SIDE EFFECTS FROM MICHIGRAS See Editorial Page Y Lilt iau &tIiO RAIN High-60 Low-46 Cloudy with expected drizzel Seventy-Three Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXIV, No. 162 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1964 SEVEN CENTS SIX PAGES -i i S I A Flint Expa Invokes C Conmuniity Col Pass Anti-Expai By LAURENCI The University is moving ahea in 1965 while community collegec ing to halt them. University and Flint officials more permanent foundation for tJ dent Marvin I. Niehuss reported. But community college officia tions to the planned addition of U Readies Press Plans For Johnson By ANN HARRIS Press relations were made last Saturday to publicize President Lyndon B. Johnson's appearance. at the University's 120th Com- mencement. Director of University Relations Michael Radock flew to Washing- ton to discuss the event with As- sistant Press Secretary Malcolm ' Kilduff at the White House. The conference was centered mostly around press relations for the May 22nd exercises. Publicity arrangements are now being made with Presidential Ap- pointment Secretary Kenneth 0'- Donnell and Presidential Press Secretary George Reedy. Not Discussed Radock said that security meas- 4 -- MICHAEL K. RADOCK ures were not discussed in depth put that White House Security Police will shortly contact the Office of University Relations. Secretary of the University Erich Walter reported that such meas- ures will not be disclosed for an- other two weeks. The Office of University Rela- tions has received one offer from a television station for a "pool fa- cility" which will enable all sta- tions to telecast the graduation ceremony. Kilduff is presently ad- vising the pool chairman at the White House. In addition to the public broad- cast there will be a closed circuit available at Hill Aud., Rackham Lecture Hall and Amphitheatre and Trueblood Aud. Times Unknown Johnson's times of arrival and departure here are presently un- known, but Radock reported that Johnson must return the same day to address a dinner in Washing- ton, D.C. The commencement exercises are scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. in the Michigan Stadium. The ceremony will be moved to Yost Field House in case of unfavorable weather conditions. Johnson shall receive an honor- ary .degree of law at the gradua- tion and afterwards will be honor- ed at an afternoon lunch with other recipients of honorary de- grees. General Information Radock took general informa- tion of the University to Washing- ton, commencement programs and procedures and pictures of the nsion Plan * * )ntroversy Enrolli lege Officials Admission's ision ResolutionSS cS E KIRSHBAUM Limit, Cause d with plans to expand Flint College officials around the state are arm- Of Reduction conferred here yesterday to lay a he expansion, Executive Vice-Presi- Most Schools Show ils continue to vocalize their objec- Substantial Decrease freshman-sophonore levels at the By JUDITH BARNETT 4University's upper - division col- lege. The move would set up a Spring enrollment figures re- four-year degree-granting insti- leased yesterday showed a net tio undyer egee-ntm aumpices -total of 26,161 students in resi- tution under Regental auspices. denc at the University, a decrease 'Personal Reasons' of 1,227 students over the number Dean Louis Fibel of the Flint enrolled last fall. Community College recently an- "This drop is due to the fact nounced his resignation effective that the University does not have June 30, "for personal reasons." the admissions capacity in the But faculty sources in Flint dis- spring that it has in the fall," closed that he was "quite dissat- Steven Spurr, dean of the natural isfied with the prospects of the resources school said. community college in Flint." Spurr claimed that the fact Dean Fibel declined to com- that the number of students grad- ment on his reasons for resigning. uating exceeded the number of His boss, Superintendent of students entering the University Community Education Lawrence had much to do with the decline Jarvey headed the delegation from in enrollment. The number of Flint here yesterday. Working men enrolled is 16,863; the num- w i t h University administrators, ber of women, 9,298. Niehuss said, the group set their All schools and colleges, with Immediate plans along these ten- the exception of the Flint exten- tative lines: sion, Natural Resources College Joint Committee and the Graduate school, have de- -To appoint a joint University- creased in number this spring. Flint committee, with heavy fac- The literary school and engineer- ulty representation, which will de- ing college led the list with 482 velop a "suitable curriculum" for and 321 students leaving respec- Flint's needs. An earlier blueprint tively. of the expansion has forseen a The architecture and design col- liberal arts program emphasizing lege had a spring enrollment of professional training for business, 691, decreasing 53 from fall fig- teaching and engineering. ures. The remaining breakdown of This committee would also de- schools and colleges would be termine the staff needs to meet business administration, 996, the eventual student increase from (down 6), Dearborn. 