JOHNSON AND CONGRESS ARE SHORT-SIGHTED See editorial page - C, r ign A6F :43 a t tjS SUNNY High-79 Low-60 Fair and pleasant with a cooling trend Seventy-Six Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVII, No. 62 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1967 SEVEN CENTS SIX PAGES Osteopathic College To Grow in Field of Weeds By WALLACE IMMEN Last of a Series Special To The Daily PONTIAC-Today, the Michigan College of Osteopathic Medicine consists of a grey prefabricated of- fice building in a weedy field. Planners of the college say this field will soon be the site of the largest and most advanced osteo- pathic school in the country. However, they are encountering serious obstacles. Chief among them: its $85.9 million construc- tion cost, which can only be pro- vided through state and federal support. Osteopaths throughout the coun- try are now throwing their weight behind a campaign to gain MCOM's approval as the fourth medical school in the state. They complain that the state is cur- rently biased against osteopathic medicine, even though osteopaths go through similar training in many respects to medical doctors. Their practice, however, does not depend entirely on drugs, but on a theory that disease is caused by dislocations of muscles and bones. The request to make MCOM the second state-supported osteopathic college in the country is now be- fore the State Board of Educa- tion, which coordinates the plan- 1 ning of the state's higher educa- tion system. The project had been approved about for years ago, be- fore the new state constitution established the board, but beforel plans could get under way, ap-. proval was denied pending "an-, other look at the proposal." There are currently five opera- ting osteopathic colleges in the country, two in Missouri and one each in Pennsylvania, Illinois and Iowa. A sixth osteopathic college became a state supported non- osteopathic medical school in 1963 because of its connection with the Los Angeles County Hospital. The precedent for state support is in Pennsylvania, whose legis- lature is currently financing the construction of a $7.6 million os- teopathic hospital for the Phila- delphia college and providing operating allocations of $3,600 per student. The other colleges are supported mainly through grants from federal health agencies,. alumni and foundation contribu- tions. All these sources of revenue,! however, will all have to be com- bined to cover the cost of facil- ities, which will average $9 million a year over a ten year period of construction. The MCOM planning committee has prepared an impressive set of drawings and studies which are based on a national "Education for Health Care" report of 1965. This set a goal of 690 medical graduates per year for Michigan to meet its medical needs in the next decade. Last year the Univer- sity and Wayne State University graduated a total of 296 doctors.) A third school at Michigan State University has receiyed board ap- proval, but its construction has been delayed by budget cutbacks. Student response has been re- ported excellent to the possibility' of the 128 openings per year, which the new osteopathic school would afford. According to Dr. Vincent Murphy, chairman of the MCOM board, 2,240 students from Michigan applied to osteopathic schools in other states last year because there' are no such facil- ities in the state. He said that of those, about 100 were rejected for mere lack of space in existing schools. The "fourth college" plan has' been under intensive study by the State Board for several months. Board president Edwin Novack of Flint said recently that the pre- sentation was "received favorably" and that the fate of the project will be decided in the early fall. In the meantime, preliminary work in Pontiac is going ahead stitution, it can get large amounts using private donations. Over $3 million has already been collected, according to Dr. Peter' Bubeck, of Grand Rapids, presi-1 dent of the Osteopathic College Foundation. "At the present rate of donations, we won't need money until we begin construction in 1969," he said, "but a 'project of this scope is impossible to build purely on private funds." But falling profits in the auto- motive industry have caused a fiscal "belt tightening" in Michi- gan Education programs. "We still think more funds can be found for so important a facil- ity," Bubeck noted, adding that' no alternative plans have been drawn up. He said that if the col- lege gains'approval as a public in- of federal construction aid under a bill known at HR 12. This would match federal funds with those allocated for the school from other sources. But, one of the biggest argu- ments used against the osteo- pathic college is that because it must be built from the ground up, it will cost more than $500,000 per first-year opening to get into operation. This compares with about $280,000 for the same facil- ities in an established college. Because some facilities could be shared to reduce costs, MCOI is seeking affiliation with nearby Oakland University, which is a branch of MSU. But the major advantage of the Pontiac