CINEMA GUILD CASE: AUTONOMYQUESTION See editorial page Ci r 111k&iau AOF Ar :43 a t I SHOWERS Hligh-56 Low--35 Cloudy, windy; cooler in afternoon Seventy-Six Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVII, No. 98 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN - WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1967 SEVEN CENTS EIGHT PAGES Board Backs Cinema Guild Court Case Call for 'U' Actioni Comes froni Faculty Civil Liberties Board By DAVID S. HOORNSTRA ____ - Lo , < t Cal Faculty Demands Right NEWS WIRE _o Aprove New resident arte World News BYThe Associated Press The Faculty Assemb1y has launched a drive to defend the three students and a faculty mem- ber who were arrested after a Cinema Guild film was confiscated by police a week ago. The Civil Liberties Board, a creation of the Faculty Assembly, announced the inauguration of the fund in a statement expressing the CLB's in-: terest in the case. The confiscations and arrests,' according to the Board's state- ment, "raise questions about the relations between law enforcement agencies and the University." The Board claimed the University, could not "serve the community at large without its traditional free- doms of assembly, discussion, and inquiry," and urged "support by every member of the University for the le'gal defense of the case." Additional Proposals Yesterday's statement promised: additional proposals after "further examination of the case and its implications." There was no in- dication of what those proposals might be. Prof. Robert Friedman is receiv- ing contributions as fund treasurer at 1516 Rackham Building. Fried- man is the acting director of the Institute of Public Administration. Meanwhile, a statement from the Graduate Student Council charged the University with adopt- ing "the philosophy of the os- trich" and called for "a positive stance supporting the freedoms of inquiry and expression." This fol- lowed an earlier GSC statement requiring the University to "pro- tect the members of its commun- ity from undue harassment or in- terference" to carry out the! charge of "pressing forward on! the frontiers of research in all areas." Specifically, the statement ask- ed that the University deal direct- ly with law enforcement agencies,: file amicus curiae briefs in appro- priate courts, and publicly declare its commitment to the issue of academic freedom. 'Flaming Creatures' The first statement further claimed that because Cinema Guild financing is handled by the: University, the University's con- sent to the showing of "Flaming Creatures" could be inferred. Yesterday's GSC statement also contained a warning that the Ann Arbor law enforcement officials "will share any responsibility for any civil disorders" they provoke by intrusion at future Cinema Guild presentations. Roy A. Ashmall, president of GSC, promised that GSC will join with any movement to defend Guild officials. Statements from Cinema Guild student officers indicate that there will be no repetition of last week's incident. Elliot Barden, '68, said, '"I don't foresee any problem there." But several other campus sources indicated police officials would: probably be on hand at tonight's Cinema Guild experimental-film program. The arrested persons, who were: released after arraignment on recognizance, had been charged with the misdemeanor of showing an "obscene, lewd, filthy, and in- decent motion picture." WASHINGTON-President Johnson, in his budget message yesterday, asked that the fiscal 1967 appropriation for the Selec- tive Service be increased to $60 million the Associated Press reported. The supplementary $5.47 million is needed to process armed service inductions which have slowed in recent weeks because of lack of funds. The Selective Service is expected to have handled 311,000 inductions by June 30, instead of the 160,000 estimated a year ago. VOICE POLITICAL PARTY passed a motion last night to sponsor a showing of "Flaming Creatures" at Hill Auditorium in the near future. Chairman Gary Rothberger, '67, said he felt confident that sufficient financial support could be found to make the showing possible. * * * * ENGINEERS OF THE UNIVERSITY Space Physics Labor- atory will launch a series of small rockets between today and next Tuesday (Jan. 31) to try to measure possible fluctuations in gravity waves high in the atmosphere. The launchings are being made to check out a theory for- wardednby University of Chicago aeronomist C. . Hines that such waves not only exist but have a definite period, or time cycle. THE CORNELL OBSCENITY CASE is still "in limbo" accord- ing to one source. President James A. Perkins met with students and faculty Sunday to review the chronology of and injunction placed on the student literary magazine last week by the Ithaca, N.Y., district attorney on grounds of obscenity. Faculty and students are organizing to put university support behind the magazine. A court hearing set for Wednesday will determine the va- lidity of the injunction. If the injunction is upheld, the district attorney will have the option of