BLACK POWER AND WHITE MODERATES See editorial page Ci I r Swit t. a 743 A6F PARTLY CLOUDY High--86 Low 58 Variable cloudiness; chance of showers Seventy-Six Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVII, No. 528 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1967 SEVEN CENTS FOUR PA( Conversations with 'U Regents: Mrs. Heu bne By THOMAS R. COPI Special To The Daily BLOOMFIELD HILLS-"I think it's sad that the Regents have to get their jobs through politics," Mrs. Gertrude Heubner says from the veranda of her spacious sub- urban Detroit home. "If the Dem- ocrats had asked me to run for Regent I would have run on the Democratic ticket. I don't think there's that much difference," she says. She adds, ."although I'm a Re- publican, I recommended to Gov. Romney that he appoint a Dem- ocrat to fill the vacancy left by Allan Sorenson's resignation." Mrs. Heubner says shies a sub- urban housewife and a freelance writer. She wrote advertising copy for a Detroit agency for thirty years, and now writes a "food" column for the Birmingham Ec- centric. Much of the freelance writing she does is "food" writing. She claims that in the race for Regent she "campaigned on re- cipes. I had recipe cards that I handed out during the campaign, and they were a marvelous gim- mick, because I could get into plants where they'd tear up Rom- ney's picture, but they'd take a free recipe home to the little woman. w "In some small towns," she re- calls, "where nobody knows or cares who the educationaldcandi- dates are, I'd give the editor of the newspaper a recipe and inter- view and get into print that way." A Little Naive Mrs. Heubner claims that she ran for the Board of Regents be- cause "someone suggested that I run; I was a little naive then. Frankly I didn't know how much work it would entail." She says "I've never been the gung-ho, back-to-campus type, but I've always been interested in the University-both I and my hus- band graduated from the Univer- sity. "I became interested in working with higher education while serv- ing in the scholarship committee of Oakland University. Even though my husband was a founder of Oakland, I felt no particular at- tachment to it; but I find that being a Regent is a much more re- warding thing to do." She adds that she "ran into some hostility toward campus ac- tivists when campaigning. But I don't think that the University has a real problem, especially com- pared to other schools. "The year before I ran for Re- gent, I went on a lecture tour with my husband, who is director of re- search for Chrysler; we stopped in many university towns where he'd deliver lectures on graduate engin- eering research, and while he was lecturing, I'd go to the demon- strations. "I was at demonstrations at Berkeley and Stanford, MIT and Cornell. Actually, the University has a very orderly campus. Also, the University-probably due to the reputation it has built up over the years-is getting less bad press than the other big schools in the country," she concludes. "I don't worry about activism on campus at all, she adds. "I think its a healthy sign. I certainly think it's more intelligent than it used to be; and anyway, sit-ins or things of that. nature are at least for some decent cause instead of just panty-raiding or jumping out of dormitory windows or some of the completely juvenile things that students do. I must say though, that I don't always admire the methods used. "The students are smarter than they were when I was in school, and better informed on everything. They're aware of what's going on in the world. They want to under- stand it and they want to do something about it. We were the Depression generation,' she con- tinues, "and were just concerned with getting in there, getting out, and earning a living. This genera- tion of students wants to find out what living is all about." On the operation of the Uni- versity, Mrs. Heubner comments that "in many ways it's run like a dictatorship to get things done rapidly. Only wealthy institutions, like wealthy countries - can be- come democracies. And while there are many times when we have to move rapidly, there are also a lot of long-range decisions which don't require immediate attention, and those are the ones, I assume, where the students want to have more say. "Students today," she says, "seem to want something more than the old-fashioned suggestion box which management put in the plant to keep labor happy." As the only woman on the Board of Regents, Mrs. Heubner feels that she has a special role. "I've been called the 'den mother' for the University," she says, "and believe me, I am. You wouldn't believe some of the stuff that parents write to me about. One woman wrote her daughter had received an offer to sing in 'what is known in Ann Arbor as a night club.' Her daughter was in music school, and she was worried that singing in a