.HARRIS REPORT SIGNIFICANCE gi tigt 47141P 1 DRIZZLE High-37 Low-30 Cloudy with scattered showers in afternoon See Editorial Page Seventy-Two Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXIII, NO. 117 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1963 SEVEN CENTS EIGHT PAGES NEA Speakers Cite Problems Children's Hospital Cowley Considers. Decision Making CHICAGO -Prof. William H. Cowley of Stanford University 'looked "to both: the past and the future in considering "Decision Making in Higher Education" at the 18th National Conference on Higher Education here Monday. He emphasized that crucial is- sues facing the American college today will not primarily be de- cided as matters of logic, but will be tied to the social forces which have always governed the univer- sity. K "The four-year college is in trouble today," Prof. Cowley said. "The' undergraduate student bod- ies .are under the control of the. deans of arts and sciences and the arts and sciences faculties - a group interested primarily in re- search rather than general edu- cation. "This pattern has evolved from a reorganization at Harvard in 1890 which has spread to almost every campus since then. Contin- uing confusion has resulted, as the research point of view has come to dominate the teaching of un- dergraduates who are seeking gen- eral education. We have seen a destructive conflict between the educational and research functions of higher education," he said. Pro. Cowley maintained that the solution to this and other problems facing the university can only come through "participa- tion of all interested groups, both on and off campus: the president, faculty, students and general pub- lie as represented by the trustees." He stressed the importance of the faculty in the decision making process and said further, "the more enlightened institutions in- clude students in decision making." Prof. Cowley said computers will be helpful in the future but warn- ed, "knowledge of historical forces and trends will continue to be cru- cial and decisive. So will human intelligence and imagination." Forum Notes Realign-m ent By JEAN TENANDER "I believe Congress is open to democratic pressure although per- haps this only out of despair," Thomas Hayden, Grad, said last night. Speaking at the fifth of the Voice Forum series on American Society on "Politics and Realign- ment," he listed Congress as be- ing the single most important organization in the complex of today's bureaucracies, receptive to public pressure for a change in the country's present political stagnation. Despite the fact that the pres- ent organization of Congress is almost hopelessly prevented from acting decisively on anything, Hayden said he felt its isolation from the people can be overcome if those who are in power un- Justifiably, or those who are in powerr because others are silent, were removed. They can be re- moved if people will talk, he said. Organize Constituencies He stressed the importance of people organizing as constituen- cies to act for values they would like to see come into being in their society. Political realignment will never be achieved until the individual begins to see the intrusion of national and international events into his own life. "Only when he sees the cold war entering into his own life as a thinker, worker and person, who desires a certain amount of freedom from total anxiety, will he realize the necessity-of work- ing for such realignment," Hay- den said. JOHN F. KENNEDY ... praises conference Statement Special To The Daily CHICAGO-President John F. Kennedy sent a special mes- sage to the participants in the 18th National Conference on /Higher Education, which was read at the opening general session of the Conference Sun- day evening. The President's message fol-. lows: "Higher education today is confronted with a task of un- precedented magnitude a n d complexity. It must double its physical capacity within a single decade. It must set and maintain new standards of ex- cellence. It must continue to lead man's explorations into the realm of the unknown. But the responsibilities of higher education do not belong to the colleges and universities alone. They are the responsibilities of the nation, and their burden must be shared by the people as a whole, for the critical de- cisions facing higher education today are decisions which will shape the world of tomorrow. "Throughout the course of history, wise men have ob- served that the strength of a nation depends upon the edu- cation of its youth. In our own proud history of freedoh and progress, higher education has played as essential, crucial role. "Upon its continued strength, and vitality depend our hopes for a promising future. "I am confident that this 18th National Conference on the Association for Higher Ed- ucation will contribute much toward a ,solution of the diffi- cult problems facing education and the nation. "My warm greetings and best wishes are extended to all your members as you begin this important work." * Seaborg Stresses Science Education By H. NEIL BERKSON Daily Correspondent CHICAGO - Over 1700 of the nation's leading educators have gathered here for the 18th Na- tional Conference on Higher Edu- cation. The conference, which opened Sunday, has for its theme, "Crit- ical Decisions in Higher Educa- tion." In the keynote address Glenn T. Seaborg, chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, declared that the world has embarked on a "third revolution"-the scientific revolu- tion-which will have increasing influence