RAISE THE FLAG, NEVER STOP TO THINK See Editorial Page L Lilt~ia~ :4Iaii4~ HUMID High--85 Low-60 Showers and windy; cooler in evening Seventy-Six Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVL No. 41S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1966 SEVEN CENTS ississipiarc Encouraged VoterRegis FOUR PAGES tration EDITOR'S NOTE: Daily editorial director Harvey Wasserman par- ticipated in the recent civil rights march from Hernando to Jackson, Miss. By HARVEY WASSERMAN Editorial Director Special To The Daily First of a Two-Part Series GRENADA, Miss.-"This march is not at -all what I planned it to be. The leaders are using in for their own political purposes," James Meredith said of the "Mere- dith march" 10 days after his shooting. The first statement was not quite accurate. Meredith had orig- inally said the purpose of his march was to dramatize to Mis- sissippi Negroes that they need not fear registering to vote. His Bible-in-hand march from Mem- phis, on Mississippi's northern border, to the capitol at Jackson was to be the "lone wolf's" way of saying, to Mississippi's prospective Negro voters "have faith, broth- ers, and register without fear." Aptly enough, Meredith's march was cut off by a white Mississip- pian's gun-when that happened, Negro rights leaders had no choice but to continue the march lest it, in fact, be a perfect demonstration of why Mississippi Negroes are wary about registering to vote. So they flocked to Memphis- CORE, SNCC, SCLC, and the NAACP which was to drop from the march. The walking was re- sumed from Hernando and Cold- water, the point between where Meredith fell, towards Jackson, while comedian Dick Gregory hur- ried a small group of marchers through the rain back to Mem- phis. And the march's main pur- pose rapidly solidified into exactly what Meredith had wanted - to encourage Negroes to vote. Grenada left no doubt of that. A town of 13,000 some 80 miles south of Memphis, there had been no long-range advance work done there to prepare local Negroes for what was coming. The town Ne- groes had never been organized on any level by any of the rights or- ganizations. The town also had a reputation for being one of the toughest in the state on its own Negroes and on sympathetic whites. One rights worker with whom I talked refused to venture away from the march to go across the street for ice cream-he was afraid we would be beaten up de- spite the more than two dozen patrolmen in the immediate area. But Grenada proved to be a pushover, and the high point of the march. Gov. Paul Johnson had spread the word to his law enforcement officers and to the citizens of the state - no more trouble. And while the whites just watched in an almost startling calm, the marchers made the very best of the situation. Approaching from the north, we walked direct- ly into the Negro section of town. Once we were in town spirit grad- ually began to pick up among the marchers-it had been hot and we'd been walking for three hours, but now the effort would mean something besides a show. One by one Negroes came off the sidewalks and away from their houses to join the march. Some were waiting to join the march, others had to be convinced, many refused. One man nervously stay- ed on the sidewalk. "I want to keep my job," he said. "My boss see me and I gonna be outa work." A lady in a light blue dress scowl- ed at "your damn marchin'. I just better get no damn brick through my window tonight." But they joined, at least 300 of them. Colored girls dressed in white uniforms came out of the stores yhere they were working. Many laboring men dressed in overalls joined in. One car full of them drove quickly down the highway to catch up to the march, screeched to a halt while four men jumped out to quickly blend into the march. Then the driver just as quickly sped off. Afraid of losing their jobs if seen, they pulled off the entire operation in five seconds. By the time the day was over, the courthouse johns had been de- segregated and almost 200 Ne- groes had registered. That night Floyd McKissick announced that Grenada officials had agreed to hire the town's first four Negro registrars and to keep the polls open past the normal noon clos- ing until any hour of the evening that Negroes stopped coming. The marchers devoted that day mostly to canvassing. Now the procedure was to let 50 to 100 of the marchers carry on down the road to keep the actual march to Jackson on time, while the rest of the group visited the various small towns surrounding the route. A large group stayed back that day in Grenada, walk- ing from door to door, encourag- ing, often high-pressuring, Ne- groes to register, arranging rides for those who needed them. Everywhere the Grenadians were friendly, responsive. Nearly all said they would register and would drag their friends to register. There was a very real, but at the same time almost a fairy-tale feel- ing in the knowledge of a change that was going to come at last. One girl told me "It just didn't feel like Mississippi." The Negroes there, however, re- membered it was still Mississippi. The presence of the charismatic Martin Luther King and of so many energetic helpers