club might ruin her daughter's voice. She wanted me to find out how much smoke there was in the club. "One complaint I get quite often from parents is that they don't feel that there's enough difference in either age or edu- cation between their child and the teaching fellows who do so much of the classroom teaching. They think that there should be more contact with the 'name' pro- fessors - the department heads," she says. "Getting and keeping good fac- ulty people is a worry to me," she adds. "We have to insure that our established facultynmembers can't be lured away, and that our young people coming up can't be lured away. This problem," she says, "like so many others, is closely related to the amount of money the University has." MRS. GERTRUDE HUEBNER I 1VISU FEE N INC M BAS BUDGET PROCEDURES: WSU Administration Blocks Cause Evaluation Program By TRACY BAKER Special To The Daily DETROIT-Wayne State Uni- versity's year-old Course Evalua- tion Program (CEP), a student- faculty council (S-FC) project, is in trouble. According to some stu- dent leaders, last year's program report may not be published, due to a change in university budget- ary procedures. However, Vice President for Stu- dent Affairs James P. McCormic announced that the report will be published, and that "the only problems are what form it will be printed in and whether to charge for it." S-FC's appropriation for the printing and free distribution ,of a course evaluation booklet was recently dismissed because S-FC had not gotten approval under a new United Budget Committee (UBC). Because of a change in WSU's accounting department procedures, it is now necessary for the Uni- versity Budget Committee (UBC) to review the supplementary ap- propriations, made by the S-FC. The discovery that the appro- priation had not passed was dis- covered when a printing firm call- ed the Associate Dean of Students J. Don Marsh and asked for a work order for the program re-t port. When Marsh told the prin- ters he lacked the authority to okay the order, the printer re- turned the report to him. A mem- ber of the S-FC Executive Board sees the accounting change as an "administration gambit" to cut funds for several S-FC supported activities, including- the CEP. Hints that there were other problems in the program came when Mary Conheim, next year's CEP editor, mentioned to S-FC chairman Chuck Larson that; NEWS WIRE Marsh had the book and had told her that he thought it would be safer for him to keep it. Larson called McCormic and demanded that he order the re- turn of the book, claiming that Marsh was going to censor it. McCormic described Larson as 'very agitated." Larson then talk- ed to Marsh, who said that he could return the book to Miss Conheim if she would assume "custodial responsibility for it." The book was then returned. Accusations of interference with an S-FC committee have been frequent. One student said that Dean of Students Duncan Sells said that he would not sign a work order until the administration was satisfied with the report. Sells said that he told students the administration would not sign a work order until they were satisfied the report was being printed in the most inexpensive form. According to McCormic, "the report will be printed as soon as the administration knows where Wayne stands financially. Some student leaders have also said that the future of the CEP is uncertain. Miss Conheim said that when she went to Marsh's office to fill out payroll forms, Marsh told her that "no money has been appro- priated for next year's program," and that as a result she might not have a job. Marsh conceded that no money had been appropriated for the CEP, but he said it was because no budget request had been sub- mitted. He said he felt the pro- gram would be continued, but that he could not say what the budg- et would be until a request was, submitted. Yesterday, Miss Conheim sub- mitted a request for $12,400 ex- clusive of final printing costs, for next year's program. In discussing the request with Sells, whom she described as "extremely accommo- dating," Miss Conheim learned that there was "every likelihood" that the request would be granted. Trustees et In-State Hike On Ability-to-Pay Residents To Pay $354-500; Out-of-State Hike Set at $180 By STEPHEN FIRSHEIN Co-Editor EAST LANSING-The Michigan State University Board of Trustees yesterday approved an in-state tuition increase based on students' ability-to-pay, and a flat out-of-state hike of $180 for a normal year's attendance. The action was taken to supplement inadequate legis- lative appropriations which left MSU substantially short of its projected 1967-68 operating budget of $66.5 million. On a strict party split, the five Democratic members edged out the three Republican trustees on a motion to adopt a unique tuition plan whereby undergraduate in-state stu- dents will be