school is its growth poten- tial at much lower costs because of its special design. The structure will eventually take up most of a 160-acre site and will contain three laboratory and classroom buildings. Attached will patient clinic and a basic science be a 360-bed hospital and out- and research department. Some housing will be provided in a separate dormitory. Even though the structure will be connected as one unit, it. will be completed in two phases to al- low partial operation while the time-consuming hospital construc- tion is continuing. The first phase will be started in 1969 and is scheduled to open in 1971 at a cost of $29.6 million while the sec- ond phase is to be completed in 1976 and cost $59.2 million. RIOT AFTERMATH: 'U' Experts Seek New Means Of Controlling Civil Disorders By JILL CRABTREE Last of a Series Recent outbreaks of violence in Detroit and elsewhere h a v e prompted members of the Uni- versity community to offer their opinions on possible new means of civil control. Interviews with University soc- iologists, psychologists, represen- tatives of the school of social work, and members of the legal profession reveal a general agree- ment that enforcing stiff penal- ties on the majority of rioters will not prevent violent outbreaks. According to many of those in- terviewed, such measures may only intensify the problem. Prof. Yale Kamisar, of the Law School, an authority on criminal law, cited what he called the "po- litical mood" of the times and said it had become "publicly at- tractive" to attack the Supreme Court for its so-called freeing of criminals and hampering of law- yers.. "Tougher laws will not ac- complish the objective of making people more law-abiding. They only confirm the alienation of those who take part in the riots, because these people must bear the brunt of any repressive legis- lation," Kamisar said. According to Prof. B. James George of the law school, im- prisonment of people guilty of what he described as "infectious looting" would be "more frustra- C NEWS WIRE ting to the community than the looting itself." "If you invoked a maximum penalty 'for these people, you' would be imprisoning for several years men and women who must probably have no prior police rec- ord. What would you do with their families? You would have to- put hundreds of people on welfare." Self-Defeating Penalties a George added that setting up . a "harsh minimum" penalty for for such infractions would end up being self-defeating. "Such laws would become dead letters, because their use would be too impracticle." He cited as an ex- ample of such a "dead lteter" law the 20-year minimum penalty for narcotics sale. "Most people guilty of this crime are now charged with possession or use, infractions which do not carry as stiff a pen- alty." George noted that "no abstract legal principle will keep a 16-year- old boy from throwing a fire- bomb when he isrcaught up in a riot, nor,'will it keep a sniper, from firing. The only way to con- The Music School presented Mot trol rioting and looting is through (Robert Schneider), kneeling, di the use of applied, well-known Don Ottavio (Kenneth Scheff' group force." threaten vengeance for his mis 'PoorlyPrepared' Prof. Robert D. Vinter of the school of social work noted thatW-G the National Guard troops which had been ordered into Detroit to quell the riots were "poorly pre- ' ae, n ht t eri ep r ience in dealing with violence led to many "tragic episodes." David Segal of the sociology By JOHN GRAY department contended that the Second of a Series responsibility for riot control should not be vested with either "Marks and terms are clumsy the local police or the National devices, more suitable for meas- Guard. He said that because the urmg cordwood than culture." National Guard does not have a American educators have never continuous, intensive training been quite satisfied with the use program they "don't know how of grades in their colleges and to face dangerous situations." universities. But the debate over The local police, according to whether to mark students with Segal, are usually the object of letter grades or only pass or fail considerable antagonism in the has recently been stepped up. community. He felt that the only The problem of pass-fail grading effective means of controlling is not at all a simple one. There riots would be immediate use of are complex social and adminis- federal troops, which he said trative' problems which tend to would be "more respected." cloud the basic question of what MOZART AT MENDELSSOHN zart's "Don Giovanni" at Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre last night. Here, Giovanni's servant Leporello Isguised as his master, pleads for his life as (standing, left to right) Donna Anna (Dorothy Burleigh), el), Donna Elvira (Lynda Weston), Masetto' (Michael Robbins), and Zerlina (Mary Wakefield deeds. (See page 2 for review). By The Associated Press CHICAGO-A group of draftees charged out of a Selective Service induction center at 615 W. Van Buren St., today and attacked some 50 chanting, sign-carrying antiwar pickets. Reporters present said