serve at the discretion of the board. "The shorter the duration of my service (as president), the more delighted I will be," Adams told a news conference after the an- nouncement of hi: innnintmemt.