LSA COLLEGE FACULTY: REAL DISAPPOINTMENT (See Editorial Page) we1 I fiR~i~tan :43 tii COLDER High-42 Low-30 Cloudy; occasional snow flurries Seventy-Six Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVII, No. 79 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1966 SEVEN CENTS EIGHT PAGES Cal Regents Vote To Fire Striking Berkeley Faculty Action Not Retroactive, Starts Today Move After 5-Hour Meeting; Heyns' Bid For Leniency Accepted By CAROLYN MIEGEL The University of California's Regents, meeting in a five-hour "' emergency session to deal with the class boycott at the university's Berkeley campus, voted last night to fire any faculty member who participates in a future strike against the university. The Regents' action effectively. granted amnesty to those teaching assistants who have cancelled their classes so far this week in support of the student boycott. The am- nesty had been requested by Berk- eley campus Chancellor Roger Heyns. Last night, the strike appeared to be losing intensity after the Academic Senate, the Student Senate and the Daily Californian withdrew their support from the movement Monday. The class boycott itself was sus- pended temorparily yesterday at noon, after a student rally Mon- day night voted to follow the lead 4 of the teaching assistants on con- Regents Statement The Regents direct the Pres- ident that prompt measures be taken for the identification of all university faculty and staff members who participate in any fstrike or otherwise violate their duties to the university and that procedings be instituted for termination of university employment, denial of re-em- ployment or the imposition of other appropriate sanctions if such conduct continues beyond this date. EWh WltigRn E l NEWS, WIRE * * * * * * * * Committee Recommends Easing Student Workloads Late World News By The Associated Press WASHINGTON-Draft qualification tests will be given next spring for draft eligible men seeking deferment as college stu- dents, Selective Service headquarters announced early today. The tests, at more than 500 centers throughout the nation, will be given March 11 and 31 and April 8. Applications must be postmarked not later than Feb. 10. Prepared and graded by the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, N.J., they will be similar in design and purpose to a series given last month to more than 110,000 men. Grades of those tests will be reported by Dec. 19 to the registrants' local draft boards, where each man can learn his own grade. Application forms for the next test series will be available from the local boards after Jan. 20. ( CINCINNATI-The number of freshmen enrolled in the nation's colleges declined this fall for the first time in 15 years, according to a national survey released yesterday. Dr. Garland G. Parker, dean of admissions at the University of Cincinnati, reported on the basis of a survey of 1,095 schools in the U.S. and Puerto Rico a total of 3,558,618 full-time and 4,855,279 part-time students attending classes. He attributed the decrease of 0.9 per cent of full-time fresh- men to the war in Viet Nam and the lower birth rate in 1948. THE FACULTY CMMITTEE on Student Affairs at Michi- gan State University has completed the final edition of their re-- port on academic freedom. The report will be presented to the Academic Council of MSU on Jan. 4. The report offers suggestions for protecting student rights, insuring the privacy of student records, revising the judicial proc- ess, defining roles of the student government and providing addi- tional freedom for the State News and other publications. THE EMPLOYMENT COMMITTEE of the Human Relations Commission of Ann Arbor held a public hearing yesterday to de- termine if discrimination occurred in the Pacific Finance Com- pany's refusal to hire Leon C. Jackson. At the hearing the committee found the company guilty, and resolved that they reexamine their employment practices in all branch offices; that the company take effective measures to be- come an equal opportunities employer, and report back to the committee on actions taken. The committee also called for Jack- son to be hired by the firm. * * * * PROF. GEORGE GRASSMUCK, acting director for Near Eastern and North African Studies, will discuss activities abroad in which the University participates at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 13, at 401 East Liberty Street. The meeting is open'to the public without charge., Grassmuck and Ann Arbor Mayor Wendell E. Hulcher found- ed a community chapter of People-to-People here and organized sister-city affiliation between Ann Arbor and Tuebingen, Ger- many which Grassmuck and his family visited in August. * * * * THE LAWYERS CLUB BOARD OF DIRECTORS passed a resolution last night supporting "imediate and meaningful