IQC Conference Asks Numerous Quad Chan ges By MICHAEL OLINICK Yesterday's Inter-Quadrangle Council Conference prompted dis- cussion on the recurrent and often discussed residence halls problems and offered a few unofficial recommendations. The suggestions put forward included: -Revising and rewriting the Michigan House plan. -Eliminating the job of staff counselor. -Abandoning some of the present attitudes of the Residence Halls Board of Governors. -Allowing residents who pledge a fraternity in the fall semester to leave the quads in January. -Dropping Sunday night supper to offset partially an expected hike in quad room and board rates. -Scheduling two "open-open houses" (when women are allowed in men's rooms or vice-versa), every month, Dress Regulations -And reaffirming the need for dress standards. No formal action resulted from the day long conference, prompted by the Scheub opinion poll of East Quad students which criticized the residence halls. Improvements in conditions in the quads seemed centered around a rewriting of the Michigan House Plan. The plan, formulated by Prof. Karl Litzenberg of the English department is based on a fundamental assumption that the residence halls should be an active part of the education experience. Report Aged "Litzenberg's report is 20 years old," West Quad President Robert Thorpe, '62, said. "Today 'the residence halls do not have an educa- tional orientation; they are not part of the academic life but they should be." Thorpe, James H. Robertson, associate dean of the literary col- lege, and Dean of Women Deborah Bacon formed the nucleus of one of the ten discussion groups at the conference. Each group met in three one hour sessions with different participants. "Critical rethinking and revising of the house plan should be a perennial duty," Robertson said. "A discussion of this plan is central to the conference for it establishes objectives toward which we are heading." Groups Listed Other groups touched on the means in which the house plan is implemented. Staff, food and dining room service, house activities and pro- grams, regulations, facilities and services, student government, judi- ciaries, fraternities and administration were the areas under analysis. Recommendations included: STAFF-"Happy mediums" was the phrase used to describe the suggestions of this group on the problems of staff hiring and staff relationships. The discussants, led by South Quad President Ed Powers, '63, suggested that staff should not be selected entirely from one source be it a single house or college, and should include a number of resi- dent advisers who spent their undergraduate days outside the Uni- versity. The group battled with the pros and cons of retaining the asso- ciate adviser-"housemother"-whose job was seen as one of "setting the tone" in the residence halls. Problems of turnover and low pay of resident advisers were singled out by the participants, who included Vice-President for Business and Finance Wilbur K. Pierpont, Assistant Dean of Men John Hale, Governor Marie Hartwig and Prof. Lionel Laing of the political science department, who was a board of governors member for eight years. Prof. Laing criticized the board for not being aware of "one- fourth of what goes on in the residence halls. The members rely too much on data presented to them and not on first hand information." Counseling Poor The faculty associate for Taylor House in South Quad, Prof. Laing startled the group by suggesting that staff counselors be abolished. The counselors are assigned one to a corridor and are supposed to be "primarily counselors, maintaining an atmosphere of the floor so that the objectives of group living can be carried out," he said. Some of the quadrangle residents in the group felt that these staffmen had drifted far from the ideal, were now overconcerned with discipline, incompetent as counselors and unable to encourage troubled students to come to them. FOOD AND DINING SERVICE--Richard Pinnell, '64A&D, dis- cussion leader, said his group reached a consensus that the elimination of Sunday night supper would be a good idea if room and board fees are raised. Pinnell argued that the elimination of this meal would save about $15 for the residents and it would "give them a chance to eat out once a week and thus appreciate the quad food more." HOUSE ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMS-This section, which in- cluded Assistant Dean of Men Peter Ostafin, felt that there are too few places to go for social activities on the campus. Douglas Peacock, '64, summed up the group's discussion by list- ing the limitations placed on house programs by a huge turnover of residents every year and growing academic pressures. REGULATIONS-Dean Bacon and Dean of Men Walter B. Rea attended sessions of