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LXXVI, No. 11 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1965 SEVEN CENTS Coordinated Budget May Lead to Less Con By LEONARD PRATT money for their institutions than has always been a matter of in- In the spring, as University of- it hour loads and increased costs heads are in favor of it because has approved for each category current "go it alone" methods. ternal negotiations and trimming. ficials got information on what per credit hour, rising salaries, of the work it saves them. are higher than the University The budget which the admin- Eventually they hope to tie in The principal difference between the Legislature was likely to ap- prices, new programs, new bud- would normally have requested on istraton Is readying for a trial the coordinated budgeting sys- this and a coordinated budget lies propriate for the next year, more ings and a "deficiency" allowance In addition, Lesch character- its own. showing at the Sept. 24 Regents tem with a plan to request funds here; a coordinated budget re- discussions were scheduled to fit to make up for funds which were Ize chairmen as being relieved meeting is based on a "coordinat- for the 10 state colleges as a lump quest is prepared with the ue of college budgets into the likely ap- needed in earlier years but were that they now do not have'to put This doesn't mean the Univer- ed plan" which will have some sum. statewide guidelines. propriation. Final decisions were not appropriated. forth vague estimates in the fall; sity will necessarily get more effects on University affairs when The coordinated budget form Normal budget preparations in made in early summer, following Lesch described the new process these estimates always had less money; that is still up to the gov- it is fully implemented. has the same final result as the previos years have begun with the Legislature's action. as using the current year as a definite validity because they ernor and the Legislature. But Michigan's college presidents, conventional one that the Univer- communications in the fall be- Under a coordinated budgeting base and adding to that the addi- were made so long before specific it does mean that it has state- through their Coordinating Coun- sity has been using for years in tween deans of colleges and the system things are a good deal dif- tions dictated by rising costs with- enrollment and program costs wide approval for requesting a cil of State College Presidents, that the same amount of money vice-president for academic af- ferent, as James A. Lesch, assist- in the six increasing categories. were available. He emphasized good deal of money, something have long wanted such coordinat- would be requested from the Leg- fairs. After each department had ant to the vice-president for aca- After the increment for each that deans will still meet in the which it has always lacked. ed budgets in the form of identi- islature no matter which were submitted its request, the total demic affairs, said yesterday. area is decided upon, they are summer to discuss their final Thus the University will now cal application blanks which all used request was compiled. The new system operates by simply added to give the total budgets, thus retaining the meet- have a tacit lobby for its inter- 10 state colleges would use in re- So the real difference is the A brief period of talks then dividing the budget of all state University budget request, Lesch ings that were really important ests. " questing money from the Legisla- form of the two budgets and the took place, as the vice-president universities into six primary cate- said. to them. ture. They are hoping that this particular way in which each is trimmed department budgets down gories in which college budgets University reaction to the new In addition, Lesch mentioned unified approach will lead to less prepared. to a more acceptable total than usually rise, he said. The categor- approach is fairly enthusiastic, Lesch said the increments that preparing a budget under the confusion in Lansing and more Preparing conventional budgets the original. ies include increased student cred- L e s c h commented. Department which the coordinating council new system highlights a need for EIGHT PAGES usion the University to increase its em- phasis on long-range planning. While noting that the Univeri- sity has been engaged in long range planning, for years, Lesch mentioned that the newer budg- eting procedures place more em- phasis in this area than the Uni- versity currently does. Because of this increased em- phasis on long-term planning, he said there may be possibilities of beginning "five-year plans" for University expansion. Such plans could take into account desired goals for the University, funds available to it and then combine the two to find how much money should be requested from the Leg- islature each year. What's New At 764-1817 Hotline The University's newest food service facility, the North Campus Commons, will be open for evening meal service to students, staff and the public beginning Monday, September 13. Cafeteria service will be offered from 5:15 p.m. to 7 p.m. and from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. A snack bar is also open from 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Dramatic Arts Center will present a festival of theater, music and dance entitled "Once Again 1965" from September 17 through 19. Theproductions will be staged on the Maynard Street parking structure and will include performances of modern dance, films, electronic music, stage-sculpture and light projection. Erich A. Walter, assistant to University President Harlan Hatcher and secretary of the University, will be the University's host to Jack Lohrmann, assistant to the president of the Univer- sity of Tuebingen, Germany, on Tuesday, September 14. Walter will compare notes with