THE BYLAW CAN WAIT See editorial page I flitl gan 3ai4j SHIMMERY High-so Low--57 Chance of rain, cooler tomorrow Vol. LXXVIll, No. 11-S Ann Arbor, Michigan, Wednesday, May 15, 1968 Ten Cents he ommission controversyand how it By JOHN GRAY In November, 1966, the cam- fuses members and administra- Presidential Commissions to deal The Commission on the Draft dents and administrators and meet The Hatcher Commission, a pus was readying for a Student tors. with the student demands and and Class Ranking issued its re- which would make rules for all prin child of compromise and student Government Council - sponsored By this time, events had start- temporarily rescinded the sit-in port in April, 1967. Although it "members of the University com- inclu power, was born in December, referendum to determine whether ed moving fast and it looked like ban. supported the administration's munity." versi 1966, in the wake of almost a the University should compile the administration had a ' full- The proposals were met with stance on ranking, student lead- The Commission also stated that month of student teach-ins, sit- class rankings for the Selective fledged student movement on its mixed reactions from the mem- ers never saw fit to make an that the formation of a student off-c ins and ultimatums. On Friday Service System. Before the vot- hands. First, the students rejected bers of the loose student coali- issue of it again. judiciary system was "the pri- tirely the Regents will meet to consider ing, SGC, Voice and The Daily ranking by a two to one margin. tion. Although some claimed the The President's Commission on mary responsibility of the stu- Th the first of a series of proposed demanded that the University Then, a teach-in sponsored by a fight had been won, others de- the Role of the Student in'Deci- dents." bers bylaw revisions that would trans- abide by the 'students' decision, loose coalition of Voice and SGC manded action rather than study. sion-Making deliberated for over The Commission members neg- cided late some of the Commission's whatever it might be. Voice filled Hill Aud. to capacity and And although 1500 students sat a year. When its,report was fi- lected to clarify the question of up i proposals into the law of the threatenel disruptive sit-ins and came up with a collective ultima- in, the unity was lost, the mo- nally issued last March, it had who had judicial jurisdiction over - Com University. demonstrAtions if the demand tum: either the University im- mentum was gone and finals were been all but forgotten by the faculty and staff infractions of that The 17 months between the was refused. mediately rescind the sit-in ban coming up. The student move- students whose protests forced its University Council regulations. byg formation of the Commission and Vice President for Student Af- and comply with the results of ment was effectively dead, leaving formation. According to most members of comp the beginning of Regental im- fairs Richard L, Cutler responded the draft referendum, or it would behind a Student Government The Commission's report was the Commission, the intent was facul plementation have been relatively to the threats by quickly and be faced with a sit-in in the Ad- Council of doubtful status, three sweeping. Made up of four stu- that there should be separate sys- trato quiet for the Commission and its quietly instituting a ban on dis- ministration- Building. Presidential Commissions and a dents, four faculty members and tems set up for hearing com- Ho members: a quiet that is in sharp ruptive sit-ins. SGC promptly The night before the sit-in was lot of bad feelings and distrust. four administrators, the group plaints against faculty and staff. signe contrast to both the 'circumstances withdrew from the Office of Stu- to take place, then-President Hatcher's Commission on the called for the formation of a The current controversy over byla of the formation and the threlt dent Affairs to protest this move, Harlan Hatcher issued a com- Sit-in Ban never got off the campus - wide University Council implementation of the Commis- him of student action made Monday leaving itself in a state of in- promise proposal to the Univer- ground: the issue was dead as the which would be composed of sion report began at the Regents' provi night. stitutional limbo that still con- sity community. He set up three ban was never reinstated. equal numbers of faculty, stu- regular meeting in April. At the S Six Pages ~re w ing the Regents "approved in ciple" portions of the report, ding the formation of Uni- ty Council and the principle regulation of students while ampus should be left- en- y to civil authorities. - e Regents met with the mem- of the Commission and de- l to have the report drawn n bylaw form. According to mission members, they agreed the drafting would be done another commission, to be osed of one student, one Ity member and one adminis- r. )wever, the Regents later as- d the task .of drafting the ws to Cutler. Their charge to did not 4nclude any of the isions that Commission-iem- See COMMISSION, Page 2 1Cutler agrees to ask delay of bylaw ruling Kennedy, Nixon victories By STEVEN NISSEN Vice President for Student Af- fairs Richard L. Cutler agreed yes- terday to ask the Regents to post- pone consideration of a controver- sial new bylaw. The decision ,came after Cutler met yesterday morning with sev- eral members of Student Govern- ment Council who, demanded the propgsed bylaw be given additional review by students.