The Trimester Exp eriment: aculty Adapts to It (Second of Four Articles) By H. NEIL BERKSON and KENNETH WINTER Picture the average professor. He has spent well over three decades, as teacher and student, carefully fitting himself to the pace of the academic year. Despite sabbaticals, conventions, research excursions and other diversions, his weeks and his months generally fall into a very pleasant pat- tern-the same one year after year. Many people predicted, therefore, that the faculty would have the hardest time adjusting to the trimester and its new calendar. But a Daily survey indicates that this battered segment of the academic community has a remarkable resiliency. Over 75 per cent of faculty polled declared some degree of preference for last fall's shorter calendar. Whether or not they experienced diffi- culties, they are confident they can make the necessary adjust- ments. "We all like to stay in a rut, but we'll make a new one shortly," Raymond J. Stith, a lecturer in the engineering college, observed. Stith was one of more than 60 faculty members responding to a Daily questionnaire exploring reactions to the new calendar. Beginning and ending earlier than ever before, the revised term was a prelude to year-round operations, scheduled to begin as soon as the Legislature provides the money. Responses to the questionnaire would seem to lead to. the following generalizations: -An overwhelming majority of the faculty believes that the adjusted calendar had no effect on student performance. -Nearly half altered their course content, requirements and/or grading practices prior to last fall in order to ease the pressure of the changeover. After one semester under the new calendar, one third of those polled plan to introduce changes or more changes. -Over two-thirds felt they fulfilled their teaching duties as well last fall under the old calendar. Only one professor reported serious difficulties with grading papers, writing exams, seeing stu- dents, etc., though many did have some trouble. -The number of incompletes did not rise significantly. -The faculty is most widely split over the nature of the exam period. Half expressed some degree of preference for last fall's two-hour finals in a one-week period. One-third would rath- er see the old schedule of two weeks and three-hour finals. The rest had no preference. -Over half would oppose, to some degree, the establishment of a one-week "reading period" before the start of finals. signment, often previously done over Christmas vacation, might put extra strain on the student along with his regular assign- ments." Prof. Ernest N. McCarus of the Near Eastern studies depart- ment downgraded his final to the equivalent of two hourly exams. "My courses have mostly to do with language instruction," he explained. "The main effect of the new arrangement last semester was (1) to shorten the number of class hours at our disposal, so that we simply covered a bit less ground than before; and (2) to de-emphasize the final exam. point," Prof. Robert M. Caddell of the engineering college said. "In addition, the short break prior to registration for the spring semester was, in the past, pretty much 'dead' time for students and faculty. "It seems to me that completing the entire semester before Christmas vacation and starting a new semester upon vacation's end is a much more efficient use of time and generates a much better mental attitude all around." Prof. John J. Carey of the engineering college, a member of the college's Scholastic Standing Committee, provided this dis- senting note on the elimination of the "lame-ducl:" "Although I don't have the figures to confirm my opinion, I believe that more students were placed on the 'home list' this past semester than in any semester for the past five .years. I believe that this was due to the elimination of the Christmas vacation." Various administrators, such as University President Harlan Hatcher and Dean William Haber of the literary college, have expressed support for a class-free reading period sometime prior to exam week. The faculty, however, does not favor the idea. "I think students need a reading period, but the time is already too short to cover many of the courses," a member of the physics department replied in his questionnaire. "A few students would probably benefit, most would not," Prof. Leo A. Schmidt of the business administration school said. "Many would simply waste the time; some would be led to post- pone important study to that period and waste more time during the semester." "Reviewing for finals means cramming for finals," Prof. Ernst Pulgram of the Romance languages department replied, in ex- plaining why he opposed the reading period. "This is undesirable and, if both professor and student have performed properly, un- necessary." A