CAMPUS SECRECY UNJUSTIFIABLE See Page 4 iE Seventy-One Years of Editorial Freedom Iait CLOUDY, COOLER Hig9h-52 Low--35 Scattered light showers through Friday 0 C VOL. LXXII, No. 34 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1961 SEVEN CENTS EIGHT PA {- .A PredictBright Future For Freshman Class By MICHAEL OLINICK Practically every one of the 3,300 University freshmen will be academically eligible to continue as a sophomore, admission officials predicted yesterday. The most selective freshman group in University history, the class of '65 should at least equal the achievements of those who en- tered ,a year ago, Assistant Director of Admissions Byron L. Groesbeck said. More than 90 per cent of them posted satisfactory grades dur- ing their first year. More Selective Each freshman group for the past decade has been more selective- ly chosen than the one before it, until today's successful applicants Securit~y Outer 1 Council. longolia, Votes To, Sea Mauritamia 4 t GILBERT L.'LEE . explains fee refunds U' Draftees .To Receive FeeRefund By SANDRA JOHNSON University students called to ac- tive duty by thearmed services will receive a full refund of se- mester fees, University Comptrol- ler Gilbert L. Lee has stated in a memo to the billing office. In addition, they will not need to pay a service charge for this refund. Less than a dozen students have left the University this semester- to assume active duty, Supervisor of Student Billing Neil M. Tracy said yesterday. Otherwse, students would re- ceive a full refund without a serv- ice charge only if the change in "fee status" were brought by ad- ministrative action of the Univer- sity, he explained. Other Instances Tracy cited the dropping of a course or the removal of students from a class that is too full as instances in which such a refund might be demanded. In all other cases a student .leaving during the first two weeks of school is refunded his entire fee minus a $30 dis-enrollment charge. If he is leaving during the third through sixth week, the stu- dent loses half his fee, and beyond the sixth week the student forfeits the entire amount. If a student changes frm one program or school to another within the University, he is mere- ly reassessed the appropriate fee for the new program selected. Refunds Slow At present refunds are coming back more slowly that usual be- cause the student- billing office is swamped with persons who have mistakenly paid $50 more than re- quired for their fees, Tracy said. Many freshman and transfer students, not realizing that the $50 deposit they paid before they came to Ann Arbor was to be applied to their fees, paid the full $140 during registration, instead of only the $90 they still owed. Obvious Refunds Once these "obvious refunds" have been taken care of, the stu- dent billing office will begin processing the more involved re- funds for students who have changed their. status, he explain- ed. First these refunds requests must be properly recorded in the billing office. Each case must then be checked to see if the money came from a loan, scholarship, or from the stu- dent himself, to make sure that the office is returning money only tonindividuals entitled to it, Tracy eprlained mare-nine times out of 10-those who graduate in the top quarter of their high school classes. Eighty-nine per cent of this year's group ended up in the top quarter, as compared to 86 per cent last fall, "a very slightly higher" figure, Groesbeck said. A class-rank breakdown shows that 57 per cent of the freshmen were in the top tenth of their graduating classes, 25 per cent in the second tenth, and 12 per cent in the third tenth. I After all other criteria are con- sidered, a student who ranks in the upper .tenth of his graduating class and has the recommendation of his principal is virtually cer- tain to be successful at the Uni- versity, Groesbeck said. Analyzes Standards He pointed out that the increas- ed quality of the class arises from a higher number of well-qualified students in a growing college-age population and increased aware- ness by the high schools as to who should apply to the Univer- sity. This awareness accounts for the slightly lower number of applica- tions received last year. "The drop came in the group of unqualified out-of-state students who view the University as a place of high academic competition and fear they won't make the grade," Groesbeck said. Associate Director Gayle Wilson added that counselors and princi-. pals "realize that competition is mounting . and recommend the student for admission only if they think he will succeed here." Counselors' Role Wilson explained that counse- lors, like admission officers, eval- uate students in the light of their backgrounds and planned pro- grams of study, realizing that com- petition varies in each University school and college. The literary college - which accounts for 60 per cent of the