v SGC ELECTIONS: CANDIDATES NEEDED See editorial page Y 5k igx ~~E~Ait CLOUDY High-34 Low--22 Snow flurries, light variable winds Seventy-Six Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVII, No. 1Z7 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1967 SEVEN CENTS Budet Squeeze akes'U Tuition Hike mn EJG"IT PAGES inent By STEPHEN WILDSTROM Daily News Analysis University students may well be paying higher tuition next year unless there is a miracle in Lan- sing. While the administration. has not yet formally requested an in- crease and the Regents have not yet taken any action, a hike in student, tuition may be forced by budget necessities. The University had requested an increase of $16:5 million in state apropriations over the 1966-67 budget. In his budget proposal, Gov. George Romney cut this in- crease back to $4.2 million. Rom- ney proposed an appropriation of $62.2 million for 1967-68, up from $58 million last year. All of these figures lead into the inevitable algebra of a tuition increase. The University will ac- cept 2,244 additional new students next fall, up 6.2 per cent from this year to bring total enrollment to 38,307.' It will take, according to Uni- versity estimates, $2.5 million just to pay for additional faculty re- quired to teach the extra students. Other expenses raise the cost of the 2,244-student enrollment in- crease to $5.9 million. In addition, the University has included $626,535 in its budget request merely to cover cost in- flation in existing programs. Clearly, Romney's $4.2 million in- crease will not even serve to main- tain existing programs. To complicate the matter, high- er education in the United States has become a highly competitive business. Competition is sharp be- tween schools for top faculty members. If the University were to stand still in faculty salaries next year it would be sliding back- wards relative to other schools. In recent years, the University has slipped from the top ten in the American Association of Univer- sity Professors' ranking of faculty compensation to 17th in 1965-66. Additional factors serve to con- found the University's financial problems. One of .these is what the budget request calls "technological inflation." Even if non-salary price-inflation is corrected for, the the cost of educating a student has risen rapidly in recent year. The types of physical equipment required in education have become vastly more numerous and com- plex, particularly in the physical sciences. Undergraduates are using elec- tron microscopes where, a few years ago, light microscopes would have sufficed. Students in almost all fields are making use of com- puters to an ever increasing extent. As the University's budget re-, quest states: "Yesteryear's $158 microscope must be replaced by two instruments, together costing $1,300, if we are to adequately train tomorrow's physician to ac- cept responsibility for human life." These added expenses will not be covered by the Governor's pro- posed budget.E The University's refusal to com- ply with Michigan Public Act 124, which requires the state architect to approve plans for University buildings has alienated many im- portant legislators and has result- ed in a virtual freeze in appropri- ations for capital outlay projects. The University regards, P.A. 124 as an infringement on its auto- nomy. As a result, the University has been forced to use student fee revenues for the funding of such projects as the graduate li- R l ** 2 t k i 1 1 brary and the new Administration len. The University has slipped tion to Romney's recommendation, Building. from 14th to 17th since 1962-63 in therefore, appear quite bleak, Lan- The University has now reached expenditure per students for books sing observers say. In fact, a high a rather critical point in building and libraries. It seems unlikely University administrator fears use saturation. New offices and that the University can make any that the final appropriation may classrooms are desperately needed further cuts in these costs. actually be less than the Gov- and very little seems to be forth- The discrepancy between the nernor's request. coming from Lansing for this pur- University's needs and Romney's In addition, Romney has said pose. 1967-68 budget proposal probably that he will not sign any budget In past years, the University's cannot be met without some measures for fiscal 1967-68 unless response to budget cuts~ has been source of additional outside funds, he is certain that revenues will to cut back on non-academic sala- officials here said. cover the expenditures. Failure of ries and non-salary expenses.! In the past two years, the Dem- the Legislature to pass Romney's However, these costs have been ocratic-controlled State Legisla- tax reform program could result in cut back about a far as they can ture has come to the aid of the further delays and cutbacks in the go without serious disruption of University by adding a million or University's appropriation. University functioning. The Uni- two onto the Governor's request. The only other apparent sourrce versity is already facing a severe But this year, Republicans have of added revenue is an increase in labor shortage as a result of