BOOKSTORE FAILURE ISN'T CUTLER'S FAULT See Editorial Page C, r SirA6 i43atli4 CLOUDY High-28 Low--15 Snow flurries, moderate winds Seventy-Five Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVI, No. 91 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1966 SEVEN CENTS Lansing Struggle Ma Delay' Construction EIGHT PAGES Plans By LEONARD PRATT The University's $84 million budget request may be facing a number of pitfalls in Lansing's administrative limbo. No one will know exactly what its chances are until Governor George Romney's budget bureau gets through with it and incorporates it into his upcoming budget message. The major part of the budget, the $65.8 million general fund re- quest, is facing its traditional problems, sources say. The $18.2 million capital outlay budget re- quest has all those problems plus some big new ones that may en- danger such projects as the resi- 'U' Expects Full Funds For Flint dential college and the additions to the graduate library. "Capital outlay" is that portion of the budget that deals with building construction and repair. The "general fund" pays for salaries, administration and equip- ment. Conversations with legislators indicate the general fund request will run the gauntlet of its tra- ditional problems-the governor's office paring of; "excess," the traditional cutback in the Legis- lature-again this year. The few legislators who will comment on appropriations before the governor releases his proposals do not see a particularly difficult time for the general fund appropriation in the Legislature, despite its un- precedented size-this year's re- quest is $14.6 million above last year's appropriation, a record- breaking rise. Some have noted that Michi- gan's almost certain state revenue' surplus may help keep state edu- cation appropriations up. ,But getting plenty of money for the University's many proposed building programs may prove an- other matter. In the first place, the request is more than four times the amount the Legislature gave the University for construc- tion last year, $4.2 million. , The major threat to building l the Legislature can thus influence authority to interfere with the I (Roseville). "We money, however, is that the Uni- how colleges spend their building way it is spent. The Regents, and the legislation." versity's Regents refuse to apply funds. WSU's board of regents, feel that But what hap for funds to plan buildings in the Nine of the state's 11 colleges the controller's new authority in- University needs way a state law passed this sum- have been using the controller's terferes with their right to spend when it wants to mer, Public Act 124, demands. method "quite successfully" ac- their money as they please and that hadn't been PA 124 does not restrict build- cording to Glenn Allan, budget thus with their autonomy. PA 124 was pass PA 24 oesno retrit bil- -Pd14 ws .ss ing money directly. But to give bureau director. Neither university is cooperat- Will legislative the Legislature some control over But the University and Wayne ing with PA 124, according to committees unde colleges' capital outlay, legislators State University have both in- Allan. The University is spending gents' position a wrote PA 124 to state that col- sisted that the Legislature's ac- the $4.2 million allotted to it other way for ti leges could obtain money to plan tions infringe on their constitu- this year for construction, but so money? buildings only by applying to the tional independence from other far has not touched the $1.8 mil- Garland Lane state controller for it. Because the governmental bodies. lion set aside for building plan- man of the sena controller can decide whether or' A basic tenet of Michigan's tra- nig, Allan says. Committee, says not to release planning money- ditional "institutional autonomy" "We feel the University should University will and because a building must be4 is that once money is appropriated have charge of these planning PA 124 so we can planned before it can be built- to a college, no body has the funds," says Regent Carl Brablec new buildings." are protesting pens when the planning money, build a structure planned before ed this summer? appropriations rstand the Re- nd set up some ahem to get that (D-Flint), chair- te Appropriations he hopes "the cooperate with give them some John McKevitt, assistant to the vice-president for business and finance, yesterday listed seven projects for which planning money has been requested this year. They are: a new college of architecture and design, an undergraduate classroom building, a science building, a math and computer center, the residential college, a new heating plant and additions to the graduate library. Presumably, these are the build- ings which would be held up if the University refuses to accept funds under PA 124 or if the Legislature does not grant planning funds some other way. :i I.E Several Issues In Expansion Dispute Remain Unresolved By JOHN MEREDITH Gov. George Romney will recom- mend that the Legislature appro- priate funds for operating the University's Flint College branch as a four-year institution in 1966- 67, but several issues in last spring's dispute over expansion of the branch remain unsolved. University President Harlan Hatcher declined to comment last night on a statement by Romney y and State Board of Education President Thomas Brennan, which detailed their efforts to solve the Flint question. The Romney-Bren- nan statement cited several meet- ings, both with Flint community leaders and with University offi- cials, including a November meet- ing in Ann Arbor at which the University seemed to agree with a board proposal to resolve the con- troversy. The University has not publicly confirmed this. Program In addition to releasing