RALLY 'ROUND VIET NAM See Editorial Page CLC Sir igau D~ali 1 CLOUDY High- 6 Low--26 Cloudy iwith Possible rain Seventy-Four Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXV, No. 116 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, 11 FEBRUARY 1965 SEVEN CENTS EIGHT PAGES Trimester: No Help Now By ROBERT HIPPLER Will the University's new tri- mester system help the literary college accommodate the in- flow of students during the next three years? Hardly at all, according to a report on literary college growth released Monday by the execu- tive committee of the literary college and approved in a vote by the faculty the same night. The college will just not have access to enough new faculty -along with commensurate in- creases in classrooms, office and research facilities-to take advantage of full-time use of University facilities during the coming summer, the report said. To Be Revised According to Dean William Habereofrthe literarydcollege, the report "will no doubt be refined and revised before be- ing submitted to the adminis- tration for consideration and appropriate action." The report estimated that the college would need about 238 new faculty members to operate a full third term. The number of extra faculty and matching facilities needed would fluctuate depending on four main factors: -The admissions office be- lieves there will be very few freshmen entering at either the beginning of the Winter term or the Spring term because of the opening dates. However, the administration has recently revealed that it plans to defer a maximum of 400 students. from the Fall to the Winter terms. This will balance ad- missions, helping to eliminate the crush in the fall followed by empty beds five months later. This could increase sum- mer enrollment. -Estimates differ on how many students will enroll in the summer term. According to Dean Stephen Spurr of the graduate school, as high as two-thirds the number of nor- mal fall enrollment could at- tend. Others say this is high, and their estimate is 50 per cent. -Where under the old sum- mer schedule, the college taught calendar "has the potential for increasing the capacity of the college" through summer use of facilities, "it is not likely to do so in the near future. The report stressed that the ,ollege wishes to limit its en- rollment through 1968 by not increasing the planned admis- sion figure of 1965 until then. Under this plan, the college will have expanded from its current enrollment of 9300 to 11,800 in 1968. The committee voiced several complaints about the trimester, and offered an alternative. "Experience with the first two terms of 1964-65 has shown that new problems are intro- duced by the more rapid pace of t shortened academic term." Perhaps it might be expedient to re-examine the value of "other academic calendars, such as the quarter system," the report suggested. Quarter System? Several high University ad- ministrators are reportedly leaning toward the quarter system, but so far no study groups have been set up. Perhaps one of the greatest disadvantages of trimester is that the student is deprived of time to study independently, the report said, noting that "such problems will have to be worked out before the three- term system can realize its full effectiveness." The report concluded by not- ing that the major roadblocks of staff and space will have to be solved before three equal terms are fully established on a permanent basis. "Any sig- nificant contribution of the three-term system to our abil- ity to teach more students must therefore wait for the solution of such problems." Await After U.S. Air. Con Retaliation gBo mbing *C * * * * *K * * Uni on Merger Admniistration, Regent Approval BOOST IN FALL Still Neesay*f *~ ~ Proposal Passes S Quiet on Rate Hike "IL l.luictV-0 By JOSHUA BARLEV DEAN WILLIAM HABER a total of only 24,000 credit hours, under the new system- using the figure of ar, atten- dance equal to 50 per cent of the fall term-it will teach about 100,000 hours in the summer. The added load would require added personnel. -"Most present faculty mem- bers would be very reluctant to teach on a year-round basis," thus necessitating the recruit- ment of new members. The committee concluded that, though the three-term An important step was taken University officials remained for more money if the Legislature yesterday in the student activities mum this week on whether does not add to Romney's figure merger of the Michigan Union and chances for tuition hike this fall of $50 million. Officials have noted the Women's League,dasa sparse are increased by Gov. George that, though the request is $6 mil- turn-out of male students at the Romney's recommended $5.7 mil- lion above last year's budget, the University passed all four consti- lion cut from the University's percentage increase is only 13.7 tutional amendments on the n- budget request. per cent, compared .to 19.4 per ion referendum. Many have speculated that the cent for all 10 state schools and Passage of the amendments University will ask its students colleges. was necessary for the two organi- According to Vice - President