ELDERFIELD REPORT: REGENT'S ADDENDA See editorial page i Vol. LXXVIII, No. 2-S Y I!3ZU D~ait SUNNY High-68 Low-42 Warm with little chance of rain Ann Arbor, Michigan, Thursday, May 2, 1968 Ten Cents Eight Pages U.S. accepts proposed peace talks on cruiser WASHINGTON (P')-The White spokesmen nonetheless g a v e had arrived yet from either Wash- House quickly agreed yesterday to straight-faced replies when asked ington or Hanoi, although the an Indonesian proposal, to hold about the latest twist in the month Communists had indicated they preliminary peace talks with of maneuvering over where U.S. still prefer their proposed sites- North Vietnam aboard an Indo- envoys should meet for their pro- Phnom Penh, Cambodia, or War- nesian cruiser to be sent to Ton- pose direct talks. saw. kin Gulf. Indonesia's foreign minister. An Indonesian' site is presum- But it would surprise Washing- Adam Malik, said after a cabinet ably objectionable to North Viet- ton officials if Hanoi accepts the meeting in Jakarta that his coun- nam's ally, Communist China. floating site offer. The communists try has told the 'opposing sides, it Peking broke relations with Indo- have already spurned a U.S. sug- is willing to sail a cruiser to the nesia after the current leadership gestion to meet in Indonesia's Tonkin Gulf-lying between the there ousted the left leaning Su- capital, Jakarta. North Vietnamese and Communist karno regime. Presidential press secretary Chinese coasts-for a meeting site. The White House said Indone- George Christian and other U.S. Malik reported no formal reply sia's offer-which comes in addi- tion to 15 Asian and European locations previously proposed by U.S. diplomats-"is acceptable to the United States." "A neutral ship on a neutral sea would be a good meeting place," / Christian told newsmen in words r -eea d recalling some presidential oratory aboard the U.S. carrier Enterprise By MICHAEL DOVER Postill was suspended by Har- last Veterans Day., In that speech on the flight deck Washtenaw County Sheriff vey last Saturday following a dis- aboard the carrier off San Diego. Douglas J. Harvey has informed pute concerning overtime pay. His Calif., President ,Johnson declared the secretary of the Washtenaw notice of suspension also ndicat- the.U.S. search for peace.could DeuyAscito ht ewl eed that he would be fired if he hU..sacfopeecul Depuy Asocitionthathe ill e ,extend even to a meeting ground fired for the second time in six does not appeard at this morning sat sea-a vast place which might months if he doesn't appear at a hearing. help men realize the "ultimate special investigative hearing. He was fired in December along smallness of their quarrel." Harvey has scheduled the trial with two other deputies for refus-.i "For us, the ward room could board hearing for this morning to ing to retract a statement that readily be a conference room," he try Deputy Fred J. Postill on the deputy association planned to said..] charges of insubordination. take legal action to force the Just how the arrangements for a Postill released a statement yes- Washtenaw County Board of Sup- hipboard Vietnam negotiation terday that he has no intention ervisors to bargain collectivelywould be carried out remained ob- of showing up at what he calls with them. scure. Johnson has listed for re- Harvey's "kanaroo court Postill was ordered reinstated to . More violence hits Columbia Harlem maichers, stndents protest Mornimmgside gym site NEW YORK - More fighting erupted between police ana a handful of Columbia University students yesterday and later last night when some 400 Negroes marched from Harlem to Columbia's gates, carrying such sighs as, "Now you know why we hate cops!" The Negro demonstrat rs, who circled the campus dur- ing their march but did not enter ft, were joined by about 100 predominantly white students at Columbia for the march back to Harlem, where the crowd dispersed. As they strode through Morningside Park adjoining Co- lumbia's campus, the marchers - mostly high-school age youngsters - were met by a large contingent of police, who had seven patrol cars slowly driving atound the campus in time with the marchers. SV Il ath 4 POLICE INSPECT the office of Columbia University President Grayson Kirk yesterday after the school's administration building had been cleared of some 700 protesters' who had paralyzed the Morningside Heights campus for seven days.,. PLANS COURT FIGHT: Sna te tries to interv-ene in Detroit pr ess strike The demonstrators were protest- ing Columbia's plans to build a gymnasium in Morningside Park, a Negro playground. "Gym goes up-Columbia cogpes down." the marchers chanted, and it changed to "Columbia burns down" as they moved back into the heart of Harlem. 1 ~ * efforts begin hr By MARTIN HIRSCHMAN Special To 1he Daily LANSING - Atty. Gen. Frank Kelley plans to appear in federal court today to secure the right of the Special Senate Committee on Newspaper Strikes to investi- gate the 170-day-old Detroit walkout. Brigg may take,state bank post4 FronmWire Service Reports Gov. George Romney is expect- ed to appoint University Regent Robert P. Briggs of Jackson as i state banking commissioner soon.1 According to state law, BriggsI would have to resign his liosition as regent to accept the banking' the department March 18 after his first firing was reviewed by the State Labor Mediation Board. Harvey has refused to pay Postill the. back pay the board awarded him. All but one of the officers of' the deputy association have been fired or suspended by Harvey at one time or another in the