Says 'U' out-of-State Trigon: Old Controversy Awaits Sett Siinerioritv Overrated ement By MARILYN SLATER Differences in quality between in-state and out-of-state students are not as great as some think, Sidney Straight of the Admissions Office said yesterday. This is true even as the in-state ratio approaches 75 per cent of the student body, he said. "More of the best out-of-state appli- cants are admitted than actually attend, because many find scholar- ships from prestige schools more inviting. On the other hand, the out- standing in-state applicant finds that even with other scholarship offers, this university will be the most economical.. Although an increasing number of Michigan residents apply for admission, only qualified students are admitted. A "qualified" appli- GOV. GEORGE ROMNEY Dems Attack New Senior ICitizen Plan By THOMAS R. COPI Gov. George Romney detailed a senior citizens program empha- sizing broadened eligibility rather than direct dollar increases in a special message to the Legislature Monday. Romney's written message stat- ed that "needs are growing at an incredible pace." It noted that the state's over-65 population has grown by 50 per cent in 15 years to 700,000. The message was criticized by both House Speaker Joseph Ko- walski (D-Detroit) and Senate Majority Leader Raymond Dzen- dzel (D-Detroit) because of Rom- ney's failure to "support or state his reason for opposing a senior citizens tax exemption." Senior Exemption Romney repeated what he said last month in, his state-of-the- state message about a tax exemp- tion for property of senior citi- zens. Romney said he had appointed a "blue ribbon" committee on property tax relief for the aging to "examine this question of tax relief and report its recommen- dations in time for action in this regular legislative session. "If these recommendations can- not be developed in time, I will submit a program at a special session for this purpose," he said. Taken Care Of Dzendzel said yesterday that "the governor can be assured the matter will be taken care of long before a special session can be called." Prof. Harvey Brazer of the eco- nomics department, a member of Romney's "blue ribbon" commit- tee, said that the group met for the third time yesterday and is "making every effort toward giv- ing its report to the governor in time for him to make his recom- mendation to the Legislature dur- ing the regular session." Brazer said that the group has completed a tentative outline of the report, and will probably sub- mit' the final report within five or six weeks. Unsatisfactory Kowalski also attacked Romney for not supporting a satisfactory plan of health care for senior citi- zens. Included among the legislative aids to Michigan's aged which Romney detailed in his special message are: -Extending nursing home cov-. erage under medical aid to the aged from 90 days to six months and afconsideration of lifting the requirement of prior hospitaliza- tion; -Providing periodic health ex- aminations for persons 65 and over with no charge for those who can't afford the bills; -Removing special fees and tuitions from education costs for senior citizens. Block Sales on SGC Agenda In an effort to avoid the con- fusion of buying tickets for con- certs, Student Government Coun- cil will decide on a new policy for slling block tickets at its meeting 4cant is one who is judged to have a better than 50 per cent chance of success at the University. Academic Screening Applicants are screened first on the basis of academic record, in- cluding class standing. Also con- sidered are the Scholastic Apti- tude Test scores and quality of the secondary school. Any Col- lege Board scores of 500 or below are said to be in the "danger zone." Most applicants are also in the upper 15 per cent of their graduating classes. Using these criteria, thousands of out-of-state students are re- fused admission each year, while 15 per cent of in-state applicants are rejected. Straight explained that in Michigan the secondary schools do much of the selecting of appli- cants in advance by encouraging only those whom they feel will be accepted to apply. Out-of-State Competition Competition for out-of-state places is keenest in the literary college and the architecture and design college. Non-Michigan ap- plicants whose general qualifica- tions may not be as impressive but who show special proficiency and motivations are given consid- eration in the nursing school and engineering college. Many out-of-state applicants feel that they can eventually be, admitted to the literary college and other competitive schools by first being admitted to less selec- tive schools and then transferring across campus the next year. "There is a possibility that out-of- state cross campus transferring may be curtailed in the future," Straight said. 2.5 Up In order to transfer from an- other university an in-state stu- dent must have a collegiate record of 2.5 or better, while the out-of- state student must have a "B plus" average. In each case the Univer- sity