IFC-PANHEL: STRIKING A BLOW AGAINST SGC See editorial page (ZI rP 3kPA6 :43 it CLOUDY High-47 Low--35 Fair and cool; clearing toward evening Seventy-Six Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVII, No. 156 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1967 SEVEN CENTS J TU' ]Tw 7''U r 1 w ' /" A, fi~ t- T-mw *w ' -TT T1 , TEN PAGES ADVISORY COMMITTIEIE: Robinson Claims 'U' Classes. Create 'Bright Young Robots' SGC Votes Acceptance of T:_v T 1T CfT > n T.1 By DAN SHARE I established subcommittees in the "The University is turning out areas of judiciary and grievances, bright young robots," charged Ed chaired by David Baad, Univer- Robinson, '67, former president of sity assistant to the vice-president Student Government Council, at for student affairs; student gov- yesterday's meeting of the Presi- ernment in residence halls, chair- dential Committee on the Role of ed by Thomas Fox, directx of the Student in Decision Making. South Quadrangle; academic af- He noted that in the vast ma- fairs, chaired by Jack Manning, jority of his classes, the empha- assistant to the dean of the lit- sis is on the learning of facts, erary college, and a case study of rather than the development of a method to think. He said this is a -- fundamental weakness in the Uni- versity's educational structure -. which leads to the production of ,' students who are weak in the areas of both scholarship and per- sonal development. Robinson appeared before the commission together with Mark Si- N E mons, '67, former SGC executive vice-president, and Roy Ashmall, the HUAC affair of last fall pre- pared by Gretchen Groth, Grad. The commission expects to have the completed reports by early next fall. The commission's last meeting ' of the current semester will be held next Thursday, April 13, from noon to 2 p.m. in the Rackham Building. The room will be an- nounced later this week. Non-Student 0 0 Participatio-n s Y Table Motion On Ex-offiejo SDS Raises ffii3an mati June Meeting WC WID CBy SUE ELAN WVJ I r president of Graduate Student Council. Discussions centered around the differences between graduate and undergraduate students, the prob- lem of the University's position "in loco parentis." and the effects that an inadequate education system' have on'the non-academic life of undergraduates. Ashmall made it clear that he feels a dual kind of structure was necessary in a student government. He stressed the differences be- tween the concerns of graduates and undergraduates, particularly in academic affairs and matters of student discipline. He did not, however, rule out the possibility of having some kind of executive con- nection between two separate as- semblies. Simons said that a bicameral student government would only encourage elitism: It was his opin- ion that the commission should not only institute structural changes, but design these changes so that they would bring about attitudinal changes in the student body. Simons claimed that the dual structure's main danger is that there would not be a single stu- dent spokesman and consequent- ly healthy debate in times of crisis would be discouraged. Robinson said that the pedag- ogical nature of the University, where the professor "hands down the truth" to the class, hindersa the development of individual thought. Said one teaching fellow, also a member of the commission: "It's true, my classes don't know how to respond to an unstructured class- room situation."' Commenting on Robinson's state- ments before the commission, one member said: "It's the most ser- ious thing that has been said so far." This same kind of attitude, claim Robinson, Simons and the student members of the commis- sion, carries over into the private life of students. One member said that the University's action asI in loco parentis, particularly with- in the dormitory system, does notI allow students the freedom of ac- tion they need for a good educa- tion, in the broadest sense of the term. Robinson's main point was that the student should decide how to, run his own life and not be told, how. He said that discussion with people of more experience is ob- viously highly beneficial but that "I shouldn't learn just facts, but also how to think." The student should be allowed to exercise his thinking power over his own life, he claimed. In other action the commission Late World News Biy The Associated Piess W EMIL THE CINEMA GUILD DEFENSE FUND, set up by the Fac- ulty Assembly's Civil Liberties Board, reports that $2,225 has been collected from students, faculty and non-University contribu- tors in small amounts. The money is to be used at the discretion of the Board and will go towards the defense of three student members and faculty advisor of Cinema Guild who were arrested on obscenity charges for showing the film "Flam'ing Creatures." BIO-CIEMICAL WARFARE PROJECTS at the University of Pennsylvania will be transferred to the University City Science