(,14 firtigat Date Seventy-Sixth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS .":.....,.r......::."..:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....... . .... ...... . . . . . . . . ..:. . . . . . . . .... POWER Need More Funds for Residential College POETRY by MARK R. KILLINGSWORTH ::.ggggggggiigggggg::!N2iN%4g 2igAMgaNWE3 MME M - 77--W Where Opinions Are Free, 420 MAYNARD ST., ANN ARBOR, MICH. Truth Will Prevail NEws PHONE: 764-0552 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1967 NIGHT EDITOR: COPI National Student Association: Time ,for Some Changes THEY'RE GOING above and be- yond the call of duty over there," says one literary college ad- ministrator with a nod towards the Administration Building of plans for the residential college. Almost everyone has gone above and beyond the call of duty here --faculty, administration and stu- dents--to help get the residential college started. Students have been involved in working out a grading system and a student-faculty governmental system. Student influence, accord- ing to those who have been tak- ing part, has ranged from rather minimal (on curriculum) to sub- stantial (on grading) to nearly to- tal ("the faculty let us work out the student-faculty government plan almost by ourselves," one stu- dent says). Faculty participation in plan- ning has also been heroic. The faculty planning committees, chaired by the idealistic Burton Thuma, associate dean of the lit- erary college, put in nearly four years of work on everything from courses to blueprints. It fought hard to retain several architectur- al features which were about to be deleted due to their costs. Finally, the administration here has been unusually sensitive. Pres- ident Hatcher and Thuma's com- mittee didn't reach agreement on a residential college concept until fall of 1965. BY THAT TIME things had be- gun to bog down, the plan for the college seemed to have gone into the deep freeze and Hatcher re- mained unaware of a faculty com-' mittee memo spelling out its rea- sons for wanting its particular res- idential college concept. But as fall faded into winter the wheels began to move again. Vice-President and Chief Finan- cial Officer Wilbur K. Pierpont and his assistant, John McKevitt, started work on buildings for the college. Pierpont almost literally moved heaven and earth to find money for it-a quest which dis- played Pierpont's financial genius at its acme. What finally emerged before the Regents in April, May and June of last year was a bold, costly and complex educational gamble of the first order: a 1200-student college- within-a-university, designed to maximize the advantages of a cos- mopolitan, large university and minimize the drawbacks inherent in its size, costing a total of $11.85 million. AS REGENT-EMERITUS Irene Murphy commented last year, the University's bold "new" program is essentially an attempt to recap- ture Oxford University's famous 700-year-old college system-over two dozen colleges of less than 400 students each, living in close con- tact with their teachers in an environment where learning is ex- citing and inescapable because it is inextricably bound up with one's friends and one's residence. Size is a problem to a 35,000- student university with a budget of nearly $175 million, and the University community-students, faculty, administration and Re- gents-have all recognized it. Size means inflexibility-an inability to introduce reforms or merely to try something new. Size means anonymity - the classic student IBM syndrome. Size means mech- anization-a grinding bureaucratic mentality which infects everyone, from the loftiest professor to the lowliest student. By introducing a small 1200- student unit the University hopes to end all three diseases which size produces. By ensuring that it will not be an honors college-but in- stead have the same student "mix" -the University hopes to use the residential college as an index of what any other University unit can achieve. By building dormitories which have office and classroom space the University hopes to pro- vide for the kind of continuous faculty-student interaction which is simply unavailable at a sprawl- ing university campus. BUT ALL THIS costs money: $7.5 million in self-liquidating dor- mitory bonds, paid off by residen- tial college room and board fees; $2.5 million in operating revenue or bond refinancing from existing res- idence hall units, and, last but not least, $1.85 million in "$55 Million Program gifts or University funds, 1966-69." The last item puts the danger quite clearly. If the University can't get $1.85 million from the $55 Million Program for the resi- dential college, it will have to dip into University funds instead - pressing against other commit- ments in the process. In a sense, then, this is not an appeal to the University commu- nity. Students, faculty, adminis- trators and Regents have shown repeatedly that they believe in the residential college as an exciting experiment, a thing of great edu- cational beauty. There are few causes