the regained control of both houses student fees. Fees were last in- low wages paid to non-academic and the legislation are clearly in creased in the summer of 1965 employes. = an austere mood. Furthermore, when in-state freshman-sopho- In the past ten years, non- a number-of legislators have been more tuition was raised $34 a se- salary expenditureoper student, ex- unhappy with student activities at mester and in-state junior-senior pressed in 1957-58 dollars to con- the University. tuition was raised $19. The dif- trol for inflation, has actually fal- Prospects for a legislative addi- 1 ferential between underclass and upperclass fees was eliminated at that time. Out - of - state freshman-sopho- more rates were also raised, by $50 a semester and upperclass rates $20. both to $500. That student fee hike caused a furor in the state and eventually resulted in an in- conclusive investigation of the University's financial practices by a committee of the State House of Representatives. Although administrators are re- luctant to raise tuition again, one administrator admitted that there did not seem to be any alternative source of funds. Any tuition increase would have to be large enough to fill the gap between the final increase appro- priated by the Legislature and the $5.9 million minimum increase the University needs to meet its com- mittments for 1967-68 . K uj~ £irl~igtiau ttiIg THE REPORTED ACID burning at Michigan State University of a pledge of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity in pre-initiation activities, is being investigated by the MSU Interfraternity Coun- cil, the Associated Press reported.. Contents of the IFC report were not disclosed, pending a study of the report and recommendations by the faculty commit- tee on student affairs, meeting next Friday. ** * CHRIS COHEN, president of the law school student body, reported yesterday that a fellow law school student has been. reclassified 1-A. He said that the student, from Louisville, Ky., appealed his reclassification but had his appeal rejected. Cohen said this was the first time he heard of a fulltime student in good standing in the law school having such an appeal rejected. OVER 200 STUDENTS have been registered in SGC's voter registration drive. All students who are not yet registered and plan to vote in the Ann Arbor City Council elections must regis- ter between now and March 6. Registration takes place weekdays between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on the second floor of the City Hall located at 100 Fifth Ave. Student Government Council has strongly urged students to register and vote. If any student has any difficulty in register- ing he is requested to contact Mike Koeneke, '69, member of SGC, at 663-0553. A 300 STUDENT "KISS-IN" was staged recently at Oklahoma University in protest of the University's PDA (public displays of affection) regulations. Although many students considered the demonstration ridiculous, most agreed that the University's PDA rules were too strict. As one coed stated, "We should at least be allowed to kiss our dates good-night." The demontration was covered by television and radio stations as well as other news media. THE U.S. COLLEGE POPULATION will increase four tines as fast as the national population during the coming decade, the U.S. Office of Education predicted yesterday. In its annual pro- jection of school data, the Office forsees a 12 per cent rise in the nation's popuation by 1975. College enrollment is expected to jump 49 per cent. The gain in college enrollment was attributed to the higher birth rates in the lates 1940's and 1950's as well as to the increasing proportion of students who go to college. THE QUALITY OF FEDERAL appellate process is in jeopar- dy, according to Prof. D. Carrington of the law school. "The federal appellate courts are overcrowded and over- worked," says Carrington, who is conducting a study of federal circuit courts under a grant from the American Bar Association. "Although Congress has this year created 10 additional circuit judgeships," he said, "this is not enough to meet the present demand for services. The workload has almost doubled since 1960, largely because of a rather puzzling rise in the rate of appeal." THE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH has just published "The Proceedings of the National Symposium on Quality Standards for Natural Water." The 317-page book contains 35 scientific papers on various aspects of the subject. Cuter anning App Counseling ServicesEI Candidates Tour Student Living Units^ 'Appalling' Conditions Noted in Inspection of Off-Campus Housing By STEVE NISSEN Stewart Gordon, Grad, of the Student Housing Association, took two candidates for city offices on a tour of off-campus student housing yesterday to "show the different solutions taken to the problem of obtaining local low- cost housing." Gordon went with John Feld-. kamp, University housing director and Republican candidate for city .: ,. council from the third ward and 2 Edward Pierce, Democratic candi- date for mayor, to look at "close to the best housing available for students." Pierce claimed that a number of the rooms visited contained vio- lations