SUMMER ORIENTATION: THE RAT RACE See Editorial Page Yl r e Seventy-Five Years of Editorial Freedom 471Iaii4 WARMER High-55 Law--42 Fair today, with moderate temperatures VOL. LXXVI, No. 9 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1966 SEVEN CENTS Students To Take Draft Exam Today- Goo SIX PAGES fLuck! Associated Press News Analyst Today is examination day for the first of an estimated one mil- lion college and graduate students who hope to show they merit con- tinued deferment from the draft. Some 380,000 to 400,000 college and graduate students will try to convince their draft boards today they would serve the nation bet- ter in the quiet of their classrooms than in the jungles of Viet Nam. The persuader: A three-hour 150-question draft deferment test given at 1,200 colleges and univer- sities in the 50 states, Puerto Rico and the Panama Canal Zone. Even a smashing score is no guarantee that the student will be deferred for the school year that begins in the fall, but most draft boards are likely to put great stock in the results. For, as the head of a local draft board in Washington put it, "We're doing everything possible to stimulate higher edu- cation." The examinations, used from 1951 to 1963, were revived last March by Selective Service amid complaints by many leading edu- cators that a class-standing yard- stick alone was unfair to students in tougher colleges. If the objective was to encour- age the best talent to continue in higher education, they wondered aloud, how would this be served by drafting a low-ranked student attending a top college and de- ferring an inferior student who ranked near the top of a second- rate school? The test was supposed to over- come this unfairness, but it quick- ly generated a fresh round of cri- ticism. The chairman of the House Ed- ucation and Labor Committee, Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D- NY), likened the examinations to "Hitler's twin-system of eugenics and education" and said they "should have a swastika on the f n t' director of information, did not know how many errors had been made. One was obvious: 31 Mich- igan students had been assigned to take the test at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cam- b id~n Mac May 21, June 3 and June 24 for Live order of President Harry S. perhaps 600,000 additional stu- Truman. It established c 1 a s s dents who, like the ones today vol- standing and scores on a national unteered to be tested. In all, the test as "evidence" the boards could director of Selective Service, Lt. use in deciding student defer- Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, estimated ments. op. age, viass. iursay, more tnan one million 1 This was not b The gist of Powell's argument Selective Service's announce- will take the test. boards. Congress1 was that the test would penalize ment that all students would be About 1.8 million students now further that year b poorly schooled Negroes and other fingerprinted "to avoid the pos- hold deferments, which means draft law to say minority groups and thus "bring sibility that any unauthorized approximately 800,000 will ride shall be required the history of racial discrimina- persons might take the test" also the draft board rapids without it. defer anyone by tion full cycle." touched off howls of protest. The test is a potpourri of mathe- activity in study About the time this week that Service officials backtracked. matical problems, word associa- basis of how he st Powell was blasting the examina- Other positive identification would tions for definitions, reading com- or how he did on t tions at a news conference in be accepted, they said. prehension, charts and graphs. In 1962, Presiden Washington, Science Research Within two weeks, the examina- Mrs. McCarthy said in an in- nedy issued ane Associates, a private agency giv- tion papers will be sent to Science terview the test was "carefully that dropped the ing the tests under a $1 million- Research Associates, graded - 70 structured" by a panel of educa- teria" and gave plus government contract, was is passing for undergraduates, 80 tors and psychologists "for cur- Service director acknowledging in Chicago that for graduate students - and the ricula in colleges across the "promulgate" hisc there had been mixups in assign- results sent to the local draft country." Hershey used1 ing students to test centers. boards. A special category for students last March in reviv . Mrs. Galen McCarthy, acting The process will be repeated I was established in 1951 by execu- standards, class r binding on the loosened things y amending the no local board to postpone or reason of his solely on the ood in his class he test. t John F. Ken- executive order "advisory cri- the Selective authority to own criteria. that authority ving the two old unk and a na- tional test. Higher draft calls, stemming from the war in Viet Nam, were likely to make heavy inroads into college classrooms so selective yardsticks were needed again, an aide'said Thursday. Operating in comparative free- dom, members of local boards take different views of the test. "They