here-or anywhere-which have elicited the care, the concern and the hope which the residential college has received. It is something of value for allo f us, something which will transcend the daily squabbles about this year's psychology cur- riculum or that year's student pro- test, and, indeed, something which will make those daily squabbles far more bearable and perhaps much less frequent. BUT THE RESIDENTIAL col- lege still remains largely a vision. Of the $1.85 million needed from donors only a small fraction has yet been received. If the money isn't there by 1969, when the col- lege is scheduled to open, then oth- er University needs are going to be only partially fulfilled or the college's development might be ser- iously retarded. In a sense, then, this is not an appeal to the University commu- nity-which knows the value of its new idea-but to prospective donors. The University is aiming for a new college which--if it gets start- ed with enough money-will be the envy of every other school in the country and an educational dream come true. It must come true. And if mon- ey doesn't make the world go round, it will certainly make the residential college go. Your money. Thank you. 4 REVELATIONS of the financial connec- tions between the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Student Asso- ciation raise some grave questions about the funding of the student organization's activities. Equally important, the purpose and efficacy of the NSA demand detailed and determined scrutiny. The NSA's relationship with the CIA began in the early fifties. The NSA was a young struggling federation of college student governments, trying to build up, its membership and financial bases. Mon- ey for international activities, however, was not forthcoming from private sourc- es. When the CIA approached the asso- ciation with offers to support it through "front" foundations, the arrangement ap- peared to be a lucrative solution. As the relationship developed over a decade, the NSA received a large propor- tion of its budget for international af- fairs activities through the Independence Foundation of Boston and other organi- zations fronting for the CIA. According to one NSA vice-president the subsidies were as high as $200,000 in some years, but declined to around $50,000 in the last few years. One particularly knotty obstacle was the annual change in the executive staff of the NSA and the problems in bringing the new officers into confidence about the arrangements. According to one in- side source, NSA officials elected at the annual summer congress were informed of the situation only after taking office. But for at least 10 consecutive adminis- rations, the two senior officers privy to the NSA's biggest secret decided to con- tinue the covert relationship. WHEN RAMPARTS Magazine broke the story and forced admissions of collu- sion from the State Department and the NSA, the relationship with the CIA had already been ended. So the question arises, why didn't NSA announce the situation before Ramparts did, especially when the officers were aware that reporters were investigating their arrangements? Plans to phase out the CIA's aid were made by last year's president, Philip Sherburne, and were finalized this year by current President Euene Groves. Thus the claim that revealing the re- lationship would have resulted in a sud- den withdrawal of funds and bankruptcy .cannot be used to excuse NSA's breach of trust with the one-and-a-half million students whose interests it seeks to repre- sent. The March issue of Ramparts, accord- ing to one of its authors, will show that the CIA screened and selected some of the delegates who represented NSA in international programs. The financing of NSA's programs by the espionage orga- nization, regardless of whether or not the CIA influenced policy, effectively destroys the NSA's credibility among students of foreign countries. The State Department rationalized the original decision not to reveal the finan- cial relationship, because it would have left the organization open to Communist attacks as an instrument of the United States government. Ironically, over the years NSA has been vigorously opposed in campus referendums by conservative and right wing groups for its libertarian and international emphasis in its politi- cal statements. CAUGHT IN A DEFENSIVE position and faced with the likely destruction of its international reputation, NSA will have a# difficult job salvaging the good work it has done in the past. The taint of its involvement with the CIA will make NSA cooperation with the student organizations of other countries virtually impossible. The radical and lib- eral groups on many domestic campuses are likely to demand changes in NSA's structural relationships with governmen- tal agencies. Liberal support in campus referendums to continue affiliation has often, as at the University, provided the slim mar- gin of victory. A withdrawal of liberal support in referendums spurred by the covert relation with the CIA could mean the withdrawal of