N; REGENTS' TUITION HIKE: DELAY TOO LONG See editorial page C, r ~4 AOFA .jjtr tog* Iai~i SHOWERS High--I Low-58 Clearing, gradual cooling later in the day Seventy-Six Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVII, No. 648 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1967 SEVEN CENTS SIX PAGE: Increase of $4.6 Million Over '66-67 'Modest' Increase In Staff Benefits v CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: New York To Consider Free State Tuition Plan NEW TUITION LEVELS Following is the University's new yearly tuition schedule. i Undergraduate residents Undergraduate non-residents Graduate residents Graduate non-residents Law residents Law non-residents Medical, Dental and Public Health Schools residents Medical, Dental and Public Health Schools non-residents 1967-68 $ 420 1,300 460 1,500 620 1,500 Increase over 1966-67 $ 72 300 80 300 100 300 G I M , I At Others' Expense By ANN MUNSTER must be rati New York state's constitutional New York in By DAVID KNOKE convention Committee on Educa- The comm The Regents approved a gen- tion voted Monday night to re- sociate Judg eral fund (operating costs) budg- quire the state's legislature to, pro- New York's C et of $83.2 million for 1967-68, vide a system of free higher edu- the precise I after increasing student fees by cation for all state residents. posal was to $4.6 million. The proposal envisions a pro- six member This budget, up $5.3 million over gram of aid to students in both will report b last year's, is just $100,000 over public and private colleges sit- mittee today. what the University considers its uated in New York state. Rep minimum operating costs - the 17-7 Vote Republican amount necessary to continue The New York proposal was view the pl present programs plus minimum adopted by a dote of 17 to 7 by version of an increased staff benefits. the convention's Committee on the state gua The fee increase was necessitat- Education. It is believed to have education to ed by a much lower-than-expected a reasonably good chance of pas- wants it. Th appropriation from the Legisla- sage by the Democratic-controlled sented June ture. The University had asked for convention. Most of negative votes president An $74.6 million, a $16.5 million in- on the committee came from the Brooklyn). crease over last year, but received .Republican minority. All pro- The propo only $58.1 million. The University posals adopted by the convention committee v had originally planned a $91.1 mil- --____ lion budget for next year. The University will retain a "modest" improvement In, staff VI benefits at the expense of other 0) items, as it did last year. Inadequate Funds "Because we have again given top priority to wage and salary in- creases, the University will again By LUCY KENNEDY ularly and th have inadequate funds for equip- and JILL CRABTREE expect extrei ment, supplies, space rehabilita- with the Uni tion and other urgent funds," The Regents yesterday after- ly low salary President Harlan Hatcher said. noon considered and filed Gradu- Roy Ashma From the increased fees and ate Assembly's resolution saying uate Assem state appropriations, the Regents students in the University's mar if a meeting allocated $3.6 million' for salary ned student apartments on North ween studei and wage increases and for the Campus will not accept an in- employment of new staff to meet crease over last year's rate before dent for Stun the anticipated enrollment rise. January 1, 1968. Chief Finan This fall 37,413 students are ex- More than 270 students living Pierpont. Fe: pected to enroll, an increase of in the units affected by the $10 a Ashmall, "do 1,350 over last year. month increase (University Ter- Pu According to Allan F. Smith, race and Northwood Apartments) Pul vice-president for academic af- have signed a petition stating they increasebe fairs, new staff will account for will withhold the extra rent until .c. approximately $1.5 million and sal- they are given adequate notice of giving stude aries and wages for $2.1 million the increase. their contre of the increase. Jan. 1 was named as the earl- however, tha fied by the voters of a referendum. nittee charman, As- e Francis Bergan of Court of Appeals' said anguage of the pro- be determined by a subcommittee which ack to the full com-# ublican View as on the committee an as a scaled-down earlier proposal that arantee a free college any resident who is proposal was pre- 22 by convention .thony J. Travia (D- sal adopted by the would spell out the iSeek, rilativTe hat it was difficult to mely' efficient service versity's comparative- level. all president of Grad- bly, asked Feldkamp could be set up be- nts and Vice-Presi- dent Affairs Richard Vice-President and acial Officer Wilbur Ldkamp, according to odged the issue." it Off to Oct. suggested the rent put off until Oct. 1, ,nts 60 days to break acts. Ashmall said, t he doubted if North dents would accept an ner than Jan. 1. ns to look as if ne- th Feldkamp are not Ashmall commented, r an investigation by gislature into the ex- lved in maintaining nents." ed what he would do nts of the apartments extra rent for a long ne, Feldkamp said he faced that situation would only use evic- resort. would