charged three per cent of their parents' income, with a minimum tuition for a year of $354 and a maximum U'P a of $500. I-state graduates will be charged on a similar formula,IM ore Loans but $30 additional was approv- eto create a differential' be -. tween undergrads and grads. For"or 'Tuition Under the precedent-setting University students caught short ability-to-pay plan, the three per by an increase in educational fees cent rate applies to family in- can expect some University assist- comes between a minimum In- ance in loans and increased grants. come level of $11,800 and a max- "Our policy has always been that imum figure of $16,666. no one will be denied and educa- Students will be asked to bring tion here because of lack of funds, a copy of their federal income tax and we will do our best to con- so tax figures can be used as a tinue that policy, Vice-President basis for fee assessment. It isfor Student Affairs Richard L. planned to put the new step in- Cutler said- -Daily-Robert Sheffield MSU TRUSTEES SPENT most of yesterday deadlocked over the unique ability-to-play plan for increasing in-state tuition. Shown attending yesterday's East Lansing meeting are (left to right) Dan Stevens (D) a Trustee; Jack Breslin, the Trustee secretary; Cannon Smith (D), the Trustee who voted with his party to break the tie; Phillip May, treasurer, and John Hannah, MSU President. TQ. Break M SU Deadlock Vote by Party i Late World News By The Associated Press WASHINGTON-The unknown owners of some 9,000 large- screen color television sets'were told by the government yesterday to disconnect them immediately pending a check on possible radioactivity. The television sets involved are large-screen color consoles and table models made by the General Electric Co. and purchased between Sept. 1, 1966, and May 31, 1967. Small-screen color and black and white receivers are not involved. Surgeon General William H. Stewart of the Public Health Service said tests of tubes supplied by the manufacturer indicated that a "large percentage" of the tubes leaked radiation at levels "representing a potential hazard to human health." OAK PARK, Mich.-Flood waters caused by torrential rains this week have receded, leaving residents of Detroit's suburb with a messy cleanup job and property damage expected to run into the millions of dollars. Dr. William Prychodko, a cancer researcher at Wayne State University, saw years of work destroyed when flood waters reach- ed the basement ceiling of his Oak Park home. Prychodko lost his collection of professional journals, research papers and dozens of rolls of film and notes from a recent research trip to South- east Asia. THE U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE Division of Chronic Diseases has approved a $12,600 cancer control project grant to the Department of Pathology to launch a school of cytotechno- logy. The school, to be directed by Bernard Naylor, associate professor of pathology, will be the third in Michigan authorized to train the special medical technologists who search body cells for abnormalities and play an important role in unmasking the early stages of cancer. The grant will cover the six-month training of four students in the first class. The students will study gynecologic, respira- By WALLACE IMMEN Special To The Daily EAST LANSING - The eight MSU Trustees met in closed ses- sion all day Thursday and for about three hours yesterday to re- solve the problem of in-state tui- tion increases. Prior to the deci- sion the board had been evenly split, with four Democrats insist- ing that an ability-to-pay system was the only feasible method of increasing tuition revenues. Three Republicans and one Democrat fought what they term- ed, "placing additional financial burden on the in-state student" and advocated further cuts in al- ready-trimmed programs. Deferred loan repayments and the increase of nearly 1500 in enrollment were cited as sources of additional rev- enue which could reduce the bud- get deficit to only $1.9 m'illion. After a long caucus, Connor petition which has hindered the Smith, the dissenting Democrat, growth of private colleges by switched his vote to the side of making public education available his four Democratic colleagues at a much more reasonable rate." "not because I really want to, but Republican Challenger because if we don't reach a deci- sion today, there would only be chaos tomorrow." "It is easy to see that most stu- dents today are quite affluent," Smith continued, "and it is the only sensible. alternative to assess them according to what they have." Trustee C. Alan Harlan com- mented after the meeting that Smith had changed his vote main- ly because he saw that "our in- tegrity as an employer and educa- tor would be threatened by any more operating cuts." He said he had hoped the University would adopt the ability-to-pay system because it avoids the "unfair com- He was challenged by, Repub- lican trustee Kenneth Thompson, who said it would have been much more sensible to cut another $500,000 from operating costs. He insisted this would have made an in-state tuition hike of as little as $30-$45 possible and that stu- dents with real money problems would "still be able to find many student aid funds." "Ability-to-pay shakes Mich- igan State and all it stands for," Thompson exclaimed. "This is the biggest give-away to low-income students I've ever seen, and I want no part of it." 