Regents change bylaw draft proposal By JIM NEUBACHER The Regents have proposed major changes in a student-faculty bylaw draft concerning reform of the University rule- and decision= making structures. The changes, included in the Regents' own draft of the bylaw section, were made public yesterday by University President Robben Fleming. The student-faculty report, drafted by an ad hoc committee, was endorsed with minor changes. by both Senate Assembly and Stu- dent Government Council and sent to the Regents for consideration this summer. The Regents' re-draft dealt with only two sections of that report: the University Coun- cil (UC), a proposed campus-wide, rule- making body of students, faculty, and ad- ministrators; and the Committee on Com- munications, which would attempt to facili- tate discussion of campus issues. The Regents made three major changes in the section dealing with the University Council: * The role of the UC was changed from that of a major campus-wide rule maker, with much of its power left in the hands of the schools and colleges; * UC rules, which would have taken effect after Assembly and SGC ratification in the absence of a formal veto by the Regents, will now need the specific approval of the Regents; 0 A clause allowing the faculty or the students to officially "disaffirm," or refuse to recognize, a UC rule, thus necessitating its re-drafting into an approved form, has been eliminated. The release of the Regents' draft repre- sents the most recent step toward solution of the controversy over University rule- making and student discipline that began in 1966. At that time, 1500 students sat-in at the old Administration Bldg., now the LSA Bldg., to protest the draft ranking system. In the aftermath of the shortlived "student power movement," Harlan Hatcher, then University President, realized that disci- plinary channels were unclear and disjoint- ed, so he appointed a commission to propose new rule-making structures for the Univer- sity community, resulting in the UC pro- posal. From that committee's report, students and faculty members have worked to revise the Regents' bylaws to accommodate the new structure in a way that is satisfactory to both groups. The student-faculty bylaw report was submitted to the Regents, and is the report which was altered by the Regents in the report released yesterday. The first change comes in the preface to the section on the University Council, and apparently changes the nature of the relationship between it and lesser units of government at the University, such as a school or college legislative unit. The original proposal allowed the UC to make rules of a general, campus-wide nature whenever such rules couldn't "properly be dealt with by a body or agency of less than University-wide jurisdiction." The Regents have altered that sub-sec- tion to allow the UC to take action only when the smaller units have failed to make any ruling in the area in question. In essence, this new sub-section can be interpreted to mean that schools and col- leges can make their own rules whenever they disagree with the rules made by the University Council. Law Prof. Robert Knauss, who was in- strumental in drafting the report of the ad hoc committee, conceeded last night the phrasing used by the ad hoc committee in the original version was somewhat vague. "Our intention was to allow the Univer- sity Council to provide a minimum standard on rules of conduct, for example, for the schools and colleges, and if they wanted to add to it, they could." He cited the engineering college's Honor Code and the dental school's dress regula- tions as examples of the "added regulations." However, Knauss said wording of the Re- gents' draft could "cause confusion" in de- termining jurisdiction, and in determining which rules were supreme, those of the UC or those of the schools and colleges. He said that it was the intent of the ad hoc committee to create a University Coun- cil that could make rules covering situations that could not be handled "properly" by a school or college. "What if you have five different students from five different schools and colleges who disrupt something at Hill Auditorium?" 'he asked. "If there is a University Council rule, which defines a campus-wide code of behavior, you can apply it." Knauss said there would be difficulties if each school or college disciplined each stu- dent under a different set of rules. The two other major changes by the Re- gents in the UC proposal affect the way'in which the UC would make and change its rules. In the original proposal, rules passed by the UC would go into effect when ratified by the Senate Assembly and by SGC. These rules would be void if the Regents formally vetoed them. Under the new regental draft, however, the rules could not go into effect until rati- fied by the Regents in addition to the rati- fication by Assembly and SGC. "The Regents believe that the discharge of their constitutional responsibility is so sensitive an area requires that they partici- pate rather than simply refrain from ex- ercising a veto," Fleming wrote yesterday in a letter explaining the changes. Required regental ratification of UC rules was a subject of heated controversy more than a year and a half ago in the Spring Term, '68. At that time, Richard Cutler, then vice president for student affairs, attempted to See REGENTS, Page 6 L G S1ir igan Twelve Pages Revisions of /ol. LXXX, No. 72 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, November 26, 1969 IEFERENDUM PROPOSED: U, T committee seeks dorm fee proposa s -Daily-Jim Judkis Accused soldier Lt. William Calley, charged with the murder of over 100 Vietna- mese villagers, arrives yesterday a't Fort Benning, Ga., for a court hearing. GR EES TO ARBITRATION:' City Cou1101 'aifeS contrate./WA Ih poice By ALEXA CANADY The Ann Arbor City Council yesterday approved in a >ecial session a contract between the city and the police immand officers' union, Local 247 of the Teamsters Union. The contract approval stipulated that a controversial ovision allowing police officers to appoint all top level con- and officers will be submitted to binding arbitration by a ?diator chosen by the American Arbitration Association. The contract, presented to council by City Administrator jy Larcom, was approved 8-1, with all seven Democratic By JOAN MORROW Alternatives to the contro- versial dormitory 'fee hike were discussed at the open meeting of the Residence Hall Rates Committee yesterday. According to Edward Salowitz, associate University housing direc- tor, the cost of operating the res- idence halls will increase signifi- cantly next year. This will be due to a wage increase for non-aca- demic employes and the effect of inflation upon food and utility prices, he said. An increase of $60-$100 in the doritory rates appea'rs to be high on the committee's list of alter- natives. However, Marty McLaughlin, president of Student Government Council suggsted that the In- rease in costs be funded through' the Student Residence Halls R- serve Fund. This fund consists of dormitory profits and is presently being used for such things as the partial financing of the rehabili- tation of East Quad and the im- provement of fire alarm evacua- tion procedures. Later, Salowitz, wno served as chairman of the meeting, agreed that this method of funding would be feasible, although not neces- sarily the best option. "There should be about $300,000 generat- ed from the reserve fund available for next year," he said. "And, at present, this money is uncom- mitted." Another alternative would be fi- nancing a portion of the cost in- crease "out of funds previously allocated for educational staff sal- aries." according to a memorand- um from the Office of University Housing. Also under discussion at the meeting was a survey which was sent out to sone 1,700 dormitory residents several weeks ago. The survey included a question con- cerning the possible addition of services such as carbonated bever- ages, unlimited food and hall car- peting. The services, would mean an additional rise in dormitory fees in addition to the increase See STUDENT, Page 7 -Associate 'Press Lernnon protests John Lennon and Yoko Ono announce yesterday that the Beatle star returned his Order of the British Empire Medal to the government. Lennon and the other Beatles were awarded the medals, amid considerable controversy, by Queen Elizabeth in 1965. Lennon said he was returning the medal to protest British support for U.S. policy in Vietnam and to voice opposition to his own nation's "involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing." John and Yoko are shown here with the letter they sent to Prime Minister Harold Wilson explaining their action. Statistics is aive and well and studied in Masont Hall bylaw draft criticize By JIM NEUBACHER Student and faculty leaders, meeting informally yester- day, expressed some dissatisfaction with a revision by the Regents of parts of the proposed new Regents' bylaws on University rule- and decision-making. The revisions would narrow the jurisdiction and weaken the supremacy of the proposed University Council (UC), a student-faculty-administration board, and would give the Regents more direct control of the rule-making process than the proposed bylaw plan would. The redraft by the Regents of earlier bylaw proposals worked out and agreed upon by Senate Assembly and Stu- dent Government Council was first released yesterday by President Fleming. It was the -_--_ _ - - - Regents' first official act on the bylaws question. Students and members of thets Senate Advisory Committee on Isity Affairs were given cop- ies of the Regents' redraft at the 3' 11 T O beginning of the meeting yester- day and did not have time for a careful study of the new proposals. Most of the comments and critic- s isms were of a general naturei The Regents' redraft deals only WASHINGTON (-Dputy At- with the proposed University ty. Gen. Richard G. Kleindienst Council and tlie Committee on yGe.Rhrd .Keidns Communications told Congress yesterday that Presi- CChangeson proposed bylaws dent Nixon plans to eliminate col- covering a Central Student Judi- lege deferments as part of his coary and a student-faculty policy reform of the draft law, but the board for the Office of Student White House promptly deed any Affairs will probably be released such plan. later. I Kleindienst said the administra- The major objections were tion intends to apply the lottery aimed at the Regents' changes in system of selecting d r a f t e e s the UC. "across the board" when the They added a clause to their change is made next year. new draft requiring specific ap- Congress has given Nixon the proval by the Regents of any UC power to switch to a lottery sys- rule before it takes effect. T h e tem, but in requesting the author- Student-faculty draft would have ity the President did not say he allowed a rule to go into effect would abolish college deferment. when ratified by the Assembly and Kleindienst referred to the com- SGC if it was not specifically vetoed by the Regents. In addition, the Regents re- Goodbye moved a stipulation requiring anyj rule approved by the UC to get With today's paper The Daily one student, one faculty, and one s t o p s publication for the administration vote as part of Thanksgiving Day vacation. its majority for approval. The Daily will resume publi- SGC President Marty McLaugh- cation with its regular edition lin criticized this move, claiming next Tuesday. that under this system rules could be passed without getting any stu- ing change in the system during dent votes at all. testimony before a House Judiciary And although the rules would subcommittee on a bill calling for 1 still have to be ratified by SGC the creation