psychologist replied this way: "A study or relaxation week in the middle of the fall semester might have reduced a little of See FACULTY, Page 2 RAYMOND J. STITH, ROBERT M. CADDELL, LEO A. SCHMIDT, GERALD A. DENEAU, JOHN CAROW JOHN J. CAREY ERNST PULGRAM NED FLANDERS Faculty who changed their courses either before or after last semester found a variety of ways to do so, but in most cases they reduced the quantity of material covered. "The quantity, but not the quality of the workload was reduced," Prof. Robert B. Lytle Jr. of the architecture and design college said in reference to his course. Specifically, implemented or planned changes include: de- emphasizing finals; giving fewer hourlies; reducing paper re- quirements and progressing more rapidly - particularly through introductory materials. "I had no term paper requirement," Prof. John Carow of the natural resources school wrote. "It seems to me such an as- "Since we gave several quizzes during the term, this was not vital." He added that "the big loss is a lack of opportunity to re- view at the end of the term and tie together the activities of the semester." Professors Carow and McCarus both came right back to say that "a genuine Christmas-New Year vacation" more than com- pensates for any of the problems they saw. And other faculty generally agreed. They consistently listed the elimination of the "lame-duck" session as one of the strongest features in the new calendar. "The last two weeks of the old calendar, which followed the Christmas vacation, were very undesirable from a teaching stand- SOUTH WEAVES WEB OF TYRANNY See Editorial Page Y gilt :4hait# FLURRIES High-33 Low-26 Windy and colder tomorrow Seventy-Three Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXIV, No. 111 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1964 SEVEN CENTS SIX PAGES ROMNEY'S VIEW: ichigan Districts Not Invalidated' By The Associated Press LANSING -'Gov. George Romney said yesterday he does not expect Monday's "equal representation" ruling by the United States Supreme Court to pose a threat to Michigan's 1963 congressional districting plan. Romney also said he does not to use the "one man, one vote" expect the Michigah Supreme Court principle set forth in the decision- as its guide in determining new state Senate districts. The governor also said he is closing the door to immediate con- sideration of any alternatives for legislative districting this year on the premise that the Michigan Su- preme Court will rule on appor- tionment before the end of March. Romney told his press confer- ence that the United States court's ruling overturning Georgia con- gressional districts as malappor- tioned "would have applied to Michigan" if the legislature had not agreed last year on new con- gressional districts. Romney said the United States court's ruling in the Georgia case should have no bearing on the state Supreme Court's decision on apportionment because the "im- mediate responsibility' of the state court is to determine which of several plans conforms most close- ly to the new constitution. The document calls for Senate districts based 80 per cent on pop- ulation and 20 per cent on area. This formula has been chal- lenged in a United States District Court suit by Michigan AFL-CIO President August Scholle and three other labor leaders on grounds it does not meet the "one man, one vote" rule. The leaders of a bi-partisan House group seeking to amend the constitution also assailed Romney for taking a stand that, they said, may have made their plan "a dead horse." Rep. Gail H a n d y (R-Eau Claire) criticized the governor for See ROMNEY, Page 2 Submits, 'U'Outlay Proposal In a record $51.2 million, 88- project program for 1964-65, Gov. George Romney is asking the Legislature for $5.7 million in cap- ital outlay funds for the Univer- sity. s-The program, sent'to the Legis- lature Monday night by the gov- ernor, will exceed the existing single-year state spending record for construction by nearly $20 million. The proposed program asks that the 88 building projects, eventual- ly costing $190 million, be moved ahead in the planning or construc- tioh phases. Most for Education Two-thirds of the projects would be in the fields of higher education and mental health. Of the total asked for the Uni- versity, $4.9 million is for con- struction work on new buildings and $800,000 is for expansion and remodeling work on existing build- ings. The new-building figure includes $385,000 to complete the Music School Bldg., $1.9 milion to conm- plete the second unit of the Fluids and Engineering Bldg., $1.2 million to start the Medical Science Bldg. Unit II and $1.5 million to start construction of a new dental school building. Expansion Funds The $800,000 expansion figure consists of $300,000 to plan