TWO PROPOSALS FOR STUDENT ACTIVITY See Editorial Page Y 5k 43Ar 4Iat SUNNY High-74 Low--52 Variable winds; milder tomorrow Seventy-Six Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVI, No. 688 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1966 SEVEN CENTS FOUR PAGES Summer Orientation: Freshman Survival By CRAIG DUNCAN Freshman Orientation is cur- rently one of the most complex problems facing the University at the outset of an academic term. It is most obviously acute in the fall and becomes more severe as the number of freshmen keeps es- calating. This escalation naturally complicates the processes of test- ing, classification, and registra- tion. In order to help introduce fresh- men to the University, the Sum- mer Orientation Program was created. This summer alone, the program handled some 3,600 fresh- men and 300 transfer students in 38 groups, giving each of them time for placement into the prop- er programs and sections, as well as almost assuring them of a place in the courses they wanted. The processes are rather hur- ried, this haste being the natural outgrowth of trying to accomplish the essentials of orientation and registration in three days. But this rush, in the opinion of Orien- tation Leader Martha Welling, is much to be preferred over the total chaos of trying to orient the complete freshman group in the fall. Most of the complaints about the program center in the area of testing, counseling, and ROTC. However, their correction, if pos- sible, might result in some dis- ruption of the program. Testing, for example, holds some students for over four hours their first morning of orientation, but this allows the results to be in the hands of the student's counselor in time for him to make fullest use of them during the individual counseling session. If the testing were held later in the program, this could not be done. But there are areas in which definite improvement could be made. The most _important of these is the counseling in the School of Architecture and De- sign. Compared to that .of the other schools, it seems inadequate and appears to be capable of im- provement only when, in the words of one orientation leader, ". these people realize they need pro- fessional counselors." Alleviation of this problem may be forthcoming as meetings are currently being held by the A&D administration to discuss it. ROTC usually rates low because the ROTC briefing seems to be rather vague, confusing, and something of a bore to those orientees interviewed about it. Another problem is that al- though some of the freshmen have no real commitments until early afternoon, and would like nothing better than to get some extra sleep after two hectic days, they can- not because they have to be out of their rooms by 8 a.m. in order for them to be ready for the group, due at 1 p.m. Having no better place, they sleep in the lounge, an available, but none too comfortable, place. Along other lines, the Health Service film comes off as a comic success with hearty waves of laughter greeting several of the vignettes therein. The film was in- tended for presentation to the parents and is, therefore, a place- bo. The message of the film is nearly lost in its wave of humor, as evidenced by the collective howl released when an orientation lead- er announced, "We'll be showing the Health Service movie again at 9:30 for those of you who'd like to see it twice." One more area of improvement was noted by Orientation Leaders Welling and Diane Gustafson. Since one of the purposes of Sum- mer Orientation is to eliminate the "lost frosh," it would seem advis- able to require all freshmen to attend the program. The 3,600 freshmen handled this summer were some 1,000 short of the total group expected in the fall. This suggestion, although help- ing to ease the still-existent fall orientation rush, would create still other problems, such as getting these most divergent elements of the freshmen group, some of whom are traveling or working, to the program and requiring that counselors be on campus when the rest of the faculty is gone. For the rest of the program, there appears to be nothing but praise. In interviews with orientees in the Aug. 4-6 group, the over- whelming opinion was that the program was "very effective . . . giving adequate preparation . . . doing an excellent job in the time available." In spite of such a reception, there is no chance of stagnation within the porgram. Aside from meetings held the spring and fall, in which the program is evaluat- ed from University, school, admin- istration, and student levels and new ideas are introduced and dis- cussed, the orientation directors of all the Big Ten schools, except Northwestern, and numerous other institutions gather once a year to study innovations and results. This interchange of ideas is one of the best ways the directors have of improving their individual programs. Some of the more ap- parent results of these meetings