SGC CANDIDATES: ENDQRSEMENTS See Editorial Page 'Y But i gan 471 ity CLOUDY High-66 Low-32 Cloudy and warmer, chance of scattered showers Seventy-Five Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVI, No.68 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1965 SEVEN CENTS TEN PAGES New Choices Stir Critics In City Hall Board; of Directors Announces Creation Of Housing Group By BOB CARNEY Mayor Wendell E. Hulcher's appointments to the new housing commission absorbed additional) criticism yesterday, but spurred supporting action by the Ann Ar- bor Board of Realtors, a group which originally opposed the com-1 mission.' The board yesterday announced that a non-profit organization is being set up "to meet the request of Mayor Hulcher for more hous- ing for the needy." It will be called Ann Arbor Community Housing, Inc. , The board said that five dwell- ing units and a site for low-in- { come apartments have already been secured. But both the board's announcement and. the mayor's appointments met with strongly- worded criticism at last night's city council meeting. Dr. Albert Wheeler attacked the mayor's appointees as neither committed to nor representative of the city's lower income groups and their housing needs. He criticized the mayor's deci- sion to exclude any "activists" in making his appointments, saying that it was the activists who help- ed to get the commission passed in the first place. Dr. Wheeler again claimed that not one of the appointees was a member of the group which the commission was set up to aid. "This is one more example of the eternal exclusion and insult administered by the city govern- ent on the Negro community," hsaid in summary. Dr. William Schneider condemn- ed the "moderation" he claimed Hulcher aimed for in his appoint- ments. "It is no time for modera- tion," said Schneider. "It is time for commitment." He termed the Board of Real- tors action as "tokenism." Minutes before Wheeler, and Schneider spoke, the mayor "pro- tested" the fact that citizens who were in support of the commis- sion's purposes were not willing to cooperate in the solution, re- ferring to the critics of his ap- pointees. He reiterated his aim to form a commission which would provide broad representation and stimulate support from the entire community. The mayor considers the board's action yesterday as one aspect of that support-by a group which commands influence and resourc- es in the field of housing. He went on to describe his appointed commission as "main- stream" or "middle-of-the-road," excluding "activists and people from either of the extremes of Sthought or action." In another action last night, Councilman Richard E. Balzltlser withdrew his motion supporting the President's policy on Viet Nam saying that it had been intended for Veterans' Day. Councilman Robert Weeks took w the opportunity to condemn the motion, saying that "our Viet Nam policy should be debated, but in lecture halls, on radio and tele- Vision, in the press and in the U.S. Congress, but not in the cham- bers of the Ann Arbor City Coun- cil . . . by a resolution that over- simplifies the issue and leaves the impression that we are all 'un- informed'." I I What's New At 764-1817 Hot Line The quarter-final winners of the Campbell competition, a moot court contest of junior law students were announced yes- terday. From the following 12 students four will be selected for the semifinals: Calvin Bellamy, Michael Coffield, Kay Felt, E. Frost, Natalie Gingell, James Kleinberg, Richard Leukart, R. E..Rassel, Robert Sarow, Joel Strauss, Peter Truebner and Robert Wells. Two alternates, John Briggs and Richard Halber- stein, were also selected. The local "blue ribbon" task force on housing, appointed by University President Harlan Hatcher last fall, has completed its report and is awaiting instructions from him on when it is to be made public. Hatcher will be in Chicago today at a national educators' conference, and has not yet announced when he will allow the release of the report. Members from Inter-Quadrangle Council and Assembly House Council met for the first time Sunday night to discuss, a proposed merger between the two organizations. The topic of the discussion was based on a general outline of the proposed structure; its function, purpose and duties. Inter-House Assembly, accepted as the proper name for the merged organization, will include an executive board and a presidents' council, with both men and women representatives in attendance. Since the houses are already being represented by their individual presidents, the dormitory presidents will be allowed to attend the Inter-House Assembly meetings as ex-officio members. Long Distance A precedent-setting "student summit conference" will take place tonight following an address on the Viet Nam situation by Governor George Romney at 7:30 in the University of Detroit Memorial Building. Delegates from nearly all colleges and uni- versities in the lower peninsula will be allowed to question the governor after his speech. Plans for the event, which will be broadcast over national radio and television, originated with U. of D. Student Government President David Padilla. Michigan State