'Our plan averts the strain placed on families with income between $8,000 and $11,000 who could not qualify for poverty aid grants," explained Clair White, another Democrat. Unified State Tuition 'I had hoped we could talk with Michigan and Wayne StateI to see if we could develop a uni- fied -tuition formula,"' said Frank Merriman, a Republican, who call- ed the tuition scale "legalized stealing from in-state students whose educations should be sub- sidized by the state." After the final vote Harlan pre- dicted that this decision is the start of a "new era" which will make sure that universities have the money they want despite fluctuations in the automobile in- dustry. the state's major revenue crease in effect this fall. At present, tuition for both in- state levels is $340. Out-of-state tuition, currently $1,924, will be set at $1200 for undergraduates and $1,230 for graduate students. Other Schools Out-of-state students represent about 21 per cent of the MSU enrollment, expected to be around 39,000 this fall. The trustees' announcement came a day after the Wayne State Governors increased in-state tui- tion $99 and out-of-state fees by $300. Both decisions, and methods of approach will be weighed by the University Regents, who will set a tuition increase at their next meeting-expected next week. In other action, the trustees followed on the heels of other state universities and raised its $870 a year dormitory fees to $900, due to increased labor and food costs. At MSU almost three-fourths of the students use university-owned housing. Faculty Salaries Up In addition, the board voted to implement a 4.95 per cent average faculty salary increase to "keep MSU in a competitive position for the recruitment and retention of high caliber faculty." On the tuition issue, the trustees agreed that there was no alterna-: tive but to comply with the state Legislature's stipulation, in the Higher Education appropriation that non-resident students pay 75 Amount Unknown "Until the Regents establish a budget and act on a fee increase, we will not know how much ad- ditional money can be allocated for financial aid," Walter B. Rea, director of student financial aids, said. "However, we feel confident that aid resources will be increased, since this has been the Universi- ty's policy whenever fees have been increased.", Virtually all scholarship funds have already been assigned for the coming year, so loans and grants will make up most of the addi- tional support. The University is already com- mitted to 1,805 Regents-Alumni scholarships. Most of these are for "full fees," but when the schol- arships were awarded in the spring that phrase in most cases meant $348. No action can be taken to bring the scholarships in line witih higher fees until the Regents es- tablish a budget and fee schedule. Scholarships at Old Level In addition, 2,311 students are to receive $745,000 in scholarships from the Michigan Higher Edu- cation Assistance Authority. These scholarships are frozen by the state at the fee level in effect when they were awarded in the spring. The University will have some $500,000 in Educational Oppor- tunity Grant funds for needy stu- (Business School Cuts Ph.D. Program; Adds New Courses 'By JOYCE BURCH The School of Business Admin- istration will put a new, four year Ph.D. program into effect this fall. The change in program was moti- vated by concern over the extreme length ofntime necessary to earn a Ph.D., as well as by a desire to up- date the program. Prof. Richard Leabo, chairman of the Doctoral Studies Committee programs simply because . they have spent so much deciding when to complete their degree. The exams and dissertation pro- posal now have been placed on a schedule that is structured to avoid wasting student's time. New trends in business have in- fluenced some of the academic changes.. Awareness of the in- creased usefulness of the computer led ti the addition of courses in schools or for research-oriented careers in business and in gov- ernment. To prepare them for this, a course in pedagogy is re- quired for all students. Business School doctoral stu- dents studied the old program and recommended possible changes. Faculty members gave their views throughout planning for the de- gree program and, in January, voted to accept it. i i I