DWATER: IN PLACE OF TOLERANCE. See Editorial Page L Seventy-Four Years of Editorial Freedom Iaiitj COOL High-71 Low-6i0 Cloudy with possible rain, partly cloudy tomorrow r. VOL. LXXV, No. 18 ANN ARBOR. MICHIGAN, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 19. 1964 SEVEN CENTS Look into Action In Tonkin Gulf Destroyer Action Near Viet Nam Draws Communist Accusations WASHINGTON (JP)-The United States government, operating behind a secrecy screen, sought early this morning to determine whether two U.S. desrtoyers patrolling the Gulf of Tonkin fired at phantoms or at threatening Communist North Vietnamese torpedo boats. The North Vietnames foreign ministry claimed two destroyers were in action yesterday near a place called Nghe An, that "heavy explosions were heard and flashes of light and aircraft circling over the spot were seen from the shore.' A new China news agency report from Hanoi placed the scene 60 miles off Nghe An and spoke of two U.S. warships being "active" Regents Name Spurr to Positio As ..* Dean of 'U' Graduate Scho * * * * * * * * rU' Gets $500,000 in Grants Succeeds Sawyer; Starts in October Played Major Role in Tra To Tri-Term; Heyns Praises PROF. ADON GORDUS New Director For Ho1nors By ADALINE ADAMS Prof. Adon Gordus of the chem- istry department has 'recently been appointed associate director of the honors council. He fills' a pisition created to aid the council. ,n handling increased enrollments. and further expansion. Gordus sees an increased effort to inform prospective candidates of the honors program as one of his primary duties. "This is by no means to be construed as a re- cruitment effort," he notes, 'but it is startling to learn that almost 90 per cent of the students pres- ently in honors were not aware of the program until they were accepted into it." Gordus is helping plane: a book- let tentatively titled "The Honors Program at Michigan." Its pur- pose will be to inform students of the types of honors courses and programs available not ..only in the literary college, but through- out the University. Gordus also expects to give talks on the honors program to visiting high school faculty, alumni and Sother groups. Many reiuests for.. such information hive been made recently in view of the highly pub- licized honors program at Mich- igan State University. Gordus emphasizes, however, that he wishes to give the major- ity of his "time to the internal workings of the honors program. "The honors program itself is cer- tainly not perfect now," he said. "Though we must seriously con- sider the difficulties of increasing the effectiveness of the honors council in view of present prob- lems throughout the University, we should be able to make some improvements.' Gordus wishes to discuss pos- sible new course developments directly with honors students. He hopes to be of help in establishing extra-curricular programs, though he feels that these should be pri- marily instigated by students themselves. Another possible development, Gordus suggests, might be research tutorials in the humanities for freshmen and sophomores. These could be structured along the lines of tutorials offered in the Unified Science program. He notes that work on these research projects, have often led to student work on sponsored research fund projects. Approve Changes In Election Rules The, Regents at their monthly meeting yesterday approved two changes in Board in Control of Intercollegiate Athletics elections. The new rules state that all students may vote in the election < Friday evening and at daybreak; Saturday. Communist Denial *In a statement broadcast.. by Red China's official news agency,' the North Vietnamese mentioned nothing about any of their units being involved. The Communists1 denied they provoked the incident and accused the U.S. of trying to create an excuse for attacking North Viet Nam.. Prior to the North Vietnamese statement, U.S. sources had said two destroyers steaming in the darkened and overcast Gulf of Tonkin had opened fire on what they thought were Communist tor- pedo boats closing to attack. The destroyers did not report seeing any craft, according to in- formants, but .said they observed what appeared to be hostile craft on radar several miles away. Vague Reports The sources said that in reports to the Pentagon-reports describ- ed as garbled--the U.S. warships did not say they: were fired on, as were other U.S. destroyers in clashes Aug. 2 and4.Those earlier clashes brought down swift U.S. rataliation on Red PT boat bases and oil dumps. The U.S. carrier-launched air strikes were said to have destroy- ed about half of Red Viet Nam's 50 torpedo boats. The White House and State De- partment remained silent, al- though