zations to procede with merger. s Marvin L. Niehuss, the University plans.owreais nlf h ehas not yet had time to redraw It now remains only for the its tentative budget to fit the gov- administration and Regents to ernor's recommendations. He de- accept and approve the University BTined to speculate on whether the Activities Center. Both executive e cut in funds could prompt a tui- groups have agreed to the idea in . tion increase. the past, but their final endorse-. ment is needed before the new or- By LEONARD PRATT Administrators a r e currently ganization merger plan can be conferring on budget plans, and implemented. Gov. George Romney's proposal the Office of Academic Affairs ------------------------11 JA. hn ,ni mnvhnv, n. - -t-- - - ..ndn b- ..nlw r f 7 T CLARIFY RUMORS: Asks Coverage of Dangers' By JUDITH WARREN In response to the rumors of rapes and murders that have been circulating on campus, .Student Government Council unanimously passed a motion last night urging The Daily to inform students of the dangers which exist in the campus area and to quiet un- founded rumors which would cause fear. In response to the SGC action, Daily Editor H. Neil Berkson, '65, issued the following statement: Editor's Statement "In conjunction with the Office F' of Student Affairs, which compiles such information, The Daily is currently investigating the possi- bilities of a more regularized cov- erage in these areas. "At the same time it must re- main perfectly clear that The Daily, has shied away from any sensationalistic display of crime or death and will continue to do so as a matter of policy. y" "The time may 'be here when consistent coverage of these events is a necessary service to the com- munity, but we don't intend to transform ourselves into the New York Daily News." Romney Letter In further action, SGC accepted a letter, drafted by Yee Chen, '65, t to be sent to Gov. George Romney Wayne Councfl. Lists Students' 'Bill of Ri hts' The Student-Faculty Council of Wayne State University submitted a bill on students' rights and re- sponsibilities to University Presi- dent Clarence Hilberry last Mon- day. The bill is a clear statement of the students' relation to the: university in all areas. After 21/2 years' work, the bill was finally compiled and sent to' the administration for approval. The bill provides that: -Students should be protected from religious, political and racial discrimination; -Students have the right to competent instruction and ade- quate facilities; -Students have the right to be informed in writing of any com- plaints against them by the ad- expressing dissatisfaction w it h Romney's proposed budget for ed- ucation. The letter, to be signed by all SGC members as representatives of the student body, expressed' support of the statements made by President Harlan Hatcher and other University officials de- nouncing the budget. SGC also passed a motion man- dating the Off-Campus Advisory Board to make a study of the rents to be charged in 1965-66 by the owners of apartment build- ings less than three years old and to compare the rents with those charged now. Also, petitioning for the United States National Student Associa- tion delegation will continue until Monday, Feb. 15. Specific Provisions The constitutional revisions will permit the addition of a coordi- nating vice-president to the three- member senior office presently representing the students on the Union Board of Directors. Further, they will allow women to become senior officers and provide for a joint officer selection process with the League. Finally, to keep voting power among the students, fac- ulty and alumni equal at three votes each, the new coordinating vice-president and administrative vice-president will only have one- half vote each. However, only 300 students voted in the referendum. All males currently enrolled h e r e and alumni who attended the Uni- versity for at least eight semes- ters were eligible to vote yes or no on the amendments; the final re- sult was 233 yes and 73 no. The merger of the Union and League activities has been under careful consideration since a com- mittee report, published in May, 1963, recommended a similar plan. The plan at that time was to fuse all aspects of the Union and League, including business opera- tions, but the idea eventually nar- rowed down to merely merging the activities structures of the two organizations into a new Univer- sity Activities Center. An activities merger would mean that events such as Home- coming, Michigras and Winter Weekend would be co-sponsored by the united Union and LeagueI organizations., to hold up expansion o the Uni- versity's Flint branch will be in- vestigated this morning when the. Senate Appropriations Committee begins public hearings on the gov- ernor's budget. Romney hurt Flint expansion plans last week when money for the plan was not included in his budget requests for state educa- tion. The governor's recommendation has already come under heavy attack. Monday, nine members of Flint's board of education, the group that originally requested the University to expand its two-year branch at