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)AY, MAY 4 1966
NIGHT EDITOR: MICHAEL HEFFER
Oh Yes, and the Students
Did All the Work'
HE REGENTS' authorization of plans
to build 400 new townhouse-type
apartments-relatively spacious, inexpen-
sive and quiet-will certainly be a boon
to the married students who will be able
to occupy the apartments by summer,
1967.
The citizens of the President's "Blue-
Ribbon" Housing Commission and the
plethora of other groups studying housing
are to be congratulated for consistently
pointing out the shortage of low-cost
housing.
The University administration is to be
congratulated for recognizing the desper-
ate need for more moderately-priced mar-
ried student housing, for beginning to
work at easing that need and for grant-
ing students a major role in developing
housing plans.
AND THE STUDENTS on Vice-Presi-
dent Richard L. Cutler's and Wilbur
K. Pierpont's housing advisory committee
are to be congratulated for coordinating
the housing studies and solidifying the
hazy concerns of a number of groups into
a coherent program statement for the
new buildings.
Yet, not only did students fail to re-
ceive due and hearty congratulations,
but their role in developing the town-
house plans was not even given the slight-
est mention in University News Service
releases or in the Ann Arbor News, the
only paper publishing when construction
plans were approved.
TERRIBLE PITY that administrators
couldn't have been as ebulliently
praiseworthy in their own public rela-
tions handouts and with Ann Arbor News
reporters then, as they were to represen-
tatives of the student press recently.
Perhaps the failure to publicly rec-
ognize students' work on the Northwood 4
townhouse project was a mere oversight.
And perhaps the failure to let the student
committee see the final draft of the pro-
posal to be presented to the Regents, as
had been promised, may have been an-
other. And, the failure to also present
plans for another proposed set of mar-
ried student apartments . . . Well, every-
one's entitled to a few.
BUT MAYBE WE'RE in for a few more
of them. Cutler last fall "just forgot"
to inform the Student Government Coun-
cil bookstore committee of his plans to
recommend that a discount bookstore not
be established, after promising he would
keep the students informed of his inves-
tigation and what he intended to report
to the Regents.
In both the housing and bookstore
cases, administrators were surprised that
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students should have been so upset over
not being informed on the fate of the
plans they had drawn up. How incredible
that they could be oblivious to the fact
that low book prices and well-built yet
inexpensive housing and diligently work-
ed-out schemes to obtain them are so
vitally important to students!
"IRRESPONSIBILITY" is a charge com-
monly brought up by administrators
arguing against allowing students a role
in University policy making. Students
now have a good case for reversing that
charge.
-SHIRLEY ROSICK
Obstacle Course
THE RECREATIONAL facilities at Wa-
terman Gym are better than ever this
spring, for, as the University expands
into a full trimester program, ever in-
creasing numbers of students seek to par-
ticipate in the sport of registration. To
the best of my knowledge, no other com-
petitive activity exists which is superior
to registration as a test of physical and
mental prowess.
Tri-annually now University students
have the opportunity to co-educationally
match their outdoor-line-standing skills
against those of their peers. Participants,
regardless of class rank, who are success-
ful in this area are eligible to go on to
the indoor-line-standing competitions
where they can pit their mental faculties
against those of inexperienced registra-
tion workers as well as continue in the
physical endurance races.
THERULES for registration, though es-
sentially unwritten and generally ig-
nored, are vital to the sport in spite of
their confusing simplicity. The initial,
qualifying rounds base their eligibility on
the alphabet which is re-arranged sys-
tematically each semester so that stu-
dents are not constantly competing
against the same people. Contestants for
the indoor finals are determined by the
number of credits withheld, mistakes in
pre-registration, missing IBM cards, vari-
ations in tuition assessments, ability to
read and comprehend overly cryptic signs:
closed courses, and of course by the ac-
cumulated number of individual errors
of the registration workers.
WIN at registration, a student need
only complete the designated obsta-
cle course in less than five hours time
and not have to drop or add anything
later. Losers are permitted, in all fair-
ness, to spend up to seven weeks in train-
ing for the next semester's competitions
by running laps between counseling of-
fices and classes in an effort to straight-
en out their schedules.
