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SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1966
NIGHT EDITOR: SHIRLEY ROSICK
Student Advisory Boards:
A Meeting of Minds
MAY 24 could well become an important
date in the area of student-adminis-
tration relationships and indeed, in the
whole field of student activism at the
University.
Meeting with President Harlan Hatcher
and University vice-presidents in the Re-
gents conference room, The Place from
which emanate The Decisions which de-
termine the course of The University, stu-
dent leaders and administrators discuss-
ed a proposal which would allow students
a voice in The Decisions.
HE STUDENT Advisory Board System,
if established, would give students the
role in the decision-making process of the
University "they have been screaming
for," in the words of one of the origina-
tors of the proposal.
Student Advisory Boards to the Presi-
dent and vice-presidents would allow stu-
dents the opportunity to be heard at the
time when they can be most influential
-that is, before the final decisions are
made and handed down.
Such a system would alleviate one of
the basic problems brought to light by the
bookstore issue-the lack of communica-
tion between the students and adminis-
tration during the whole affair and the
ignorance on the part of the students as
to what was going on behind the scenes.
By the time students knew what was
happening the decision had been made
and further student activities could only
be ineffectual.
THE STUDENT Advisory Board System
would change the whole student ap-
proach to the administration. Until now,
the only method students had was to
form a committee, study a problem and
present a report and list of "demands" to
the administration.
At the same time, administrators would
be at work studying and researching the
same problem and finally handing down
a decision which was either ignorant of
or oblivious to student efforts.
The Advisory Boards would close the
gap between these two forces-two im-
portant elements of the University con-
cerned with problems of common interest
to students and the University.
Through the boards, the administration
could work with students rather than op-
posite them, and consider their requests
uncolored by the emotion of "mass move-
ments" and "student demands."
At the same time, students would be
given the opportunity to work "through
proper channels" for what they want
rather than alienating the administration
with protest marches and sit-ins. Per-
haps too, by being let in on the basic
decision-making process, student fear of
"the System" will be reduced.
THE ADVISORY BOARD System repre-
sents a basic change in the attitude
of students toward the administration.
It all began last fall when one of the
campus political parties came up with the
seemingly novel idea that administrators
and Regents are not monsters, but human
beings, genuinely sympathetic to stu-
dent needs and desires.
They decided that "abortive direction-
less war tactics and religious-like cru-
sades" might be replaced by a form of
communication more compatible to the
administrators' way of life.
Early this spring Student Government
Council President Ed Robinson, '67, voiced
the new student attitude when he said,
"SGC wants to be part of the total proc-
ess by which University decisions are
reached.
rE FINAL Advisory Board System pro-
posal is also reflective of the new stu-
dent philosophy. Its formulation has been
a carefully considered step-by-step proc-
ess, including preliminary meetings with
administrators to discuss the basic con-
cept as well as possible procedural prob-
lems.
Last Tuesday's meeting is proof that
the new approach is working. President
Hatcher and the vice-presidents were
there, listening, discussing, asking ques-
tions and generally agreeing with the pro-
posal.
THERE IS MUCH to be done before the
first meeting of an Advisory Board to
the President of the University can be
called to order, and the burden of re-
sponsibility lies with the students, who
must continue to prove they can do more
than scream.
But May 24 marked an important be-
ginning.
-SUSAN SCHNEPP
T HE UNIVERSITY has been
convulsed in recent months by
the crisis precipitated by Public
Act 379, which has ordered pub-
lic employers to bargain, through
the State Labor Mediation Board,
if necessary, with their employes.
The crisis was really started by
State Attorney General Frank G.
Kelley's informal opinion, deliv-
ered last November, that Public
Act 379 applied to the Universi-
ty's relations with its employes.
Since that time several unions
have filed suits against the Uni-
versity to gain collective bargain-
ing status (to test Kelley's opin-
ion that the new act applied to
universities) and, shortly after,
a suit charging the University with
unfair labor practices.
THE UNIVERSITY has strong-
ly resisted all pressure, both in-
ternal and external, to have it
accept the new act, and set up
bargaining machinery with the
unions. And, there is some strong
pressure from such powerful sourc-
es as the state Legislature, many
of whose members have large un-
ion constituencies.
Through it all the University
has stolidly maintained that ac-
ceptance of the unions threatens
its precious autonomy, vital to the
maintenance of academic freedom
in what is essentially an arm of
the state government.
One administrator illustrated
the University's fears, saying that
it was possible that state influ-
ence in its personnel relationships
could extend into relations with
the academic staff, such as setting
scales for their salaries. In this
case, he said, it was possible that
the state would try to influence
academic staff appointments,
through their control of academic
staff salaries.
