THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREW Note Recent Restrictions In Driving, Parking Regulations Survey Indicates 'U' Student Drop Out Over Academic, Psychological Problems By MERLE JACOB Students returning after four months of freedom with their cars and motorcycles will find city and University vehicle regulations much stricter than when they left. Parking, registration and operation of motorized vehicles are now more limited than in the past. The University's student vehicle bureau will have more parking spaces available to students, but these will be on the North Cam- pus near the Commons and on the athletic campus by the ice rink. William Perigo, supervisor of the student vehicle bureau, said that the student vehicle bureau has lost some of its parking spaces in staff paid parking lots on Central Campus because of the increase in staff parking. However, bus service from the North Campus lots and the ice rink parking has been started this year, Perigo said, to make up for the spaces lost on campus and to kep up with the growing number of student cars. Buses will be running every eight to 10 minutes between 7:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. from these lots. . The amount of city parking space to students has also increased slightly, an official.in the park- ing and traffic division of Ann Arbor said. The number of on the street parking spaces has re- mained steady, but some spaces in the immediate Central Campus area have been reduced because of the construction of new build- ings. These spaces will become available once construction is com- pleted. With the opening of the Forest Ave. parking lot last week, 500 more spaces are available for parking. Students can park for the day, by the hour or rent a spac for a month, city officials ex- plained. Other motor vehicle changes from the student vehicle bureau include. a decrease in the ve- hicle registration fees, an increase in fines for violations, the pro- hibition of freshmen having or driving motorized cycles, and par- ental approval for all students under 21 having cars or motorized cycles. Perigo said that the vehicle fee will be four dollars instead of five. The fee was reduced because the money is no longer being put into a fund to build student .parking facilities. Perigo added that the Student Regulation Board increased the fine for failing to register a ve- hicle from $10 to $25. For the first time in a num- ber of years, the bureau will have a table in Waterman Gymnasium during registration where students may register their cars or cycles. Registration will also be at the Law Quad, the Medical School and at the SAB. Freshmen are now prohibited from owning or operating a mo- torized cycle unless they are mar- ried or live with their parents in Ann Arbor. Perigo explained that the rule was made because of the noise in the entire campus area which distract students from studies and because of the high accident rate among freshman motorcycle driv- ers. He added that all students un- der 21 who have motorized cycles will need parental approval and proof of $5000 personal damage and $10,000 personal liability in- surance in order to register their vehicle. Students who will be oper- ating cars and who are under 21 and not married will also need parental approval and proof of $10,000 personal damage and $20,- 000 personal liability insurance., In another change in vehicle registration requirements, persons having a car, with a "Staff Paid Parking" permit are no longer re- quired to register with the office and the bureau will no longer give out free decals to academic personnel. There will be a one dollar service charge to junior and senior medical students, students. doing field work in social work and students carrying six hours or less. He added that the future goal of the bureau and the Univer- sity planners will eventually be to enclose the Central Campus area from all driving. The insti- tution of bus service from distant parking lots is the start of a com- muter parking service for the stu- dents. By MEREDITH EIKER Although University statistics reveal that only five to eight per cent of students accepted into the University are ever officially asked to leave sons, a much may withdraw failure or are demically. for academic rea- larger percentage because they fear doing poorly aca- According to a current study by the Michigan Student Survey at the Institute for Social Research, as many as 30 per cent of the en- tering freshmenrmight withdraw from the University for various reasons. However, Robert Cope, Grad, who worked on the survey proj- ect, found that many in that 30 per cent withdraw at mid-semes- ters or at other times because they did not want to wait to be asked C i t l 1 t i f 1 t t i t officially by the University not defined by the University. Edward to re-register. G. Groesbeck estimates the over- Students responding to Cope's all University failure percentage survey often gave academic fail- to be around eight per cent. ire as their major reason for Data Not Kept leaving the University, when they Groesbeck commented that the had not actually flunked out as University has not wanted to go far as the University was con- to the expense of keeping detailed cerned. Students such as these, student withdrawal data. Studies Cope explained, are not included by individual offices such as the in University percentages for aca- one the Michigan Student Study is demic failure because the Univer- conducting provide the University sity only identifies as having fail- with much of its withdrawal fig- ed those whom it officially asks ures. to withdraw. "We know roughly," Groesbeck Thus, students who withdraw said, "that 65 per cent of the because they feel they have failed freshmen who enter the Universi- or not achieved according to their ty eventually receive a degree own expectations are not included here." Groesbeck indicated that among the University's extraor- more detailed withdrawal infor- dinarily low failure percentages. mation would undoubtedly be a Dean William Haber of the lit- boon to the counseling offices. erary college noted that only Questionnaires returned to Cope "about 5 per cent" of the stu- listed other academic reasons for dents in the college flunk out as withdrawal such as needing higher - grades in order to be admitted to graduate school and desiring to major in a field not offered at the University. Cope said further that many students who-leave the Uni- versity go directly into medical R eveals schools or other professional schools and cannot be considered drop-outs from higher education. 