Center by the end of July, according to President Gaylord P. Harnwell. The projects, SUMMIT and SPICERACK, were sched- uled to expire in March, 1968, and March, 1969, respectively. Pennsylvania University owns 50 per cent of the stock in the Science Center. STUDENTS AT PARSONS COLLEGE in Fairfield, Iowa, may be in academic trouble because of action taker! last night by the North-central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The association revoked the school's scholastic accreditation, asserting that major deficiencies spotted several years ago have not been corrected. A spokesman for the association said the loss of accredita- tion may prohibit students from transferring credits to some other schools. "Or," the spokesman said, 'a graduate of Parsons College might be denied admittance at some graduate schools." * * * * "FOR THOSE WHO CAN engage in pre-marital sex without hurting each other physically, psychologically or emotionally, it's difficult to say it is wrong," said Prof. Donald Brown of the psychology department last night. - Dr. Brown expressed his views on male-female relationships at a panel discussion with three other members of the psychology department, including lecturer Judith Bardwick, Prof., John Broedel, Prof. Elizabeth Douvan, and the residents of South Quad. When questioned as to the advantage and/or disadvantages of pre-marital sex experience, Dr. Brown said that it makes no difference "when the ring is put on the finger," but "marriage actually begins when the couple enters into a total and respon- sible commitment to each other, both physically and emotionally." Dr. Brown also felt that the visiting policy at South Quad should be "as open as possible." PROF. S. J. BEHRMAN, professor of obstretrics and gyne- cology and director of the Center for Research in Reproductive Biology is the winner of the 1967 Ortho Medal of the American Fertility Society. He has received acclaim for his studies during the past three years with frozen sperm. STUDENTS at the Brooklyr center of Long Island University continued their boycott of classes to protest the removal of Dr. William M. Birenbaum as provost of the campus. They cheered speakers who denounced the university's chancellor, Dr. R. Gordon Hoxie. Hoxie ousted Birenbaum last week in a dispute over the operation and development of the school. THREE UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS who are specialists on China will analyze the present political upheaval on the main- land at a public meeting Sunday in Aud. A at 4 p.m. They are Prof. Alexander Eckstein of the economics department, Prof. Donald Munro of the philosophy department, and Prof. Richard Solomon of the political science department. Munro and Solo- mon were recently in Hong Kong to do research. Associate Managing Editor Special To The Daily CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-The Na- tional Council of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) voted yesterday to raise membership dues to $10 a year and to hold a national SDS convention in the midwest this June. Dues were previously $4 per year. Eac-i member will now be charged $5 and each chapter will have the responsibility of raising another $5 from each of its mem- bers. This money will be sent to the National SDS office in Chi- cago. Financial Problem Voting Right By ROB BEATTIE An amendment permitting non- student participation in student- community organizations was ap- proved by Student Government Council last night. Immediately following the passage of the change, the Council approved a motion calling for submission of the issue to the student body in the form of a referendum. The refrendum will be held next November as part of SGC's regular fall election. It was proposed by council member E. 0. Knowles, '70, who felt that the "students had a right to decide for them- selves on an issue as important as this one." Acting on another issue, Council moved to postpone indefinitely a motion to abolish the voting rights of its four ex-officio members. The decision to postpone the mo- tion introduced by Leslie Mahler, '69, was made by 9-8 vote of coun- cil. I 1 The amendment concerning non-students which gained ap- proval differed in several respects from the change proposed several weeks ago. Under the revised reg- ulation groups with only students as voting members will be rc- . Greg Calvert, national secretary of SDS whose responsibility is the handling of national funds, stress- ed the financial problem of the national office: "For the past seven weeks the 11-man office staff of the nati.)11 al office has not been paid their $30-a-week salary; this makes i impossible for the office staff to pay rent." Calvert believes the newly in- stituted tax on chapters could help to alleviate the financial difficul- ties of the national office. "It has never been tried be- fore. If the chapters respond be- tween $25,000 and $30,000 could be