NSA STUDENT BODY: TIME FOR A CHANGE See editorial page C, r I4k iAn :4Iatj SNOW High-22 Low- 12 Windy with freezing rain Seventy-Six Years of Editorial Freedom a I VOL. LXXVH,4 No. 117 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1967 SEVEN CENTS EIGHT PAGES --. __ __--_. __ i _._------- I a.avraaa a c .xuv NU Faculty Ilnvestig ates Student Dai y Faculty Considers Control of Official Information Releases By JIM HECK The Northwestern University faculty has launched an investiga- tion of the university's student newspaper, the Daily Northwest- 'ern. Faculty members voted Tuesday during their regular meeting to "go on record with a statement of discontent" over ,the paper "as a vehicle for important and of- ficial news." Robert R. Strotz, dean of North- western's College of Arts and Si- ences, told Associate Dean Richard J. Doney Monday to collect ex- amples of how the Daily had failed to report items, the facul- ty or administration consider im- portant. Associate Dean J. Lyndon Shan- ley, author of the faculty resolu- tion, termed the investigation n more than "whether or not there should be an approval in the pub- lishing of some kinds of official k information. This is not a question of editorial practices." The "discontent" was apparent- ly brought to the surface when a faculty announcement concerning the, Far Eastern Language Insti- tute did not reach print. Joan Schumann, editor of the Daily Northwestern, attributed the oc- currence to a natural mistake, say- ing that there was a misunder- standing in who was to pick up the information from the faculty office. Associate Dean Shanley, however, called the incident, "Just one of the complaints that I have heard for so long." Shapley went on to say that "no one instance is great,"' but that concern has arisen from many small errors. He indicated that the Daily Northwestern had ignored important faculty announcements in the past, and thus, they had never reached the university com- munity. Doney was asked to gather com- plaints voiced by some 40 faculty members concerning discontent with the Daily Northwestern. Edi- tors of the paper, in trying to reach Doney, were greeted with the statement, "I've nothing to say ,to the Daily today, or in the fu- ture." Doney was not available for comment yesterday. Editors of the Daily Northwest- ern feel that certain articles and editorials have bothered the ad-' ministration, and they feel that the investigation could become a major question of editorial policy: Miss Schumann commented, "The Daily is only printed four times a week, usually an eight- page paper, and has very limited: space." The editors of the paper, feel that the administration could force them to print certain an- nouncements that could indirectly be viewed as censorship, since it would take up space they feelcould be more importantly used. Meanwhile, In related activity here at the University, the Facul- ty Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs decided Monday to refer a proposed review of The Daily's relationship with the Uni- versity community to the Faculty Assembly at its meeting next Mon- day. If the Assembly agrees to such a review, it will bei nvited to sug- gest possible methods for carrying it out. The original request for an investigation to "consider the proper purpose, function, and re- sponsibility of a student newspa- per in the University community" came from the Board in Control of Student Publications. ' - ,hJtr Johnson UI C IAII DE Asks for Probe EdgI nLVWTJ WTI L Late World News By The Associated Press In MVidst of CIA-NSA.Furor MOSCOW - THE SOVIET Communist party newspaper, Pravda, Wednesday night accused Mao Tse-tung of planning "new provocations against the Soviet Union" in an attempt to bringMoscow-Peking relations to "a complete rupture." Pravda asserted that Mao and his group aim at "aggravating Soviet-Chinese relations to the limit, and, in the final count, to bring them to a complete break." "However, fearing responsibility for the consequences of this step, they do not dare act openly and are striving to provoke the Soviet Union to rupture these relations," Pravda added. There was no specific threat that the Soviet Union would break relations. But Pravda stressed that relations are likely to get worse. THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION at its regular meet- ing yesterday appointed three committees to deal with the board's constitutional responsibilities. James O'Neil and Dr. Peter Oppewell were named to a com- mittee to study the state's constitutional responsibilities toward free public education. Dr. Oppewell, Leroy Augenstein and Char- les Morton were named to a second committee to study discrimi- nation and equal opportunity in state-supported schools. Both committees were charged with interpretation, evaluation and recommendating necessary revisions. James Brennan, Marilyn Kelly and James O'Neil were named to a third committee to study the board's bylaws and consider revision of the sections on tenure and succession of officers. THREE MEMBERS of the University faculty have been awarded Fulbright grants by the State Department to lecture in foreign