ttr ian A& 43 4bp , atty Seventy-Six Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVII, No. 82 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1967 Liset Sees Student Crisis in Hiher Euc By CYNTHIA MILLS phone interview. Japanese family The family background which though studies have shown older A 1965 Moderator study found 83 eruption at Berkeley, he explain- look The combination of intensive life is increasingly based on the students bring with them to the students to be more liberal. per cent of a national sample of ed, was "perceived by most of the ier t competition and family pressure educational achievements of the college campus is also significant Political Passivity 500 campus leaders backing the campus as a continuation of the a co for grades and of admission to the children. "I think we are' push- in their political activity--or lack Lipset, a former Berkeley so- position of the Johnson adminis- civil rights struggle." The students plac better universities and graduate ing in the same direction . . . a thereof. Lipset pointed out that ciologist, listed several studies tration in Viet Nam. widely supported the movement. beca schools is the most important cause change for the worse," Lipset students from the lower classes, which showed the majority of Lipset saw as indicative the re- but the present issue on the war cal t of today's high student suicide said. "The number of first-rate especially those who are the first college students to be "politically suts of a poll at the University in Viet Nam is getting very little tion, rate, said Prof. Seymour M. Lip- schools does not grow in propor- generation in their family to at- passive." "New Left" radicalism of Wisconsin in which 72 per cent student backing. they set of the Harvard sociology de- tion to the need of the nation's tain university education, are dis- was shown to attract only a mi- of the entire student body and 75 Basof Support and partment recently. He claimed the students." proportionately apolitical and ca- nority of students. per cent of undergraduates favor- eLi rate rose 26 per cent over the Jump on Treadmill reerist oriented. Agreeing strongly with these in- ed U.S. articipation in the war. The success of such an activ- i] post 10 years. In some American communities, Also, Lipset added, the field of terpretations, Lipset cited. a 1965 Wisconsin is a stronghold of the ist measr, Lipset maintained, ic These pressures are bringing he remarked, "students jump on study which the student pursues is Playboy poll, which found that a National Coordinating Committee is the measure of its potential actio about what hec alled a "Japaniza- the treadmill as early as elemen- a political differential. Social sci- majority of American higher-level to End the War in Viet Nam. base of support. If it arouses "set tion of contemporary American ed- tary school to get ahead" in or- ence and humanitiesstudents tend students voiced strong approval of Lpst cla d more opposition than it can sup- elite. ucation." Seven thousand students der to gain admission to certain to' be more politically active than the Viet Nam war. A sample ofLpse aime that the sup- port," he explained, "it cannot "S take the entrance examinations for high schools. The tremendous those in the pure sciences or math, several university faculties were port a student revolution main- continue," been Tokyo University with the knowl- strain entirely removes the im-d less bellicose, but large majori- tals among the passive majority The success of a college protest beca edge that only 2000 will be ac- age of college as a time to enjoy Finally, he said, freshmen and ties also supported United States and the revolution's success de- movement usually depends on the are t cepted, he explained in a tele- oneself, according to Lipset. sophomores are more active, al- military involvement in Viet Nam. pend on the issues involved. The ability of a small minority to lead SECTION THREE 'ation like a large group. "It is eas- o get 5000 people together on llege campus than any other e," Lipset said. This is not use students are more radi- than the rest of the popula- he explained, but because are both easier to reach more responsive. pset attributes the impact h student demonstrations and ns make upon a nation to its sitivity to the children of the tudent protest," he said, "has newsworthy around the world use of the belief that these he important people who will in the future." MIT ON TOP: 'U' Ranks Second, In Federal Funds De feat State Board Med 'School Expansion Bd * * * * * * * * * By DAVID DUBOFF in various states is largely in- The University ranked second fluenced by the concentration of among the nation's colleges and such funds in a few institutions," universities in total federal sup- the report said. For example, it port received during fiscal 1965, pointed out that Massachusetts according to a report prepared by ranked third among all