ENGINEERING FACULTY AND CINEMA GUILD See editorial page Sir h &tit~j& THE SAME Hligh--15 Low--l5 Chance of brief snow flurries Seventy-Six Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVII, No. 119 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1967 SEVEN CENTS EIGHT PAGES Request Reforms of Social Work Student C runcil By DAVID KNOKE tion in the decision-making pro- When an Ann Arbor landlord cess of our educational system," attempted to evict three students he said. "then we must turn our from their apartment, social work schools upside down until they students were in the forefront of do." an ad hoc group that got the Students in the University's so- eviction reversed. cial work school last week began A social action committee form- what they hope is the first step in ed in the social work school was the process of election of a Union among the first groups to declare Party slate of candidates to the unconditional support of the "stu- Social Work Student Organization dent power movement" last se- (SWSO), the school's student gov- mester. erning body. A referendum held last fall also Under the presidency of Willis supported a strongly-worded state- Bright, Grad, the Union Party is ment that the , United States beginning the process of trans- should pull out of Vietnam. forming the week SWSO into an Alan Haber, Grad, caught the effective organization for dealing spirit of the social work students' with the administration and fac- activism in a recent keynote ulty. speech to a regional conference of The Union Party's first reform social work schools. "If our schools is the inclusion of classroom rep- will not allow student representa- resentatives from each of the five major methods in the school: case according to David Shaprio, Union work, group work, community or- delegate to Graduate Student ganization, administration. and Council, will also place ultimate doctoral candidates. According to Bright, the repre- sentatives will sit on committees which "by involving them in more than just liaison or messenger roles will increase their participa- tion and increase their knowledge about the total functioning of the Union structure." Previously the SWSO represent- ed only the executive board and the chairmen of standing com- mittees and thus could not negoti- ate with the faculty and admin- istration as spokesmen from the student body. The creation of a committee for external affairs mandated to go out to agencies and investigate "abuses of clients and students," decision with the classrooms and not committee members. "In other words, the committees are not delegated but authorized and sanc- tioned." The external affairs committee began immediately to investigate three agencies in the area where students are now placed: Boys Training School, near Whitmore Lake, Wayne County Training School in Plymouth, and Ypsilanti State Hospital. "These are just some of the places where students have felt poor conditions for clients prevail," said Hedda Matza, Union vice- president. The validity of the com- plaints will be assessed by the ex- ternal affairs committee which will make proposals to the execu- work students," he says. "and groups that protect people already curriculum revisions which, under tive body. you'll be seeing more direct action in the field. faculty initiative, were begun sev- "The proposals will then go to taken by students across thecGoun- "With this organization behind eral years ago and are now rapid- the individual classrooms for ac- try very soon." them, students should be able to ly approaching implementattion. ceptance or rejection by the stu- One of those actions may be the speak out on issues vital to them, Robert Lasster, Union treasurer dent body. Trus a few people who creation of a national student their clients and the workers al- said the new structure would al- feel very strongly that things are union of social work students at a ready in the field. This could in- low students to participate in the going wrong with the agency won't national conference scheduled to elude sucli things as speaking out classrooms meeting to offer their be able to move without the stu- take place at St. Louis in mid- on Vietnam, its implications on revisions through the separate dent body's sanction." j;March. Thirty-five to 40 schools social work education and social views to the faculty. The grass-roots democracy which will be represented. welfare in this country." Students would like to go bey- the Union is structuring into its "The national meeting will be a Shapiro said there is strong de- ond mere adaptive therapy for reorganization will hopefully, in milestone -in social work education, sire that the national union should their clients,,according to Shapiro, one partisan's words, "become a for the voice students will have include professionals and clients and change the system within model for student-faculty-admin- not only in the internal function- as well as students. The Union which their clients live. Important istration relationships for the rest ing of their own schools but in hopes to include clients in its gov- areas of concern are block place- of the University and for social national issues as well," said erning body in order to gain a ment pass-fail grading for field work schools around the country." 