countries. Samuel H. Barnes, associate professor of political science, will lecture at the University of Rome. Edwin. J. Thomas, professor of social work and psychology, will lecture on research methods in social work at the University of Bradford in England. Finn C. Michelsen, professor of naval architecture, will lecture at the Technical University of Denmark, in Copenhagen. The three grants are among some 500 given annually to U.S. faculty under the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, known as the Fulbright-Hays Act. A SPECIAL TASK FORCE of off-duty Ann Arbor police officers is accounting for more than $400 a day in bond money from alleged traffic violators.. Police Chief Walter Krasny and Municipal Court Judge S. J. Elden made that disclosure yesterday in an announcement of a new plan to clear a backlog of unserved warrants. Krasny and Elden decided on the new program after it was found that present police manpower would not permit men to be detached from regular duty to begin serving what they called "a mountain" of old warrants. More than 3000 warrants for alleged parking and moving traffic violators are believed to be on file with the police and the court. A $594,000 GRANT from the Danforth Foundation of St. Louis was accepted by the University yesterday. The money will go to finance a five-year program to train college instructors, improve their status, and make undergraduate teaching an in- tegral part of the doctoral program. The grant will help initiate programs in five departments: botany, history, philosophy, physics and psychology. All are in the Literary College. Through the training plan, 175-200 graduate students will be trained for college teaching in a three-phase internship program. * * A MANPOWER UTILIZATION and education program has been established by the Institute of Labor and Industrial Rela- tions of the University and Wayne State University. Under the direction of Joseph Tuma, a manpower training representative for the United Automobile Workers, the program is designed to continue institute research and education activi- ties aimed at helping undertrained, underskilled, and under- educated workers. THE FORD FOUNDATION announced yesterday that it has awarded a grant of $500,000 to the Institute for Social Research for continued support of the Inter-University Consortium for Political Research. The consortium has been in operation since 1962, and in- cludes 22 univeristies from coast-to-coast, including most of the Big Ten universities. Its purpose is to exchange informa- tion, with the institute serving as the main coordinating and pro- cessing center. The new grant will allow expansion of the SRC files on voting behavior and of computer-aided research. Report Drop In Fraternity Pledge Total Open Rush Continues In Attempt To Raise Sagging Pledge Rates By MICHAEL DOVER With only 415 students pledging fraternities during winter rush, a decline of 23 per cent from last winter, and with fall figures also below last year's, the University's 47 undergraduate fraternities have gained a total of 955 pledges since September, almost 200 fewer than{ last year. A structured Open Rush was initiated last week for the first time, to "bolster the fraternities that didn't do so well in the reg- ular rush period," Tom Weber, '67 former Interfraternity Council in- ternal vice-president, said. The seven houses participating in the Open Rush program have taken 17 pledges, which are not includ- ed in the figure of 415. Regular informal open rushing will add somewhat to the pres- ent figure, Tom Morton, '69, IFC rush chairman, said, -Daily-Don Horwitz LITERARY COLLEGE DEAN WILLIAM HABER (center) called -yesterday's meeting of the Special Committee on Class Ranking "very fruitful." Ruth Baumann, '68, protested during discussion that grade ranking often fails to effectively measure extra-curricular interests and creativity outside the classroom. SGC Ranking Committee The total rush registration of " i 752 represented a 25 per cent de-i cline from last year's figures to i the lowest level in four years. The By JENNIFER ANNE RHEA lation to the general grading prac- persons seeking entrance to grad- percentage of registrants who The Special Committee on Class tices currently in effect at the uate schools, candidates for aca- pledged, however, has remained Ranking for the Selective Service University. demic honorary societies, employ- stable. discussed the antra- and extra- Prof. E. Lowell Kelly, director ment applicants, and scholarship Morton partially attributed the educational uses of ranking at its of the Bureau of Psychological petitioners. decline in rushing and pledging open meeting last night. Services, pointed out that much Moreover, ranking extends into to draft pressures. He pointed Narrowly defining its charge as discrepancy in ranking exists not extra-educational activities involv- to new selective service procedures the "study of class ranking for the only among the grading proced- ing promotions in firms, the at- which classify all freshmen 1-A , :Selective Service" in relation to ures used within the 'various col- tainment of a professorship, com- rather