on the future course of higher education. Drastic Change Seaborg, a Nobel Prize winner and chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley, said that the last 25 years have seen "a drastic changel in the relation- ship between science and eco- nomic creativity and between science and society." ' Looking to future products of this revolution, he warned that his predictions, however dramatic and sensational, will prove not too radical but too conservative. Perhaps the day will come, he said, when agrogenetic engineers will produce a form of plant life that can turn sunlight and car- bon dioxide directly into meat and milk. He predicted new psy- chochemicals which may someday be able to "minimize the tensions and frustrations that lead to crime and war, or to help keep a captive nation subservient to a totalilitarian regime. Creative Evolution Seaborg said that higher edu- cation must be prepared to "ex- pand and accelerate the process of creative evolution" and "in- sure that this process serves and gives further meaning to the modern Western concept of the individual as the focus of human values." In a world "dominated increas- ingly by science and technology," Seaborg commented that "tens of thousands of young men and women are leaving the halls of. higher education each year with allegedly liberal educations but. who in fact have little or no knowledge of science." He suggested that universities "adopt axsystematic policy of in- cluding in non-science depart- ments men who have a special interest in and knowledge of science as it relates to these fields. The three-day conference will conclude tomorrow with an ad- dress from Max Kohnstamm, vice-president of the Action Com- mittee for the United States of Europe. Several Michigan profes- sors and administrators have par- ticipated in discussion groups. My, Set Hearing To Consider Delta Units To Examine Proposal For Piggyback System By GAIL EVANS The House Ways and Means Committee will hold hearings to- morrow on the "piggy back" Delta College plan in the second phase of House consideration, Rep. Ar- nell Engstrom (R-Traverse City) announced last night. The plan which would set up a four-year degree granting institu- tion at the Delta site in addition 'to the two-year Delta College passed, the House Education Com- mittee Feb. 23. The committee, however, only conditionally re- ported out the measure pending consideration by the Ways and Means Committee. The Ways and Means Commit- tee has been busy with capital outlay proposals, Engstrom, in Ann Arbor to study Medical Center needs, explained, and has not had time to schedule a hearing. Meanwhile, no one has been chosen to introduce the competing University and Delta plan for a University-degree granting branch at Delta in the Senate, Maurice Brown, chairman of the Delta Board of Trustees, said last night. Brown, who is in charge of se- curing legislative support for the University-Delta plan, indicated that officials are now gauging pub- lic reaction to the proposal. Definite plans for introducing the plan into the Senate, where there is more support for it than in the House, should be ready by next week, Brown said. Court Rules Zeilner Case Trial Invalid The court case against Robert Zellner, field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, was declared a mistrial last week after the jury in Mont- gomery, Ala., failed to come to a decision on charges of "false pre- tenses." Zellner was arrested on Jan. 8 on the Huntington College campus and charged with conspiracy. The charge was later changed to vag- rancy, and an additional charge of false pretenses was added because of a check Zellner had written on the day he was arrested. The vag- rancy charges were dropped on Feb. 19. Zellner was charged with false pretenses because he had written a check which at the time had no money behind it, but SNCC depos- ited funds into Zellner's account several hours later. 11 Get Committee Q NO CRISIS: roman Explains Admissions By DAVID MARCUS Inundated under a flood of applications, the Admissions Office is working "with no dramatic changes" to handle the ever-increasing load of selecting prospective University students, Director of Admis- sions Clyde Vroman said yesterday. Applications so far this year have risen 17 per cent over the comparable period last year, but it is "still too early to draw any con- CLYDE VROMAN ... admissions policy DEFY DE GA ULLE: B aS rContinues PARIS OP)-The strike in the coal mines of France was almost 100 per cent effective yesterday in labor's first big challenge to French President Charles de Gaulle's authority. Hundreds of thousands of work- ers in other industries backed the miners with symbolic, 15-minute walkouts. De Gaulle met with key cabinet members but apparently withheld any action. Many of the nation's miners be- gan a tes tof strength with the government Monday by refusing to obey an official order to report for work. The defiance spread yes- terday to the big northern fields, which employ about half the na- tion's 200,000 miners. There was nothing to indicate a quick end to the strike. Both gov- ernment and unions cautiously voiced the hope that talks for a settlement will start soon. Each side was making obvious efforts to avoid violence that could make a settlement more difficult, and union-government contact was reportedly being maintained. But unions and government were equally anxious not to give any sign of weakness. French Labor Minister Gilbert Grandval said that talks could not be started un- til