infor- mation on nine months of private ' talks, the statement outlined a five-point program for future higher education in the Flint area; the program provides for the Uni- versity to operate Flint College as a four-year school for at least six more years, admitted by Brennan to be a "significant change" from the board's stand last spring which asked that the branch offer only two years of instruction. The Romney-Brennan statement still insists, however, on eventual replacement of the University branch by a new, autonomous state school, and sets a 1971 deadline for development of the new in- stitution. The last public stand taken by the University committed it to operating the branch until a master plan for post-secondary education in Michigan should dic- tate the establishment of an au-' tonomous school. This position is "1F substantially the same as that of Flint community leaders. Romney's provision for Flint in the budget marks a switch from last year, when he expressed op- position to the University's plans to add freshman and sophomore classes at the previously two-year SFlint branch and refused to rec- ommendanhappropriation for the project. Supports Board However, Charles Orlebeke, theI governor's assistant for education, said yesterday that Romney still firmly supports the board's posi- tion that Flint College must be re- placed by an autonomous school. See 'U,' Page 2 BULLETIN By The Associated Press SAIGON - Hopes for substantial progress toward peace negotiations in the Viet Nam war soared here early today as Secretary of State Dean Rusk and U.S. Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman prepared to fly here from Bangkok, Thailand, for high-level talks .with Vietnamese and U.S. leaders. Vice-President Hubert Humphrey and Rusk met for nearly two hours with Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin in New Delhi yesterday. Humphrey was seen to emerge from the meeting smiling and flashing the V-for-victory sign. He called the talks "good, constructive and friendly" and prepared to fly back to Washington for a personal report to President Johnson. North Viet Nam reportedly relayed its reply to Johnson's Dec. 27 peace message to Humphrey via an Egyptian intermediary. No specific information was yet available as to the nature of the Hanoi reply. (See earlier stories, Page 3) Report Planv AEC r New May )l Accelerator Cancel . What's New At 764-1817 0 Hotline Michigan Selective Service Director Arthur Holmes said yes- terday "only an act of Congress or a Presidential order" could restore student deferments to 13 University students who have been reclassified 1-A during the past month. Holmes said the jurisdiction for determining classifications remains with the local draft boards. Meanwhile, another University student, John Raynor, Grad, was reclassified 1-A by his draft board in Winnetka, Ill. The students have been reclassified because of their partici- pation in a sit-in at the Ann Arbor Draft Board last October. Selective Service claims the students were violating a provision of the act which prohibits interference with the operations of a draft board. The new Highway Safety Research Institute has been given $100,000 by the Freuhauf Corp., University President Harlan Hatcher announced yesterday. The University announced the establishment of the institute last month. Its purpose is to undertake a broad range of in- vestigation on problems of highway safety. Gifts totaling $10 million were previously received from General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. Fund and the Automobile Manufacturers Association. Wiretap There has been speculation on whether or not the American Conservatory Theatre (ACT) will be the new repertory theatre here next fall. Marcella Cisney, associate director of the PTP, said that the University did not make ACT such an offer. She reported that ACT is under, contract to Carnegie Tech, which sponsors ACT as their repertory group. However, Earl Gister, head of the drama department at Carnegie Tech and one of the executives of the company, said last night that Carnegie Tech is still conducting negotiations with ACT for a fall return. "ACT had its opportunity to come into being in Pittsburgh, and Pittsburgh ought to recognize a continuing obligation to support such a fine company," Gister said. Miss Cisney said she could not say at this time whether or not the APA would return here next fall. -Daily-Thomas R. Copi FIRST SNOW FLIES FAST, FURIOUS Maturity, the motto of The Michigan Daily, is once more demonstrated by edit staffers at a recent seminar. "Tootsie" Fields, female resident advisor for the paper, here lectures on the merits of intellectualism. Join The Daily and hear more. $280 IN PRIZES: Alternate Proposals Discussed Ann Arbor Area Was Leading Contender For Location of Device WASHINGTON ()-The Atomic Energy Commission may never build the $348-million proton ac- celerator for which no site yet has been selected, it was learned last night. An authoritative source outside the AEC reported the commission now is considering three alterna- tive proposals-one of which would pinpoint the site for a less costly device. What effect this might have on the Ann Arbor area's chances, re- cently rated asexcellent, to win the location of the originally pro- posed, 200 - billion - electron - volt accelerator was not immediately clear. But Rep. Craig Hosmer , (R- Calif) of the Joint Senate-House Atomic Committee, when asked to comment on the report told a reporter: "To me, it looks like possibly the beginning of the end for the 200-BEV, $348-million machine. When you start talking about alternatives it adds up to that. "If the AEC should decide on one of the alternative proposals, it would be a good excuse for them to start all over again in the site- selection process, or arbitrarily pick the site themselves.