of the building code. He said some of the sanitary and safety conditions were "appal- ling." Feldkamp asserted that "the University is doing everythingN possible with available funds" to: Appointments to positions on th ease the housing situation. Student Publications were (back One house on the tour was an manager; George Junne, '68, phot attic shared by four people. There '68, copy editor; Joanne Martind was no heat, and mattresses on _ a bare floor served as beds. Plastic sheeting draped across the ceil- SEEK NEW REVIE ing to keep out the rain. There ________________ was no fire escape of any kind. "It's not a pretty sight," com-' mented Gordon.M Pierce claimed after the tour "the only solution for the time . being is to clear out such places." He added that he felt the final solution to low-cost housing prob-' lems would be more federally sub- Gordon felt that the basic prob- lem lies with a scarcity of houses By JIM HECK available for student rental. He The United States Air Force said that the "best solution" to' Academy has announced the resig- this scarcity is small houses shared nation of 15 more cadets for by about four persons and costing breakingtfc1 'sor cde about $60 per man per month. braing the cadet's honor code. The total number of resignations However, he said that rent on is now 39 with the possibility that these dwellings has been increas- 60 will have resigned before the ing by from eight to ten per cent end of the inqury. Just two years a year and that he had found in ago 109 cadets were dismissed a study that $50 was about the from the Academy for similar upper limit that most graduate activities. students could afford for housing. The scandal this time concerns Gordon claimed that besides the a relatively unimportant series of few houses available to students, weekly exams. Cadets have been the only other low cost housing passing information from exams consists of various single rooms in early in the day to cadets taking boarding houses. the same course later in the day. ----There has been no stealing or en-. tering of officer's quarters as hap- pened in 1965. i n m ent o But the relatively minor offense constitutes expulsion in the na-, tion's third largest military aca- demy. The cadet code says that no cadet can "lie, steal, or cheat or tolerate anyone among us who does." - Council Upholds 'Hatcher on Guild Passes Resolution Viewing 'U' as Main Source of Obscenity Control By GREG ZIEREN The Ann Arbor City Council last night passed a resolu- tion commending University President Harlan Hatcher and the University's Board of Regents "'for a policy of opposing obscenity without the use of censorship." By a vote of nine to one, the resolution, submitted by Councilmen .Paul Johnson and John Hathaway, was approved - - -'--y -hv Councilw With an a.rVnd- -Michael Bennett E NSIAN APPOINTMENTS e 1967-'68 Michigan Ensian announced by the Board in Control of row), Bob Albertson, '68, design editor; Dan Reitman, '68, business o editor; Chris Meyers, '68, copy editor; (front row) Kitty Johnson, ale, '68, editor; and Sue Schultz, '69, managing editor. ir Force Cadets After Scandal MSU Faculty Letter Urges Bomib Halt Inidividuals' Sign Plea for Viet Peace; Similar to 'U'Petition; By The Associated Press EAST LANSING --- Some 440, faculty members at Michigan State University urged President Johnson yesterday to declare an unconditional halt of American bombing in North Vietnam. The letter to the President fol- lowed a similar plea from 452 members of the Yale University faculty and another from more than 600 members of the Univer- sity's faculty last week. "World leaders of many nations would lend more active support to the search for a human and realistic peace in Vietnam if our Sn a t ion, without precondition, stopped the bombing of the north to underline our willingness to negotiate for peace in that suffer- ing land," said the letter from the MSU group. Thomas Greer, chairman of the MSU humanities department, said the faculty members wrote as in- dividuals and not as representa- tives of the faculty or of MSU. Greer said signers included 21 department chairmen and asso- ciate chairmen and 27 directors of centers institutes, and programs. There were signers from all 13 col- leges of the university, he added. Not all faculty members were approached with the petitions, Greer said, and the letter was sent yesterday before all the petitions were returned because, its spon- sors felt, "time seemed crucial." "Escalation plans seemed under way," Greer said, adding that he was speaking for himself. Copies of the letter also went to Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense Robert Mc- Namara, Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Secretary-General U Thant of the United Nations. f .Y V4V 1tL1, wSt*al ment by Councilman Robert Weeks. The original wording commend- ed Hatcher for his statement that, "This University is not going off on unbridled presentations of this kind," with reference to "obscene films." This comment was quoted by Johnson and Hathaway, from an Ann Arbor News article of ?