production is resumed in the government-run mines. Union leaders protested against the presence of riot police forces in the strike areas. French Premier Georges Pompi- dou, Grandval, .and Michel Mau- rice-Bokanowski, minister for in- dustry, met with de Gaulle to dis- cuss the situation and there was no announcement after the hour- long meeting. Plans Help clusions" about overall applica- tion figures, Vroman noted. It may be indicative that stu- dents are simply applying earlier this year or are making more mul- tiple applications than in past years, he said. The total admis- sions picture will not become clear until the newly-admitted students are required to send in their $50 enrollment deposits in April. Hold Place "Until then, we hold the stu- dent's place for him. The deposit forces the student to decide where he is going to go. If he does not give a deposit, after the deadline we assume his place is open," Vro- man said. The overall applications picture is still unclear, despite the in- crease in the number of them re- ceived, because the size of this year's high school senior class is about the same nationally as last year, he said. The first wave of the post World War II "baby boom" will not hit colleges and tiniversities until next year. Vroman also saw a "slight ad- justment" in the University's "over-admission" policy to accom- modate recent trends. Under this policy, the University has "over- admitted" about 30 per cent more students than it could accommo- date on the assumption that a cer- tain number of them would not show up. Fewer 'No-Shows' In the last few years, there have been fewer and fewer "no shows." Thus a slightly smaller number of students will be "over- admitted" this year. As far as out-of-state students are concerned, Vroman noted that the decision on ratio of in-state to out-of-state students is not made by his office but by the fac- ulty and administration.. His office's only objective is to work toward a cosmopolitan stu- dent body that is academically qualified, he said. Noting that the University has students from all' of the other 49 states, Vroman said that out-of-state admission policy is based on competition within geographical areas for admission to the University. Area Competition Thus students in - out-of-state areas from which the University receives many applications have their individual chances for ad- mission reduced by the large amount of competition for admis- sion within that area. Vroman noted that tthis policy is designed "to help us get a rep- resentative cross-section of the population of the United States." Another factor taken into consid- eration is the distribution of Uni- versity alumni across the nation. V DAVID BRUBECK "..jazz concert To Include 'U Project In Pro grani Engstrom Says Group To Fashion Scheme For Capital Outlay By PHILIP SUTIN Planning money for a children's hospital in the Medical Center will be among the items recom- mended later this week for capi- tal outlay planning funds, Rep. Arnell Engstrom- (R - Traverse City) said last'night. Engstrom and members of his committee reviewed Medical Cen- ter needs with University officials yesterday and will meet this morning with University Presi- dent Harlan Hatcher and other administrators to discuss Univer- sity capital outlay and operating budget needs. He said that the Joint Legis- lative Committee on Capital Out- lay, of which he is chairman, will meet later in the week to prepare this year's capital outlay budget. {e noted that the committee faces a March 20 deadline to report a bill out and must act now. Follow Recommendations Engstrom expects his commit- tee to go along with the joint commtitee recommendation. He added that it will follow Senate decisions on operating funds. "The committee was impressed with the need for the children's hospital and with continuing prb- gress on hospital renovation," he said. The University has requested $1.3 million for the plans of the $7.9 million children's hospital. It seeks $920,000 for continuing the two-year program of hospital re- novation. No Figures Engstrom set no figures that his committee will recommend. The committee toured the hos- pital last night and met with Executive Vice-President Marvin L. Niehuss, Assistant to the Vice- President for Business and Fi- nance John McKevitt, Medical School Dean William N. Hubbard and University Hospital director Albert C. Kerlikowski. It also con- fered with several Medical School faculty members. The University has been seeking the children's hospital since 1951 and a second Medical Science Unit since 1950, when it agreed to expand its freshman class to 200 students a year. Out of 'Quick Action' Both were left out of Gov. George Romney's "Quick Action" $1.5 million capital outlay plan- ning program proposed Feb. 21. Instead Romney proposed plan- ning funds for a dental school and architecture college buildings. Neither were discussed at today's session which was concerned with the Medical Center. Engstrom also praised Univer- sity use of the former Veterans Readjustment Center Bldg. The building now called North Out- patient Bldg. houses clinics of the internal medicine, neurology and pediatrics departments, the offices of professors emeriti and medical illustration and child health units. The Legislature closed the VRC last summer claiming that its services could be offered at a Grand Rapids soldiers' home. It gave the VRC $50,000 to phase out the operations. Romney Silent On Committee Somewhat unexpectedly, no word has come yet from Gov. George