University's Faculty Committee on Student Affairs will meet tonight in MSU's Kellogg Center for the second and final hearing on Paul Schiff's bid for readmission. Schiff, a former graduate sutdent at MSU, was refused readmission this fall because of his activist behavior on campus last year. Schiff questioned the university's right to deny him readmission on non- academic grounds ,and took his case to the United States District Court in Grand Rapids earlier this semester. The court referred the issue back to the university, but main- tained jurisdiction for ninety days. If the faculty committee decides tonight to uphold MSU's refusal to readmit Schiff, the court may waive jurisdiction, or may make its own decision overruling the MSU decision. A special session of.North Carolina's General Assembly met yesterday to debate an amendment to the state's controversial speaker ban law which 'prohibits Communist speakers at state colleges. After the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools threatened to withdraw accreditation because of the law, Gov- ernor Moore appointed a study commission to propose changes. Its amendment, discussed yesterday, would return the respon- sibility for selecting speakers to the boards of trustees of state colleges. The students of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been polled as 9 to 1 in favor of the amendment. Many, according to the Daily Tar Heel, the school paper, would prefer repeal but are willing to settle for a compromise. Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges, former North Carolina governor, urged both sides to "give a little." The General Assembly will meet again today to consider other amendments and vote on them. Leaders of the Viet Nam Day Committee of Berkeley, the initiator of the International Days of Protest Oct. 15-16, met with officials of the city of Oakland yesterday, after a U.S. District Court Judge delivered am informal opinion which said that the city of Oakland's refusal to grant them a permit to stage a march through the city to a nearby army terminal was beyond the city's rights. Judge William Sweigert, in delivering his opinion, said Oakland's denial was an "unreasonable, arbitrary use of the discretion of the city officials and an invalid interference with basic constitutional rights." SGC Members Again Keep iet SGC Debate Candidates 'Voice View Nam Poll from Ballot S Express Opinions on Housing ControVersy, Academic Reforms by HARRIET DEUTCH Student Government Council candidates expressed their opin- ions on housing, academic reform,I and other campaign issues yester- day noon at the Hyde Park De- bate. The SGC-sponsored debate consisted of the candidates ad- dressing the student body on the DIAG to convey the highlights of their platforms. Edward Robinson. '67, repre- senting GROUP Political Party, said that "the SGC committee structure needs revitalization." Robinson referred to the role thatE GROUP members have played in the Bookstore Committee by "ac- tivating student interest and get- ting more signatures (13,000) en- dorsing this program that any other program has ever gotten on this campus." The policies of Reach Political Party were conveyed by Al Good- win, '66. Goodwin said that Reach plans to deal with the housing problem by 1) forcing the Univer- sity to take a stand on the issues. 2) building up the off-campus housing board, 3) publishing a list of landlords "who have not acted in good faith," 4) getting more good quality high-rise apartment buildings, 5) pushing for 8-month insead of 12-month leases and 6) strengthening communications between Reach and the various housing boards." Independent candidate, Joan Irwin, '66, stressed "the lack of communications between the ad- ministration and the students." She asked that students be al- lowed to sit on the Administra- tion Board. In addition, she ad- vocated academic reforms such asE allowing students to go before the Administration Board if they want to drop or add a course. "In this way we can get students involved in policy-making decisions that affect their welfare," she said. Robert Bodkin, '67, told the lis- teners of the recent motion he sponsored to set up an academic affairs conference. The represent- atives to the conference will dis- cuss such programs as ways of re- ducing trimester pressure, aca- demic credit for activities, and ef- fective course evaluation. Jim Wall, '67, based much of his speech on proposing representa- tion of foreign students by link- ing SGC more closely to the In- ternational Center. Wall said he w an t e d to "activate student awareness of student assistance services such as the counselling and health services." Each independent candidate and each party were allotted five min- utes to express their viewpoints. -Daily-Sheldon Davis STOCKWELL SIT-DOWN DINNERS involve residents of the hall both as waitresses and diners. Sit-downs have a long tradition at the 'U' but are being reduced in other halls. DomSit-Duown Mermals:' Apc fis Asecs f isutd u Abstentions Kill Last Try For 'U' Vote Sev'en Opponents of Issue Stifle Action In Emergency Session By DICK WINGFIELD Seven members of Student Gov- ernment Council yesterday