freshmen-has the most severe competition, while the more spe- cialized undergraduate units have less of a problem. "There is a qualified student in every slot, however," Groesbeck said, "and there are no -vacant spaces." Railroads Ask Financial Aid Of Governors NEW YORK (P-Ailing eastern railroads yesterday urged gover- nors of ten states to help them cure "truly critical" ills that have plunged them $122 million in the r6el so far this year. Six spokesmen, five of them presidents of major lines, attrib- uted their plight mostly to a "jun- gle of unfair competition" with rival modes of transport fostered by discriminatory tax and regula- tion policies. Jervis Langdon, Jr., president of the deficit-ridden Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, said nationaliza- tion of the railroad industry threawened unless the federal gov- ernment moved q'uickly to the res- cu.11p- CIVIL RIGHTS: SGC To Send Wires On Mississippi Violence By JUDITH OPPENHEIM Student Government Council voted last night to send telegrams t6 Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Gov. Ross Barnett of Mississippi regarding violence related to civil rights activities in the South. The message to Kennedy takes note of the evidence of violence and lawlessness in Mississippi in connection with such activities and urges him to state "publicly under what conditions the federal government will intervene in that state and what form such inter- vention would take." Implicate Actively It further urges him to "implicate actively through investiga- tion and procedure all existing f Offer First District Plan T on-Con LANSING )-Six Democratic delegates yesterday submitted the first legislative apportionment plan ' to the Constitutional Con- vention. The proposal informally touch- ed off what is certain to be one of the hottest disputes at the Convention. Democrats have set reapportionment of the Legisla- ture as one of their top goals. The sponsoring group, all from the Detroit area, proposed to al- locate to each member of the House of Representatives votes equal to the combined vote cast in his district for his office at the last election. Voting Power The voting power of each rep-, resentative thus would be altered after each biennial convention. If the two representatives were elected from ' single district, each would cast a number of votes equal to half the combined votes cast for the two positions. Another Democratic proposal would limit the disparity in the population of Michigan's congres- sional districts to 5,000. The dif- ference in the current 18 districts is as much as 500,000. Tax Proposal Michigan AFL-CIO President August Scholle urged the conven- tion not to make any changes in the way state tax revenues are earmarked, unless it first changes the state's legislative setup. Scholle, in testimony scheduled for delivery at a hearing of the con-con committee on finances and taxation, repeated the AFL- CIO stand that the present state Legislature is not truly represen- tative. He said the reason Michigan voters earmarked some $592-mil- lion tax dollars was because "they had no confidence in the Legisla- ture being fair and equitable in the distribution of these reve- nues." Civil Service Prof. James K. Pollock of the political science department told a con-con committee studying pos- sible changes in Michigan's civil service that Michigan and Califor-, nio have the best such depart- ments in the nation. ederal civil rights legislation and Sespecially requests him to act im- plimenting those laws which au- thorize him to file suit in federal court against all those who hinder Negroes when they attempt to register to vote." The letter to Barnett asks him to guarantee protection to every- one throughout the state of Mis- sissippi and to uphold the right of citizens of all races to assemgle in non-violent protest. It also requests him to insure that the 18 students who go on trial Monday in, Pike County re-1 ceive fair and just treatment. The students were arrested after participation in a walk-out from Burgland Negro High. School in sympathy with two other stu- dents who were refused re-admis- sion to the school after serving a prison sentence for taking part in a sit-in.