states in the National Science Foundation total Federal support primarily for. the Office of Science and because two institutions in Mas- Second Attempt for Technology. sachusetts - MIT and Harvard MSU 4-Year Plan Statistics in the report showed University-were among the lead- that the University received $58.8 ing ten that received Federal Due End of Month million in federal funds, represent- funds in 1965. ing three-fifths of total Federal The report also pointed out that By NEAL BRUSS funds in Michigan. Massachusetts three California and three New Expansion of the medical educa- Institute of Technology ranked York universities received rela- tion program of Michigan State first 'with $59.6 million. Both tively large amounts of Federal University was set back Dec. 21 schools received approximately 2.6 funds. The University of California when the State Board of Educa- per cent of all Federal support. at Los Angeles and at Berkeley, tion failed to pass a resolution 'Afademic Support' 'And Stanford University, received extending the current two-year The report also showed that a combined total of $138 million, medical curriculum into a four- $50.2 million of the money received The three New York schools- year program. by the University-approximately Columbia University, Cornell, and The defeated resolution would 85 per cent of its total Federal New York University-accounted also have authorized physical ex- funds, was for "academic science for $137 million. These six insti- pansion of the medical schools of support" (research and develop- tutions received about one-half of Wayne State and the University. ment, R&D plant, and other aca- the total Federal funds for their Sources have indicated that an- demic-science activities). The re- respective states. other vote will probably be taken maining 15 per cent was for other According to the report, Fed- during the Board's meeting later educational activities, consisting in eral support was also relatively this month large part of the Office of Edu- highly concentrated in a few uni- tim h cation's program for construction versities and colleges in the East The Board's damper move is and initial equipping of under- North Central states. The Univer- the latest act of opposition to the graduate facilities. sity of Illinois and the University development of a third medical Total Federal support to the na- of Chicago received $45 million school for the state it East Lans- tion's colleges and universities was and $36 million, respectively, ac- ig. Michigan State University ad- $2.3 million, the report indicated. counting for three-fifths of all ministrators opened the two-year Of this, 76 per cent was for re- Federal funds to higher education school last year against the wishes search and development and other institutions in Illinois. The Uni- of the Governor's Blue Ribbon academic science activities. versity of Minnesota and the Uni- Committee on Higher Fducation. Eight Federal agencies that versity of Wisconsin were reci- Conflicting Interests sponsor large programs supporting pients of approximately $40 mil- In the first vote, Fev Charles universities and colleges provided lion apiece, accounting for about Morton, who works for MSU, led data for the report. Agencies pro- four-fifths of the total Federal the fight to establish the new med viding the largest support were the support to schools in their respec- school there. The Detroit News vidig te lrget sppor wee te jsuportattacked him editorially for this, Public Health Service (36 per ive states. cent), Office of Education (20 per Federal funds for academic noting that Peter Opperwald, who cent), National Science Founda- science were more highly concen- wo:ks for Northern Michigan Uni- tion (14 per cent), and the De- trated in a few universities and vertsy, had disqualified himself partment of Defense (12 per -;ent). colleges than was total Federal from voting on the issue of estab- Others were the Department of support, the report showed. "This li-hing a Sault Ste. Marie branch Agriculture, Atomic Energy Coin- vias because academic science of NWU. Opperwald said he would mission, Department of Commerce, funds were received largely by in-hve i su 'sefcan sheol Department of the Interior and stitutions awarding degrees in the voting on medical school National Aeronautics and Space sciences and engineering and theseh Administration. institutions are relatively small in Wher the vote comes up again Few Key Institutions number compared to all U.S. uni- ' at the end of the month, the "The amount of Federal support versities and colleges," there re-I'Board will have lost one support- to institutions of higher education port said. er of the MSU school in Leon Fill and one opponent in Donald M.D. Thurber, Of the two newly elected Boar d members, Leroy Augen- ' Hospital Investigates teinchairman of the MSU bio- physics department, had said ear- lier that he would disqualify