RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE'S CURRICULUM PROPOSALS See Editorial Page Lilt 43an ~Iai1F CLOUDY, WARMER Hligh--6O Low--35 Warming trend with clearing skies Seventy-Five Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVI, No. 164 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1966 SEVEN CENTS TWELVE PAGES Growing Data Bulk Spurs Computer Expansion By DAVID KNOKE Third of a Series The total integration of man- kind's exploding knowledge would be impossible without some sort of "hardware" to manipulate the increasingly vast bulk of data. Major business c o m p a n i e s, standing to make millions by get- ting into the market ahead of their competitors, are intent upon developing practical aids to edu- * cation and-research like computers and facsimile reproduction. International Business Machines (IBM) remains in the forefront of the commercially-sold computer market, having fought off a chal- lenge from Control Data Corp. by developing the 360-90 line com- puter, which Fortune magazine calls "decisively superior to any- thing else available for scientific research." When the University Computing Center installs its first 360 next fall, people at 30 hook-up con- soles scattered around the campus will be able to use the computer simultaneously. This bit of en- gineering magic can be attributed to "time sharing." In the operation of computers, the programming. and the print out take most of the time. Accord- ing to Prof. Franklin Westervelt of the Computing Center, the fast core storage of the computer, which can access information in less than 500 billionths of a second with a capacity of up to 2 million characters, will be supplemented by various secondary storage de- vices. The largest capacity devices tend to be the slowest to access. The data cell, which has a capa- city of 400 million characters, may require one-half second to re- trieve its data from randomly located positions. Since most computer caicula- tions are on the order of billionths of a second, the process known as "time sharing" becomes feasible. Time sharing was developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology in its Project MAC begun three years ago. The computer is. able to rotate its attention in round-robin fashion from one console hookup to another in a matter of milliseconds. "What we are trying to do is to bring computers into the lives of creative people," said MAC Director Prof. Robert Fano, "so that using the intellectual simpli- fication that a computer provides will be as easy as reaching for a typewriter or a telephone." Until recently, a man-computer I dialogue had to be programmed in' machine language-the binary code of 0's and 1's. These symbols are analgous to the "on"-"off" switches of an electric circuit; each number is a "bit," eight bits form a "byte" or character. One 360 data cell can store over a billion bits. If the Library of Congress catalogue of some 6.6 million main entry cards were so converted, it would require about 1500 bits per card, or an estimated 10 billion bits, according to Prof. Manf red Kochen of the Mental Health Research Institute. The development of a natural- language programming system, while still in primitive form, has great potential for encouraging man-machine dialogue. In a speech before the American Association for the Advancement of Science last December, Prof. Robert Simmons of San Diego College said that so far "the strongest existing machine capa- bility with language is that of counting and indexing a text. Lin- guistic, semantic and psychological problem, both in theory and prac- tice, must be solved." Evan Herbert, associate editor of "International Science and Tech- nology" writes that "the process of asking questions and examining answers for relevance has been speeded by refinements in data storage and communication so that direct dialogue with remote files is now technically feasible. "Document images stored on microfilm are becoming standard for information dissemination ... Natural language information pro- cessing and associative memory techniques, holding promise of better approaches to classifying relevance are being tested in models of research libraries." Kochen's investigation into the practically of creating an auto- mated medical library have raised many questions about the nature of recovery and print out of the computerized "shelves." "Rapid transport of items in bulk, microfilm or digital proces- sing of textual data," Kochen writes, "can help all participants of the system. Making these items so conveniently available to them may spell the difference between their being used or ignored." What would be the result of the application of microfilming and computer storing of library materials with xerographic re- production? . Eugene B. Power, president of University Microfilms Inc., a pioneer in the microfilming field, says, "It is obvious to me that in another ten years the present library systems will be inadequate and breakdown from the sheer .bulk of materials they must handle. Present retrieval systems are not