Football
By JUDY KAHN
South Quad Council will ask Housing Direct-
or John Feldkamp to stop giving priority to bloc
room assignments next year and to distribute
group assignments through the whole dormi-
tory system rather than concentrate them in
a few dorms.
The action was precipitated by dissatisfaction
with use and alleged misuse of South Quad
facilities by the groups of athletes who live
there. About 30 freshman football players and
around 50 varsity players live in the dorm, most-
ly in Taylor House.
In addition to the council's action, South
Quad president Pete Worden has sent a letter
to the athletic department complaining about
alleged stealing of South Quad Council's pre-
stamped envelopes and alleged unauthorized use
of the council's phone for several long dis-
tance calls by football players studying in the
council room.
Worden says other groups have used the room,
but none have been suspected of misusing the
facilities there.
The council agreed last year to allow the
football players to use meeting room facilities
once a week. However, Worden said, players
layers
are using rooms much more frequently for tu-
toring and other purposes.
Freshmen football players also have unwit-
tingly taken oven use of a quad study hall
from Sunday through Thursday evenings. The
players are accompanied by a coach who acts
as a proctor and is responsible for taking at-
tendance and "making sure the players are
studying," says head freshman coach Louis
Lee.
A sec9nd study hall had to be opened aftvr
South Quad Director John Lindquist received
complaints from other students that the foot-
ball players were excessively noisy. The "play-
er's" study hall is still officially open to other
students who want to use it.
"A few times we have gotten out of hand.
but everyone does when they're studying," ex-
plained George Ellis, a member of the fresh-
man team. Lee says he has received only one
complaint from Lindquist about the noise.
But the problem is more serious than some
missing stationery and noisy study halls. South
Quad Council last year objected to a proposal
to place the freshman players in the dorm
in addition to the varsity members who already
lived there. When the council objected, Feld-
upset Soi
kamp agreed not to admit the freshmen to the
dorm.
South Quad Council objected to the plan
because the Quad is "traditionally" an u p p e r
class dorm. Worden says the council felt it
would be unfair to upper classmen trying to
reserve rooms in South Quad as well as to other
freshmen who are denied rooms there, if fresh-
men football players were given room priori-
ties.
Worden said objections due to excessively
noisy athletes and excessive use of Quad facil-
ities were also raised.
During the year, coach Bo Schembechler
planned to put freshmen players in West-Quad,
and keep upperclass players in South Quad.
All single players except seniors must live in
a dorm or fraternity house under a new.
Schembechler-made rule.
During the summer, however, Feldkamp said,
Schembechler asked him if the athletic depart-
ment could also put freshmen in South Quad,
which Schembechler was showing to prospec-
tive recruits.
Some 45 rodms - 90 spaces - were reserved
throughout the housing system for freshmen
athletes. All 28 to 30 spaces for tendered fresh-
I
th Quad
men football players were reserved in S o u t h
Quad, mostly on one corridor of Taylor House,
despite what Feldkamp had told the council.
Feldkamp said yesterday that he had "for-
gotten" his promise to South Quad Council.
South Quad's recommendation raises t h e
question of whether special groups should be
allowed separate facilities. Quad director Lind-
quist say* he was never in favor of allowing
football players to use separate facilities because
it "segregates" them from other students.
"We really don't get to meet a lot of people,"
freshman player Ellis complained. "But I think
it's a necessity to live with guys on the team."
Feldkamp said the Board of Governors of the
Residence Halls decided "five or six years ago"
to give athletes special priorities for room as-
signments in the residence halls.
Next year's room commitments includes the
Tuskegee Exchange Program and the English
Language Institute as well as the athletic de-
partment, Feldkamp said. All will be reviewed
later this year by the Board of Governors.
South Quad Council expects discussion of its
"anti-bloc" recommendations to be included in
the board's deliberations.
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A body claiming to be Paul McCartney was photographed walking from his plane Wednesday night
in Glasgow, Scotland. -At left are his wife Linda, and baby daughter, Mary. "I can't believe it," the
man in the background is saying. "Just like Lazarus."
