LEGAL BATTLES OVER D.C. SCHOOL SYSTEM See editorial page icj r- 5k i~rau ~E~Aiti FAIR High-S Low-60 Mostly cloudy with little change in temperature Seventy-Six Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVII, No. 61S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1967 SEVEN CENTS SIX PAGES CONSTRUCTION DELAYED: Michigan State Lacks Funds To Complete Medical School RomneyayH Dill uonaemns Phase Out D11 (1J By WALLACE IMMEN Third of four parts Special To The Daily LANSING-Michigan State Uni- versity must delay the opening of its planned four-year medical school indefinitely, according to Charles Downs, the project's di- rector. Although a full medical degree- granting program has been au- thorized at MSU, no funds were allocated for its operation by the state Legislature this year. This will set back the construction of an $11.8 million life sciences building, which has to begin this fall, and will delay planning for three other necessary medical buildings. The four-year program, leading to the MD degree had received ap- proval from the State Board of Education just last January. After a long series of consultations the board acted on the recommenda- tions of an intensive study of medical education which found that a critical shortage of open- ings will soon exist in the state, driving large numbers of qualified students to schools in other states or into other professions. A two-year College of Human Medicine, which grants no degree By The Associated Press PULLMAN, Wash. - DR. S. J. BEHRMAN of the University's Medical Center said yesterday that an anti-pregnancy vaccine, aimed at insuring a 6-to-12 month nonconception period, may be available within five years. Dr. Behrman, addressing an international symposium of the mammalian oviduct at Washington State University, said several laboratories are working towards a vaccine which would be more acceptable, less= costly, and more effective than current contra- ception methods, including the pill. PROF. ROSS WILHELM of the School of Business Adminis- istration said recently in his radio program "Business Review" that Congress must pass a law assuming the risk for damages incurred in riots and mass disturbances in American cities. Otherwise, Wilhelm said, insurance companies will "be most reluctant to ever insure a business in a potential riot area again." And without insurance, he added, few businessmen - white or Negro-could open a store in such an area. Wilhelm also noted that "Federal troops must be immediately available for deployment at critical times without legalistic nit- picking by the administration ih Washington while a city burns. We do not need any 20th century Neros." AUGUST IS A MONTH of natural fireworks in the sky -- a huge display of meteors or "shooting stars." According to University astronomer Prof. Hazel M. Losh, the annual meteor shower will be visible for two or three weeks. The peak will come between Aug. 10 and 12, when up to 70 meteors per hour may be observed. GRADUATE ASSEMBLY in cooperation with the local chap- ter of the, Red Cross, is sponsoring an emergency blood clinic for Detroit riot victims. The clinic will be held on Wednesday, August 2, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the third floor of the Michi- gan Union. Donations will be accepted from anyone in the area. * * * * "DETROIT: RIOT OR REVOLUTION?" will be the topic of discussion for a panel including former Congressman Weston Vivian and Professor Albert Reiss of the sociqlogy department Mayor John Burton of Ypsilanti is also to participate in the panel. The meeting, sponsored by the Ann Arbor chapter of Amer- icans for Democratic Action, is open to the public without charge, and wil be held Sunday, August 6, at 8:00 P.M., in the third floor conference room of the Michigan Union. * * * * - THREE AMBASSADORS AND a prince of Thailand have joined the list of foreign dignitaries planning to attend the 27th Congress of Orientalists at The University of Michigan this month.' Prof. Russell H. Fifield of the Political Science Dept., secre- tary-general of the congress, said he has been notified that His Highness Prince Dhani Nivat of Thailand, and Their Excellencies Chow Shu-Kai of the Republic of China, Agha Hilaly of Pakistan, and Wong Lin: Ken of the Republic of Singapore will come to the Ann Arbor week of Aug. 13 for the Congress' first meeting in the Western hemisphere. United Nations Secretary-General U Thant announced earlier that he would address a plenary session of the congress. About 1,500 scholars and diplomats representing some 50 nations will attend the week-long session, which is meeting here to honor the University's Sesquicentennial. but has a curriculum similar to the first two years in most four- year medical schools, completed its first year of operation at MSU in June. Its director, Hillyard Jason, reports that the operation to this point "has gone more smoothly than we had expected." The 26 students in the first en- tering class must transfer next year to complete their last two years at a four-year medical school. The University and Wayne State University, currently the on- ly medical schools in the state, have expressed their willingness to take the third-year students from MSU into their programs. An alternative under consider- ation is to allow the third and fourth year students to complete their work under supervision