FRESHMAN SUPPLEMENT, Y . A6i rn 743 t at FRESHMAN SUPPLEMENT Seventy-Seven Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVIII, No. 1 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1967 FIFTY-FOUR PAGE The Hatcher Years: A Legacy of aissez-Faire Harlan H. Hatcher will end his 15-year' term as University Presi- dent in December. This article is an analysis of his presidency writ- ten by Leonard Pratt, Daily Asso- ciate Managing Editor, 1966-67. A m edr i c a n universities have changed more during the last 15 years-during the term of office of President Harlan Hatcher- than -during any other period in their history., A mushrooming research estab- lishment, soaring enpollments and, campuses increasingly divided in- to segments unaware of one an- other's existence have set the stage for the certain and dra- matic educational changes to fol- low in the next two decades. U n i v e r s i t y administrations ' throughout the nation were pulled in many directions by these changes for which few of them were ready. Many could not stand the pressure and their colleges are now showing signs of wear in: many ways, some obvious, some subtle.7 President Hatcher's administra- tion has a mixed record to show4 for these struggles, which is cer- tainly more than many presidents across the nation can claim. Yet in many areas in which the ad- ministration has succeeded it has done so almostin spite of itself and seldom through its own ef forts. President Hatcher has run a caretaker government when the times demanded innovation. While the University has tre-{ beled in size - and certainly at least trebeled in complexity-its administration has r e m a i n e d stagnant, that of the immediate! post-war university in which Harlan Hatcher gained his ad- ministrative experience. This was an experience of ad- ministrative "laissez - faire" inI which college deans and depart- ment chairmen - later, research officials-were left to run their; respective shows with only mini- mal budgetary coordination from central university officers. It is this attitude more than: anything else which has left the University its legacy from the Hatcher years. In many ways itk is a good legacy. Colleges and departments whosej executives and professors were} ready for the challenges of the knowledge explosion - law and medicine, for example - have come through the past decade- and-a-half well. Others - many languages and humanities -have had heavy going. Even .the segments of the Uni- versity which have done well in this period, however, have grown haphazardly and in absolutely no relation to one another. There has been no rational central guidance to decide, for example, where additional University fi- >SetI nances should best be placed to shore up sagging programs or be- gin promising new ventures. The President's own reluctance to ask the vital questions which growth problems imply, and the recurrent attempts by his vice- presidents to enhance their own administrative empires; have only made things that much worse. Periodic faculty revolts have arisen over this issue, and severalI brilliant administrators have left the University because of it. President Hatcher's impact on the campus' academic atmosphere has been similarly motivated and similarly mixed. academic areas and, compared to many other universities, is often listened to whenever it rouses it- self out of its general lethargy toward the University as an in- stitution. But on the other, the adminis- tration has never considered itself as a defender of students' and professors' rights when those rights are challenged, be it by the House Un-American ActivitiesI Committee or the Ann Arbor p:o- lice. President Hatcher, for ex- ample, fired two professors who refused to testify before HUAC in 1954. The only area in which On the one hand, except for President Hatcher's record is en- a b s u r d dormitory regulations tirely negative is that of state which passed on in the early irelations. The President is any- 1960's. this administration has thing but a politician and has# been generally careful about in- been described by close associates fringing upon student and faculty as a man who would rather paper rights. The University's faculty over a conflict than resolve it. has an extensive say about their Education budget increases are hardly top priority in the Legis- aries fall. The only attempt in the lature around budget time and the last. 10 years to solve the prob- yearly increases which have been lems of University growth is a forthcoming have often been residential college that is dying taken up by more rapidly-expand- on the vine for lack of financial ing state colleges with cheaper support. programs than the University's. Essentially the University has The President's natural reserve become a corporate institution has hardly helped this steadily- without a corporate philosophy of deteriorating situation nor has it administration. It is immense, di- made the University any friends verse and powerful but has had in Lansing during a period in no one to guide it. And in a sense, which they could have been very perhaps that is as it should be. helpful indeed. for a guided university may well President Hatcher's administra- be a contradiction in- terms. tion has thus been a loose one, In any case it seems likely that but the freedom it has given the the University will not long exist citmpus has been costly. in this state. Its President-elect, The University is an adninis- Wisconsin's Robben Fleming is trative hodgepodge. Some pro- one of the new breed of col- grams have more money than lege administrators, organization- they need while others go beg- minded and determined. It is cer- ging. Graduate and undergradu- tain that he will spend much of ate programs coexist uneasily on his future time fighting the inadequate budgets. Library