raised in the next couple of months." "For the travelers (SDS organ-j izers who travel to various chap- ters within a region), it is easier fn zpp n~in 1h l nlim d1~n STUDENT President. Ratliff. T Lawrence, Pnfl -Associated Press TS AT EASTERN MICIGAN University protested at the office of Assistant to the Ray B. Leeschner yesterday concerning the forced resignation of student assistant Roger he students, all residents of Best Hall also expressed their grievances to William C. vice president for student affairs. test at rdnni It EJIU fnrkpor Over F;.r io.nof ,. W/9e tI UN s rrv ~N N vqL'W By HENRY GRIX Wednesday night, about 150 Displaying the utmost in sar-- Best students formed an ad hoc:1 torial and social refinement, about committee to the student council 100 Eastern Michigan University to vocalize their support of Ratliff> students-staged a protest yesterday in the first major student demon- at the Office of the Assistant to stration at EMU. the President of that university, Jerry Ashe, '70, asserted that EMU President Harold E. Spon- berg and a faculty council only received the declaration from Wil- liam C. Lawrence,, vice president in charge of Student Affairs, a week and a half ago and have not yet acted on it. { i 4 f Ico eging, ne ctaimeU. 'r'o- Ray B. Leeschner. there had been cause for student Next Tuesday, the student coun- ple an put them up, buy then Dressed in coat and tie, the all- protest previously, but that "no- cil will meet to consider action on of gas to get to their next stop." male residents of Best Hall sought body ever had the guts before." the declaration. to dissuade the university from For example, one student men- Attempting to act before Rat- Fund Raising forcing the resignation of Roger tioned he case of a friend who was liff's resignation was accepted, Calvert feels that the institu- Ratliff. '68, a student assistant at nearly expelled for stealing a can about sixty Best men marched tion of a chapter tax was nece- Maxwell House of Best Hall. of tuna fish from an off-campus down to the office of EMU Di- ssary. "Fund raising from the lib- According to David Hortin, Head grocery. Another student, after rector of Housing and Union Serv- eral community for SDS has been Resident of Best, the resignation being fined for drinking in New ices, David H. Stockham. Auten, meeting with an increasing lack was due to "an association with Jersey, returned to Eastern only Jim Fromhart, '70, governor of of success." 1 an incident which is inconsistent to be expelled, since the penalty Maxewll House, and Dennis Cebul- National Convention with his role as a staff member." for drinking on or off campus is ski, '67, president of Best, pre- The national convention of SDS ! All student and staff members immediate expulsion. sented the demand that Ratliff be to be held somewhere in Ohio this are expected to "play by the However, "there never really retained. June is expected to draw as many J rules," he explained. "When one been a single issue to unite every- Stockham calmed the group as 700 people. The convention will does not, the consequences are in- one before," according to Jim proclaiming that "Eastern is a be held at Antioch or Bowling evitable." Broile, '70. particularly liberal institution" Green. It will have as its theme However, student council repre- The student council repudiated where it is "not our practice to "The Analysis and Direction of sentative, Terry Auten, '69, con- the double jeopardy policy, where- be insensitive to student de- the Movement." Such issues as tested that Ratliff's outside asso- by students are responsible to the mands." civil rights, student movements at ciations had "nothing to do with university for activities both on Ratliff's resignation had not yet universities and draft resistance his capability or the feasibility of and off campus, in a Declaration been accepted and the protest was will be discussed. keeping nim on." of Rights passed February 9. But like "having a funeral for some- ____~_~~~ _~~~~one who is not dead yet," Stock- ham noted. Stockham would only guaran- Idzerda Urges More Student tee to postpone any action for 24 hours. Nevertheless, Ratliff's res- ignation was accepted less than egi 1 * three hours later. egislatVe and udicial Power Dissatisfied with Stockham's re- 1 sponse, the students intended to go directly to the president and By JIM HECK He called the theme of "student- He called many colleges "rivalry if they could not see him at the "The course of most adminis- 'faculty-role in decision-making" a mills" that "would make a typical administration building, to sit in trators today is fixed on image- relatively new one. In the 19th Balkan vendetta seem like a tea- on his front lawn, Sources indi- building," Dr. Stanley Idzerda said century, he explained, there was party." cated Sponberg had said last se- yesterday. "I am advocating dis- "little doubt" who ran the uni- Unfortunately, he