Flint, sent a letter to Romney expressing their "shock" at his proposal. Yesterday, t h r e e Republican legislatorsmet with Romney and encouraged him to support Flint's expansion. Sen. Gilbert E. Bursley (R-Ann Arbor) and Reps. Marvin L. Escb (R-Ann Arbor) and Thomas G. Sharpe (R-Howell) attended the meeting. Bursley reportedly told the gov- ernor that the C. S. Mott Founda- tion has already donated $2.4 mil- lion to the project, thus easing the strain on the tax dollars involved. He urged Ronney to provide the money needed for Flint's fall ex- pansion, which he estimates at between $300,000 and $400,000. Romney has said that consider- ation of a four-year college at Flint should wait until an over-all policy for state education is de- veloped, either by his Blue Rib- bon Citizens' Committee or by the ,State Board of Education. may nave a report reaa yDy eariy next week on the request and University's plans. University Par es iden t Harlan Hatcher indicated that there has not yet been enough time for con- sultation, and that he "would not care to comment now" on whether the possibility for a tuition hike this fall is increased. One major worry of adminis- trators is that Romney's budget recommendation allows no funds to backup plans already laid for expansion of the University's branch at Flint. The University had planned for Flint's expansion from a two-year to a four-year college f r o m the anticipated budget increase. But Romney's request allows no Abel Has Lead In Steel Vote PITTSBURGH (A')-I. W. Abel. clung to narrow unofficial lead last night in his bid to topple United Steelworkers Union Presi- dent David J. McDonald. Returns were incomplete. The closeness of the voting pointed up two possibilities: -If a clear-cut winner does not emerge, the election may wind up in a time-consuming court fight, delaying the resumption of vital steel contract negotiations. -An Abel victory would con- stitute one of the most unusual upsets in the history of the American labor movement. funds for expansion there, prefer- ring to wait until the governor's "blue ribbon" Citizens' Committee on Higher Education releases its long-range report on the advisa- bility of branches before it makes further commitments. Niehuss noted earlier this week that "freshmen have already been accepted at Flint, so it is difficult to make any changes in plans there." If the University was de- termined to continue Flint expan- sion but got no more money from the state, its most obvious method of financing would be to raise tui- tion to cover the money the state is cutting out. The University faces the same problem in many areas: it has thoroughly planned expansion and improvement, but may have to ask for more money from the students if it wants to expand and the state holds back the money. Fee Hike Set Despite Rally More than 1500 Canadian stu- dents staged a rally in -11 degree weather to protest a $75 tuition hike at the University of Mani- toba in Winnipeg. But yesterday the university's president, H. H. Saunderson, an- nounced that the fee increase would take effect next fall and that any further protests "would be a waste of time." Monday's demonstration was highlighted by a march on the Legislative Building and the pre- sentation of a brief to the law- makers, but an attempt to start a sit-in at the building failed. The Canadian Union of Students, a powerful national organization, voiced its full support of the demonstrations and its president, Jean Bazin, flew to Winnipeg to attend the rally. The CUS is en- gaged in an attempt to forestall other tuition hikes at campuses all across Canada. While the students' attempt to forestall the tuition increase prov- ed ineffective, there were signs that further protests would take place next fall. Fleet Activity Hints More Air Attacks Death Toll Uncertain As Rescuers Search Rubble of Barracks By The Associated Press SAIGON - Another American air strike at North Viet Nam ap- peared imminent'early this morn- ing in retaliation for the Viet Cong bombing of a United States enlisted men's billet. Top U.S. officials hinted strong- ly that the raid would be announc- ed later in the day. It would be the third since Sunday. Several U.S. Navy combat jets from 7th Fleet carriers landed at the Da Nang Air Base-usually a sign that air strikes outside South Viet Nam are in the making. Wave of Attacks The bombing of the U.S. enlist- ed men's billet came amid a wave of Communist attacks that killed hundreds of Vietnamese. Rescue workers probing the rubble of the four-story hotel for American soldiers at Qui Nhon, 270 miles northeast of Saigon, reached one American serviceman pinned in the rubble of the bar- racks bombed by the Viet Cong. More teams tunneled toward two other GI's known to be alive. Twenty others were missing. Workers report that one U.S. serviceman. was known 'dead, 15 were inured, and 23 were trap ped in the rubble. The rescuers made voice contact yesterday with three of the trap- ped men. Helicopters Strike While the rescue efforts were under way, armed helicopters swarmed down on a fleet of 50 junks which Viet Cong infiltrators were sailing