'U'Officials Evaluate JSU 'Extramural'Inm iprii By LAURENCE KIRSHBAUM (Second in a Three-Part Series) University administrators engaged in state-wide educational planning inevitably focus on East Lansing. But University educators have their hearts and their energies confined mainly to Ann Arbor. This dichotomy in purpose-the administrators keyed to watching the public imprint of Michigan State University while educators are engrossed in teaching the local populace-has been the core of what officials call the Extension Service dilemma. Off-Campus Courses It focuses specifically around the program of off-campus or extramural credit courses. Over 500 courses are currently adminis- tered by the Extension Service but are taught mainly by mem- bers of the education, graduate and business administration schools and literary and engineering colleges. To these schools, officials of the Extension Service say "we have a state-wide responsibility to offer greater numbers of off- campus credit courses than are currently available." But educator- policy makers like the school deans respond that "while we are concerned with off-campus education, skimpy budgets limit our main commitments to on-campus improvements." But while extension officials note they are more concerned with the overall educational benefits of their programs, higher administration officials eye with specific concern the MSU extra- mural expansion. Comparative Figures The extramural dilemma is statistically expressed in the comparative figures of the University and MSU extramural pro- grams of the past eight years, As an Extension Service self-survey, a working paper on its way to Vice-President for Academic Affairs Roger W. Heyns notes, the University in the 1957-58 period offered 628 courses to about 14,000 off-campus enrolees. By 1962-63 there was a six per cent decline in courses offered -down to 598-and only a four per cent student increase in par- ticipating students-or a rise of 500 students. By contrast, during this comparable period, MSU increased its exramural credit program almost 30 per cent-109 more courses -and doubled its enrollment--a 3500 student increase. At present, each institution offers about 30 per cent of the total extramural student enrollment in Michigan-or over 24,000 students total combined between thetwo schools. The MSU rise and University decline numerically is centered around the two education schools which offer a majority of the courses for their respective schools. It is here that the administrator-educator dichotomy comes to the fore. The reason for the issue focusing on the education school- rather than in the business administration, liberal arts or engi- neering programs-is the survey's finding that of the courses offered by all nine state institutions which have extramural programs-over 90 per cent of these courses "can be classified as teacher-education oriented." This meant that some 91 per cent of the extramural popula- tion takes either education or liberal arts courses relating to teaching. Extension Service has thus devoted a significant portion of their recommendations to the University education school, urging that it "reexamine its current policies and attempt to increase its credit-course offerings throughout the state." MSU Aggressiveness The logic behind the Extension recommendations is explained by the self-survey in noting "Michigan State's extramural growth is attributable almost entirely to the aggressiveness of its School of Education." In its peak expansion of the last eight years, MSU has ac- counted for 80 per cent of its enrollment increase through in- creased teacher instruction or teacher-oriented additional cognate programs. . The education school refused to be completely convinced the recommendation. Dean Willard Olson discounts compariso with other schools-such as MSU-as "treading on unsafe watei Unimpressed by the MSU expansion picture, they say continued slight cutback in courses is the logical reaction existing education policies where campus projects have I priority and faculty members are not required to teach in educ tion work. Practically Mandatory MSU extramural teaching is practically mandatory, one of cial noted. Associate Dean Charles Lehmann of the school pinpoint the attitude that the University will not reduce its quality education either on or off the campus in order to compete w MSU. "We won't allow just any school superintendent to teach us-and that's just what they do," he declared, referring to I MSU policy of hiring less qualified special staff members to tea extramural programs. University Executive Vice-President Marvin L. Niehuss h explained that the hiring of influential local educators-such a superintendent of a school district-is State's way of buildi influential local allegiances. See OFFICIALS, Page 2 CRIME, PUNISHMENT: READERS STRIKE BACK See Editorial Page t ~~Iait WARMER High-40 Low-=28 Light snow