THE UNIVERSITY'S worries
about the effects of recognizing
and negotiating with the unions
extend into other areas, such as
not being able to meet salary de-
mands and the great difficulty of
dividing up its diverse non-aca-
demic staff into compact and, at
the same time, fair bargaining
units. However, its main objec-
tion to unionization has been its
threatened autonomy.
Yet, here there is a possibility
that the University may be over-
looking more profound threats to
its autonomy and, indeed, its free-
dom to change and develop as it
wishes. During this whole dispute
concerning the unions and their
threat to autonomy, no mention
has been made of the potentially
greater threat posed by the State
Board of Education's Master Plan
for public higher education in
Michigan. And, this oversight
could pose real problems for the
University in the near future.
THE APPOINTMENT of Harold
Smith of the Upjohn Institute in
Kalamazoo as project director of
the State Plan for Higher Edu-
cation, brings the problem to the
forefront. Since its creation, the
State Board of Education, charg-
ed with formulating some plan to
coordinate higher education in
Michigan, has been unable to act
because it. lacked funds with
which to set up the necessary ad-
ministrative machinery. Until now
the eight-member board has been
largely using the facilities and
staff under Ira Polley, the super-
intendant of public instruction.
But now, apparently with mon-
ey in hand, they are ready to be-
gin the drawing up of the Mas-
ter Plan, despite their previous
record of setting and then ig-
noring most of their deadlines for
action.
THE PLAN is to set up some
way of coordinating the 11 schools
in Michigan's higher education
program, that is, to determine the
role that each will play in the
overall picture of higher educa-
tion.
For most of the schools, their
roles are obvious: Michigan, Mich-
The Associates
by Carney and wolter
igan State and Wayne State will
probably be the centers of gradu-
ate education; the smaller schools
such as Eastern, Northern, and
Central Michigan will confine their
efforts to undergraduate educa-
tion, Michigan Tech will remain
a specialized engineering institu-
tion. A new aspect~ of the plan
will most likely be the establish-
ment of many community colleges.
As it begins to develop the Mas-
ter Plan, the staterboard will ask
each school to write a detailed
report of its structure, areas of
emphasis, and, most important, the
ways in which it would like to
develop in the next few years. The
object here is to avoid the mon-
umental task, both for the state
board and the individual schools,
of conducting investigations of
each school's particular educa-
tional make-up.
AFTER THESE reports are stud-
ied, the state board will consider
its own priorities against those
of the individual schools, and
make recommendations, both to
the colleges and to the Legisla-
ture, concerning the role each one
can expect to play in higher edu-
cation in, say, the next decade.
The advantage here, for both
the state government and the in-
dividual schools is better coordi-
nation of function with a conse-
quently more efficient use of the
available funds, and less uncer-
tainty for the schools about the
appropriations they can expect
from the Legislature.
The disadvantage, one which
could prove fatal to the whole
concept of a Master Plan to co-
ordinate higher education, comes
when the eductional objectives
of the individual schools are in
conflict with those favored by
the state board. Also, there is the
possibility that a central agency,
deciding the fate of all higher
education in Michigan, could make
some monumental errors in judg-
ment concerning educational ob-
jectives, when it starts to balance
the desires of the individual
schools against each other and
against the wishes of state legis-
lators.
IN THE FIRST PLACE, while
the members of the State Board
of Education are ideally to make
their decisions objectively based on
the importance each school gives
to various projects and their budg-
etary limitations,, there cannot
help but be conflicts of interest
and political priorities, especially
in an elected body like the 'board.
This is not to say that the
formulation of a Master Plan for
higher education in Michigan will
be one big political maneuver. It
merely means that, as in any gov-
ernmental body, political consid-
erations will enter into its deci-
sions.
FOR EXAMPLE, the board may
not consider some of Michigan's
institutes and centers important
in the total picture of higher ed-
ucation in Michigan, while they
are of particular importance to
the University's administration
and faculty as centers of research
in which they alone are interested.
To please the larger population of
voters and state legislatures, the
board may be forced to give pri-
ority to other projects. Therefore,
even though they may be aware
of the great value of one area of
endeavor at Michigan, political
considerations would force them
to favor another project, possibly
at another school.
Obviously, the educational back-
grounds and areas of interest of
the board members will also enter
into their recommendations.
And, in the process of balanc-
ing the demands of each school,
attempting to be fair to each, the
decisions of the board could en-
courage a safe mediocrity among
the schools. If every school in
Michigan wanted to establish a
medical school, and each had val-
id claims and some political power
to support its request, one can
only guess what the action of the
board would be in trying to satisfy
each school without compromising
the quality of higher education.