ofnadditional federal to take effect, McLaughlin as- judgeships. serted that faculty members and Contributing to the problem of administrators could pass rules, increasing case loads in the fed- See REGENTS, Page 7 eral courts, he said, are the large number of cases involving viola- tions of the Selective Service Law. On today5s He disagreed with the observa- tion of Chairman Emanuel Celler Page three (D-NY) that the number of such cases could be expected to dimin- O President Nixon promises ish in the future. the U.S. will never use bio- Citing "the attitude of young logical weapons and says people today," Kleindienst said resistance to the draft could be he will have all existing expected to continue even under bacteriological stockpiles a lottery system. destroyed. "If it takes a young man who * CBS President Frank Stan- otherwise would have gone to col- lege, it could lead to an increase ton charges Vice President in violations," he said. Agnew with attempting to Asked by newsmen after the "cripple the free flow of hearing whether his reply meant ideas." college deferments would be elim- inated under the lottery system, * Anti-war GIs say the Army Kleindienst said "That is my un- has actively harrassed them derstanding." for their political beliefs. Gerald L. Warren, deputy press By SUSAN LINDEN What are the chances of slip-# ping on Tartan Turf? What are the oddsson another summer of urban riots? Only the statistician knows for sure. The University's new statistic department, established last July, provides a direct program for the: student interested in the rapidly growing field of theoretical and applied statistics. Now located at 1447 Mason Hall, advised to get a strong background! the fledgling department is com- in mathematics. Additional cour- posed of nine faculty members and ses in psychology and sociology! fifteen graduate students. The are required for the student inter- curriculum is presently geared to ested in a specialized field of a graduate sequence leading to a statistic:. masters or doctorate degree. According to Acting Chairman Beginning in the fall of 1970, Prof. W. A. Ericson, there are no, the department will offer 13 cour- immediate plans for an under-! ses in mathematical and applied statistics. An undergraduate contemplat- ing advanced study in statistics is uncilmen and Mayor Robert Councilman Roy Weber (R- Pird Ward) cast the dissenting te, while Fourth Ward R:publi- ns Joseph Edwards and James ephenson were absent. LeRoy C a p p a e r t (D-Fifth :rd ),one of the councilmen iding the fight against the dis- ted provision, says that the pro- )tion provision is unacceptable cause it gives the police depart - nt the authority to promote ut enants, captains, corporals od sergeants through a seniority- pe system. Cappaert believes that the city ould have the authority to make ese appointment through hiring ficers from other cities. He also believes that the At-" 'mative Action program, which intended to increase black em- .oyment in the city, would be riously impaired if the provision accepted. Weber said he voted against the intract because 'they did not put he agency shop as one of the Harris supporting it. AT OSU LAST YEAR Rose Bowl tours: A good buy -um ~#6&AivD __ By LYNN WEINER Box lunches, parade seats, transporta- tion, sight-seeing programs and t o u r books are among the lures of the m a n y Rose Bowl tours being offered to Wol- verine fans now. Although the bombardment of adver- tising might make a prospective buyer wary, people who have taken these trips before were generally satisfied with what they got for their money. Several of the ten tours currently ad- vertised here were offered to Ohio State University students at Columbus 1 a s t year for the Buckeyes' trip to Pasadena. and Ohio State students who took t h e tours had few criticisms. "The services through the organized Hotels, motels and rooms on campuses are some of the accommodations offered. Many of the tours put three and four per- sons in a room, and the locations are some- times widely scattered. Some of the tours advertised reserved seat parade tickets. But OSU student Jay Smith explains, "It's not true that you need tickets for the parade. Anyone can find a place, the only difference is that you just don't have a seat." Another student disagrees, saying that the massive crowd made a reserved seat a necessity. Means of transportation to the airport, parade, and game range from shuttle bus to rented car'. The several thousand fans expected to graduate concentration program. Graduate students, at least, are enthusiastic about separate de- partmental status. "The new program eliminates the need for higher level theoreti- cal math courses, which are es- pecially cumbersome on the doc- toral level," says one student. So statistics is alive and well and living in Ann Arbor, but what actually is it, and-more per- tinent to those who are potential statisticians-what can you do with it? "Statistics is a branch of ap- plied mathematics which happens to be useful" is the explanation of Prof. Roger Owen, a visiting pro- fessor from Princeton. Useful it certainly is, and wide- open, too. Students expressed little concern over job placements alter graduate school. Every industry is hiring people with statistics, often at higher starting salaries than those with an equivalent amount of training in pure mathe- matics. The contemporary emphasis on market-oriented production has made the statistician essential to industry. Through market anal- vsis hecann advise the nroducer onn i I Also on the inside: secretary to the President, said after being informed of Klein- dienst's comment he knew of no * Students are increasingly change in previously announced going to the courts to win plans to retain student deferments from their colleges and in the revision of Selective Service . rocedures planned by the admin-