~b. 18. Weeks' amendment was taken from a Daily article of the same date in its coverage of the Hatch- er statements. The amendment was attached directly to the first quote and reworded the resolution to read that Hatcher "is commend- ed forhhis statement that,mThis University is not going off on un- bridled presentations of this kind' (obscene films) ... and for prais- ing the Cinema Guild as 'creative and imaginative organization to which the University is deeply indebted'." Councilman LeRoy Cappaert, the only council member who did not vote for the resolution, said that there seemed to be some confusion over which newspaper account to believe. He stated, "One might think that the two reporters had gone to different meetings." Not Strong Condemnation The amendment was seen as an attempt to soften the wording and intent of the resolution which might otherwise seemed like a strong "condemnation" of the Cin- ema Guild, in the words of sev- eral councilmen. Condemning a general "evolu- tion of bad taste and decency ... of vulgarity and an acceptance of pornographic magazines," the resolution stated the Council's "unqualified support" for all ac- tions which the University intends to take on such matters, as the :"leading educational institution of the State of Michigan." The resolution stated that, "All citizens, whether in the University community or elsewhere, should be concerned and disturbed by the evolution of an acceptance of por- nography and obscenity." Section Four of the resolution was seen as giving the Council's approval of Hatcher's recent ac- tions to "bring about the neces- sary corrections" to control the "evolution of vulgarity." proached Congress, demanding that the code be modified. Brig. General Robert M. McDer- mott, dean of the faculty, told the N.Y. Times he would "favor a subtle modification of the code." However, the vast majority of cadets on the Falcon campus do not want the code modified. They feel it would be better to have no code than to submit the honor clause to deletion or modification. Of the cadets dismissed so far, 7 of the 39 resigned because they broke the honor clause. The "vio- lators" of the honor code were not directly involved in cheating, but knew that it was happening. In 1965 as many as 100 of the 109 may have been dismissed be- cause they violated the honor clause. Civil Service Board Finds Public Act 379 Unfeasible An official of the Michigan Civil Department understands the com- By MIKE THORYN Vice President for Student Af- fairs, Richard L. Cutler, is plan- ning to, appoint an officer to co- ordinate the University's counsel- ing functions, which now operate mainly through his office. "I have felt the need," Cutler explained, "for someone who has, a doctorate in clinical or social. psychology to work with all Uni- versity agencies doing in-service '"We have a great diversity of peo- facilities visible to the student and After the 1965 resignations a ple and needs at the University," in determining what services to commission was established by the he said. "Our many graduate and provide students. Secretary of the Air Force to in- professional people have needs for The office at present works very vestigate the causes of the scan- entirely different services then do closely with the Bureau of Psy- dal. The committee recommended literary college freshmen." chological Services. At the highest 26 proposalswhich were initiated The director, when appointed, level is the Mental Health Clinic in the Academy over a year ago. would be in a position to structure in Health Service, employing three When asked why the commission counseling and improve communi- full time psychiatrists and three was unable to prevent this repeat cation between the various agen- neurologists, occurrence, information officer cies, according to Mrs. Elizabeth Lieut. Col. Lawrence J. Tacker told Davenport, who is now serving as The office prints the Guide to The Daily, "Well, I guess some' Counseling" booklet and conducts Assistant Director of the Student youngsters just take the easy way Service Commission announced i yesterday that the commission could not comply with PA 379, even though a governor's commit-' tee last week recommended that the University and the commis- sion do so. Frank Dewald, personnel direc-. tor for the commission, said that accepting the governor's advisory committee on Public Employe Re- lations "would require a consider-' able change in thephilosophy of our commission." mittee's recommendations repre- sent a responsible body of opin- ion." He pointed out, however, that complete or immediate acceptance of PA 379 is not feasible because "such matters are not quickly nor easily resolved." Groups Organise March on Lansing Protesting State's Education Budget I I Dewald's comment came after. By The Associated Press nine days of silence from both the DETROIT-A March on Lansing University and the commission. by parents and educators seeking more money for Michigan educa- The University has still not cam- +__l-+1.-,nr^OAn u Gov. Romney's proposed $965 million for education in the 1967- 68 state budget, an increase of $70 million over 1966-67 expenditures, hrnisrf..rric' f . . frm ,_d 200,000 citizens backing their stand. Several thousand petitions still are being circulated in the state in anPffr o t m a r en ger