ATHLETICS BOARD: A REEVALUATION See Editorial Page C, r sfirtgt ~Iait33 WARMER High-45 Low--22 Generally clear and sunny. Seventy-Five Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVI, No. 150 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1966 SEVEN CENTS Athletic Control Board- Too Much Powi By NEIL SHISTER best interests of the University. sports, and they are willing to pro- structure of the board of control college felt that the faculty should student affairs, both serve on the scrip There has been criticism of the vide the necessary funds to do an "anachronism," feeling that it have more power on the board., board in an ex-officio capacity. P Athletics at the University, an fact that the board, while operat- this. should . be brought under more The principal function of the It has been implied by some in m operation which involved a $1.8 ing autonomously, still gets a size- Certainly nobody can argue with direct University administration board in control, as specified in University officials and faculty men million dolla budget last yea, d- able allocation from the University a commitment to excellence unless control. the Regents Bylaws, is "to act as members that Crisler dominates boar independent of the University ad- each year out of student tuitions, such a commitment, and the fi- Likewise, Executive Vice-Presi- the business and financial agency the board to the extent that the mak ministration, and functions under as well as the inadequacy of intra- nancial obligation it entails, de- dent Marvin Niehuss, while feeling of the athletic department." Thus athletic department represents al- thus the autonomous control of the 17 mural facilities and the extent to tracts from other University that the present structure caused all decisions invol#ing finances most his own personal barony. on C voting members of the Boardhin which Director of Physical Educa- functions and responsibilities. no "chronic abuses" does concede and expenditures as well as ath- While recognizing that Crisler An Control of Intercollegiate Athle- tion and Athletics Fritz Crisler Vice-President for Academic that it had created instances of letic policy are made by the board is a "strong personality," Marcus ber( tics, a body directly responsible to dominates the board. Affairs Allan Smith says that he "minor fiction." Niehuss says and then subsequently approved by Plant of the law school, secretary poin the Regents. It costs a lot of money to com- has never thought that the activi- that if "there is a move to have the Regents, with no intermediate of the board and one of its mem- ulty There is little doubt that the pete big time: good high school ties of the board and the athletic a new look at the board and its involvement by University admin- bers since 1949, calls these charges are p present system is a productive way athletes demand and receive fi- program in general detract from organization, it would be all right istrators. of personal dominance "unfound- man of turning out winning teams and nancial aid regardless of financial the University's goals and pur- with me." The board is composed of 10 ed." He emphasizes that the ath- goal establishing a first-rate athletic need, top-notch coaching is ex- poses. This views is also held by It is also worthwhile noting that members from the faculty Senate letic director "virtually forces" the to p program. The University's record pensive and so is good equipment. Regent Paul Goebel, who has pre- only 40 per cent of those faculty chosen by University President board to make its own decisions Th of excellence shows that it is. The board in control seems com- viously served on the board him- members polled in a study under- Harlan Hatcher, two students and calls Crisler "anything but ulty But some administrators and mitted to the idea that University self. taken by the University in 1962 elected by the student body, and dictatori'al." the faculty have questioned whether teams be sufficiently excellent to Another high-ranking adminis- felt that the board in control was three alumni named by the Re- A second member of the board, selec the current system of running in- be able to compete favorably, with trator, however, takes issue with. doing a "good job" and nearly 60 gents. Crisler and Walter Rea, as- one of its student representatives, to p tercollegiate athletics is in the all other schools in virtually all this view and called the present per cent of those in the literary sistant to the vice-president for agrees basically with Plant's de- EIGHT PAGES tion of Crisler's role. ant recognizes, however, that any areas of athletic depart- t activity the members of the d lack sufficient expertise to e knowledgeable decisions and they often rely very heavily risler's advice. other long-time faculty mem- of the -board emphasizes the t that most of Hatcher's fac- appointments to the board rofessors interested in sports, y of whom feel that the sole of the athletic department is roduce winning teams. ie 1962 study stated that fac- members objected most "to extent which the system of tion of faculty members tends ut persons actively interested See ATHLETIC, Page 8 Housing Plan Vetoed by City Council ' Recommendation of Housing Commission- And Voters Rejected By NEAL BRUSS A resolution intended to obtair federal funds for a study of low rent public housing was defeatec by Republican city councilmen las night in a vote which rejected th recommendation of the Council' Housing Commission as well a sentiments expressed in a publi referendum last year. Council Democrats interprete the action as