FRESHMAN SUPPLEMENT SW 43AU1 A&V :43 a t I I FRESHMAN SUPPLEMENT Vol. LXXIX, No. 1 Ann Arbor, Michigan, Tuesday, August 27, 1968 Seven Sections 60 Pages REGE IS HIKE 0 -RESIDE T TUITIO $240 * * * * * * * * * * * * Controversial b y Regents drop 0St k disciplinary power. ~ By STEVE NISSEN The Regents postponed action on three controversial h bylaws July 19 and rescinded the sweeping disciplinary powers delegated in 1966 to the Office of Student Affairs. Through a resolution introduced by itegent Gertrude Huebner, the board agreed to postpone action "in deference to the request of both faculty and student members of the academic community." The proposed bylaw changes had drawn sharp criticism Vt from student leaders and some faculty members. At an open hearing the previous day members of the ad hoc group , " " which is drafting three sections restriction gen tse hatpassage of the pro- posals would seriously hamper " e :,their work. Cfrta ed /The bylaw changes stem from eu rtaL i Lrecommendations made in the Hatcher Commission Report on At their July 19 meeting, the the Student Role in Decision- Regents removed all restrictions Making. The Commission also rec- on the operation of motor vehicles ommended disciplinary authority by students but retained the re- be removed from the jurisdiction quirement that students obtain a of the Office of Student Affairs.* y w fae am registration decal to use Univer- Tha fate kin sity parking and storage facilities. The Regents took no action on the proposal to rename the unit The Regents also voted to ex- the Office of Student Services but tend the experimental policies of approved the appointment of Prof. no curfew for women and demo- Barbara Newell as interim vice w srtcdtrinto fvstainpeiet Scratic determination of visitation president. policy by residents of individual One faculty member called the By JOHN GRAY housng unis, stripping of disciplinary power Daily News Analysis However, women who plan to f from OSA "the end of an era." When the Regents deferred live in residence halls will have" the option of living in certain Indeed, problems caused by the tion on three controversial by: housing units which will have sweeping authority granted the proposals at their regular Ji specific visitation rules established vice president on October 21, 1966, meeting, they said they were do in advance. were a prime factor in the crea- it in deference to the requ The University will continue to tion of the Hatcher Commission .r of both faculty and student mi reur rsmnadspooelater that year. bers of the academic communil; require freshman and sophomore That was putting it mildly women to obtain written parental The Regental resolution said permission to be eligible for ex- "the board would regard it as a The Regents themselves n emption from curfew. sign of good faith on the part of not be aware of just how cl Regent Paul Goebel (R-Grand those members of the faculty and; they came to precipitating Rapids was the sole dissenting students who are working on these major confrontation between Rapds)wasthesol diseningbylws f, s rpidy a pasibe, Univer'sity administration and vote in the decision on hours and bylaws if, as rapidly as possible, radical-liberal alliance of stude visitation, they submit redrafts of any of the bylaws now contained in Chapter and faculty. Despite the lifting of vehicle Seven with which they disagree." Two of the bylaws the Rege restrictions, a letter will be sent did not act on were written to the parents of all freshmen and Student dissatisfaction with the change the structure of the U sophomores urging "as strongly as bylaw, draft centered on several versity's decision making pro possible" the students not bring sections of the proposal. Student dure. The third bylaw would h car to school except in "very un- leaders criticized a regulation in reorganized the Office of Stud usual circumstances.'" the bylaw that no speaker spon- Affairs. The elimination of the regula- sored by a student organization At an open hearing on the tions for all students except may 'urge the audience to take laws the day before the Rege freshmen had been recommended aton whc is prohyhe decided not to take action, vei by a joint University-City com- ules of e University or which threats and warnings of viol mittee in June. isillegal under Federal or Michi- reaction against passage a t Previously, only seniors, gradu- gan law." bylaws were repeatedly made ate students and students over 21 Another controversial section of student and faculty observ were permitted to have cars in the proposal states that "respon- alike. the campus area. sibility for public meetings and One history professor urged t In recommending the action on programs must be assumed for- the proposed bylaws not be pass vehicles: Vice President for Stu- mally by a person over 21 years noting "I spent the month dent Affairs Richard L. Cutler of age who is a University student May in Paris. History," he add said "a recent attorney general's or staff member." "is repeating itself." ruling makes doubtful the Regents They were also critical of the Some radical student lead authority to regulate the use of statement in the bylaw draft that actually expressed dismay t motor vehicles on public streets. "all offenses of students against the bylaws had been defeat In recommending the Regents good order and proper conduct They had spent long hours wo extend the experimental liberal- committed in any classroom or ing out plans for a confrontat ized dormitory regulation Cutler laboratory ,jn the presence of any and were unhappy that they h said "the visitation policy has instructor .nay be dealt with sum- not been given the opportunity been extremely successful." marily by the instructor." use them. 