AS A GOVERNMENTAL body,
with priorities of its own and prej-
udices of its own concerning high-
er education, facing difficult and
important decisions, the board will
want to be able to act with some
measure of authority when dealing
with 11 different schools. This is
where the serious threat to Uni-
versity autonomy lies.
It is an elected body. It will be
stationed in Lansing, working
closely with legislators and other
officials. It is quite conceivable
that, confronted with a difficult
decision and opposition from the
schools, the board will ask for,
and get, the power it needs to act
as it wishes.
Even without specific regulatory
power over the policy decisions of
the individual schools, the board's
recommendations will 'carry a lot
of weight in Lansing, especially
around budget time. And, this will
be simply because it is a centraliz-
ed agency, it is elected at large,
and it is close to the centers of
power.
THIS DOES ot mean that the
University's concern over the un-
ion issue is a trifling matter. But
the union issue is relatively unim-
portant in the face of the idea
for the Master Plan, and it has
given the University a bad name
as a reactionary, willful institu-
tion.
Once the University has settled
its disputes with the unions, it
should realize that there are larg-
er problems just over the horizon,
that need attention and need it
quickly.
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Suicide: How the Schools Try To Help
By J. MARK LONO
Second in a Two-Part Series
Collegiate Press Service
AWARE THAT many students
commit suicide, most colleges
are trying to do something. With-
in the past decade most major
campuses have greatly increased
their psycriatric counseling serv-
ices. In 1953, for instance, Har-
vard had one full-time psychia-
trist on its staff; today it has 10
full-time psychiatrists andutwo
consultants, plus the Bureau of
Study Counsel, whose nonpsychia-
tric staff handles emotional as
well as academic problems.
The University of Chicago has
a Counseling Center with a staff
of 30 trained counselors and a
psychiatric clinic with three full-
time psychiatrists, one psycholo-
gist, and three psychiatric social
workers.
THE UNIVERSITY of Minneso-
ta has 23 full-time professionals
concerned with "vocational goals;
educational skills; personal, social,
or emotional problems; cocrtship
and marriage; psychological test-
ing . . ." Minnesota's psychiatric
clinic, with four psychiatrists, two
psychiatric social workers, and one
clinical psychologist, served 570
students last year.
Columbia University's counseling
service is smaller and consists of
psychologists only; the school feels
that psychiatrists need be used
only for referral of serious cases.
There has been a 450 per cent in-
crease insstudent use in the past
five years.
AT STANFORD, the Student
Health Service medical group con-
tains 11 physicians, two of whom
are full-time psychiatrists. The
Counseling and Testing Center
and the Stanford Medical School
Psychiatric Clinics, located else-
where on campus, provide about 25
psychiatrists, clinical psychologists,
and psychiatric social workers who
are involved with students.
The church-related schools have
much less extensive counseling
services and apparently less need
for them. This is a result of bud-
getary considerations, and the fact
that the more "protected" atmos-
phere of a denominational school
encourages less anxiety. It prob-
ably also reflects the much great-
er and probably more satisfactory
interpersonal relations at a church
college, and the personal comfort
caused by faith in religion and
religious dogma.
AT THE UNIVERSITY of Wis-
consin, one out of every 10 stu-
dents visits the psychiatric clinic,
where about 20,000 hours of per-
sonal counseling takes place each
year. There are 28 resident psy-
chiatrists in the clinic.-.
The waiting list for the clinic
is long, and it is three weeks be-
fore most students get to see a
doctod, though "emergencies" are
handled more quickly. The first
step toward the clinic is usually
the student counseling center,
which handles less severe cases of
emotional disturbance.
DR. MILTON MILLER, chair-
man of the psychiatric division of
the department of psychiatry at
Wisconsin, talked about the work
of the clinic to the Daily Cardinal.
He said that the goal of therapy
at the clinic is to enable the stu-
dent to "clarify what he really
feels-to state and to put into
understandable terms what's go-
ing on."
It is the object of therapy at
the clinic, Miller explained, to
illustrate to the patient the causes
and bases for his fears and, if
possible, to help him in eliminat-
ing them. Sometimes the therapy
does not work because it involves
human and personal relationships
in which the student must divulge
his true feelings. If the student
does not have respect and trust
in his doctor, the treatment may
not succeed at all.
PSYCHOTHERAPY at Wiscon-
sin consists of a series of con-
sultations with students, almost
always on a weekly basis. About
700 persons are receiving this
counseling at any one time.
These visits are a part of the
out-patient program. They are
cases only involving consultations
and medication which may be
prescribed, usually in the form of
mild sedatives or tranquilizers.