discussion" on the issue of greater student participation in Uni- versity affairs which directly affect students. The resolution further urged that a faculty-,student-admin- istration committee be established to serve as a forum for dis- cussion, and that students use "orderly channels," such as Stu- dent Government Council and Graduate Student Council and the recently established commissions for discussion. NEW YORK-The Communist Party of the U.S. has estab- lished what it calls a "foothold" at the City University of New York, publicity director Arnold Johnson said recently. Johnson told 1,000 persons at a communist rally that "you have now at City College an authorized official organization-the Communist Party Forum- which is intiated by the Communist Party Club." AN ITEM IN THIS COLUMN yesterday incorrectly reported that teaching fellows in the political science department had voted two to one against compiling grades and that the majority of students in their classes had asked to have their grades withheld. In fact, the department's teaching fellows never voted on grade compilation. Only the majority of students in one class voted to have their grades withheld, and then only if the University as a whole stopped compiling grades. * * * * * *, * * * No Credit Given Pass Grade tinuing the strike. Teaching assistants were still meeting early this morning, without issuing any decision on whether to continue the boycott. The regents' resoluition is seen! at Berkeley as freeing the univer- sity's faculty from punishment for their endrosement of the boycott -thus far. Fifteen regents voted for the resolution to fire faculty members, a one voted against the measure and! two abstained. The vote sided with Chancellor Roger W. Heyns, who vigorously opposed any punishment retroac- tive to Nov. 30, when a Navy re- cruiting table at the Student Un- ion sparked a sit-in, a fight and arrests-resulting in the call for a classroom boycott. Regents Chairman Theodore R Meyer argued that clear notice must be given about discipline re- garding strikes, and that this pre- viously had not been spelled out. Regent Edwin Pauley urged pen- alties for strike support since the! crisis began. He was backed by: Regent John I. Canaday, who said the regents 'had sown the seeds of compromise and vacillation arid were now reaping a harvest ofi anarchy." Heyns went into the meeting with overwhelming support voted by the Academic Senate Monday night. The Academic Senate voted Monday to support Chancellor Roger Heyns' action, stating: O "In view of the complexity~ of recent events, we urge the1 chancellor not to institute uni- versity disciplinary proceedings against students' or students or- ganizations. 0 "We call for creation of a faculty-student commission to consider new modes of governance and self-regulation and that the. concerns and grievances expressed by so many of our students should not be given serious consideration in formation and deliberation of the commission. ! "The strike should end im- mediately. 0 "We join the chancellor in saying that the use of external police force, except in extreme emergency and of mass coercion, is inappropriate to the function of a university." Heyns has said he approved of the call for police last Wednesday, although use of such force "runs nmnt+m. +n anaadpmit i + oa ns"1 Has Effect Of 'F On Ranking Consequences Should Be Known by Student; No New 'U' Policy By NEIL SHISTERj A grade of "pass," submitted instead of formal letter grades by professors adhering to a pledge not to compile grades which are sub- sequently used for class ranking, will be treated as No Report by the Registrar's Office and have the effect 'of an E on astudent s academic standing. In a statement issued yesterday by the administrative officers and executive committee of the lit- erary college, it was made clear that courses carrying an N.R. mark "carry no degree credit, -cannot be used to meet distribu- tion or concentration require- Sments, and cannot serve as pre- requisite's for subsequent courses." It was also noted in the state- ment that "the loss of degree credit through N.R. coursesmay interfere with the normal progress toward a degree required for d.e- ferment by the Selective Service' System." Dean William Haber of the lit- erary college said last month that there is nothing substantively new in this statement of grading policy, but that it is a reiteration of the Faculty Code published in, the College Announcement. "We feel however that students who choose to have "pass'' grades submitted by their professors in- stead of formal letter grades should be aware of the conse- quences," said Haber in releasing the statement. A proposal made at the literary college faculty meeting Monday, which would have given permis- sion to those members of