toward the Qui Nhon city wharfs 300 yards from the wrecked American billet. The junks turned back under intense fire. A U.S. adviser said the Viet Cong apparently had infiltrated the funk crews and forced them to sail across the bay. Other armed helicopters were bombing Viet Cong positions in the swamp near Qui Nhon. Washington Meeting I President Lyndon B. Johnson met in a Washington emergency session with the National Security Council, but gave no hints about U.S. reprisals, if any, for the blast that turned the hotel into a mass of rubble 25 to 30 feet high. Military spokesmen said the Viet Cong hit two other spots besides the billet-a national po- lice sationcanda power station- and also carried out diversionary strikes against an outpost and an air strip. Two of the Viet Cong terrorists who planted the explosives at the billet were killed. There were in- dications in Washington that they may have been shot instead of killed in the blast. Officials said the terrorists planted one charge in the lobby of the hotel and chargesIin.the front and back of the building. When the explosions went off the building buckled and collapsed. Other Action There were these developments on other fronts: -Perhaps 600 South Vietna- mese government troops were wiped out in the northeast Binh Dinh mountains in one of the worst defeats of the war. -Four U.S. army advisers were missing after a Red Viet Cong band attacked a town 80 miles north of Saigon. -The toll of American combat dead rose to 268 with the killing of a helicopter crewman and the death of a captain wounded Monday. -Government forces claimed 60 Communists killed in fighting south of Saigon. Earlier Incident Qui Nhon, scene of the bar- racks bombing, is 80 miles east of MS U Students Protest Over-Protective Policy By MERLE JACOB Seventy-five Michigan State University students have formed a Committee for Student Rights to promote the abolishment of the university's"in loco parentis" attitude toward students. The Michigan State News reported that CSR's goal is to promote discussion of the university's regulations and attitudes. According to the members of CSR, the group is not radical and does not want to hold demonstrations to protest student rights. Instead they want to discuss their grievances with uni-T versity officials. TERGMA T YBOUY I The committee is protesting BER A, BOU what it calls the "in loco par- entis" attitude of the adminis- tration as it hinders the students D"g a chance to grow. duls According to the philosophy of Dy icLgIA CSR, as developed in a "Point of View" column in the State News, While President Lyndon B. J the development of each individ- yesterdays Viet Nam bombing i ual to the fullest extent should be yterotstUitStts Viet Na obigic let o teuerity o acit: to protest United States Viet Na not to control. analyses and ended in vigorous Dia John Van Gieson, editor-in- Prof. Kenneth Boulding of th chief of the Michigan State News, Frithjof Bergmann of the philos said in a telephone interview with sponsored by VOICE, the IndepE The Daily that CSR is not an Socialist Alliance, the Women's I officially recognized organization Freedom and the Ann Arbor V as yet, and the group has made America's presence in Viet Nam. no move to get an organization Boulding stressed the lack o charter from the All-University the embattled country. Student Government. Outlines Demands "If the Chinese Communists In a meeting last Sunday, the would certainly protest-even if th committee adopted a platform of he told the crowd of approximately 10 recommendations for liberali- He advocated negotiation wi zation of university regulations on U.S. cannot solve the problems of student housing and enforcement ment is reached with the Red Chin of regulations on and off-campus. Bergmann saw the Viet Nam The recommendations included: light, insisting that the root of -Students over 21 should be South Vienamese don't want Amen allowed to live in housing of their own choice, subject only to local, "Everyone in Viet Nam aids state and federal laws. the official South Vietnamese arm -All university regulations that wishes, and Buddhists incinerate th discriminate against female stu- He foresaw no end to incide dents shall be abolished no later nredicted that even if the Viet 1 LDING SPEAK: ly Protests American Policy in Viet Nam AM BENOIT ohnson fretted in Washington over dent, a rally held at the University am policy began with professorial g debate. he economics department and Prof. ophy department opened the rally endent Socialist Club, the Young International League for Peace and Women for Peace by denouncing f legitimacy behind U.S. power in were fighting in Mississippi, we ey wore United Nations armbands," 500 people. ith Communist China since "the f Southeast Asia until some agree- Lese.'' n situation in a somewhat similar all current trouble is that most ican intervention. the Viet Cong guerillas. Men in y feel like traitors to their people's hemselves," he said. ants like the recent bombings, and Nam nroblem is solved U.S. policv ------------------- - ---------------------------- -------------------------- ------