tonight, flurries and colder Friday Seventy-Three Years of Editorial Freedom _y VOL. LXXIV, No. 136 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1964 SEVEN CENTS SIX Pi I I I l l l lp l II I I I PI I IO 1 LARGE SGC AGENDA: Keynoter Bluestone Motions Fail OAS To S Asks Special Panama Bod Crisi Student Government Council moved rapidly through a large agenda last night, as Barry Blue- stone, '65, failed to win passage for any of the six items he brought before the Council table. Bluestone, ,however, did play a part in SGC's major action of the evening-an expression of sup- port for the recent Women's Con- ference Committee report support- ing liberalization of women's hours. SGC's motion will be transmit- ted to Vice-President for Student Affairs James A. Lewis with a request that the recommendations go into effect the first Thursday after spring vacation. Cooperative Bookstore Bluestone's proposal to have SGC provide financial support for a cooperative bookstore was amended by Sherry Miller, '65, and passed the Miller motion. The Council will express its sup- port for the bookstore to the Re- gents and the administration, and will help the bookstore in a soon Trustees Reprimand, Oliver For Anti-Kennedy Article URBANA, Ill. (AP)-Trustees of the University of Illinois voted yesterday against disciplining a professor whose sharp criticism of the late President John F. Kennedy evoked a storm of protest. The trustees accepted a faculty committee's recommendation that "action of any kind' against Revilo P. Oliver, 54, a classics professor, for his anti-Kennedy remarks "is not indicated." They' adopted a report condemning J. E. WOLFE Railroad Heads Predict Unions To Call Strike WASHINGTON () - Railroad negotiators warned yesterday of a possible nationwide rail strike, but a union spokesman denied it and charged industry spokesmen with using "scare"tactics. Government officials reportedly were viewing the exchange as the latest skirmish in a "war of nerves" in the long railroad labor dispute and apparently weren't expecting any immediate strike over wages and other issues. After chief railroad negotiator J. B. Wolfe hadwarned that a "national' crisis' is imminent," a California superior court late last night granted the Southern Paci- fic Railroad a restraining order banning a strike by five railway operating brotherhoods. But H. E. Gilbert, president of one of the five operating unions, denied Wolfe's statement that there was a strike scheduled for one minute past midnight last night against the Southern Pa- Oliver for a lack of good taste. Oliver is the author of an ar- ticle published in the John Birch Society magazine, "American Opinion," after Kennedy's death. It suggested suggested that "e late President may have been as- sassinated because he ceased to be useful to a Communist con- spiracy to overthrow the United States. Lone Lissenter The trustees accepted the fac- ulty report by an 8-1 vote. Trustee Irving Dilliard of Collinsville, who cast the lone dissenting vote said he did so because the report did not go far enough on condemning Oliver for his attack on the late President. Another trustee, Harold Pogue of Decatur, termed Oliver's attack against the late President as "cowardly in the extreme and said the professor should resign from the university. Oliver was not available for comment. Views Not Shared In submitting the report, David Henry, president of the university, told the trustees: "That Mr. Oliver's views are not shared by this academic com- munity is certain . . . his un- supported accusations, his un- reasoned and vitriolic attack on the character and patriotism of President Kennedy are beyond the bounds of good taste in public comment and the normal proprie- ties of public debate." Henry last month referred the question of possible disciplinary action against Oliver to the Ur- bana-Champaign Senate Commit- tee on Academic Freedom and Tenure, a faculty group. He said then he felt the controversy re- quired "official notice." Henry said the committee in- formed him: "Action of any kind concerning these expressions or toward Pro- fessor Oliver because of them is not indicated." The university president said he concurs in the advice of the com- mittee. GM Expansion !" - T to be announced membership drive. However, there is another mo- tion pending to reconsider the Mil- ler motion, as certain Council members want to strengthen it. The Regents currently have a policy prohibiting official student organizations to compete with pri- vate businesses, and the original Bluestone motion would have cre- ated a conflict. Motions by Bluestone, Carl Coh- en, '66, and Eugene Won, '66, to revise election procedures were re- manded to an ad hoc committee for 'study. The committee will be composed of the motions' spon- sors and Don Filip, '65. The Council did approve anoth- er motion by Filip which rede- fines the Council committee struc- ture. The heart of this