the fac- ulty wishing to submit "pass"~ in- stead of a letter grade in protest to ranking was defeated by a vote of 305-115. The statement on grading issued yesterday concludes that, by virtue of the faculty vote, the grading policy in the college continues un- changed and "students are en- titled to receive letter grades without special request.'' Prof. William Gamson of the sociology dept., the initiator of the pledge, said that a meeting of signers will be held, perhaps to- night, to consider whether they ' should continue to adhere to it. -Daily-Thomas R. Copi AND MANY MANY MORE The Speech Department will present two student-authored plays-"And Many Many More" by Rich- ard Keller Simon, '67, and "George Anderson's Funeral" by Steven Coffman, Grad-at 4 p.m. Thurs- day in the Arena Theatre of the Frieze Bldg. Pictured above is a scene from Simon's play, which is directed by Kenneth Chomont, Grad. The players are (left to right) Elizabeth Rankin, Grad; Su- sanne Zoumbaris, '68, and Mary Bullard, '67. INEQUALITY CHARGED: Civil Rights May Affect Accelerator Site Choice Retention'of Trimester Supported LSA Faculty Group Asks Work Reductioi For Shorter Terms By MICHAEL HEFFER A literary college faculty com- mittee studying the trimester sys- tem has recommended that, while he present academic calendar should be retained, professors should reduce the amount of work required of students. The report of the Calendar Committee, htaded by Prof. George Hay, chairman of the math department, also' found students and faculty agreed that students get "significantly less out of tak- ing a course" now than under the old semester calendar. Yet all groups seemed to favor the tri- mester system. The committee called the adop- tion of its recommendations "an urgent matter . . . essential to the health of our academic program." It urged that: -"The practice of giving early final examinations (given before the regular exam period) be elimi- nated; -"The study period be increased from its present four days (in- cluding Sunday) to five days, and "The mid-term break in the winter be extended to one full week." The last two recommendations envision cutting the vacation per- iod between the summer and fall trimesters. The committee was created by the college's executive committee at the request of the faculty ear- lier this year to review "the rela- tive merits of the present and al- ternative academic calendars." The committee' sent its report to the executive committee last week. The executive committee will probably refer the report to the faculty early next year. Any ma- jor calendar changes the faculty votes will have to be approved by the Regents. At the committee's request the Survey Research Center conducted a survey of the University's grad- uate students and literary college faculty and undergraduates. The survey included a section on preferences between the pres- ent calendar and seven other ar- rangements. There was no clear indication of preference, but the present system of three trimes- ters gained the most support, ahead of a suggested year of two full semesters and a quarter. However, the preference re- sponses (from most preferred to worst) led to some confusing re- sults, as the present calendar was "strongly preferred" yet also "sec- and only to the quarter system in unpopularity." The committee suggested that the faculty give further study to alternative calendars, after the effect of implementation of its recommendations can be meas- ured. The committee's recommenda- tions were based on several com- plaints revealed in the survey, most notably that of lack of time to cover an unreduced amount of work. The committee ' concluded' that' "a substantial part of the staff has made little or no attempt to reduce the amount of work re- quired of their students" since the change to a shorter term. "Whether this action is through inertia or a desire to' 'maintain standards,' it does imply a rais- ing of standards, for it requires a higher level of performance for students who under the semester system were presumeably being tested to capacity," the report stated. By WALLACE IMMEN Civil rights seems likely to be an important factor in the chances of a site near Ann Arbor being selected for the Atomic Energy Commission's $375 million atomic particle accelerator. "If Ann Arbor will not guar- antee that it will live up to fed- eral civil rights requirements," said Albert Wheeler, state direc- tor of the NAACP yesterday, "it is unworthy of receiving the large. sums of federal money which the accelerator would bring to the community." "This is the first time civil rights has played a role in de- Senator Kennedy Says Draft Is Inequitable termining appropriations for the f e d e r a I government," Wheeler claimed. He has asked the AEC to gain assurrances