Romney regarding his ap- pointments for the all-citizen "blue-ribbon" committee to study state education. Vice-President and Director of the Dearborn Center William E. Stirton, one of a number-of indi- viduals asked by the governor to ,.rnm..nd mlified andiAtes W. D. SNODGRASS ... poetry readings House Approves ABC Bill;! Michigan Gets Federal Aid By The Associated Press LANSING-After one and one-half years of bickering, the House overwhelmingly approved a bill to bring federal aid to dependent children of Michigan's unemployed workers yesterday. The bill, after seeing an 89-14 vote in favor of passage in the House, will now move to the Senate where easy passage is anticipated. Benefits to Michigan communities will total $11 million a year with Detroit alone getting $2 million. Rep. Joseph J. Kowalski (D- Detroit) estimated that Michigan has lost $30 million in federal aid by failure of the Legislature to adopt the program when it wasC OMPA RISON: first available. I Real Conflict He said he believed only if a real conflict were developed about meaningful issues could the hopeles sstalemate among polit- ical parties begin to open up from below. "Unless this conflict oc- curs, however, nothing but in- creasing solidification can be the result," he added.- Prof. Norman .Thomas of, the political science department said he believed there- were two par-' ticular government institutionsI responsible for the current im- passe in American politics. The first is the separation of powers existing in the national govern- ment htween the executive and l] 7 r 1 1 1 1 Before final passage of the bill, the House engaged in heated de- bate over an amendment to au- thorize welfare departments to dis- tribute birth-control information to welfare recipients. Rep. Carroll C. Newton (R-Delton) ,sponsor of the amendment, said it would merely be writing into the law a practice already widely used." One of the Democrat's chief ob- jections to the birth-control amendmwr- was that if informa- tion were circulated to one class of people, hose on welfare, it might as well be given to all classes. Rep. William A. Ryai (D-De- troit ( maintained that Newton was trying to stop the bill by inserting a highly controversial amendment. The birth-control amendment was defeated 71-70. The bill will go to the Senate with the following provisions: per- sons who have been collecting wel- f,.a nvmn -v v,.ri nr1fn. Ja Tn. 1_ Mendel Views Stalin's By BARBARA PASH Josef Stalin possessed incom- parably greater power than Pre- mier Nikita S. Khrushchev, Prof. Arthur P. Mendel of the history department explained. No blocs, factions or interest groups really threatened Stalin's position. por~siton. all the attention S c aw the Soviet Union has changed, e should consider the important areas in which it re- mains the same," he continued. Closed Society It is still a closed society, dom- inated by an elite party (the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union) intensily committed to a dynamic ideology. This elite is willing and able to ,s , rlliv ,+T o -e madnn i - l for cultural experience and expres- sion, he explained. "Whereas Stalin was able to consolidate his position by work- ing mainly through the secret police, even reducing the party to a subordinate administrative role, Khrushchev is limited by , other leading personalities as well as competing interest groups," Prof. Mendel continued. Increased Power Although Khrushchev has in- creased his power, especially since the June 1957 anti-Party crisis, there is evidence to support the contention that there are limits to what he can and cannot do, particularly in the area of punish- ing rivals. whoever controlled the party, con- trolled Russia. "It should also be considered that many of his programs cor- responded more closely to the as- pirations of both party and non- party Russians than did those of his adversaries," Prof. Mendel ex- plained. Finally and most important was the absolute, inhuman and per- haps psychopathic ruthlessness that characterized Stalin's cam- paign to liquidate rivals and en- force policies, he noted. In the crisis following the death of Stalin at 9:50 p.m. Thursday, March 5, 1953, many changes were made in the positions of the party and government aparatus. Power Position Noted Artists ToContribute In Art Festival By ROBERT GRODY The Union is again sponsoring the annual Creative Arts Festival, March 9-25.I Many University cultural facili- ties will be used, in addition to guest performers and lecturers. Programs will be presented in all the creative arts: photography, painting, poetry, and music. Creative Arts Highlights of the Festival in- clude photography displays, art shows, concerts, faculty poetry readings, forums, lectures and re- citals. All forms of exploring and participating in the creative arts will be offered. Famous artists will give talks and demonstrations in their re- spective fields, including James Dickey and W. D. Snodgrass giv- ing readings of their poetry, the San Francisco Ballet performing and Raymond Katz lecturing on "Symbolism in Synagogue Art." Dave Brubeck's quartet will play at Hill Auditorium, Harold Clur- man, director, critic and author, will speak on "Scope of the Thea- tre" and Norman Mailer will be a featured speaker. 'U' Contributions The University will also con- tribute to the Festival. The Folk- lore Society will give a concert of folksongs, and an original produc- tion of the Gilbert & Sullivan So- ciety will be featured. The Indian Students and the League will spon-