i PRAISE HATCHER'S VIEW ON VIET NAM See Editorial Page :Y G S ir4 oa AOP l4latl SPRINGLIKE High-46 Low-18 Partly cloudy and warmer Seventy-Five Years of Editorial Freedom VOL,. LXXVI, No. 129 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1966 SEVLN CE.;TS EIGHT PAGES MHRI By DAVID KNOKE Wit]iin the dozens of tile and cement block rooms of the Mental Health Research Institute are car- ried on some of the most impor- tant, research projects on mental behavior in the country, covering a spectrum from flatworms to in- ternational wars. "Multi-disciplinary is the word to describe the work we do here," says Acting Director John R. Platt, who is taking the place of Direc- tor James G. Miller, presently on sabbatical leave. "The diverse pro- jects grouped under one roof are directed at a future goal - the basic research we do today will benefit future generations with improved mental hygiene and treatment of mental disease." Although there is a clinical di- vision which co-operates with the Attempts Varied Approach to Research department of psychiatry of the University Hospital in caring for patients, MHRI's research is not aimed directly at immediate, prac7 tic'al applications. "Our main objectives are to bet- ter understand the human mind and how it works," says Platt. MIERI was established about ten years ago around a group of scientists from the University of Chicago interested in the behav- ioral sciences. One of the immed- iate purposes was the clarification of establishment of concrete evi- dence about how the mind oper- ates, according to Platt. Today, MHRI has a senior staff of 47 researchers with PhD or MD degrees and another 150 asso- ciated persons, including part-time student researchers. While MHRI is a unit of the University Hospital department of psychology, its funds come largely from outside sources. Appropria- tions from the state Legislature last year were $800,000. Support in the form of grants for specific projects provide a large portion of MHRI's operating money, accord- ing to Platt. Among the major granting agencies, contributing a total of $1.2 million last year, were the Ngtional Health Agency and the National Science Foundation. A list of the specialists employed by "MHRI covers a broad spectrum of disciplines. Scientists specializ- ing in sociology, psychiatry, poli- tical science, psychology, biophy- sics, psychopharmacology, bio- chemistry, electronics, neurophy- siology, and neuromorphology all pool the knowledge and skills of their disciplines. About a third to a half of the MHRI professional staff also have joint appointments Spotlight on Research with the University, teaching graduate or undergraduate classes in addition to their research, Platt noted. Besides the clinical division, there is an interdisciplinary divi- sion which is wdrkng towards a "general systems theory" which may provide the framework for a unified scientific attack on be- havioral problems. The interdisciplinary sciences co-ordinator, James Miller, is also executive director of Inter-Uni- versity Communications Council of an organization called EDUCOM. Presently, MHRI conducts re- search in four distinct areas: the biological sciences, the psycholog- ical sciences, the societal sciences and the systems sciences. The biochemical and biological research staff, under the direction of Prof. Bernard Agranoff,, does basic research into the structure and function of the brain and nervous system. Much of 'the work is done with animal subjects, filling in large gaps in the data available on the neural anatomy of lower forms of life. Agranoff's experiments with injections of a protein-formation blocking drug onto the brains of trained goldfish have indicated that the consolidation of short- term memory i n t o long-term memory is linked to protein- formation. Prof. James McConnell's work with flatworms has given him a national reputation. Various in- pection, dissection and regenera- tion experiments have shown that lea'ning in planarian flatworms can be transferred by giving RNA extracts from a trained worm to an untrained one. Prof. Monica Blumenthal's re- cently concluded research into phenylketonuria, an hereditary mental-deficiency disease, seems to have disproven for the first time that the parents of a victim, while carrying one gene for the. disease, are not more prone to suffer mental illness than normal persons. Prof. Irwin Pollack is the co- ordinator for research projects in the psychological sciences. Com- munications by written and spok- en words are problems in linguis- tics studied by Prof. Robert Lind- say, while Prof. Daniel Carson has done research on the problems en- countered by persons with speech