the pickets were slugged and kicked, their signs shredded and their handout literature scattered. None apparently was injured seriously, although some were bloodied in the five-minute melee. Several squads of police appeared as the fracas ended. The policemen usually stationed at the induction center entrance were not there. *~ ** * LANSING-Detroit's riots and looting caused an estimated $25 million loss to more than 100 food stores, the State Agricul- ture Department reported yesterday. B. Dale Ball, department director, said that in addition there were as yet undetermined losses suffered by restaurants, ware- houses and food processing plants. AN HOUR-LONG "VIGIL" in protest of the war in Vietnam will be held Sunday morning at 11:30 at two locations in Ann Arbor. The demonstratioins, sponsored by the Interfaith Con- ference on Religion and Peace and the Vietnam Summer, will be held at the corner of Huron and State Streets and at the corner of South University and Washtenaw. In State of Emergency Gov. Terry Applies New Legislation; Milwaukee Quiet By The Associated Press Gov. Charles L. Terry, Jr., de- clared a state of emergency in Wilmington yesterday, less than an hour after the state's General Assembly had given him the au- thority to make such a move. Terry, said reports were that Wilmington, scene of violence last weekend, was quiet but that the "potential" for trouble existed. The governor put into force only the section of the new law which pro- vides a jail sentence of from at least 3 years for anyone convicted of malicious destruction of prop- erty. New Riot Act Earlier the General Assembly had enacted far-reaching legisla- tion which included a strong new riot act, designed to cope with outbreaks of, violence. The three bills were signed iM- mediately by Gov. Charles L. Ter- ry Jr., who had proposed them In the wake of a series of disturb- ances in Wilmington last week- end. The laws enacted Friday con- stituted the first major action taken by a state legislature as the result of racial disorders which have erupted in many cities this summer. Milwaukee Milwaukeeans were free tomove around on downtown streets last night for the first time since a riot shook the city's five-square- mile Negro district last Sunday, but troops and police stood by to clamp on another tight curfew at midnight. Milwaukee Mayor Henry Maler, who sealed the city for 26 hours earlier in the week and kept a dark-to-dawn quarantine in effect last night, ordered the further re- laxation Friday after the questest night of the week. And in Madison, Gov. Warren P. Knowles, who had ordered 4,800 of the 32nd National Guard Di- vision's troops into the city on Monday in response to Maler's plea for help said that the next few days would show whether the dis- orders were over. Wichita City commissioners in Wichita agreed to hear complaints next week from three Negroes who asked for a chance to present grievances on behalf of the Negro community. The action came after an early mornning incident in which four Negroes and Sheriff Vern Miller were pelted by shotgun slugs as the sheriff was talking to the men. The sheriff said the shot was fired from a passing car containing three white men. iil Grading: Pro and Con kind of grading procedure tends ly the general level of scholar- to facilitate learning and teaching. ship.", Prof. Stuart Miller of Rutgers Although the arguments for the University recently wrote a book- retention of the letter-grade sys- let examining the arguments on tem are persuasive, there has been both sides of the pass-fail ques- a growing protest against it. tion. The booklet, published by Those favoring pass-fail con- ' the University's Center for Re- tend that although there are! search on Learning and TeachingI benefits to be derived from grades, leans somewhat in - favor of a the advantages of doing without pass-fail system. them are greater. l The greatest recommendation There is considerable evidence for the now-popular method of that a high proportion of non- letter- grading is its administrative academic considerations goes into e efficiency. The standardization of a student's grades. Independent grades allows easy evaluation of studies have shown that many transfers students and of students professors bias their grades on who apply to graduate schools. Al- bases such as sex, attendance, though an A at one college may conformity and their own exper- be worth less than an A at an- ience in teaching. other, administrators can, over the Some critics of grading argue years, develop means for dealing that the motivation to earn a with this discrepancy in their ad- grade is not necessarily the same missions procedure. as motivation to learn, and that Bennington College the kind of learning it does en- Some graduate schools go so far courage is not particularly rele- as to say that grades are an ab- vant. solute necessity. Bennington Col- Impress Instructors lege, in a survey, asked 13 grad- If the student's goal is to im- uate schools if they could act on e stutis uat scool ifthe cold ct n ;press his instructor, he is able to Proponents of pass-fail