INNOVAT IV E PROGRAM-
of experimental 'Co-b Mart'
Soviets
to talk
Accord reached
oi lbeginning of
armlls inieetill";
WASHINGTON {A') - The Uni-
ted States and the Soviet Union
are pi'eparing to announce today
an agreement on starting their
long-awaited missile-curb talks,
informants said last night.
The two nuclear powers are ex-
pected to get the strategic arms
limitation talks, (SALT talks),
underway by late November in
Vienna, Helsinki, or Geneva, the
informer said.
Presidential press secretary Ron-
ald Ziegler scheduled a n e w s
briefing for 10:30 a.m. today but
declined to say what subject
matter would be involved.
At the State Department, press
officer Robert J. McCloskey for
the second straight day declined
to say whether Moscow has an-
swered President Nixon's bid to
begin discussions between t h e
two superpowers on limiting their
nuclear missile rivalry.
The question arose following a
call by Soviet Ambassador Aana-
toly F. Dobrynin on Secretary of
State William P. Rogers Wednes-
day.
Prior to the Rogers-Dobrynin
session, administration spokes-
men had been saying freely that
the Soviets had made no response
to Nixon's appeal.
Diplomatic sources suggested
that the SALT talks could get
underway by late November.
They anticipated it would .take
several weeks to set up technical
arrangements for the conference.
Nixon issued his invitation to
begin the disarmament discus-
sions last June 11. He publicly
anticipated the talks would start
during the first half of August.
He said he preferred Vienna or
Geneva as their locale, but left
the way open for another site.
To the administration's d is -
appointment, no response came
from the Kremlin during t h e
summer. On Sept. 22, Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gro-
myko told Rogers a response
would be forthcoming soon but he
did not specify when.
The two nations have already
agreed in principle to hold the
discussions aimed at slowing down
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Looking from Burton Tower, you can draw a good bead on workmen preparing the foundation
for the University's new Modern Languages building. The. building will be chock full of tape
labs and classrooms for the use of literary college students, and will take over the job of of
By MICHAEL THORYN
The LSA Course Mart, an ex-
)erimental curriculum program
hrough which students can de-
ign and initiate their owtn sub-
ects, is under revision b h c,1-
'ge Curriculum Commee.
Course Mart corse ,,ffredfor
tie fir'st time a yeavr a re us:-
ally two or three hours credit
nd are taught by teacing tel-
)ws with supervision by au-
r member. In the past ,,
ons have been LAd by ,
'aduates.
Assistant Dean James Shaw,
ho is enthusiastic about the sill
cperimental program, explains
iat the Curriculum Committee.,
hich consists of six faculty
.embers and three students,.
ants to "tie down more firmly
e responsibility for courses."
"The course mart is a way of
>ening up the curriculum, of
icouraging innovation," he says.
ut he adds, "Students should not
issuing credit to students."
Among he seven courses be-
ig taught this term under t hie
tle "College Course" are Arab-
;raeli R e 1 a t i o u s , Utopian
hought, and Leadership Train-
ig.
The goal of the leadership
raining course is to identify
haracteristics of leadership and
icrease individual skills in lead-
's hip.
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On ody
Pc gclihree~
Grading in these experimental
courses has tended to be easy, es-
pecially since some of the courses
consist solely of discusisons and
a short paper.
Shaw suggests "getting the
grading out of the concept by put-
ting all the courses on pass-fail."
Finding professors to super-
vise the courses has been a prob-
lem. "We've no money to fund
it with," Shaw says.
Since the University c a n n o t
ealy pay additional compensa-
non to a professor already teach-
m.g a full schedule at the Uni-
vt. iity, the work load of Col-
'ge Course supervisors must be
negotiated between the Dean, the
Department Chairman, and the
faculty member.
Workers in the Stud:nt Coun-
seling office, who have nurtured
the program, have taken an inter-
est in finding faculty members
who will volunteer to supervise a
course.
Chairman of the Course Mart,
Bruce Astrein, '71, tries to co-
ordinate student interest with a
faculty member who will take re-
sponsibility for the class.
Astrein says he is open to any
suggestions -for experimental
courses. Ove' 15 suggestions fo'r
courses for the coming term have
been received, some of them,
semingly, jokes. Some examples
are: occult arts. nihilism, sleep-
ing, and the history of rock and
roll.
One faculty member has v ol-
unteered to teach a science fic-
tion course.