are only a guide to the board," Ely Plaskow, field super- visor of 29 Philadelphia draft boards told the Associated Press. Plaskow added, however, that "no legitimate student will be denied a deferment." Air Force Col. Paul' Askt, head of the New York City Selective Service Board, said the tests "are one of the many criteria" the draft boards will use and are "weighed no higher or lower than other criteria" such as health. Frank Peckham, director of Local Board No. 1 in Washington, said he would "not be overwhelm- ed with the outcome of the tests." "There are many psychological reasons some dumbbell would make over 80,or 90," said, "while some bright student, maybe be- cause of his health that day, might not." However, Beckham, a semi-re- tired lawyer, added: "If a man makes a passing grade we have to assume he has sufficient educa- tion and capacity to learn." There are no hard and fast rules governing student deferments. As always the local draft boards have wide authority to decide who shall be allowed to stay in school and who is to be sent packing to in- duction centers-with the battle- fields of Viet Nam just over the horizon for many young men. LSD Users Numerous At Colleges Youth Create Crisis, Senate Probes Into Cause of Problem WASHINGTON P)-A pioneer experimenter with the drug LSD, Dr. Timothy Leary, acknowledged yesterday that use of the drug was out of control. He estimated that one-third of the nation's col- lege students are "experimenting with this drug." But Leary told the Senate sub- committee on juvenile delin- quency: "This use of LSD by young people has provoked a crisis, not a crisis of peril but a crisis of challenge." Leary, a former Harvard Uni- versity psychologist, now is a di- rector of private foundation deal- ing in research on LSD and similar hallucinogenic agents, and is ap- pealing a 30-year sentence for transporting marijuana. He defended what he saw as proper use of the drug and called alcohol a much more dangerous substance. Leary said LSD has "an eerie power to release ancient energies from the human brain, I would say even sacred energies." Leary ran into some sharp cross-examination from Sen. Ed- ward M. Kennedy (D-Mass) Leary 4 suggested that colleges be author- ized to conduct laboratory courses in LSD. To this, Kennedy demanded: "What's going to happen to the boy who doesn't get to college? Are you going to offer high school courses as well?" * Leary said it was a question that would probably have to be left to research. He acknowledged he had used LSD or similar hallucinogenic drugs 311 times in the last six years and considers LSD a "mi- croscope" into the brain. # H Use of Drug Growing He told the Senate Juvenile Delinquency subcommittee that use of the drug is growing, is out of control and estimated that "one-third of our college students are experimenting with this drug." He insists further there is more danger in a cocktail lounge than in LSD, although he acknowledged the hazards of its improper use and declared: "you definitely go out of your mind. There's no question of that." He argued that to the vast majority of young people using it the drug may mean "opening up the mind, beauty, perhaps religious revelations." Kennedy kept pounding at the jut-jawed Leary about controls.I Leary proposed that a stricter licensing system be established so that responsible adults who want- ed to could use LSD for "spiritual growth, pursuit of knowledge." Authorize Universities He also suggested that univer- sities be authorized to give labora- tory courses on the use of LSD under strict supervision and pre- dicted this "will end the indiscrim- inate use of LSD, and be the most popular and productive course ever offered." Another witness, Capt. Alfred W. Trembly of the Los Angeles Police Department, noted federal Food and Drug Administration warnin on louse of LSD. 'Auto Safety 0 MicIigal Daily Legislation hIIWC WID TInminent Ch icago Students Hold 0 ® + 1UkWWtW%# W IflM Hearings End With - Plans To Give States More Responsibility With SOME 3,000 LATIN STUDENTS from Michigan high schools will gather at The University of Michigan today for the 16th annual Michigan Junior Classical League Convention. The Junior Classical League, a nationwide organization sponsored by the American Classical League, was established 16 years ago. The group, composed of chapters formed from high school classical clubs, has a membership of over 100,000. Speaker for the 9:30 a.m. session in Hill Auditorium will be Lynn Poole, assistant to the president at Johns Hopkins Univer- sity. President Harlan Hatcher will extend greetings to the high school students. A NEW AWARD for excellence in journalism, announced at the 1966 Convention of the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association, will honor Wesley H. Maurer of The University of Michigan. Professor Maurer will close out a distinguished career as chairman of the University department of journalism next July. The Wesley H. Maurer Award for Excellence in Journalism will be presented annually to the Michigan high school or junior college which makes