there was a notable lackt of crisis atmosphere there and in the Pentagon, too, as the day wore on. But in South Viet Nam, a mil- itary spokesman said a special alert had been ordered for Ameri- can forces there. U Pr ogram rw, _ Bill Awaits Presidential $500,000 Available For Fall Semester By JUDITH WARREN The University Office of Finan- cial Aids announced yesterday that it had received $500,000 for stu- dent loans through the National Defense Education Act. However, a question has been raised as to the authorization of this money since President Lyn- don B. Johnson has not as yet signed the Department of Health, Education and Welfare Appropri- ations bill which would free this money. "It is illegal to disperse any money before the bill.has been signed by the President," said Dr. Martin Mayes, information direc- tor of the Office of Education. University ' officials said that perhaps the explanation for the pre-mature dispersement of funds was due to the fact that the Uni- versity began its fall semester earlier than other schools and so needed the money sooner.. The $500,000 available for loans for the fall semester is part of the $700,000 which the University has been promised by the Office of Education. The remaining $200,0@00 will be available for loans during the spring semester. The Office of Financial Aids is committed to loans for this se- mester totaling $400,000. Due to many delays in the passage of the HEW bill, the University request- ed $226,000 as tie-over fund from the Office of Education. The Office of Education com- mitted itself to providing the tie- over fund. This commitment was based on the old NDEA program which expired in 1963. The Uni- versity then mysteriously received the $500,000 check. Despite the questioned pre-ma- turity of the money, applications are still available for student loans for this semester. The loans will average about $350 per student. There are no restrictions on the use of the loan. However, the Of- fice of Financial Aids does keep close control on the money. More than 1000 students received loans through NDEA last year amount- DISCRIMINATORY POLICY: Table Negro Scholarship Plan By LAURENCE KIRSHBAUM The Regents set the stage for a future clarification of their pol- icy on discriminatory scholarships yesterdayas they voted to delay the acceptance of a stipend in- tended exclusively for Negroes. Following a rare public show of disagreement, the Regents tabled a motion which would have ac- cepted a $500 Negro scholarship annually for 10 years. The vote was 6-1, with the lone dissenter Regent Irene Murphy of Birming- ham who had moved its accept- ance. -; COfficials reported after the monthly public meeting it was the first time in their recollection that the governing officers here had voted publicly to refuse a scholarship. Define Position The Regents will resolve their position privately and then define it publicly during the next few months. The issue arose yesterday after the chairman, University Presi- dent IHarlan Hatcher, presented the scholarship offer, made by an anonymous donor, for regenta' consideration.. Standard procedures would have called for immediate approval But, Regent Carl Brablec of Rose- ville raised the "question of wheth- er this scholarship is' compatible with the regental policy of anti- discrimination." Bylaw That policy is contained in By- law 2.14 which prohibits discrim- ination against persons "because of race, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry." prom this guideline, the Re- gents have established a genera? policy which disallows "scholar- ships with implied discrimination,' President hatcher told the meet- ing. He defined "implied discrimi- nation" as a deliberate attempt to exclude certain persons friom receiving needed aid. By contrast, the scholarship of- fer "is well within the spirit of the regental policy of non-dis- crimination because it attempts tc bring aid to an area which needs help," he said. Want Clarification But several Regents, express- ing the hope that the policy might be clarified, strove to point out the ambiguities in the president's position. Brablec inquired whether the poor Southern Appalachian coul be endowed exclusively in a schol- arship program. And Regent Al- lan Sorenson of Midland pointed to the Regents policy seeking to strip discriminatory clauses from scholarship bequests before they are officially given. There are currently scholar- ships offered here which favor students according to race, na- tional origin and locale. Table Motion Regent Eugene Power of Ann Arbor choked off debate with a motion to table, which was adopt- ed. The implications of the partic- ular scholarship were given by Brablec. He observed