THE BOSTON CRASH: AN INSIDER'S VIEW See Page 4 Y Lilt igzrnC~ A6F4br ':43 a t I Seventy-One Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXII, No.54 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1961 SEVEN CENTS SIX PAGES Stiffen 'Big Ten' Rules For Athletic Eligibility, Michigan Board Votes ' EYE A B LLH LAOS TRIUMVIRATE s Souvanna's Turnabout Sets Hope for Accord VIENTIANE, Laos (P)-An abrupt turnabout by neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma yesterday rekindled hope of heading off a renewal of full-scale fighting in this Communist-threatened Asian kingdom. The 60-year-old Souvanna, premier designate of a new coalition government, dropped his demand that the country's three feuding princes meet in the rebel-controlled Plaine des Jarres. Talks Later Instead, he agreed to talks later this month in Vientiane,; seat of the present pro-Western royal government. The military chief of the MINUTEMAN . from silo royal government, Gen. Phoumi Nosavan, said the new proposal "has completely transformed the atmosphere" and that he hoped for "most happy results." No Word There was no immediate word that the leader of the pro-Com- munist Pathet Lao, Prince Sou- phanouvong, also would come to Vientiane for the talks. But it was assumed he approved, since he maintains headquarters with Sou- I vanna, his half-brother, on the Plaine des Jarres. The three-nation truce commis- sion for Laos warned last week that a new civil war might break out unless the three squabbling princes reached quick agreement on a government of national unity. Soviets Ask Finn Parley HELSINGFORS (P)-The Soviet Union is demanding military con- sultations with Finland as soon as possible, the Finnish government disclosed last night. Moscow claims West German military moves in the Baltic Sea are responsible. The Soviet demand for speed was disclosed on the return of Ambassador Euro A. Wuori from, Moscow. Wuori met Thursday with Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vassily Kuznetsov, who gave him "alarm- ing news" that the Russians said made thesupposed Western Ger- man threat seem worse than on Oct. 30, when Moscow first began exerting pressure on Finland by' asking for consultations.1 The government -said Kuznetsov asked for speed in getting the1 talks started because of a "direct1 threat to the security of the Soviet; Union and Finland."1 The Finnish government has1 been playing for time hoping to avoid talks with Moscow on joint defense measures. Until now the Russians had not pressed the mat-1 ter. Billing Office Tells Problem Although not all students paid the first installment of the tuition by the Oct. 2 deadline, no one has3 yet been asked to leave the Uni- versity, the Student Billing Office said yesterday. There were extenuating circum- stances in each of the cases and so' each needed to be reviewed separ- ately. In some cases the persons in- volved were foreign students whose embassies were holding up the funds. Some payments have been made since Oct. 2, and others are still coming in. Back 'Need' 'Scholarships For Athletes Approve Rose Bowl, Reject Compulsory Round-Robin Card By MIKE BURNS Sports Editor The Board in Control of Inter- collegiate Athletics last night voted to approve upgrading of Western Conference academic eli- gibility standards, reaffirmed its stand favoring retention of the "need" factor in aid and rejected the compulsory football round- robin schedule. The Board also repeated its ap- proval of renewal of the confer- ence Rose Bowl pact. These questions will al come up for review at the Big Ten meeting Dec. 7 in Chicago. The Rose Bowl renewal, up- graded eligibility rules and aban- donment of the "need" factor were all approved at the Conference's May meeting, but under Big Ten procedures objection by 2ne or more schools within 60 days after passage forces reconsideration at the next meeting. Freshman Eligibility One important eligibility move would require a freshman athlete to carry a 1.7 grade point average for his freshman year in order to be eligible for varsity compe- tition. It would change the pres- ent rule which requires only 24 hours completed and no delin- quency (failure), with no qualia- tive standard. The Board also favored a pro- posal requiring prospective varsity athletes to establish a 1.7 "cho- lastic predictability rating" in or- der to become eligible for financial aid. This 1.7 figure was arrived at through an 18-month study of 500 male studnts at each of the 10 conference institutions. Results of the study were made known to conference faculty representatives more than a year ago. The study was based on fresh- man class standings compared with results of the College En- trance Examination Board tests and the College Aptitude Test, both of which were administerel before