a poiltical move t4 delay consideration of low-ren housing until after the April4 election. Several Republican can didates have adopted platformf specifically refuting the federally. subsidized housing proposal. The Republicans passed a reso lution which would provide tem- porary emergency housing for 4{ out of 43 families currently des- ignated by city authorities to re- ceive aid. However, the emergency housing is not in the low-rent cat- egory. at In the absence of Mayor Wendel Hulcher, Mayor Pro Tem O. Wil- liam Habel granted speaking priv- ileges to Councilman Richard Balz- hiser after cutting off discussion by Councilman LeRoy Cappaert Balzhiser then proposed a chang of agenda shifting the order 0: the three proposals dealing with low-rent housing. In another move, Councilman John Hathaway attempted to post. pone consideration of the low-rent housing study proposal until a public hearing could be held on April 11, after the election. The move was defeated. Republican sentiment behind the defeat of the housing study pro- posal was based on a desire to an- swer questions remaining even aft- er the Housing Commission report and the willingness of citizens to accept low-cost housing not subsi- dized by city taxes. Councilman Paul Johnson ac- cused Democratic councilmen of holding back information on the federal bill and city-need criterions from the public. Johnson referred to sections of the federal act which called for demolition of substand- ard housing with construction and purchasing of subsidized housing. Johnson was said to express fear that stUdents would qualify to oc- cupy low-rent housing, and was quoted as calling students "the dregs of the society." I, Humanities IIAdU Called Too. NEWS WIRE Mechanical G d S dR i I Late World News SAIGON (P)--ANTIGOVERNMENT AGITATION spread this n morning to students in Saigon. Demonstrators accused -Prime - Minister Nguyen Cao Ky of puppet-like subservience to the United d States and called for peace. t Student leaders at 'the meeting in Trung Tam Ky Thuat e School on the western edge of Saigon announced that more schools would join a mounting protest against the Ky government. c One student speaker complained that Viet Nam is "too subservient" to the United States. In a reference to the Honolulu d conference of Vietnamese and U.S. leaders last month, he said: o "President Johnson invited Gen. Ky on one day and on the next t day our leader is already in Hawaii. He showed too much haste. 4 Then, when he came back, he signed away large parts of our - country as military bases for 99 years." s - THE LETTER SENT recently to former Regent Eugene - Power by the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs said that the faculty generally "urged a search for a solution 0 that would have retained your service as a Regent, but they - came too late to alter the course of events." - I SACUA also selected fifteen of the sixteen faculty members Y who are to sit on the Presidential Selection Committee, the sixteenth member to be chosen by the new senate when it meets I at the end of April. The fifteen members named are: Arthur M. - Eastman, English department, acting chairman; Alfred F. Conard, - law school, acting vice-chairman; Solomon J. Axelrod, public - health economics director, Bureau of Public Health Economics; a Harry Benford, naval architecture and marine engineering de- partments; Kenneth E. Boulding, economics department; Jow e John Bowditch, history department; J. Robert Cairns, English f dept. at Dearborn; Angus Campbell, director of Survey Research Center; Kenneth M. Keast, physics dept.; Oliver A. Edel, music school; Paul W. McCracken, of the school of business administra- - tion; Wilbur J. McKeachie, psychology dept.; William C. Morse, t educational psychology dept.; James V. Neel, human genetics and I internal medicine. DIRECT POPULAR ELECTION of the United States Presi- e dent and Vice-Presidnet was called for recently by Prof. Joseph E. Kallenbach, of the University's political science department. He expressed this view to the Senate Judiciary Committee's Sub- Committee on Constitutional Amendments, which is currently t conducting hearings on various presidential election reform proposals. He said that the feeling now in Congress is that only a minorj reform, which would little disturb vested political and sectionalI interests, has a chance of passing and suggested that it might take a "grave miscarriage of the process of the democratic.choice" before enough Congressmen can be pushed into action. I** - THE STUDENT HOUSING ASSOCIATION executive board met yesterday afternoon with architects, urban planners, private builders and students to gather facts and make preliminary policy aimed at creating an integrated city-University housing plan. Proposals for such a plan will be presented at Wednesday's City Candidates Night, a program sponsored by SGC at which candidates for Ann Arbor city council will appear. The program is scheduled for 8 p.m. in Aud. A. .1 Not' Depends on s Rabbi Brickner Sayst "'The issue of sexual morality,"I of religious belief. What he objects 3tra uate mucents Consider Education Technically Oriented By RICHARD CHARIN The American system of gradu- ate education in the humanities has "little pertinence to the real needs of men," and has succumbed to "a long servile imitation of the sciences." These are two of the complaints made against graduate education in the humanities by Prof. William Arrowsmith, chairman of the classics department at the Univer- sity of Texas, in the March issue of Harper's Magazine. Arrowsmith went on to' say