motion was a new standing committee on ed- ucational affairs which will be concerned with raising "academic, standards and propagating an in- tellectual atmosphere at the Uni- versity." The motion also creates a per- sonnel director and activities co- ordinator who will perform vari- ous functions previously handled by committee. Bluestone's final motion, that SGC create a committee to study a student employes' union, was still being debated when Council ad- journed. It refused to extend ad- journment time. Based on a survey it took, WCC made several recommendations to the Office of Student Affairs last week, chief of which was to elim- inate junior women's hours. Lewis has promised to issue a decision, on the recommendations by a week after vacation. The amend-' ed motion was presented by the' ex-officios from the three women's organizations. Little Groundwork During members' time, SGC President Thomas Smithson, '65,' declared that "there wasn't near- ly enough groundwork done on many of the motions which came' before us tonight." He contended that members must do more re- search and provide more informa- tion before they bring an issue to the table. SGC seated three new members last ngiht: Nancy Freitag,. '65, new president of the Women's League; Maxine Loomis, '65N, new president of Assembly Association,] and H. Neil Berkson, '65, new editor of The Daily. CONVOCATION-Pierre Salin- ger, White House press secretary, Will address the Honors Convo- cation to be held at the Uni- versity on May 8. He will also dedicate a plaque on the steps of the Michigan Union, com- memorating the place where the late President John F. Kennedy first delivered his concept of the Peace Corps. WITHDRAW: Quad Obj ects To IQC Move Representatives f r o m E a s t Quadrangle Council last told Stu- dent Government Council that they felt the recent banning of inter-house literature was not "democratic." John Koza, '64, said that this was a "small measure of democ- racy," and that withdrawing from Inter-Quadrangle Council was the only way for the various East Quadrangle houses to oppose the measure. He suggested the formation of an organization of men's house presidents under IQC such as is presently the case in Inter-Fra- ternity Council and in the Pan- hellenic Association. George Steinitz, '66, agreed with Koza, noting that John Eadie, IQC president, has taken an op- posing position in the dispute. By LEONARD PRATT The present hearings being con- ducted to discover whether or not a violation, of Ann Arbor's Fair Housing Ordinance has occurred, may be instrumental in deciding whether or not two important le- gal precedents are set. The first involves whether or not Ann Arbor's present injunc- tion laws under the Fair Hous- ing Ordinance will be speeded up or not. At a recent meeting of the Ann Arbor Human Relations Commis- sion, Human Relations Director David C. Cowley suggested that a telegram be sent to an apartment owner accused of discrimination immediately upon. receipt of a complaint and that a hearing be called within 24 hours of the sending of the telegram. Similar to New York This plan, proposed after study of a similar plan now in use in New York City, would considerably speed up Ann Arbor's present fair housing injunction system. Un- der the present system, over a week may elapse before an injunc- tion may be granted, time enough to allow an apartment under ques- tion to be rented away from a Ne- gro occupant. "If the ordinance is to be an effective tool against racial dis- crimination in housing," Walter Blackwell, president of the local Congress of Racial Equality chap- ter said, "injunctive relief must be used immediately when a com- plaint is lodged with the Human Relations Commission. "Otherwise, when there is only one apartment available, as in this case, and that apartment is rent- ed before any corrective measures are taken, the Negro complainant is unable to obtain the apartment he originally sought." Jurisdiction Matter The second precedent which may be set in the case is one concern- ing whether Michigan's new con- stitution or Ann Arbor's local ordinances will apply in future housing disputes. On the same day that the Fair Housing Ordinance was passed in " ..{.