last six months. A trial board has only been used in one case, according to Carl Cook, vice-president of the. deputy association, and a member of the board. In that case, Harvey overhuled the recommendation of the board. for a ten-day suspension, remov- ing deputy William Young from, fha fnroQni haiOnrhmrl quirements for a site. i That it be in a neutral atmos- Federal District Justice Damon phere, have adequate communica- Keith yesterday handed down an tions, with free access for news injunction invalidating a sub- coverage by all nations, and access poena issued Monday by the com- by representatives of all interested mittee to Peter B. Clark, presi- governments. dent and 'publisher of the Detroit State Department press officer News. Clark obtained the injunc- Robert J. McCloskey said inter- tion yesterday morning. He was national waters fall within the the only major party to the strike U.S. definition of a neutral area. negotiations who had refused to Faulywage 'akng srdatio attend the committee meetings originally scheduled for Tuesday. The committee was formed at the request of Gov. George Rom- ney. Kelley also said part of the, case would involve the manner in which the injunction was served. "'The overall goal in this mat- ter should not be lost sight of," Kelley said. "That is, the settle- ment of the newspaper strike in Detroit at the earliest possible time is of great public interest. I will support all legal efforts to achieve that end." Committee members 'expressed indignation toward the court in- junction and the way in which it was served. "I think the whole Senate has been insulted," said committee chairman Sen. Robert Huber (R- Troy). "But," he added, the com- \mittee should give Kelley "all the time he needs" to investigate the legality of the injunction. "When we move next time we have to be sure," Huber said. . The injunction cites the mdi-. vidual committee members and Gov. Romney as well as the com- mittee as a whole. "What right does Peter B. Clark have to sue me personally?" asked committee member Sen. L. Har- vey Lodge (R-Waterford). "I acted only as a senator. This is an affront to the Senate and to me personally." In a prepared statement, Kelley said he "will take appropriate legal action to determine whether the governor and the committee have been properly subjected to the jurisdiction of the federal court." Although the injunction o,'P-ed contempt of the body for not ap- pearing at the committee meeting. However, after consulting Kelley and Senate majority floor leader Robert V,anderLaan (R - Grand Rapids) in closed session, I the committee decided to await court action on the injunction. VanderLaan emerged from the session announcing he would op- pose any immediate Senate action against Clark. After delivering his prepared statement. Kelley said he had advised the' committee to await court action. While the committee conducted its morning business in the gover- nor's.office, Romney met for near- ly three hours with Detroit Free Press and union representatives in the supreme court chambers. Scott' to head; Dearborn The associate dean of Dear- born Campus. Dr. Norman R. Scott, has been named to succeed retiring Dean William E. Stirton Sept. 1. Stirton will also leave his post as a University vice presi- dent. Scott has served as a member of the computer advisory group of the Atomic Energy Commission and on the executive committee of the University Computing. Center. He is currently on sabbatical leave at the Techniche Hoch- schule in Munich where he has been researching development of a computer language and comput- er algorithms.E post. te orce. bince then Cook himse By PHILIP BLOCK Among those mentioned to fill has been fired. The Unive' sity's m ng for the regent, vacancy are Ink White Harvey has made it clear that ompensation for full- of St. Johns, former weekly news- the board's decision will be advis- time faculty members dropped paper editor and member of the ory in Postill's case. He said also frm 17th to 23rd'nationwide ac- 1961-62 constitutional convention, that the decision of the trial crm n to a report released re- and Lawrence B. Lindemer of board would not be made public cently by the American Associa- Stockbridge, former state Repub- because it was an interdepart- tion - of University Professors lican chairman and field man for mental proceeding. (AAUP). Romney during his bid for the The names of the five deputies Although the report shows an GOP presidential nomination. to sprve on the trial board were increase in the University's aver- Briggs was appointed to the re- drawn from a hat, Harvey said. age compensation from $15,060 to 0 gency four years ago. He faces Postill, however, charged that $15,573, the 3.4 per cent increase running for a full eight year term the selection was not made at tagged far behind the 8.4 per cent next November, if nominated by random. He said Harvey picked average increase for all other his party. In recent weeks, how- Sgt. William H. Stander president, schools. ever, leading bankers in the state of the deputy association, and The AAUP defines compensa- have convinced Briggs he should then "picked" four of his cronies tion as including both straight take the banking post vacated last in order to fix the trial board's salary and certain types of fringe month by Charles Slay. outcome, yet seem fair. He indi- benefits such as health insurance The Jackson regent, '65, retired cated that Stander would prob- and pension payments. as Consumer Power Co. vice pres- ably oppose the sheriff. The decline in the University's ident yesterday. Before accepting Postill said that he plans on ranking is largely due to the drop the position with the company, in filing a new suit with the media- in the University's AAUP average 1951, Briggs served as vice presi- tion board, but that "It looks like compensation 'ating 'for full pro- dent for financial affairs at the it's going to be a long time until fessors. The rating went from an University. I am reinstated again." 'A' rating in 1966-67 to a 'B' rat- -~ --- -- - - STRIKES BEGIN I 'U cons truction slowed r .? ' 1 F J 1 I i 1 ing in 1967-68. Because compen- sation for full professors constitu- tes the major portion of total salaries, this decrease is all the more significant. According to Vice President for Academic Affairs Allan F. Smith,I the drop in the University's na-' tionwide ranking comes as no sur- prise to his office. "We anticipated it a year ago," says Smith. "The big reason for' the drop is the lack of adequatea state appropriations for the past, year. However, the new budget} request for the 1968-69 session, asl amended by the Governor, in- cludes a six per cent increase in1 \will go toward faculty compensa-i tion." The Columbia demonstrations By JILL CRABTREE began April 23, sponsored by the The student strike at Columbia Students for a Democratic o University has sparked reactions ciety and the Students for -an here supporting the strikers and Afro-American Society. censuring the Columbia adminis- At the outset the two groups tration. were united in protest againstprofJh LElichof th construction of a new Columbia s - gymnasium on 2.1 acres of Morn- n a ;okmshooli g Colu b ingside Park, which separates the ing a movement among olumtia university from Harlem. Negro ac- alumni sympathetic to student de tivists long had opposed the gym mandsto cease financial and on the grounds it was an en- other support to theschool. croachment on neighborhood rec- " Roy A. Rappaport of the reational terrain. anth ropology department is cir- Another clash on a smaller scale culating a resolution among Uni- occurred yesterday, as the strife- versity faculty expressing support torn Ivy League school went Df the position taken by the Co- through its ninth day of riisrup- lumbia "ad hoc faculty group. tive demonstrations that have That group is askingtheir Cl brou'ht Columbia's educationaltleguesyto "respect" the strike process to a standstill. called by the Columbia Student prcsstocamst nsti aywh.nCouncil and appoint a faculty The clash caie on a day when committee to investigate events Columbia's classrooms remained leading up to the crisis, with par- closed so that student militants, ticular emphasis on the role play- some of them bent on fomenting itdlay hesisonumbearoedla f a campus strike, could cool off! ed by the Columba Board Of a cmpu stike cold ooloffTrustees and top administrators with "a day of reason and reflec- T tion'." TWO CONDITIONS Reason and reflection vanished, Erlich, who was president of however, during a street rally of the class of '59 at Columbia, has students from other colleges out- contacted a group of Chicago, side the university gate at Am- New Haven and New York sterdam Avenue and 116th Street. alumni who are sending out let- In support of Columbia strikers, ters to other Columbia graduates, they displayed a banner reading urging them to cease making "Strike against racist trustees, contributions-financial and oth- erwise-to the school, until two See related story, Page 2 ! conditions are net. s-A'against racist police, and - "significant change" in per- strike against imperialist wars, sonnel at the top administrative The police said Columbia stu. level of the university, including ensoite sedeomthest-tthe replacement of President dents on the edge of the street Grayson Kirk; rally locked the gate. Swinging nightsticks, about 30 -A "thorough re-evaluation" of policemen charged a similar num- the role of the university in the ber of Columbia students. . Morningside community, with At least three students suffered particular reference to the pro- scalp lacerations or cuts. Several posed gymnasium in Morningside Park - and the development of were arrested and dragged away. a "mean dgfu da loue bet ee The Kir us go"faciona meaningful dialogue between The "Kirk nust go" faction the' university and its non-nsti- among the students sought fac- tutional neighbors."- j ulty support for the stilke, along j with removal 'of Columbia Presi- NOTIFY TRUSTEES dent Grayson Kirk. . The letters also urge class mem- However, the 4,000 members of bers who plan to withhold finan- the teaching staff appeared split, cial support to. notify the chair- and only 200 of them" actually man of the Columbia Board of went on record backing a strike. Trustees of their intention. But by a 22-9 vote, the Colum- Erlich first began contacting bia Student Couincil declared last class members Tuesday night and night it was "morally outraged" has not yet received word of how by the university's calling police many have been willing to sign. to the campus. It said the ".pre- However, he feels the group will sent administration has forfeited have "no trouble getting people to its legitimate authority and . . . sign if we contact them while the can no longer claim respect." issue is still an important one." The resolution being circulated among University faculty by Rap- paport does not take a position on the issues prompting the original student demonstrations at Colum- bia - university membership in the Institute for Defen'se Analyses and the propriety of constructing a gymnasium on what is now a playground for ghetto children. 