'aw/ action delayed In-state fees -y increased $6 By URBAN Y!HNER Co-Editor The Regents June 28 approved 'non-resident yearly tuition increases of $240 for undergraduate, law, medical, dental and public health students, and $60 increases . for, students in the same schools who are Michigan residents. Out-of-state graduate school fees were raised $248, in-state graduate fees $80. The size of the increases marked a decision to abandon the ratio between out-of-state and in-state fees of 3 to 1 which previously existed. The Legislature for the past few years has insisted that out-of-state students should ply 75 per cent of the cost of their education. This is the second consecutive* year in which student fees have ' been raised. The fees are thea highest among state-supportedIc collges in the Big Ten and the state, and second highest in, theI nation behind the University of U bo d et Verm on1968-69 general operating fund, in which student fees are additional $550,000 in student aid all0ati11 included, will make available an o a i l funds. Total aid available to stu- dents from all sources will be ap- By STEVE NISSEN proximately $10 million in schol- The , University received this arships and $12 million in loans. summer an appropriation from Automatic supplements will be the Legislature that forced the granted students with grants from Regents, under the threat of cur- the Michigan Higher Education tailing essential services, to raise Assistance Authority. tuition for the second year in a The University traditionally has row. -Daily-Andy Sacks n~ounied ~ I v Re%~r'uts 111AndeIrsounu Roomi aflter l1h4'arj4Jrthe tIeiou dayi!. thlrlaten violent i ac- law uly ing uest ty." Y. may ose a the d a nts nts to ni- ce- ave ent There is a great feeling of dis- trust o~f the University adminis- t ration among student leaders and some faculty members today. The ieeling is a result of what the student leaders see as an attempt by the administration to take back the power that the students have effectively won for them- selves since the demonstrations and confrontations of 1966. At that time, Student Govern- ment Council refused to recognize the veto over SGC's rule making and governing prerogatives from the Office of Students Affairs. Since then, SGC has effectively wiped all administration rules concerning the non-academic con- duct of students off the books and substituted regulations of its own. Through its power to appoint the members of Joint Judiciary Coun- cil, SGC has made its legislation binding and reduced the adminis- trations rules to dead letters. JJC is the highest court in the Uni- versity judicial system. That is, the administration rules were dead letters until this summer. In July, President Rob- ben Fleming. at the request of the Regents. instructed the faculties' of all the schools and colleges to enact "interim" regulations governing student conduct until such time as the bylaws imple- menting the recommendations of the Hatcher Commission could be completed. All of the schools and colleges enacted legislation that was sub- stantially in accord with regula- tions enacted by SGC concerning attempted to compensate for tui- tion increases by providing addi- tional student aid funds. dJThe rest of the student fees are fund. The gross total of student "disruptive demonstratipns." The fees this year, before subtracting difference was in the judicial pro- total student aid funds of $2.5 cedings. When the schools and million, will be $29.3 million, an colleges had no student conduct increase of $4.3 million over last regulations, students could only ,yea. be tried by the student-run JJC. This year's tuition increases Penalties could be fines or social were lower on all levels than restrictions. last year's except for the increase. Now the faculties will try the in in-state graduate fees, whichI students and penalties can include was again $80. Last year, all non- suspension or even expulsion. And resident fees were raised $300, in- although these rules are known as "interim regulations" at least 4ew tuition levels on page 2 some schools . apparently want state law, medical, dental and their power rer . non-academic elth fedsc 1, and conduct to remain in effect even public health fees $200,.and, i- after the Hatcher bylaws are en- state undergraduates $72- acted. The Medical School remains the The Hatcher Comniission by- most expensive graduate school laws were being written by an ad with yearly out-of-state tuition hoc group of student and faculty of $2,140 and in-state tuition of See BYLAW, page 2 $960. The tuition hike put fees for out-of-state law students up to $S1 740 and up to $680 for resi- by. ntc iled en' th by vert hat sed of ed ers hat ed wk- ion had t'o PreIcting enrollet s t * c Guaranteed. uncertainy s By HENRY GRIX Together with the deans of the state's supported institutions, the Somewhere on the campus a University's 17 schools and col- University last year was accused , lonely statistician works an eight- leges, Zimmerman is responsible in an auditor general's report of f hour day five days a week to fig- for preparing enrollment predic- "fixing" budget figures to re- . ure out if the University will en- tions ceive more state aid. roll 47,500 students in 1975 or But predicting enrollment is Although the misunderstanding; 47,600. plainly a matter of pot luck. has yet to be cleared up, and more To a large extent, the Univer- Plans must be made as if the problems are destined tr follow . sity's long-range planning as well University's growth were uncon- until enrollment can be precisely. as its current budget depends on strained by the availability of estimated, the enrollment projec- the work of this man. space, staff and funds. tions problem has likewise