lifted the spirits of the town's black com- munity. Some who hadn't register- ed, like blues singer Mississippi John Hurt whose registration was delayed because he had only 10 months' residence in Grenada, would complete their registration later. But there was more being thought than said. "Sure I'll reg- ister," one lady told me, "but what's gonna happen to us all when you march outa here? How' about my Job and my house?" "Grenada," one boy told me, "was a nice day." It was nice having 13 friendly state patrol cars along, and not being yelled at or threatened by the Klan or local rednecks, and registering 1,- 200 Negroes and desegregating. some toilets. But "KKK" was written in paint along the high- way and the whites along the way still hated the marchers as much as they did three years ago. The blacks still lived nine to a three- room shack and still worked for whites, while a few rural Ne- groes were afraid even to wave from their cottonfields. There is a labor shortage in Mis- sissippi and the Negro teenagers I heard talking on the fence about their plans did not sound hopeful. They talked only of the fact that when you want to buy a farm, "the whites own all the horses and all the land and you gotta work for them whites'wheth- er you like it or not and whether they pay you enough or not." "Grenada will never be the same again after that march pass- ed through it," said King. To make sure of as big a change as possible a small core of workers would return after the march reached Jackson to follow up on the registration and to attempt to organize Negroes for political action. But there was little doubt that white Grenada had lied about its true feelings in its few' days of passivity, and that the organizers who stayed behind would have a hard, even dangerous time of it -perhaps for nothing if there were no federal registrars to count votes. At any rate, further on into the delta few were lying. Slight Rise In Teaching Fellow Total Department Needs Approximately the Same This Year By MEREDITH EIKER Additions to the number of teching fellows in various Univer- sity departments will be slight this fall, according to estimates made yesterday by literary college de- partment administrative assist- ants. While some increases will occur -as in the history department, for example, where the number of teaching fellows will rise by five to bring the total to 31-no sig- nificant changes will take place. Some departments, such as po- litical science, are still waiting to hear from applicants, and others, such as English, will make some last minute appointments during! registration in the fall. Variations in the number of graduate student instructors seem to be congruent only with enroll- ment increases and do not indi- cate a trend toward turning over classes to teaching fellows. The University's Center for Re- search on Learning and Teaching last September reported that ap- proximately "33 per cent of all undergraduate credit hours in the literary college are being earned in classes conducted by teaching fellows." Obviously no longer an ad hoc, emergency measure, grad- uate students represent a perma- nent and significant means by which the educational program of the University is carried out." The CRLT at that time conduct- ed an informal survey of ten L.S. & A. departments that em- ploy more than 400 teaching fel- lows and found that most of the departments provide programs for the orientation and instruction of new graduate instructors. All of the departments sampled held weekly meetings of teaching fellows in an effort to coordinat- ing the activities of the different sections of large introductory courses. In general, the CRLT survey found, department-based training programs tended to concentrate on information about the admin- istrative rules of the department and the method and skills which are peculiar to the subject matter., NEWS WIRE PROF. JAMES B. SLEDD of the English department at the University of Texas will speak today at 4 p.m. in 4ngell Hall, Auditorium C. His lecture, "Lost in Space; or, Gunsmoke from the New Grammars," is the second in a series of six meetings spon- sored by the University as part of its 16th Annual Conference Series. This summer's series is entitled "Toward the Better Teaching of High School English." PROF. RALPH A. SAWYER, retired University vice-president and dean-emeritus of the Rackham School of Graduate Studies has been elected as acting director of the American Institute of Physics. Taking over the position for the second time, Sawyer, an internationally known physicist, who directed U.S. Bikini Atomic Bomb tests, will also continue as chairman of the institute's board. UNIVERSITY STUDENTS this week will be asked to answer the burgeoning need for teachers and land settlement officers in K -enya. Two former Peace Corps Volunteers will make a special visit Thursday and Friday (July 7 and 8) to the University to seek applicants for two separate Kenya programs which go into training in September and October. The two recruiters, Peter Morrissey, Western Regional Director of Campus Recruiting and a former volunteer in Indonesia, and Eloise Miller, who served in Turkey, will be