&G bar Sees Possibility of Curriculum Revs is ions By KENNETH WINTER Changes in literary college distribution requirements, calendar and credit system are currently being considered by the college's curricu- lum committee. Prof. Oleg Grabar of the art history department, the committee's chairman, said yesterday the group may recommend: --Liberalization of distribution requirements; -Departures fro mthe conventional formula of awarding one -A one-week "reading period" before final exams, and credit-hour for each class-hour per week a course meets. Any change in distribution requirements must be approved by the literary college faculty, which two years ago took four monthly meet- ings to reach agreement on new requirements. Thus, Prof. Grabar predicted, the new, requirements probably would not go into effect next fall. When and if new requirements do take effect, they will not apply to currently-enrolled students; only students entering as freshmen or transfers after the changes are finalized will be affected. Three Plans As of now, the committee has narrowed its consideration down to three plans: -Most likely it will recommend a plan which would require all lit- erary college students to take 11 hours in each of three divisions: humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. As is now the policy, only specified courses would be accepted for distribution, and a two- semester sequence in each division would be required. -Another plan, which Prof. Grabar gives little chance of approval, would require only eight hours in each division. -Between the two is a plan requiring 11 hours in each division, but only eight would have to be picked from the list of approved dis- tribution courses. For the remaining three credits in each division, the student's choice would be wide open. Prof. Grabar said he per- sonally favors this arrangement. Under all three plans, foreign language and freshman English re- quirements survive intact. All three represent a liberalization of present distribution require- ments, which compel literary college students to take 14 hours of social-science courses and 12 each in natural sciences and humanities. Prof. Grabar explained that the basic problem in devising distribu- tion requirements is that "we are trying to solve two different types of problems and to cater to two different kinds of students"-those who want a liberal education and those who are already eager to specialize. Present distribution requirements have been attacked from both, ends. On the one hand, "there is a feeling that students-particularly upperclassmen-don't get to shop around enough," Prof. Grabar said. On the other hand, natural-science department chairmen have assert- ed that the current requirements are unfair to the natural sciences. Because their first two years are filled with distribution courses, potential natural-science majors don't have time to take the numerous prerequisites for advance science courses, the chairmen claim. 'Land-Office Business' As a result, about one-fourth of the college's student body asks that some of the requirements be lifted. Stanley R. Levy, Associate Dean James H. Robertson's administrative assistant, reports that "we do a land-office business here" granting changes in distribution requirements. However, Prof. Grabar noted, the road to liberalized requirements isn't all downhill. A major problem is the tendency of many students, released from coercion in selecting courses, to seek out the simplest ones available. And if all courses could qualify for distribution, many instructors See GROUP, Page 2 JOURNALISTS END CRUSADES See Editorial Page 43a" 7E3aitbF FAIR. High-38 Low-18- Clear skies will prevail through tonight Seventy-Three Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXIV, No.98 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1964 SEVEN CENTS SIX PAGES TRIMESTER' INSIGNIFICANT: Dropout Rate Shows No Change By H. NEIL BERKSON Figures released by the literary college yesterday indicate that last fall's shortened calendar had no significant statistical effect on the number of students asked to leave the University for academic deficiencies. A total of 402 students fell with- in the two categories of disciplin- ary action: -Those requested to withdraw outright (197) and -Those asked not to reregister without approval of the Adminis- trative Board of the college (205). While this number was up near- ly 100 from the previous fall, 170 students were reinstated after in- terviews with the Administrative Board, so that the net loss of stu- dents was only 232. The net loss for the previous fall was 214. The number of academic dropouts re- mained at a constant 2.6 per cent of the total literary college en- rollment for both fall semesters. Conduct Interviews Stanley R. Levy, an adminis- trative assistant in the literary college, said yesterday that the shortened calendar "gave the Ad- ministrative Board much more time to conduct interviews. We had four men working full-time for four weeks. This is one reason why the number and percentage of reinstatements was so much higher." As for alleged pressures of the new calendar, "we had absolutely no indication that students could- n't cope with them," Levy said., "Of all our interviews, perhaps three or four people complained about the shortened semester. The problems varied little from past years: trouble with a girl, too much fraternity, too much intra- murals, etc." 1125 Actions Including the number of stu- dents asked to withdraw or asked not to reregister without approval, the Administrative Board took a total of 1125 actions, constituting 12.8 per cent of literary college enrollment. Last fall the Board took 1062 actions, or 12.6 per cent of enrollment. Students Boycott Schools In Racial Integration Drive NEW YORK (P)-Nearly half a million pupils skipped public school classes yesterday, during a spectacular, one-day mass boycott aimed at forcing quick and complete racial integration of the nation's largest educational system. .. .. v -- - - - .. More than rooms through half a million othe peaceful picket lin Seeks..Ideas From Nation WASHINGTON (A) - President Lyndon B. Johnson set up yester- day what the White House called a "wide-open window for ideas" and asked the nation"s leading scholars, thinkers, writers, teach- ers and specialists to use it for the benefit of the government. To coordinate the brain power, output, Johnson tapped Eric F. Goldman, Princeton University history professor. The White House called it "a unique approach to channel the nation's best thinking to the White House."