him- New Anesthesia's Effect l from voting. A genstein, unavailable for com- ment, I: as since changed his posi- By WALLACE IMMEN ous burns where a patient must 'ion and said he would have to undergo a series of short skin-graft "reassess" the situation. The Use of , a new short-term non- treatments under anesthesia over a other Board member.s barbiturate anesthetic at Univer- period of many weeks. It was also O'Neill has said he would "study sity Hospital has proved it to be quite effective for minor eye and I the proposal" for the MSU school' a considerable improvement over ear treatments. as well as an alternative proposal conventional anesthesia methods. Th drug has en inect mr for a school of osteopathy plan-f Student Presideunt-s 'Letter n 7" Di 1, 7 C f By PAT O'DONOHUE ceased, the United States will find The student body presidents anq some of her most loyal and com - editors of 100 universities sent ageous young people choosing to an open letter to President John-, go to jail rather than bear their son last week questioning and cri- country's arms." ticizing U.S. policy in Viet Nam. The letter, accornmg to Ed The letter expressed serious Robinson, '67, Student Govern- doubts about the war and criti- ment Council president, was cized the present "information meant to represent "the moderate gap." It further claimed that student" who had "quiet doubts" "unless this conflict can be about the war. The aim of the letter is to "encourage a frank) discussion of U.S. policy." The idea for the statement was' first conceived last summer dur- ing the conference of the National Student Association. Several peo- ple worked on a draft of the letter during the fall semester and dis- tributed copies of it to the sucent body presidents throughout the country. The lettei urged that the holi- day truces be extended. The letter claimed that if a negotiated truce was not the U.S. goal then yew doubts will be raised about the purpose of the war in Viet Nam. The letter suggested that future L s 7iet fighting should be on a reduced scale. The letter raised resumed only several ques-' tions about U.S. tactics and pur- poses in the war: --It asked if American interests were being threaten to the point that the growing U.S. commitment is necessitated. -U American interests are threatened, the letter questions the claim that the present com- mitment actually protects those. interests. -The letter expressed doubt that the present destruction of the country caused by the war would lead to a stable South Viet Nam. The letter stated, "There is in- creasing fear that the course now being pursued may lead us irre- vocably into a major land war in Asia - a war which many feel could not be won without recourse to nuclear weapons, if then." As elected campus leaders, sev- eral of the student leaders de- scribed themselves as representing the "mainstream" of student opin- ion in the country. In the letter, they refer to their coaptemporaries as "people as de- voted to the Constitution, to the democratic process, and to law and order as were their fathers and brothers who served willingly in two world wars and in Korea." i ,, i 3 >. s i ) ' i ?i j >i i f E 4 t% i l k ST UDENT PRESIDENTS'LETTER I I Following is the text of a let- ter sent yesterday to President Johnson drafted by the student- body presidents or student edi- tors of 100 collegesand univer- sities in the United States: In your talk to the student interns last summer, as on other occasions, you have recognized and discussed problems that have been troubling members of our generatlion. We have been grateful for your concern and encouraged by your invitation to express some of our thoughts. Since many of these thoughts center increasingly on the situ- ation in Vietnam, the New Year's renewal of the truce seems as suitable occasion to report to you that significant and growing numbers of our contemporaries are deeply trou- bled about the posture of their Government in- Vietnam. We believe the state of mind of these people, though largely un- reported, is of great importance, because there are many who are deeply troubled for every one who has been outspoken in dissent. A great many of those faced with the 'prospect of military duty find it hard to square per- formance of that duty with concepts of personal integrity and conscience. Even more are torn by reluctance to partici- pate in a war whose toll in property and life keeps escala- ting, but about whose purpose and value to the United States they remain unclear. The truces have highlighted a growing conviction on Amer- ican campuses that if our ob- jective in the fighting in Viet. nam is a negotiated settlement rather than a military "vic- tory," continued escalation can- not be justified by the failure of the other side to negotiate. If, on the other hand, our objective is no longer a nego- tiated settlement, the nature and attainability of our ob- jectives in Vietnam raise seri- ous