arresting any or all of some 200 persons who signed a list over the weekend stating they had sold the magazine. AN ANTHROPOLOGY ADVISORY committee has formed to call for action on problems of crowded recitation sections and lectures in the anthropology curriculum. , The committee will hold an open meeting for all under- graduates currently in anthropology courses tomorrow at 5 p.m. in 2402 Mason Hall to discuss possible solutions. * * * * A TWELVE LECTURE SERIES on City Planning and the Urban Environment was inaugurated yesterday by Robert Knox, director-secretary of the Detroit Housing commission. Knox called for an increased effort in urban renewal and neighborhood conservation. He stated "America must develop a national purpose that by right enables its citizens to occupy decent, safe housing." Calling for an increase in urban renewal funds, Knox ob- served that the federal government has contributed funds in the entire 17 year program which are equivalent of 20 days in the Vietnam war. The series will continue every Monday at 4 p.m. in room 130 of the Bus-Ad. building. PROF. ERIC STEIN of the Law School, a University special- ist in international and foreign law, has been named to the newly formed U.S. State Department advisory panel for the Bureau of European Affairs. Stein is one of 22 members of the panel drawn chiefly from the academic community, private foundations, and research institutions. PROFESSIONAL THEATRE PROGRAM changes have been announced by Robert Schnitzer, executive director of the PTP. The musical "Half a Sixpence" has been added to the series and will be presented March 6 and 7 in Hill Aud., replacing the previously announced presentation of "The Lion in Winter," scheduled for Jan. 31 and Feb. 1. Playgoers holding tickets on the old schedule need not make exchange, they will be accepted for the corresponding perform- ance of "Half a Sixpence." Also announced was a change in the dates of "Marat/de Sade" which was scheduled for March 6 and 7. This production will, be held Feb. 20 and 21, and tickets outstanding with the first date will be honored without change. A GROUP OF COLLEGE professors who organized the Ad Hoc Faculty Committee on Vietnam early this month reported recently that they have collected more than 6,000 signatures of faculty members at 200 colleges and universities in 37 states to the plea: "Mr. President, stop the bombing!" The organizers said that although they were mainly Demo- crats or independents, they were becoming "increasingly dis- illusioned" with the way Democrats were "avoiding the debate" on the bombing issue. Union Voices Opposition To Reagan March on Capitol Proposed To Protest Educational Policy From Wire Service Reports The AFL-CIO California Fed- eration of Teachers proposed Mon- day a statewide march on Sacra- mento to "resist Gov. Reagan's attack on public education.'' Marshall Axelrod, CFT presi- dent, accused Reagan of "scandal- ous treatment of educators and students," and said that profes- sors in academic robes, students, and public school teachers will be asked to gather from all over the state on Feb. 11 to march from Sacramento State College to the state capitol for a rally. Speakers at a noon rally on the' Berkeley campus urged students and faculty to organize into a power bloc in order to obtain the power to decide who will be the new president. There was support, at the rally for participation in the strike. -Daily-Andy Sacks AFTER HIS FINAL LECTURE last night, Leslie Fiedler met with students in the MUG. He has been on campus as writer-in-residence since Jan. 5, and is scheduled to leave today. Fiedler Calls Suverf*Sion Storm of Criticism Gov. Ronald Reagan, in a news conference yesterday, took strong exception to the storm of criticism that politics played a part in the a s t 14-8 board of regents vote last Friday that fired University of Use of University, California President Clark Kerr. Reagan called the firing of Kerr necessary but ill-timed. "I voted as one oithe 14," Rea-' gan said, adding that his term as governor would see "no arm- twisting" of the regents on his' part. Abrupt Action Reagan accused Kerr of initi- ating the abrupt action that sur- prised the nation.I Kerr, in a message before the campus Academic Senate said he1 didn't resign when offered the op-I portunity, while the board vote was still unannounced last Friday, "because I wished to take no vol- untary part in a quick and com-1 plete response by the universityi to the shift in the political power and philosophy of the state." TISR Group From Depa By DAVID KNOKE A student sits alone in a room with a TV tube on which he sees a group of students discussing a problem. He's been told that he was late arriving and that the experiment in which he is taking; part will begin as soon as the members of the discussion group, he is watching move to their sepa- rate isolation booths. The student watches each sub- ject on the screen do a task or make a response. Then he sees himself on the screen and he makes his own response. This student belongs to a