1FC-FBA: WHO DOES THE GROUP WORK FOR? See editorial page C, 4c Sit iAu D~Atbr COOLER High-51 Low-37 Cloudy with a slight chance of rain Seventy-Six Years of Editorial Freedom r3 VOL. LXXVII, No. 147 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1967 SEVEN CENTS EIGHT PAGES S T OD I WROTE HIRING PAPER: Appoint Greene Deputy Of Civil Rights Group By WALTER SHAPIRO Walter R. Greene, author of the] Pentagon's studies of University hiring practices, has been appoin- ed Deputy Director of the Michi- gan Civil Rights Commission, ef- .fective April 10.; Since 1962, Greene has been the Michigan Director of the Defense] Department's Office of Contract Compliance and is now Acting Re- gional Director of the Office. The Office of Contract Com- pliance has made two reports onj University employment. The first. got their statistics and facts com- dealing with compliance and com- pletely wrong." plaint review." Spokesmen for The Chicago Greene said, "Today's racial sit- Tribune yesterday had no com- uation in Northern cities is part ment on Green's remarks. of the fabric of society. There is "Our objective is not to achieve no need for much overt discrimi- a specific number, goal, or ratio," nation. All that is necessary is to Green said in explaining the re- maintain the status quo. Ana that port. jit is the function of civil rights 'Indefensible' groups to try and change this "However, when as was the case status quo." with a college in the University, Greene continued, "If Ameri- there is a total absence of any cans worked as hard on their re- members of a minority group, this ligious precepts as they do on the is indefensible in this day and precepts of racial prejudice we age sswould have a wonderful society. G n cBut today the only real religion Greene complimented the knowl- in this country is the religion ofi edge and understanding that both racism." the administration and the ac- - ulty exhibited in regard to hisp recommendations. He contrastedh the meaning of equal employment opportuity with the understanding shown by most corporations. He VietMoney said, "The major problem we face is a total inability to understand T 1 what we want." To Canada I* 1* Consider Choice In Closed Session By ROGER RAPOPORT Editor The University Regents are holding a special closed meeting at 9 a.m. today tc vote on Robben Wright Fleming, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin's Madison campus, as successor to University President Harlan Hatcher. The decision, to hold the special meeting today was made over the weekend after another prime presidential pros- pect, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare John Gardner, told the Regents he would not take the job here if offered it. Sources indicate that today's meeting was called because the Regents fear their list of top presidential prospects will narrow further if they do not act quickly. Fifty-year-old Fleming has said he will announce by Wednesday whether or not he will accept the presidency of the University of Minnesota which was offered to him on March 19. Sources indicate Fleming stands a good chance of being voted the offer by the Regents today. They have scheduled study, disclosed by The Daily inj November of 1966, focused pri- marily on the racial composition of the student body and faculty. The report said that the Univer- sity is known as a school "basical- ly for rich white students" and made 25 recommendations "for broadening equal opportunities" here. Discuss. Hiring Practices The second study, released by the University several weeks ago, made 16 recommendations on Uni- versity employment practices. The. 1 1 1 ', -{ i 7 Reviewing his experience wih report recommend'ed that "a the Office of Contract Compliance, crash program" be established to Gree-n said, "I believe that wej improve the "exceptionally bad have been the most effective in- employment practices which cur- strument in dealing with discrim- rently exist in the School of En- ination in employment to date. gineering." For we are asking the employers .Discussing these reports, Greene j to take definite action, rather said, "The University is proceed- than merely remedying one spe- ing very satisfactorily to meet all cific complaint. our recommendations. I have ab- Greene's new post will take ad- solutely no complaint against the vantage of his experience with the way the University reacted to my Defense Department. Greene said, report. My only complaint is "My new job with the Civil Rights against The Chicago Tribune for Commission has not been precise- the irresponsible way in which ly spelled out. But it is their in- they blew up the entire story and tention to use my experience in By LUCY KENNEDY About $1500 collected by area' Quakers to provide medical sup- plies for North and South Viet- namese was transferred Sunday to the Canadian Friends Service. Committee despite a U.S. Treasury Department ruling making gifts j of money to the North Vietna- mese or National Liberation Front civilians illegal. Robber Five area Quakers who made the, presentation were, Mrs. Kenneth_ Boulding, Grad; Prof. Roberti THIRDU WINNER- Blood of . the sociology depart- ment, Gerald Lalone, Grad; Gil- bert Hamilton, a Dearborn high -g-Air Wisconsin's R. Fleming: 41 I A Profile By STEPHEN WILDSTROM Robben Wright Fleming, who now appears to be the leading con- tender for