HONORS SUPPLEMENT Lw iAau ii HONORS SUPPLEMENT Seventy-Five Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVI, No. 153 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1966 SECOND SECTION Convocation. Recognizes Academic Attainment By MARSHALL LASSER "The Brain Workers" was the subject of that speech given 43 years ago; the speaker was Uni- versity President Marion L. Bur- ton; the occasion: the first hon- ors convocation held at the Uni- versity of Michigan. The honors convocation, Presi- dent Burton said, was intended to "put a fitting emphasis on scholarship, scientific attainment, capacity to think and 3 genuine research, the things representing our first real task as teachers and students." And on this day, when the University recognizes the undergraduate students who have earned distinguished records in its schools and colleges, the statement still largely holds true. Honors are given those students, freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors, who have attained a 3.5 average for the past two semesters. Special recognition is given An- gell scholars, seniors who have achieved a 4.0 average over the past two semesters. When the first convocation was held in 1924, President Burton's address was aimed at only 250 students, all seniors in the liter- ary college; today all undergradu- ate classes are honored. Procedure, too, has changed ov- er the years. In 1924 the cere- monies began with a march down State Street to Hill Auditorium by honors students and faculty. Today, the convocation begins with a procession onto the stage at Hill, led by the president, fol- lowed by the Regents and the fac- ulty, who are clad in black robes and bright hoods. Though the original convocation included only undergraduates hon- ored by the university, for over twenty years honors graduate students, honor societies, and re- cipients of fellowships and schol- arships were included in the pro- gram. Probably the most noted of the honor societies acknowledging student achievement at the con- vocation was Phi Beta Kappa, originally founded as a men's fra- ternity in 1776, and now a nation- al honorary society. The society aims for the well- rounded student, one who has done well academically and has also been active in extra-curricular activities. A host of other major honorary societies also participated in the programs, such as Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi (science), Tau Beta Pi (engineering), Alpha Omega Al- pha (medicine), aSi Order of the Coif (law), and Sigma Delta Chi (journalism). But in 1953 the programs grew too large and Erich Walter, now Secretary of the University, was appointed to find a way out. He decided to eliminate graduate stu- dents and honor societies from the program, making it the under- graduate convocation it is today. 1953 was also the year of the first Michigan Daily honors sup- plement, suggested by Waiter to give recognition to the students who had been eliminated from the convocation. This has enabled acknowledgment of the achieve- ments of even more groups, in- cluding, for example, athletes arnd outstanding students at the Flit and Dearborn campuses. The Committee on Honors Con-, vocation has changed somewhat since 1924. Originally, the Sen- ate Council (now Senate Advisory Council for University Affairs) established a committee of three to be appointed by the president to organize the convocation; in the early years it consisted of the dean of students (who headed it), the registrar, and three Senate members chosen by the president. Mr. Walter, who was the last dean of students, carried his po- sition as chairman of the commit- tee into his present job. In 1953- 54 two student members were add- ed to the committee. The Registrar's chief task is to list the students who are to be honored. Throughout the years many out- standing speakers have given the convocation address. Among them are Viscount Halifax, British am- bassador to the United States from 1941-46; James Bryant Conant, noted educator and former presi- dent of Harvard; Marjorie Nich- olson, a Michigan alumna who un- til recently was dean of the gradu- ate school at Columbia University; Alistair Cooke, journalist and ra- dio and television broadcaster; Robert Goheen, the present presi- dent of Princeton; Sir Leslie Mun- ro, the New Zealand ambassador to the United States and president of the 12th United Nations Gener- al Assembly in 1957; Arnold Toyn- bee, a well-known historian; Glenn Seaborg, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission; Har- land Cleveland, a State Depart- ment undersecretary of state; and, last year, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. Thus the speakers have banged from a man whose job dates