and start work on an addition to East Medical Bldg. and $500,000 to con- tinue renovations at the Medical Center. Key legislative leaders predicted Monday that higher education in the state would receive about the amount Romney requested. Re- publicans foresaw "possibly slight cuts" while Democrats said that a small increase in Romney's request might be needed. PROF. JAMES K. POLLOCK View Effect OfDecisionl Monday's Supreme Court rul- ing on equal representation for equal numbers of people "has no lirect relevance to the state ap- portionment problem," Prof. Jer- )ld H. Isreal of the Law School said yesterday. Prof. James K. Pollock of the )olitical science department, who helped form Michigan's new con- stitution, also expressed the opin- ion that it has no bearing on re- apportionment in the state. Noting reports that some legis- lative leaders have predicted the state Supreme Court would reap- portion the state on the basis of the federal court's decision, Prof. Pollock said, "I think it would be quite improper for this decision tc influence other impending state decisions. "To do so would be in violation of the Michigan Supreme Court, and that is going pretty far. I can't believe that will happen." The professors also expressed the belief that the Supreme Court de- cision does not mean that repre- sentation will have to be based on a one man, one vote basis as reported. By JOHN WEILER Student Government Council will hear a reoommendation to- night from its committee on stu- dent activities to recognize the Student Government Reform Un- ion and the Students United for Responsible Government. T h e committee will propose that SGC waive its two week waiting rule in order to certify the organiza- tions. SGC President Russell Epker, '64BAd, will present a motion to place the names of SGRU, SURGe and Voice after the names of en- dorsed candidates. SGC will continue its discussion of student rules and regulations. A detailed procedure for operating if power over non-academic rules is extended to Council will be discussed. Tonight's meeting will also see a continuation of the debate on year-round operations at the University. Epker will present a motion to create a committee to study "operations and problems of student activities on a year- round basis. The executive committee of SGC reported yesterday that tonight's meeting will be held in Council chambers rather than in the South Quadrangle Lounge as was previously announced. South Quad will host the meeting of Feb. 26. Discontinue Survey Plan, By MARY LOU BUTCHER The students' "blue ribbon" committee on higher education, established by the Michigan region of the United States National Stu- dents' Association, will discontinue its plans to survey the state's edu- cation needs. According to a directive of the regional executive committee, the committee will instead seek to analyze Michigan's higher educa- tion problems by attempting to obtain a copy of the data collected by Gov. George Romney's "blue- ribbon" citizens' committee. Edwin Sasaki, Grad, executive director of the student committee, said that this decision will save a duplication of efforts since, the data collected would be "exactly the same," and will permit the students to write their prelimin- ary report from the data gathered by the citizens' group. More Freedom Sasaki noted that it is much easier for the citizens committee to obtain data since "they have more personal freedom" to travel around and "it is difficult to find students to take time out to do such research." He also commented that it has been difficult to find a large num- ber of students "who would be aware enough and strongly enough committed to education so that they would want to take part in a program such as this." This kind of interest has been "lacking to a large degree, per- haps even non-existent." Poor Response He pointed out that poor re- sponse was as typical of large a call by the council for a guar- antee from all states to protect the territorial integrity of his country. Kyprianou declared that once the council acted on a guarantee against aggression "we are open to suggestions and ready to dsi- cuss" the peacekeeping aspect of the situation and the details of a_ settlement. Earlier Sir Patrick Dean of Bri- tain asked the council to let his- own country, Cyprus, Greece and Turkey work out with Secretary- General U Thant the establish- ment of the peace force. Under Dean's proposal the council would only "point the way" toward a solution. Dean withheld submitting a for- mal resolution pending the out-1 come of private consultations.1 Thant is holding with U.N. dip-k lomats for resolving the Cyprusr issue. Meanwhile, in Washington,t high - ranking U n i t e d Statesc sources expressed confidence thatr a Cyprus peace-keeping force ar- rangement