The Trimester Experiment: Officials' Viewpoin (EDITOR'S NOTE! This is the first in a four-part series of articles canvassing the University community's reaction to last fall's newv calendar.) By H. NEIL BERKSON and KENNETH WINTER Once the University adjusts to it, the new calendar will be productive and popular. This is the consensus of key University officials as they look back over last fall's term, the first under a new calendar designed to prepare the University for full-year operation. Changes intro- duced in the fall term included: -Beginning the term immediately after Labor Day rather than in the middle of Septem- ber; --Reducing slightly the num- ber of class days in the term; -Cutting final exams from three hours to two, and the exam period from two weeks' to one, and: -Ending the term before Christmas, leaving almost a month of vacation before the current term began. This elim- inated the January "lame Hatcher Heyns duck" session of the old fall, semester. The changeover has not been painless, but most of the difficulties are those inherent in any change, administrators say. University President Harlan Hatcher said he was "very pleased" with operations under the new calendar. "This was the first time, of course, and I think it was diffi- cult for some people to get going early," he said. "We also can't judge how much of an effect the Kennedy assassination had." President Hatcher said he is "wholeheartedly in favor" of a reading period being built into the semester. "We tend to over- structure class teaching. If a reading' period were properly led up to and guided, students would gain much benefit." He speculated that such a period could come either at the end or in the middle of the semester. Vice-President for Academic Affairs Roger W. Heyns said he had not systematically gathered opinions on the calendar but had heard "more favorable than negative" comments on it. Whether or not adjustments will be made in light of student- faculty opinion remains an "open issue," he added. The man responsible for implementing the trimester, Stephen H. Spurr of the Office of Academic Affairs, admits that "there were some rough spots on the first trial. The major problem was is planned for next year - should make that term more leisurely, Spurr notes. However, any modifications will be made within the frame- work of the trimester. "We don't want to back-pedal now. We would rather stabilize the new calendar than return to the old one,". Spurr says. "There's no particular magic in any specific calendar. The length of the academic term isn't a critical factor in the educational process." The official faculty group watching trimester's progress is a subcommittee of the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs headed by Prof. Stuart Churchill, chairman of the chemi- Dean Haber chaired the eight-man committee which drew up the trimester plan in 19614 "The new calendar will require students to organize their study programs better, since exam periods will suddenly appear without the two-week break beforehand," he says. Dean Haber, too, hopes "a hard look can be given to adding a reading period, which would ease some of the strain I observed." He advocates from five to seven free days before finals. These problems notwithstanding, Dean Haber feels the liter- ary college did "surprisingly well" under the new system. He em- phasizes the difficulty of change - "since this was the first trial, I'm surprised there wasn't more dissatisfaction" - and foresees popularity for the tri- mester once people adjust to it. Old habits also plague honors students, Prof. Otto Graf of the German department, di- rector of the Honors Council, observes. "Students who were here last year used the Christ- mas holiday - more than we had supposed - to complete Flower Bingley papers and to study. So many were caught short this fall. "This apparently is why sophomores, juniors and seniors ex- perienced more problems in adjusting to it than freshmen did. Students who had two or three term papers and four or five exams to prepare for were obviously under greater strain than previously," Prof. Graf says. The engineering college's problems under the new system 'have not been significant," Associate Dean Glenn V. Edmondson reports. "I think, at least for the time being, there are pressures, but I don't think they will be permanent." He defines last fall's problems as "operational" - due to old See 'U' OFFICIALS, Page 2 Spurr Churchill Haber Graf not students so much as getting faculty to pace themselves to the new calendar." "Until the new pattern is established we can't thoroughly evaluate it," Spurr, who is also dean of the natural resources school, cautions. He says other universities - Pennsylvania, Cal- ifornia and Florida in particular - converting to new schedules have experienced a large drop-off in complaints after the first semester of a new system. In case complaints persist, however, the OAA is' considering revisions such as class-free study days to relieve pre-final pres- sures. Also, beginning the first semester before Labor Day - as Edmondson Lehmann Leabo Johe cal and metallurgical engineering department. This group soon will meet with Spurr to discuss the effects of the calendar so far and the prospects for implementing the full third term. Prof. Churchill adds that the Kennedy assassination, "for all intents and purposes, eliminated a week of school," and required teachers to make adjustments which the trimester wouldn't oth- erwise impose. In the University's largest teaching division, "one could ob- serve a good deal of tension around exam time," Dean William Haber of the literary college reports. "Also I heard occasional criticism of the absence of a leisurely break at Christmas LEGISLATORS AWAIT APPORTIONMENT See Editorial Page :Y S1 t i tF~ 4Iatli CLOUDY Hlgh-38 Low-2 7 Little snow in afternoon; little temperature change Seventy-Three Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXIV, No. 110 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1964 SEVEN CENTS EIGHT PAGES 'U' Bills Introduced; Expect Few Changyes By EDWARD HERSTEIN Special To The Daily LANSING-A bill calling for spending a record $147 million for education, including $44 million for the University, was introduced in the Legislature yesterday. Key Republican and Democratic senators expressed satisfaction the size of the request and predicted it would pass with little change. Committees in both houses of the Legislature are expected to begin immediate consideration of the budget bill, one of 14 includec i 3 High B yO Court 1 i e Man )ecrees OneV Districting 0 te Concept II I f CHARLES S. BLONDY AMERICAN 'U': Sororities Admit Bias By MARGARET LOWE Two of the six sororities at American University in Washing- ton, D.C.