of the commun- ity it selects that it will assure equal rights in housing, job oppor- 9unities, and community services. Guy Larcom, city administrator, said yesterday in answer to these charges that "this community has done as much or more than any of the other cities under consid- eration. "We don't feel we are perfect," Larcom continued, "but if you compare records, Ann Arbor, has done more to comply with the civil rights statutes than any of the other five cities." Announcement of the AEC's final decision is expected before the end of this month, and the civil rights records of all six cities under consideration were reviewed recently by Clarence Mitchell, NAACP representative in Wash- ington. He said his organization is recommending either the site near Denver, Colorado or the site in northern California as they were the only ones to receive favorable reports from local chap- ters. LSA The following is concerning grading literary college, issi by the Dean an Committee of the c In view of the concern and discus ing grading policie lege, the Dean ar Committee have p factual statement formation and guid teachers and stude Under grading p lished by the Goc ulty of the ColIe ature, Science, and forth in its Facul published in the nouncement, each' .,-y..te .r cyh Grading Policy a statement special permission has been policy in the granted by the Administrative ued yesterday Board for an extension of time. id Executive At its meeting of December college: 5, 1966, the Governing Faculty widespread of the College of Literature, ssion regard- Science, and the Arts consider- s in the Col- ed and debated a proposal of nd Executive five of its members to permit prepared this individual teachers the option for the in- of turning in Pass-Fail grades lance of both to undergraduate men so long ents. as the University continues to olicies estab- rank its male students for pur- verning Fac- poses of deferment under the ge of Liter- Selective Service system. This the Arts, set proposal was rejected by a vote ty Code and of 305 to 1156 with 35 absten- College An- tions. By virtue of this action teacher is re- of the Faculty, the present sys- ., _m - f - tan o on dnm i a alp.rp , Statement official transcript for the course in question. Although "NR" marks are disregarded in the computation of class ranks, students should note that the loss of degree credit may interfere with the normal progress toward a de- gree required for deferment by the Selective Service System. Courses carrying an "NR" mark do have serious effects on a student's overall academic standing: no degree credit is given for the course elected and the course cannot be used to meet distribution or concentra- tion requirements nor can it serve as a prerequisite for a subsequent course. In short, an "NR" hasthe effet of an "E" By The Associated Press CHICAGO - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy last night described the present draft laws as a mass of inequities and predicted that Con- gress will act next year to revise these laws. "This is one of the most impor- tant and significant issues Con- gres will address itself to in the next few months," Kennedy told a news conference at the Univer- sity of Chicago, where he will at- tend the closing sessions of a four- .day national draft conference to- day.. The Massachusetts Democrat ap- peared shortly after the confer- ence delegates concluded a busy all-day session in which they heard anthropologist Margaret Mead call for a compulsory univer- sal service program for all-in- cluding women. "Universal national service," she told the conference, "in addi- tion to solving the problem of fairness for those who are asked to serve in the military in contrast to those who are not, is above all a new institution for creating re- sponsible citizens alert to the Women should be included in any national service program, she said, because:V " They form half the age group involved. i The identification and cor- rection of physical handicaps among the nation's youth-a ben- efit of the proposed national serv- ice program-are as significant for women as men. * The latent talent and skills of women would be fully discovered and utilized. Van Cliburn To Perform In May Festival Concert Pianist Van Cliburn, cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and sopra- -nos Galina Vishnevskaya and Ver- onica Tyler are among the artists scheduled to join the Philadelphia Orchestra in next spring's 74th Ann Arbor May Festival. The five-concert festival has University Choral Union on April 23 in two contrasting works-- Vivaldi's "Magnificat" and Ross Lee Finey's "The Martyr's Elegy." Miss Tyler, second award winner in this year's Tchaikowsky Com- petition in Moscow, and American mezz-soprano Mildred Miller will inos olo narts in the "Magni-