in local hospitals and in remodeled classroom space. Details of such a plan will be presented this fall. At present, the two-year college is housed in the buildings of the School of Veterinary Medicine and research facilities run by the chemistry and biology depart- ments. No four year curriculum, how- ever, could receive accreditation until the school has its own hos- pital, and the facilities of a second life sciences building, Downs noted. Planned after that are two more biomedical buildings. The whole project would reqire at least $25 million and several fed- eral agencies would match what- ever support is given by the state Legislature. But construction costs are rising and with a an already strained budget, the chances of the state providing the upwards of $13 million in the near future is not good. Money Pledged A $1.2 million portion of the funding for the first life sciences building has been pledged by the National Institute of Health. Downs noted that the Kellogg Foundation has promised a $350,- 000 grant. Even if funds were to be found for the life sciences building, however,. most of the room provided would be used to house the two year program and MSU's school of Nursing and Pharmacology. Teaching labora- tories would be the major feature of the building, office and clinical facilities would be at a premium. "Our biggest fight will be for the hospital," Downs said. Plans call for a 300-bed facilty with an out-patient and student clinic, at a cost of about $16 million. A re- quest for planning funds was omitted from the latest *MSU budget because of previous build- ing commitments. Plans call for all new medical buildings to be located in a cluster at the north end of the campus. An Ad Hoc Faculty Planning Com- mittee was recently formed to in- vestigate alternative means of fi- nancing the units. Response Excellent Despite the setbacks, student response for the existing two-year program has been reported "excel- lent." Hunt said over 300 appli- cations were received to fill the 26 openings in this fall's first year class. He brushed off suggestions that only students rejected by four-year colleges would want to enter the program at MSU. "We get students as talented as any in the country because there is a severe shortage of medical educa- tional facilities," he said. "We are building an excellent staff," he added. "They are in- trigued by our plans. TOMORROW: Plans for an Osteopathic College. l Guard Units State Troopers Also To Leave Detroit If Peace Continues DETROIT UP) - Gov. Rom- ney said yesterday that if the Detroit situation continues to "go smoothly" all National Guard troops called into the city to quell rioting last week would be phased out by early next week. The same procedure will apply to State Police troopers called in, he said. Romney told newsmen-that "un- less something happens" to renew violence he would end the state of emergency, which was declar- ed July 23 when rioting broke out in the Motor City. The governor said he believed the State Police and the National Guard troops had performed their task of restoring order with com- petence. West Side He pointed out that the Guards- men were assigned to patrol the city's West Side, which the he described as "the toughest area" of sniping and other violence. Romney said he had discussed with Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh the establishment of a joint com- mittee to investigate the causes of the rioting which resulted in 41 deaths and 500 million in dam- age. One lesson learned from the experience, Romney said, was that it was "very important to have adequate action in time" to put down any racial flareups. Romney has accused President Johnson of playing politics "dur- ing a period of tragedy and riot" in Detroit by delaying dispatch of federal paratroopers to the city's riot zones last week. The governor pointed out that many of the National Guardsmen were some 300 miles away in sum- mer training when the violence first erupted. Transportation He said he thought it was re- markable that they moved into the Detroit area as quickly as they did, considering the fact that trucks and other transportation had to be provided to move the troops. Romney sad that troops could be moved faster into Detroit from Ft. Bragg, N.C., by jet transport than they could be by truck from Camp Grayling, where Guards- men were training. Some National Guardsmen, he said, were in Detroit-area arm- ories Sunday morning when the rioting began and were kept there on a standby basis until they were called into action. Others were alerted in Grand Rapids, 150 miles to the west, and arrived in Detroit within three hours after called upon, Romney said. His announcement of plans to remove the National Guard from Detroit came a day after Mayor Jerome P.tCavanagh requested a "penetrating and thoughtful" investigation of the conduct of city, state and federal govern- ments in connect with the riot. Meanwhile, Cyrus Vance, the President's representative in De- troit, also commenting on the De- troit situation, said yesterday that there were no politics in- volved in decisions to send feder- al troops to help quell recent riots there. Vance, after first reporting to Johnson, later told newsmen his decision to recommend troops was "based on my own best, honest judgment of the situation as it stood." -Associated Press TOUR COMPLETED