point out that when Brown, Princeton and, to some extent, the Univer- sity experimented with pass-fail programs, undergraduate edu- cation became somewhat less res- trictive. That is, students felt more free to break away from their fields of concentration and elect courses that could broaden their outlooks. There is evidence that grades are, in fact, not a necessity for administrative procedure. Studies recently concluded in California indicate that the administrative problems of pass-fail are hardly insurmountable. The s t u d i e s strongly recommend that no grading reform be held up for ad- ministrative reasons. Although there is no real agree- ment on the question of pass-fail grading in any sufficiently large group of educators, many are be- ginning to feel that the system is at elast worth a try. After hear- ing the arguments from both sides, colleges and universities have begun experimenting with the pass-fail system. HONOLULU EDITORS' CONFERENCE: Representatives of News Media Criticize ABA Plant To Limit Coverage of Trials HONOLULU ()-News media the right to manage crime news to 'representatives opened fire yes- every town constable and marsh- terday on recommendations by al?" an American Bar Association study The ABA recommendations are group that would limit reporting the result of a 20-month study by of crime news. 10 prominent judges and lawyers "The classic function of the on the constitutional guarantees press is to find out everything it of free press and fair trial. can about government, about law Unveiled last October by the enforcement," said J. Edward panel headed by Justice Paul C. Murray of the American Society Reardon of the Supreme Judicial ~f N ~ ' Court of Massachusetts, they stir- fendant is in custody, or that a Hu Blonk, chairman of the Free- sample transfer applications that do so by assimilation of a body defendent is being mistreated, dom of Information Committee of contained teacher comments but of factual material. Yet, is sometimes by finding political chi- the Associated Press Managing no grades. The schools replied argued, what students really need canery in the prosecutor's office, Editors Association, told the pan- that they could not act without to learn is the process for acquir- sometimes by turning up overlook- el that in the states of Washing- grades. ing and retaining new knowledge.' ed witnesses." ton and Oregon "we have both. It is argued that grades are -i_ _l "Press freedom is precious" free press and free trial" without an effective predictor of perform- Murray said, "and, ekcept in time adopting "stringent restrictions." ance in both graduate schools and of war or great national emergen- Blonk, managing editor of the in the student's career. B road cast cy, it is an indivisible, all-or- Wenatchee, Wash., Daily World, Salaries = Grades nothing freedom. said this has been attained American Telephone and Tele- "The first hint of censorship "through the cooperative approach grah has discovered a significant poisons it. And, as the dictator- spelled out in statements of prin- correlation between the final sala- N ew spaper ships illustrate, censorship itself is ciple urging restraint by both press ries of employees and their col- a contagious thing. A little breeds and bar, statements that bar, I lege grades. a lot." bench and press can subscribe to Finally, many feel that the By GAIL SMILEY D. Tennant Bryan, chairman of in good conscience, knowing they grading system is both a motiva- "The local newspaper is no the Fair Trial-Free Press Com- are not bargaining away the pub- tion for students to work and a longer the top cat" claimed key- mittee of the American Newspa- lics right to know." 'preparation for the competitions note speaker Willard Schroeder of per Publishers Association, said in Walter B. Potter, chairman of of life. Virgil Whittaker, dean of WOOD-TV at the Fifth Annual prepared remarks: the board of the National News- the Graduate School at Stanford Broadcast Editors Conference here TUESDAY: The pass-fail programs country. status of across the Editor Claims Local 'No Longer Top Cat' US1 ewspaper .~1? S "That's 'what the free flow of news means, what the reporter can find out, not what the public serv- ant wants to give him on a plat- ter." Murray, managing editor of the Arizona Republic, is chairman of the society's Freedom of Infor- mntion and Prea-Bar Committee. red immediate controversy within the law and journalism profes- sions. In the main, the Reardon re- port calls on lawyers and police to restrict their comments on pend- ing criminal cases and to cut back on the release of information about them. The stated objective ifi +on a.--me ~ar tr +iao fnr Life, Look, and Readers Digest as evidence of the swing from fiction magazines. He said that televison was still oriented heavily toward entertainment but was starting to catch up with magazines. -i~l., A ,,,- - ~y h +A1 .o controversial issues is to pile re ulation on top of regulation." Willard was referring to I fairness doctrine which provid that both sides of all controvers issues be presented. "We've be nin +nn mma-in-toatin o i