ficti- tious group; he has been watchingj a lengthy reel of video tape while psychologists have been monitor- ing his responses. Shades of Big Brother? Not at all; this innova- tion in controlled social psychology is part of the Research Center for Group Dynamic's unique approach to the study of group behavior. The Center became part of the Institute for Social Research in 1947 after it moved to Ann Ar- bor from the Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology. The Center was founded by the late psycholo- gist Kurt Lewin to study a field of related topics which he came to. label as "group dynamics." These included such things as group leadership, group standards and By LISSA MATROSS "The modern university has be- come the Ugly Multipurpose Uni- versity," said Leslie Fiedler last night in his final lecture as writ- er-in-residence. Although he looked out on the lush setting of Rackham Lecture Hall instead of the UGLI Multi- purpose Room, he told his aud- ience that the university, like the Protestant church, spurns beauty and constructs a campus of "dis- ing process to the practical serve society." "inculcate faith in Unfortunately, he said, the uni- professions which versity has renounced freedom and become the "last baby sitter Service Organization Fiedler said that the university has become a "service organiza- tion that teaches the values of society and respect for the status quo. The faculty have become ex- perts-on-loan to business in a pro- cess that begins with service and ends with subservience." Instead of the motto, "non of the modern world." The faculty must now serve in the capacities of "nursemaid, chaperone, vice squad and policemen." Fiedler c i t e d "democratized boredom" as another unfortunate feature of current mass higher ed- ucation, "The university has a new cry, 'Ennui for All,' and it con- stantly reminds us of our mean- ingless obligations and of our chief enemy-time," he said. Pressures Comie From Professors Academic Senate Opposes Budget Cut, Charging of Tuition By BRUCE WASSERSTEIN Executive Editor Specl To The Daily BERKELEY, Cal.-The Berkeley faculty came out yesterday with fists swinging. At a tension filled meeting of the Berkeley division of the aca- demic senate almost 1000 tenured professors passed a resolution de- manding that "the advice and consent of the faculty be secured in decisions affecting the appoint- ment an dtenure" of a successor to former University of California president Clark Kerr. They also adamantly opposed cuts in the university budget and the char- ging of student tuition. Only seven faculty members voted against the proposal. At a secret meeting Monday, Theodore Meyer, chairman of the University of California regents, had suggested to the academic counsel that a faculty advisory committee on selection of the next president be established. The aca- demic counsel, which consists of the presidents of the Academic Senates at the ~nine institutions which comprise the University of California, agreed to this pro- posal. The action taken by the Berke- ley Senate yesterday, however, de- manded, in addition, that the ap- proval of the successor be sub- ject to the approval of the fac- ulty. The academic senate also passed a directive instructing a sub- committee to deliberate the ques- tion of "whether a professors' union with it attendant power to negotiate by collective bargaining with administration and regents can be an effective instrument for allowing the members of the aca- demic senate to take part in de- cisions affecting University wel- fare." Open Letter Berkeley's faculty also approved an open letter to the people of California stating "you have en- trusted the care of your university to the board of regents. The ma- jority of that board has betrayed your trust. As of today no reput- able educator would assume the presidency of that university which yesterday was the envy of every other in the state." An amendment to this resolu- tion was passed stating that the policy committee of the academic senate will "tell us when 'today' is over" and a reputable man can be named to the presidency. While over 1500 students gath- ered around the faculty meeting hall listening to the academic senate's deliberations over loud- speakers, the main motion intro- duced by Prof. Kenneth Stampp of the History Department was passed. The faculty resolution tables the regents dismissal of Kerr a "destructive political intervention in the affairs of the university. "Such intervention, tolerated by a body (the Regents) upon whom we depend for protection from political intrusion threatens the survival of the University of Cali- fornia as an institution of distinc- tion." The resolution listed a five point program for action: -The Regents must strenuously resist political intervention in the affairs of the university and con- tinue to protect academic free- dom; -The legislature must provide financial support adequate to sus- tain high quality and university growth; -That free tuition policy be maintained; . parate architectural styles where servia," I