this unit which concerned itself with women's hours in men's residence halls, dress standards and quiet hours. The members suggested a calendaring of two open-open houses a month, one in the quads, the other in the dorms. Need For Standards Most of the participants felt a need for some dress regulations because they set a "mature tone." The group report said that South Quad has regulations "as stric .as possible" and West Quad was con- sidering making theirs "stiffer." FACILITIES AND SERVICES-Opinion here ran counter to the Scheub report as yesterday's participants felt that facilities "are being used, and quite definitely used well." Libraries are receiving more and more use and good collections of reference books are being built up, group leader Tony Walters, said. JUDICIARIES-Lawrence Stinson, '63E, leader of the group and chairman of IQC Judiciary, held that "Judic is the communication link between the student body and the faculty." Counseling Body His group defined judic as primarily a counseling body in regard to violation of personal liberty, but must also act in a punitive capacity for serious infractions of rules. See CONFERENCE, page 5 I I QUAD CONFERENCE DISSECTS QUESTIONS See Page 4 Y1 t e 5k 43Uf ~I~iIA1 RAIN High--63 Low-44 Rain in morning, possibly continuing throughout day. Seventy Years of Editorial Freedom VOL LXXI, No. 136 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, APRIL 16. 1961 FIVE CENTS SIX PAGES House Turns Down Tax Program Vote Democrats Unlikely To Reintroduce Swainson's Proposals for Revision A Democratic attempt to bring Gov. John B. Swainson's tax program up for a vote Friday was turned down 55-51 by the House in a straight party-line vote. Friday was the final day for consideration of bills in the house of origin. Although the governor's program could technically be re- introduced later in the session, this was considered most unlikely. Swainson's plan called for a three per cent tax on personal and corporate income and a $103 million reduction in business taxes. It would also have removed the sales tax on food and prescription drugs. Another bill passed by the House To Ask New Department WASHINGTON W) - President John F. Kennedy will send to Con- gress on Monday his proposed draft of legislation to create an 11th cabinet rank department, the Urban Affairs Department, the White House said yesterday. A message supporting creation of the agency to handle housing, transportation, andnother prob- lems of city dwellers will be sent to the Capitol on Tuesday, Press Sec- retary Pierre Salinger said. The President's long - deferred message on tax revision is sched- uled for next Thursday, and con- sideration now is being given to a special message on transportation, Salinger told reporters. There has been wide speculation that if the cabinet post for urban affairs is created it would go to Robert C. Weaver, now Federal Housing Administrator. Weaver thus would become the nation's first Negro cabinet mem- ber. provides for youth conservation camps to combat juvenile delin- quency. In the Senate, appropriations for public health, aeronautics and capital outlay were approved in a form essentially identical to that recommended by the Senate ap- propriations committee. The public health bill called for a $14.9 million appropriation; the governor had asked for $16.5 mil- lion. The 'other two bills also called for less than the governor had requested. The Senate passed the Republi- can tax reform measure 19-14, and sent it on to the House. The Republican formula gives local government units the right to pass payroll-income taxes. Democrats claimed the Repub- lican measures would cost Wayne County a "catastrophic" loss of $45 million in personal property taxes. But Republicans say that their bills, which wipe out personal property taxes and replace them with flat-rate levies, are conform- ing to previous rulings telling De- troit to bring personal and real property evaluations into line. Debate New Regulations On Women The Faculty Subcommittee on Discipline met Friday with Vice President for Student Affairs James A. Lewis, Dean of Women Deborah Bacon and Assistant Dean of Men John Bingley to dis- cuss a proposal to relax rules on undergraduate women visiting men's off-campus residences. The recommendation, originally formulated by a committee com- posed of Miss Bacon, Bingley, Wo- men's Judiciary Chairman Judith Gardhouse, '61, Joint Judiciary Chairman Howard Stein, '61, and Women's Judiciary Vice-Chairman Dorothy Wilson, '61, asks that wo- men from second semester fresh- men through seniors be permitted in men's residences during wo- men's calling hours, which at pre- sent are determined by the stu- dent affairs office. It was referred to Lewis who in turn referred it to the Subcom- mittee on