-Delta Gamma and Kappa Delta-recently admitted discriminatory practices in a pub- lic report to a student senate com- mittee investigating such prac- tices. The student senate asked the university's trustees to withdraw recognition of sororities and fra- ternities that continue to practice discrimination in membership se- lection. Mary Ellen Knake, '64, president of the University KD chapter, re- fused to comment on the American chapter statement. The Iowa State University KD chapter also re- cently admitted having a discrim- inatory ritual. Miss Knake had commented then that she was not aware that any chapter had received a waiver from the national sorority to free them from such a discriminatory clause. Commenting on DG's statement at American University, Sara Hoberman, '64, president of the University DG chapter, said, "To my knowledge, the national soror- 4+Yn e not hnm. -nh . nl- ' n Gov. George Romney's pro. posed $622.7 million budget for 1964-65. Perfect Senate Majority Leader Stanley G. Thayer (R-Ann Arbor) said he thought the higher education re- quest was "just right" and that the bill would pass substantially unchanged. Senate Minority Leader Charles Blondy (D-Detroit) commented' that "if the bill has adequate funds we will vote for it. We will! oppose any attempt to water it down." Sen. Charles Youngblood (D- Detroit) said he wondered if the r e q u e s t e d appropriation was enough, and Sen. Robert Vander- Laan predicted it would pass with "very little cut," if any. Budget Details The 1964-65 budget proposed by Romney for education is $24 mil- lion above the current year's ap- propriation. In spending for the state's 10 tax-supported colleges and univer- sities it is about $130.8 million or $21 million above 1963-64, a 19.5 per cent increase. Also included in higher educa- tion are 18 junior and community colleges, the State Board of Edu- cation, the Higher Education Assistance Authority and the State Board of Public Community and Junior Colleges. The total for all of higher edu-} cation is about $138 million. The increase in spending for higher education, the governor said, is necessary because of sharply climbing enrollment and other demands on higher educa- tion. ' tiEnrollment Up Added enrollment of 10,000 to a new high of about 128,400 is ex- pected in the fall of 1964, he said. An additional 10,000 students cannot be absorbed each year without additional funds for fac- ulty, non-academic personnel, ser- vices, supplies and equipment, said the budget synopsis. The 1964-65 recommendations should enable each college and university to consider selective faculty salary adjustments of no less thap seven per cent, it added. Also figured into the total would be non-faculty wage increases of no less than four per cent and other increased expenses. Few Turn Out z W ' -r Area Seeks Electronics Coin panies By LOUISE LIND The University will participate as a team member in an intense nationwide effort to attract elec- tronic firms to Southeastern Michigan today and tomorrow, Associate Director Hansford W. Farris of the Institute of Science ' and Technology said yesterday. Thirteen two-man teams, in- cluding seven from Ann Arbor, will be visiting 39 electronics firms throughout the nation to push Southeastern Michigan as an ideal location for future expansion. Each of the teams will use scripts and slides similar to those used recently for a presentation in Washington in a bid to gain a $50 million space research center in this area. Capitalize "Following the assemblage of material for the Washington pro- posal, the Michigan Department of Economic Expansion decided to capitalize on the strength we had mustered both from industry and the University," Farris explained. Robert A. Boyd, head of the in- dustrial development division of IST, classifies the Michigan drive for electronics firms as "a first- rate community effort. "This is a good opportunity for the whole community to band to- gether to present Michigan's po- tentials to industry: By use of the two-man teams, this can be done on a lot more personalized basis," he said. The project originated with 89 letters sent out by Gov. George Romney to firms in the electron- ics industry whose sales amounted to over $70 million per year. The firms were asked if they would like to receive a two-man team which would present the strength and potential of South- eastern Michigan as area for ex- pansion of the electronics indus- try. Thirty-nine firms replied that they would. These replies will be followed up today and tomorrow with on-the-spot presentations. Joint Effort The project is being run jointly, by the University, Michigan State T~nreia 117mnaC mm -Tm.._ ' By JOHN WEILER A new survey of students' per- sonal finances will be mailed out this week. The questionnaires also will ask students to compare Uni-, versity with other local employ- ment, and will seek their view on the trimester. Thomas Brown, '66L, said yes- terday the survey will be mailed to one in 12 students, both gradu- ate and undergraduate. It is co- sponsored by Student Govern- ment Council's Committee on Stu- dent Concerns, the Office of Stu- dent Affairs, and the Office of Academic Affairs. The financial section of thei survey is designed to compare the working conditions at the Univer- sity to those in other places where students are employed, and to de- termine the entire financial back- ground of the University 'student. Brown commented. Sources, Spending Questions are asked to find out where the money that students live on comes from and where it Month's Illness Fells Hartweg, SZoologist