Lohrmann on the duties of American and German assistants to University presidents and will speak at.a luncheon honoring the Tuebingen visitors. Thirteen interns in dietetics joined University Hospital August 30 to begin a one-year training program. The interns will attend lectures by the medical staff and classes in food produc- tion, management and normal and therapeutic diets, Robert C. Schnitzer, director of the Professional Theater Program, yesterday denounced rumors that the PTP would stop producing plays in the fall if the Association of Producing Artists stopped performing at the University. Schnitzer said, "PTP is firmly committed to a permanent and continuing policy of sponsoring a distinguished repertory company yearly. If APA proves unable to re-assemble after' its suspension this winter, then PTP will continue the Fall Festivals of repertory with other notable troupes. But first we want to give every opportunity to APA to re-group its forces." The University is one of eleven Midwestern colleges conduct- ing a feasibility study of an electronic' communications network that would provide higher education with services including computer conversations and educational broadcasting. The Com- mittee on Institutional Cooperation is the sponsor of the one- yearstudy, which will explore the possible benefits from operation of 'a'wireline radio network transmitting material among the universities on a round-robin basis. The fifth "annual edition of the University Index of Labor Union Periodicals has been published by the Bureau of Industrial Relations of the graduate school of business administration. The' Index contains over 131,000 abstracts of articles from leading labor periodicals and is the only such reference guide to the labor press. The Ann Arbor Board of Education recently approved a University Hospital work-study program for potential school drop-' outs. The program would involve the employment of 16-year-olds at the hospital for a 30-hour week at $1.25 per hour. A record turnout of over 600 students attended Wednesday night's Musket mass meeting, and over 260 students plan to audition for parts. This year's production will be Leonard Bern- stein's Broadway and cinema hit "West Side Story," and, en- couraged by the tremendous turnout at the mass meeting, the show coordinators are predicting great success. Wiretap Howard Abrams, a member of the United States National Student Association, revealed to Student Government Council ' last night that there will be a shift in emphasis in USNSA activi- ties. Abrams, a student at the University of Chicago Law School . atnd, a guest speaker at last night's SGC meeting, said that USNSA will be placing greater stress upon "the internal affairs of college campuses." He said that there will be increased efforts in the field of tutorial work and related campus projects. "This is not a swing away from civil rights. Rather it is merely a shift in priorities," Abrams said. * * * * "Undercrowding" in dormitories before the end of this semester becomes increasingly possible, as residence hall officials accelerate attempts to move students into regular quarters from crowded, converted rooms. Director of Residence Halls Eugene Haun said yesterday that there are vacancies currently at West VPs PierDont. Cutler Co-Author Major Statement on --vyr V rIN- IMW i \ i 'U' Housing Issue Reply To Demands Of Students Willing To Use Federal; Money for Housing EDITOR'S NOTE: In response to a list of demands submitted to the University administration yester- day by Voice Housing Committee Chairman Stewart Gordon, Vice- President for Business and Finance Wilbur K. Pierpont and Vice-Presi- dent for Student Affairs Richard L. Cutler drafted a letter explain- ing the University's position on the problem of student housing. The full text of the demands and the administrators' reply follows. Student Demands 1) We request that Vice-Presi- 'dent Pierpont prepare a state- ment on the use of federal funds to build student housing. In ad-! dition, we request a policy state- ment on how the University will aid student and student-faculty non-profit corporations . . . in their attempts to build low-cost housing. Specifically, can land on North Campus be sold to such non-profit corporations ...? 2) We request that the Presi- dent's Commission on Off-Cam- pus Housing publish an interim report immediately ... 3) We request that the Presi- dent's Commission hold open hear- ings within the next two weeks in order to make further use of student opinion. 4) We request that in the future student opinion be more involved in the planning of housing for students. 5) We request that the Uni- versity make public its policy to- ward high-rise apartment build- ings and especially toward shoddy ones which are potential slums before being finished. Officials' Reply This is in response to your se- ries of requests concerning our mutual interest in solving the housing problems faced by Uni- versity of Michigan students. May we state at the outset that all of the issues you raise were dis- cussed in a meeting between us and Mr. Robert Goyer of the Graduate Student Council, Mr. Russell Linden of VOICE and Stu- dent Government Counci and Mr. Robert Johnston of The Michigan Daily on Tuesday afternoon. We believed at that time that satis- factory agreements were reached on each' of the points which you raised and the following answers See VP's, Page 6 Koufax Hurls Perfect Game LOS ANGELES ()-Sandy Kou- fax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched a perfect game last night in a 1-0 victory over the Chicago <1 i t 3 J -Associated Press DEMONSTRATORS PROTESTING the peace mission of United Nations Secretary U Thant were confronted by -police outside a Lon- don airport hotel yesterday. Thant was inside the hotel conferring with British officials about the Kashmir crisis. Thant Begins Peace Pakitan s