many member cam- puses in the following months. The CIA used the NSA in the most Machiavellian way to promote interests and attitudes consonant with United States foreign policy, and to influence leaders of students in other countries. The national student organization of this country should not be placed in a position accessible to manipulations from any outside source. Students alone should have the voice and vote in deciding pol- icy for a national student organization. THE NATIONAL Student Organiza- tion should be disbanded and a new organization built in its place. A student union should be formed incorporating the same activities as thehNSA, with the power base resting in the student bodies of the member colleges and universities. Any government loans and all agency subsidies should be expressly forbidden. Financial sources should be made pub- lic and any money funneled through non- profit foundations should not be accept- ed unless the donor publicly reveals his identity. The NSA performed a vital function in the communication and coordination of college student activities in domestic and overseas activities. The NSA's conceptual basis and many of its actual operations are worthwhile; but its structure and ori- entation with the government must be changed. -DAVID KNOKE I Letters: SQ Rules Should Benefit Students To the Editor: WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, at- test to the fact that the rights of the residents of South Quadrangle are being ignored. The specific issue to which we refer is dress regulations. There have long been complaints about the arbitrary regulations, especially from girls who wear slacks to class and must change into skirts for dinner. The problem was brought to the attention of the South Quad Council. The council decided to investigate the situation to find out if a signifi- cant number of residents wanted a revision of the regulations. Peti- tions advocating changes in the existing rules were circulated and 350 signatures were obtained by the next council meeting. In addi- tion, questionnaires were distri- buted and, of the people that re- sponded, 83 per cent favored changes. At the council meeting of Janu- ary 24, a motion to liberalize dress regulations was passed by a vote of 10 to 6. The proposed changes were then presented to the Direc- tor of South Quad, Thomas G. Fox, for final approval. Mr. Fox rejected the changes. A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER of residents expressed the desire for changes in dress regulations, but their desires were ignored. Mr. Fox supported his rejection, and stated: "I believe that the recom- mendation was based on a matter of convenience and I don't view convenience as a valid criteria in establishing standards." The residence hall is the stu- dents' home for eight months of the year. Is he to be inconven- ienced in his own home? The pri- mary consideration in forming the regulations of the Quad should be the comfort and convenience of its residents. "The South Quadrangle is the focal point for meals for many of the visitors to the University and the minimum dress regulations which exist do the University a great deal of good." ARE THE REGULATIONS de- vised for the benefit of occasional visitors or for the benefit of- the residents? The regulations states: "The existence of dress regulations is one of. the rules which a student accept in choosing to live in South Quadrangle. If the student finds the dress regulation overly bur- densome he should elect another housing facility." When unjust regulations, such as these, are being enforced, should the victims simply remove themselves from the situation, or should the injustices be righted? This question of dress regula- tions in South Quad reflects the profound problem of lack of co- operation between students and administrators. If difficulties can- not be justly resolved at this level, what hope exists for the solution of crucial issues? -Sue Simon -Bronwyn E. Jones --Lorraine King Reality? To the Editor: QUNDAY'S "Editorial P a g e Dreaming-Why Not?" brought thoughts of "How beautiful that would be" to my nind when I first read it. I asked myself why, at least in part, this couldn't be- come, sometime soon, a regular news page. It so happened that I had ob- tained Sunday's Daily late that evening from a friend, and none of my four apartmentmates had seen it. But I wanted them to see it, and I wanted them to be stir- red inside to the kinds of actions and motivations for actions which would help make this page not one of editorials but of news. I wanted a dramatic impact to be made on them, just as one had been made on me. Upon coming down the stairs the next morning, I found the following note attached to the page: "Whoever put this up, please take it down. I live in a real world, not a dream world, and I don't like to be staring at a dream every time I go up and down the, steps. Since you live in a dream world, why don't you put it up where it will only affect you." I'm sorry: -John Herman, '68 4 I1 I 144, Tri< Re ia: