U.S. SHOULD HALT OSTRICH POLICY See Editorial Page ZI: C 0lir ga -A& 44alpvv :43 a t t STICKY High-80 Low-55 Chance of showers by afternoon Seventy-Four Years of Editorial Freedom SIX PAGES VOL. LXXV, No. 3-S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1965 SEVEN CENTS SIX PAGES Charter Clause To Be Defended By BARBARA SEYFRIED The Sigma Chi fraternity chapter at the University is currently gathering material to present to Student Government Council and Interfraternity Council concerning an alleged de facto discrimina- tion clause in its national charter, John Feldkamp, assistant to the director of student activities and organizations, said yesterday. The clause is a "soical acceptability" clause which forbids the fraternity from proposing anyone for membership "who for any reason is likely to be considered personally unacceptable as a brother by another chapter or member anywhere." The question of de facto discrimination arose when the Stan- ford University chapter of Sigma Chi charged the national that Vote Down Attempt To Cripple Bill WASHINGTON (P)-The Sen- ate rejected yesterday a Southern challenge to the automatic guar- antee President Lyndon B. John- son proposed to enforce the vot- ing rights of Negroes. With a 64-25 roll call vote, it turned down an amendment that would have put the federal courts in charge of new steps to end ra- cial discrimination at the polls. Sen. Philip A. Hart (D-Mich) floor manager for the legislation said it would have meant "total emasculation of the bill." "Your great-great grandchil- dren won't live long enough to see this problem whipped unless we have a device such as we've in- cluded in this bill," Senate Repub- lican leader Everett M. Dirksen (R-Ill) declared. Suspend Tests Johnson's measure would auto- matically suspend state literacy tests and authorize federal regis- tration of voters in large areas of the South. Sen. Sam J. Ervin, Jr. (D-NC) sponsored the amendment, which would have permitted federal reg- istration only after the govern- ment proved in court that a state or county was discriminating against Negroes. Under his plan, the federal of- ficials would have registered vot- ers who met current state re- quirements - including literacy tests. Unconstitutional? The Ervin amendment was beat- n by 42 Democratic and 22 Re- publican votes. Supporting it were eight Republicans and 17 Demo- crats, all from the South except Carl Hayden (D-Ariz), Robert C Byrd (D-W Va) and Sen. Frank D. Lausche (D-Ohio). In North Carolina, Ervin said 997 out of every 1000 applicant -white and Negro-pass the state literacy test. Yet, he complained 34 of the state's counties would be covered by the Johnson bill. -this clause led to discriminatory practices. The chapter then held rush on a "non-discriminatory" basis. On April 3 a Negro accept- ed a bid from the local and four days later the chapter was tem- porarily suspended. According to Harry V. Wade, grand consul of the Sigma Chi national, the Stanford chapter was suspended because it was "crystal clear" that the local group was "not particularly inter- ested in carrying on the ritual, standards and traditions of the fraternity." No Hearing However, this action was taken without a hearing and without the local chapter having any op- portunity to answer charges. The local has retained lawyers who say such a procedure violates the fraternity's own constitution. in"If it is proven that the clause in the Sigma Chi charter is dis- criminatory, it could mean trou- ble for most of the Sigma Chi chapters, Feldkamp said. Sen. Lee Metcalf (D-Mont), a chapter alumnus, also pointed out that every chapter could get into trouble because of provisions in the Civil Rights Bill. His concern is based upon Title VI which bars federal support to any institution which practices or supports racial discrimination. Future Concerning the future of the Stanford chapter of Sigma Chi, Feldkamp explained that it could become a local fraternity or it could attempt to remain part of the national. He said that the change from a national to a local was a drastic one for a fraternity since a fra- ternity national carries many ben- efits-prestige and tradition. It can also provide financial re- sourcesas well as other types of aid when it is necessary. "Right now," Feldkamp con- tinued, "it looks like the chapter will attempt to remain with the . national." In any case, officials at Stan- ford have indicated their support of the fraternity's action to elim- inate discriminatory practices. s This event has sparked response from 14 universities and colleges across the nation. Among them is the University. -Daily-Thomas R. Copi OUR TOWN--WHY HERE? DEPICTED HERE IS THE TYPE OF DEPRESSED AREA which will be shown to the public as guests of the Congress of Racial Equality today. According to Mrs. Betty Powell, head of the pro- gram, today is particularly appropriate for demonstrating the need for civic improvement. The Women's Civic Club will hold their fourteenth annual showing of Ann Arbor's more opulent resi- dences, and the less elaborate plan of CORE is intended to dramatize the fact that affluence and poverty exist side-by-side here. Several substandard homes will be visited. Transportation and guides will be provided (members of CORE have