~ Some people already have been contacted by Goldman, the White House said, and ideas and pro- posals already have begun to flow in. Some of them, it said, relate to re-examining federal, state and local relationships. What Johnson wants, the White House said, is "to generate fresh,e. new and imaginative ideas for the benefit of the government." White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger said this was the President's idea, worked out in a number of conversations with Goldman, who began calling at the White House as early as the first week or 10 days of the John- son administration. Goldman, who will draw no fed- eral pay as a consultant and ad- viser to the President, will keep his professorship at Princeton. Goldman will be on loan to the White House and work there part time. The concept of channeling in- tellectual aid into the government is not new. The late President John F. Kennedy drew many men away from schools of higher learn- ing, especially Harvard. Franklin D. Roosevelt created what came to be known as his "Brain Trust" back in 1933. Colorado Daily Wins Contest Special To The Daily NEW YORK - The Colorado Daily won first prize in the college daily class of the World Affairs ers made their way to their class- es of fellow-students, teachers and* Oparents - Negro, Puerto Rican and white. There was singing, shouting and placard waving-but no reports of violence. Some 8000 policemen were alerted. In midday, demonstrators moved their picket lines from the schools to city hall, board of education headquarters in Brooklyn, and Re- publican Gov. Nelson A. Rocke- feller's midtown Manhattan office. None of the city's 850 public schools actually closed and Board of Education President James B. Donovan called the boycott "most- ly a fizzle." However, the board's own fig- ures supported the claim of dem- onstration leaders that the boy- cott disrupted to a marked degree the million-pupil public school system on the opening day of the new semester. The board reported that 464,362 pupils stayed away from classes- about 35 per cent more than nor- mal. The pupil absentees were joined by 3500 of the city's 43,800 public school teachers. Attendance f i g u r e s reported from individual schools ranged from a high of 90 per cent of normal in white schools to as low as two per cent in one upper Manhattan junior high where the enrollment is almost entirely Negro. Some schools had some deserted classrooms. Regular programs were consolidated into auditorium ses- sions attended by depleted student bodies. Election Revision On Ballot By RAYMOND HOLTON City Council last night approv- ed a motion to let the voters de- cide in the April election whether or not they want to discontinue the city's spring election. After a heated debate, council voted 7-3 in favor of placing a charter amendment on the spring ballot calling for city elections to be held in November along with the state and national elections. Substitute Motion A substitute motion aimed at stopping such action was intro- duced by First Ward Councilwom- an Eunice L. Burns. Mrs. Burns along with Mayor Cecil 0. Creal said that council was acting too fast. Creal backed Mrs. Burns' motion which called for a referral of the matter to a "blue-ribbon" citizens council of the Charter Revision Committee. Fifth Ward Councilman John R. Laird, chairman of the Council Charter Committee which reported in favor of theelection change, said that his committee had stud- ied the matter "thoroughly and deliberately," in answer to charg- es that the city is acting too fast. Mrs. Burns, Creal and First Ward Councilman John Teach- out cast the dissenting votes on the motion. Individual Opinions Council members also voiced their individual opinions on the matter with Fourth Ward Coun- cilman Wendell Hulcher saying, "I'll vote to put the amendment on the ballot, but when I go to the voting booth in the spring I'll vote against it." Hulcher claimed that moving the city elections to November would confuse the voter on na- tional, state and local issues. Second Ward Councilman Wil- liam E. Bandemer countered by claiming that the frequency of elections reduces voter interest. Laird said that the November election yields an 80-90 per cent voter turnout. "It's degrading the city voters to say that they can't know the issues," Laird asserted. Also at last night's council meeting Creal announced the res- ignation of Carl Brauer from the Human Relations Commission. Brauer served one and a half years on the HRC. He said that his outside business activities place too great a demand on him. to give the necessary time to HRC activities. (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of a series on the propos- ed Laboratory for Behavorial Research in Mental Retardation. The first article describes the results of a conference held at the University in December.) By JUDITH BARCUS and JOHN KENNY A University committee, head- ed by Prof. Harlan Lane of the psychology department, under- taking preliminary plans for a $1 million behavorial research laboratory in mental retarda- tion, now has some new ideas. The new twists and direc- tions in plans for the labora- tory's research and administra- tive structure came as a re- sult of a conference held at the University's Inglis House De- cember 14-15. Ten of the country's top be- havorial research scientists met with the University's planning group to present workshop pa- pers on past research, suggest untried techniques and brain- storm on the problems involved in interdisciplinary research. As a follow-up to the confer- ence, local committee members are surveying about 300 resi- dential centers for the mental- ly retarded to ascertain their problems in research and ad- ministration. Space allocation problems-- what amount of the square footage