flexible nor detailed enough to be adapted to current library needs. "Even if it were possible to store printed material on film and show it back on visual display screens, I personally believe most people would rather read printed paper material." Power's sentiments are echoed by Joseph Treyz. assistant director of the University General Library, who said that -while per'ishable materials such as rare books and newspapers may become micro- filmed, the general book collection will probably remain on the open shelves of the libraries of the future. Power founded UMI in 1938 and the company specializes in the production of educational and li- brary materials. By contract with 155 universities throughout the United States and Canada, UMI microfilms and makes available inexpensive book-size copies of 95 per cent of the doctoral theses pro- duced annually in these two coun- tries. Microfilmed periodicals, created individually or available from UMI's list of more than 2000 cur- rent topics, take up only a six- teenth of the space required by bound copies of theoriginal. See COMPUTER, Page 10 - __. I FACULTY OPPOSITION: Viet Regime Backs NationalElection Further Cutbacks Would Hurt Residential College Asks Vote * * * * * * * * Within Five Qa Month Period U Unit Gives * By MARK R. KILLINGSWORTH Acting Editor A source on the faculty resi- dential planning committee said yesterday that the committeenow feels "we have reached the point where we can't cut costs any fur- ther. If we do we're afraid we'll get stuck with something you can't call a residential college." If the faculty panel remains adamantly against more architec- tural revisions and what it calls the "dangerous gamble" of pro- ceeding without full assurance of donor support for the program, the residential college may be fa- tally stalled, observers agreed. Top administrators wererstill confident the issues can be resolved, how- ever. Initial opposition by the Re- gents and some of the adminis- trative officers, and anticipated opposition in the Legislature, forc- ed elimination of a tuition fee dif- ferential, one element of the col- lege's financing plan. This creates a need-still unmet -to cut costs on the $12.7 mil- lion project by $1 million. But, while it is taking another try at cost-cutting, the faculty commit- tee doubts this can be done and fulfill the program's academic promise, according to a highly- reliable committee source. It has been learned that the committee, asked to revise the project once more after the Re- gents placed it on their April agen- da, instead wrote a "resolution on planning" and sent it to Vice- President for Academic Affairs Al- lan Smith and Dean William Ha- ber of the literary college on March 26. The statement also reflects the group's concern, according to a committee source, that if the pro- Buddhists May Not Accept Proposals; New Protests Slated $59.5 gram proceeds on an assumption SAIGON (P)-Vietnamese Chief of adequate donor support-as ad- of State Nguyen Van Thieu early ministrators are urging-but the today signed a decree providing for support does not materialize, then general elections for a civilian either the program will have to government in "three to five be cut back drastically or else months." other literary college programs will The decree followed a 10-point have to suffer. communique issued at the final The key paragraph in the reso-I session of a political congress call- lution says, "We are forced to con-f ed by the hard-pressed central NEWS WIRE THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION last night announced the appointment of Ira Polley, presently the executive director of the Michigan Council of State College Presidents, and secretary o fthe Michigan Coordinating Council for Public Higher Educa- tion, as the new state superintendent of public instruction. The announcement ended a nine-month search to replace Dr. Lynn Bartlett, who left his post to become Asst., Sec. of De- fense for Educational Affairs. VICE-PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS Allan Smith said yesterday that he had a short conference with deans from LS&A, English, Music, Architecture and Design, Business Admin- istration and other schools to discuss the teaching fellow organization. They decided that the teaching fellows' demands would be discussed on the departmental level. Smith added that no new budgets have yet been planned, so that the financial demands of the teaching fellows would still be subject to review. * * * * ALVIN E. BENTLEY, recently appointed University regent to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Eugene Power, will attend his first meeting of the board at its regular monthly meeting at 2:00 p.m. tomorrow in the Regent's Room of the Administration building. THE COURSE EVALUATION BOOKLET will not be pub- lished this term because of printing and personnel problems. The evaluations will be included as a supplement to the first issue of the Daily in the fall semester. elude that it would be very un- wise to consider further architec- tural revisions at this