new doubts. There is thus increasing confusion about both our tactics, and there is in- creasing fear that the course now being pursued may lead us irrevocably into a major land war in Asia-a war which many feel could not be won without recourse to nuclear weapons, if. great many of our contempora- ries, raised in the democratic tradition of thinking for them- selves, are finding a growing conflict between their own ob- servations on the one hand, and statements by Administration leaders about the war on the other. These are people as de- voted to the Constitution, to the democratic process, and to law and order as were their fathers and brothers who served will- ingly in two World Wars and in Korea. Unless this conflict can be eased, the United States will find some of her most loyal and courageous young people choos- ing to go to jail rather than to bear the country's arms, while countless others condone or even utilize techniques for evading their legal obligations. Contributing to this situation is the almost universal convic- tion that the present Selective Service law operates unfairly. We write in the hope that this letter will encourage a frank discussion of these prob- lems. If such a discussion clari- fied American objectives in Vietnam, it might help reverse the drift, which is now from confusion toward disaffection. To this end, we submit for your consideration some of the ques- tions now agitating the acade- mic community: -There is doubt that Amer- ica's vital interests are suffi- ciently threatened in Vietnam to necessitate the growing com- mitment there. -There is doubt that such vital interests as may be threat- ened are best protected by this growing commitment. -There is doubt that a war which may devastate much of the countryside can lead to the stable and prosperous Vietnam we once hoped our presence would help create. -There is considerable Con- cern about apparent contradic- tions in the American position on certain points basic to any efforts to negotiate .t settle- ment. High Government offi- cials reiterate our eagerness to negotiate "unconditionally," but we remain unclear about our willingness to accept full parti- cipation by the Vietcong as an independent party to negotia- Do you know what is happening on campus? Do you follow Wolverine sports? Do you keep up with world events? YOU NEED p irl rigttn Dai4 'r ,F f The development of this drug is "a great step in the direction of producing anesthesia with the least amount of complications,"' according to Prof. Guenter Cors- sen of the anethesiology depart- ment. He cited the advantages of tis drug: "it is a potent yet safe anesthetic; easy to administer: prouces anesthesia within seconds; is relatively short' lived and there- fore controllable and its after-ef- fects are minimal." The drug, designated CI-581, is a clear fluid, producing general anesthesia for a period of 10-20 minutes when injected into a vein or muscle. It was first tested in various laboratory animals by a private pharmaceutical firm. Cors- sen and Dr. Edward Domino of the pharmacology department then performed the first tests on hu- mans with volunteer subjects at Jackson state prison. than 800 times without any sig- nificant side effects being ob- served. Even large doses were tol- erated extremely well. Nausea and vomiting commonly seen with con- ventional anesthetics were virtual- ly absent. Limitations ned for a site near Pontiac. Augenstein has said that the proposed $15 million structure would cost an extra $1.8 million if the project is delayed a year or more. The school is not expected to receive requested funds when, Governor Romney announces his' budget later this month. WAKE UP TO THE DAILY AND STAY INFORMED! SUBSCRIBE NOW CLIP HERE * - -U-- - -- aa = - - - an = "" " *" Yes, I would like to be a subscriber to ' t I aa I agree to be billed later. $4.50 by carrier 1 ~$5.00 by mai I r r r S (I r r r (Please Print) Last Name First Name Middle initial u r r r r The drug does have'limitations, News Attacks Members however. The most severe of these s is that adults may have vivid The Detroit News has attacked, dreams, sometimes unpleasant, Augenstein and Morton for their while awakening from the drug's alleged conflicts of interest and' I effects, The psychotic disturbance arel not encountered in children and most satisfactory results have been with infants and children under urged the Board establish a policy of disqualifications in these cases. Three other .members are asso- ciated in some way with higher' education institutes. I 15. It has been especially useful Sources have indicated that it is in cases of orthopedic emergen- unlikely for the State Board to ap-' cies, such as fractures, to which prove construction for both the , children are prone. , MSU and the osteopathic project3 "There is concern," Corssen in one year because of the high warned, "in that the simplicity costs of the project. Members of'