'Bright.perspective on the things that are work. Students also want to The social work activism isn't B haffecting them so programs can change the requirement that they just a local phenomenon, accord- By having representatives from be devised to eliminate these pro- pay for transportation to their ing to Bright. schools all across the country, we blems. field work jobs several days per "I think there is a real new can set up a parallel structure to A major internal issue the Union week, at distances often a hun- breath of life coming into social the professional social workers is confronting are the pending dreo1 miles away. VUrged EIjIU1'q To Recognize ILanHatc er Labor Unions NEWS WIRE Governor '.,7 Ad-. - - - Asks Regents Not l T E7 !'11"@71! Committee Supports Collective Bargaining By JIM HECK ; The Governor's Advisory Com- mittee nn Public Employe Rela- tions yesterday urged the Univer- sity to recognize the right of its employees to organize labor un- ions and bargain collectively. In the report issued yesterday, the committee recommended that all the state-supported universities comply voluntarily with Public Act; 379. The act, which is presently being challenged by the Univer- sity in the courts, permits public employes to form unions for col- lective bargaining. University administrators feel that P.A. 379 infringes upon the school's autonomy and are trying to prove that the University as an autonomous state institution is ex- empt from the law. Although the committee gave no formal opinion as' to how the courts should consider their up- coming decisions, the five-man panel headed by Prof. Russell A. Smith of the Law School. asked "that any universities which have not already done so should adopt policies in relation to their em- ployees granting 'rights of unioni- vate industry to have collective bargaining." The committee compared the: University's challenge to P.A. 379 is similar to earlier attempts by private industry to have collective bargaining laws declared uncon- stitutional, and believes that such' attempts will fail to exclude the University from the law. The report stated, "Today in Michigan the overwhelming ma- jority of all employees, public and private, are guaranteed the right to. have a voice in determining their conditions of employment' through collective bargaining," and the commission considered that the denial of this right to workers at the University' "is a course which we believe cannot be validly defended." The group considered the pos- sibility of the unionization of the academic staff when and if the University complies with P.A. 379 "as a most unlikely prospect." The commission asked the gov- ernor to name a 12 member pub- lic employment relations panel to conduct hearings on public em- ployee labor negotiations and when necessary, to make formal public recommendations. INDIVIDUAL TICKET SALES for the Sesquigras Motown concert featuring Smoky Robinson and the Miracles and Martha and the Vandelas will be on sale from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. today and from 8:30 to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday at Hill Auditorium. TRANSCRIPTS OF ENGINEERING SCHOOL students were usually not handed out without the student's explicit permission Dean Norman Scott of the engineering school said yesterday. In a confusion between the deans and records office there was speculation that transcripts were handed to anyone asking for them without consideration of the student's desires . The Engineering Council has moved a resolution that will correct the confusion and state explicitly that transcripts will not be allowed out of the records office without student permis- sion. The Council expects adoption of this proposal by next fall. * * * * THE YPSILANTI GREEK THEATER, which opened its first season last year, may have seen its last season. Sponsors of the theater, the world's first major professional group regularly producing Greek drama in English, said yesterday they need pledges totaling $500,000 before March 1 if they are to make plans for this year. The theater opened to general critical acclaim last year, but failed to meet expenses and wound up the season with a debt of nearly a' quarter of a million dollars. Included among the creditors is the United States government, which is suing for some $80,000 in withholding taxes it charges were not collected from employee paychecks. * * * * A RESOLUTION CONDEMNING the appearance of American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell at Western Michigan University was introduced