The in-patient department con-
tains fifty beds and is reserved for
the more severe cases--emotional
and mental disorders which neces-
sitate hospitalization. There are
usually very few students in this
department.
"It is remarkable,"' said Miller,
"that theremare so few students
who require hospitalization. We
try to keep the student out of the
hospital because there are healing
aspects within the University, the
fact of being a student."
AN INTERESTING footnote to
the discussion of college clinic
student traffic is that it dropped
sharply at the University of Cali-
fornia's Berkeley campus during
the Free Speech Movement ac-
tivities there last year.
The "identity crisis" which
sends many students scurrying to
clinics apparently was solved for
students who found a "cause."
*i
Death on the Highway,
A New Weekly Series
THE MANY EPISODES in the evolving
- auto unsafety story - lawyer Ralph
Nader's urgent book, General Motors spies
peering into Nader's privy affairs, GM
President James Roche's demeaning apol-
ogy in Congress, Senator Abraham Ribi-
coff's investigation of automotive re-
calls, frantic UAW efforts to figure out
which factory would be closed if and
when production of a conventional auto-
mobile declared unsafe was discontinued,
the exzema of the Stock Exchange at
every revelation-color the affair black.
Black comic, like a Waugh or J. P. Don-
leavy novel.
In Florida, 007 drove a big fast Studil-
lac. This was a passing Ian Fleming sneer
at American chrome. Today, the almost
serrated front edges of several big fast.
cars are comic masks at any speed.
BUT THIS IS the low-level story line.
The real action is in grass-roots
Michigan, the Automobile Country, every
weekend.
Every weekend, the traffic toll is kept
on the police teletype. Every weekend it
happens.
Death on Michigan roads is a happen-
ing. It is more spontaneous, more gro-
tesque, and more dehumanized than any-
thing Andy Warhol and his Gang, the
Velvet Underground, could whip up at
the Cinema Guild.
Pick a weekend. Any weekend. Last
weekend.
And let it be significant that last week-
end concluded Michigan Week.
Fdit rial S t ff
A SIX-MONTH-OLD Mt. Pleasant child
was killed when her mother was in-
volved in a collision near an intersection.
Two pedestrians, a 67-year-old Dear-
born man and a 12-year-old Oxford girl
were struck by cars.
A Belmont man lost control of his car
on a curve. The vehicle hit a utility post.
A 74-year-old Detroiter was thrown
through his auto windshield when his
car piled into a cement freeway overpass
pillar.
An Ann Arbor man was crushed by a
car out of which he was thrown.
A Toledo couple died in a headon col-
lision near Monroe.
A 19-year-old Auburn man died in a
hospital after his car turned over.
Six persons, including, a family of four
were killed on I-75's infamous "death
row" when one car hit a concrete median
and bounced into the path of an oncom-
ing car.
IN ALL, 25 PEOPLE died on Michigan
roads last weekend.
When the fatalities are analyzed, it
appears that many of the victims lost
control of their vehicles. Some of the
automobiles involved overturned. There
were a few multiple collisions. Several
cars ploughed into objects along the road-
side.
People of varying ages, occupations, and
hometowns were involved. The county
sheriff's department deputies combed the
wrecks for signs confirming laws of phys-
ics. The press photographers took their
pictures for the metropolitan dailies
which kept the toll. And the police tele-
type conveyed the details.
'KTLTTL --1 Wr rr vA v- n
LETTERS TO TUE EDITOR:
Smugness Does Not Help the University
To the Editor:
MIDDLE WESTERNERS, if one
may use such a label, fre-
quently complain that Easterners
blame them for smug conserva-
tism. Unfortunately, editorials like
the one on the A.C.E. Graduate
School Survey by Meredith Eiker
in The Daily of Mayr24 provide
strong support for such a view.
The conclusion of this editorial
states: "Unless those who an-
swered the questionnaires have
visited the University, noting in-
stitutes and half-finished build-
ings, they cannot possibly be
fully aware of the University's
distinction." Dismissing such a
major report with praise of "half-
finished buildings" reflects more
misplaced school spirit than ser-
ious interest in education.
A MORE MATURE commentary
might have investigated, for ex-
ample, why several large graduate
departments were not cited for
excellence or why the engineering
and physical science category was
not rated "distinguished" even
though four engineering depart-
ments plus astronomy were listed
among the best in their fields.
Evaluations, such as the study
by the Council on Education,
should challenge responsible minds
to seek improvement, not defense.
Such overwhelming confidence as
that expressed in the editorial can
only lead to stagnation.
Molly Buff ur
English Grad.
banking and industrial circles
graduated from this fine school.