Discipline. Subcommit- tee chairman Prof. John Reed of the Law School says the group met with Lewis and the deans in an advisory capacity and then re- turned the proposal to Lewis for further consideration. "The group studied the present policy for the past five .nonths, and has consulted with pertinent student organizations on it," Miss Gardhouse said. "These groups include Panhel- lenic Association, Assembly As- sociation, the Women's Senate, Women's League Council, several men's honorary societies and both Women's and Joint Judiciary. Housemothers were also given an .opportunity to express their opinions by means of a judiciary workshop. lan Kill OFFICIAL SPEAKS: ies Attack Seven in uban Raids .. __^-% .1 Bowles Outlines Details Of Peace Corps Plans An audience of 475 members and friends of the Indian Student's Association last night heard Sally Bowles, special assistant to the director of personnel for the Peace Corps, outline the plans, training and selection procedures for this year's program. Miss Bowles, daughter of Chester Bowles, undersecretary of state, spent two year in India while her father was ambassador to that country, and though she used examples applying specifically to India, her speech was a general synopsis on corps activities. The Peace Corps has a "pool of young Americans ready and will- ing to serve in foreign countries," she asserted, but that "the great job is selection. We have a great many people in the U.S. who want to do this work." The age limit is 18 or older, married couples must both serve, one cannot be taken without the other. Those selected will be pos- sessors of certain skills because "these are the people the nations will be looking for." The training program will last an average of three months, de- pending on the country involved, and will cover its language, his- SALLY BOWLES tory, religious and philosophical Peace Corps plans background and general culture. LANDS IN MIAMI-This pilot of a Cuban bomber yesterday tool part in attacks on airports in Havana and Santiago, then flew to Miami. Roa Charges U.S. AItack In Tal k at United Nations UNITED NATIONS (') - Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa charged here yesterday that the United States engineered bomb at- tacks on Cuban air bases as a prelude to a large-scale invasion. He described the attacks as "vandalistic aggression" and "an act of imperialistic piracy." He accused President John F. Kennedy of de- ception in promising non-intervention. U.S. Chief United Nations Delegate Adlai E. Stevenson categorical- ly denied Roa's charge in the UN General Assembly's Political Com- mittee that United States bomb- - ers made the dawn raids yester- day. Senate Slows Air Fields, B26s Arrive In Ameriea Afterwards Two Pilots Announce Desertion as Cuba Charges U.S. Attack HAVANA (P) -Planes attacked three of the key air bases in Cuba with bombs and rockets yesterday and a pilotof one, of the planes said the raids were carried out by defecting Cuban air force officers. The dawn air strikes left behind smoking munitions dumps and heavy property damage. The gov- ernment of Premier Fidel Castro said seven persons were killed. Two light bombers, World War II B26s, landed in Florida a few hours later and one of the pilots said the attack was carried out by himself and two fellow flyers de- fecting from the Castro air base. Officials Charge Castro officials charged that six planes based in the United States carried out the raids on Havana's Camp Libertad, Santiago's main air field, and air force headquar- ters at San Antonio De Los Banos. President Osvaldo Dorticos claimed that no planes or pilots had taken off from Cuba. "We be- lieve, these planes left from the United States and returned to bases there," he added. The government, warning that the attack could be a prelude to an invasion, mobilized all troops, and militia units, including women's organizations. Seven Killed Officials said seven persons were killed and 50 injured in the Camp Libertad and San Antonio attacks and that 3 were injured in Santi- ago. They said one combat plane and one transport plane were de- stroyed at San Antonio while five transport planes were destroyed at Santiago. Radio Charges The government-controlled Cu- ban radio charged that one of the attacking planes that landed in Miami was manned by an Ameri- can pilot. The radio labeled as "an- other imperialistic trick" claims that attacking bombers were flown by Cuban pilots who had revolted. The pilot who landed in Miami -he asked that his name be with- held because his family still is in Cuba-denied this in a statement issued through the United States Immigration office, "I am one of the 12 B26 pilots who remained in the Castro air force," he "said. "Three of my fel- low pilots and I have planned for