'Exit' Interviews Haber said as well that informal "exit" interviews with withdraw- ing students indicate a variety of around after we're dismissed, and academic, social and psychological I ask them what they think of reasons for their leaving. While the University. Pretty nice. Then the literary college has not been ask them how orientation has been as thorough in its investigation of treating them. Pretty badly. student withdrawals as Cope's sur- How come? vey, the college notes circum- Marv from Detroit who wants stances beyond the student's con- to major in history: "You walk trol-financial difficulty, health an awful lot and can't remember problems, family deaths, etc. - where this was or that was after were responsible for a great many it's over." University drop-outs. Cope termed DOWN MEMORY LANE: Orientation Program Absence of Rhyme 01 By NEIL SHISTER sible like a new arrival. Found my- self a group, straggled in at the Maybe it was just because you end, smiled at the orientation were green and scared that orien- leader as would any rookie and tation seemed so terrible, right? started walking. Wrong. It really is bad news, even "This is the undergraduate li- more so when you go through it brary. We call it the UGLI, un- a second time. dergraduate library-get it? Lot- Figuring that orientation must ta people call itt UGLI because have something going for it, I re- they think it's pretty ugly, get it?" turned last week to the ordeal, We all stared in unison at the Schaefer said that few students also reveals that female withdraw- are asked to leave the University al is somwhat greater than male. for mental health reasons. He Cope attributed this to marriage commented, however, that many and other personal reasons. The students find they are better off greatest concern of the Michigan leaving for a period of time, andStudent Study is with those stu- in f a dents Cope described as being un- perhaps working until they are able to adjust to the "academic more mature and can handle bet- and social environment of a large ter the pressures of the University. university." He indicated that often a varie- He explained that the main pur- ty of reasons will force a student pose of the research has been to to withdraw. Those that leave "gain a more thorough unders only because- of psychological standing of why students leave the problems are not always radily college they first enter as fresh- apparent. men and to assess the nature and The data which Cope and the extent of undergraduate problems Michigan Student Study collected in a large university." At the Big Blue It is .. * * I- Your best VA BOVE%6N SHOE ยง ~ 7 Nickels Arcade--Ann Arbor, Mich. t s Ij disguised as successfully as pos- Wallace Court Order Defiance Could Jeopardize State School Funds ..... .... ......... ... r .-. -..rr a T_ tln 4. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (R) -, Critics of Gov. George Wallace's plan to defy school integration guidelines have pointed a warn-t ing finger toward a 1964 federal; court order. Failure to comply could mean the loss of state as well as fed- eral funds for individual Alabama1 schools.I Loss of state funds would cripple school systems in all but a few of the more populous and wealth- ier Alabama communities. The state contributes more than 70 per cent of the cost of running1 the schools. The ruling, handed down by a1 three-judge court July 13, 1964,1 had nothing to do with the guide-1 lines' promulgated by the Health, Education and Welfare Depart- ment. They weren't even in exist- ence then. Instead, the court was concern- ed over Wallace's use of state troopers in an unsuccessful at- tempt to block integration of Tus- kegee High School and, later, the mandate issued by the state board of education, with Wallace presid- ing as chairman, to close the Tuskegee school. Statewide Significance Because the state board claimed -and subsequently was denied- jurisdiction and control over city and county schools throughout the state, the court suit which dealt originally with nothing but Macon County became one of statewide significance. The three judges refused to or- der immediate statewide desegre- gation, but said, significantly, that the court "could and possibly should" compel the state to stop "the illegal and unconstitutional practice of distributing public funds for the purpose of operat- ing segregated schools." In support of its 'position, the three-judge panel cited a U.S. Su- preme Court ruling which held that "state support of segregated schools cannot be squared with the 14th Amendment's command that no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." which prohibited Wallace from "interfering with, preventing or obstructing by any means the elimination of racial discrimina- tion by local school officials in any school district in the state of Alabama." The decision also directed the governor and the state board of education to exercise their con- trol and supervision "in such a manner as to promote and en- courage the elimination of racial discrimination in the schools." The injunction was directed against Wallace in his capacity as ex-officia chairman of the state board, and in the guidelines fight, he has not been acting in that role. UGLI, expecting it to shout hello or something. But it didn't move. Disappointing. The UGLI tour is a kind of catch-as-catch-can escapade, and when your group leader is in edu- cation school most of what you catch are the Dick and Jane readers on the third floor and a cursory tour of the coffee lounge, with brief nods at the card cata- logues and better sleeping chairs in between. On the level. But the tour continues, and now we're at the Diag, and being instructed that under no circum- stances does one walk upon the M. "Sterility, right?" says a world- ly looking guy to me and I nod a half-hearted agreement, wonder- ing when our leader is going to tell us this M bit is a Joke. She never does. Onward and downward, The lions don't growl and Health Serv- ice is pretty slow and by three in the afternoon a good part of orientation is over. A trio of orientatees hang Steve, Long Island: "I admit that the whole place confuses me. and that orientation is good be- cause it lets me know there are other kids just as confused, but somehow the whole thing never seems to jell. You know, like when it's over at the end of the day and you try to figure what happened you're not quite sure." "But then maybe we're all ex- pecting too much from it," chirps in the girl. Maybe we are. these as "non-discretionary" rea- sons. Dr. Donald L. Schaefer, direc- tor of the University's Mental Health Clinic, commented that the stresses and pressures, which the University places on the student are great and that the clinic sees approximately 2000 students each year. This constitutes, about seven per cent of the overall student population and about 20 per cent of those on campus at any one time. 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