The staff always encouraged stu-
dents toward excellence and dis-
couraged modern mediocrity. It
did not enter into petty politics
and was therefore able to experi-
ment freely with new teaching
methods and procedures.
Unlike Ann Arbor's present and
future high schools, it is small. A
students was not a number but
a name and generally knew the
other students in the classes both
ahead and behind himself.
Unknown to many, University
High School was open to anyone
on space available but attempted
to enroll a healthy cross section
of students. I for example, was
from a poor family, but there were
other students from farm, faculty,
wealthy and working class fami-
lies. Some were drop outs from
other schools.
I NEVER MET a University
High graduate that was not proud
of his school as am I.
The proof of the quality of a
school is the percentage of its
graduates that go on to become
successful in life. University High
School is outstanding in this re-
spect and I know there are many
teachers who are proud of their
students' success. They should be
and they deserve credit for what
they produced.
I BELIEVE that when University
High dies, a little bit of everyone
of its teachers and former stu-
and Mr. Shapiro entitled: "Defend
U.S. Position in Viet Nam."
Toward the end of a debate be-
tween Profs. Organski and Anatol
Rapoport during the "Emergency
Conference on China," I told Prof.
Organski what I thought of his
position on China-U.S. policy:
"The thing that bothers me, Pro-
fessor, is that in many ways the
developments in U.S. policy toward
China and your own reasoning
have both arrived at similar con-
clusions.
"What is disturbing is that the
two reasoning processes are not the
same. Yours is based on a wealth
of knowledge and experience in
the fields of political scienlce and
history. From these you have
drawn what is, perhaps, an in-
tellectually tenable position.
"However, I don't think that
Dulles was using the same reason-
ing, nor is McNamara, Rusk,
Johnson, or Bundy. I am led to
believe by past and recent events
that leaders in the State Dept.
(National Security Council, De-
fense, Pentagon, Cabinet, Con-
gress, etc.) are using unsound
reasoning. Rather than coming
toward a workable solution, our
government is getting further en-
tangled in a dangerous situation.
"I feel that the purpose of a
'teach-in' is to ask: has this gov-
ernment made mistakes in our
Asian policy? If so, why, and what
can be done to rectify them? Your
formulation of whataour present
policy is and aims atdis of little
value if it is predicated on reason-
political science "experts." Rather,
they should read a newspaper and
ponder why the next civilian gov-
ernment in South Viet Nam might
ask U.S. troops to desist from
protecting their "freedom." I
would ask them to look toward
Latin American and our inter-
vention in Santo Domingo.
Could we be equating leftist na-
tionalist movements with a sup-
posed notion of a monolithic com-
munist threat? Have we perhaps
made similiar mistakes in Viet
Nam? Can a policy based on mis-
takes and subterfuge lead toward
the best possible settlement in
Asia?
MR. GOLDBERG and Mr. Sha-
piro feel that if U.S. troops are
recalled from Viet Nam, the dom-
inos will begin to topple. Did they
topple in Indonesia when our
forces left? Would there have
been any dominos to fall in Viet
Nam, in 1956, if we hadn't pre-
vented national elections?
Is our best possible strategy
toward China one of saturation
bombing in Viet Nam that comes
closer and closer to Hanoi and
China, itself. What would happen
under this present policy if China
were to make an ideological shift
toward a more militant outlook?
Would it be possible that in the
years to follow, this Chinese policy
would become more dogmatic and
aggressive, precipitating many
Viet Nams--each as potentially
dangerous as the present one, each
pushing the hope for negotiated
ferences between forms of com-
munist and nationalist movements
throughout the world, the only
responsibilities Americans will
have to bear will be on the battle-
field.
If the U.S. is to recognize its
great responsibilities as a humane
world power, it must strive toward
a policy which calls for greater
understanding of China's position
in the worlc. Further, our policy
must encompasse an accurate- un-
derstanding of the true nature
of the turmoil in Asia.
A reasonable and realistic settle-
ment of international disputes
cannot be based on distortions of
the meaning national indepen-
dence has for Viet Nam and the
United States. We need less policy
of this distorted nature and less
academic abstractions.
BECAUSE, if the U.S. does not
quickly change its stance toward
China, if, it continues to evaluate
threats in terms of monolithic
communism, then the next 40
years: in China, the United States,
and the rest of the world, will see
a time when world conflict is ever
more possible and ever more
tragic.
-M. Ditkowsky, '66
Scientism
To the editor:
BRAVO FOR your article, "The
Crumbling of the Ivory Tow
er," May 19! One can almost hear
the "Alleluia" chorus rising in
cresecnedo response to D a v i d
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