-MEREDITH EIKER
By LEONARD PRATT
'[FEY DID IT. They really did it.
Students at the University
wanted better housing. So they
got the vice-president for student
affairs and the vice-president for
business and finance to appoint
a housing advisory committee, ar-
gued with one another, prodded
the administration strategically
and got 400 federally-financed
apartments on North Campus.
Just like in the movies.
Of course, it wasn't quite that
good, but it was a step in the
right direction, a step towards the
reasonable incorporation of stu-
dents into the University's major
decision-making machinery.
THE PROBLEM NOW is that,
for a variety of unrelated reasons,
the University's attempt at a sec-
ond step might turn out to be a
step backwards.
In the first place, the students
on the advisory committee-who
are quite execlusively responsible
for the success of student partici-
pation in this decision-didn't do
it all themselves. They had some
powerful allies working toward
their common goal, increased mar-
ried student housing, which the
400 North Campus apartments
represent.
The Office of Business and Fi-
nance has realized for a long time
that the greatest of all the great
student housing needs here was
among married students. President
Harlan Hatcher's Commission on
Off-Campus Housing noted last
November that "because the build-
ers of the new apartments have
found it more profitable to build
apartments for the single, un-
married student market, only a
relatively few new apartments
have been built for or in the price
range of the married student."
Finally, the Office of Student Af-
fairs' off-campus housing office
has been able to act as a pressure
group for the married students'
interests.
And with friends like that, who
needs power?
EVEN WITH those groups pull-
ing for them, the advisory com-
mittee was still working within
financial limits; they never were
able to obtain the four-bedroom
apartments that they wanted.
Moreover, though the significance
of this is not clear, they were
never shown the final version of
the proposal which the Regents
approved, as they had been as-
sured they would be.
Yet even given these limits on
the actual decision-making power
enjoyed by the students, it is ob-
vious that they influenced the pro-
posals which the Regents approv-
ed a great deal.
The apartments' four major
characteristics-"town house" lay-
out, more space without a rent in-
crease, some unfurnished apart-
ments and some three-bedroom
apartments-were all pet propo-
sals of the student advisory com-
mittee.
Beyond that, the administra-
tion's willingness to allow fairly
extensive formal preplanning con-
sultations with a student group is
itself a major advance for student
participation. Individual adminis-
trators seem quite pleased with
the energy and realism displayed
by the committee members, and
suggest that, this sort of arrange-
ment with students is "basically
a good thing" and a "starting
point."
IT IS A good thing, but it is
no more than a starting point.
There are several very important
questions which must be answered
before the fall if the present is
to fulfill its promise.
First, those concerning them-
selves with the long-range outlook
for student participation must
take into consideration the "in-
herent specialization of the par-
ticipating student," as one ad-
ministrator put it, which has be-
come obvious with this committee.
A student willing to commit him-
self to the great investment of
time and energy necessary to be
effective in such a group is very
likely to be fairly single-minded
about its importance. Rightly so,
but this attitude must be allowed
for a4 long-range participation
planning
The second group of problems
resembles those the faculty often
has had in similar advisory situa-
tions. Comments of students and
administrators indicate a break-
down of communications in several
areas. Then too, the advisory
group itself was sometimes divided
on its recommendations, making it
difficult for administrators to
know just what the committee
wanted. Future planning must al-
low for greater efforts on both
sides to assure that they under-
stand one another.
A SHORTER TERM problem is
simply to ensure that Cutler's
housing advisory committee-so
far the model for such groups-
survives in its present powerful
form. That form consists of two
elements: intelligent hard-work-
ing students and Cutler's effective
advocacy of their opinions within
the administration. But several
important members of the com-
mittee are leaving it; Cutler plans
to have Student Government
Council provide the added mem-
bers. SGC therefore must be keen-
ly aware of its responsibilities in
choosing the replacements.
