SIT-INNERS' ACTIONS: TIME FOR THOUGHT (See Editorial Page) I Bk A ~IaitF CLUDY Hi,-i--35 Low-20 Continutd cold and windy Seventy-Six Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVII, No. 73ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1966 SEVEN CENTS SIX PAGES 5 S US UI T- S Teach-in Thursday, Students To Elect Steering Committee, Discuss Future Action By HARVEY WASSERMAN S .A teach-in "as mandated by last Monday's Hill Aud. teach-in" will be held tomorrow at 7 p.m. in Angell Hall Aud. A, B, C, and D, Student Government Council President Ed Robinson announced yesterday. Robinson chaired the Hill meet- ing. The announcement was made to an open meeting of 30 inter- ested students and organization leaders, who added recommenda- tions for general procedures. There will be no agenda for the meeting. General procedure was generally agreed to as follows: * For one hour after the meeting convenes, motions will be accepted from the floor. A time limit will be set on presentations "to prevent them from becoming individual debates." The four auditoriums will be joined by a common audio system * allowing a speaker in any audi- torium to be heard in the other: three. Discussions After the hour is up, the body will break up randomly into class- rooms for general discussions. At 1:30 the bodyrwill reconvene to entertain additional motions and to vote. The group yesterday expressed a feeling that some overall time limit would probably be necessary. They also expressed the hope that a legitimate steering committee would be elected to take care of IN planning details in the future. In an erlier meeting lasting well into yesterday morning, SGC voted to help sponsor the teach- in, to spend up to $300 to finance the affair, and to move in later meetings to present proposals for future action. SGC also said that while it rec- ognizes "the need for a committee to review the relationship between the University and the Selective Service . . .. several points yina President Hatcher's report were inadequately discussed." Council asked Hatcher to with- draw the names of the three stu- dents selected for his new com- mission to study the draft and to allow SGC and Graduate Student Council to select three members. Robinson and Mark R. Killings- worth, editor of The Daily, have rejected Presidential invitations to serve on the commission. GSC President John DeLamater, the third student invited to serve, is "thinking the matter over." SGC urged the draft commis- sion'be composed of an equal vot- ing number of students, adminis- tration and faculty representa- tives." An Editorial .a.Q. YESTERDAY'S SIT-IN was a reasoned, responsible demonstra- tion of student feeling that President Harlan Hatcher's am- biguous statement Monday needs swift clarification. If Hatcher's statement is intended as a sincere first step towards a solution to the current crisis, two issues are paramount. FIRST, HOW WILL STUDENTS decide among themselves exactly what place'they want in the University community as a whole? We favor the following procedures on this issue: r A student teach-in will occur tomorrow evening at 7 p.m. at Hill Aud. We urge all students to attend to discuss alter- native student positions on student and University government. f Students at the teach-in should decide on how to draft a new student government plan. Two possible methods of doing this are to elect a drafting committee or to divide the teach-in itself into large committees to work on various sections of the new government plan. In either case the tentative results would be submitted to a meeting of the whole student group for iratifica- tion. We urge that the teach-in vote affirmatively on whether to send representatives to sit on a tripartite faculty-student-ad- minisrator committee on student government and University decision-making. It should then nominate and elect representa- tives to the committee who would consult with the teach-in until a student plan is adopted. Then and only then is there a meamng- ful basis for their participation as true student representatives. " Consideration of a new sit-in ban, like consideration of any other rules and regulations concerning student affairs, should be deferred until new plans for student government and Uni- versity decision-making are established under the procedures out- lined below. We urge that students attending the teach-in tomor- row night vote against sending student representatives to a com- mitee dealing with specific rules since such specific rules are best considered in the broader context of student affairs as a whole. * Because ranking concerns students and faculty exclusive- ly, students and faculty should form a committee to determine the University's policy on class rank under procedures outlined be- low. The teach-in