stym- ied last ditch efforts by the oth- er 10 Council members to place an opinion poll concerning the government's Viet Nam policy on Wednesday's SGC election ballot. An emergency meeting called yesterday by SGC President Gary Cunningham, '66, was rendered ineffective when sevenmCouncil members intentionally remained absent from the meeting. Thus the meeting lacked the 12 mem- bers needed for official action and could not take the necessary ac- tion to place the pollion the ballot. Events shaping yesterday's inci- dent began when Cunningham ruled at last Thursday's Council meeting that a two-thirds vote would be necessary to pass the is- sue. Steve Schwartz, '68, appeal- ed the decision of thehchair. A vote was taken and the chair's decision was affirmed. However, after the meeting last week, Cunningham conferred with John Feldkamp, assistant to the vice-president in charge of student affairs, and they concluded that according to the Council plan a majority vote is all that is need- ed to place an opinion poll of this nature on the election ballot. Cunningham then called the emergency meeting yesterday "to rescind the decision of the last meeting, with the specific intent of submitting the opinion poll to the student body in the upcom- ing SGC election." Abstaining from yesterday's meeting were: Robert Bodkin, '67E; Jack Winder, '66; Chris Mansfield, '66; Rachael Amado, '67; Richard Hoppe, '66; Lee Horn- berger, '66; Susan Ness, '67, and Paul Pavlick, '67. Bodkin said, "My reason for opposing the opinion poll on the ballot both last week and through my abstention yesterday is that I believe the election ballot is no place for a poll of this caliber. I believekthe poll should definitely be taken, but through other means." Schwartz said he felt that the ballot, which was to offer "four different political and four dif- ferent military alternatives," would have offered a good indi- cation of general feeling on the issue, rather than a mere polar- ized view. EDITORS NOTE Because of the controversy over sit-down dinners, a Daily reporter attended one at Stockwell hall and reports here his impressions. By DAVID KNOKE The sound of drowzy feminine voices interrupted by occasional laughter mixes with the rattle of plates and silverware. This is a Sunday afternoon "sit-down din- ner" at Stockwell Hall, one of the few women's residence halls main- taining a tradition stretching back over the years. The people are mostly girl resi- dents, although several are accom- panied by parents or boyfriends. There are over 500 girls in the hall and two dining rooms run at staggered times, 12:30 and 12:45. At two minutes before the scheduled opening of the doors, less than 30 persons were stand- ing in the hallway. Inside the dining room, two dozen student waitresses were scurrying about briskly, setting silverware, water and juice glasses, salads and rolls at every place. 'Civilized Meal' The talk in the narrow hallway grew progressively louder and more exuberant with the arrival of another 60 girls. Someone nearby let out an audible com- ment on the sit-downs, "It's the only civilized meal we have." The doors opened and the hun- gry diners poured into the room, separating into small groups by tables, signaling to friends that more seats were available at their tables. After standing for grace, - the spritely voices commenced again, threaded with the shifting of chairs and the bustle of wait- resses. One girl at the table filled out a "drink order"-coffee, tea or milk, naturally-and the wait- resses began serving at their var- ious tables. Each waitress attends four and five tables for a specific function-serving the main plate, beverage or dessert. Food Dinner was asparagus, potatoes with or without gravy and bread- ed chicken pieces. The white- jacketed and gray-dressed wait- resses are residents of the hall and consequently on personal terms with the girls they serve. They perform their duties in a cheerful if somewhat perfunctory manner. The meal progresses; girls at the other tables appeared very re- laxed, smiling, talking lazily and gesturing with limp wrists, giving short bursts of laughter now and then. The constant movement of the waitresses in contrast gives the room and atmosphere of hurried- ness that does not originate with the diners. Leave Quickly Notwithstanding t h e leisurely pace of the meals, most of the people finished dessert and left within 35 minutes of the start. At cafeteria-style meals during the week, the girls are required to leave 20 minutes after the closing of the lunch lines. There is no time limit on how long the girls can stay and chat across the empty dishes of the sit-down. This is also the only meal at which smoking is permitted; yet few of the girls seemed eager to remain long in the fast-emptying room. Already the waitresses were beginning to bus those tables ringed with empty chairs. Conversation at the table was Stockwell and Mosher, elaborated on the importance of the sit-down tradition : "We feel very strongly about retaining these dinners because unless you do retain some of what you might call .'the niceties' of" living in institutions, very soon these halls will not be much dif- ferent