information about the history of poverty in Ann Arbor) leaving from the Ann Arbor Community Center at 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. Entities or Integers? Dominican Strife Fells Four, OAS Votes Help SANTO DOMINGO (A)-Gunfire operating near the East-West cor- later to newsmen by cabinet crackled again in Santo Domingo ridor set up to ferry supplies to spokesman Pierre Dumas. yesterday despite a cease-fire, the international zone for refu- Foreign Minister Maurice Couve bringing death to four United gees. He said unfamiliarity with DeMurville reported that the new States marines and wounding the Dominican capital caused the proviisonal regime of Col. Fran- three other American servicemen. marines to go into rebel territory cisco Caamano Deno "seems" to Two marines were released after instead of returning to their own have the support of the Domini- being captured by Dominican lines. can parliament. But in the same rebels. Earlier in the day, Washington breath Couve DeMurville said Meanwhile, Brazil and Argen- had reported the U.S. toll in the France has not yet made any de- tina, Latin America's two largest 13-day-old Dominican strife at cision to recognize Caamano. nations, took the lead yesterday ten dead, one missing and 58 "France disapproves the Ameri- in moving to organize military wounded. can intervention and wants the contingents for an Inter-American In Paris, President Charles De withdrawal of troops who have peace force in the rebellion-torn Gaulle moved his vaunted "inde- landed in Santo Domingo," the Dominican Republic. pendent diplomacy" to a new cabinet spokesman said in re- The Organization of American front yesterday by condemning counting De Gaulle's attitude. States voted yesterday to establish American intervention in the De Gaulle's action is the latest the Inter-American military force, Dominican Republic and calling in a string of statements or ac- which will include some of the for withdrawal of U.S. troops tions contrary to American policy approximately 20,000 U.S. marines from the island republic. following the Cuban missile crisi and paratroops already in the De Gaulle spoke in a meeting and the British-American agree- country. of the French cabinet and the ment at Nassau for joint contro Partial Withdrawal tenor of his remarks was relayed of Britain's nuclear submarines. Ellsworth Bunker, U.S. ambas- sador to the OAS, said that as other nations contribute to the joint force part of the U.S. con- tingepit will be withdrawn. There was no indication on the " total forces the Latin American ib a i s Id e u t nations eventually might contri- bute. Five countries - Uruguay, a Mexico, Chile, Peru and Ecuador -voted against the OAS proposal By JAMES TURBETT and Venezuela abstained. Students at Michigan State University protested the inadequacy Three marines were killed in a of their library system on April 27, in a demonstration organize fierce encounter in the heart of by the Committee for Student Rights. The protestors, all students the capital's rebel territory. Two sat on the library steps with signs. others were wounded in the clash, The purpose of the protest was to point out the "already wel one of whom died later after he known need for more books and more staff." Charles Wells, campus was taken to a aircraft carrier, editor of the Michigan State News, feels that since the problem ha U.S. sources said. already been recognized and since the director of libraries, Richar fighting erupted after a marine Chapin, can do nothing independently, the protest probably ha patrol took a wrong turn. The little real effect. He thinks the rebels at first charged a cease- solution lies with increased state fire violation, then said they be- aid from the legislature. Urges Trade lieved the story of the wrong turn. The administration has been wounded two U.S. paratroopers system for five years and has and hit a helicopter, wounding the been pressing for more funds from pilot in the legs.) the state. Believes Story John Fuzak, vice-president for WASHINGTON (R) - A blue The rebels released the two cap- Student Affairs, agrees that the ribbon panel urged President Lyn tured marines to theOranza library needs improvement and don B. Johnson yesterday to us tion of American tes Commis that it has been anarea of major trade with the Communist bloc a sion, which handed them over im- emphasis in recent years and still an instrument of foreign policy. ia U.S. authorities, is. Vice-President Philip May con- mediately to U.S.autoedtes. ncurred that even more money is "The time is ripe to make mor They were not allowed to be in- iieeded to be spent than is being active use of trade arrangement terviewed, Cos mission in Santo spent now. as political instruments in rela About the demonstration itself, tions with Communist countries, Domingo, Robert Satin, quoted all the administrators emphasized the special committee on trade re Col. Francisco Caamano Deno, the right of the students to pro- lations with the Communist blo rebel-elected provisional president, test. But most of them doubted told the chief executive. as saying he believed their story the value of picketing in focusing of wandering into rebel territory attention to problems, because 'Trade should be brought int