tomorrow night should nominate and elect stu- dent representatives for such a commnittee. " Should it become obvious that the goal of greater student participation in a reformed University decision-making process cannot be served by working in the structures outlined above, the alternative tactic of militant action once again will become rele- vant: At this point, however, such action-specifically, a sit-in-- can only be counter-productive. SECOND, how will the University as a whole decide on the fu- ture decision-making roles of each of its groups? To clarify the generalities set forth in Monday's state- ment, we urge that President Hatcher and the presidents of SGC, Graduate Student Council, and the Faculty Assembly meet no later than next Monday if the principle of committees is ac- cepted and announce forrnal agreement to the following: " Students, faculty (excluding administrative deans) and administrators should be equally represented on the commttee on decision-making. Students atd faculty should be equally repre- sented on the committee on ranking. All parties shall have' equal access to information; all shall have an equal voice and vote. " The committees shall continuously consult with the President and with student and faculty groups. They shall then transmit directly to the Regents only recommendations previous- ly endorsed in a vote by the student body and the appropriate faculty unit. These recommendations shall become University policy unless the Regents explicitly reject them. 1f-HE UNIVERSITY cannot afford a repetition of the events of the last several weeks; it cannot withstand those breaches of faith and trust in the future which have typified the past. -THE SENIOR EDITORS Voice Asks For Sit-In :. On Friday Proposal Requests} Action Based on Teach-in Thursdayv By JOHN T. KELLY and JOHN GRAY, Voice political party tenatively decided last night to stage a sit- in Friday pending the outcome of Thursday night's campuswide teach-in. At a meeting of about 150 mem- bers Voice decided to propose at the Thursday night teach-in that students stage an all day sit-in at the administration building Fri- day. Voice said that if there is a minimum of 250 to 350 peoule wbo support their proposal they defi- nitely will stage a sit-in Friday. The members emphasized that even if the majority of students at the teach-in go against it's plan, they will sit-in anyway-as long as 250 to 350 people are will- ing to participate. Voice members also discussed the November 16 draft referendum. at length.. Most Voice members contend that students are losing sight of the referendum in the midst of 'w the confusion over sit-insandthex teach-ins. They voiced concern that the issue is being buried under the prevailing campus chaos. In another development an ad- hoc committee of 12 teaching fel- lows charged last night that they had been summarily excluded from next Monday's literary col- lege faculty meeting by drawing up a petition defending the right of faculty members to conscien- SNAKING THEIR WA tiously object to University policy. 1,500 students. This ph The petition, which is to be cir- culated among all teaching fellows SKIP MEAL- greater studentparticipation in HEAL: starting Thursday also supports University decision-making and voiced disappointement at the de-I cision to exclude teaching fellows. literary college denied that, any such' decision had been reached. He said that the literary college executive committee is planning to continue consideration at a meet- Protest Is Largest In 'U' History Demonstration Shows Student Response To Hatcher Statement By SUSAN ELAN Charging that the University administration refused to neet their demands, 1,500 students packed three floors of the campus Administration Bldg. yesterday in the largest sit-in in the school's history. The students demonstrated in response to President Harlan Hatcher's refusal to acede to their demands that the school cease compilation of class rankings for the Selective Service and rescind a controversial new sit-in ban. At a noon rally on the diag stu- dents rejected Hatcher's concilia- tory offer Monday to resolve the dispute by establishing three new committees as "sweet talk." The students at the rally march- ed on the Administration Bldg. after Student Government Coun- cil President Ed Robinson told them, "Last Monday's teach-in asked for a yes-or no answer from the administration on our de- mands. I would interpret President Hatcher's statements yesterday as not meeting that ultimatum," As the students marched off to the sit-in, SGC members Robert Smith, '67, and Jay Zulaff, '67, pleaded with them not to go. About 200 students stayed on to her Zulaff say, "The administra- tion has. started to work with us. . We must continue to work with the administration." The