from a kind of hotel. "If we take these things away and do not replace them with something that adds to the halls, we will have a hotel, not a resi- dence. We seek to provide more than a place for the girls to eat and sleep." A controversy erupted 1 a s t month between the student kitch- en staff and the Stockwell ad- ministration about a proposed re- duction in the number of sit-down dinners the girls are required to serve. At present there are four sit-downs per month which must be served by the staff members or substitutes. Petition Circulated The controversy started with the circulation among the kitchen workers of a petition asking for the mandatory number of sit- downs to be reduced to one per month. The girls complained about the difficulty of getting off work on specific Sundays and the use of the same hourly pay scale See SIT-DOWNS, Page 2 DEAN ROBERTSON: 'Students Now Ask Relevancy to Life' Cohen Analyzes Federal School Aid Bill, Medicare By LAUREN BAHR The first break in the alliance Associate Managing Editor against federal aid came with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in "Federal* aid to education and 1964, Cohen explained.j Medicare are two of the major Title VI of the act prohibits programs undertaken by the gov- discrimination in "any program or ernment which have interested me activity receiving federal finan- personally," Wilbur Cohen, under- cial assistance." Thus the problem secretary of Health, Education and of discrimination was taken care Welfare, said yesterday, address- of in a separate piece of legisla- ing students in the Law Club tion and Southerners were more Lounge. disposed toward approving aid to As of 1960, Congress had com- education legislation, Cohen ex- pleted the 90th year of thwart- plained. But the question of paro- ing attempts to pass any kind of chial schools still remained. federal aid to education legisla-- "The passage of M be attributed to thr ' idyllic, casual, centering on minor points of academic and dating edicare can roblems. Apple pie came, thick ledcae anand juicy-sweet, the crowning ee people -- Barry Goldwater, the Americani Medical Association, and President Lyndon B. Johnson running aa close third," Cohen said. "The 138-page Medicare stat- ute has a number of distinctive aspects which were necessary to suit this type of social legislation to the American environment,"j Cohen said. 'Fiscal Intermediaries' Under the law, the collection of money is done entirely through government forces, but there is a "fiscal intermediary" or carrier' such as Blue Cross or Blue Shield to handle the administering of the funds touch to a satisfactory meal. By general consent,everyone at the table decided the sit-down had come to an end for this week. We left the dining hall, walking be- tween waitresses stripping and folding the billowing table cloths. Tradition Diminishing Sit-down dinners in girls' resi- dence halls are a traditional function that is rapidly disappear- ing. Although small halls such as Helen Newberry. Betsy Barbour and Martha Cook have managed to hold sit-downs several times per week, the larger halls such as Jordan, Mosher, and Stockwell have been in the process of re- By SUSIE JOHNSON "Developing creativehdissatis- faction is one of the chief pur- poses of education," stated James H. Robertson, associate dean of the literary college at his Last Chance lecture last night. Speak- ing on "The Search for Relevance: or The Bridge over the River Why," he said young people must use their experiences and profit from them for a successful edu- cation. He explained that.relevancy to life is the new higher goal which students are striving to achieve in their college experience. Through an unselfish drive to find one's self by using personal talents to help others, the student attains this goal. Easy answers, unreasoning de- sire for quick action, and group P ressures are three temptations a really "courageous" self exami- nation, 2) learning from exper- ience, 3) combining self respect with a bare minimum of self pity, 4) assuming the honesty to blame one's self for mistakes, 5) realizing that verbalizing a problem isn't solving it, 6) stop- ping talking to listen and learn from others, 7) disciplining one's self to solve one's -own problems before solving those of others, 8) taking faith in the dignity and power of the individual to effect change, and 9) avoiding easy ra- tionalizations and taking a stand to act on moral and philosophic issues. A professor can give you insight, but he can't provide the jump from the nonthinker to the think- er. To secure this step there must be a dynamic inner readiness to have anything happen, he said. tion, Cohen explained. "A com- bination of forces resulted in this inaction," he said. Northern Republicans joined by some Democrats feared the possi- bility of federal control and in-. Low-Income Families To eliminate this problem the Elementary and Secondary Edu- cation Act passed by the 89th Congress in 1965 provided for fed- eral aid being made "available to states not for all schools or all S function of the interme- ducing the number of sit-downs diary is to determine the reason- held over the years.