students entered school. A 1.7 predictability rating was found to be the minimum score on the, two tests which would reasonably ensure passing college work. , Require Tests If this predictability rating sys- tem is aproved by the -Conference, the CEEB or CAT examinations would be required at all schools in order for athletes to qualify for; aid. Present conference rulings al- low aid if the prospective athlete, is in the upper two-thirds of his graluating high school'class and has been accepted for admittance by the individual university. Neither of these changes would materially affect Michigan since it is operating on standards sub- stantially higher than this, Ath- letic Director H. O. (Fritz) Crislert said last night.J The changes would, however, up- grade the Conference requirementsI as a whole.- In another major recommenda- tion, the Board favored changingi the eligibility rule by allowing an athlete one delinquency if heI See ROSE BOWL, Page 6 1 By DAVE ANDREWS Associate Sports Editor No TV cameras will dot the Stadium press box this afternoon and no Bowl Committees will ob- serve the action with eyes on New Year's glamour-Big Tent standings have finalized that. Instead, two good football teams, Michigan and Iowa, will do battle with memories of what could have been and a hope for~ last-hour salvation. Kickoff time is 1:30 p.m. and some 62,000 die- hard fans are expected to witness he game in chilly weather under overcast skies. Chance for Record For the Wolverines, the game offers possibilities for their best record since 1956 and a three- game win streak for the first time, since the 1956-57 teams put to-1 gether six in a row over two sea- sons. A victory would also give Bump Elliott his best record in his three-year tenure as Michigan head coach. For Iowa Coach Jerry Burns, this is a big one. As successor to Forest Exashevski, he was sup- posed to produce one of the best teams in Hawkeye history, and there have been some good ones. Four weeks into the season, the forecasts looked good, but injuries began to take their toll. First Pur- due, then Ohio State, and last week Minnesota ground out vic- tories and Iowa has become "just another football team." Its vaunted running attack dis- appeared with injuries to back- field stars Larry Ferguson and Wilburn Hollis, and the passing game which devastated Wisconsin has turned into an interception Statehouse Announces New Budget Calls for Boost Of $187 Million Governor John B. Swainson an- nounced yesterday that a oudget of $605 million has been requested for the 1962-63 year by state agencies. The request calls for an increase of $187 million over last year and represents approximately one-half the entire state budget for the coming fiscal year.. The total budget requests were compiled by State. Controler2 Ira Polley from individual agencies. If the state follows tradition, agency requests will be drastically cut by the Governor when he pre- sents his budget proposal to the Legislature in January. Tradition also indicates that Swainson's request will further be reduced by the Legislature. Of the current request. approx- imately $615 million is earmarked for educational purposes. This figune includes $217.4 million of a general funds appropriation. In the current fiscal year, the general fund appropriation grant- ed by the Legislature was $418 million, of which $109 million went to state colleges and universities. Other requested increases in- clude $107 million for mental health, up $31 million from the current appropriation, and $105 million for social welfare, an in- crease of $19 million. Polley said that $132 million more is requested for new build- ing and remodeling of existing state structures. J 1 N Q J } i menace. Fumbles have also haunt- ed the Hawkeyes. Six times, alert Minnesota line- men and backs stole the Hawkeye football-three on fumbles and three more on pass interceptions. The week before, it was Ohio State's Tom Perdue who romped 55 yds. to score with an Iowa fumble. At Lafayette, the mud -Daly-Bruce Taylor IT DIDN'T TEAR-Michigan halfback Dave Raimey is being tackled by a herd of Duke Blue Devils. Raimey and teammate Bennie McRae will try to use their breakaway talents to subdue the chal- lenging Iowa Hawkeyes this afternoon at Michigan Stadium. SGC Pln.Marks Anniveorsary Military Calls M isleI es t Total Success CAPE CANAVERAL (R) - A Minuteman missile sprang from an underground pit yesterday and streaked 3,000 miles in a major success which gave the United States a big boost toward push- button war capability. This was the first successful firing of the missile from the steel and concrete hole-similar to those which will enable operational Minutemen to survive a nuclear attack and strike a retaliatory blow. Verifies Confidence Brig. Gen. Sam Phillips, Air