the University Presi- dency, recently received a stand- ing ovation from students sitting in at Bascomb Hall, the University of W i s c o n s i n Administration Building. The 300 students were protest- ing the arrest of 16 students in two days of demonstrating against the presence of Dow Chemical Co. recruiters on the Madison campus. The students had barricated Flem- ing and the Dean of Student Af- I Mfairs into Flemings office, but rose to cheer when it was announced that Fleming had sent a personal check to post bond for eleven of sh thek IProf. Charles C. Killipgsworth of the Michigan State University economics department who has 1 Wright Fleming A -,' NEWS WIRE TWENTY UNIVERSITY students will volunteer for a Head Start project at Wrand Day Care Center, Inc., in Willow Run. The four-month program was made possible by a $14,031 grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity to the Washtenaw Citizens Committee for Economic Opportunity. The program will serve 46 pre-school children from Washtenaw County. *x*x DETROIT SCHOOL OFFICIALS planned yesterday to review E the case of Leslie Biederman, a teacher who was suspended last week after discussing a play which had "numerous instances of profanity and references to sex" in his classroom. The play, "A Thousand Leaders Among You," is about life in urban slums. and has been presented at seven Detroit area churches within the} past year. According to Arnold A. Meier, regional school super- intendent, the 'casting of a 15-year-old girl as a prostitute wasI objectionable. school English teacher, and Miss Polly Lee, a Waterford librarian. Possible Prosecution One spokesman for the five said that they may be liable to prose- cution undertheTrading with the Enemy Act and the Export.; Control Act. Conviction under the acts could result in 10-year prison' terms and $10,000 fines. The money was passed on to the Canadian organization because a, U.S. Treasury ruling prohibits checks or money orders to be processed by American banks by the Vietnamese groups. Symbolic Transfer The money was transferred in Portner Awicdel- Prize Music Fellot a special public meeting at 10 a.m. today, followed by a press conference. The Regents had originally planned to hold off on their pres- idential vote for another one to two months. However, the Minne- sofa offer to Fleming has appar- ently forced the sudden vote. If offered the- presidency here, Fleming is expected to 'accept to- day or Wednesday, sources indi- cate. Asked about the possibility of deciding between the Michigan and Minnesota offers Fleming said in a phone interview at his house in Madison last night, "It would be a tough decision for me to make. I've had the- advantage of talking to the Regents of both school's and I think if the (Mich- igan) offer was made, I expect my answer would come quickly." "It is only correct to say I'm being considered for . the job. I have not formally been offered the presidency of Michigan," he added. Fleming said he planned to call a news conference for late today or Wednesday to announce his de- cision on the Minnesota offer. Fleming added that "it's con- ceivable" that he would make an announcement simultaneously about both jobs if offered the Michigan post. Fleming's nearest competitor, Roger Heyns, Chancellor of the University of California at Berke- ley reportedly poses . no serious threat to the chances of the WiN- consin chancellor in today's vote. Heyns' chances were squelched by some faculty opposition and his' "too controversial" status, sources indicate. Fleming was recently in head- lines at Madison when he posted bond for 11 students arrested' for picketing Dow Chemical Co. re- cruiters. Two other top contenders for the job here now'believed out of the running are Franklin By MARK R. KILLINGSWORTH Jack Fortner, a composition in- st'ructor in the music school, has been awarded the prestigious American Academy Rome Prize fellowship in composition for 1967- 68, it was announced yesterday. Fortner is the third music school faculty member to be so honored. a Michigan home to representa- Associate Prof. George B. Wilson, tives of the Canadian organiza- director of the electronic music tion before a symbolic presentation studio, received the prize in 1958, of a $1 bill in a Bible was made and Prof. Leslie Bassett received' at the Canadian end of the Am-! it in 1961. bassador Bridge. The prize, awarded by a five- At least 30 persons crossed' the member jury of composers includ- bridge while 20 kept a silent vigil I ing Gunther Schuller and Elliot on the American side. Carter, is privately sponsored. Lalone said that the personal It provides for a stipend, free and financial support was "quite residence, a studio and the use of impressive" considering the risk of library and other facilities at the illegality. American Academy in Rome. I Rome Prizes are awarded an- orchestral works, including "Bur- nually in several fields, including lesque for Two Orchestras." music composition, painting, sculp- Born in Grand Rapids, he earn- ture, art history and the classics. ed two degrees there before com- Leo Sowerby and Howard Hanson ing to the University, where he' received the first composition .is a doctoral student in composi- aWards in 1924, and since then, tion. composers such as Samuel Bar- Serial Technicianj ber (1937) and Lukas Foss (1952) Fortner has been "very much have won the prize. 