time-- that any further planning must await a clarification of the cru- cial donor-money issue ... Contin- ued discussion that assumes no donor money at all threatens to destroy the basic program of the college." Haber, did, however, persuade the group at a meeting March 28 to consider further architectural changes, which John McKevitt, as- sistant to the vice-president for business and finance, and Howard Hakken. University architect, will have available for them shortly. stHaber and some other admin- istrators feel that donors are more likely to be interestedsif planning on the program proceeds and the college begins operations. Financing Plan The college's financing plan, proposed privately in March to the Regents, originally provided for a $9 million bond issue, $2.5 million from residence hall revenues and refinancing and $1.2 million from "University funds and gifts." The differential room-and-board fees and tuition were part of the plan for the repayment of the band issue, but opposition to the differential tuition eliminated that source of revenue, prompting a new need for cost cutting. Due to an expected delay in adequate legislative support, the plan includes classroom and office space in the residence hall units to ensure the college can begin opera- tions. Noting that these are tem- porary arrangements, the resolu- tion says they "should be clearly labeled 'viable but unsatisfactory'" and should be undertaken only with assurance of adequate donor money.I 7 overnent. The powerful Buddhist hierar- chy boycotted the congress throughout. U.S. authorities warned all American servicemen and civilians to stay off the streets of Saigon in anticipation of scheduled Bud- dhist antigovernment demonstra- tions, Only about half the representa- tives invited by the central govern- ment to attend the congress show- ed up. The powerful Catholic mi- nority sent two observers. See Earlier Story, Page 3 Premier Ky and his government have made it clear they will ac- cept the findings of the congress. However, there are no indications that the Bud 'hists will do so. (United Press International re- ported that Ky has stiffened in his determination not to surrender to Buddhist demands for the im-, mediate capitulation of his mili-j tary regime. He is prepared to use all the force necessary to remain in power, reliable sources in Saigon said. (Sources said Ky hoped to avoid the use of military force but will not hesitate if necessary to prevent h i s government from being toppled.) Meanwhile, a Chicago Daily News report from the United Na- tions said the Viet Cong are pass- ing the word to South Vietnamese exiles that they are interested in setting up a neutralist coalition in South Viet Nam which would be independent of Hanoi and Peking. Viet Cong representatives in North African and Eastern Europe recently have been indicating a new interest in a political settle- ment in Viet Nam, the report said. SLIA DIS( THE STUDENT HOUSING ASSOCIATI representatives from real estate interests concerns in housing. At far right is Nei Bodkin '67E. i- VIET PROJECT: MSU Admit, MilionBudget BULLETIN LANSING (P)-The Senate Appropriations Committee last night authorized $595 million for the University in the fiscal year 166-67 The authorization is $6.3 mil- lion less than the University requested but $2.7 million more than Gov. George Romney's rec- ommendation. A capital outlay authorization of $79 million includes $3.5 million for the continued con- struction of a Health Sciences education facility and the new dental building. The committee recommended spending $239 million for higher education throughout the state, $16 million higher than Romney's recommendations. Members of the committee indicated that the au- thorization will probably be pared down beforethe authorizations are approved by the full House and Senate. The overall proposal of $203.6 million was branded too .high by USSES HOUSING Appropriations Committee chair- S man Garland Lane (D-Flint). [ON met in the Michigan Union yesterday with architects, Other committee members in- in Ann Abor, and University officials to discuss students' dicated privately they expected it i Hollenshead, '67 and next to him is SHA Chairman Bob would decline by about $5 million to $8 million. The committee, which took tes- timony from university officials several weeks ago, drafted its pro- posals by informal discussion. The s bill now is officially referred to sne committee for formal action exected next week. y Ramparts magazine, a South Viet Nam at the conclusion Dearborn), Roger Craig (D-Dear- nia-based monthly of lib- of the war for independence. born), Jan Vanderploeg (D-North inion. "CIA agents were hidden within Muskegon) and Gilbert Bursley magazine charged that the the ranks of the MSU professors (R-Ann Arbor) led the drive for roject served as a front in the Viet Nam project," the higher appropriations. CIA mission and thereby Ramparts article charged. "The Bursley reportedly was already d the 1954 Geneva agree- agents' instructions were to engage under pressure from the gover- which