be more likely uld threaten to hold students failing to 1 rent. principle of free education, leav- ing implementation of the policy to future legislative action. Ber- gan said the Legislature would be given no timetable to inaug- urate the program and that there was no precise estimate of its cost. Private Colleges Protest The chairman said that private colleges in the state had protest- ed that they would be left out under a system of free higher education limited to public col- leges. The plan contemplated by the committee would permit t h e Legislature to provide some form of financial assistance to students at private colleges or possibly even direct aid to the colleges themselves. The chairman deemed it un- likely that the committee's de- cision would be affected by a pro- posal now before the convention to repeal the 73-year-old ban against any financial aid, direct or indirect, to church supported institutions. The proposal also authorizes the state legislature to work out a system of so-called compensatory education to provide extra aid for the teaching of disadvantaged persons, such as Negroes and Puerto Ricans. A group of New York City Puerto Rican community leaders urged the committee last week to draft a constitutional provision guaranteeing such extra educa- tional help. 900 100 300 1,500 Icrease Student 'Aidby $1.650,000 All Non-Resident Hikes Set at $300, Resident Undergraduate up by $72 By WALLACE IMMEN The University Regents yesterday approved a non-resi- dent tuition hike of $300 in all schools and a resident in- crease of $72 at the undergraduate level and $80 at the grad- uate level. In-state law, medical, dental and public health school fees were raised $100. The fees at all levels are the highest among public col- leges and universities in the Big Ten. and the state. A $500,000 portion of the additional revenue was routed to increase student aid funds and another $150,000 for aid was provided from undesignated donations to the $55M cam- -Daily-Robert Sheffield MARVIN NIEHUSS (left), executive vice-president, Allan F. Smith (center), vice-president for academic affairs and A. Geoffrey Norman, vice-president for research, discussed the University's budget before the Regents meeting. paign. The rest of the fees will1 ating funds. The gross total of $24.9 million, which is $4.6- million more than last year. The tuition increase was ap- proved unanimously after a long session on Monday and most of yesterday morning. Several dozen possible alterna- tives for the size of a fee hike were presented in reports on University budget needs for the coming year, but no plan could be found which would avoid a large-scale tuition increase. OAA To Send Letter Students will be informed of the decision in a letter from the Office of Academic Affairs later this week. Fees for University services at University Hospital and ,other units including residence halls were also approved. Students have already been informed of the res- idence hall increases. An ability-to-pay plan, similar to that adopted recently at Mich- igan State University, was scrap- ped because the Regents felt that the increased student aid in their formula would be just as equitable for students in need and would avoid the extra bookkeeping and the questionable constitutionality of MSU's plan, which calls for students to present a copy of their parent's income tax return as the basis of their fee. Ratio Maintained The Regents decided to main- tain the existing ratio between in-state and out-of-state fees at 1 to 3. The state Legislature's budget bill had recommended that only out-state fees be raised, to lay 75 per cent of the cost of ed- ucation on non-resident students. The size of the increase was computed from this fall's planned enrollment. The increase had to make up the $4.5 million differ- ence between the existing revenues and University's minimum needs for the coming year. In-state fees were based on a 22 per cent in- See REGENTS, page 2 be added to the general oper- student fees this year will be City Council To Fil 5th Ward Seat City council is expected to name a successor to the fifth Ward seat now held by Richard Balzhiser at its Aug. 21 or Aug. 28 meeting. Balzhiser, whose resignation was accepted by city council Monday, effective Aug. 22 will serve as a White House fellow. He was given a leave of absence from h'is post as professor of chemical and metalurgical engineering by the Regents yesterday. Balzhiser will serve in the De- partment of Defense., He is the first White House Fellow from the University since 1952, 'and will serve for one year. Republican Edge Balzhiser, a Repulican, will have his successor appointed by the council, in which the Republicans hold a seven to four edge. According to the City Charter, the council must appoint a succes- sor within 30 days. Mayor Wendell Hulcher said the council will probably act on a successor the week after Balz- hiser's resignation takes effect, meaning Aug.. 28. This would re- quire calling a special council ses- sion, since Aug. 28 is scheduled to be a working committee session. One-Year Appointment White House fellows work with members of the President's cabinet to give noted scholars a close view of the workings of the government. Balzhiser, who had a four-point grade average at the University was also mayor pro ten, which necessitates apsecond selection by council to fill that position. 