Comment Differs on Problems of Homosei quality (EDITOR'S NOTE-This is the second of a two-part series on homosex- uality and the University.) By DENISE WACKER and PHILIP SUTIN There is little indication that the police are planning to stop their biennial investigations of campus homosexual activity. In 1958, 1960, and again this year, two or more officers were assigned to oversee activities in men's rooms throughout the central campus area. Each time a crack-down has occurred, there has been a notable and understandable reaction on the part of University officials, students and private citizens interested not only in the medical problem of homosexuality, but in the legal and moral questions which are necessarily raised by mass arrests and convictions. Varied Opinions When homosexual behavior-a psychological problem rather than a willful or violent crime-is regarded as a felony punishable by a prison term, there inevitably will be strong and often contradictory opinions as to how convicted homosexuals should be treated. For the police or others involved in law enforcement, there is little admitted conflict about how to handle homosexuals and homo- sexual activities. "It's a sex crime spelled out precisely by the law. When we get repeated complaints of offenses being committed in men's rooms, we have no choice and must move in an attempt to curb violations," Police.Capt. Walter Krasny, who headed the 1962 investigation, said. His attitude appears to be typical of policemen dealing with the problem. The Need for the Law William Ager, Washtenaw County prosecuting attorney, explained the rationale of the statute making homosexuality a crime. "It-and the investigations as well-are designed to protect both the public and the offenders. Especially in a university community where there are a lot of young men, most of whom are unmarried, the homosexuals have to be stopped. " We hear of cases all the time where some boy was 'lured' into homosexuality by an older man. Sometimes, it's just an experiment at first, but it doesn't always end with experimentation," Ager explained. Homosexuals Beaten He added that sometimes four or five high school boys will attempt to "pick up" a homosexual. One of the boys enters a men's lavatory and, if approached, agrees to engage in homosexual activities. However, before any such activity can take place the other three or four boys attack the procurer. "There have been cases where a man's money and valuables, or where his car will be stolen, and in almost all cases he's too embar- rassed to come in and report the crime. Often, too, the boys beat these people very badly and can still get away with it because no one wants to report it. Prevent Initial Contacts "And we really have to protect the homosexuals from these attacks. There seems to be no other way than by preventing them from contacting the youths in the first place," Ager said. Both Ager and Krasny denied that in the arrests "entrapment" was used. Entrapment is an illegal means said to be used sometimes by police, in which the officer either attempts to procure a male partner or else responds if another man makes it clear that he wishes homosexual activity. For University administrators, who have often met and dealt with accused or convicted homosexuals on an entirely different level than the police, the problem and the conflicts are niot quite so readily resolved. It is difficult for, them to sever personal relationships and feelings and view faculty and students merely as felons or social misfits. Homosexuals Disqualified "There is a fairly clear policy that the University has about these people: it's always been regarded as disqualification, although each case is handled individually," Executive Vice-President Marvin L. Niehuss said. "Every arrest and conviction is a serious matter. And every felony is a very serious matter. "Let's have no mistake that it's a sickness like appendicities- no, it isn't like that. There aren't very many cured, and people have incipient tendencies. "It just is not appropriate for the University to have on staff such encouragers," Niehuss admitted. Handled by Deans Niehuss added that the dean of the school or college where the convicted homosexual works, handles the case. The dean speaks to the man after his conviction and decides what he wants done. In all cases to date, those convicted have resigned from the University. If they had not, and the dean wished action taken, then names would have been sent to the tenure committee of the Univer- sity Senate, which would further investigate the situation. "What the University is concerned with is the possibility that normal boys might be pulled into homosexual behavior, Niehuss concluded. See VIEWS, Page 3 OBSCENITY DECISION SKIRTS ISSUES See Page 2 I Si4r itau :43 il HOT High-90 Low-65 Sunny today, Thundershowers tomorrow. Seventy-One Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXII, No. 4-S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1962 SEVEN CENTS FOUR PAGES GOP Sets Legislative Extension Apportionment Draws Attention By MICHAEL HARRAH City Editor Special To The Daily LANSING-In