the connec- tion with the University's Op- portunity Award Scholarship Pro- gram, which is geared to the dis- advantaged Negro in Detroit. The $500 annual stipend would be used to bolster this program which receives matching assistance from the University. Brablec con- tended that such University mon- ey would be offered in direct violation of the anti-discrimina- tion policy. University officials have justi- fied, as they did yesterday, the allotment 9f funds for "disadvan- taged youth" because of the soda' responsibilities which the schoo has to the immediate urban area. The Regents approved the appointment of Ste Spurr as graduate school dean at their monthly meet terday. Spurr, dean of the natural resources school sin and assistant to Vice-President for Academic Affair W. Heyns, will succeed retiring Dean Ralph A. Sawyer. In the Office of Academic Affairs, Spurr playe nificant role in planning the University's transition year operation. He served as executive secretary of t versity's Commission on Year-Round Integrated O which issued its report in May 1961 and was res for coordinating the actual shift to a full-year calendar. ' OSA Looks for A dvisor By ROBERT HIPPLER After recently naming John Feldkamp as advisor to Student Government Council, the Office of Student Affairs is looking for someone to assume his old responsibilities as fraternity advisor. Director of Student Activities and Organizations John Bingley gave Feldkamp the duty of SGC advisor during the summer. Feld-. kamp is now acting as both fraternity advisor and advisor to SGC.; Until 1960, Mrs. Ruth Callahan, as administrative assistant in the Office of Student Affairs, had performed duties similar to those Feldkamp assumed this summer. She also served 'as adminis- trative secretary to SGC. In 1960, SGC hired a full-time administrative secretary, Mrs. Callahan stayed on as SGC advisor until 1962, when she left the University._ From then until Feldkamp took over this summer, Bingley advised SGC in addition to performing his other duties. These duties center around student discipline and counseling for individual students and organizations. Feldkamp describes his main job now as "encouraging SGC'to fulfill fully the functions for which it was created." He lists recog- nition and regulation of student activities and approval of student sponsored events among its main functions.. Last month, Feldkamp urged Council to exercise a power he felt it had neglected in the past, that of giving final approval to the scheduling of student-sponsored events. SGC last year appointed a student-faculty-administration com- mittee and" gave it the authority to schedule the events. Student organizations and others thought the committee had the power of final approval of events, Feldkamp explains. But he held that the motion SGC passed gave only scheduling power to the committee, and that SGC had reserved for itself the right to give final approval to the scheduling. As a result, all' student organizations with events planned fore the fall were informed that SGC still had the authority to give final approval. At its first meeting this fall, Council clarified the matter by reserving the power for itself. Until OSA finds a new man, Feldkamp will continue his old job as fraternity advisor. His functions here include attending officers individually and advising fraternities on finances, rushing and acaderdiics. Officials are searching for a new man for the job so that Feldkamp can devote full time to his new duties. "But we're not close to finding anybody," Feldkamp comments. By KAREN WEINHOUSE 1. 'o Promo t e By ROGER RAPOPORT Operation Michigan, a program dedicated to the better under- standing .of .the University, be- gins its 1964 venture on October 1, Vice-President for University Relations Michael Radock an- nounced yesterday. "We want our alumni and friends to see more of the Univer- sity than a football game," Rad- ock said, in detailing the third year of the program that is de- signed to give the public a view of what is going on inside the University.. Beginning with the first of eight two-day "U-M '64" semi- nars, about 320 interested alumni and friends will be on campus to attend classes and talk with stu- dents, faculty and administra- tors to get a "broad view of the University." Groups of 40 will stay overnight in the Union and will be able to see any aspect of the Univer- sity that interests them. In addition "Operation Michi- gan '64" will irftlude five presi-. dent's conference sessions held in major urban centers and keynot- sd by University President Har- lan Hatcher. Conferences are currently set for Lansing, Traverse City, Birm- ingham and Flint, with an addi- tional site to be