ended the war be. in counterespionage and counter nor's office to cut back in his pro- France and nationalist Viet intelligence, posed level of -spending. orces. Ramparts said Michigan State's The recommendations were all officials said they prompt- project showed "the decay of tra- still less than the institutions had d the CIA agents when ditional academic principles found asked. dentity was revealed and in the modern university on the Lane said the committee used d the aid program. make." the "finished product" theory of rogram, which was financ- Lansing and Berkeley budgeting,hbasing figures on an the U.S. government, cost "Universities such as MSU or overall cost of so much per -fiscal an taxpayers $25 million, the University of California have year equated student. pmparts article said. An become service stations to society," The Michigan state appropria- pokesman' said a figure of the article claimed. .tion included a specific designation illion was closer to the The MSU project in South Viet of $350,000 for a new law school. Nam including the acquisition of Lawmakers have been calling for uns and Ammunition research about the nation as well a law school in the Lansing area. article charged that the as recommendations on building' The state's four public and pri- ission helped train a militia construction and equipment de- vate law schools are all in the regime of Premier Ngo sign. southeastern corner of Michigan. iem and financed guns and Dr. Ralph H. Smuckler, ascting Using a few different defini- itions for Diem's civil dean of MSU's international pro- tions and arrangement of cubby- grams, denied the magazine's al- holes for over-all building money, said the school trained legations before MSU officially the committee came up with an police force only and set acknowledged that the information estimated $85.8 million for capital vil service program for his in the article was correct. outlay and related activties, com- ment. Smuckler did not deny that CIA pared with Romney's $83.7 million ect Viet Nam" was con- men were on the proiect staff and f.. rh -- By CLARENCE FANTO Acting Managing Editor Michigan State University ad- mitted last night that five agents of the Central Intelligence Agency infiltrated an MSU aid mission in South Viet Nam. The story was revealed yester- Search for Meaning: Students Discover Different Relgious Questions day b3 Califor eral op TheI MSU x for the violated ment,z tween F Minh f - MSU ly fire their i< dropped The x ed by1 AmericE the Re MSU sl $10 m truth. G The MSU m for the Dinh D ammun guard. MSU Diem's up a cil governn "Proji By RICHARD MORROW Last of a Series In the past few days the reli- gious community of the Univer- sity has been examined from a variety of different perspectives. From these observations a num- ber of conclusions can be drawn from extensive yet random con- versations with students, adminis- trators, ministers, and religious workers. It seems safe to say that thel average University student is less involved in institutionalized reli- and religious doctrine but rather accepted before coming here and with the meaning of existence and is now being challenged by Univer- all its implications. The society in which this stu- sity standards. dent generation exists is constant- The necessary conclusion in this ly confronted with the bomb, the case is that this student is not pill, and the computer, all of offering the church or the Uni- which force into the student's versity community an opportunity mind questions of the meaning of life and death. to present a viable alternative to A second conclusion is that a that which he accepted before fair percentage of the student comingfto the University. In view population views the college years the fact that there is a marked ! for the~i decrease ovmn in student religious in- as a period of testing for their deent on campus, it is likely religious beliefs and insists that Adee ncmui dnI it is carrying on this testing with- a grea number o s reject their previously held beliefs The University also teaches the student to specialize, and what he hears at church must be shown to be relevant to his specialty. Due to this lack of time and tendency toward specialization, the student may desire all the answers for all of his particular problems in one short sermon and being disap- pointed, decides not to return. There seems to be a prevailing notion that what the church has to offer in terms of underlying moral and ethical positions is ba- sically desirable and that good people should be associated with th. ,nha ral vsonme ann re_ - church has accepted the responsi- bility out of necessity, of trying to go all the way to the student. It must be objectively concluded that the average University stu- dent is quick to criticize religion and slow to contribute to rectify- ing those inadequacies of which he speaks. Implicit in the action of the lo- cal churches and the University and explicit in much student con- versation is the fact that the av- erage student is not very knowl- edgeable about his own religious heritage.