will not serve, the new buildings confront each other with motto has become "At your serv- overt hostility." ice, Sir," he said. But it was the "multipurpose" The real purpose of the univer- Reforms Are Possible aspect rather than the ugliness 'sity, according to Fiedler, is to "What is left," Fiedler contin- that most disturbed Fiedler. The provide a liberal, humane, gen- ued, "is a nubile, bored, hetero- university, he said, has become a eral education and provide a model sexual community presided over vocational training ground and of a free community to the larger, by cops." ultimately a vocational brainwash- less free community around it. I drdhom - Fiedler added that some reforms are possible and will make life at the university more tolerable, but only two choices are open for DynamicsFree'those who do not want to be "serv- iced, entertained, overseen and bored." trim enta lra ll l "Some students simply drop- out into dreamland," he said, and noted that the unspoken motto of tists should be free to study in his performance and' security in the drop-outs becomes, "I'd rather whatever they feel may be most the group. By changing patterns go nuts than go back to college." useful for their work." of communications, the dispensa- He said the drop-outs can learn Lewin had conceived of the Cen- tion of rewards and punishments the limits and possibilities of their ter achieving a close relationship among members, and methods of own freedom and learn where the between theoretical social science displaying comparative levels of self ends and the world begins. and social practice. This balance status, the experimenters can The System is exemplified through the inter- build a fairly accurate picture of Those who remain, however, can disciplinary approach of the Cen- the force at work. turn to the "last use of the uni- ter. As part of the Institute for versity-subversion of the system." Other developments a b o u n d Social Research, the Center must Fiedler cited the sociological from the mathematical models of rely on agencies outside the Uni- principle that says "whenever an group behavior being developed by versity for support of its programs. institution defeats the goals in Profs. Frank Harary and Dorwin The largest sponsors have been the whose name it operates, there are Cartwright to the innovations in National Institutes of Mental formed within it voluntary asso- laboratory methods created by Health, the Office of Education ciations which will pursue the Prof. Robert Zajonc. On the prac- and some branches 'of the armed ends that the institution betrays." tical side, the Center concerns it- forces. Because of its early start He said the weapons of the self with issues relevant to social in the field, the Center has had youth culture are non-resistence, problems, in the manner of its more experience with raising sup- sex, drugs, pornography and the sister center, the Survey Research port than many other social sci- arts, and stated that "art was the Center. ence programs. As a result, the most dangerous. A new film or The impact of the Group Dyna- Group Dynamics Center remains literary magazine can threaten mics Center upon the University the largest Center of its kind in established values and produce has been to strengthen the social the country. real education." psychology doctorate program, country. Most of the Center's O R m nT U S making it one of the best in the I G overnuty.Mot f heCnter'ii er l e/GtAp proves scientists are social psychologists who also hold teaching appoint- ments in the literary college. '9 I E RE I O Since Lewin and his colleagues became interested in group dyna- - mics as a field of scientific in- The federal Office of Education The $2 million loan for the vestigation, the Center's work has yesterday announced final ap- library will be paid back by stu- been largely devoted to defining proval of a $2 million federal loan dent fees over 25 to 30 years. The nrnrrae o imnrfk".a 1irl ill*fnrtha ~niv eiv'c ,w t~-tai !TUnivrs"ity nlans fto letbids ronthe HONORS EXCHANGE: Tuskegee Students T o Visit U' Sixty representatives of the ed in 1963, attempts to promote honors program at Tuskegee Insti- iunderstanding between the Uni- tute will arrive on campus tomor- versity, a large Northern state in- row evening to spend a week ob- stitution, and Tuskegee, a small serving student life and' honors Southern school. activities at the University. A group of Tuskegee students is The 54 students and six facul- currently attending the Univer- ty members from Tuskegee, a pre- sity, and 10 University undergrad- dominantly Negro college in Ala- uates will be attending the Insti- bama, will live with University stu- tute's winter term, which begins mittee, said yesterday that a ten- tative schedule for the visiting honors students is as follows: -Friday morning-an orienta- t'on session with Dr. Otto Graf, chairman of the honors council, will open the visit. -Friday afternoon-a tour of the Phoenix Project and North Campus, conducted by Dr. AvonI C~rc chpa d of ' theUiffsied Si.