that, the controlling elements of gradu- ate education are "not humanists, at all, but merely technicians of dead and living languages" and that the "sole purpose of our grad- uate schools in the humanities is almost to produce more and more researchers." Charges Exaggerated 3 The majority of University fac- ulty members and graduate stu- j -Daily-Thomas R. Copi GRIFFIN TO GO TO VIET NAM Representative Robert P. Griffin of Michigan's ninth congressional district appeared in Ann Arbor yesterday to discuss his upcoming junket to Viet Nam and his current campaign for the Republi- can nomination for U.S. senator. Griffin, now in his fifth term in the U.S. House, centered his talk at Republican district headquarters on smoother functioning of Vice President Humphrey's pro- posed "people to people" program. He advocated federal subsidization of the cost of mailing material goods such as drugs and farm implements to the South Vietnamese people, as well as private cor- respondence to American military personnel. Smith Plans No Action on Brownson A&D To Decide Status Of Architecture Department Chairman By LYNNE ROTHSCHILD No definite steps have been taken or are planned as a result of Friday's architecture faculty vote of no confidence in its department chairman, Jacques Brownson. Vice-President for Academic Af- fairs Allan Smith said that his office is not taking any action on the matter. He added that al- thouh he had talked with R. F. Malqplnson, dean of the Architec- ture and Design School, the prob- lem of Brownson's status will be completely resolved within that school. Malcolmson refused to comment. Some faculty members explained that the resolution did not amount to a demand for Brownson's resig- nation as chairman. Concern Over Policy Prof. Stephen Paraskevoplulous of the architecture department added that the resolution express- ed concern over the policy Brown- son followed and his present way of administering the department. It did not, however, demand his resignation. The precise reasons behind the faculty decision, like its effect, are still uncertain. There seems to have been a gen- eral disagreement between Brown- son and the faculty over thead- ministrative methods employed by' the chairman in administrating the department. Disagreement Not New This disagreement is not new but it appears to have come to light at this time due to wide- spread concern on the part of students as well as faculty over the administrative policies in the architecture department. At a meeting last week, students voiced their concerns over reports of administrative pressure on fac- ulty members and its apparent suppression of diverse design phi- losophies. The students complained that in certain classes they were forced to subjugate their personal creativity dents in Englisi rejected Arrow- _ --__ _ __ smith's charges as being an exag-; geration, but admitted that he QUEST FOR VALUES': was getting at a real problem. One instructor at the University summarized the complaints of graduate students by noting that the basic premise of a graduate education in English is the need to be professional, and to gain and maintain a position in' the business-like academic world. Many graduate students com- plain that "most professors sim- ply are not humanists," and that t h i s "unhumanistic" viewpoint' passes on to their students. They feel that professors have "lost con- tact with the fact that humanism is supposed to deal with people." Plain Bad Manners I Furthermore, many graduate students are prepared with stories depicting boorishness, pedantry, and just plain bad manners among senior faculty members, and use them to explain their disillusion- ment with humanism as it is shown by teachers of the hu- manities. Few University professors are willing to make a blanket denial of these .charges, but they do argue that many c:itics reduce the problem to a false simplicity and cloud an already complex issue. Prof. Herbert C. Barrows of the, English department said that he believes many graduate students lose sight of the basic differences between graduate and undergrad- uate education, and allow them- selves to become discouraged. He went on to say that while under- graduate education was designed as part of a "liberal," humanistic education, graduate training was necessarily technical. He also mentioned the lack of; definite time limit on graduate work, and the lack of easily de- cerned goals as possible factors. tending to create disillusionment with the system. The graduate is "not in school just to develop his character as a human being as is the undergrad- uate, but to learn how to use the best of the humanistic tradition to teach others." According to Barrows, it is the job of a graduate education in Hatcher Opens Lecture.Series At. University of Missouri By ROBERT JOHNSTON perate effort to ask more perti- Editor nent questions and discover surer Special To The Daily answers." Out of these age-old contradic- COLUMBIA, Mo. - Man is a tions "have emerged some of the contradiction. . more dramatic developments of the 'Thou Shal Situation, I By JOYCE WINSLOW "The Playboy Philosophy tries to be philosophical, but it is not," Rabbi Balfour Brickner, director of the National Commission on In- terfaith Activities for the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, and associate director of the Na- tional Commission on Social Ac- tion of Reform Judaism, told an audience at the UGLI last night. "The reason Playboy is not phi- losophical is that it suggests that sex is fine since sex is fun, there- "Amos demanded in majestic language