main- legacy of the Hatcher years, and tainence suffers and faculty sal- to what effect no one knows. ition Hike, ITB' Budget PRESIDENT HATCHER Regents I Postpone Fail Tc Size of T- Decision on 1967-68 State Appropriation Falls Short of Needed Revenue By LAURENCE MEDOW Associate Managing Editor : An appropriation of $59,160,- 998 for the University for fiscal 1967-68 was approved by . both houses of the state Legislature July 12. The figure represents the lowest percentage increase over last year's appropriations given to any other state-supported school. It is only $1 million more than; last year's $58.1 million and falls+ $3.1 million short of the amount+ recommended by Gov. George Romney. The appropriation also leaves a $4.7 million deficit when added to all other revenues from the $83.2 million necessary to con- tinue existing University programs at their present levels, according to statistics filed with the orig- inal budget request last Spring. The bill indicates the deficit should be made up with an in- crease in out-of-state tuition rates of about $650. The state appropriation was de- termined by first deciding on the minimum budget on which the University could operate. Antici- pated income from sources other than state funds, mostly student fees, was then subtracted from that amount to arrive at the state appropriation figure. The Legislature used current in-state fees to determine the revenue from in-state tuition, but used $1650 for out-of-state tuition instead of the current $1000 per year. Seek More Data, Additional Study Regents Remain at Presidential Call; Date of Future Meeting Uncertain By PAT O'DONOHUE The University Board of Regents, in a special meeting July 15, delayed action on the University budget and the level of expected tuition hikes pending further investigation of revenue sources for the coming year. The Regents indicated an "adjustment of the student fee schedules" was likely and authorized continuation of opera- tions and payrolls at existing levels for the rest of July. The Board added that the tuition increases must be carefully considered so to "make sure that no University stu- dent will be prevented from t continuing his education be-D or m Fees cinsufficient 'fancial The appropriation is $16.3 mil- ion short of the University's orig- Current Draft Law inal request, which was intended tocovei commitments for faculty , and non-academic staff salary increases, new laboratory equip- R et inenil ment, library additions and new programs. By GAIL SMILEY privileged -- has no protection The proportion of the burden Under the provision of the new from exposure to the draft." for provieine the additional draft law, all male, undergradu- President Johnson, however, has sity that falls on in-state and out- ate students satisfactorily pursu- authority to defer vocational sf-t atastudent ninu- to the Re- ing full-time studies cannot now school students and apprentices. gents. Executive Vice President be inducted until they reach the Kennedy also objected that Marvin Niehuss explained that age of 24, unless the President there is no ban on racial dis- although the Legislature recom- finds that the needs of the armed crimination in appointments to mends a large non-resident fee forces require the termination or' local draft boards., increase, "they, can't tell us how substantial restriction of such d Managers of the bill said the to charge to raise the money we ferments. The act extends the ban on drafting men by lottery need." Selective Service system until 1971. The new law was passed in the Senate by a vote of 72 to 23, and in the House by 377 to 29. It specifically prohibits the John- son - proposed lottery system, FAIR, (fair and impartial ran- dom system. President Johnson had also suggested that the federal govern- ment recommend mandatory standards for the local draft boards, effectively cancelling any local discretionary power. This was also prohibited by the new law. It specifically bars the a- doption of any national test to determine exemptions in a wide range of professions. Uinder the law that expired June 30, individual draft boards could use their own discretionI whether to defer college students; under the new law it is manda- tory. However, discretionary au- thority to draft graduate students is continued. According to the New York Times, President John- son plans to limit graduate de- ferments in the future to those studying medicine or dentistry. The new law further requires: that a claim for deferment on grounds of being a conscientious objector be based on religious grounds. This is in contradiction a o a rentSunreme C urt de- was included in the measure be- cause the administration had not yet agreed on details. They said Congress would promptly consider authorizing a lottery when the administration submitted a spec-3 i ific plan.I Present policy is to take the oldest first, starting with 25 year olds and working downward. Un- der the new law 19 year olds will be drafted first along with others as their deferments expire. How- ever the President has full authorityto reverse the age prior- ities. The higher- education appro- priations bill approved by the House and Senate was worked out in a special conference com- mittee. The figures are very close to revised figures approved by the Senate before the passage of an income tax package which will raise about $180 million in new revenues this year. The appro- priation bill dulled a trend of yearly increases and allocated the smallest percentage increase for the University since 1958, the year of a deficit budget in the state. support." PRESIDENT-DESIGNATE ROBBEN FLEMING, o n the left, discusses the University's pressing fi- The Regents' actions were ex- nancial problems with Regents Gertrude Heubne r and William Cu~dlip at their July 15 meeting. pected, since