3involved in the serial technique" Dean James B. Wallace of the of composition, Wilson said of his music school, commenting on the colleague after the award was an- award, declared, "In a compara- nounced. tivelyshortaperiod of time, Jack "He was a jazz musician for throughout the world as one of .a number of years before he turn- t thhewyosrgndfican s youneo-ed to so-called 'serious music,' and the really significant young com- as a result his music has very posers of this generation. Already m tes e of insu eya his honors, awards and commis- mc the sense of instrumental sions have been numerous. ifreedom, range and rhythmic vi- snavtality which one expects to find "With the Prix de Rome added'in jazz," Wilson added. to. this list, this talented young =hr eeaot1 elw composer brings added distinction "There were about 15 fellows and honor not only to himself,representing all the arts and sev- thed ShonolofnMusic and the Un -'eral art-related academic fields versity, but also to American mu- when I was there (in 1958-59)," vrsit y bt als A n Wilson added. "One can meet sie in general." and know there people and their The music school's composition fields in a way which is imme- department now has three Rome diate and first-hand. This is one Prize winners and two Pulitzer of the very great aspects of the Prize winners---Bassett and Prof. Academy. Ross Lee Finney. The Detroit .rn Symphony Orchestra played Bas-b Ed n sett's "Variations for Orchestra" "So I got a liberal education in January, and the Minneapolis when I was there," he said. "It's Symphony performed Finney's what should happen in a large "Concerto for Percussion and Or- university but which, unfortunate- chestra" recently. In 1966, Fortner won the Sec- ly, often doesn't happen." ond International competition The American Academy, he add- sponsored by the Fondation Roy- ed, has become the center for aumont of Paris for "S-pr-ING." American arts activities in Eu- 'ST UDENTS CAPABLE:' OSA Plans No Action on Joint Judic known Fleming for 15 years, said, "I admire very much the equani- mity with which he handled him- self in the situation. He did not favor calling the police but also did not think that any small group should be able to bar anyone from the campus. He dealt well with a difficult and explosive situatioi Fleming has been active in ed cation for 20 of his 50 years. Aft receiving his B.A. from Beloit C( lege in Wisconsin in 1938 and Ll.B. from the University of W consin in 1941, he went to wo as an attorney for the Securit and Exchange Commission. In 1947, he went to the Ur versity of Wisconsin as the dire tor of their Industrial Relatioi Center and in 1952 went to t University of Illinois to beco president of their larger Institu for Labor and Industrial Relati In 1964, he was called back Madison to become chancellor the University of Wisconsin. Fleming is a man admired1 his colleagues. Killingsworth sa "He is one of the men I admi most, not so much for his schola ship, which is not negligible, b for the kind of man he is. He warm and outgoing, but witho any evidence of backslapping." Fleming has gone through previous test by student demo strators. Last spring, Wiscons students protested the compilati of class rank for the Selecti Service System. n." Cu- ter 02- an is- rk ies ni- C- ins he By MIKE THORYN "We are operating on the assumption that a student judi- ciary is capable of handling non-I academic discipline," David Baad, assistant to the vice president of I student affairs said yesterday. Tentative Joint Judic appoin- tees said over the weekend that they would give aquittal to all students charged with vinating hate to have this effectiveness ; hall staff, professional colleagues, destroyed." sophomore girls, and he is doingI Cutler said that joint judic de- background reading in order to cisions of "guilty" in the field of make an informed decision. non-academic conduct can be "In making the decision, I will appealed to him. However, "I have be trying to implement the phi- never had an appeal." losophy my office has followed Last October, the Regents per- ! over the past two years," Cutler mitted the vice president for stu- says. dent affairs to delegate his judi- "The University experience is cial authority to "academic au- like the rest of one's life," he says. thnriies tudent arnunne and "Coll1ee should he a cnntimiinv' itiated, a committee to look into the Health Service as part of a} "normal periodic policy of review- ing a staff agency" "In this area, we need to an- ticipate where we need to be years ahead of time," Cutler said. Letters have been sent to the deans of health-related schools and the University offices of Housing and Student-Community Relatinns asking them to desig- me ate on. to of by id, ire r- )ut is )ut a M- sin on ive SPECIAL EDITION A special free edition of The Daily will appear today around noon. It can be picked up at various places around campus. Murphy, chancellor of the Uni- versity of California's Los Angeles campus ant John Lederle, Press- dent of the' University bf Mas- sachusetts. 'Murphy is not inter- ested in the job and is reportedly a top contender to replace ousted University of California President Clark Kerr. Lederle has also de- nied interest in the post here. The Regents began their search for a new president more than a r