back to the origins of royalty thousands of years ago to once whose occu- pation could only have been a creation of the twentieth century, when the atom was first split by man. The format of the honors con- vocation has even been copied; this was done by the University of Texas about 18 years ago when it remodeled its honors program. Gordus Tells Of Expansion In Honors Program Will Retain High Standards While Admitting 425 in Fall By MARK R. KILLINGSWORTH Acting Editor "Thank you for your letter. It made the difference! My applica- tion to Harvard is in the process of being withdrawn. I have read the copy of the abstract to the NSF and can hardly wait to get down to work. I'm looking for- ward to seeing you at orientation." That was the letter Prof. Adon Gordus, associate director of the Honors Program, interrupted him- self to read during a chat with a visitor last week. Gordus' letter came from a bright high school senior who had been accepted by the University's Honors program and-up to that point, at least-was trying to de- cide between schools. Evidently intrigued by the Hon- ors program as presented by Gor- dus and Prof. Otto Graf, program director, the student is one of about 425 freshmen who will be entering the program this fall. Gordus talks about a "fantastic increase in the caliber of next year's Honors students-so im- pressive some National Merit Scholarship semifinalists aren't being invited into the program." About half of those invited for fall, 1966, are in the top one per cent of their high school graduat- ing class, and about half had com- bined verbal and mathematics Col- lege Board scores of over 1400, he CAMPUS HONORARIES The Tribe of Michigamua is an all-campus senior men's honorary for excellence in activities and athletics. ,Members dress for "Rope Day" (initiation day) in Indian costune and turn the chosen palefaces into young braves through an ordeal that takes the selected ones on a duck-walk journey "seven flights up and seven flights down" the Michigan Union. Initiates are doused with brickdust and water and are given secret Indian names, revealed only at the end of the year at the next Rope Day. Founded in 1901 to serve the University, Michigamua is the oldest existent campus honorary. Outstanding senior men in every school but engineering are eligible for Druids, which chooses as initiates for achievement in athletics. and activities. "Saplings" (those tapped) become mighty trees through plenty of water and green dust. Duckwalking around the Diag and the reciting of Joyce Kilmer's "Trees" also is a tradi- tional part of the ceremony. New members are given tree names which are announced publicly at the initiation. Druids, named after the forest priests of old England, was founded in 1909. Participants in either of the three ROTC programs are selected on the basis of leadership, patriotism, efficiency, loyalty and. honor for Scabbard and Blade. Initiates are tapped in the starlight with sabers, and during the trial period must guard the lions and defend the scabbard and blade in front of the flagpole. * * * *> Senior Society recognizes independent women with high scholastic averages who have actively served their dormitories. Girls recommended by their house directors and presidents are tapped by members, who sing, "In and out the halls we wander singing as we go; of the girls we're going to favor with our pin of black and gold." During the initiation ceremony, each member's name-is added to a long yellow ribbon with the names of all members since the organiza- tion's founding. Cautwell Smith to Deliver Speech to Honor Students said. Gordus' correspondent was par-Another local organization, ticularly enticed by a chemistry women for leadership, character department research project Gor- Members are tapped after hou dus is proposing to the National night comes a sound of voices. Scr Science Foundation. But his liber- Its purpose is to promote coop al arts colleagues won't be bored dents and further interest in camr eith r, Gr f and Gous s and scholarship to a junior affiliated College Honors 199 among other and need. innovations, we try to keep the program as flexible as possible. As A junior men's honorary est long as an idea makes academic neophytes for its courts by the sar sense, there's no obstacle," Graf Men may be tapped from all scho says. Red brick dust and water transf Tm soand then the initiates must crawl inaugurating new Honors courses River Nile. When they reach the b on Southeast Asia and the history fountain) Liey must prove theirv of science. It now offers over 200 courses, including the freshman of water. Members are given secret: Great Books course, the Unified* * Science program, special College The only mortal acceptable