located at an information booth on the Diag in front of the General Library. Applicants can take the 30-minute Modern Language Aptitude Test all day Friday in Room 3-B in the Union. Volunteers going to Kenya will receive training in Swahili. THE UNIVERSITY'S department of speech will sponsor a one-day summer speech conference July 14. Attending the con- ference, to be held in the Rackham building, will be some 300 instructors of speech from throughout the state. Meetings concerning various speech aspects will be held in the morning and afternoon, discussing such problems as speech education, oral interpretation, audiology, public address, theater, speech pathology. STAFF MEMBERS of the University will receive improve- ments in disability benefits; Vice-President for Business Affairs Gilbert L. Lee, Jr. announced last week. Essential features of the new disability plan are that the maximum benefit is increased to $400 per month, but not to exceed 50 per cent of gross salary, and a provision for combining benefits from the disability plan and Social Security disability to a maximum of 75 per cent of the staff member's gross earnings. Another improvement is that staff members who have five years of continuous service with the University are eligible, with no restriction as to age. -Daily-Andy Sacks SPRINKLING SYSTEM INSTALLED BY TIlE END OF AUG'ST, THIS TRENCH will be part of a central-campus sprinkling system. Workers have been laying the sys- tem's plastic pipe for several weeks. When completed the system will automatically water the central campus area in four alternating zones every evening. NOT JUST 'ELITE': Determine Crttera for Choosing Omaha Riots Blamed.on Frustration Negro Leader Sees Causes Similar to Those of Watts Riots By The Associated Press National Guardsmen reinforced police in Omaha, Neb., early yes- terday after violence occurred for the third night. Officers said about 10 businesses were targets of looters. A Negro leader blamed Omaha's racial disorders on the same things he said caused the bloody Watts riots in Los Angeles-the frustration and despair of young Negroes. Mayor A. V. Sorensen took a similar view and said he would meet with representatives of the young Negro element blamed for disturbances on Omaha's North Side over the Fourth of July weekend. Mayor Sorensen disclosed. he had taken part in a shouting, boistrous meeting Monday night with 100 young Negroes at a North Side YMCA. He said those who took part in the 11&-hour meeting were represented to him as having been taken part in the disorders. Immediately after the meeting, he said, violence flared for a third time in three hot, sultry holiday weekend nights. National Guards- men joined helmeted police and highway patrolmen in restoring order. Police reported 78 arrests anad two policemen slightly injured. Elsewhere, civil rights leaders - failed yesterday in their attempt to persuade the Lawton City Coun- cil in Oklahoma to adopt an ordi- nance aimed at forcing integration of a privately owned amusement park. The council rejected the pro- posed ordinance, followinga rec- ommendation by the council's or- dinance committee. The proposed public accommodations measure was submitted by civil rights lead- ers June 18 at the end of a 100- mile march from Oklahoma City to Doe Doe Park in Lawton. The marchers, mostly Negroes, wound up riding much of the way to Lawton. A Des Moines civil rights leader yesterday termed a disturbance by more than 200 Negroes there Monday night an "isolated" inci- dent but said he "wouldn't want to predict it couldn't happen again." The incident began after offi- cers were called to Good Park to investigate a report that, fire- works-illegal in Iowa-were be- ing shot off. At Cordele, Ga., a curfew which had been in strict force since last Wednesday was relaxed slightly and city officials said it may be lifted altogether later. It was or- dered into effect after violence last week, touched off by a fight between whites and Negroes at a swimming pool about seven miles out of town. Meanwhile, the National Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Colored People, at its 57th annual convention, voted "strenuous op- position" yesterday to proposed antiriot legislation pending in the California Legislature. "The proposed legislation is not ....a..a 01-,, - __ rnn ox w cn Frosh for Residential By MICHAEL HEFFER The faculty planning commit- tee for the residential college has informally adopted criteria for choosing those freshmen who will enter the college in 1967 and in later years, according to Prof. Theodore Newcomb of the psychol- ogy department. Newcomb is act- ing chairman of the committee while chairman Burton Thuma, associate dean of the literary col- lege, is on vacation. Newcomb said that for a stu- dent to gain admittance to the residential college he must first be accepted by the literary college and must express his desire to en- ter the residential college. The committee hopes to re- ceive more applications than it can accept, enabling it to choose its classes with the following prin- ciples in mind: -It does not want an "elite" group of honor students; -It wants the same proportion of