wants to admit the same quality student as would have been admitted at the freshman level. "There are about equal num- bers of in-state and out-of-state students in the honors program, although it is almost strictly true now that an out-of-state girl must be honors quality to be ad- mitted to the literary college," Straight said. To be classified as an in-state resident for the purpose of regis- tration, an individual, must be 21 years of age, and must have re- sided in' this state six months preceding the date of proposed enrollment. The residence of stu- dents who are minors follows that of their parents or of the legal guardians. Offers To Pay Eliot's - Taxes An Ann Arbor businessman, Ed- ward J. Hutcheson, yesterday of- fered to pay the approximately $300 in federal taxes that Prof. Johan Eliot of the public health school has refused to pay. Hutcheson made the offer by letter to the Internal Revenue Service because of "patriotic mo- tives." He feels that not paying taxes borders on advocacy of anarchy. Eliot, a pacifist, has refused payment of that portion of his taxes not already withheld from his salary because much of his tax money is "going for arma- ments which threaten the world and provide no security for this country or my family." Neither the IRS nor Eliot had any comment on the offer. r I { t i EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of two articles considering the Trigon fraternity membership selection controversy. By ROBERT MOORE The present Trigon controversy is an outgrowth of long- standing student and administration concern with proper member- ship selection regulations, an issue which has stirred controversy around the University for a long time. In May, 1949, the fore-runner of Student Government Council, called the Student Affairs Committee, passed a regulation banning membership discrimination by student organizations and request- ing copies of all student organizations' constitutions. Two years later, in 1951, SAC asked University President Alex- ander Ruthven to enforce a regulation which gave student organi- zations five years to eliminate discriminatory clauses in their con- stitutions. Vetoed But President Ruthven vetoed the measure, citing "a long established rule of law that no individual has an inherent right to membership in any particular organization." He warned then that "we must be careful not to infringe upon or impair equally sacred rights of others." President Hatcher also vetoed the proposal, arguing that "the processes of education and personal and group convictions will bring us forward faster, and on a sounder basis, than the proposed methods of coercion." Finally, in November, 1959, the Regents adopted a bylaw spelling out a policy of nondiscrimination. The statement was general, saying that the University "shall not discriminate against any person because of race, religion, color, creed, national origin or ancestry" and would "work for" the elimination of discrimina- tion "in University-recognized organizations." Trigon first became involved in the membership selection controversy about ten years ago, when officials were made aware of certain parts of the fraternity's constitution and pledge rituals with alleged violations of University membership regulations. There was little action on the charge until spring, 1964, when the newlyformed IFC Membership Committee began to investi- gate the fraternity's membership regulations. The committee found three portions of the Trigon pledge ritual which it considered might violate IFC standards. It asked Trigon to change these portions. But Trigon's Grand Council of alumni would not allow the parts to be changed. Discriminatory Trigon admitted that its pledge ritual did contain the portions under question, but denied that they were "discriminatory" in the sense that IFC meant the word. After Trigon's refusal to change its pledge ritual, the IFC Membership Committee turned the case over to the IFC Executive Committee. The Executive Committee decided to study only one of the three portions which the Membership Committee considered violations of IFC standards. Action was delayed by exams and re-elections until January, 1965. Then the Executive Committee, by a vote of 9-1 with one abstention, found Trigon guilty of violation of its code with its pledge ritual. No penalty was affixed at that time with the con- viction. Seventy-Four Years of Editorial Freedom ~~IAiti Two weeks later, the Executive Committee announced its penalty: by a unanimous vote, the committee ruled that Trigon must revise the portion in question by Sept. 1, 1965, or all IFC privileges would be withdrawn and recommendation would be made to the Fraternity Presidents' Assembly that Trigon's membership in IFC be revoked. IFC termed the violation in the pledge ritual "repugnant" to members of certain faiths. Usually reliable sources indicate that the portion under question makes the prospective member affirm his belief in Jesus Christ and his intention to follow Christ's teachings. To Appeal