students filled the lobbies foyers, and some corridors of the first, second and third floors start- ing at about 12:20. Access to of- fices was largely blocked for Uni- versity employes. Technically the protest did not violate the controversial new sit- in ban whichhas been the focal point of the two week old dispute here. Robinson spoke to a wide cross- section of students in short talks on all three floors. He thanked the students' for attending and said their numbers showed "a real committment to student decision- making." He later said that "it should be clear that this is just a beginning. I would anticipate another meet- ing Thursday night with complete debate and an open agenda to de- cide on further actions." Robinson received frequent ap- plause as he told the students they were doing "the best thing that has ever been done for education anywhere."He predicted that ac- tions by interested students would continue into next semester' "I would like to thank everyone who came in spite of 'the vaca- tion and the weather and Hatch- er's statement. This show a real commitment to student decision making," said Robinson.. "It should be clear that this is just i beginning," he added. Voicing a more militant stance was Students for a Democratic Society President Mike Zweig, Grad: -"Next time I think we'll have to have a site-in of indefi- nite duration." -UM News aervice-Maiteland LaMotte AY from a Dag rally to the Administration Bldg. in yesterday's sit-in were hoto was taken from the fourth floor of the Administration Bldg. stors Go Hungry on time Demonstration ing this afternoon. He added, however, that al- By NEIL SHISTER though the faculty code prohibits G non-members of the faculty from "Go home and enjoy a good attending any faculty meeting, lunch!" he would "welcome the teaching fellow's point of view." Philip Newman, who chaired the teaching fellow's committee meet- ing, indicated that a member of the literary college committee had said that teaching fellows would not be invited to Monday's meet- ing. However, he refused to name his source. IStudent Government C o u n c i1l member Bob Smith, '67, who made the motion two weeks ago sepa- rating SGC from the University's' Office of Student Affairs, thus be- ginning the current protest move- ment, stood on the steps of the General Library yesterday at noon, urging students not to sit-in. There was a squeaky pitch toj his voice and it sounded as if it might horribly crack at any mo- ment. But the feverishness of his tone was wasted, for it soon be- came evident his attempt to stop what he helped create was futile. Ann Arbor police had to hold up State Street traffic for 15 minutes as 1,500 students and a sprinkling of faculty flowed into the first, second and third floors of the Administration Bldg. Disruption of University busi- ness was minimal. Most adminis- trators lunched early or ate in their offices to avert the pro- testors. But some employes were piqued. "I couldn't get to the ladies lounge during noon houi," re- ported Mrs. Mary Lindauer, clerk at window A of the cashier's of- fice. She was also limited to "half of someone else's milk shake for professor as he watched the Ad- ministration Bldg. fill up. At first there was a sort of fum- bling about, people standing in the lobby uncertain what to do. But gradually they got seated. Up front, near the door, a girl with a good voice was leading "We Shall Overcome." The singing never really caught on, though., It was mostly the hard-core 'New Left' that knew the words to the more obscure songs. The majority of the demonstrators listened. Midway through the hour SGC President Ed Robinson got up to talk, the afternoon's first speaker. A stillness came over the room. Robinson, as always, was artic- ulate, succinct and just polemical enough to keep the edge of the moment without losing sight of its larger perspective. See STUDENTS, P. 2 lunch." There was national coverage- / from Life Magazine, and all theeW o uy ud eSak television networks were on handWorld Court Judge Speaks But if the sit-in was causing a stir among the University people, it seemed almost boring to the proAt W inter Com mencement fessionalnewsmen. "Kind of a shame, sorta, me be- Philip C. Jessup, the only Amer ing here when it's so warm in ilip C.messup, the nlyrnaier- New York, said the dapper, tan- ican member of the International ned photographer from Life, three Court of Justice at The Hague, cameras hanging from his neck. will speak at the winter com- He was mad that his editors felt mencement exercises, Saturday, the sit-in important enough to Dec. 17. the U.N. was formally established. Jessup was also U.S. envoy to the U.N. General Assembly from 1948 to 1952, and served as am- bassador-at-large for President Harry Truman from 1949 to 1953.