547 (down its present 600 level to 3000. 39), dentistry, 436 (down 20 stu- -To set up a second commit- dents), education, 1072 (up 95), tee, composed mainly of Flint of- engineering college, 2585, Flint ex- ficials, to study the space avail- tension school, 612 (up 10), grad- abilities and needs. The blueprint uate school, 6642 (down 38), law, calls for the use of existing facili- 966, (down 41 students), literary ties during a transitional three- school 8297, medical school, 1,229 year period. This would necessi- (down 61), music school, 569 tate the University only to seek (down 44), natural resources, 206, operations funds from the state nursing, 700 (down 58), pharmacy, "for enrollment increases." 107 (down 10), public health, 217 T Cooperative Ties' (down 23) and the social work -To continue a liaison com- school,339 (down 16). mittee of Flint and University ad- Representative Richard Guzow- ministrators. An original six-man ski(D-Det.) has recently intro- liaison committee, including Jar- ski (D-Deasre yntro-s vey and Niehuss, formulated the duced a measure into the House general blueprint for expansion, for limitig istate-outstate ratios While its membership may be al- at the University. tered, the objective of maintaining Representative William Romano joint bonds between Flint and the (D-Warren) has led the opposition University would remain the same, in the past for limiting outstate Niehuss explained. admission in state universities. Of primary concern to this com- Although Mr. Romano acknowl- mittee would be working with the edges the need for outstate stu- community college, he said. dents to "create a cosmopolitan When the Regents formally ac- atmosphere," he feels there is "a cepted an invitation to expand drive by elitist state institutions their senior college "as expedit- to admit more out-of-state stu- iously as possible" at their April dents."' meeting, a flurry of community "I, as well as President Harlan college criticism was unleashed. Hatcher, have an obligation to Criticizes Expansion see that first the Michigan student The representative of the com- gets a good education," Romano munity college system on .the claimed. Michigan Co-Ordinating Council Since the fall enrollment fig- for Public Higher Education, Dean ures are the only ones used by Phillip Gannon of the Lansing most universities to compute in- Community College, criticized the state-out-state enrollment break- proposed expansion before the downs, there are no figures avail- council a week ago. able in the spring concerning that At the same time, the Michigan ratio. ' Association of Junior and Com- munity Colleges passed a resolu- PTP tion "questioning the wisdom of PPAUSPICES: ~this expansion." The statement claimed that the addition of freshman-sophomore A levels in Flint would "duplicate A Pr4yT o . the work already offered by Flint Community Junior College on the very campus where the proposed The Association of Producing expansion would take place." Artists will return to the Univer- Share Facilities sity for its third Fall Festival Pro- Currently, the University's Flint gram under the auspices of the College and the Flint Community Professional Theatre Program. College have adjoining campus The repertory company will run facilities and share several facili- for eight weeks Sept. 23 through ties. Nov. 15 in four new productions, Niehuss yesterday pointed to the among them "War and Peace"- Regents' official expansion state- a stage adaptation of Tolstoy's ment in reiterating the Univer- novel, "The Hostage" by Brendan sity's willineness to "review the Behan and George Bernard Shaw's plans with Gov. George Romney's "Man and Superman" in Lydia Citizen's Committee on Higher Mendelssohn Theatre. Education." A hearing before the The aduction of "War nd * * * * nent Declines by 1200 j ', 7 r. t ' i) t E . E, i t" a t r i 1 t .( t r 1 * * STEPHEN H. SPURR * TODAY: SGC Takes Campus Poll On Actions The students will have a chancej to express their opinion on recent SGC action today. The Public Relations Board of Student Government Council is administering a student opinion poll for SGC. There will be a table on the diag, open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today where students mayI fill out the forms. The questions on the forms concern action already taken by the Council and proposed action, and includes a space for additional comment. The poll's purpose is to make{ SGC more cognizant of student opinion so that it can more ac- curately represent its constitu- ents, Barry Bluestone, '66, the maker of the motion to conduct1 the poll, noted. He said that the more studentsdthat participate the more meaningful the poll will be. Results of the poll will be tabu- lated during the summer and pre- sented to SGC next fall. 