in the State Senate yesterday. The resolution, introduced by Sen. Gordon Rockwell (R-Mount Mor- ris), said the Senate members "Vehemently protest the spon- soring .by the student association) of the appearance of Rock- well, an admitted hater of the American tradition and the American form of government and the ideals which American society stand for." * *M * * PHI KAPPA PHIl, one of the world's most highly regarded honorary societies, initiated 368 students and five faculty mem- bers at the University of Michigan Thursday evening. James H. Zumberge, president of Grand Valley State College and former polar geologist on the University faculty, spoke at the ceremony in Rackham Lecture Hall. His topic was "The Education of Young Scholars." Faculty members to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi were Prof. Leslie Bassett of the School of Music, Profs. Inis Claude and William Zimmerman of the political science department, Prof. William Freehling of the history department, and Assistant Dean Robert W. Heywood of Flint College. TWO LAW SCHOOL SENIORS finished first in a field of 21 teams representing 21 law schools in the Detroit regional round of the National Moot Court Competition. Richard Leukart and Peter Truebner- advanced to the finals of the contest. Four juniors in the law school have been chosen to compete in the final round of the school's annual Henry C. Campbell Moot Court Competition in March. They are Edmund Carey, Robert P. Hurlbert, Carl von Ende and Stephen C. Wood. Arizona State EdtrFired, By Board Unanimously Refuse Reconsideration of Student's Appeal By LEE WEITZENKORN The Board of Student Publica- tions at Arizona State University refused Thursday to reconsider the Feb. 3 firing of the campus newspaper's editor. John E. Polich, former editor of the State Press, was dismissed for refusing to com- 1ply with the board's policy. He said yesterday that he would ap- peal his case further "through es- tablished channels". The board, which consists of three students and five professors, voted 6-0 in favor of firing Polich. One student member abstained , and another was absent. The board levied numerous charges against Polich, the fore- most being that, he had failed to request permission to hold another job in addition to his editorship. Polich at the time also worked as: a part-time police reporter for The Arizona Republic.{ The policy prohibiting the edi- tor, managing editor, and campus editor from holding othe jobs was passed a half hour before Polich was appointed last Jan. 5. The former editor claimed he had not been informed of the new regula- tions until after he had accepted p his appointment. J He maintained further that the s chairman of the board and one A other member knew about his oth- i er job when he was first interview- o ed for the editor's position. A The board of publications, how- ever, insisted on killing the editor- g ial in the interest of freedom of N the press. n Other areas of conflict included to Poileb's attempts at changing w See ARIZONA, Page 8 ;s gi -Daily-Chuck Bockoff REP. JOHN CONYERS fD-Mich.) addressing an audience at Rackham Aud. on the progress of the Negro in America. Conyers Claims Negroes' Progress s Negligible l o Act Ul rUrnmbuild Lease Board Gives Approval for Med Center IU' Joins Consortium To Construct, Operate Huge Radio Telescope By'MARK LEVIN University President H a r 1 a n Hatcher asked the Board of Re- gents yesterdayo forestall action in response to the arrest of four Cinema Guild officials on ob- scenity charges for showing "Fla- ming Creatures," here last month. However, he said he would re- turn to the Regents in the future if he felt rules and regulations were necessary to govern the showing of movies by Cinema Guild. "We don't want censorship, but at the same time there is a feel- ing that people around the Uni- versity must show care in choos- ing their movies," Hatcher said. "The University is not going off in an unbridled showing of this kind of film. I would ask the Re- gents to bear with us, so we don't have to write down regulations we don't want to write," he added. Hatcher's statement came in a twenty-five minute impromptu speech at the end of the meeting. Although a number of Regents have expressed concern over the Cinema Guild crsis, there was no formal discussion of the matter. When Hatcher finished his speech, Regent Paul Goebel, na- tional chairman of the University's $55 Million Fund drive commented that these type of activities on campus were having a deliterious effect on fund contributions. "I spend 75 per cent of mytime explaining to alumni about these type of activities. This type of stuff is going to leave to stop." Hatcher praised the Cinema Guild as a "creative and imagina- tive organization to which the University is deeply indebted." He said he saw University resources as being built for . freedom, for creativity and service. "If there can't be positive