that justice should roll down as waters and righteous- ness as an unfailing stream," that, "in homely phrase, the needy should not be sold for pair of shoes," and, in dramatic form, that "God hates and despises our feast days and will not smell in our solemn assemblies."' In these terms, presenting some of the age-old philosophical and ethical problems in the modern setting, President Harlan Hatcher opened a series of three lectures on "The Persistent Quest for Val- ues: What Are We Seeking" at the University of Missouri here last night. . In the first lecture, "New An- swers to Old Questions-Is There a Difference?" President Hatcher, speaking to an overflow audience of students and faculty, implied that there is indeed a difference and said that, in any case, "We are condemned, or redeemed, by the necessity of continuing the ef- fort." Man's continuous attempts to understand and reinterpret his en- vironment have been given new impetus by "the stupendous and overriding influence and charac- teristic of our times, the monu- mental input of new knowledge relating to every aspect of the physical world in every form of life upon it," President Hatcher said. "Man's intellectual and spiritual history is strewn with the ruined sepulchers of his dead gods. Ex- perience ceases to support a set of halifc ,ew ,rm rctprlP ntifam present century," he said. While man "cannot escape the slap of truth that Neitzche's devas- tating phrase of degradation wretchedness, and hopelessness: human sand',' we have seen a revolution in moral aspiration, a "sudden prolific rise of new na- tions seeking status, freedom and equality. "We have seen the applications of science , and technology free man from the age-old curse of toil and sweat with human back and human hands from dawn to dark." Yet we are burdened with "over- crowded, overtaxed and completely outmoded cities with all of the re- sulting strain and degradation upon the human personality. The tempo of change ac'celerates and the human condition worsens," he said. Paul.Goodman has excited the present generation "in a way rou- tine college courses in psychol- ogy, sociology and political science fail to do" with visions of Uto- pia, he said. And President Hatcher implied that Utopia is worth thinking about in terms of the here and now, that it is worth harnessing to "the inescapably slow rhythm at the heart of all change. We now understand better than pre- ceding generations the evolution of values, and how they shift in re- sponse to the changing human condition." In his on-going and "search- ing reassessment of human values" brought about by "the acute a-raa- e of -- ne -n a"An- the perfectability of man," he and adhere to the particular phi- said. losophy of the professor. Ie WeleseyPresident Urges New Birth Control Policy could never be fully attained," he said. Sartre saw that "there is no supernatural revelation of truth," but man must nevertheless "as- sume his freedom and accept the burden of making free decisions. "So," President Hatcher said, "we roam amid certainties and elusive visions, we seek stabiilty and equilibrium as a desirable state, but our nature and our con- tinuing growth presume instability and constant readaptation." We have not resolved contradic- tion; "we do not yet.know t9 what extent we may rationally expect the Rabbi continued, "is the ques- tion of whether the situation has the element of humanity in it. The boy who brings a girl home early on a first date because she won't go to bed with him is im- moral because his demand is ex- ploitive; it does not have the ele- to is the acceptance of law or the adherence to belief on blind faith. The value of the Situational Ethic is that it forces each person to think about the relative values of each maxim in his set of max- ims according to the demands of the situation, and once decided up- By ALEXIS PARKER Ruth M. Adams, incoming pres- ident of Wellesley College, recently expressed her approval of the dis- semination of birth control infor- mation to students despite the fact that such action is illegal in Massachusetts. According to Jean Glasscock, Wellesley director of publicity, the question arose at a New York press conference when Miss Adams was asked if she agrees with President' Alan Simpson of Vassar, who ad- vocates the distribution of infor- mation in this area to students. After answering affirmately, she was told by a reporter that Massa- chusetts law prohibits the dissem- ination of birth control informa- tion. When asked if she would like +n amenr her statement in view distribution of contraceptive de- vices except "for medical reasons." Miss Adams commented that the college physician should serve as an educator in the area of birth control as well as in the areas of drugs and mental illness. She ad- vocates a policy similar to the one followed at Douglass College, where she is currently president. At Douglass, she said, "the physi- cian's function in these areas is educational, and the medical staff conducts one or two small semi- nars a semester." Student reaction to Miss Adams' statement was varied. According to one Wellesley woman, her re- mark "may indicate that she will be more liberal than the current president." Some students were disapoint- ment of caring in it. " on, to take the responsibility for Rabbi Brickner, speaking on his action. The Situational Ethic, "Confronting the Moral Changes by its very nature, absolutely dis- of Our Present Society," presented courages blind faith. an interesting, new philosophy for determining one's moral action. "Religion claims to be the con- i .I