disorders. Prof. John Gyr's studies of pat- tern perception are aimed at es- tablishing computer models which will have developmental pattern perceptions similar to those form- ed by the human eye and brain. Platt has. done work on the phy- sics of perception, particularly in the colors of organic molecules and the visual pigments of the retina. Research in the societal sciences is co-ordinated by Prof. J. David Singer. "The social aspects of mental health are studied in con- nection with the biological, be- cause the human being does not grow up in isolation," Platt ex- plains. "The social influences impinge on a child and shape his aggression, his emotions, his ca- pacity to co-operate with others. See MHRI, Page 8 ExplainQuad; Fire Escape Procedures Complaints Arise on Poor Facilities; Exits Present Obstacles By DAVID SMITH A recent fire in East Quad- rangle has provoked comment from both house mothers and Resident Directors on fire safety practices there. When an alarm is turned on, an East Quad housemother said, a chime rings in each house mother's apartment. The number of times the chime rings indicates the lo- cation of the fire. All of the housemothers thent go to the place the chimes indi- 'cate. If there is a fire the house mother insertssa special key in M the fire alarm which causes the quad's alarm bells to go off. However, the operation is not complete at this point,. for some- one must then call the fire de- partment. Estimated time for this operation is approximately five minutes. The reason for these precau- tionary delays is the prevention of false alarms, according to Thomas Donahue, resident director of Pres- cott House. Some noted that evacuation of East Quad could present another obstacle. Two north side exits are locked at about 1 a.m., leaving one exit for almost 600 people to use at one time. If that doorway is blocked by fire, they would have to go through the. basement to the south side of the quad in order to leave. Ther is only one door leading to the basement. The fire alarm system in South Quad is the same as East Quad's. In West Quad, the situation is different. When a fire is discov- ered and an alarm lever is pulled, the bells in the hallways ring. No false alarms have been turned in in West Quad this year, according to Dave McKay, Resident Director of Chicago House. In some parts of West, fire drills are held and the alarm system is inspected regularly, according to McKay. Complaints about other irreg- uiarities and unsafe conditions are not uncommon. When an alarm is turned in in East Quad, thei housemothers' must leave their apartments empty. If another alarm is then turned on in another area, as was the case in last Sun- day's fire, there is no way for a warning to sound. I 4 ui4e Arliigun f aily NEWS WIRE _- i Late World News SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (A) - President Hector Garcia-Godoy last night swore in new air force and army chiefs of staff in a move to end the prolonged Dominican political- military crisis. The new appointees replace two top officers who had refused to accept a presidential order transferring them abroad. They were sworn in as new ministers of the air force and army, positions specially created by the president in reaching the compromise he hopes will finally settle the now 10-week-old crisis. Hotline Protesting in sympathy with the current California grape- pickers' strike continued last night as Voice political party, UMSEU and SNCC picketed State Drug on State and Packard because the drug store carries Shenley liquors. Shenley is one of the laborers' major employers. The picketing last night, as well as the picketing of Whitham Drug Store on Forest and S. University Friday night is intended as an "educational picket" to encourage buyers to boycott the Shenley products, accordingrto a Voice spokesman. He explained that the State Liquor Control Board would not permit removing the products from the shelves. The laborers are demanding higher wages and recognition of their right to collective bargaining. The picketing will continue until the strike is settled. * * * Ann Arbor Police yesterday responded to a complaint from the Oxford Housing Units that Delta Keppa Epsilon fraternity was playing recordings of Nazi concentration camp songs from a window loudspeaker. Oxford residents also charged that a Nazi swastika was being flown from the roof of the fraternity. A spokesman for the fraternity admitted the charges were true but added, "If a Jew was going to react that way, it's tough." He said a number of Jewish members of the fraternity had no complaints about the content of the recordings. He also denied that any complaints had