Two weeks ago, Trigon announced its intention to appeal the IFC verdict before the Fraternity Presidents' Assembly, composed of presidents of all campus fraternities and the officers of IFC. FPA has the right to reverse the IFC ruling if it votes so. The appeal will be the first IFC has ever handled. Kelley Rea, newly elected IFC executive vice-president, expects the appeal sometime next month. Trigon's present situation is one of waiting. Nothing can be done until FPA appeals on March 11. Hal Tobin, '66, president of Trigon, warns however that "while in the past, Trigon has taken a primarily defensive stand, we will take on a more and more of- fensive stand if our FPA appeal is denied." So the real import of the University regulation and Trigon's situation will be determined in the future, by the decision of FPA and by whatever action the SGC Membership Committee decides to take. r' - VOL. LXXV, No. 127 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, 24 FEBRUARY 1965 SEVEN CENTS SIX PAGES LA ettles More Items Liairman In Contract of sl Late Board, Expansion 1-0 . - - 'M GALVESTON, Tex. (AP) - Long- shoremen union and management negotiators in the strike-plagued West Gulf Coast district have tentatively agreed on the most im- portant issues in their contractj dispute, a federal mediator said last night. Assistant Labor Secretary James - J. Reynolds said the negotiators would meet later last night to ERA DRA JS TO CLOSE "attempt to finalize" a contract., International Longshoremen As- sociation members in the district o l udes have been on strike for 44 days, closing docks from Lake Charles, La., to Brownsville, Tex. Years of League Action "Right now, they are attempt- ing to finalize details of each clause," Reynolds s a i d after By MERLE WESTON spending five hours with each group, individually and jointly. The Women's League Council last night ended its existence with "We are now down to hard-core the last meeting of the year, tying together all loose ends to clear the issues." way for the University Activities Center. "Tentative agreement - stress Nancy Freitag, '65, president, announced that the new officers of the word tentative - has been the merged Michigan Union-League activities wings (UAC) will be reached on the most important approved today and officers contacted this evening. issues," he added. The installation of officers will take place at a banquet on Object of current bargaining is March 1. This will be the first official activity of UAC. a deep-water longshoremen's con- Committee reports indicated that a great number of activities tract, the one that covers dockers will close out the last days of the League. who load and unload ships. Still "Then new furnishings and appointments for the Cave, a special remaining to be negotiated are contacts fo bLA waeoustedmer room hidden under the rafters of the League, have been arriving daily contracts for ILA warehousemen, and are almost complete," Margie- - clerks and checkers+. "We are pretty close," Ralph A. Randon, executive vice-president, Massey, president of the ILA's informed the council. B u 1 0Ribbon West Gulf and South Atlantic Pam Erickson, personnel chair- Re district, said after emerging from man, announced that the SeniorReport D e an ateroon essonBooklet, a first for the League, Massey left the meeting late in will be available March 4. The In the day. He said he was feeling booklet will explore the activities effects of slight injuries he suf- and opportunities open to grad- fered in an auto accident Monday uating students in order to effec- Gov. George " Romney's Blue night. tively integrate themselves into Ribbon Citizens' Committee on "We've been felt out on some their communities. Higher Education will meet Feb. issues," Massey said. "They are 26 to begin final compilation of better than they were before." Sherry Pastor, education and the Blue Ribbon Report on High- The ILA rejected a proposal cultural chairman, announced that er Education, Harold Smith, staff from management last Thursday the plans for the Creative Arts director for the project, said yes- that called for an 80-cent an hour Festival were progressing rapidly. terday. increase in wages and fringe bene. For the first time the festival, Earlier estimates said the report fits over a fourear period, but which will be held during the would be issued in the middle of with certain stipulations. third week oftMarch, will explore February. T h e postponement, The union did not go along all fieldsnof the arts and sciences from February to March, is the with management's desires to nrather than the usually exclusive latest in a series of some five un- wihmngmn' eie oconcentration with literature, official postponements of the re- govern hiring practices and con- trol the size of work gangs. The League has designated this port. Some 16,000 longshoremen have room as the meeting and study The study is assigned to cover been on strike since Jan. 11 in place of the five women's honor- four basic areas: undergraduate the