The problems with which the
committee is allowed to deal must
be correspondingly good; they
must be allowed to work with the
largest of issues, and the most
difficult. A mn-jor one in the near
future will be the opportunity cost
of building th6 Residential College,
i.e., University funds for the col-
lege will not be available for build-
ing single-student housing. Where
that housing will come from and
when it will come is a major and
touchy issue with which the com-
mittee must be allowed to grapple.
Most immediate is the problem
of what student is to sit on the
building committee for the 400
North Campus apartments. In the
past the student has been appoint-
ed by the Office of Business and
Finance and has often been charg-
ed' with being quite ineffective.
Present plans are to appoint the
student through the Office of
Student Affairs, another com-
mendable choice. William Steude
will probably make the choice; it
must be a good one.
ALL OF WHICH is to say that
student participation is emerging
from the woods, that it is getting
its first big chance. The Univer-
sity community, thankfully, has
the summer to iron out these
problems. But it is important to
realize that these questions are
no longer hypothetical. They are
very real and demand very real
answers.
The University has waited a long
time for this chance. It will be a
shame if it is missed.
Vorks
CONSIDER MY OWN status
here. As an employe of the stu-
dents I do not have to sign the
loyalty oath-which indeed I
would not sign in the California
state system because of its bad
history, although, in an amiable
mood, I have signed such a paper
at Sarah Lawrence in New York.
Nevertheless, my position is
chartered by the administration
which neither hires nor can fire
me (During a hassle over an ap-
pointment for next semester-the
candidate was Allen Ginzberg-
the president of the students told
the administration, "It's none of
your damned business whom we
hire with our money.")
PERSONALLY, I do not intend
to make unnecessary trouble; but
in this haven of John Birch and
the mores of the ranch-house, how
can one ever tell?
Copyright, Paul Goodman, 1966
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Where Student Participation
I AM WRITING this from San
Francisco State College where
I am employed as "visiting profes-
sor" by the students, paid by stu-
dent dues-handsomely paid, too,
though I took the job because I
felt honored. So far as I know,
this arrangement is unique; and
by and large San Francisco State
has livelier student-initiated ac-
tivities than I have seen elsewhere
in the country.
As a commuter college in a
cosmopolitan city, the college is
not unlike City College in New
York, but less crowded and, being
in California, tbe students are a
little trimmer, richer and nuttier.
Constrasted with most state
schools, there is a heavy emphasis
toward the Humanities and social
psychology, so the students tend
to be more radical than those aim-
ing for organizational careers in
engineering, business, or physical
sciences,
THIS IS REALLY a more radi-
cal campus than Berkeley across
the Bay, and one wonders how it
has managed to remain so peace-
ful and un-newsworthy. One rea-.
son, I think, is that the student
activity occurs with the tolerance
and even complicity of an intelli-
gent administration (and much of
the faculty), unlike the pettiness
andblundering of Clark Kerr and
company.
Another reason is that Berkeley
is a great and famous recipient of
Pentagon and CIA money and so
is touchy territory, whereas S. F.
State does not have this incubus
and the corresponding faculty and
administration.
TO GIVE a presently important
example of faculty ten.per, the
Senate at S. F. State has just
unanimously directed its delegate
to the State College Faculty Sen-
ates to resolve not to cooperate
with the Selective Service weeding
Paul
Goodman
out by grading-perhaps by adopt-
ing a pass-fail system (which has
the further advantage of getting
rid of grading!).
No matter what the State as-
sociation does, S. F. State .will
attempt to go it alone. What will
be the position of the administra-
tion is such a case? Remember
that the school is supported by
the legislature.
THE STUDENT government has
organized and runs three major
projects of its own: a big Tutorial
program for underprivileged chil-
dren. involving 300 students; a
Community Involvement Program,
e.g. cultural work with delinquents
and abandoned children; and an
Experimental College, with the
usual offbeat subjects, action so-
ciology, and emphasis on inter-
personal contact.
Significantly, study in the Ex-
perimental College, if fulfilled by
acceptable papers or other pro-
ducts, is rewarded by academic
credit toward degrees; and aca-
demic credit is given for other
extra-curricular activity, like the
newspaper. Besides, many profes-
sors try to set up courses in which
the students determine curriculum
and method, and there is a pretty
good opportunity for individual
students to design their own study
and get credit.