an outstanding contribution to high school journalism, THE HISTORY OF ART, the hardness of diamonds and the relationship between protein and memory are subjects University researchers will investigate with new Phoenix Project grants, it was announced earlier this week. The Michigan Memorial-Phoenix Project, the University's privately supported program on the peaceful uses and implications of atomic energy, granted 13 faculty members $42,318 for work in 12 areas. Chemistry Prof. Adon A. Gordus and Mrs. Meryl Johnson, a research associate in the University Museum of Art, plan to irradiate tiny bits of pigments from paintings to determine their chemical composition. They point out that the technique should provide the chemical knowledge that helps establish the origin, the time and the authenticity of paintings. A comparison of radiation damage in two different types of diamonds will be undertaken by Prof. R. M. Denning of geology and minerology. Professor Denning is seeking to determine the structural, and optical changes that take place during irradiation. A pharmacologist, Dr. Otto Sellinger of the U-M Mental Health Research Institute staff, will use radioactivity to trace how nucleic acids, the building blocks of proteins, function in processes related to memory formation. Dr. Sellinger will make atoms in nucleic acids radioactive, and by tracing them with counters, try to determine how and when these acids react in goldfish brains during memory formation. THE SMALL SHEAR LINE between art and design has recently widened to a gaping chasm, according to Aarre K. Lahti, University professor of design. "The interests of the artists- painters, sculptors-has become more and more a concern for the 'shelf'," says Lahti. "Art has become an outlet, a means of expressing the feelings, conflicts and frustrations of the artist," he notes. Design, he submits, has in general remained more concerned with others than just the designer, Lahti feels. "However, there is a great movement among craftsmen to create 'art forms' or 'art' out of their products and be less and less concerned with fulfilling the needs of others." WASHINGTON ) - Auto safety hearings ended on Capitol Hill yesterday and both Senate and House committee chairmen pledged to go into high gear to speed the shaping of specific legis- lation. Sen. Warren G. Magnuson iD- Wash), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, said it will meet Tuesday to start drafting the bill. Magnuson has said several fimes he expects it to call for mandatory federal safety stan- dards. Meanwhile, Rep. Harley O. Staggers (D-WVa) ended four; weeks of hearlins by the House Commerice Committee and saiid he- hopes it can start to draw its bill; in about iwo weeks. However, committee sources in- dicated it will be a matter of many weeks or months before legislation makes its way through Congress.I Specific Role for States Staggers said he is convinced' that whatever legislation his com- mittee drafts should contain a' specific role for the states, both in setting safety standards andl enforcing them. The administra- tion bill does not include such al role for the states. He said also he expects the bill to include specific coverage of used cars, another area not cov- ered by the administration meas- ure. "We want the states to take the leading role," Staggers said. However, he emphasized to newsmen later that any federal standards applicable to new cars would be directed by the federalE government to the auto manufac- turers, although he said states should play an advisory role. Reuther Comments Meanwhile, United Auto Work- ers President Walter P. Reuther said yesterday he believes recent production cutbacks by auto mak- ers "are primarily an attempt to get inventories into proper bal- ance" rather than a result of re- duced consumer demand because of the congressional auto safety hearings. The auto industry has beene faced primarily with a situation where "production has been great- er than sales, although the hear-1 ings in Washington have hadc some small impact on the atti- tude of consumers," Reuther saidr at a press conference.c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO students continued to occupy the administrati an effort to gain some kind of satisfaction on their demands to university o class rank to draft boards. ask Force, '450 Evacuate President Ask Elimination of Seniding Class Rank To Draft Offices By STEPHEN BERKOWITZ Special To The Daily CHICAGO - Leaving behind a token force of about 100 to con- tinue occupation of the adminis- tration building, approximately 450 University of Chicago students ' marched through the Gothic cam- pus area last evening to the home of President George W. Beadle to present the demands of their group. The students had been occupy- ing the building for the past three days to protest the university's policy of supplying class rankings of students who request it to Se- lective Service boards but voted to leave at 6 p.m. Those remain- ing inside public areas of the building will coordinate and eon- :. trol further protest activity against the ranking system. -Associated Press Meanwhile, faculty members on building yesterday in yesterday morning had obtained fficials against releasing enough signatures on a petition that can force the president, un- _-_.