'Significantly Short' "This is significantly short of what we hoped to do when the original request was made to the Legislature," Smith told the Re- gents. About $10.6 million had been asked to cover increases for this' area, which has suffered for the last five or six years from low state appropriations. Smith mentioned that many oth- er areas are again experiencing shortages. The library allocations, he noted, would be just sufficient to continue existing acquisition programs and cover maintenance, costs of library buildings. New schedules for nonacadem- ic staff increases-including serv- ice, maintenance, office and craft personnel-were made partly on merit bases and partly in an up- ward adjustment to bring wage schedules in line with those paid state civil service employes in comparable classifications. Minimum: $1.82 per Hour The new schedules establish a minimum rate of $1.82 per hour in an effort to bring the Univer- sity minimum wage to $2 an hour for regular, full-time personnel as soon as possible. Students and other temporary personnel will receive a minimum rate of $1.55, up from $1.42 per hour. "Even though we have given highest priority to the salary and iest acceptable date for a rent hike, because an increase at this time would give students some op- portunity to find other housing, in Ann Arbor. Student Advisory Committee Students from the Student Ad- visory Committee on Housing met with Director of University Hous- ing John Feldkamp yesterday and found a few alternatives to a rent increase at this time. One large expense students questioned was an increase in the number of janitors for the apart- ments. They felt there was a great deal of waste in present janitorial service. Feldkamp said, however, that time studies were being made reg- Campus resid increase soot "If it begi gotiations wi going well," "we'll ask fo the state Leg penses invol these apartm When ask if the resider withheld the period of tin had, "never before," and tion as a last He said it that he wou credits from pay their full 1 APARTMENTS LIMITED: SRU, SHA May Try Boycott To Obtain Eight-Month Lease By LUCY KENNEDY Student Housing Association (SHA) may organize a boycott this week of some apartment buildings managed by Apartments Limited, in an attempt to obtain an eight-month lease and more equitable damage deposit policy at these properties. Four apartments buildings un- der the management of Apart- ments Limited that were formerly under the control of Ron Smith would be the main target of a possible boycott. The build- they are a long way from charging ings are located at 911 South For- equitable rent." est, 1327 and 1337 Wilmot and At a meeting last night, full con- 1320 S. University. trol of damage deposit policy was Apartments Limited is a man- handed over to Apartments Lim- agement firm that handles the ited. Formerly the buildings con- operation of apartment buildings trolled by Smith had handled for several owners. The managers their own damage deposits. of Apartment Limited - Richard There was no discussion at last Barnhill, Kenneth Barnhill and night's meeting, however, of a Karl Malcolm-own some build- possible boycott. No decision was ings of their own in addition to made on next year's leasing managing buildings for other policy. owners. Talked with Students Apartments Limited spokesmen "I've talked with students about said, however, that Smith was Smith's apartments and about the disposing of his interest in the possibilities of establishing an four buildings and had left town. eight month lease," Richard "We feel," Malcolm commented, Barnhill said, "but I did not have "that the difficulties we had with the impression we were being the Smith buildings have now faced with boycott action or im- been taken care of." mediate action of any kind." Students Feel Inequities Van Lente said a student boy- Some students, however, feel cott could be organized by this great inequities still exist between Thursday. Students would be en- the rent charged and the service couraged not to rent apartments offered by the present owners. in the four Smith buildings "These buildings have been through signs on campus and singled out," Tom Van Lente, literature passed out at the grad, chairman of SHA, said, "be- Apartments Limited office. cause last year Smith went 'Rather Negotiate' through the buildings after the "We would rather negotiate damage deposit checks had been with Apartments limited," Van written and refused to refund the Lente said, "than set up a boy- mn n 4, ninna1 rr~ntkmo i ,P.f A h vn thA., n.lrd- rof Ilaaol i COMPARATIVE TUITION LEVELS The following figures provide a run-down of tuition, levels at Michigan's 11 state-supported colleges and universities. The exact amount of MSU tuition for in-state students is determined by the income of the individual student's parents. Residents Out-of-State The University Undergraduate $420 $1,300 Graduate $460 $1,500 Michigan State University Undergraduate $154-500 $1,200 Graduate $384-530 $1,230 ,, A ....yv~dv }.