A fanfare has greeted the (ex-
cellent) Muscatine report for aca-
demic reform at Berkeley, but
most of its best spirit and many
of its concrete proposals have
modestly been in operation at
S. F. State.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
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Not for Long
To the Editor:
I'M TIREr-.
of trying tosolve problems that
have no answers, of learning cor-
rect punctuation and then being
forced to study e. e. cummings.
I'm tired of gutless politicians,
and of hearing about an America
that no longer offers hope for a
tired world.
I'm tired of treating God like a
scientific hypothesis-easily dis-
provable.
I'm tired of staring at smileless
faces that have blank minds be-
hind them, and of people who try
to justify their prejudices instead
of searching for the truth -..
I want to go home-but not for
long.
-S. K. Shippey,
A Freshman
'Star System'
To the Editor:
AS A RESULT of the recent
announcement in your paper
that Miss Helen Hayes would
"star" in certain APA Repertory
Company productions during our
next fall season for the PTP of the
University of Michigan, I have
received a number of letters from
your readers expressing concern
that we have corrupted our prin-
ciples, and generally disillusioned
them!
Lest this represent any signifi-
cant point of view, let me urge
you to convey to your readers that
no APA or PTP publicity release
announcing Miss Hayes' joining
the company ever made use of the
term "starring." Miss Hayes has
become, to our great fortune, a
"member of" the growing com-
pany. That Miss Hayes is a "star"
in the commercial definition is
unquestionable.
That being a "star," or being
"commercial" should prejudice
APA against employing such an
accomplished talent would be a
confusion in terms, and in stan-
dards. However, for anyone to use
commercial Broadway lingo such
as the term "to star in" misleads
the public, thus confusing the
nature of Miss Hayes' participa-
tion and APA's purposes.
Miss Eva LeGallienne, appeared
as Mrs. Alving. Her presence was
an enlightenment on many levels,
for our audience and for the com-
pany. Her accomplishments and
personality remain a continuing
source of inspiration to us all. It
is one of my most cherished hopes
that Miss LeGalliene will return
to the APA Company in the near
future for an even more extensive
participation in our activities.
TO OUR JOY and to the joy of
anyone interested in the growth
and development of the APA Com-
pany, Miss Hayes has "joined" our
company. She has not joined us as
a "star," but as an actress of
formidable accomplishments. The
fact that Miss Hayes is a star is
to her credit-and we are proud
of her credits, and proud that she
has done us the honor of becoming
a member of our company.
I am grateful for any attention
you may be able to give this
matter.
-Ellis Rabb
Artistic Director
Association of Producing
Artists
Civil Rights
To the Editor:
WHY IS THERE such a loud
silence about the really ex-
treme violations of civil rights
occuring daily in every commun-
ity? Police must inform a person
that anything he says may be used
against him in court.
WITHOUT HIS knowledge, his
relatives are instructed to go sign
an insanity petition at the court.
Several psychiatric residents or
colleagues of the psychiatrist go
talk to the person for a few min-
utes-not telling him their purpose
is to try to get him to say things
which will justify their certifying
that he is insane. In actual prac-
tice it doesn't really matter what
the person says because residents
and colleagues always sign the
certificates.
The person is seldom told about
his insanity hearing and if he
does find out the hospital staff
will discourage him from getting
an attorney. Then, in those rare
cases where the person manages
almost like the situation of many
years ago where, when a person
was accused of being a witch or
possessed by the devil, no one be-
lieved him when he claimed it
wasn't true because any person
so possessed would naturally claim
he was not and any person coming
to his defense was probably one of
them too.
Is everyone silent because this is
too big a problem to try to correct?
--Lawrence A. Siebert, Ph.D.
Michigan, '65
Teaching Fellows
To the Editor:
THE RECENT meetings of teach-
ing fellows and their represen-
tatives' meeting with administra-
tion officials has provoked some
discussion among teaching fellows
in the Physics Department.