I I SCIENTISTS STUDY CONDITIONING: Worm Experunents Raise Questions on Inheritance By HARRY PERLSTADT The planarian, a small, flat- worm, may topple the age-old no- tion that acquired traits cannot be inherited. University researchers are able to train the planarian to respond to light, and, when cut in half, have each half retain this reac- tion. But this is a sexual regen- eration. Now Prof. James V. McConnell of the psychology department in- tends to see if responses can be inherited after sexual reproduc- tion. Pilot Study McConnell and his band of "worm runners" are making a pilot study to see if planaria of parents who have been condition- ed to react to a light stimulus will learn faster than the offspring of non-conditioned parents. Eggs from conditioned and non- conditioned parents have already has a s n ahtIs tnimpp rtA the light stimulus alone 23 suc- cessive times in 25 trials, the worms are considered conditioned. Once conditioned, half the pla- naria were cut and allowed to re- generate while the other half spent the time resting. When the cut sections fully regenerate, all the worms are retested for reten- tion of the conditioned response. Compare to Study McConnell found that the pla- naria which were cut in half were able to reach the 23 required re- sponses in the same total number or complete trials as the uncut worms. Training the planaria and test- ing them for retention may be compared to studying. Whenever you get a new assignment it takes time to comprehend the mater- ial. Several weeks later when cramming for that exam, you can relearn the material in a shorter period of time. The worms take over 150 trials before reaching the learning cri- terion. After several weeks rest or the same time length spent in regeneration, both groups are able to reach the criterion point' in about 40 trials. The method of conditioning the planaria has come under some criticism. Since the worms react to light by moving from it, is the curling merely a different reac- tion to the same stimulus? In an experiment completed last sum- mer, McConnell's group trained the worm to curl up when the il- lumination was decreased. Instead of turning on the light and then administering the shock, the light was turned off and after several seconds the shock was given. The planaria eventually learned to curl up when the light was turned off. Both regenerated heads and tails were able to re- tain this reaction. McConnell has also been attack- ed for not being "scientific enough." In an editorial in The Worm Runner's Digest which is published irregularly by McCon- nell's group he writes: "It is difficult for someone watching worms 'perform' in a trough to indicate precisely that the response was in standard units. Such responses just don't measure that way." The amount of shock which each worm gets is unmeasured. McCon- nell knows how much voltage is being put into the shock, but beyond that the current is chang- ed by the water in the trough, the distance it travels, and the particular resistance of each in- dividual worm. "We test for a behavorial threshold," McConnell said. "That is, we start with so little current that the worm does not contract, and then adjust the current un- til there is a clear contraction. Is our approach precisely unscien- tific, or merely scientifically im- precise?" Kennedy Pledges He recalled that Kennedy had pledged recently that United States armed forces would never intervene in Cuba. But Roa said Kennedy's statement was just "a smokescreen hung before and in- tended to cloak the invasion of my country that is intended to take place at any time." Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian A. Zorin said Stevenson's statement did not satisfy him. He told the 99-nation committee: "With one single w'ord from the United States, not one plane would have bombed Cuba. The fact was that this word was never spoken." B-26 Bombers News dispatches said B-26 planes made bomb and rocket attacks at dawn on Havana's Camp Libertad, Santiago's main air field and air force headquarters at San Antonio nes Lo sanos . Chan air force New Resolution' On Red China WASHINGTON (-) - Senate leaders postponed temporarily yes- terday a final decision on the wording of a proposed resolution opposing United Nations represen- tation for Communist China. Democratic leader Mike Mans- field of Montana said he had agreed with Republican leader Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois to put the matter over until Tuesday. Sen. Norris Cotton (R-NH) left for New Hampshire without regis- tering any final reaction to a sub- stitute offered by Mansfield for resolutions introduced by Cotton and by Dirksen. Congress repeatedly has gone on record in opposition to Red China's admission to the UN. me:grase:was en k / r i I