are the Computer Dance, the Residence Halls' Activities Day, the Marching Band All-Campus Sing, and the Upperclassmen Course Course Evaluation Program, wherein people with experience in the courses the freshmen will be exposed to will be placed in the Union where they can be found readily for discussions of these courses, all new this year. After some 12 years' experience in the field of Freshman Orienta- tion, the University's program has become a leader, and has become, in whole or part, the model for the orientation programs at num- erous schools throughout the West and South. The orientation pro- gram at the University of Ala- bama, for example, is based al- most entirely on that of the Uni- versity's. Such evidence confirms the thoughts of Orientation Director Jack Petosky when he said, "I think, I'm not boasting, that we have the best orientation program in the country." State To Get: Money for Student Aid Federal Government To Provide Michigan With About $700,000 By CAROLE KAPLAN The new federal Guaranteed Stu- dent Loan Program is expected to1 give the Michigan Higher Educa-! tion Assistance Authority approxi- mately $700,000 over a three-year period, according to Patrick Cum- mings, consultant to the loan pro- gram in Lansing. The federal program, authoriz- ed by the Higher Education Act of 1965, will provide funds to serve as guarantee reserves for loans financed by banks, credit unions and savings and loan associations. In addition, if the student bor- rower's adjusted family income is under $15,000 per year, the federal government will pay the six per cent interest on the loan during the time the student is in school., The government will also continue to pay half of the interest after the student is out of school and has begun to repay the loan. According to the American Council on Education, the loans will be administered through the: states, either through particular agencies or through contract with United States Aid Funds, Inc. The U.S. Office of Education es- timates that approximately 975,000 students this year will attempt to borrow about $697 million. Cummings said yesterday that, although Michigan has not yet re-; ceived funds through the program, the state is 'expected to receive about $400,000 quite soon. The loans will be administered through the Higher Education Assistance Authority. Cummings added that the most important difference the new pro- gram will make is that now stu- dents will be able to apply for funds to study in school out of' the state, including foreign col- leges, if they are accredited by the Office of Education. The Vermont Student Assistance Corporation received $25,000 Aug. 3 as the first state agency to be awarded federal "seed money." The money will enable the agency to guarantee about $312,500 in loans. Cummings said that the major-I ity of banks in Michigan are "very cooperative," and that "if a per- son has the ability and desire to go to school, he should have the opportunity to do so." Hearing for uIign Daity Grant Rules Officials Say Dorms NEWS WIRE Late World News By The Associated Press SAIGON-COMMUNIST GUNNERS shot down a U.S. Navy F8 Crusader jet last night as Navy and Air Force planes struck at petroleum storage areas and power plants in North Viet Nam, the U.S. Command announced early today. A spokesman said the plane was downed 35 miles east of Haiphong. The pilot ejected and was picked .up by a rescue heli- copter, he added. On the ground, the 1st Battalion of the U.S. 5th Marine Regi- ment, about 750 men, fought off encirclement by perhaps 1,500 North Vietnamese sbuth of Da Nang. The raids on the North came as U.S. officials announced two tragic cases of mistaken targets in South Viet Nam * * *I * PASADENA, CALIF.-A SHORT burst of power from the rocket engine aboard America's Lunar Orbiter put the stubby flying photo laboratory into a perfect path to the moon, scientists reported yesterday. The burst, commanded by scientists at the Jet Propulsion laboratory, slowed the craft slightly at a point about 130,000 miles from the earth, spokesmen said. The elaborate sequence of maneuvers to aim the 850-pound spacecraft properly began at 4 p.m. PDT and culminated after 5 p.m., when the rocket engine fired. Scientists said preliminary data indicated the midcourse maneuver was perfect. JACKSON, MISS.