ii Honors courses, honors courses and senior engineer who has served the concentration seminars within de- Neophytes are abducted in the nig partments and honors sections in th back to campus. Then V regular courses. terwybc ocmu.Te College Honors 290 is an inde- blacking themselves with oil, ax pendent study course, in which ,the underground steam tunnels. Each individual student tailors his own name of a god and the society, f course, complete with readings, engineering college and the Univers papers or other activities, and works closely with a professor of his choice. About 15 students have j G1d d started such courses. rt r In College Honors 199, an "in-, dependent-seminar" course, groups of students may work with a pro- By GRAYLE HOWLETT fessor and establish courses like last fall's seminar on American When Will Shakespeare, a lousy foreign policy, led by Prof. William sportswriter, said, "A rose by any Gamson of the sociology depart- other name smells just as sweet," ment he couldn't have been talking At least in part due to earlier about football. All the literary criticism of past standards for ad- greats in the world would have mission into the program, Graf failed' to convince the Wolverine and Gordus have also taken a look footballers that a Big Ten cham- at various statistics about its stu- pionship was just as prestigious dents and changed the admissions as a trip to Pasadena. process Having made the trip to the Effective next semester, some roses in 1964, Michigan was ineli- __ U_ 1.1... T-,-- I oil t+ n oA wet a -ain this past Scroll honors senior affiliated and loyalty. rs by the group singing, "Out of the ;roll is now tapping its loyal crew." Aeration between alumnae and stu- pus activities. It also grants a $100 woman on the basis of leadership ablished in 1905, Sphinx chooses me standards as the senior groups. Dols except the engineering college. orm the neophytes into Egyptians on their stomachs looking for the Nile (usually known as the League worth by a final dip in that body Egyptian names. n the eyes of the god Vulcan is a University in activities or athletics. ght and taken out of town to find hey undergo a public initiation by nd carrying torches through the member is given a mythological )ormed in.1904, works to serve the ity as a whole. PRINCE BERNHARD OF THE NETHERLANDS last year addressed the Honors Convocation participants in Hill Auditorium, where Arnold Cantwell Smith, Secretary General of the British Commonwealth will give the major address for the 1966 Honors Convocation. Speaker Smith Has Varied Career To Focus on English Loss. Of Control British Secretary General To Appear At Hill Auditorium By WALLACE IMMEN The. honorable Arnold Cant- well Smith, secretary general of the Brtish Commonwealth of Na- tions will deliver the major ad- dress at the 43rd annual honors convocation today at 10:30 a.m. in Hill Auditorium. Smith's speech, "The Common- wealth in World Politics," is ex- pected to focus on the loss of cen- tralization in controlling the Brit- ish colonies. Today's convocation gives of- ficial Universitywrecognition to upper classmen who have received a 3.5 or higher academic grade- point average over the last two semesters in any of the under- graduate schools or colleges of the University. Freshmen are also listed, on the basis of their first semester grades. University president Harlan Hatcher will preside at the con- vocation. Other Honors In addition to academic honors at the convocation, undergradu- ates are being honored for su- perior performance in many types of achievement. Initiates to the many campus honorary societies as well as recipients of special awards and scholarships are listed in this honors supplement to The Daily. Convocation procedure is the same now as when it originated 43 years ago. The Regents are led by the president onto the stage, followed by faculty members clad in black robes with academic hoods. After the processional, the Star Spangled Banner is sung by the audience. The honor students are thenin- troduced by Erich A Walter, se- retary of the University. Glee Club The men's glee club will sing before and after the address. After the address, the annual. citations for honor in service are awarded by the Regents. Many, honorary degrees are also an- nounced at this time. The pro- gram concludes with the audience singing the Yellow and Blue. An annual event in the after- noon following the convocation is the tea given by President and Mrs. Matcher. The Hatchers wel- come this opportunity each year to personally congratulate the honors students and their parents in an atmosphere which is not easily found in such a large uni- versity. By DAVID KNOKE Arnold Cantwell Smith, secre- tary general