Presidential envoys Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, left, and Clark M. Clifford, center, talk with Adm. U. S. Grant Sharp, pacific military commander, after they arrived in Honolulu yesterday. Priror to this stop, they had visited five Vietnam war allies during their two-week tour. Taylor and Clifford will return to Washington today. MSU- Tuition Scheme SECOND YEAR: Literary College Experiments With Pass-Fail Grade System By JOHN GRAY First of Three Partsj In 1912 the literary college of the University broke with tradi- tion and instituted a new system of grading. Instead of receiving grades of pass, conditional or fail, students began to find A's,1 B's, C's, D's and even E's on their transcripts: In 1967 the literary college ac- knowledged that their experiment' with letter grades had been at least a partial failure. Certain seniors were permitted to take certain courses under an approx- imation of the old pass-fail sys- tem. This fall, the use of the old system is going to be expanded. Both juniors and seniors "in good standing" will be permitted to take nna rit~c nr semester on a bass- (11 per cent). When questioned as to why they had chosen a par- ticular course for pass-fail, 70 per cent of the students replied that it was the most difficult course they had elected, the one that .presented the most "test pres- sure." Most of the students said they would have taken the course anyway, however. Almost all of the students who took the pass-fail option were pleased with the program. Al- though many seniors tend to treat all final-semester courses as pass- fail (because their grade are often not seen by employers or gradu- ate schools) they felt that the actual use of the system gave them a more relaxed learning atmosphere. The only source of major dis- satisfaction among optiontakers was the knowledege that they would have gotten a higher grade See PASS, Page 2 Resolution Not Bindling On Trustees'' Legislative Body Calls Ability-to-Pay Scale 'Unique, Unworkable' By DAVID KNOKE A resolution calling on Michigan State University trustees to aban- don plans for basing tuition on an ability-to-pay basis passed the State House yesterday in Lansing with no votes to spare. The resolution, condemning the system as "unique, unworkable and undoubtedly constitutionally questionable",received exactly the 56 votes needed to pass. Thirty- eight members opposed the reso-. lution, which has no binding ef- fect on the trustees. Demoratic trustee C o n n 0 r Smith, who was the swing-vote in the board's decision in July to establish the scaled tuition rates for in-state students, said yester- day that the board would proba- bly wait upon a ruling from At- torney General Frank Kelley on the plan's constitutionality before taking further action. Four Trustees "If the other four trustees who voted for the plan are willing to change, I would be glad to also," said Smith. Smith said he favors an across the board tuition hike to meet shortages in requested funds from the Legislature. He changed his vote in favor of the scaled-tuition plan to break a deadlock between Republican and Democratic trustees. The MSU ability-to-pay plan Y calls for students from families making $11,800 or less to pay the minimum $354 tuition and stu- dents whose family income' is above $16,666 to pay a maximum of $500. Students from families with income between those figures would pay a tuition rate of three per cent of their parents' gross income. The current in-state student tuition is $358.50 per year. A substitute resolution praising the graduated tuition system as "a socially progressive effort" was de- feated 31-63. Condemnation Republican floor leader William Hampton, who voted for the con- demnation resolution, said kelley is expected to rule soon on the legality of MSU requiring students to divulge their families' incomes. He added the plan does not take into account the number of chil- dren in the family. ",you call that equity?" Hamp- ton said. "I think this thing they've come up with is just about as ridiculous as anything I've ever seen come down the pike." Although the Legislature can- not require MSU trustees to aban- don the plan, Hampton noted, lawmakers can show disapproval of "this silly, inequitable pro- grom" when voting appropriations for Michigan State next year. Ability-to-Pay Trustee Don Stevens, the in- itator of the ability-to-pay plan, says that the resolution "means nothing to us. The Legislature can't tell us what to do because the board is a separate entity." Only five Democrats voted with 51 Republicans to pass the resol- ution. The only Republican 'to vote against the motion was Dale Warnar (R-Eaton Rapids), grad- uate of MSU. Prof. Charles Killingsworth of MSU, member of a faculty com- mittee that studied the original trustee proposal for the gradu- - ated tuition plan, commented, "The resolution is unfortunate be- cause tuition should be the pri- mary policy of the governing board, and not the Legislature." Original Plan The original- scaled plan called for a tuition range from 1200 to free tutition. The faculty group recommended a smaller range, according to Killingsworth, "on the basis of an adverse effect on enrollment nnRv." Board May Cancel School Millage Vote, i IC E C C E f 1 i 1 Broadcast Editors Discuss Role of Media During Riot Situations in Urbani Ghettos 1 F f 1 t { one course