been received by the fraternity. A check revealed that most of the complainants at Oxford were not Jewish. A police spokesman said it was standard procedure to require a second complaint before a violation of the city ordinance against disturbing the peace could be issued against the fraternity. Asked about the Nazi flags, he said "there are lots of Commie flags around, too." . Mark Lippincott, '67, president of the fraternity, condemned the incident as the work of "less responsible elements of the house who were in no way acting as agents or representatives of the fraternity." He said disciplinary action would be taken against the perpetrators of the incident. The recently adopted platform of the Ann Arbor Democratic party supports a program to build low cost housing units for the growing student population of Ann Arbor. It states, "Recognizing that the University has abdicated its responsibility to provide housing for its growing student body, the Ann Arbor Democratic Party urges that the University support a program to build in numbers commensurate with its growing population moderate and low rent units as required by married and graduate students." -Daily-c Tnomas R. Copi ANNOUNCE WINTER WEEKEND AWARDS, Winter Weekend came to a close last night with the announcement of the winners of the competitive categories. Shown above (left) is Chase Manhattan (Piggy) Bank, the winning entry of Sigma Kappa-Kappa Sigma in the animiial race. The booth competition, Alpha, Epsilon Pi-Phi Sigma Sigma, Kappa Sigma-Sigma Kappa, and Delta Upsilon-Gamma Phi Beta (shown above right) won first, second and third places respectively. The egg toss contest was won by Delta Tau Delta-Kappa Alpha Theta while the winning entry in the ice carving contest was entered by Tau Delta Phi-Sigma Delta Tau. Named as grand prize winner with the most overall points was Tau Delta Phi-Sigma Delta Tau. STILL IN FIRST:. Cagers Boil1 Purdue Aai,155 Peace Corps Chief Here Tomorrow Vaughn To Deliver First Major Address As New Director By NEIL SHISTER Jack Hood Vaughn, recently ap- pointed director of the Peace' Corps, will make his first major address in this new capacity at the University tomorrow. Vaughn's appearance commem- orates the fifth anniversary of the founding of the Peace Corps, which was created by Executive Order by President Kennedy on March 1, 1961.'Ann Arbor is gen- erally regarded as the birthplace of the Corps, as Kennedy first an- nounced its idea herei n 1960 in a speech given on the steps of the Vaughn's appeaance atte Uni- versity is expected to mark the beginning of an increased recruit- ing and publicity effort by the corps. He will also speak later in the day at Wayne 'State Univer- sity. There are current rumors that the corps may be losing some of its original momentum and that it may have difficulty in filling its 4000 man quota for this year. According to one official, the ratio between applicants and accepted, corpsmen is about 7 to 1, and thus the corps would need approximate- ly 28,000 applications to both fill its quota sand maintain its cur- rent standards. Larger draft calls and increas-, ing reluctance of local boardsto grant 2-A "national interest" de- ferments is one of the chief reasons for speculation that the corps may not meet its quota. Over the past five years there have been. scattered cases, Peace Corps officials say, where local' boards drafted a person who had been accepted for training as a .Peace Corps volunteer. The num- ber of cases has gone up in the last six months, although the problem has not yet become serious. A number of volunteers return- ing from their two years' service also have been drafted recently, although many volunteers ap- parently have gained the impres- sion that they would be free to continue their education or pursue a career when they completed their service. This potential reduction 'f avail- able corpsmen is coming at the same time that demand for them is increasing. Virtually every country in which there are pres- :ently Peace Corps volunteers has requested more, and the program 'is continually being expanded into new countries. The University has been one of the corps' prime sources for vol- unteers, ranking.fifth among the nation's schools in the number of corpsmen produced. 