-DR. MARTIN Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference last night called upon President Johnson to take steps to reverse the House vote on the open housing section of the 1966 civil rights bill. "This iniquitous vote which effectively sanctioned discrim- ination in the sale or rental of private housing only adds more fuel to the fires of frustration burning in the hearts of our Negro ghettocdwellers," said a resolution adopted by the SCLC board of directors. "Instead of heeding those agonized crises, the House was bowed low before the racist pressures of the real estate lobby." The resolution placed the blame for passage of the bill squarely on President Johnson's shoulders saying, "The adminis- tration retreated before the bigots' onslaught and accepted a compromise." On Viet Nam, SCLC said the escalation of the war in South- east Asia, "exposes the failure of American policy in that un- happy country." THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, Education, and Welfare has given a public health research grant for a five year project which will be administered by Vice-President for Business and Finance W. K. Pierpont. Dr. Thomas Francis, Jr. of the School of Public Health will be the principle investigator, Rep. Weston Vivian (D-Ann Arbor) announced recently. He also announced a second grant in public health service training for a five year project to Dr. Martin L. Hoffman of the psychology department. From the Office of Education Bureau of Research, Rep. Vivian announced a grant to Education Prof. Garry Walz for educational research information on counseling and guidance. Held Openly Regulations for New T Tuition Program Received Positively By MEREDITH EIKER A public hearing held yesterday on the 16 rules and regulations for Michigan's new tuition grant pro- gram for students attending pri- vate colleges and universities pro- duced "no major negative reac- tions," said Dr. John Porter of the Higher Education Department. Each of the regulations, said! Porter, was reviewed separately at the hearings held in the chamber of the Michigan House ofhRepre- sentatives in Lansing in the pres- ence of a "number of people." The program provides $3.5 mil- lion for tuition grants to students of private colleges and will begin this fall. Averaging about $200 per student per year, the money wlil be distributed on a graduated scale. Michigan's program differs from those in other states in that it does not require a competitive examination, but merely a test of financial need - family income compared with the institution's tuition. Porter explained that the regu- lations reviewed yesterday consist of the method by which an appli- cant's eligibility will be deter- mined. He said that the law itself is not specific on the types of freshmen, for example, who are eligible. Theregulations will spe- fcify that they be entering fresh- men having no previous college experience. He said further that the regula- tions will now go to the State Superintendent's, Ira Polley's, of-! fice and from there will be sent Rep. Staggers (I to the Attorney General for final approval. Following the Attorney General's approval, the regulations will be officially presented and WASHTEF made part of the program's code. Meanwhile, Aug. 25 has been set as the deadline for applications from students seeking financialj assistance under the program. The applications have been printed and are available at the 40 participat- ing colleges and universities in the state. No applications will be ap- WasteawCo proved, however, until after the Wednesday night rules and regulations are given the lution commendin Attorney General's final approval. power" ideology About 6,000 students are expect- that black power ed to receive tuition grants during tribtion t the fig the first year of the new program, grated an d more f bthat black power sentiment." Othp atin nt i Be I 100 Extra Applicants This Year By Winter Semester Residence Halls Will Have Fewer People By SHIRLEY ROSICK As had been predicted early in the winter term, dormitories will be overcrowded again this fall, for the third straight year. Newly-appointed Director of University Housing John C. Feld- kamp said yesterday that the number of applicants for dorm rooms is currently running at about 100 above what the resi- dence halls are built to accom- modate. The overflow figure con- stitutes about 1/2 per cent of the total number of applicants. Feldkamp termed the expected overcrowding "slight," but said that housing officials had hoped earlier this summer that there would be no overcrowding at all. He said, however, that by the winter semester, thehresidence halls should be housing only the number they were designed for. He explained that admissions officials normally admit more students than can be accommodated in the residence halls, anticipating about 200 students to withdraw or just "not show up" at the 'University at the last minute. Feldkamp said that the over- flow at the semester's start would be accommodated by converting single rooms to doubles and some doubles to triples. The need to use converted rooms this fall has been somewhat reduc- ed by theopening of 600 spaces in the Cedar Bend housing. The North Campus complex, housing only upperclass and graduate stu- dents, will eliminate some of the pressure the dormitories previously felt in housing students eligible for off-campus quarters who chose to remain in dorms. Dormitory space problems be- came serious in the fall of 1964, when due to late admissions, 200 more freshmen than were expect- ed arrived