accidentally. usually the problems are known the policyarena. It should be o Blames Unfamiliarity by the administration. fered or withheld, purposefull A U.S. military spokesman said Fuzak said that the students and systematically." the patrol took a wrong turn while often do not realize the complex- The committee was establishe ity of some problems. after Johnson announced his de He feels that the students termination "to increase peacefu Try Takeover should make more use of regular trade" with the bloc. In his Stat channels for complaint before of the Union message in Januar they resort to demonstrations. As the President said he was explor At Em bassy do the other officials, he affirms ing the possibility of trade ex the right of the students to dem- pansion. BOGOTA, Colombia (I)-Four onstrate peacefully. As thde its reo hundred demonstrators tried to Chaplin feels the value of the public a p ivate udy group, th take over the United States con- protest is in showing that the Committee for Economic Develop sulate at Barranquilla City yester- MSU students are not Apathetic mee Eonmd h eve day, but were repelled by the na- about campus problems. "Mich- ment, recommended that the Wes tional police. Three policemen were igan State hangsrits librarian in seek expansion of trade with th hit by rocks thrown by the dem- effigy; the University hangs its bloc, yet maintain its no-trad ontators. rep emn coaches ihn igy, hnoted ttitude toward Comm unist Chin In Bogota, U.S. offices are re- Vice-President Milton E. Muel- and Cuba. ceiving special protection from po- der said that although the stu- Similar private study groups i lice. The streets near the U.S. dents always should have the France, Germany, Italy and Japa Embassy are being patrolled by right to demonstrate, this one reached the same conclusion o detectives and uniformed police- had no effect since MSU is im- trade with the Communists, bi demen armed with clubs and tear proving its library facilities as they do not want to exclude Re gas grenades. fast as possible. China. By ROBERT MOORE "It's a great university," said Robert Marble, "but I wouldn't send my son here for his first two years of college. I've seen too many freshmen who are complete- ly lost here. "Too often a student at the University is only student six-six- five-nine, only a number. Faculty and administration try to change it but it's almost impossible." Robert Marble is an administra- tor, one of the men who has to face the problems everybody talks about. He is manager of the depart- [4 Yry V e e e Y s I ment of English, the man who decides on drops and adds, and various other requests from stu- dents. His job is to tell you that you can't get into an English course because there are 25 or 30 or 50 students already in it, no matter how much you need it in your schedule. During the early bays of any semester, hordes of students wait outside his office, patient, angry and often disgusted, waiting to ask for a course drop or add or section change. "We have to say no to a lot of them because otherwise one teach- Senator Seeks Amendment Endangering 'U Autonomy By W. REXFORD BENOIT The Flint controversy-whether the University's branch college there should remain under University control or become a separate institution-took on a new dimension yesterday when Sen. Edward Robinson (D-Dearborn) proposed a constitutional amendment that would strip Michigan's colleges and universities of their legal autonomy. Although not the first such amendment to be introduced in the Legislature, it comes at a time when legislative action will probably decide the direction of University expansion. The Legislature first er would have 50 students and other ten, and that would be un- fair to the teachers." "This morning I came to the office at 7:15 and found someone sitting outside the door, waiting to see me. During the Fall and Win- ter semesters I often have four aspirins and a glass of water for lunch because there are so many students outside," recalled Marble. A low department budget causes some of the problems. "If we just had a little more office space, I could make the system one-third more efficient immediately," Marble said. "But that's the way it has to be." Faculty have their problems too. "The 'publish or perish' syndrome does exist," admitted Marble, "but there are two sides to it. Marble told stories he had heard about a controversy some years back within the English de- partment when some excellent teachers but 'unprolific publishers' were denied tenure or promotions. Colleagues fought for the teachers and in several cases won extension of publishing 'deadlines'." Listening to Marbletalking on the phone with another adminis- trator sheds light on the role of an administrator. On one hand, he treats the stu- dent as a case, as he must in handling his share of the 27,000 students-cases that make up the University. "We've got another late registree for a closed course -,." he will begin. But on the otheruhand, he treats the case as a student, as he must in handling a young person probably a little scared by the machinery of the University. "Of course, I'd hate to keep her out of the class, because she's already rented an apartmentandimoved in . . ." he will add, frowning. Y d , lI is s d d e as