west gulf coast and south aries (Scroll, Circle, Wyvern, education, graduate and profes- Atlantic districts. Mortarboard and Senior Society). sional education, over-all planning Flint \ i f E t E r r LABOR LEADER IRVING BLUESTONE, (above) addressed an audience at Rackham Amphitheatre last night in a speech stress- ing the need for the country's poor to become more involved in their own economic struggle. luhestone Asks More Organization of Poor. By MICHAEL HEFFER "The poor must organize and coordinate themselves into purpose- ful groups" for their voices to be heard, Irving Bluestone, admin- istrative assistant tor Walter Reuther, said last night. Bluestone, who spoke on "The Political Voice of the Poor," was the fourth speaker in the Union-League Symposium on American Poverty, "In the Midst of Plenty." Bluestone said that "those in poverty don't feel a sense of belonging" and therefore resent charity and welfare programs. He agreed with Michael Harrington's theory that the poor are not heard because they are not organized. Voting Involvement "Personal involvement" such as voting can change this, Blue- stone said. He added that many uneducated people are afraid to vote and ignorant about how to do it. He pointed to statistics showing high income areas with much greater percentages of citizens voting than low income areas. Bluestone felt "the poor should become angry" with their state and organize to change it. He said organization will eventually challenge established groups, such as schools and community organ- Brennan Sends Letter To Hatcher RobinsonProposes Dropping Autonomy Status of Colleges By LEONARD PRATT Thomas J. Brennan, chairman of the State Board of Education, yesterday attacked the University's stand on expansion of its Flint branch, while also giving tentative approval to a constitutional amendment which would elimi- nate state college autonomy. Brennan made the attack in a, letter sent to University President Harlan H. Hatcher yesterday. Hatcher declined to comment on Brennan's statements, saying that he had not as yet received the letter. He criticized Hatcher for a speech made before the Flint Board of Education last Thurs- day. Internal Matter Concerning Hatcher's F 11 n t speech, which presented Flint ex- pansion as a purely internal mat- ter of the University, Brennan said, "It seems absolutely incom- prehensible that anyone could re- gard the major step proposed by the University at Flint as isolated and not affecting the future of overall planning in Michigan." Noting that the board was "in harmony with the governor," Brennan's letter went on to say that the "board wants to make it clear that it takes no stand at this time as to the sub stantive merits of the Flint plan. We do believe, however, that further ac- tion should await the board's study." One to Two Years Brennan later said this study would take from one to two years to complete and emphasized his contention that the University should not expand its Flint cam- pus until then, if at all. In what apparently was another attack on the University, Sen. Ed- ward Robinson (D-Dearborn) Monday night proposed a con- stitutional amendment w h i c h would eliminate the autonomy of all state universities. New Authority Specifically, Robinson asked that the Board of Educationkbe given supervisory authority over all state colleges and that the governing boards of these colleges be appointed rather than elected. Robinson gave his reasons for his proposals when he introduced I and coordination and education' finance. IFC Donates Writer Funds Interfraternity Council Execu- tive Council moved last night to izations, to aid change. recommend a $300 contribution He said President Lyndon B. Johnson's Poverty Program is for the writer-in-residence pro- good, but it "falls short of need." Referring to the great national gsam yothe FaternityPresiden sacrifices made in time of war, he said it is "strange we don't Assembly. The contribution will help to bring Louis E. Lomax to make the same sacrifices to win peace or to fight poverty." the University next year for three Public Awakening weeks of lectures, seminars and Bluestone called for "a great public awakening to the existence discussions with students. of poverty" and "moral and personal commitments" by the nation Tau Delta Phi will be tried for± in a "national crusade" against poverty. He said the public should initiating a member with an know more about programs and problems in the field. honor point average below 2.0, in Bluestone said that Walter Reuther has recently started a violation of the IFC initiation 'n , -i,...Vnva. d fe a t t i ! scholarship by-laws The case was nation-wide Citizens Crusade AgainstF overty, composea o om brought up at the executive coun- munity leaders. Their aims are to educate the public about poverty, cil meeting last night, but action to begin national action programs, stimulate anti-poverty programs was postponed until the next meet- at the community level and involve the poor in such programs. . ........