could be worked out in the Security Council without run-# ning into a Soviet veto. _ It was understood that foreignr diplomats who have been in touchj with the Russians have reported the Kremlin appears to favor a peaceful solution to the island'sf troubles.t The United States sources por- trayed Cyprus President Arch- bishop Makarios as seeking to gain advantage for his Greek Cy- priot faction by going to the U.N. rather than putting first emphasis on stopping bloodshed. Find All SGC Petitions Valid The Student Government Coun- CNamara Affirms Of U.S. from Viet P tTo Propose'PEACE FORCE: Recognition Cyprus, Britain Disagree For Parties On Security Council Role UNITED NATIONS (IP)-Cyprus and Britain clashed yesterday over the role of the United Nations Security Council in establishing an international peace force to be sent to the strife-torn Mediter- ranean island republic. Foreign Minister Spyros Kyprianou of Cyprus declared that the peacekeeping force should be under control of the council and em- powered to protect Cyprus from outside aggression. He said first - consideration should be given to Withdr awal am by:1965 To Pull Out Regardless Of Situation .":: Secretary Declares Vietnamese Can Wirx Only by Themselves By The Associated Press WASHINGTON - The United States will pull most of its troops out of Viet Nam by 1965-regard- less of who is winning the war, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara told Congress, accord- ing to testimony revealed yester- day. Saying that "the war can only be won by the Vietnamese them- ROBERT S. McNAMARA selves," McNamara told the House Armed Services Committee in se- cret testimony two weeks ago that TAX BILL: the United States would not keep its forces in Viet Nam even if the war is going badly. The Johnson administration has ointention of seeing another Ko- rea - with hundreds of thousands D u r - - r ofUnited States troops pouring D(ue(Today into Viet Nam, he said. SSmallPercentage WASHINGTON 0P) - Senate- At the most, McNamara says he House conferees stayed in session foresees a small percentage of late yesterday on the tax cut bill Americans staying on as advisers but failed to reach final agree- after the bulk of United States ment. troops leave. They told reporters, however, In large part, McNamara was that it is likely the work on a repeating a policy stated by him compromise will be completed this and Gen. Maxwell D. n Taylor, morning. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of House leaders said the final bill Staff, in October, after they probably will be brought up in toured South Viet Nam. that branch next Monday or Tues- nI don t believe that we as a day. The Senate plans to pass it nation uld assume the prima and send it to President Lyndon B. responsibility for the war in South Johnson soon after the House acts. Viet Nam," McNamara said. "It is a counterguerrilla war, it is a The amount withheld from war that can only be won by the workers' pay checks for income Vietnamese themselves. Our re- taxes will be cut from 18 per cent sponsibility is not to substitute to 14 per cent eight days after ourselves for the Vietnamese, but Johnson signs the measure under to train them to carry on the op- agreement reached Monday by the erations that they themselves are conferees. capable of." Two of the major issues left un- Some Would Stay settled involve capital gains taxes "Those portions of our person- and sick pay tax benefits. nel functioning as military advis- The House voted for a cut in ers in contrast to trainers would, capital gains rates on assets held I think, have to stay there until two years or more, but the Sen- the counterinsurgency operation ate knocked this out. The John- has been successfully completed," son administration has been press- he said. ing hard to eliminate the House But he noted that the advisers reduction. are "a relatively small fraction of On sick pay, the House vedthe total number of people we * .d.....1.. ~ ~ have there.' EI THE EYES HAVE IT: tM' Bows to Gophers,897 Special To The Daily MINNEAPOLIS-Michigan was rudely, dropped from the top spot in the Big Ten into a first place tie with Ohio State here last night when Minnesota rolled up an 18-point first half margin and fought to an 89-75 victory. By upsetting the No. 2 ranked Wolverines, the Gophers lowvered Michigan's conference record to 8-2 and moved to a game behind the new co-leaders with a 7-3 mark. Michigan had beaten Minnesota.". at Yost Field House, 80-66, earlier in the season. But before the 17,000; fans in Williams Arena where the Gophers have only lost to sixth- ranked Wichita this season it was a different story. Michigan now has a 17-3 season record. Minnesota is 14-6." As the result of a cold shooting first half for Michigan, the " I" i P11CQh RhYvCJPV !