e is I- re r n e- c ly e-. u1 te, ry r- K- 4rt he de in an n ut ed OSU Students Balk at Ban By MICHAEL BADAMO The student protest at Ohio State University over the ad- ministration ban on Marxist speaker Herbert Aptheker has developed into an overall pro- test against administration con- trols on academic and political freedoms. The newly formed Free Speech Front, a loosely orga- nized protest group similar to Berkeley's Free Speech Move- ment, has held a numberof rallies and sit-ins, and one teach-in to protest and exam- ie the OSU's speaker ban clause in the OSU charter. The controversy arose last April 21 when OSU Vice-Presi- dent John Corbally, Jr. inform- ed the student organization which had invited Aptheker to speak that in all probability such a speech would not be al- lowed. In a letter addressed to Prof. David G. McConnell, faculty advisor to the sponsoring Stu- dents for Liberal Action, Cor- bally stated, "It is my opinion that the provisions of Faculty Rule 21.09 (Guest Speakers' Rule) would not permit Dr. Ap- theker to appear as a guest sneaker on this camnus." April 23 when 1000 students sat in the halls of the adminis- tration building and picketed outside for about four hours. FSF resolved to take no fur- ther action until April 28 to give university officials time to examine the possibilities of liberalizing the speaker ban regulations. However, the ad- ministration and a faculty committee decided to postpone consideration of the question until July. Finding this unsat- isfactory, FSF decided to hold an overnight sit-in in the ad- ministration building on April 28. After the building closed about 500 students remained and kept an all night vigil. There were no incidents and no arrests. The demonstration was orderly and quiet. Claims Victory Jeffrey Schwartz, a spokes- man for FSF, said that "the all night sit-in was a victory be- cause we were all orderly. We will be persistent in our de- mands, and we will continue to work until the rule is chang- ed." President of Ohio State, Nov- ice G. Fawcett, said during the all night sit-in, "All channels of communication are still open cerning the all night demon- stration)." A number of independent faculty groups are in the proc- ess of lobbying with the Fac- ulty Advisory Committee and directly with members of the administration for the imme- diate consideration of the rule. Meanwhile, the Ohio Civil Liberties Union has pledged support for the student dem- onstrators in the event of any arrests. All students wishing to participate in FSF demonstra- tions are required to sign a pledge to obey a list of 10 con- duct rules for demonstrations, including such items as the maintenance of order at all times, a promise not to in- dulge in alcoholic beverages or gambling, and the obeyance of all official orders. If the rules are not abided by, OCLU sup- port will be withdrawn froni the transgressing student. Another rally to be held on the steps of the administration building Wednesday was post- poned until toda; so arrange- ments for speeches by a num- ber of faculty members from the political science and eco- nomics departments could be made. The administration has refrained from commenting on th -m'wrA Amon'aatin and entered the picture officially when University President Harlan Hatcher (representing the Uni- versity position that Flint should remain under guidance from Ann Arbor) stated on April 28 that the University would abide by a decision from the Legislature. Pre- viously, Gov. George Romney's State Board of Education has recommended that Flint be made into an autonomous four-year college, and the question will now come to the floor in Lansing. BETTER THAN MICHIFISH: So if Robinson's proposal re- flects the prevalent mood among Ithe state's 148 Senators and Rep-fetth prvlnmoda nge Ai zmj u( lose its battle to maintain control B of Flint and also lose $2.4 million pledged by Flint philanthropistByHOA R.C I Charles Mott who has threatened By THOMAS R. COPI bto witd raw nissuppor is follThe opinions of The Daily are highly regarded by most of the aed 's te L e at nse. faculty and administrative personnel of the University, not to men- tion the students (although we occasionally do mention them). 4elebrity.- Join . rmsg l " " o !!!?iiilill!!!iillmi2 ||5IliM G E i n But President Hatcher was not You can express your ideas through the Daily-known as the too apprehensive. He said yester- "New York Times" of college newspapers-by simply coming to the day that legislators would prob- Student Publications Building and saying "I would like to express my Uanr boltautonoy simply b-iideas through the Daily." Of course you have to make sure someone is cause the board and the Univer- listening. sity have differed over Flint. Once you have joined the Daily, you will have a refuge from - -academic pressure since you will be able to substitute for it a different Meanwhile, nearly a dozen other kind of pressure-a newspaper deadline. educators lined up yesterday a sprostdal But at the Daily there is no roommate or parent standing over against the Robinson proposal. your shoulder forcing you to study. Our smiling, jovial linotypists screaming at you to write faster will make a nice substitute, though. 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