Prof. Norman E. Hartweg of the zoology department, curator of reptiles and amphibians in the zoology museum, died Sunday morning after a month's illness. He was 59. Prof. Hartweg earned a bache- lor of arts degree from the Uni- versity in 1930, a master's in 1931 and his doctorate in 1934. Tropical Studies As president and chairman of the board of the Organization for Tropical Studies, Prof. Hartweg supervised a cooperative undertak- ing by eight universities. The group provided education in tropi- cal research. In addition, Prof. Hartweg was a member of the Sigma Xi Re- search Club, the Science Research Club Biological Society of Wash- ington and the American Society of Icthyologists and Herpetolo- goes. In addition, the survey will bring together the information re- garding loans and scholarships o which the University has no knowledge -- such as those from home-town organizations. The last section will also survey the summer jobs that students take. Brown said that although theI financial part of the survey is the major reason for its being sent, the trimester section will be important since the poll is of all students in the University and not just under- graduates, as previous surveys have polled. He said that preliminary results of the survey should be available! by April 15 and that the final re- sults should be available sometime in mid-May. Brown noted that the random sample of almost 1900 people will be similar to one taken by Mich- igan State University recently. He added, however, that the returns on the survey must total over 75 per cent of those sent in order to make the survey valid. ALSO TRIMESTER: SURGe To Counter Anti-SGC Movement By MARY LOU BUTCHER Another new campus political party will seek to counter-act the efforts of the recently-formed "abolitionist" party. The new party, Students United for Responsible Government (SURGe), was established "by a group of individuals who didn't like{ what the Student Government Reform Union (SGRU) was doing. They felt that SGRU just wanted to destory Student Government Council, without presenting an al- ternative," Frederick Rhines, '64, 6 SURGe chairman noted yester- day. Rhines is also a member of SGC. The party's proposed constitu- tion states that SURGe "shallf work to maintain a high level of. responsibility in SGC through gen- eral political education and direct: support of qualified candidates."; Officers In addition to Rhines, the offi- cers of the group are: Vice-Chair- man, Robert Pike, '65, chairman of the Special Projects Committee of the Michigan Union; and Secre- tary - Treasurer, SGC M e m b e r Elaine Resmer, '64. Rhines commented that SURGe agrees with SGRU that a study committee should be set up to FREDERICK RHINES probe SGC "but we think it shouldF study SGC in its present structure rather than a new form of stu- dent government." SGRU advocates a student-faculty study committee to look into the possibility of setting up a student-faculty government to replace SGC. Rhines commented. "I think we'll get support all over campus, To SurveyStudent Finances Harlan Says Verdict Voids House Seats Claims 398 Representatives 'Jeopardized' by Tribunal's Ruling WASHINGTON M-The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that congressional districts in each state must be mapped so as to give "equal representation for equal numbers of people" as far as practicable. The decision was 6-2, with Justice Tom C. Clark concur- ring in part and dissenting in part. This drew a protest from Justice John M. Harlan that the high tribunal is placing "in jeopardy the seats of almost all the members of the present House of Representatives." Only 37 Left "Today's decision," Harlan said, -"impugns the validity of the election of 398 representatives from 37 states, leaving a 'constitutional House of 37"" - members now sitting." By his calculation, only 22 members elected from states at large, plus 15 others, would meet his interpretation of the majori- ty's "equal population" ruling. Leaders of both parties in the House of Representatives dissent- ed promptly from Harlan's inter- pretation. Most of those question- ed saw the majority ruling as fair and something which many had expected for some time. Justice Hugo Black, presenting the majority opinion in which he was joined by five other justices, conceded that it "may not be pos- sible to draw congressional dis- tricts with mathematical preci- sion." But, he added, "That is no ex- cuse for ignoring our Constitu- tion's plain objective of making equal representation for equal numbers the fundamental goal for the House of Representatives. That is the high standard of justice and common sense which the founders set for us." Begs Questions Harlan protested that the court's formula of equal representation "as nearly as is practicable" is not defined and sweeps a host of questions under the rug. He said there is "an obvious lack of cri- teria for answering such questions as these, which points up the im- propriety of the court's whole- hearted but heavy-footed entrance into the political arena." Austin, Plan Seen in State Special To The Daily LANSING-In the shadow of ,yesterday's Supreme Court deci- sion on congressional districting, legislative leaders predicted last night that the state Supreme Court would reapportion state Senate districts on a one man, one vote basis. Sen. Robert VanderLaan (R- 3rand Rapids) said that the rumor in Lansing is that the high court will use the Austin Plan for re- apportionment. The Austin Plan was presented to the state Supreme Court by Democrat Richard Austin, a mem- ber of the Legislative Apportion- ment Commission. The plan calls for districting the state on a strict population basis, ignoring the state constitution's require- ment that state senatorial districts be drawn using a formula giving 80 per cent weight to population and 20 per cent to land area. Senate Minority Leader Charles Blondy said that despite the fact that using the Austin Plan would violate the state constitution, he thinks the state Supreme Court will go along with the federal tri- bunal and use it anyway. VanderLaan and Blondy, togeth- er with Senators Stanley R. Ro- 7_vlr M-Tonit " hro