on campus. They were shuttled into cramped temporary quarters in floor lounges and li- braries. Finally, about 300 rooms were converted to accommodate them. Overcrowded -Associated Press BETWEEN SESSIONS D-W.Va.), chairman of the House Commerce Committee, talked to reporters yes- terday during a break in airline back-to-work bill talks. NAW COUNTY: ntocrat Vote Policy nty Democrats passed a reso- .g the "black to the extent makes a con- ,ht for an inte- :illy democratic "to the extent reflects racist the ronvention LIBERALS FEAR EXTREMISM: T I i 1 i i la t ic platform included the endorse- ment of all county Demo- cratic candidates and oft Univer- sity Regent candidates Irne Mur- phy and Dean Z. Douthat; approv- al of the idea of a police review board to be established to in- vestigate police brutality com- plaints in the county, and the raising of all Michigan teachers' salaries until they are the na- tion's highest paid. Support for the referendum to lower the voting age in Michigan to 18 came as well at the conven- tion, as did approval for the sus- pension of prosecution of drug addicts for non-violent crimes in favor of medical treatment. Also adopted into the county's Democratic platform was the fav- oring of a move toward. the abo- lition of the House Committee on Un-American Activities; condem- nation of unilateral military in- tervention by any nation into the domestic affairs of any member of the Organization of American States, and a request that the gov- ernment release only "factually correct information" to the public, "lest the faith of the people in their government be diminished." Black Power' Hurts Aid to Civil Iiglts v er ac on ac e CC1VC111 held in the Michigan Union Ball- room included a call for the de- escalation of the war in Viet Nam. The county Democrats want the stoppage of all non-defensive oper- ations in Southeast Asia, includ- ing all "search and destroy" oper- ations. This stand on the Viet Nam war came as part of the platform Second of Three Parts While the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is charging the Northern press with distortions about the mean- ing of "black power," causing lib- erals to worry about "racism" and' "black nationalism," the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference says that 70 per cent of its fi- nancial help has come from white liberals. Contributions, however, have dropped from $1.5 million in the fiscal year 1965 to less than $1 VM114 4 1 nag held, sums up that attitude: "Bull Connor and his police dogs were such easy targets to hate a few years ago." He referred to Eugene Connor, who used dogs to check demon- strators when he was Birming- ham police commissioner. Many observers and leaders of the civil rights struggle believe that it is too early to assess the full impact of the new "black power" slogan. But they point to other related factors, described as "racist" or "extremist," attitudes as having a depressing effect for ed by the new emphasis on "black power" and will continue giving. They interpret "black power" as the classic American political de- vice, fully constitutional, of try- ing to obtain "power commensur- ate with your numbers." But most concede that the "black power" slogan has caused considerable concern among some acquaint- ances. "black power" doctrine enunciated by Stokely Carmichael, new SNCC director, making it appear racist or separatist. "I don't think 'black power' is an invitation to violence," he says. Schwerner and his wife are taking part in SNCC's new fund- raising mailing aimed at 44,000 previous contributors. Other Jew- ish liberals maintaining their suo- c o m m i t t e e's recommendations which included as well the fol- lowing steps: -Cessation of all bombing not necessary for immediate protec- tion of defensive positions; Denies College Requirement Will1 Increase Nurse Shortage Mrs. Jo Ann Levinson of New port to CORE or SNCC or both in- -A clear announcement of Unit- By MICHAEL DOVER York, daughter of Albert A. List, elude R. Peter Strauss, owner of ed States willingness to negotiate Speculation that the American the corporation executive who set radio station WMCA; Peter Weiss, directly with the National Liber- Nursing Association's decision to up the List Foundation, still finds lawyer and officer of the American ation Front, and require a college education for CORE and SNCC are "much more Jewish Congress, and Victor Rab- -An announcement that a de- professional nursing would create .~ +1,- .1 - -_+1,- -,-;,hia n evengreate shortage of nueis ler said, 'are the ones who plan careers as leaders in nursing such as head nurses and professors." She explained that most profes- sional nurses today do have college traiining. nSom even go on to ad- tinued. They will be the ones re- garded as professional nurses. She said that to be a registered nurse one must pass the state li- censing board exam. She noted that many nrospective R.N's take I