__- --der the school's constitution, to convene an emergency meeting of the academic senate. The final statement by the ad hoc committee against rank, re- leased before the evacuation, was T oI read at the president's home though he was not there; a copy was slipped under the door, how- ever. Three student leaders, Stev- en Kindred, Jackie Goldberg and Peter Rabinowitz, delivered the message while the 450 who had evacuated looked on. stThe, statement reiterated the students' demands, asking that the er explained to the demon- university: that, "It is not within the -"Suspend its decision to rank of the president to accept in order to give those involved an ittee's decision as binding opportunity for disussion" during the autumn quarter of the next hand." academic year; er and other deans had -"Organize a means by which .tnsuch debate can be facilitated and th student representatives provide a means by which the uis morning in place of the power to make the decisions can at, who still sat in a faculty be turned over to the people whom . Before the proposal, was it really concerns-the faculty and [own, the small group had particularly the student press con i student and faculty mem- ference of faculty, students and ' the committee and set up administrators at which a com- for them to meet after mitment to the above points can May 15. be communicated. The statement announced that izing the demonstrators' though students would continue on the draft, Professor the 24-hour a day occupation and Feingold, of the political use the administration building as department at City College, a "forum for information and [he rights of all members communication of their aims, they academic community must would permit access to and oper- ected: if anyone wants to ation of the building by the ad- their class standing to their ministration," provided they "act oard or wants to take the in good faith." e Service examination, they The statement continued with: be allowed to do so." "Our presence in the building before the students voted further symbolizes our determina- NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE: Protestors Refuse Accept Official Oz By THOMAS COPI Special To The Daily NEW YORK-City College stu- dents continued their sit-in at the school's administration building, after turning down a proposal by President Buell G. Gallagher, that a student-faculty committee bej set up to investigate university policy, especially as related to the draft. Orientation Onslaught To Begin Hundreds of students Thursday confronted Gallagher in the Great Hall of the administration build- ing, arguing with him over whether the college should release a student's class standing to his draft board. When Gallagher left to attend a faculty meeting, the disgruntled group of about 250 students began the sit-in in the building's corridors. Representatives of the student protestors yesterday met with Willard Glasser, dean of students, to discuss the president's proposal for a faculty-student study com- mittee. Afterwards, Glasser read the statement of the proposal to the assembled students. After some debate, the president's sug- gestion was voted down three to one. Students decided to continue the sit-in. Amy Kesstleman, chairman of the Independent Committee to End the War in Vietnam, one of the groups organizing the sit-in, said that "We must make this group feel that they are having an impact on this campus." By SUSAN SCHNEPP Sometime this summer a rath- er compact group of 50 or 60 people conspicuously playing fol- low the leader may make you pause or even move quickly out of the way during an absent-minded walk across the Diag. If the group is coed, looks a little young, and if each one is litchingr a yellow folder with a The two days are tightly sched- to become acquainted with the sor- uled, beginning at 6:30 a.m. each ority and fraternity system here. morning, and the freshmen are Jack Petoskey, director of orien- guided through every step of the tation, said he thought "it would complicated procedure by special- be nice if other living groups such ly trained orientation leaders, us- as co-ops could keep some facili- ually upperelass students. ties open for visits by incoming While the students are busy freshmen too." taking tests and being classified, Secondly, the Union and the a special program is scheduled for International Center will be used parents. Each afternoon there is a for the evening recreation periods, bus tour of the campus, followed which will inelud howling dane- part in a series of educational and social activities. Petoskey said that orientation serves to complete much of the "red tape" involved in registering at the University so that students can return in the fall ready to be- gin classes. Orientation also hopefully gives the freshmen a "positive ap- proach" to the University and "re- duces the anxiety factor" of new