'rimary Will Goes to Lodge By The Associated Press Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge won with ease his home state's- Massachusetts-Republican presi- dential primary yesterday, and Pennsylvania Gov. William W. Scranton bolted far ahead in his state's GOP ballot for its favorite son. Lodge, the administration's en- voy in South Viet Nam, quickly rocketed ahead in Massachusetts' write-in preferential primary and was running second in Pennsyl- vania. Scranton, like Lodge, is not an avowed candidate although some Republicans hope to prod him into the race as the fastest dark horse. And his supporters labored against rain yesterday to whip up a strong write-in showing for him. MSU Paces Nation In Merit Winners By JEFFREY GOODMAN Michigan State University will get 206 National Merit Scholarship winners in the fall, compared with about 30 for the University, but there is more to the figures than appears on the surface. And contrary to the fears of some at the University, the dif- ference is not likely to affect legislative appropriations to the University. According to Sen. Stanley G. Thayer (R-Ann Arbor), the number of National Merit winners at the two schools has "never had any influence on appropriations decisions." At a February meeting of the American Association of Uni- versity Professors he reportedly indicated that the Legislature is gaining ' a greater apprecia- tion of quality differentials among state universities. 'Crass Fashion' Nevertheless, he said last night that "going out in a kind4 of crass fashion to pull in Merit scholars, spending a lot of money simply to be able to say that you have a certain num- ber, is a rather poor way tox show that you have a first class ...... institution." But the figures seem to speak for themselves. For instance, while MSU Vice-President forF Special Projects Gordon Sab- me reports that 400 Nationalr Merit finalists will be among MSU's freshman class of 4500 this fall, the University will enroll 600-700 freshmen of PROF. ADON GORDUS finalist caliber in its 3400 en- tering class, Assistant Director of Admissions Byron L. Groes- beck said. Furthermore, when MSU began its then-unique program of granting $100-$1500 scholarships to finalists through the Na- tional Merit program in the fall of 1963, it had only 30 winners on its campus and ranked 66th in the nation. In one year, grant- ing 149 scholarships through its own program and attracting an additional 59 with scholarships from industry and founda- tions, it brought its total to 228. 157 of 206 Without the school-sponsored grants, MSU's current total would be only 89. And of the over 200 Merit winners it will admit this fall, 157 of them will receive their money from the school and 49 from other sources. The University, however, currently has 79 Merit winners and will replace at least 30 of these in the fall, Groesbeck said. Last fall it admitted 29 winners. But either way you look at it, MSU seems to be on top. Counting its own Merit funds it ranks first among the nation's colleges, but without them, it is still third. Is the picture still dark for the University? Not at all, Groes- beck says, for there are other considerations which tend to offset MSU's claim, as the November issue of its alumnus magazine states, that "we lead all universities in new Merit scholar fresh- men." First Choice Push The considerations center mainly on MSU's recruiting pro- cedures. The East Lansing school sends out letters to all Na- tional Merit semifinalists urging them to list MSU as first choice on their Merit application form and inviting them to visit the campus. The Merit hopeful must indicate a choice by the time he is a finalist. According to Ivan Parker, assistant director of finan- cial aids, MSU advises that listing that institution at the top of the list will not only increase the applicant's chances of getting Merit money-from MSU's own funds-but will give him a better chance of receiving other MSU funds-especially one of the $1500-a-year Alumni Distinguished Scholarships for which See MSU, Page 2 $41.8 million for next year represents a 9.4 per cent in- crease over the current ap- propriation. Current Level Rep. Carroll C. Newton (R- Del- ton) said "we felt it was a big in- crease for one year." Rationalizing the across the board cut Newton explained "we didn't know what the 'building for the future' money was to be used for. Increasednenrollment and raising faculty salaries are impor- tant but other purposes for the 'building for the future' requests' were not so clear." Some members of the commit- tee were doubtful of expected en- rollment increases Rep. Wilfred G. Bassett (R-Jackson) asserted.' These predictions failed to ma- terialize in elementary schools as was once anticipated." "Legislators have become wary of these claims," he noted. Not Needed The money appropriated to re- model East Medical Bldg. will not be needed until the Medical Science Bldg., unit II is completed some two years from now Bassett explained. The remodeling would not be done until East Medical is vacated when the medical building is ready for use. "There is no need to appropriate money that won't be used for two years," he indicated. The total operating budget ap- propriation to higher education was cut from ,$131.1 million the; Senate