than 2-S, pending the out- the compilation of class rankings leges at the University, but also petition for higher salaries, and come of their first year grades by the University, the committee among universities and colleges of acceptance into certain social and/or selective service examina- approached the question of rank- differing quality throughout the 'groups. tion score. ing on an informal basis. It at- nation. This was seen as throw- Ruth Baumann, '68, and Thom- He added that many students tempted to avoid any discussion ing a discrepancy into all such as Lieder, '68. both pointed out decided to "concentrate on their of grading or ranking in relation- grade-ranking evaluations of stu- that grade ranking often fails' to studies" this semester, "People 'ship to the military situation. dents, regardless of the purpose measure effectively the extra-cur- have the idea that fraternity ac- ' This was done to narrow the of the ranking. ricular interests of the student, tivities lower your grades," Mor- Iapproach to the topic of rank- It was also determined that vir- his creativity beyond the class- ton said. ing for the committee's first for- tually all grading systems em- room, his need to become involved However, Doug Marshall, assist- mal meeting. It hoped thus to pro- ployed-pass-fail, paragraph eval- in social relationships. ant to the director of student or- vide a more common ground on uations of a student's performance, Although all agreed with this ganizations, points out that last which the committee could pro- percentage compilation of grade opinion, they thought that at the semester's average fraternity grade ceed to analyze the question of point averages-inevitably lead to present time there is no substi- point was only twelve one-hun- evaluations in general. some degree of ranking. tute for academic ranking of some dreths of a point from the all- Different methods of ranking This is the result of the need sort in view of the demands im- men's average. were consequently discussed in re- for some sort of evaluation for posed for such a standard by the To Cheek on Integrity of Institutions Disclosure of CIA c(ontributions Brings Calls for Investigation By The Associated Press WASHINGTON-In response to disclosure that the government's top espionage agency financed ac- tivities abroad by the nation's largest college student organiza- tion, President Johnson orded yesterday "a careulvreviewof any government activities that may endanger" the "integrity and independence" of America's edu- cational institutions. The disclosure. that the Central Intelligence Agency had been se- cretly contributing funds to the U.S. National Student Association brought howls of protest yester- dday and demands for a prompt investigation. Johnson directed Acting Secre- tary of State Nicholas Katzen- bach, CIA chief Richard Helms and Secretary of Health, Educa- tion and Welfare John W. Gard- ner to draw up a policy to guide "government agencies in their re- lationship to the international ac- tivities of American educational organizations." Katzenbach made the announcement of the Presi- dent's action. Eight House Democrats urged an inquiry "at the highest level" into the secret funding by the CIA of the NSA's, participation in world student conferences. The organization received an es- timated $200,000 a year during most of the undercover relation- ship, which lasted more than 10 years. It was broken off at the re- quest of NSA. The association, representing 1.3 million students at 300 colleges, has both domestic and internation- al programs. Brown said Tuesday night it "comes as a shock" to find the board was "only the policy-mak- ing body on the secondary level." Asked who was the top policy- making body, he said, "The CIA." In an earlier statement NSA President Eugene Groves express- ed fear th relationship may have ended the usefulness of the or- ganization. Only a few top officers of the organization -ever knew about the arrangement, NSA spokesmen said, and the reaction at the organiza- tion's headquarters .Tuesday was one of dismay and embarrassment. The Washington Post quoted an unidentified NSA official yesterday as saying, "Every year the CIA picked out a man or two that it could trust and told them about the undercover funding" of NSA. The source said some of these young men later joined the CIA, often acting as liaison agents to the student group. The students group's connection with the spy agency was confirm- ed by government officials after Ramparts Magazine announced in newspaper ads that it would ex- pose "how the CIA has infiltrated and subverted the world of Amer- See CIA-NSA, Page 2 Florida Students Go Into Second Day of Sit-in Hoping To Rescind Probation -------y By THOMAS R. COPI A protest sit-in in the Florida University administration bldg. headed into its second day last night, as over one hundred par- ticipating students called on the Florida University administration to rescind the disciplinary proba- tion given to Pamela Brewer on Tuesday. Miss Brewer was placed on pro- bation for posing in the nude for the campus humor magazine. According to Steve Hall, execu- tive Editor