of the British Com- monwealth and principle speaker at today's Honors Convocation, has had a varied and colorful career in the educational and diplomatic worlds. He was born in Toronto, Can- ada, in 1915. The roll-call of col- leges he attended reads like an honors list: Upper Canada Col- lege, Lycee Champoleon in Gren- oble, France, Toronto, Grey's End in London and the Christ Church at Oxford where he pursued studies as a Rhodes Scholar on the uni- versity grounds once trodden by John Milton, the immortal English poet. Entering into the British diplo- matic corps, Smith served two years (1938-1940) as attache to the British embassy in Tallinin, Estonia. He also taught economics at the University of Tartu in Es- tonia and held down the position of editor of "The Baltic Times" before Estonia was swallowed up by the USSR as a sidelight to the war., War Years During the war years he was actively involved in the diplomatic circles in several foreign capitals: Cairo, Egypt; Moscow and Kuiby- shev, USSR; and Ottawa, Canada. For a year and a half he was director of the National Defence College in Kingston, Ontario, be- fore he was chosen as an alter- nate representative to the United Nations Security Council and Atomic Energy Commission in 1949. Since that time he has'served in several different capacities as member of United Nations dele- gations, North Atlantic Treaty Or- ganization ministerial meetings and Canadian ambassador to the United Arab Republic in Cairo. From 1955 to 1956 he served as the International Truce Com- missioner for Cambodia, supervis- ing the developments following the French defeat and withdrawal from Southeast Asia. It was here that he picked up a working knowledge of Southeast Asian problems and politics. Coupled with his experience in African affairs, he became an ar- dent proponent of economic aid programs as the best means to help struggling new nations gain solid ground by developing their potentialities. Smith has been married to the former Miss Evelyn Hardwick Ste- wart for 28 years and has two sons and a daughter. He divides his residence between his home in Rockcliffe, Ottawa, and hisof- fices as Commonwealth Secretary General at Marlborough House London, England. Smith lists fishing among his favorite recreations, belonging to the Rideau Club of Ottawa, the Gezira Sporting Club of Cairo, the Bath Club and the Institute for Strategic Studies in London. Secretariat The Commonwealth in modern form is attempting to loosen the former strong centralization of power in the British Isles. The younger Dominions backed a move to establish a new secretariat to define the structure and goals common to the union; they unan- imously turned to the new world for their selection of the secre- tariat. Smith's experience in diplomacy gives him a depth of knowledge fitted to his job. Said Max Freed- - -- 0 -_ n ~~ ~2 n-. rs Flounder but Cagers Soar with Cazzie Several underclassmen distin- guished themselves in 1965 giving the Wolverines notice of a bright future. Most notable is junior Jack Clancy who set a Michigan record with 52 receptions this past year. His brilliant catches, especially in the Michigan State game, provided a few bright spots on otherwise dismal afternoons. Also returning are backfield men Carl Ward and Dave Fisher. Com- bining for a rushing total of over 1200 yards, these two Chicagoans pro t me on1 .. ~~>r or .r+ v -n v ended in November and started up again in September. However, the likes of Van Tillotson, Dan Brown, Jim Myers, John Thompson, John Clawson, Ollie Darden, and one Cazzie Lee Russell Jr. awakened the fans from the midst of last season's football dreams and brought them streaming into Old Yost. This past season was no differ- ent. The 1965-6 cagers added a third straight Big Ten champion- ship and once more finished in the +-n f pn AT~n f hav hoon.CiCfor thP. tional championship teams. individual performances from 123- Playing hot and cold hockey pounder Bob Fehrs and sophomore all year, the Wolverines were able heavyweight Dave Porter. Both to parlay a couple streaks into a won their weight classes in the fifth place finish. Big Ten meet and Porter went on Gymnastics to become the NCAA heavyweight When figuring out the final Big champ, Fehrs was defeated in the Ten standings in gymnastics, finals by Mike Caruse of Lehigh. Michigan's name is placed at the Michigan finished fifth in the top without even a second thought. NCAA meet, one notch above The 1965-66 season was no differ- Michigan State. ent, as coach Newt Loken's charges Splashers made it six straight Big Ten In swimming, Michigan again crowns. Pressing them all the way had to beat Indiana to wrap up wa, intrastate rival Michigan the crown and ain it was the A