selected. Dates for these conferences involving alumni, "opinion leaders" and. friends of the University will be announced shortly. Another phase of the program is 'the briefing in which admin- istrators will discuss such areas as planning, faculty, admissions and scholarship policy. These meetings will be held in 10 Mich- igan cities. A fourth, somewhat smaller. phase is the "Report from Ann Arbor." Faculty members and ad- Background "All of his experience n teach- ing and scholarly work provides an excellent background for the work of graduate dean, Heyns said. "Dean Spurr has also demonstrat- ed again and .again his compe- tence as an administrator. "His term as dean of the natur- al resources school has been ex- traordinarily productive of con- structive change. As assistant to the vice-president for academic af- fairs, he has revealed remarkable skills as a catalyst and as a de- veloper of educational policy,' Heyns said. Heyns was chairman of the com- mittee responsible for selecting a new graduate dean. He reported the committee's unanindus recom- mendation of Spurr at yesterday's Regents' meeting. Reorganization, Heyns indicated there would be no major reorganization of the graduate school, since the dean- ship selection committee approved the role of the graduate school as it now stands. He admitted prob- lems exist letween certain depart- ments and the Rackham adminis- tration but said "none were insol- uble." Heyns, however, reported a re- examination of present procedureE would be forthcoming. Spurr's appointment is effec- tive October 1. In the interim he intends to acquaint himself with the present problems of the grad- uate school and the duties fac- ing its dean. Consultation "My job is to learn as much as possible about the position of graduate school dean. I plan to devote the next few weeks to in- tensive consultation," Spurr said. "I plan on making no policy statements until I talk to admin- istrators and the executive com- mittee of the graduate school They are much closer to the prob- lem than I. I have no preconceiv-. 2d notions or objectives about what I will do in my new capacity." Before joining the University faculty in 1952, Spurr held po- sitions as assistant professor of forestry at Harvard University, acting director of the Harvard Forest and associate professor of forestry at the University of Min- nesota. Spurr is the author of several books and the use of aerial pho- tography to inventory forest area and inventor of several devices for utilizing these photographs. He is also founder and editor of "The Journal of Forestry Sciences. Federal Advisor He has served as advisor to private industry, several federa- agencies and foreign government in areas concerning forest man- agement and conservation. Presently, Spurr is a member of the Board in Control of In- tercollegiate Athletics and chair- man. ofits plant expansion com- mittee engaged, in planning of F new basketball arena and other athletic facilities. University President H a r a n Hatcher commented that "al- though the graduate school dean doesn't employ faculty or preside over a specific discipline, his' po- DEAN STE FundI ing to a total of $500,000. Priority for the loans given to students working masters degrees and to; planning to enter the education. will be on their students field of Is Postpone The Regents have adopt vately a record budget refi portedly exceeding $50 milli they have decided not to at the figure until the bid hf received in Lansing, a Un spokesman said yesterday. The announcement wil within two \weeks. Meeting in a working the governing officers set i proximate figure" yesterc the request, he explained. This is a customarypy whereby the administrat ficers are instructed o amount but are left to fill details. One reason given for hol the request, due by the m: September, is to enable here to analyze enrollment for the fall. They are red around 29,000, several h higher than the anticipate The Regents had been e: to announce their request monthly meeting yesterda The University's bid for ing funds, which pays teach maintains the facilities, w the requests of the othe state-supported schools. State University announce seeking $35 million while 1VI State University is aski xiiillion. In Lansing, the governor will analyze the requests rive at final totals for the ary budget message to the lature. The final higher ed appropriation will emerg the Legislature sometime spring. Requests of the 10 schc expected to exceed $170 Lansing sources have prec record appropriation fro state of more than $150 mil ACLU Infoi Student VoL The Ann Arbor - Was county branch of the Ai Civil Liberties Union recent Regents Convene for ear's First Meeting .: , .. . .