The Regents requested a record-high $41.6 million state appro- priation for 1961-62 yesterday. The request, which also covers the operation of Flint College and the Dearborn Center, is $6.4 million more than the $35.2 mil- lion University appropriation approved by the state Legislature for the current year. The University shares with the state administration and the Leg- islature the responsibility for maintaining its "position of eminence in American higher educaton," University President Harlan Hatcher told the Regents. The request, based on an estimated increase in enrollment of 771 to 1,271, was carefully studied and reduced to minimum levels be- fore being considered by the Regents, Pres. Hatcher pointed out. The $6.4 million increase would enable the University to increase the faculty by 125, provide selective salary increases for faculty and staff and expand faculty research, library facilities and student- services. "Protection of present faculty" received highest priority in the University's request. The Regents asked approximately $3.2 million to provide wide- spread merit increases averaging about eight per cent for faculty and staff "in order to prevent serious loss of personnel." "The average rate of academic salary increase in colleges and universities throughout the country has been approximately seven per cent for the last several years," Marvin L. Niehuss, vice-president and dean of faculties, said. "It looks as if this will continue. "The University will have to move at approximately the same rate or it will be left behind.' Provides for Increases Approximately $1.4 million was asked in order to provide an in- crease of 125 teachers and Additional non-academic personnel neces- sary to handle anticipated enrollment increases. "The reduction in the University's budget, in 1958 made it neces- sary for the University to release 90 faculty members," Niehuss ex- plained. "As a direct result, the University's ability to meet increased enrollment demands has been seriously impaired." In spite of gradually increasing appropriations from the state, the University is teaching 1,500 more students this year. than it did in 195'--with two fewer teachers. This year's appropriation request is based on an estimated en- rollment of 25,000 to 25,500 next fall, "on the assumption that we will have additional teachers," Niehuss said. "If we don't, the estimates will have to be revised." But both Pres. Hatcher and Niehuss told the Regents *iat pres- sure on the University to increase enrollments'mounts every semester, since by 1965 there will be 48 per cent more young people of college age in Michigan. (The enrollment increases expected next fall are primarily in the Rackham School of Graduate Studies, the Dearborn Center and the engineering college. Very little increase in the literary college is pos- sible, University officials said.) Expand Research The Regents also asked $1.1 million for expansion of faculty re- search and library services, for the restoration of educational and public services (such as the Audio Visual Center, and the Extension Service) to the level of operations existing before the 1958 budget reductions and for meeting the increased costs of admission, regis- tration and other student services. The balance of the $6 million increase in this year's request would go for instructional supplies and equipment and improvement of plant maintenance. MINNESOTA DAILY RECOVERS HEALTH See Fag. 4 Y Lw1 Seventy Years of Editorial Freedom f VOL. LXXI, No.34 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1960 " I I resses f r CONO 0 Power Asks Coordination Of Colleges ,-Regent EugeneB. Power warne his colleagues yesterday that 'th only alternative to a superimpose over-all state control of Michigar colleges is a voluntary co-ordina- tion through the State Council o College Presidents." Hinti1ng that a o0pstiatiOfl convention might bring such e control of authority over th University, "which would he disastrous," Regent Power said "Unless we set our house in orde and give this council a real tr with an executive who has the support and respect of the legis- lature we'l have one put ove us. If we fail, we are likely t get this, and it may be sooner than we expect" Regents Power and Irene E Murphy expressed their views af- ter returning from the Associatio of Governing Boards of State Universities annual meeting last week. Mrs. Murphy explained that one of the questions discussed at the Seattle meeting was "How much powrer does a~ governing board give up when a state co- ordinating council is established?' Regent Murphy added that the University's type of governing board was a minority form of control within the United States. "The trend under pressure for appropriation is toward central- ization of coordinating functions to prevent overlapping, duplica- tion, competition, and confusion to the legislature." .Regent Power claimed that "the power to appropriate funds is the power to determine how the University grows an what be- comes of it." He defended the University's means of control. "The Michigan system has been extremely ef- fective. It has yielded one of the finest educational structures in '.the xcoutry. JI C To Run Presidential Mock Election Junior Interfraternity Council will handle the Student Govern- ment-sponsored presidential pref- erence poll, now planned for Tues- day. JIFC will man the four polling places-in front of the Union, the Diag, the Engineering Arch and in front of the University Museum. Ten thousand - ballots will be printed, and the polls will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fee receipt cards will be marked in an as-yet undetermined fashion to prevent extra votes. SOC Treasurer Per Hanson, '62, and JIFC President William Glea- SPEAKS TO CHALLENGE: Hannah Sees Education AsKey to Desegration By RUTH EVENHUIS Michigan State University President John Hannah told a Chel- lenge audience last night that education must play a key role in the elimination of racial discrimination. Without adequate education, the Negroe's right to vote and equal housing opportunities, once obtained, would be lost in ingorance and apathy, he warned. The white population must be educated to a realization of the rights denied the 'Negro. The Federal Commission on Civil Rights, of