failed. The Legislature has recently At the same time, administra- to be solved. taken to basing its appropriation, tors realized the Legislature prob- Administrators are . concerned which makes up most of the Uni- ably won't come through with the because the uncertainty draft laws, versity's income, on the number funds for essential growth. makes guesswork of all predic- of students expected to attend Although higher education in tion. Backed into a financial corner by general has been cramped by lack Althuogh his projection for last several years of skimpy state ap- of financial support, the Univer- fall came within one per cent of , propriations, the University has sity has received increasingly the actual figure, Zimmermann is been circumstantially suspect of rough treatment by the state. worried the draft may take tenf predicting larger enrollment than Once a favored child among the See HOW, page 2 the figures suggest. Living with the figures they do predict presents another problem. EWLY. Enrollment projections of 70,000 or 100,000 students eventually on Culrte A n A b r c m s ex ai thtks l enormous amount of construction on North as well as Central Cam- pus an brings questions about what constitutes tolerable growth. University President Robben While a search for a perman- Prediction of these all import- W. Fleming announced in July ent replacement for Cutler is ant enrollment figures used to be the appointment of Dr. William undertaken by a joint student- a simple matter. But the Legisla- L. Cash Jr. of Washington as faculty committee, Mrs. Bar- ture, which is largely responsible human relations coordinator bara Newell will assume the for stressing the projections, has and Richard L. Cutler as spe- vice presidential post. made predictions more difficult cial assistant for urban affairs. Mrs. Newell is presenjtly an by its sensitivity to accuracy. The positions are newly cre- associate professor of economics Now, if you ask an administra- ated by Fleming to deal with and assistant to the president. tor how many students he expects two pressing problems of the Regarding Cutler's new posi- will attend the University in the University. Cash will be respon tion, Fleming noted that uni- fall he is likely to shrug and ad- sible for programs seeking to versities face the requirement mit he doesn't really know, enlarge opportunities for mi- to contribute substantively to "The only sure thing I can tell nority group members, while the solution of urban problems, you about enrollment in the fall vn ad conrin such as transportation, employ- dents, The increased fees, however,' make the University one of the most expensive public schools in' the country. Michigan State Uni- versity, for instance, has an an- nual in-state tuition of from $350 to $501 and an annual out-of- state tuition of $1,200. President Robben Fleming said, "We regret that it has been neces- sary, for the second consecutive year, to make up the difference between the funds appropriated by the state and the amount needed to sustain adequate ope- rations." Although the Regents again by- pased considering an "ability-to- pay" plan modeled after the one in effect at MSU, Fleming said, "In the future, it has to be thought about." The Regents feel, that increased aid funds are as equitable as the ability-to-pay provision, and wish to avoid the extra bookkeeping they feel it would involve and its "question- able constitutionality." a June 28, the Legislature passed a Higher Education appropriation bill which included an allocation of $63,272,392 for the, University.: The Reents agreed that day on a University general fund budget of nearly $104 million for the coming fiscal year. The figure re- flects an increase over last year of $4,210,448 in Legislative appro- priations and $4,310,448 in esti- mated student fees. The $104 million figure reflects a change in accounting to in- clude $10.1 million formerly listed under a different budget. The adjusted budget is $8.4 mil- lion more than last, year. The appropriation is about seven per cent higher than for 1967-68, but is about $12 million less than the University request submitted last October, and $1.5 million below Gov. Romney's rec- ommendation. The compromise measure was worked out by a conference com- mittee between the House and Senate, each of which had ap- proved separate appropriations bills differing by $2.3 million. The House version listed the Univer- sity for $63.5 million and the Senate $61.3 million. The bill finally approved by both groups was about $325,000 less than the House, figure. The, cuts came from funds for the University's joint computer sys- tem and a decrease in the ap- propriations for' the Flint campus. However, since the Flint branch has already hired additional fac- ulty and admitted 200 more stu- dents for next year, the Univer- sity was forced t9 replace the cut. by using general operating funds. The budget includes a $4 mil- lion increase in academic and non-academic salaries. Faculty wages were given the highest pri- ority for the coming fiscal year, University President Robben W. Fleming said yesterday. Faculty salary hikes will be "at or better than the national aver- age" increase, Vice President for Academic Affairs Allan F. Smith said. See SALARIES, page 2 rREATED ~an affairs post A graduate of Fisk University with a doctorate from the Uni- versity, Cash will be specifically concerned with increasing the number of Negro students and staff at the University. Creation of the position of coordinator of human relations was ..a major recommendation last spring of the faculty's Steering Committee on the De- velopment of Academic Oppor- tunities. The University has come un- der criticism for its handling { I I: / . w;i .. , , , :.