Suggestions also come f r o in
the faculty. "A half dozen fa-
culty members have contacted me
about teaching courses," Astrein
says.
Persons interested in suggest-
ing, coordinating, or enrolling in
experimental courses should go
to the Student Counseling Office
at 1018 Angell Hall, Astrein says.
_1U ' 1 Ykl the Frieze Building, which can be seen in the background.
ST tDY DECISION-MAKING
SACUA to meet with students
to improve communications
The Senate Advisory Committee
on University Affairs (SACUA)
took steps yesterday to develop
more permanent lines of com-
munication between students and
the faculty. They agreed to meet
Nov. 11 with the ad hoc student'
group which considered the book-
store question with the faculty
earlier this month to discuss ways
to establish this relationship.
The action came at yesterday's
regularly scheduled, closed session
of SACUA. in response to a motion,
proposed originally last month by
Robert L. Knauss, asking that
SACUA "look again at the deci-'
sion making process. The motion
was endorsed at the meeting last
month.
The ad hoc group of students
which will meet with the faculty
includes representatives from the'
University's schools and colleges,
Student Government Council, and
10 other student organizations.
Those students. meeting with
Senate Assembly last month after
the arrest of 107 students who*
seized the LSA building in the
bookstore protest, helped work out
the compromise bookstore plan
adopted by the Regents in their
meeting earlier this month.
SACUA has not yet contacted
University President R o b b e n
Fleming or leaders of the student
groups to arrange the meeting.
But SACUA Chairman Prof. Jo-
seph Payne hopes Fleming and the
group will meet with SACUA on
a regular basis.
Meanwhile, SACUA scheduled
its regular monthly meeting with
the president for Nov. 6 to discuss
the bookstore and changes in the
University's calendar.
In other action, SACUA set the
agenda for its November meeting.
The 65 member faculty group will
attempt to pass on to the Regents
a report calling for modification
in the Reserve Officers' Training
Program at the University. Thex
report now before the faculty calls
for cutting all financial and aca-
demic credit given the, programs
and for review of courses by - a
faculty-student committee.
If the defense department re-
jected these guidelines, ROTC
would be reduced to an extracur-
ricular activity. The Assembly
turned down a report calling for
total abolition of ROTC at its
meeting last Monday.
In November, SACUA also
scheduled discussion of the ques-
Blacks
walk out
at Huron
About 60 black students at Ann
Arbor Huron High School unex-
pectedly left their classes yester-
day during the first period. The
students then held a meeting to
discuss ways to reduce the racial
tensions at the high school.
Racial tensions were at a high
point this week following an in-
cident on an Ann Arbor Transit
Authority bus last week involving
several black students.
In the incident - which re-
sulted in 11ndemands by the Hur-
on Black Student Union and the
attendance of 75 of Huron's black
students at the Board of Edu-
cation meeting last Wednesday -
a white Ann Arbor bus driver
accused several black students of
heckling him.
The walk-out resulted despite
a meeting held Thursday between
15 white students and 15 repre-
sentatives of the Huron B I a c k
Student Union - which repre-
sents 60 percent of the black stu-
dents.
John Hubley, community servi-
ces officer for the Ann A r b o r
Public Schools said that among
the black and white students, the
teachers and the administration
at Huron High there is a "ser-
NA TIONAL TREND
U,
ROTC
enrollment
de creuses
By SHARON WEINER
Freshman enrollment in the Univer-
sity's ROTC programs is. down by over
50 per cent from last year's figure.
Only 114 freshmen enrolled in the pro-
grams this fall, compared with 270 last
year.
"The freshman drop in ROTC enroll-
"Reports from more than 30 schools
across the country, covering about 10 per
cent of the institutions offering the college
level courses in military science, showed
that all but two Aere experiencing fresh-
man enrollment declines. There also were
reports of sizable overall drops in total
ROTC enrollments at some schools,'' the
last year. The Navy's freshmen numbered
42, down 27 from last year, and the Air
Force ROTC claimed 37, down from 79.
Total Army ROTC enrollment declined
by 95 from last year's 340 figure, the
Navy ROTC program, with 158, lost 20,
and the Air Force unit at 114 is down 72
from last year.