'UNWILLINGNESS' It does, however, criticize the administration for "persistent un- willingness" to re-examine its position in relation 'to the stu- dents. The statement goes on to further support the ad hoc faculty com- mittee at Coumbia in its urging of students to refrain from occupying any more campus buildings so that there can be a return to a "police- les campus." Ri t .: Rappaport, who is a graduate of By LESLIE WAYNE Construction on University uilding projects continued yes- terday despite a partial strike by the building trade unions. John Weidenbach of the plant department reported that construction was "l i m p i n g along" yesterday. However, he is not sure how long workers will remain at their jobs. "Everything is on a day-to-, day basis," he said. None of the University con- struction jobs experienced a complete shutdown. Work on major projects, including the new, dental school and the Mott Children's Hospital, continued' as normal. The University plant depart- ment is presently evaluating ,he effect of the shutdown. Re- ports by contractors on specific problems will be submitted to- day to James Brinkerhoff, di- rector of plant extension. The failure of five construc- tion unions in the Ann Arbor area to come to agreement Local 426 continued to work without a contract. Trowel Trades Local 14 (bricklayers) struck only against contractors belonging to the GCA-HBC. The reinforced steel workers and the operating engineers are the two unions most critical,to University building projects Brinkerhoff noted. The oper- ating engineers struck at all projects today. William Hughes, chairman of a committee representing the GCA-HBA. said the total effect of the strike in the Ann Arbor area is still unknown. The Reinforced Iron Workers attempting to work at the Hur- on High School on Geddes road and at an office building on Plymouth road were sent home by the contractors without pay. Dick Wheeler. businiess agent for the Iron Workers Union said that their union had been "locked out" from all of their jobs. Wheeler said that the union is willing to meet management representatives at "any date. The carpenters 'are meeting in Jackson today. Prospects for a settlement at this meeting are "unknown", said Carl Weber, president of the local. The car- penters will strike on May 7 if a contract is not agreed upon by that time. The laborers met in a bar- gaining, session with the con- tractors last night. The date. for a formal presentation of the contract has not been de- termined, but workers will con- tinue at their jobs, explained Douglas Harding, president of the local. Harding noted that it was "hard to say when a formal contract will be presented." The bricklayers are continu- ing to strike only against GCA- HBA members. They are pres- ently signing individual agree- ments with contractors willing to meet an interim agreement of a $1.00 per hour increase. I The GCA-HBA offered the bricklayers an hourly increase of 36 cents the first year and a May 13 show cause hearing, "We think we have found an ex- RECRUITING PROBLEM Kelley said he would take im- cellent successor for Dr. Stirton," The drop in the University's mediate action. said Allan F. Smith, University ranking could present serious dif- The committee convened at 10 vice president for academic af- ficulties in the recruiting of new a.m. yesterday, but Clark was not fairs, who announced Scott's ap- staff members. present. When the committee pointment to the Dearborn facul-} "We worry about a drop in our' members reconvened at 2:30 p.m., ty last week. national standing because it takes they were met by a court officer Scott has lectured in Moscow, the edge off of our competitive who attempted to serve the in- Kiev and Leningrad at the invita- spositi ehr ow findg that junction. tion of the Soviet Academy of schools with whom we never had Committee members refused to Sciences. He 'is the author of a tcompete before are now cew accept the injunction and had the 1960 book, "Analog and Digital petitively bidding with us for new court officer forcibly removed Computer Technolojy."j faculty cmembers. ad oe erLk ' "yWe can s. from the Capitol Bldg. when he Scott, born in New York, holds last year. We just can't stand two could not produce official identi- bachelor's and master's degrees of them, that's all." a " tado: fication. from MIT. He received his doctor- Indeed, the past year has been' During the morning session, the ate from the University of Illinois, a difficult one for Smith's officen committee voted unanimously to and has taught at Illinois and "We certainly have had a serious, ask the Senate to rule Clark in the University of Connecticut. problem with recruiting, "he says. "We haven't done much new re-c cruiting in the last year; last fall f}a.. > we put a freeze on new staff posi- tions and concentrated only on{ filling vacancies." The AAUP report shows that 4 the University kept its 'A' ratings for both average compensation to - associate professors and to assist- ant profesors and improved its' - rating for intructors from 'A' to 'AA', the highest possible listing. {1 COMPETITIVE "Since the majority of new appointments come at the asso- ciate and assistant professor' levels," says Smith, "the Univer- sity can still compete favorably with the other top institutions overall." However, "the increase, for the compensation level of instructors is just a happenstance; it did not come out of a deliberate effort to raise salarie." he avs ° u faet. ... ' : i n " P.:'. n..d6 : .