of the building should be used for research, class- rooms and living space - are under considerable study. Pre- vious plans called for 25,000 square feet, but this figure may be changed "in the light of novel suggestions made by con- f e r e n c e participants," Prof. Lane said. The results of the survey and the' space allocation plan will be incorporated into a detailed description of the project about April 1. A major question arising from the conference concerns the relationship between "pure" behavorial research and "ap- plied" educational research. Another question concerns the amount of social services avail- able to the retardates. Previous plans called for lab- oratory space for six senior research scientists, classrooms for six trainees in special edu- cation, and residential and play area for ten severely re- tarded children. These plans may be modified as a result of discussion at the conference. "The conference was most helpful in suggesting that we use the entire building as a laboratory," George Geis, re- search associate at the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, said. This could mean that researchers observe the children at all times in living quarters as well as in the class-' rooms and laboratory. Besides discussion of meth- ods of conducting behavorial re- search in mental retardation, and the types of facilities such a laboratory should offer, three other areas discussed at the conference were: 1) The relationship between the laboratory and other pro- fessional schools, especially the University's education and med- ical schools; 2) The uses of modern elec- tronic equipment; 3) The type and amount of research that can be done on retarded children without un- due invasion of personal priva- cy. Because of overlap 'on re- search and training in mental retardation, the role that other University schools - especially the education school - will play in the administrative and research structure of the lab- oratory requires extensive study. Later on personnel in the field of medicine and social See COMMITTEE, Page 2 .:r:: vSew:.:...1:... . ts ....: ..:{f . . .4 ..y'}: "v:.: !"r: : r>s 'v"'r}: . Pan Psychological Research, INew To S tudy .....fll%.4 Atf.,CWVV.W...PA.V. . . .. . . Faculty Committee Unit STANLEY R. LEVY r~. :. :b:r::?;},".}":" , - .s}}:"::::1? n. . . : . , .-...X."..:?h-..-.... ......... . . U.:. i}.. . .'?. ".":{ '::: {:::.:..../....:...:: :::.}"::. u".... .v.o.... . n... . .. v: . ."...}.: .^~":.vr. r f'+:v. .? Categories besides the above in- cluded students placed on pro- bation (114); probation contin- ued (83); freshman probation, (401) and actions pending (125). The last category involves stu- dents with incompletes whose av- erages are below a 2.0. The Board sent letters of "con- cern" to 203 students whose over- all averages are above 2.0 but whose averages last fall weren't. It renewed letters of "concern" to 19 students who have been in this category for more than one semes- ter. It lifted probation from 150 students whose averages went back above a 2.0. Ninety students who petitioned the Board for readmittance were denied. DETROIT CLUB TALK: . Present Research Creates Future Jobs Refinement Of Prototype, Attempted Hay To Chair Panel Of Eight in Effort To Answer Questions A key faculty group will take further steps toward deciding the future of the residential college proposal. In the literary college, Dean William Haber yesterday announc- ed appointees to a faculty com- mittee which will seek answers to various questions about the proposal raised by the literary college faculty. The study committee includes Professors George Hay of the mathematics department, com- mittee chairman; Robert Angell of the sociology department: David Dennison, chairman of the phys- ics department; William Fran- kena of the philosophy depart- ment; Oleg Grabar of the art history department; John Mlhol- land of the psychology depart- ment; Warner Rice, chairman oX the English department, and Law- rence Slobodkin of the zoology department, chairman of the fac- ulty committee which drafted the original residential college pro- posal. Broad Framework This proposal, completed 'last spring, called for the establish- ment of a small liberal-arts col- lege on or near the University campus. For its students, the res- idential college would be a focal point: they would not only at- tend classes there but live in its buildings. Its proponents hope such an arrangement will promote a small-college "esprit de corps," centering around enthusiasm for the college's courses. An enroll- ment of 2000-3000 is envisioned. However, the residential college would be "associated with" the literary college. Its faculty would hold full-fledged appointments and "terms of service in the resi- dential college should rarely ex- ceed four consecutive years." In addition, various curricular innovations were advocated for the new college. Faculty Support Essential The Slobodkin report also warn- ed that "unless there is broad support from the faculty . . . it is unwise to proceed further." Last fall the proposal was discussed at several literary college faculty meetings, where numerous ques- tions were raised. Among other things, faculty members asked about costs i- volved; whether the new unit would or should handle service teaching-teaching literary col- lege courses to students from oth- er University divisions; where it should be located; the status of its faculty; the composition of its student body; its administra- tive arrangements; its curriculum and possible alternatives to the residential college. In November the faculty tenta- tively endorsed the "general prin- ciple" of the proposal and in De- cember authorized the committee to come up with answers to its DETROIT-Tomorrow's jobs are being created in the scientific laboratories of today, University President Harlan Hatcher told a luncheon gathering of the De- troit Economic Club yesterday. Discussing "Michigan's Great Unknown: Research and Tech-r nology, Our Building Blocks for the Future," the president saidt that "the jobs of the future aret embryonic in the laboratories oft today. 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