of the Florida Univer- sity Alligator, the student news- pare, "probation is one of the lightest punishments a student at Florida can receive." Hall said that the sit-in, which began following a teach-in called to discuss the issue of censorship on campus, has caused a division among Florida University stu- dents. Opposition to the sit-in has come from the "campus leaders," Hall said. He included the editors of the Alligator and the student body president in this group. He said that the; coalition of "leaders" are working with the school administration to set up a "commission composed of repre- sentatives from the student body and the administration to study rules and possibly come up with changes. Hall added that the Florida University's Code of Con- duct has come under fire in the past several months "not so much Miss Brewer was found guilty of' "inappropriate and indiscreet con- duct" by a disciplinary committee composed of eight faculty mem- bers and two students, all ap- pointed by the Florida University administration. Speakers at Tuesday's teach-in called for changes in discipline procedures, including formation of an elected discipline committee made up of half students and half faculty. antra- ana extra-educationai eval- uations which must be met., At the end of the meeting, Dr. Ernest Zimmerman, assistant to Vice-President for Academic Af- fairs Allan Smith, raised the is- sue of the standards used to de- termine the status of a student's enrollment as a "full-time" stu- dent. A draft of various proposals on this problem was presented to the committee for future study. Dean William Haber of the lit- erary college, chairman of the committee, summed up the meet- ing as - a "very fruitful" one, es- tablishing a "healthy dialogue be- tween the students and faculty." Members of the committee are Professors Ernest Zimmerman, Gordon Van Wylen, William Brown, E. Lowell Kelley, Kenneth Boulding, and Frances Allen, Dean William Haber PULITZER PRIZE WINNER: Halberstam Tells of Isolation in Poland Brandeis Student Class Boycott Rated '80 Per Cent Effeetive By CYNTHIA MILLS "Poland is a gray country and is getting grayer." For David Hal- berstam, New York Times cor- respondent in Warsaw, the gray- nes of Poland was represented by "a year of isolation and c'onstant emotional friction, waiting for the government to say 'get out.'" Halberstam, who won a Pulitzer prize for his coverage of the Viet- nam war, said yesterday in a Uni- versity Lecture in Journalism, that tacts, impressed on him continual- market as universally accepted. ly the knowledge that he would be The populace regard the state as3 expelled. an "invisible occupation." But, he commented on "the Poland is "probably the most quiet daily bravery of the people- disappointing state behind the their very contact with an Amer- Iron Curtain," Halberstam con-; ican marked an active independ- tended. "Ten years ago we thought ence from the regime." it had the most promise, but today Halberstam found the Polish more stories are written about the people greatly stirred by their change in Eastern Europe than knowledge of American life. there is change." "Politics is in a sense closed off" Commenting on the current out- for Polish youth, he said. "They: look in Vietnam Halberstam voiced know they cannot improve the his nessimism that uresent opera- By GEORGE ABBOTT WHITE snecia To The Dailv because it is unfair, but more be-U cause it's unclear and ambiguous." WALTHAM, Mass.-A student He hoped that the commission boycott of all classes at Brandeis which is being set up will be able University which began yesterday to "at least clarify the Code." was "80 per cent effective," Henry Referring to the sit-in, Hall Sussman, news editor of the cam- went on to say that those involved pus newspaper, reported yesterday. in the demonstration "do not rep- The two-day boycott at Bran- resent a cross-section of the stu- deis, which enrolls neai'ly 2500 dent body. They're the 'bearded students, was called to protest people' - the campus radicals." "general overcrowding of under- Hall said that the leaders of the graduate classes, and the resulting site-in ,mostly members of the Iacr of faity-student-adminis-I dress a mass meeting scheduled for today. Sussman said that no one knows exactly what Sacher will say, but suspected that he will place the blame for overcrowding on the individual departments, rather than on the administration. President Sacher and a host of deans and concerned faculty mem- bers had met with students the evening before the boycott. At that meeting Sacher said he was "very disappointed" by the technique of nrontest mnlnvrl he the stuents one was more realistic. It claimed that professors taught 1.1 under- graduate courses per semester on the average, that individual coun- seling was limited, and that nec- essary courses were overcrowded or simply not available. In a statement distributed to the faculty Monday, the Ad Hoc Com- mittee stressed "the boycott . . is not meant to be a reflection on the quality of teaching at Bran- deis. It is directed toward the in- creasing number of situations in which a teacher and his student , I >s :