- Revise Motion The motion, introduced origin- ally by Brian Glick, '62, passed by voice vote. Deleted from the letter to Barnett were two points proposed by Daily Editor John Roberts, '62. Robert's amendment originally urged Barnett to secure the re- lease of Brenda Travis from the Mississippi Negro Girls Industrial Training School and to secure re- admission of those students pres- ently barred from Burgland High. A substitute for the letter to Kennedy proposed by David Croys- dale, '63, would have expressed SGC concern over the recent evi- dence of violence in McComb and urged the Student Nonviolent Co- ordinating Committee to "abstain from demonstrations or other ac- tivities which might incite fur- th r violence." rhat motion was defeated. Local Colleges' Need 'Priority' Community colleges should be given priority in the expansion of facilities for higher education, the State Council of Community Col- lege Administrators said in a pre- liminary report on the role of 'the Michigan community college. Among its recommendations, the council urged additional personnel -in the state Department of Public Instruction to work exclusively with community colleges, the shar- ing of costs by the state govern- ment and the local community, co-ordinated committee efforts of state colleges and universities with local colleges and consideration of the establishment of independent community college districts. COLOR GUARD-Two new membe'rs, Mauretania and Outer Mongolia, will raise the total membership of the United Nations to 103 and will, add two new banners to the long line of flags that ring the front wall before the UN Secretariat in New York City. DEAN FULLER: Resignation A ttributed. To 'Lack of Philosophy' By PHILIP SHERMAN City Editor Assistant Dean of Women Elsie Fuller said yesterday she is resign- ing because she can no longer ascertain an overall philosophy to guide her in her work in charge of women's residence halls. Ordinarily, Mrs. Fuller said, sh housing for next year, but there a Nations Vote, To Withhold Action on Cuba WASHINGTON W)-The west- ern hemisphere nations voted al- most unanimously yesterday to de- lay any concerted action, against the Fidel Castro regime in Cuba. Only Guatemala opposed a move to refer to a committee for study Peru's proposal for an investiga- tion of the,.Castro regime by the Organization of American States. Cuba abstained. At a tense meeting of the OAS Council, U.S. Ambassador DeLes- seps S. Morrison saidahe did not consider the action as "in. any way implying an indefinite post- ponement of consideration of the matter. This we emphatically can- not support either expressly or im- plicitly." Diplomatic observers neverthe- less regarded the move as a blow to the prospect for immediate ac- tion against the Castro regime. The decision to refer Peru's proposal to the OAS general com- mittee was reached after intensive behind-the-scenes maneuvering. Chin,Russians Lift- Double Veto Threat U.S., Soviets Fail To Reach Accoi On Stopgap Secretary-General UNITED NATIONS 0-The Security Council yesterd approved United Nations membership for Outer Mongolia a Mauritania, breaking' a deadlock that had endangered J tionalist China's seat in the UN. Nationalist China had threatened to veto Outer Mongo and the Soviet Union to veto Mauritania. Both lifted th veto threats, sending the membership applications of the 1 small countries on to the General Assembly, where final e proval is assured. They will' become the 102nd and 103rd members. Powers Deadlock Meanwhile, ,the United States and the Soviet Union m another unsuccessful try yesterday at breaking the deadl ;he would now be planning women's re "just uncertainties" and she has - no guidelines within which to work. Study Committee (A faculty-student committee is currently studying the Office of Student Affairs Philosophy and structure, with an eye to possible revisions. Mrs. Fuller's resignation, effective Dec. 1, was announced at Friday's Regents meeting.) Under Dean of Women Deborah Bacon, who has also resigned, the dean's office has operated with the assistant deans possessing "great freedom and scope and operation," Mrs. Fuller said. She said her own aim is to consider entering stu- dents as individuals.- 'Cannot Operate' But now, she said, "I cannot operate on a day-to-day basis with no long-range statement of policy and philosophy." Dean Bacon's resignation has added to the uncertainties, Mrs. Fuller added. -She said she is leaving Dec. 1, after 16 years in the dean's office, so that the person or agency to which housing responsibility is delegated will have a free hand in whatever planning is done. Expresses Regret Mrs. Fuller also expressed re- gret about breaking her long rela- tionship with Assembly Associa- tion. She said she has shared both planning and decision - making with the dormitory student gov- ernment organization. Mrs. Fuller said her procedure in organizing women's accommoda- tions has been to send out ,a dor- mitory' policy statement along with the residence application given to entering freshmen. But this year, she has done nothing on the statement-usually written in October - because there are no guidelines. The policy has been, she said, to let individuals state what they want in the way of a roommate- over appointing a 'stop-gap. secretary-general. A United States spokesman said another" meeting might take place later, this week. The spokesman said United States Ambassador Charles W. Yost and Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin reached no conclusion on the stalemate. Informed sources disclosed that each side