* Possible Alternatives In Hosmer's view,, the AEC's reported study of possible alter- natives to the originally proposed machine stems from the economy drive linked with the Viet Nam war. Congress has not yet author- ized constructian of the originally proposed device. It was learned also that the AEC has called a meeting of some of the nation's leading high-en- ergy physicists for late in January to get their views on these alter- native proposals: -A suggestion by Prof. S. Dev- ons, chairman of the department of physics, Columbia University, that the AEC's own 33-billion- electron - volt atom - smasher at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lonfi Island, N.Y., be scaled up to one in the 120- to 150-BEC range, at a cost of $150 million. Lower Intensity -A suggestion by scientists of the AEC - supported Lawrence Radiation Labor'atory of the Uni- versity of California that it be scaled down to.a machine of lower intensity, at an approximate cost of $260 million. -A proposal by Prof. R. R. Wil- son of Cornell that a machine of fairly low intensity be designed- to cost about $150 million-with provisions for increasing its ca- pacity at additional cost, over a period of years. Only the Devons proposal pre- selects a site, and Hosmer said that if 'the AEC should favor either of the other two proposals, Freshmen Receive Preliminary Hopwood Creative Writing Award I By JENNIFER RHEA Seven University freshmen in the literary college received Hop- wood Awards for creative writing totaling $280 yesterday. Awards were presented by Robert F. Haugh, chairman of the Hopwood Committee, for achieve- ment in fiction, poetry and essay. Jay Kendall received first prize in the essay division. His, award was $50 for a work entitled "In Defense of Chains." A second prize of $30 went to Alan Silver- man for Ionesco's "Rhinoceros," and Neal Bruss received a third prize of $20 for "Wyeth Paints." Two awards were presented in the fiction division. David Knoke won first prize of $50 for "A Soldier in the Army of Alexan- der," while a second prize of $30 went to Janet Near for her work The Hopwood Awards, the richest collegiate presentations for creative writing in the United, States, are given each year from, the interest accumulated on the estate of the late Avery Hopwood, dramatist, and graduate 'of the class of 1905. Judging for the awards is done by a hationally- selected committee of novelists, dramatists, and editors. Because of this, the works of the receip- ients receive nationwide acclaim and many doors are opened to them in the literary and publish- ing worlds. "Escape." Helen Fox copped first prizeV in the poetry section for "Songs of Thought and Feeling." Second place was wdn by Elliot Wait for "Afternoon Prayers," while third NE NE prize went to Alan Silverman for "Three Poems." ' I - cSecrecy REAPPORTIONMENT: F State Court Rejects Further Debate "I am very honored to havel received this acknowledgement of my writing. The cash is not the important thing. What is signifi- cant is that this type of program On Cutler Report n- "TITZ [7T ElllTTD I IV By MARK LEVINj The State Supreme Court has refused to hear further oral argu- ments on the problem of state reapportionment. The court de- cided that it presently has suffi- cent written material from the State Reapportionment Commis- sion to make its decision. The court assumed responsibil- ity for deciding on legislative dis- ments from which the court may select. Lansing sources indicate that the court wants to decide the matter as rapidly as possible and will probably reach a decision soon. There is also the possibility, sources report, that the court may instruct the commission to go back to their work with the aid of more specific suggestions and guidelines on how "-to approach the task. encourages one to write on his By t11U~IV irXI1J vote principle set down by the but breaches a larger number of own and stimulates him to do his Student Government C 0 un c i1 United States Supreme Court. county lines, best in the field of literature," dSud three major issues last The Democratic members of the Republican members of the Wait said. niscusse p ad aotion pro- commission have requested that commission are urging the adop- Because of the trimester sched-eight.and passea oton o - the court maintain the present tion of House-Senate Plan No. 5. ule, the final manuscripts for the viding for the allocation of $250 districts until the next population The plan is based on a principle principle Avery Hopwood Awards to the Student Legal Defense census in 1970. If the court should called mechanical standard. March 1st. committee to defend solely on reject the Democratic request, it Mechanical standard calls for a will be due Tuesday, Marc constitutionally grounds, students will mean that Michigan will have tolerance point to be set, below Any student presently enrolled in who were reclassified 1-A after new legislative districts for the which population disparity be- teUivedrst semestacop e third election in a row. tween districts would be allowed. a specified first semester course d in composition is eligible to enter Several members of council ex- Zolton Ferency, chairman of I The plan crosses fewer county line this competition. pressed strong displeasure with Harlan Bloomer, '66, said that one reason for the relative secrecy might be that most of the dia- logue on the recommendation has been carried on in Regents meet- ings, the contents of which are traditionally confidential. The third major consideration was a motion by Robert Bodkin, '67, which would provide for a Student Housing Association. The motion, well received by most members, was questioned by SGC