< Ann Arbor, Michigan Attorney General Frank Kelley gave an opinion stating that Michigan's new constitution automatically su- perceded any civil rights ordi- . nances which may have been pass- 'r' ...... r. ed by local governments. Cowley, however, said that Kel- ley's statement was "only an opin- ion" and that it did not have the force of state law behind it. This means that the possibility exists for an Ann Arbor fair hous-{ ing suit to set a legal precedent ' r in this matter under the new con- stitution. Apartment Dispute The present case arose when a . Negro was refused an apartment,: owned by a Detroit firm, in pref- ' erence to another applicant whoD had not been included on the orig- DAVIDCOWLEY inal waiting list for the apartment. Charges were brought by CORE Green has stated that his clients soon after. will not negotiate the matter un- Thomas H. Green, an attorney til after picketing of their apart- for the owners of the apartment ments has been stopped. CORE has house in question, has said that not agreed to halt the protests. the Negro in question had "never Cowley has annonuced that fur- filed an application" to rent an ther hearings are pending before apartment. a decision on the status of the CORE'is actively protesting both matteris reached. this and the injunction delay un- Until this time, CORE repre- der the present system. sentatives told The Daily that CORE has announced its will- they will continue their efforts in ingness to negotiate the issue, but any way possible. Idle Base Use in Job Corps Suggested by McNamara WASHINGTON (')-Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara suggested yesterday that idle military bases be used as training cen- ters for the proposed 100,000-man Job Corps-key plank in the ad- ministration's $962.5 million plan to combat poverty. McNamara, testifying before the House Education and Labor Committee, said the inactive defense installations could house most of the youths, aged 16 to 21. The plan would remove the young men from Gunfavorable environments and provide them with basic educa- tion and job skills. The armed services' high rejec- tion rate of draftees and recruits for failure to meet physical and mental requirements demon- strates the need for the program, McNamara said. U '}}<. The poverty program, outlined by Presid~nm Lyndon B. Johnson in a message to Congress Mon- :{sd y, is aimed at eliminating hard c( re poverty b' hitting at its ba- sic roots-peov ding the skills and educational background for oth- erwise u'ttrained youths and oth- er worke' s needing work. It would .e entirely under civ- ilian control. Hearings May Set Precedents See Chance Of Reaching Agreement Diplomats Blame Johnson Pessimism For Continued Strife WASHINGTON (P)-The Or- ganization of American States yesterday urged a special media- tion commission to pursue its ef- forts to solve the United States- Panamanian dispute. The generalcommittee of the OAS asked that efforts be con- tinued to reach agreement on the two nations' dispute over the Panama Canal and other matters "while there are expectations of success." The general committee then set another meeting for to- day. The decision came after the five-member mediation committee of Paraguay had reported its fail- ure so far to settle the dispute on terms agreeable to both nations. 'Frustrated' Plate reportedly told the com- mission - composed of all OAS members except the United States and Panama-that his group de- cided "its task was frustrated by the latest development." Most Latin American diplomats feel President Lyndon B. Johison threw cold water on hopes for a quick settlement in his statement Monday before the OAS. Johnson said then that there has not been "any genuine .meeting of the minds" between the United States and Panama. Johnson's remarks came less than 24 hours after the OAS med- iation commission had announced the United States and Panama had agreed tore-establish diplo- matic relations to seek a prompt solution of their conflicts over the Panama Canal. OAS Notified In a separate move, the OAS general commission was notified in a formal note yesterday that Panama regards the Sunday OAS declaration as "clear and precise." Panama's OAS delegation said the note stated Panama would abide by "what was agreed accord- ing to that declaration as long as. the United States government also is willing to comply." But this would be relatively meaningless unless the United States decides to abide by the agreement. OAS Secretary General Jose A. Mora was reported concerned over the turn the dispute had taken. Others Dissatisfied Latin American diplomats con- tinued to express consternation for the way the United States statements were made-in effect refuting the OAS announcement. There was uncertainty over who SAIN'S COFFEE HOUR: Panel Introduces Counseling By JUDY BARNETT A panel of faculty and administrative advisors met last night with Negro students to acquaint them with the counseling services available at the University. They were addressing the second Negro-faculty coffee hour in a series of gatherings initiated by Leonard S. Sain, special assistant to the director of admissions. It was held in response to the "encour- aging interest and participation of Negro students in the inaugural coffee hour," Sain said. The panel, chaired by Mrs. Elizabeth Davenport, assistant to the vice president for student affairs and co-ordinator of counselling services, discussed the problem of the lack of campus-wide publicity for these services. Secretary of Welfare Anth~ony J Celebrezze, alsc appearuu be- fore the cmn ittee, said: "Th osintn ofntat .:., .:. , ;; ..