mold- ing of creativity here then there is no place for the University. For the University then becomes mer- ely a factory where you come to get your bucket filled." He said that while the Uni- versity should "defend the right of experimental movies, it does run into the problem of under- ground type films like 'Flaming Creatures,' which go beyond de- cency." "I haven't had the great exhili- rating freedom-loving experience of seeing the movie, bt it pains me /to see academic freedom en- tangled in this muddy area." Hatcher traced a number of his- torical examples, citing Ibsen's "The Doll's House" as being equally 'ARTISTS AGAINST THE WAR': Varied Show of Local Art at Union By ANDREW LUGG Artists Against the War," an exhibition of painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, and ceramics by faculty and students of the Uni- versity, Eastern Michigan Univer- sity and other "non-associated"j artists will be held in the Mich-; igan Union today between 3 p.m. and midnight, The show is being sponsored by the Citizens for New Politics. The artists have donated their work to the exhibition with the under- standing that the proceeds will go Lady," a 9-inch high, beautifully constructed torso. Also included in the exhibition I is Louis Simpson's "Flag of 1966," a mono-print in red and black. This obviously "American" piece makes a social comment by "cat- aloging" in the stars tend the stripes, various aspects of the pro- test movement and the war. Bill Barrett from Eastern Mich- igan University, shows a stainless steel varnished sculpture consist-! ing of complex forms intricately: balanced and in a muted tone re- le it p p4 r ya ti IT m in t. in m si N (s V+ By RICHARD HERSTEIN "We have made very, very little progress," said Negro Congressman ohn Conyers (D-Mich) with re- pect to the Negro position in America. Conyers' speech last might, in Rackham Aud. was part f the University's observance of American Negro History Week. After an opening address which ave a brief development of the Negro struggle in America, Co- .yers went on to discuss the con- empory questions of "Where are we now and where must we go?" "We're still confronted with the ame problems we had at the be- inning," he said. One of the prob- ems he pointed out was that of eadership. "The Negro commun- ty is almost totally void of Negro olitical leadership." He placed art of the blame on the political nachines in the North. "You think rou.'re electing a leader," he told te audience. "Youre really just atifying an appointment." Detailed Discussion He then went on to a more de- ailed discussion of the civil rights novement. He called the last 10 ears a "preliminary period," one n which to prepare the people for hings to come. His picture of the mmediate results of the move- nent, however, was somewhat pes- mistic. "Relatively speaking, the egro is sliding backward on the social) scale." He criticized the oter Rights Bill and said it was . ; i i i i , Tran Asks for Probe Of NSA-CIA Afai By URBAN LEHNER Asked by a member of the aud- ience who described himself as "a "American students must set up young Army officer going in in a committee to investigate this June" what he should do, Tran NSA-CIA affair and find out why said, "Don't go to Vietnam Don't it happened," Tran Van Dinh, for- go to Canada. Go to jail. And mer acting South Vietnamese am- don't complain." bassador to the United States, told Among Tran's proposals for the 35 law students in an informal dis- economic and social development cussion yesterday. of Vietnam included the mainten- Tran said that incidents "like ance of the communal village so- the NSA-CIA embroglio" and ciety, "selective industrialization," Communist charges that the and 'an Asian Common Market Peace Corps is an arm of the CIA with a federated corporation to make it very difficult for foreign bargain for and distribute raw students to believe that efforts by materials purchased from Europe their American counterparts to and America. establish channels of communica- Tran branded as "reactionary" forces which he thought could help the Negro better fit into our society: the Negro American him- self, the intellectual community, the labor unions, the religious movement, and the young people in America. . He then threw the discussion open to questions. Several of the questions concerned Adam Clay- ton Powell. "The Powell thing," he said, "made a lot of members of Congress realize the hypocrisy we're caught up in." When asked about Negro em- ployment and the progress that's been made, he replied, "We're in the tokenism stage. It's 'in' to have one Negro in every department." Another question returned the, discussion to politics and Conyers remarked that "The traditional relationship between the Negro and the Democratic party may be coming to a screeching halt." He added that "our future is not in- separable from the .Democratic party. The party is immaterial." MMIRISMU: I!::::::: ,j