an obscure par- liamentary maneuver last night, the Republicans in the Legisla- ture pre-guessed the governor and the state Supreme Court, voting to extend their final adjournment date until Dec. 27. Eyeing the state Senate appor- tionment case (Scholle vs. Hare), due to come up before the court on Monday, the Republicans did not want to be caught short by an adverse decision. State AFL-CIO President August Scholle charges that the state ap- portionment is illegal and uncon- stitutional and asked that the up- per chamber be re-districted im- mediately. If he is successful on both counts, the Senate would have to be redrawn before the primary election, now set for Aug. 7, could be held. Argue Constitutionality Unlike his predecessor, Paul Adams, (now state Supreme Court justice) Michigan Attorney Gen- eral Frank Kelley will argue that the districts are unconstitutional, but he will not ask for their re- apportionment until after the No- vember election. If the Legislature were to ad- journ and then have the court order immediate reapportionment, only the governor could call the lawmakers back into session. If he chose not to do so, the entire state Senate might be forced to run at large, . The Senate itself also took steps in the matter, appointing Senators Carlton E. Morris (R-Kalamazoo), John W. Fitzgerald (R-Grand Ledge), and Paul F. Younger (R- Lansing) to argue the case for the Senate before the court. Turns Down Francis In other action, the House turn- ed down an attempt by Sen. Lynn 0. Francis (R-Midland) to tack $500,000 onto the state's capital outlay budget, earmarked for Wayne State University. The Sen- ate had earlier approved the amendment. Francis offered the amendment to expand the WSU medical pro- gram in order that it might ac- commodate up to 200 students, but the House balked. After some discussion, the Sen- ate backed down, and the capital outlay budget, in its original form, went to the governor. Blacklist Case Won by Faulk NEW YORK (A)--John Henry Faulk won a verdict of $3.5 million libel damages last night for his claim that false pro-Communist labels ruined his broadcasting ca- reer. The award, in a case which bar- ed television blacklisting practices of the mid-1950's, was believed to be one of the largest libel verdicts in New York history. The trial SCHWARTZ LECTURE: Reality, Marxist Ideas Conflict in Soviet Union By EARL POLE "Fundamental tensions in the Soviet Union stem from the contra- dictions between the theories and promises of Marxism and the reali- ties of Soviet life," Harold Schwartz, New York Times Russian expert, said yesterday. Schwartzspoke at the opening address for "Tensions in the So- viet Union," an inter-departmental Summer Session lecture series. Schwartz's lecture was concerned with the political and economic pressures which currently exist in the USSR. The contrast, Schwartz Revise English Program For Freshmen in Honors MATH LECTURE: Cites Need for Less Reward 4 HAROLD SCHWARTZ Soviet realities REGENTS: To approve New Budget At Meetingy By GERALD STORCH The Regents will hold a special meeting, closed to the public, be- tween 10 and 11 a.m. today to give formal approval to the University's operating budget for the next fis- cal year. University President Harlan H. Hatcher said last night that the meeting will be very short. "It will simply provide official authoriza- tion to formulate the budget." Administrators and the Regents have already decided internal fi- nancial allocations and other budgetary aspects, but had to wait until the final appropriation came from the state Legislature. A sum of $36.7 million was enacted by the House Wednesday. (At their June meeting, the Re- gents authorized the administra- tion to continue with the '61-62 budget if the appropriation did not conie by July 1.) President Hatcher also indicat- ed that the Veterans Readjust- mert Center has no chance of sur- viving. The Legislature refused to allot ts customary $246.000 ap. pronriation, and there is appar- ently no hope for obtaining other meanis of support. With today's session limiteddto the budget the Regents will de- lay consideration of other Univer- sity matters until their regular July meeting. At that time, they are expected to devote much at- tention to proposals for changes in the Office of Student Affairs structure. Expect Peace explained, between Marxist Uto- many cases gives rise to great pianism and Soviet reality, in cynicism, especially among the younger generation. He quoted from "The New Class" by Nilovan Djilas that "The most revolutionary thing that could happen in the Soviet Union would be an application of true Marxist principles in government." Eventual Results The fundamental question will not be resolved in a short time, but eventually the democratic processes within the Soviet Union will produce results. "We must not expect to wake up one morning and find that a revo- lution has taken place in Russia replacing Karl Marx with Adam Smith," he commented. Until only recently, Schwartz had been touring Eastern Europe with Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev and made the obser- vation that the Soviet leader is beginning to lack the stamina and zest which characterized his visit to the United States in 1959. Basic Conflict A basic source of conflict are the shortcomings of the Soviet ag- ricultural program. In order to pro- vide the farmer with necessary incentive to produce, the govern- ment has found it necessary to pay them higher wages. The source of this needed capital is the urban industrial worker. Urban workers naturally resent this. Above all, Schwartz said, we must work for a release in ten- sions between the United States and the USSR. As long as there i is such a great degree of fear per- vading the atmosphere of Ameri- can-Soviet relations the trend to- wards democracy in Russia will be handicapped. JOHN F. KENNEDY .--tariff cuts House Sets Trade Plan: WASHINGTON (P)-The House passed President John F. Kenne- dy's sweeping new trade expansion bill yesterday after bowling over a Republican move to continue the present program. The bill was sent to the Senate by a vote of 298 to 125. Passage of the measure came quickly after a 252-171 vote against substituting for the Kennedy pro- gram a Republican-sponsored bill which would have provided for a one-year extension of the present trade law with its depleted bar- gaining power. On this key vote 43 Republicans joined 209 Democrats in defeat- ing the substitution move while 44 Democrats and 127 Republicans were recorded for it. The triumph for the Kennedy Administration came exactly one week after the White House suf- fered, a stunning House defeat on the Kennedy farm bill. The new trade program would give Kennedy unprecedented au- thority to cut tariffs, in some cases tc zero, and would set up a sys- tem for helping firms and workers hurt by imports. By ANDR1EW SABERSKY "The amount one learns is not dependent on motivation, as com- mon sense might first indicate," Prof. Delos D. Wickens of Ohio State University said Thursday in the initial lecture of the summer series in mathematics education. "In fact, over-motivation, too great a reward, may decrease per- formance," he said, referring to several experiments in his field, experimental psychology, which indicate that when the motivation is too high, the reward or fear of punishment too great, there is a definite downward trend in per- formance. "An optimium point seems to be reached, at which the motivation is enough to improve performance, Rice Resigns 'U' Position For UC Post Louis C. Rice, assistant dean of men for fraternities, is leaving the University late next month to be- come assistant dean of men at the University of California at Berke- ley. Dean of Men Walter B. Rea said last night that a successor would not be appointed until after the July Regents meeting, when the structure of the Office of Student Affairs may be revised. Rice expressed deep regret for having to leave the University, but said "it was an offer I simply couldn't pass up." In his new post he will still be primarily concerned with fra- ternities, but will also handle some of the other duties of a student affairs office, including areas of scholarships, discipline and hous- ing. He noted that he might also have to face touchy problems of fraternity membership selection, as in 1964 a California law banning discrimination on public institu- tions will become effective. Rice took his University position in 1959, when William Cross trans- ferred to the University of Florida. but not so great as to inhibit it," he added. Referring to learning familiarity with some of the new subject mat- ter, even if only superficial, defi- ntely aided learning. "Experiments have been con- ducted in the teaching of lan- guages in which the students learned sounds in the new lan- guage without having to attach meaning to them, then later were introduced to meanings." Although it is impossible, he indicated, to learn a language merely by hearing many hours of repetition of the sound units that the language uses, such repetition does make it easier, later, to iden- tify the meaningful units of the language when expressed as a combination of the sounds. "When new problems can be analyzed in the light of previous experience, their solution becomes much easier. Many perceptions and responses that we take for granted are based on learning," Prof. Wickens asserted. He cited studies in which per- sons who had grown to adulthood blind had gained their sight. "Al- though they had learned to dis- tinguish geometrical objects by touch, they could not distinguish them visually. This form of per- ception must be learned at an early stage, before one can ver- balize or remember them," he said. "Teaching machines are really misnamed," Prof. Wickens admit- ted. "They serve to acquaint the students with the material and to prepare them for the learning process. " In this fashion, he said, they build up a background with which they can associate the new mater- ial. Flies to England After Fracture MONTE CARLO VP)-Sir Win- ston Churchill is being readied for a flight back to England in an ambulance plane today following a fall that broke a left leg bone at the hip joint. The fall occurred early yesterday morning as he was getting out of bed at his hotel. To Integrate 'Great Books' Into Course, Class Would Combine Lecture, Recitation, Fulfill Humanities By PHILIP SUTIN Freshman students in the liter- ary college Honors Program will no longer be required to take English 123 and 124. Instead, they will have to take a year-long combined great books- English course which will satisfy not only the English composition requirement, but the literary col- lege humanities requirement as well The nevi course is one of two major changes in the freshman English program, the other being the introduction, on an experi- mental basis, of lecture-recitation section instruction. PROF. DELOS D. WICKENS ..' motivated learning -1 Israeli Police ,Arrest Soblen TEL AVIV P)-Israeli policear- rested convicted Soviet spy Robert A. Soblen in a tourist hotel near the Mediterranean yesterday, less than 60 hours after he jumped $100,000 bail in New York and flew to Israel. Soblen was ordered held for in- vestigation on a charge of illegal entry into Israel. Competent Is- raeli legal authorities expressed belief he would not be allowed to stay. The United States asked Israel yesterday to turn over Soblen. The State Department announc- ed the United States request was conveyed to the Israeli ambassa- dor, Avraham Harman, by Phillips Talbot, assistant secretary of state for Near Easter nand South Asian, affairs., Press Officer Lincoln White re- portedsthe ambassador told Talbot "that he would be in touch with his government and would keep the United States informed." The State Department has an- nounced earlier that Soblen was now in a Tel Aviv prison hospital. Hospital Bureau Awarded $54,396 for Health Study The Bureau of Hospital Administration has been granted $54,396 from the United States Public Health Service to conduct a two-year study of the relationships between any community's social, economic and demographic characteristics and its needs for hospital beds and health programs. At present, the bureau is performing research on these facility requirements in Kalamazoo County and Port Huron, Thomas B. Fitz- patrick, acting director of the bureau, saidlast night. 'WHERE'S THE B The new grant will be used to refine* techniques for making such studies, so that a community of any size (can eventually possess, Lectures and Recitation The new great books course will be taught on a lecture-recitation section basis with a professor giv- ing the lectures and experienced teaching fellows or pre-doctoral instructors teaching the recita- tion sections, Prof. Hubert M. English of the English department said yesterday. Prof. English, who supervises the teaching of English 123 and 124, said that the new arrange- ment will not decrease the quality of composition instruction. There will be greater emphasis on writing than in the non-honors great books course. The size of recitation sec- tions will remain the same, he said. "The quality of compositions will be improved," Prof. Otto Graf, head of the Honors Program said, "because it will be based on the reading of common texts, lectures and elaborate class discussions. These serve to point up the issues and provoke a reaction-the b-st condition for verbal or written ex- pression." The year-long course may be applied against the 12 cre.dits needed under the new humanities requirement that goes into effect this fall. Beginning with this freshman class, students are re- quired to take a sequence in one of three humanities groups-- lit- erature, fine arts and philosophy- and a course in another. The English department is also offei'ing 18 sections of English 123 and 12 sectionsofEnglish 124 under a lecture-recitation section arrangement.' In English 123 the lectures w ill ,cover rhetoric and in English 124 literature will be discussed, Prof. English explained. No Special Requisites There are no special require- ments for taking the lecture course. Freshmen may still select Irecitation-onlysections if, they wish, he said. "The course provides more sub- ject matter and less technique for study." It is experimental and if ASEMENT?': Receptionist Leaves Post "practical working methods for de- termining its need for hospitals and other health facilities," he' added. Fitzpatrick criticized the "rule of thumb" process currently em- ployed in hospital planning. 1 "Not only do such rules maket insufficient allowance for region-' al and local differences in popu- lation desires, needs and resources,l ITVut i By CYNTHIA NEU When a faculty member was in "May I help you?" Egypt,' a former University stu- For the past 14 years, Dorothy ident came up to him in the Cairo Legg has been asking this ques- airport and handed him a package tion and answering numerous to be delivered to Mrs. Legg. The others in her job as receptionist content was a white feather fan. for University News Service and People-Watching Public Relations. Mrs. Legg says the Administra- tion, however, she has found she gets many interesting (and sur- prised) reactions. At a luncheon given for her yesterday, Mrs. Legg received gifts from collegues, including a vase from Holland, dog biscuits and :>