> The proposal seeks to implement in bylaw form several recom-' mendations of the Hatcher Com- mission on the Student Role in Decision-Making, which recently submitted its report after 17 months of hearings. Both the Commission report and the bylaw proposal recommend the establishment of a University Council (UC) to legislate conduct rules for the University commu- nity. The bylaw provides that if a UC-approved regulations is vetoed by Faculty Assembly or SGC, it could still take effect if the Re- gents approved it after a 45-day waiting period. The Commission's report ex- Cavanagh, t examine f poor march incident', DETROIT (P)-Mayor Jerome (Conference, the organization spon- P. Cavanagh yesterday promised leaders of the Poor People's Cam- paign a full investigation' of the skirmish here Monday night be- tween marchers and city police during the Midwest leg of the march to Washington. Departure of the marchers for' Cleveland was delayed for more than six hours as Cavanagh met for an hour with leaders of the Southern Christian Leadership COnsider, Li nemer for Regent By MARTIN HIRSCHMAN If Gov. George Romney ap- points Regent Robert P. Briggs to b state banking commissioner, Law- rencoe B. Lindemer of Stockbridge, former state Republican chair- man, is expected to replace him as Regent. Reached at his Lansing office Monday, Lindemer, who was an aide to Romney during his short- * lived bid for the Republican pres- idential nomination this year, told The Daily he was under con- sideration for the post and said the governor's final decision would be announced "within the next few days." However, Briggs, whose term as Regent expires this November, may not be named to the bank- ing post. A top Romney aide yes- terday told The Daily, "There've been a number of people consid- ered for the post." Briggs has apparently not been consulted with respect to the choice of his successor. At his Elk Rapids residence Monday, Briggs said his appointment and any consideration of a replace- ment were "up to the governor." Ink White. of St. Johns, pre- viously thought to be under con- sideration as Briggs' replacement. Monday said he had not been in contact with Romney and did not expect to receive the appoint- ment. "I've assumed it would be Mr. Lindemer," said White' a former newspaper editor and member of the 1961-62 constitutional con- vptlDr-in soring the campaign. Some 300 people attended the meeting. Cavanagh assured march leaders that action will be taken in regard to police handling of an argument See related story, Page 3 over an illegally parked sound truck "if improper conduct is established." Police said the trouble developed after some marchers defied a po- lice order to move the truck. Po- lice called in a tow truck to haul the vehicle away, but about 50 marchers surrounded the sound truck so it could not be moved. Five marchers reported they suffered injuries in the brief me- lee that followed. Mounted officers attempted to push people into a meeting hall and officers inside, apparently un- aware of what was happening, moved in with clubs to push the marchers back outside, explained the Rev. James Groppi of Mil- waukee. The meeting with Cavanagh was marked by denunciations 9f Detroit and its police force by march leaders. Hosea Williams, executive vice president of SCLC, told the meeting, "Detroit has just put iself No. 1 on the civil rights list as far as SCLC is concerned." plicitly recommended that TUC regulations be approved only after ratification by Faculty Assembly and SG'C. According to SGC member Tho- mas Westerdale, Grad, who at- tended the ; meeting with Cutler, the vice president said ,"he would not recommend immediate action" by the Regents on the bylaw. Cutler also agreed to "commu- nicate our displeasure with the by- law" to the Regents at their reg- ular monthly meeting tomorrow, Westerdale said. MEETING TOMORROW SGC representatives decided yesterday to hold an open meet- ing tomorrow a~t 7 p.m. in the: student government offices to dis- cuss the issue with interested stu-; dents. Cutler said he would submit the4 proposal as a"progress report to: the Regents but indicated he wishes to decide on a finalized recommendation as soon as pos- sible., The SGC representatives tent-' atively agreed to. comply with a request by Cutler that they submit alternatives to the bylaw proposal within ten days. The students, however, stressed that they did not consider the deadline to be bind- ing. Cutler was unavailable for com- ment yesterday. QUESTION MOVE Students and faculty have ques- tioned whether the proposed by- law is consistent with the spirit of the Commission report, whether the proper student and faculty groups had been consulted, and' whether the timing of the move is fair to students who are on vaca- tion and unable to react to the proposal. , The controversy has centered on differences between the Commis- sion's report and the proposed by- law which was drafted by Director of Student-Community Relations. William Stuede. The proposed bylaw, for in- stance, deals with regulations for "student and student groups" ex- clusively. Many members of the Commission feels the regulations, should apply to the entire "Uni- versity community" show strength in Nebraka Pln new triumester re ort Copi named head of 9 man group;' study due 1969 Plans for a one-year study of the trimester academic calendar were announced Monday following a meeting between University President Robben Fleming and representatives from the -Senate. Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA). The study will be conducted by a nine-member committee of stu- dents and faculty to be headed by Prof. Irving M. Copi of the philosophy department. No date1 has been set for selection of com- mittee members. The action was taken after a literary college faculty committeeI issued a report summarizing some of the faculty members' criticism., The nine-member committee! will be composed of three repre- sentatives each from students, faculty and administration. "This way we'll get experience from both sides of the divide,' Copi said. The committee will issue their report early next spring, he added. The trimester system was in- stituted in 1961 following a rec- ommendation by a faculty com- mittee. However, a study conducted in 1966 indicates that many faculty members feel the shorter semester has made "both faculty and stu- dents feel more rushed" and "in- terferes with scholarly work out- side the classroom." -Associated Press Demonstrators throng in Paris Mfcarthy,. holds 3.1 'per cent ReagaIi polling surprises GOP with 23,per cent OMAHA, Neb. (M)-Sen. Robert F. Kennedy rolled to a smashing victory in Nebraska's Democratic presidential primary yesterday. But defeated Sen. Eugene J. Mc- Carthy spurned the New Yorker's immediate proposal for an alli- ance against Vice President Hu- bert H. Humphrey. Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon walked off with the Re- publican contest and Gov. Ronald Reagan, an absentee from the campaign, surprisingly p o 11 e d nearly a quarter of the Republican vote. Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, Nixon's chief rival for the nomina- tion, got meager write-in support. Kennedy, seeking a clear cut majority of his party's ballots, had it almost in his grasp as the tabu- lations mounted from a near rec- ord turnout of voters in a state which gave his late brother, John F. Kennedy, his lowest percentage of support in 1960. McCarthy, suffering a second straight defeat at the hands of Kennedy, could poll only around 30 per cent of the vote. Humphrey ran around 10 per cent on a writ- in and President Johnson, whose exit from competition came too late to remove his name from the ballot, received about half of that. The count from 1,146 of the state's 2,133 precincts was: Democratic-Kennedy 46,336, or 53 per cent of the vote counted; McCarthy 27,074 or 31 per cent; Humphrey 3,130 or 9 per cent; Johnson 4,983, or 6 per cent. Republican--Nixon 71,660 or 70 per cent; Reagan 23,414 or 23 per cent; Rockefeller 5,164 or 5 per cent. While Nixon seemed assured of almost all of the state's 16 Repub- See KENNEDY, Page 2 French students seize control of universities PARIS (P)-Flying the red and black flags of rebellion and an- archy, students occupied most of France's 18 universities yesterday in a seizure that Premier Georges Pompidou called an international plot and.a "trial of our civiliza- tion." Shaken by the rebellion and a censure motion, Pompidou went before the National Assembly with offers of new concessions to the REMEMBER, HE SAYS, REMEMBER Reunion with Hubert Humphrey, students. Virtually all their ori- ginal demands were met.. Closed during last week's rioting, the Sorbonne reopened yesterday, but students had no classes. They placed red and black flags in the hands of statues of Louis Pasteur and Victor Hugo, dangled their legs out of windows, called for re- volution and listened to a youth playing jazz on a grand piano set up in the Sorbonne's court yard. FACULTY HELP A "committee of occupation" ran the school with the help of sym- pathetic faculty members. The committee demanded that the Sorbonne be made a free uni- versity for all, that final exams be canceled, that police be charged with brutality in putting down student protests, that the work- ers and students' struggle be step- ped up, and that the university have an hour of time on the state- run television network. In Strasbourg, students seized the university buildings and pro- claimed "The Autonomous Uni- versity of Strasbourg." Every where, police remained in the background, apparently on orders from the highest authorities. Pompidou acknowledged there were some good reasons behind the Idisorder. : He said: "Already I have de- cided to call on a 'committee, for reflection.' which will include rep- resentatives of professors, stu- dents, parents of teachers and personalities representing all the Quarter, the premier said: "I see no precedent in our history other than in the hopeless period of the 15th century when the structures of the middle ages were collap- sing." The Federation of the Demo- cratic and Socialist Left put in a motion of censure against the government's educational and e c o n o m i c policies. Observers thought such a vote could possibly defeat Pompidou. President Charles de Gaulle's prestige would be damaged by cen- sure, but his tenure in office would not be affected. Touring Romania on a state visit, he an- nounced a nationwide speech May 24, presumably dealing with the student crisis. By DANIEL OKRENT Co-Editor Special To The Daily DETROIT - St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is situated a bit north of the heart of Detroit's 1967 riot zone. A few blocks away is the "Black Christ" of the Sacred Heart Seminary, painted that color during the riot, returned to its stand- ard plastery white by parishioners, then painted black again by order of the parish priests. A few store fronts are still boarded-up shells, and every few blocks a pile of rubble rises from the space once occupied by a resale shop or a gas station. But inside St. Paul's, there are few indications that 43 persons lost their lives in these streets less than a year ago. The audience gathered there consists of delegates to the 38th Quadrennial Ses- sion of the A.M.E. Zion Church. They are largely middle-class, or close to it. The throaty hymns being sung inside the building that once belonged to Congregation B'nai Moshe (innumerable Stars of David are still visible, on windows, 'on chandeliers, painted on the walls) serve as a prelude to the big event of the day's meeting. Hubert Horatio Humphrey, the druggist's son from Minnesota, is Viv ian seeks return to Congressional- seat Democrat Weston E. Vivian, .. who represented the Second Con- ,...gressional District in the U.S. + House of Representatives from 1965 to 1967, announced yester- day he will seek to return to the same office in the coming elec- Vivian was defeated in the 1966 election by Ann Arbor Republi- can'Marvin L. Esch, who pres- Sently fills the Second District -