which he is chairman, attempts to accomplish this through its 4 r JOHN HANNAH: discusses desegregation REORGANIZATION: 1STGains Willow Run. By RALPH KAPLAN The programs and functions of. the Willow Run Research Lab- oratories were transfered to the Institute of Science and Tech- nology (IST) by the Regents yes- terday. The change was proposed after a month-long study by Vice- President for,!Research Ralph. A. Sawyer and Joseph A. Boyd, who was appointedas director of the Institute at the last meeting of the Regents on Sept. 23. "This won't be just a change of name but an expansion of operation," Sawyer said. "This is a simple, straightforward, obvious reorganization enabling us to move forward with a minimum of growing pains," he added. Under the new organizational setup, IST will have 15 units. These include the two previous research units, Biophysics Re- search Division and Great Lakes Research Division, plus the thir- teen new divisions that have been added from Willow Run. Among the new units are Radar and "documented reports of existing discrimination, he said. Within its bounds as a fact- finding committee with the power of recommendation, he cited the commission's objectives as the de- velopment of a 'national climate in which any citizen can develop his potential abilities, use these abilities and enjoy equal rewards from his contribution to society.' The commission has investi- gated the areas of voting, educa- tion, housing and presently the administration of justice and em- ployment practices. ' He said the area of unequal housing opportunities was impor- tant in that it is prevalent in the North as well as the South, and expressed concern that communi- ties lacking discrimination in vot- ing or education are contentedly blind to their practice of denying the Negro "decent housing." 'He "commends and encourages" the sit-in activities of the South- ern students, but questioned the efficiency "of students parading up and down before a chain store in East Lansing rather than work- ing to clear the community of a situation in which even a Negro college professor is often denied "acceptable housing." He termed racial discrimination "the major issue on the domestic scene." ONLY STATE-AIDED: Hatcher Says 'U' Not State-Supported By MICHAEL OLINICK "The University is not a state- supported institution, but a state- aided one," University President Harlan Hatcher told the Regents yesterday as he discussed the budget for the fiscal year that ended June 30. State appropriations for gen- eral operations amounted to one- third of the University's record $100,706,552 budget. $33.4 million came from state aid and $9.4 mil- lion was received from student fees. The annual financial report, adopted by the Regents yesterday, reported that over 70 per cent of the University's first $100 million budget went for salaries, wages and related costs. The former totalled $66.1 million while as- sociated costs for retirement, group insurance, and social secur- ity payments pushed the figure $4.5 million higher. Vice-President for Business and Finance Wilbur K. Pierpont elab- orated on President Hatcher's re- futation of the belief that the University was "state supported." He said, "Many of the so called 'private' colleges are more de- pendent onhgovernmental finan- cing than the University. Federal and state aid comes through direct grants for research and many tax benefits and exemptions. The Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, for example, depends on the government for 75 per cent of its budget. Parallel cases are apparent at the University of California." During the 1959-60 academic year, the University enrolled 23,- 988 students and awarded 6,239 degrees, the reports noted. "Grad- uate degrees made up almost half this number," Vice-President and Dean of Faculties Marvin L. Nie- huss said, adding that the Univer- sity-must spend a great deal more per person for master's and doc- toral candidates than for under- graduates. About $55.7 million of the ex- penditures were in two categories which did not receive state sup- port. The substantially self- supporting units of the University, the Medical Center's hospital ser- vices and those agencies which provide student and staff service, accounted for $26.4" million. The rest of the amount came from the restricted funds of research grants and special gifts. "The report is given in finan- cial terms, but dollars and cents are only symbols of a great human endeavor in education and re- search," President Hatcher said. "It should be studied, therefore, in the light of the purposes of educational equipment, for pub- lication of books and reports, for the construction -of buildings, for the conduct of research, for the operation of hospitals and clinics, for student housing and other ser- vices, and for a whole host of educational activities which touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of people." -Daly-David itrow FROM THE PLATFORM-Republican presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon speaks to the more than 16,000 Jackson citizens who braved foreboding weather to hear one of his many whistle-stop campaign speeches in Michigan communities today. Mrs. Nixon (seated) is accompanying the Vice- president on his attempt to woo Michigan's 20 electoral votes to the Republican camp,. NOTE-TAKING, DISCRIMATION DISCUSSED: I Seasonwein Sets Pace at Hyde Park By CAROLINE DOW Roger Seasonwein '61, turned out to enliven an otherwise quiet Hyde Park yesterday. Hyde Park was quiet and subliminated until Seasonwein arrived for his seasonal appearance on the Diag. With one and one-half hours of loud effective talking, he carried the crowd of about 300 students through the topics of note taking services, discrimination, the Dean of Women, disarmament and maniacs of all types. Discusses Dean At this moment, Seasonwein leapt up on a bench and criticized the student note taking service as "disgraceful" and a "mar on the University" as it leads to an emphasis on grades rather than learning. Brian Glick, '62, pointed but that the Lecture Committee was a mar on University freedom, but Seasonwein drowned him out with an assertion that the nation has seen "a New Deal, a Fair Deal, a No Deal and now Nixon has lost the pack." Professor Leaves -~