said, presi- mester "I would rather see any- persion of power where truth is- versity. "Students were required dents are sometimes forced to rule thing than students march on my the main goal."eI to be militantly passive." Their by dictate. "Most presidents grant lawn." Idzerda, Dean of Wesleyan Uni- ;chief job was to "absorb knowl- See IDZERDA, Page 10 See STUDENTS, Page 10 0 0 b a t t is is c c is s is . i 1 c r , .t i t f i 1 t t ,. j . i S i 1 1 I I i gnizedas student organizations while groups with any other form of membership requirements will be recognized as student-com- munity organizations. Subject to Obligations Both types of groups will be "subject to all the rights and obligations of student organiza- tions under the present regula- tions." A second addition to the orig- nal proposal stated that nothing n the new amendment "shall be construed as preventing any stu- dent organization from includ- ng in its constitution bylaws, or standing rules, a clause prohibit- ing non-students from member- ship, franchise, or holding office in that organization." The changes were introduced by Administrative Vice-President Mi- chael Davis, Grad, "to allow the members of an organization to detemmine for themselves what they wanted to do about 'admitting non-students." Several additional changes in the amendment were defeated by the Council. Provisions requiring that all organizations have at least half of their officers posi- tions filled by students and that the presidency or chairmanship be held by a.student were originally passed, but were later defeated in a move of reconsideration. Referendum Speaking in support of an SGC sponsored referendum, Knowles felt that the Council should move "to keep this issue from becom- ing a challenge to SGC's author- ity." He referred to the petitions calling for a referendum on the issue which have been circulating the past few days and said that he was certain that a referendum would be initiated irregardless of Council's position on the matter. Motions supporting a referen- dum on the issue were presented to SGC ,last night by the Engi- neering Council and the College Young Republicans. The groups expressed support for the move- ment against the proposed amend- ment which was begun by Inter- fraternity Council, Panhellenic Association and Inter-House As-r sembly in the past week. Organization Definitions The amendment is a change in the rules and regulations govern- ing student organizations. It states that more than half of the mem- bers of the newly defined stu- dent - community organization must be students, and that at least two-thirds of the membership must be students, alumni of the University, or people who have re- nriorp" frnm Chair inctrlirtnic -- --- versity in Connecticut, keynoted e'LUro' Lir insrLutuni. the 4th annual Michigan Scholars Newer Mode e fl JAu e convocation banquet in the Mich- But the mode has now changed, G 0Oty i t igan League ballroom. according to Idzerda. The "newer no dLs!is "Today, many faculty members mode eriphasizes freedom, change ' and administrators say the stu-I -and privacy." } I N aturalJI-t siOi'IT dents' only job is to learn," Id- , "Students talk about imperson- zerda remarked. Otherwise, they ality, facelessness, and the fact, tell students they "are welcome to that they feel themselves pawns "A new climate in America is !wilderness. paving over parks, or , enroll elsewhere." in a system over which they have being developed by persons who destroying rare wildlife habitat ) "This fails to take into account no control," he claimed, have a feeling for nature," Assist- and scenic beauty. The driving that education is not a vessel o This is where the conflict de- ant Secretary of the Interior public is not to have the sole word eIedad epaed.t "Too dio velops. Idzerda said there is "much Stanley Cain said yesterday-at the in this determination. ma," Idzerda explained. "Too often talk today of 'the power structure,' School of Natural Resources Hon- "We are not against urbaniza- students are just 'cast aside,'t" he establishment,' or just 'them.''lorsConvocation. Lion and urbar redevelopment; but Idzerda would like to see stu- The issues revolve around author- "The United States has become there must be regard for human en. "Student publication should ity, participation, communication, affluent enough to pay the price," -;:le and the need for open space. be exclusively i ca the hands of autonomy, leadership, and goals." Cain declared. "We are not against industry; buentxs This seemto bed a He called the charge that stu- Cain, who began directing the but production of goods carries no touchy question at Michigan." dents must accept responsibility , overal ogrm ofs dth Bureau of right to pollute the air, water, and Idzerda believes students should before they can be given the right t ees a W dsoil- ith waste of all kinds. - - - - **. * .. the BavE'nh: of fCommercial Fish- . . 1111:181, I