Figh tig Persistss Chances of Sleep Out Diminished. Gordon Hails Answer, But Comments Vote Will Determine Action By CHARLOTTE WOLTER In an unprecedented and dra- matic fashion yesterday, two vice- presidents issued a major state-' ment on University housing poli- tics. As a result of the statement, issued jointly by Vice-President for Student Affairs Richard Cut- ler and Vice-President for Busi- ness and Finance Wilbur K. Pier- pont, the probability of a dramatic student protest over housing-such as a sleep-out-has been greatly reduced, according to Stewart Gordon, '66, chairman of the Voice housing committee. Gordon, upon receipt of the statement, said that he was very pleased with its proposals, but cautioned that its acceptance would be determined, democrat- ically, by those students present at a rally to be held today at noon on the Diag. Yesterday's Statement Yesterday's statement by Cutler and Pierpont was the culmination of several weeks of meetings by Voice and other groups, which had attempted to organizer a major student protest against what, they considered were overly-expensive and inadequate facilities for stu- dent housing. On Tuesday afternoon repre- sentatives of Student Government Council and Graduate Student Council had met with Cutler and Pierpont, and Cutler had agreed to the establishment of a student ad- visory committee which would participate actively in the plan- ning of future housing projects. The results of the afternoon conference were presented that night at a general meeting of the Housing Committee by Russell Linden,;'67, who had represented SGC at the conference. In re- sponse to this report the general meeting drafted a statement list- ing five demands. .Demands° Although Cutler, and Pierpont thought that the issues in the VOICE statement had been cover- ed in the Tuesday afternoon meeting, they answered each of the five demands, as far as they were able, in some detail. They assured the committee that "The University's general policy on the use of federal funds is . . . to utilize every possible re- source to solve our housing prob- lems." In response to another question in this area, their statement said that the University "is specifically willing to cooperate with student groups which are presently de- veloping plans for the construc- Fin- of, lm-c ,,irlmt. ms,ng NEW DELHI Po)--Heavy fight- ing between Indian and Pakistani armies was reported yesterday as UN Secretary-General U Thant arrived in Pakistan on his peace mission in this tormented subcon- tinent. Forces of the two nations were reported battling on the dusty northern plains of India and Paki- stan along routes conquerors have used for centuries. India claimed it had destroyed 75 U.S.-made Pakistani tanks in the past 24 hours and now has knocked out a total of 114. Pakistan claimed all Indian drives into Pakistani territory had been stopped, and 10 Indian tanks destroyed. More Tanks Both sides reported throwing in more tanks and jet fighters. Un- der these conditions there was widespread doubt in New Delhi that Thant could arrange a quick cease-fire. There appeared to be few in the Indian capital who wanted one. Indian officials tried to assess the meaning behind Communist China's repeated avowals of sup- port for Pakistan and its con- demnation of India as an aggres- sor. Officials in Washington and London voiced similar fears of Red China's intentions. India followed up this drive Wednesday by launching twin at- tacks on a front near Pakistan's city of Sialkot, 60 miles north of Lahore; and 600 miles to the south in southeast Pakistan. The In- dians claimed the latter drive penetrated six miles and captured the town of Gadra. Now the main battle appeared to be on the Lahore front near the Pakistani city of Kasur and the Indian city 'of Ferozepore, where Pakistan claims to have made a penetration of Punjab. Kasur is 30 miles south of La- hore. Ferozepore is 10 miles inside India, 40 miles south of Lahore. In Washington, Mike Mansfield (D-Montana) proposed yesterday a pledge by the United States and other nations to work through the United Nations Security Coun- cil to adjust foreign aid programs to help restore peace between In- I dia and Pakistan. NSF PROGRAM: Undergraduates, Professors Work on Research Projects By MICHAEL HEFFER The zoology department is tak- ing part in a National Science Foundation program to bring un- dergraduates in direct contact with research in the sciences. Prof.. David Shappirio, coordi- nator of the NSF program for zoo- logy, said "it gives perspective about the real world of science, difficult to get in a formal course." He said the students involved, most of whom continue in re- search, "become associated with creative work, doing something new." The zoology department became , n nrt. f fh .nrnram hnii summer of eight to ten weeks at full time. (50 to 60 hours weekly). For an academic year the stipend is $200, for a summer it is $600. To be accepted to the program the student must submit an ap- 'plication to the department. "Most of the students involved are juniors or seniors," Shap- pirio said, and "they usually have ideas about work to be done in their fields of concentration, and know professors doing research." Variety The student can work on an "on-going faculty project or a semi-independent problem," Shap- pirio said. "The students work in sional" one, the relationship being the same as between other re- search personnel. The work being done in zoology is part of the department's re- search program, Shappirio said. For example, Dr. Karel Slama, from the Czech- Academy of Science, is working on experiments in insect hormones. Marian Dal- sey, '66, is working with him un- der the NSF program. In another project, Thomas Betz, Grad, spent a spring and summer in Guatemala studying previously poorly explored areas of reptile and amphibian fauna there. , mi7Vihaaiim R;;, n-.