332 University students have joined the crps; 165 are now serving overseas and 167 have successfully completed two years of service. Vaughn himself is a graduate of the University, having received both his B.A. and a masters de- gree in French here. He is sched- uled to receive an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Re- gents which cites him for "bring- ing to his office the spirit of humane sympathy in which the By RICK STERN surge reached its glorious apex,,. Special To The Daily having gained velocity with every' piece of paper that the Boiler-d WEST LAFAYETTE - Michi- maker fans tossed onto the court.a gan's cagey Wolverines waited for But there's no sense in buildingI Purdue to build up the momen- a bandwagon if its going to runo tum, then calmly took it away over you at the bottom of the hill,. from them here yesterday.Cs The Michiganders saw a 14- Circle the Wagons , .he point lead clawed to three by the Being mostly engineers, the surging Boilermakers, but then Boilermakers should have known turned the iomentum seconds la- this. They didn't though. Michi-u Iundtenoenu eod a gan called a time out, regrouped k ter for an eventual 105-85 triumph gan fcal ed a ttirg s their forces, changed a few thingsC The win, the ninth in 11 ef- here and there, and jumped ont forts for the Wolverines, enabled the wagon-which had room fort them to maintain a one game only one team.t lead over Michigan State in the Ten straight points was the im- tight race for Big Ten supremacy mediate result, including four free and national honors.ethrows and jump shots by Rus- Down with Precedent sell, Clawson and Jim Myers. Andj Michigan made 42 of 70 shots' the Wolverines had just begun.t for 60 per cent, the highest shoot- For two minutes they toyed witht ing mark ever netted by a Pur- the gas pedal, then decided tot due opponent. In the first half, the Wolverines hit a precedent-, breaking 24 of, 36, all but three ' of the goals coming from the out- C on Sid( side. Dave Schellhase, curly-haired. Boilermaker he-man, led all scor- ers with 37 points but needed 30 I o istr shots to do it. Cazzie Russell cash- ed in for 33 tallies but needed only 17 shots. John Clawson fol- lowed closely in the scoring with By SUSAN ELAN 30. The University is presently con-a Leading 50-40 at the half, the sidering the Student Housing Ad-t Wolverines came out fired-up, put visory Committee's proposal to usef a zone and a press on Purdue, and the 221 D3 section of the Federal! quickly built the gap up to 57- Housing Act to construct married' t d3 etnd hnn p nn N nth Canmnx s really burn some rubber. The score was 84-73, with Pur- due just hanging on a bumper, and 4:38 showing' on the clock. In the next minute and 20 sec- onds the Wolverines made 11 straight points and the Boilermak- ers' only shots were Ebershoff's non-reinforcing distance tosses. The Wolverines then got a lay- up and a basket from Dennis Ban- key, two free throws from John Clawson, and two free throws plus two baskets from Russell. His two; baskets made the high point of the action-ten seconds, two steals1 ... two stuffs. Holy Luck-Shots The remainder of the game was just fun, as Marc Delzer will en- I buzzer to top off the final 20 point margin. Purdue Coach George King ex- plained why his team faltered in the stretch. "I think if we could have just gotten up even with them . . . we could have stayed there. Bpt we started taking some bad shots and had togamble on fouling. And you won't beat 60 per cent very often anyway." Said Dave Strack, 200 yards away, "Purdue played much stronger today than last week. But I certainly wouldn't say we played worse. We fought as well as we have all season and hustled real well." Strategy! ! Asked if there had been any major strategv changes made dur- See FIRE, Page 8 -- I thusiastically attest. Delzer, known ing the crucial second-half time to his teammates as "Boy Won- der," swished a 25-footer at the See 'M', Page 6 _ring Federal Loan ict Student HOusin While a private investor might housing has been financed through charge $130 for a one bedroom' this act. apartment, the University would The Student Housing Advisory be able to charge as little as $100 Committee, set up this fall to give for a comparable apartment, ac- the students a say in the type of cording to Student Housing Ad- housing the University constructs, visory Committee member John has as its goal expanded low-rent Bishop, Grad. He feels that little University housing. The commit- money would be required from theĀ° tee, made up of nine students and University and that the project four administrators, will begin would be self liquidating, work on housing for unmarried students in a few weeks. This The Student Housing Advisory housing will probably be high rise Up ... And In? But Purdue's seven - footer, George Grams, inspired his coach, the crowd, and the team by mesh- ing his shot with the rim twice s uaent nousng on .ioru l~pub .F The proposed project, called ther Northwood 4 Project, would offer: housing to married students and faculty in cooperative units. v f: .. s. aw