remained adamant on 'the main point still at issue-how many top-level ad- visors the acting UN chief should have and what geographic regions they should represent. The United States and Russia have agreed on U Thant, Burma's chief U1N delegate for the top spot, but the United States has stood fast on fixing the number of chief aides at five -- from the United States, Russia, Western Europe, Africa and Latin America. Backstage Maneuvering The package deal admission of the two new nations was conclud- ed after weeks of backstage ma- neuvering and appeals that reach- ed to, President John F. Kennedy, who urged President Chiang Kai- Shek's Nationalists not to jeopar- dize their UN seat by vetoing Out- er Mongolia as they had done in 1955. The Nationalists claim Mongo- lia is only a Communist puppet state and rightfully belongs to China.' The deadlock was set up by the Soviet Union, which vetoed Mauri- tania last December and threat- ened to do so again unless the Mongolians were admitted. With the onus thus thrown on, the Nationalist Chinese by the So- viet Union, Mauritania's 12 Afri- can supporters approached the Nationalists. Threaten Retaliation' These 12, all former French Af- rican colonies like Mauritania, warned they would retaliate against a National veto of, Mon- golia by voting for Communist China when debate on-seating Pei- ping comes up in the General As- sembly later this year. Their dozen votes might have been enough to bring Peiping into the UN. At yesterday's meeting of the 11-nation Council, nine members voted for Outer Mongolia's ad- mission-Britain, Ceylon, Chile, Ecuador, France, Liberia, the So- viet Union, Turkey and the Unit- ed Arab Republic. The United States abstained. Nationalist China's Tingfu F. Tsiang did not participate in the vote, "so that no .pretext, how- ever meager or unjustifiable, may be seized upon by the Soviet Union to cause further delay in the ad- mission of Mauritania." Dor'ms Vote ToContinue Dress Rules BY ELLEN SILVERMAN Stockwell Hallhouse council la night decided to continue the tri period for the new dress regul, tions which allow residents 1 wear slacks and bermuda shor to lunch. Council members have announ ed- that the rules are permaner but the dining room superviso have the right to ask any girl return to her room and change they don't like the way she dressed. Also, if this privilege is abus it may be taken away at any tim Jordan Hall Jordan Hall's new regulatior which also allow women to we: slacks or bermudas to lunch, a now permanent. The house council at Jordan d, cided to change the rules and in posed no trial period. Further changes were made the dress regulations at Mosh Hall, Ellen Franks, '64N, said. T] residents are allowed to we slacks and bermudas to lunc Sweatshirts and bluejeans are a so allowed for Saturday lunch and dinners and Sunday nig suppers. Trial Basis These regulations were initia ed on a trial basis and will be r viewed by the house council, whi initially set up the regulations. At Betsy Barbour House Ui ,rules have now been revised t allow residents to wear slacks an bermudas to Sunday evening te President Diane Goodman, '63, ri ported. Miss Goodman also said th since Barbour now consisted s many women who had alreat lived on the Hill that had hs different dress regulations, mar new changes may be made. Alice Lloyd Hall President Si Parsell, '63, indicated that thi far there had been no action take to change rules due to the oth changes on the Hill. At Mary Markley Hall, a dre regulations committee has bee set up to review and clarify pre ent rules. Patricia Cannon, ' chairman of the committee, ind cated that thus far no discussic had taken place regarding til possible change of rules in Mark ley. I A LUG. y .. . . .... « .. - 'PERVERSION OF PHILOSOPHY': Novak Criticizes Ayn Rand at Seminar .1 .: .,., ...,...} ':r{::%'tfry'l,. riYji. 1} j ry.;r"r4'."":""rS{irJ r14++${"Y. ,}j=. .:. :"S : .:?: "dr:,"'isc:t".{::":."r.{rr.., ,"r a ' ;:,K{ c :: c": rx:::": :,fi."r:{".:{".. By JUDITH BLEIER Ayn Rand is a force for the perversion of philosophy among the young, Prof. Maximillian E. Novak of the English department said yesterday. He countered protest at a Stu- about five years ago; it is a world which she is making for herself." Because Miss Rand's novels are easy to read, dramatic and roman- tic, they have become extremely popular, Prof. Novak said. "The Fountainhead," however, is a perfect example of bad maga- merging of two great corpora- tions," Prof. Novak asserted. "It's totally incredible." Also there is no inter-action be- tween the characters in her novel. "People talk for hours without understanding one another." 7.ti FTs.~fA~ :;r,'"; v: ti{": % ;: :; ; :i°" : :s r =7s: ?i y}L} : : ""y 0 0 An Invitationo The Daily invites the student body-Student Gov- ernment Council's constituency-to attend a press con- ference with SGC candidates tonight in the Michigan Union.