Force Minuteman program direc- tor, described the shot as "totally successful. It completely verifies our confidence in the Minuteman design." The first attempt to fire the missile from a silo failed last August when the vehicle exploded r after clearing the hole. The fail- ure raised some doubt whether the weapon would meet its combat- ready deadline of next summer. Back on Schedule But this success put the prograrr back on schedule, and Phillips said the test-firing tempo will ac- celerate sharply. When Minuteman is operational, the Ail- Force plans the biggest missile buildup in this nation-s history. The first three 50-missile squadrons will be buried on the Montana prairie near Malmstrom Air Force Base. A total of 600 Minutemen is planned by 1964. with defense officials considering an eventual force of 2,500. rein till '62 'U' Budget Still in .Doubt University officials say they are still in the dark on what the state administration is going to do with their $45.8 million budget request for next year. University President H arlan Hatcher told the Regents yester- day that he met with state budget officials Monday but received "no indication of what form their rec- ommendations may take." He said he tried to explain the University's needs and "express our hope." By JUDITH OPPENHEIIM The Student Government Coun- cil plan is marking its second an- niversary this month. Approved in its present form by the Regents on Nov. 21, 1959, the revised SGC plan differs frogs its predecessor primarily in the sub- stitution of the eight man Com- mittee on Referral for a seven man Board in Review. The plan was formulated at the request of the Regents who called for elimination of "ambiguities" in the old Council set-up after the Sigma Kappa sorority dispute in 1958. 'Vote To Withdraw The Council had voted to with- draw recognition from Sigma Kap- pa, but the Board in Review re- versed the decision. When SGC asked the Regents to reconsider the case, they refused, saying the conflict resulted from the am- biguities in the plan. Under the new plan, final veto power of Council action rests solely with the vice-president for stu- dent affairs. The Committee on Referral may be called to meet either when the vice-president contemplates such a veto or when four or more members of the committee believe that an action taken by the Council might in- volve jurisdictional questions, pro- cedural irregularities or irrespon- sible action. In this instance, the committee may recommend action to the vice- president for student affairs, but! may not dictate it. The vice- president is free to do as he' sees fit in regard to the issue. Not Convened Except for organizational and structural meetings, the Commit- tee has not convened since the new plan went into effect. The Regents requested a special clarification committee to form- ulate the new plan and this was, submitted to SOC forddiscussion so that the final draft was a coin- bination of committee and SGC suggestions. Prof. Charles F. Lehman of the educational school who chaired the clarification committee, be- lieves that the Council has notl and "dropsy" habit combined to beat the Hawks. "We're not that bad a football team," Burns insists, "we're due for some breaks." Elliott Hopeful Elliott, who has seen his team either feast or famine on the "breaks" hopes that the day isn't today, for when the Wolverines have been fortunate, his team has won. When the ball hasn't bounc- ed right, Michigan has lost. opposition fumbles keyed the early season routs of UCLA and Army and provided the winning two points against Purdue. Mich- igan fumbles were expensive against Michigan State and Min- nesota. A last minute bobble at Minneapolis killed any Wolverine hopes of Big Ten and post-season glory. Barring an uneven split in the See WOLVERINES, Page 6 'MSU Plan s For School Get Approval Trustees Create Biology Institute HICKORY CORNERS (--With an eye on a pre-medical training program, the Michigan State Uni- verity Board of Trustees created an Institute of Biological Sciences yesterday. The institute is designed to pro- vide the two years of post-graduate education needed by medical stu- dents before they can start clinical studies, spokesmen said. Graduate students would be able to fill third-year vacancies in med- ical schools, they said. Kellogg Gull Lake . MSU President John A. Hannah told the board-meeting at the university's Kellogg Gull Lake Bio- logical Station near Battle Creek- that two substantial grants to help finance the project are being nego- tiated. Funds will be available both for building and organization. Dr. Richard U. Byerrum, assist- ant provost and professor of bio- chemistry, has been named acting director of the institute which swill be activated by Dec. 1. He has been director of a faculty