earlier in the week --- -Executive Vice-President Marvin 3 L. Niehuss had confirmed that NUMEROUS VARIABLES: there would be a tuition increase for the fall semester. He did not 0 'speculate on the size of the hike. Fu ds J Oje cted ]ekeds However, Vice-President for: Academic Affairs Allan F. Smith 'told WXYZ-TV in Detroit that thec University might raise tuition as much as $300 in some schoolst for theacademic year beginning G o e n ' '.x a so at the end of August. Smith said that the budget cut by the Legis- By WALLACE IMMEN with all other requirements set success when compared to some Islatur left no alternative but to by the state, working closely with past allocations. Any attempt to list the new the controller's office in deter- Fund Shortages University President H a r 1 a n building plans of the University mining estimated costs, it mustI This year, the fund shortage be- Hatcher requested the moves after in detail would be obsolete befored. a brief review of the University's it was printed. Not because the continue to demand its autonomy. came so acute that Gov. George financial situation with regard tol administration doesn't know what t f a t construction be halted as an the $59.1 million state appropria- isneebtbcueteUie-ways been lowi funds in the state new L ion approved in Lansing. The ap- e is needed, but because the Univere ue o n es te at austerity measure. Fortunately, {inapr ci ani e sity has not committed itself to treasury and University requests Iaurterityoneasuvsca dFoitunate$4y am ditn t have always received drastic this problem was solved with the iaion leve a icit ofi$4.7 any rigid schedule for adn new million from a minimum Univer- facilities, explains John McKevitt, slashes. This year's cut of a $24.1 approval of a state income tax. sity operating budget of $83.2 mil- asistans, e ice Jresidnt d million request to $9.3 million) al- Supplements to state monies are lion which includes student fees chief financial officer. location is actually considered a See LONG-RANGE, Page 8 and a small amount of other reve- ? Plannersiave to be concerned- nues. - with long-range needs because so The Legislature believed the many variables are subject' to r University could make up the d2ihnefr ebyicesn u f-stat cange bforesground is broken nce by increasing out-of-state for any building, he adds But firm A ' tuition. commitments must eventually be Vice-President aef an Imade and the University has ar- cial Officer Wilbur K. Pierpont la- ranged its plans into priority lists. :-ter clarified the Regents' action The most important factor gov- by saying that "payrolls for July erning speed of expansion, of w ill be at the higher rates estab- coureg smeyo expstinwhic- lished for the fiscal year 1967-681 course, is money, most of whichfralmmbs fheautynd must be received from state capital for all members of the faculty and! outlay appropriations. The Umn- sthff." versity submits its priority list to Because of the problems creat- the state legislature every year, ed by this gap, a bit more work but funds have recently been held till have to be done," Hatcher s up by legislative actions. - told the Regents. The Board is One of the stumbling blocks hasv: They will meet when "enough been Public Act 124, a law which data" is available in order to de-! requires that the State Controller's termine the exact amount of ad- Office act as the contracting agent :t.enin te t amoun fa- ? .ects justinent in student fees and final for all state-supported 'rojcts passage of the University's oper- Because this provision removes the 'ating budget for the coming fiscal: Decision-making authority from "" year. MVay Go Up In" Fall Teri U By DANIEL OKRENT An increase in resident hal fees for University housing, pre cipitated by a general cost in crease has been recommended t the University Board of Regent by Director of University Housin John Feldkamp. The current "average" fee pai by dormitory residents, about $95 per year, will be increased by ap proximately $50, pending the Re gents' approval, Feldkamp ex plained. The Regents' decision is expect ed at the same time as their dis closure of tuition increases for tb coming academic year. All housing units except Ver Baits Housing on North Campu are expected to be included i the rate hike. Discontinue Maid Service Also included in dormitor economy measures will be th' discontinuation of maid servic to student rooms. Feldkamp sai that this will represent a $10-$ yearly saving per resident. Feldkamp cited higher labs costs as the chief reason for th fee increaes. In order for th University to remain on a con petitive basis with local business es, an across-the-board increa for clerical, labor and service en ployes is being implemented. Feld kamp said that this would mea an hourly raise of 15 cents fc student help in the resident halls, bringing the wage level I $1.55 per hour. Married-Student Housing In addition to fee increases fc dormitories, a rent increase expected in University married Cnstruction Tie-ups Delay Completion of Bursley Hall By JOHN GRAY and dining and recreational fa- cilities for 2000. These facilities 900 students will be housed will be available for the use of beginning this August in Bursley residents of the Vera Baits Hous- Hall, the University's new North ing complex, located adjacent to Campus addition to the dormitory Bursley. system. Although the complex will Rd i of Vera Baits which house 1180 students when it is completed, delays in construction will force nearly 300 male stu- dents originally assigned to Burs- ley Hall to be accommodated in converted double rooms in one of resiaen s ved s, ,«i~ has no dining facilities of its own, will be offered selective meal con- tracts at Bursley. They will be able to buy contracts for dinner, lunch: breakfast and dinner: lunch and dinner: or all three.