perallbl«aNa-! fail basis. By ANN MUNSTER Board President Schumacher. Two Weeks Grace TheiAnn Arbor school millage Schumacher, Trustee Wite Care The- option will only apply in election, scheduled for August 28, cuahr rse iimC elective courses outside the stu- may not take place after all. In Godfrey andTrustee Joseph R. dent's major field. The student will fact, taxes may be lowered, rath- Jkulin. The committee will report have two weeks grace at the start er than raised this year. cation next week. of the semester to decide on The sudden change came Wed- The legal issue of the reserve which basis he wants to be grad- nesday night after the Board of was first raised last Friday by ed. Education was informed by its Jay Snell, chairman of the Millage Under the system as it is now legal counsel, Roscoe 0. Bonisteel, Study Group, a group of citizens employed, instructors never know Jr., that the maintenance of a who opposed the defeated millage which, if any, students are tak- working capitalreserve-now $2,- re ests for 5 May 8 and June ing his course on pass-fail. He 563,538 - was not authorized by 12qu submits a letter grade to the reg- law. Although this year's budget is istrar's office, which marks the Commenting on the opinion, the immediate problem, the most pass-fail student's transcript with School Board President Hazen J. serious implication of the opinion a P if he received a C, B or A Schumacher, Jr. said, "Our legal may come next spring, when and enters an F if he received a counsel bases his opinion on his my rs wi be nked to rnew the D or an E.F study of relevant court cases andexing42mlsadprblyt The University is not alone in the 1963 Michigan constitution. pirin 4 mill abl to its partial rejection of the let- His opinion is also conditioned pass an additional millage to ter-grade system. A growing nu=- by legislation which allows school maintain the level of spending ber of colleges and universities are districts to borrow in anticipa- created previously by the use of beginning to give the same or tion of taxes and also to collect the working capital reserve. Schu- similar options to their students. ahportion of the school taxes in a macher said the request for an CRLT StudyF the summer. additional millage may be "size- cl th n"The latter legislation is note- able." Csty's Cesnte fo Researcho- worthy since our reserve has been Schumacher also noted possible Learning and Teaching, (CRLT) built up to provide operating funds statewide implications in the is in the process of conducting a from the July 1st beginning of change since many school districts study of the pass-fail program at our fiscal year until school tax follow the practice of maintaining the University. Much of the data collections in December." a working capital reserve. below was collected by him and Without Reserve Executive Session published in the CRLT's "Memo Schumacher added, "without the The legal opinion concerning to the Faculty." reserve, it would have been neces- the millage and its possible impli- Last spring, 203 seniors in good sary to borrow operating funds for cations triggered a request by Don- standing elected to take advan- this period. The attorney's opin- aid Newsted, president of the Ann tage of the new pass-fail program. ion means that, first, all of the Arbor Teachers Association, and They elected a total of 104 dif-$2.5 million must be in the budg- David Stipe, a key member of the Th_1 -----ted. ...total o4_ _1_4 dTAf-crfio in a m .fnr a By GAIL SMILEY no credibility when it calls for All the riot cities were repre- law and order during the fracas. senteatlthe rodcstrEditors' Afterwards, Scott, said, the sta- sented at the Broadcast Eirstion should have a broadcast dia- luncheon yesterday in the League. tionuhe rbroadcstdga- Newsmen from Los Angeles, St. logue on the problems of the ghet- LouismChicagoNewLorNew-.to. He stressed that a station can Louis, Chicago, Nw YorkNw be a powerful force in the comn- ark, Grand Rapids and Detroitbeapwrufocinteom were among those present. Man- munity to be used to work toward agers of radio and television sta- solutions to social problems. tions in the riot-torn cities spoke All the speakers told of their and the othernewsmen asked efforts to find leaders in the Ne- gro community. Howard Williams, uestions. It was like a briefing of veteran of the Watts riot, said that "ostensible leaders of the Negro Television man Joe Vaughn, community weren't too interested. Bill Fyffe, news director of WXYZ-Detroit, said "we shouldn't give a damn what Negro leaders say. There aren't any. Go into the ghetto, don't talk to the lead- ers." Fyffe was asked if television stations incited riots by their pic- torial coverage and he replied that there was no mention of the De- troit riot on the news until two ' hours after it started. He also' said that the Civil Rights Com- mission had asked television and radio stations not to use the word In the discussion of the causes of the riots, the consensus was that it wasn't the lowest class that was rioting, but predominat- ly the lower middle class. A delegate from San Francisco said that his station had planned to do a documentary on the dan- ger of fires in windy San Fran- cisco but had cancelled it because' "the power of suggestion could burn the whole town down." He said that loot from Newark and Detroit is showing up daily in San Francisco.