committee finalizing an MSU plan to bring all medical and biological studies under one program. The board approved a preliminary committee report last year outlin- ing national medical education needs and MSU's role in helping meet them. Filled to Capacity The greatest need, the report showed, was in pre-clinical train- ing facilities. These were filled to capacity, while there were 700-800 vacancies in third-year level medi- cal programs. It amounted to a bottleneck, the study said. Implementation of the medical program may take two or three years, the board said. ,The board also named Prof. Clif- ford E. Erickson, dean of -the MSU education college to succeed Paul A. Miller as provost. fully utilized the potential grant- ed it in the new plan. One of its greatest weaknesses, he says, is the diffusion of SGC responsibility to recognize and withdraw recognition from stu- dent organizations. Final Decision Establishment of a Committee; on Membership Selection in Stu- dent Organizations, he says, was simply a means of putting off a clear and final decision regarding discrimination by sororities and fraternities. He believes the Council itself should examine the issue and then test whether its plan will be up- held should it decide that with- T irrell Raps 'U' Relations With Public By KENNETH WINTER "There is no plan for carefully planned, year-round contacts within the state to 'sell' the Uni- versity," Jack Tirrell,'51, secretary' of the Alumni Association said yesterday. In an editorial in the Michigan Alumnus, Tirrell criticized the lack of decisiveness and action by the University in the public-relations area. He said that there are "hundreds of loyal, willing and devoted alum- ni" who are willing to assist in this task, but who need a plan of action in order to be effective. Blind Pressure Tirrell said he favors a "grass- roots support program" by the alumni which would extend "far beyond a legislative lobby." He en- visioned "an educated group who make' contacts" and emphasized that it should not be a "blind pressure" organization. Tirrell cited the achievements of other Big Ten schools in public relations. He said that "these are the types of universities in our area that are making offers to our faculty, meet- ing and surpassing our salary scales, and giving evidence of be- ing institutions of the future since they have direction and are mov- drawal of recognition from such a group is in order. Prof. Lehman would like to see SGC set a deadline for fraternity and sorority submission of mem- bership clauses and interpretations of them to the Office of the Vice- President for Student Affairs or take some other definite action to assert its authority in the field of recognition and contest wth the administration if necessary. Powerful Ally They would probably get con- siderable support from the faculty as well as from the student body' he says, expessing regret at the fact that SGC "frequently fails to recognize the faculty as a pow- erful ally." The Committee on Referral is composed of two students not cur- rently members of Council, one member of n iversity administra- tion not a member of the staff of the Office of the Dean of Men or the Office of the Dean of Women, one school or college administra- tor, three faculty members and one alumnus. NSA GATHERING: Conference Convenes On Aims of Education By PAT GOLDEN Associate City Editor and MICHAEL OLINICK Special To The Daily RACINE-Students and educators from across the nation gathered here yesterday for a weekend conference on "The Aims of Education."' United States National Student Association is the sponsor. Prof. Peter R. Rempel, director of general studies at Washington State University, and Prof. Arnold Kaufman of the philosophy de- partment kicked off the three-day session of seminars, speeches and panel discussions by considering , 'TO SEDUCE A MEDUSA': Williams Recites on Diverse Subjects By DENISE WACKER The John Barton Wolgamot Society yesterday presented Jona- than Williams, reading from Charles Olson ("the world's largest poet: 5' 9") and from his own works. Williams is a poet and publisher.I Williams, who claims to publish the most beautiful books in the world, read "Two Ways To Seduce a Medusa" and other pieces which respectively, the "aims of educa- tion" and "contemporary educa- tion in America." Bringing up examples from his experiences on the Ann Arbor campus, Prof. Kaufman outlined his "ideal conception" of higher education. He envisioned the uni- versity as having two prime aims: the values brought to college by a student are necessarily wrong or should be, changed. Hedurged the student to "de- mand a good education" from their universities and to "act re- sponsibly" in trying to get one. Prof. Rempel called for greater emphasis on movement in educa-