I MUST SAY at the outset that
neither myself nor any other
teaching fellow that I know of in
the Physics Department attended
these meetings. I did not feel
particularly that I had any griev-
ances needing redress. It has
seemed to me that the pay is fair.
Teaching fellows are, paid $1237
for this semester. I teach 8 hour
per week and spend about an
equal amount of time grading lab
books (some do spend somewhat
more time). For 13 weeks (actually
there were only 12 weeks of lab)
this comes to slightly over $6 per
hour. I think this is fair pay. For
those that do not, I ask bluntly,
just how much do you think your
time Is worth?
STARTING THIS YEAR the
Physics Department has required
that all PhD candidates do some
teaching, and thus since it is re-
quired it can legally be considered
a fellowship and no tax is paid
thereon. Some other departments
do this as well, but not all.
Teaching fellows also pay in-
state tuition-meaning effectively
at least another $1.50 an hour in
salary, or $7.50 an hour total.
Again perhaps this is not true of
other departments.
A raise of over $1,000 per year is
being asked for each of 900 teach-
ing fellows, to say nothing of a
desired tuition exemption. Where
is this $1,000,000 to come from? It
is not a small sum of money,
IN CONCLUSION I would like
to say that it is true that many
graduate students do' not know
where to obtain the money to study
for a PhD, especially those not in
the natural sciences. This is a
problem here and at many other
graduate schools;I am' simply sug-
gesting that teaching fellows' sal-
aries are not the best place to
attack the problem.
-Harold Harrison
Teaching Fellow, Physics
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Schutze: Taps for the Rite Spot
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PART OF ANN ARBOR came
tumbling down two weeks ago
to make space for progress and
new people. Red's Rite Spot finally
had to shuffle out of the way one
hot afternoon in deference to
twenty stories of brand new high
rise contemporary living soon to
be constructed on the site of the
old restaurant.
Red's New Spot, "just more of
the same," will open a few weeks
from now around the corner from
the old place, on Maynard. But
that didn't stop half the people
in Ann Arbor from wanting to be
present when the old place lay
down.
RED SHELTON ambled back
and forth in front of the res-
taurant he had operated for over
three decades. The Rite Spot's
senior employe, Charlie Brown,
remarked wryly that "Red isn't
feeling the pain."
Red was too busy directing traf-
fic to a standstill in front of his
place to manage even a wince as
the dusty yellow bulldozer started
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THE SUN WAS edging down
toward the roof line of the new
ISR building, a gleaming white
mountain of glass against a dusty
sky. Everyone stopped moving at
the same time and all heads tilted
back to peer up toward the roof
of the towering grey apartment
building across the street. Someone
was playing taps, clearly, slowly,
and with dignity. Red gazed into
the windows of his restaurant un-
til the last note sounded.
Forty seconds later, Red was
riding around the corner on the
hood of an automobile whose
driver appeared to be both in-
tensely confused and rather em-
barrassed. Red jumped to the
street, waved, and boarded another
hood going the other way. The
bulldozer knocked off one corner
of the Rite Spot's rear wall and
stopped while its operator mopped
his brow and smiled at Red.
WITHIN MOMENTS, the party
was over. A very small and very
angry policeman burst out of his
squad car and raced through the
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a parked car. Son turned, grabbed
the policeman, and bounced him
off three or four cars. Several
policemen broke into the ring and
held the son while the first police-
man repaid him with interest.
The crowd's mood darkened vis-
ibly as the police drove son and
mother away in separate squad
cars.
Then laughter broke out. One
policeman had instructed Red huf-
fily to "get in that car and go
downtown." Red took the police-
man's words at face value. He
climbed dutifully into the driver's
seat of a squad car and prepared
for the trip to City Hall. Two
officers rushed over and ordered
him into the back seat.
THE CAR EASED away slowly
through the now giant crowd, and
Red waved to his friends. Someone
next to the car raised a cheer for
Red, and the cheer rolled back
along the thronging street until
it became a roaring ovation.
All eyes were fastened on his
squad car two blocks away when
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