approved figure to $124.6 million. Each school was cut by the same five per cent figure from the level approved in the Senate. The capital outlay cut of $300,- 000 to the University was the only major capital outlay cut to higher education. The $41.2 million approved by the House Ways and Means Com- mittee for next year's operations fund is 9.6 per cent higher than the current fiscal year levy of $38.2 million. Annual Increase Since World War II, University operating budget appropriation was increased each year at an average rate of 15.3 per cent un- til the 1958-59 fiscal year when it was cut almot $1 dollars. It was increased by 11.2 per cent in 1959-60. but for the following four years the average increase was a modest 3.5 per cent. Must Act The House must act on the bill by midnight Friday. Bassett indi- cated that in the past 10 years the House has approved 95 per cent of the bills approved by the ways andmeans committee. After the House acts on the bill a joint House and Senate com- mittee will rectify differences be- tween the Senate and House ver- sions of the bill. Senior Board Officers Picked For Next Year The Senior Board for 1965 has been selected to take on the lead- ership responsibilities for the en- tire s ,,,, n a c IFC Fines Sigma Chi" For Violation By JOHN .~ EREDITH The Executive Committee of In- terfraternity Council last night fined Sigma Chi $700 for viola- tions of University regulations oc- curring at its pledge formal on April 11 and reprimanded Beta Theta Pi for conduct unbecom- ing a fraternity. Two hundred dollars of Sigma Chi's fine was suspended for one year.. The fraternity was found guilty of failing to properly register its party, having alcohol present, and permitting women to enter non- communal areas, specifically the upper floors of the house. Attempted Registration It was brought out that Sigma Chi had attempted to register the function, but that irregularities in their registration form had ore- vented its acceptance by the ad- ministration. One of the signa- tures on chaperone cards submit- ted for approval had been forged. Along with the rejected regis- tration, Sigma Chirhad entered a request for permission to al- low women attending the pledge formal to be in nonconmunal areas. Such permission has been granted the fraternity in the past. In explaining the Executive Committee's decision, Stephen Idema, '65, IFC executive vice- president, emphasized that Sigma Chi had been caught in the act of committing the violations by a University officer. Decision Precedented He further pointed out that there were ample precedents on record that justify the decision, calling special attention toa sim- ilar case last semester. The size of the fine was partly determined on a basis of the number of men in the fraternity, he remarked. Sigma Chi can now appeal the case to either the IFC Executive Committee by presenting addition- al evidence or the Joint Judiciary. Beta's Too Beta Theta Pi was brought be- fore the executive committee be- cause of a complaint filed with the Office of Student Affairs by a resident advisor in South Qaud- rangle. The complaint charged the fra- ternity, which is located next to the quad, with causing a disturb- ance last Wednesday. At the time, members of the fraternity were wrecking an old car in their park- ing lot by throwing rocks and ce- ment blocks at it. In discussing the case, the com- mittee expressed considerable con- cern over hostile feeling between many residents of the quad and members of Beta Theta Pi. Pass Resolution As part of its decision, the com- mittee passed a resolution ack- nowledging that Beta Theta Pi is not solely responsible for inci- dents involving South Quad and the fraternity. The resolution further established a committee consisting of the IFC president. t --h a nrirntf fa na . P All State Colleges Cut by5 Per Cent Money for East Medical Bldg. Taken from Capital Outlay Plan By BRIAN BEACH Claiming there was insufficient justification for the Sen- ate approved higher 'education appropriations increase, the House Ways and Means Committee cut the ten state colleges' and universities' operating budget requests by five per cent across the board last night. The University's $44 million operating budget levy as submitted by Gov. George Romney and approved by the Sen- ate was cut to $41.8 million. The University's capital outlay request was cut $300,000 to $5.4 million. The $300,000 was originally designated for remodeling East Medical Bldg. This year's operating budget is $38,2 million. The proposed Return for Third Fall Festival has been. appearing on the off- Broadway stage in New York. "Man and Superman" by Shaw is the only one of the ,three per- formances that is a part of the APA's repertory. A fourth pro- duction, as yet to be announced, will complete the fall program. In addition, the PTP will pre- sent their Play of the Month Series, with five international and Broadway attractions, to be an- nounced in the future, December through April. There will be a New Play Project production in ..3:.. :. :i:Y::.:: . . .. ... ......... I