honor students to non-honor students that the literary college has; -It wants the same proportion of men to women, and -It wants the same proportion of out-of-state to in-tate stu- dents. The purpose of these guidelines, said Newcomb, is to test whether the residential college system can be successful with the same type of student selection the other schools have. Therefore its suc- cess could not be attributed to special selection. A second major selection job the committee faces is that of THE NEW LEFT: ol0 lege faculty. Newcomb said many peo- ple, including some outside the University, have indicated their interest in teaching at the college. Newcomb stressed that the com- mittee expects that, although there will be some full-time residential college faculty members, many will be working there on a part- time basis, and will be encouraged to keep up their graduate teach- ing and research work on the cen- tral campus. Newcomb added that it would be permissible for a professor to teach only one course at the resi- dential college. He commented that some faculty members are apprehensive lest they find them- selves too involved in the affairs of the residential college and lose contact with the rest of the Uni- versity. Newcomb said graduate teach- ing fellows would be encouraged to work at the college. He said it has been informally adopted that those who teach at the college will have two titles--one will corres- pond to their position in the lit- erary college, and the other will be that of "fellow" in the residential' college. For example, an associate professor in the literary college will have the titles of both "asso- ciate professor" and "fellow" in the residential college. The faculty's criteria for stu- dents is similar to that discussed at the Regents meeting last week, when the Regents expressed the desire that residential college stu- dents should not be an honor Radical Education Project: Giving Depth to Dissent By PATRICIA O'DONOHUE Students for a Democratic So- ciety, a liberal student organiza- tion, is in the process of both internal and external education through the Radical Education Project. The project is being or- ganized at the national office in Ann Arbor and should begin oper- ation in the fall. REP, as the project is known, is a return to the type of program envisioned when SDS first be- came organized. Then, as now, the idea was one of radical education, "dedicating itself to the cause of democratic radicalism, and aspir- . ...,... 4- I-- --- 4 _ f o .Ma y of SDS members themselves, accord- ing to Barry Bluestone, Grad, na- tional staff member. Members and non-members alike called for an- alysis rather than action and change initiated through educa- tion. In December, 1965, REP was proposed at the SDS national meeting in New York. The pro- posal recognized that any move- ment requires more than ideal- ism. The proposal stated that "the left must have roots and rele- vance to every major section of the American community; and it must catalyze and encompass in- -,raann,, i vprV in+it1tifn nor settled by a simple institutional or economic remedy, such as the civil rights act or Social Security. They require new, more complex an- swers. REP's task, as outlined in its prospectus, is to focus on long- range rather than exclusively short-term goals. It must "create, or coalesce anew, a generation of democrats - people, not only youth, who will maintain a radi- cal value commitment and ident- ity and who will extend the move- ment into new areas. It must bring about opportunities for com- munication which allow us to huildo n nne another's thought. to time members and ten part-time workers. In addition a full-time fund-raiser, Jon Frappier, will soon be hired as a permanent REP staff member. -The REP work list, composed of 50 SDS members throughout the country has begun to compile chapter inventories and publish bibliography and speaker lists, film catalogues and program instruc- tions for SDS chapters. The na- tional staff is coordinating this activity. -The national staff has sent out 10,000 copies of the REP prospectus to people who are not nresently members of SDS and fessionals willing to work with REP. At present, the primary func- tion of the national staff is public relations. Thousands of prospec- tive supporters and contributors must be reached; the nature of the program must be explained to SDS members and non-members alike. Funds must be raised to carry the project through the initial or- ganizational phases and to aid its permanent establishment. T h e largest source of income is the advance on "Papers of the New Left"-to be published in the fall fers to them as "task forces of resarch." In that capacity they will de- velop and promote intellectually responsible programs which will contribute to the education of democratic radicals and comple- ment the action of the movement with a base of intellectual and ed- ucational resources. Ideally, the results of this re- search will be published for public understanding of the new left. It is hoped that public knowledge of radical proceedings will facilitate the change that the movement is seeking. _l. .. ... . -....Y:r.4. e i - l l