RIGHT TRACK FOR THE NEW COLLEGE See 'Editorial Page Y Seventy-Four Years of Editorial Freedom ii COOL Hiagh- Low-39 Generally fair with patchy fog VOL. LXXV, No. 40 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1964 SEVEN CENTS EIGHT PAGES Phi Mu Sorority Announces Closing of 'U' Chapter Lack of Members, Funds Force Action. Three Other Sororities May Face- Similar Difficulties in Near Future By CAROL HASKILL Panhellenic Association President Ann Wickins, '65; revealed Wednesday that Phi Mu sorority has closed down its University chapter. Pressing financial problems were given as reasons for the action. A letter from the national council of Phi Mu stated that "a chapter 'cannot function to, the benefit of the individuals in it, as Phi Mu demands, when it is occupied primarily with financial and membership problems." Miss Wickins reflected that the with- drawal of Phi Mu should serve to warn the sororities of the many - roblems they will face in the 1,-I * * * * * * * * * i Faculty Discuss 'U' Senate Restructuring convocation To Eye Effect Of Ex ansion By LAURENCE KIRSHBAUM University President Harlan Hatcher will seek to forecast the effects of an expanding University on the .individual student at his convocation with students Nov. 5. The convocation will be held in the Rackham Lecture Hall which holds 1100 students, Interfrater- nity President Lawrence Lossing, '65, said yesterday. Lossing chairs a student com- mittee which worked out the for- mat for the convocation, first of its kind here in 40 years. 20 Minutes President Hatcher will open the session with a 20-minute address, yet to be titled, seeking to show what the student can expect with- in a University community at- tempting to maintain academic "excellence. He added that the President will regard questions similar to these: "Will the student invariably at- tend classes. of 300 or more? Will he invariably reside in high-rise dorms? Will he invariably be forced to pursue his studies with- out direct personal guidance from instructors?" These topics are suitable for both a specific examination of housing and academic issues as well as a 'philosophic' overview of the changing concepts for Univer- sity growth, Lossing said. President Hatcher was not avail- able for comment. Spontaneous His speech will be followed by a "spontaneous" question and answer period where students can address the President through a roving microphone system. At the time, however, the entire student body could fit in Hill Aud. Redefinition In announcing the convocation last spring, the President explain- ed his goal was to redefine the student's place in the expanding University. He has expressed hope that the student convocation, if successful, could be repeated in the spring. A recent Student Government Council campus leaders forum, which featured administrator and faculty speakers, drew a meager turnout: However, Lossing said the committee plans a massive pub- licity canpaign for the convoca- tion to attract students. Criticize The President has been criti- cized by some students for "poor" communication with the rest of the University community. Presi- dent Hatcher has maintained, however, that he is always willing to meet and discuss student ideas. Currently, the President ad- dresses the freshmen at the be- ginning of each academic year and hold several informal open houses at his own home. He also has pre- sided over large assemblies at spe- cial events such as the memorial service here for the late President John F. Kennedy last November. Delay Hearing On Voice Rally At the request of Voice chair- man Richard Horevitz, '67, Joint Judiciary Council has postponed until Thursday, Oct. 22 its hear- ing on alleged violations of Uni- versity regulations at the Voice- led protest rally Tuesday, Oct. 6. Hn~r,'a,4+' w#l1} ,r~ar~at4 V~n a 4- future.- Three More? ' Reportedly, three other sorori- ties-Zeta Tau Alpha, Kappa Del- ta and Alpha Omicron Pi-face similar problems. Miss Wickins acknowledged that rush 't these houses had fallen off and said they had reported financial dif- f iculties. "There are many more girls who want membership than there are places, yet a few houses have not made their quota recently," she observed. "The reason lies in the prestige attached to certain houses. Girls don't look for friends, but for a name." Miss Wickens elaborated on the history of the Phi Mu chapter at the University and outlined the financial and membership prob- lems which the sorority had ex- perienced since its initiation. Phi Mu is a relatively new house on campus, started ten years ago with remarkable success in culling a large pledge class during its first year of existance. Troubles Its troubles began, in earnest two years ago when Phi Mu did not take any pledges, and even its subsequent participation in open rush attracted only a few pledges, During the 1964 springrush, the house had been forced to end its program at the end of the third set after a sparse turnout of' rushees. Panhel then initiated a new plan, consisting of a "friendship" group designed to pledge en masse. This failed when the National Council felt there wouldn't be enough members to pay for the; upkeep of the house and that it would be unfair to pledge the girls, who wanted housing as well as' sorority affiliation. After the 1964 attempt to aid' the sorority, Panhel President Pat Elkins, '64, had asserted that "Phi Mu is the one house that could not exist without help.", Open Extra , Stud yAreas , Rooms in Angell Hall will be I open 7-10 p.m. today and tomor- row for students desiring a placeI to study, Frederick Wagman, di- rector of University libraries, an-; nounced yesterday.7 The rooms to be opened are: Today: 25, 231 and 2003; Friday:l 231 and 2003. All the rooms have tables and chairs rather than desks.; Wagman said the rooms are be- ing opened now because of the ex- ceptionally h e a v y amount of studying done during this part ofc the academic year. He noted, how- ever, that surveys have shown the library system has not been filledl to capacity even during peak periods this week.f MARTIN LUTHER KING Name IKing T o Receiv~e Nobel Prize OSLO (IP')- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., an American Negro lead- er in the national civil rights movement, was awarded the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize yesterday. In announcing the 1964 winner of the coveted award, the Oslo Nobel Institute said "Martin Luth- er King has consistently asserted the principle of nonviolence." In an Atlanta hospital for a routine physical checkup King said: "I'm deeply moved, gratified and honored to be chosen for such a significant award. "I do not consider this merely an honor to me personally, but a tribute to the discipline, wise re- straint, and majestic courage of By JEFFREY GOODMAN How should faculty relate to the administration in expressing their ideas and exercising influence on policy decisions? What kind of structure for the University Sen- ate-the faculty's official forum -will allow the most fruitful dis- cussion? About 25 professors pursued these questions yesterday after- noon. The impetus to their open forum was a proposal to restruc- ture the Senate, hopefully so that faculty could "speak out force- fully and promptly on University policy." Opinions on the proposal were sharply divided. They ranged fromn one professor's feeling that the proposal's assumptions have noth- ing to do with the modern univer- sity--such institutions must, b run by professional administrators - to the contention that there ought to be some vehicle through which the faculty as a whole can com- munrcate continously with admin- istrators. 65-Man Assembly The plan in question has been put forth by the Senate Subcom- mittee on University Freedom and Responsibility, which sponsored yesterday's discussion. Its most controversial feature is a 65-man elected Assembly which would meet monthly and have authority to speak as a representative of the .whole faculty. The Senate-composed of the 1,- 200 men with professorial rank and presently the only official meeting ground for all 1200 - ould continue meeting once a se- mester. Any of its members would termed the manageri-al revolution in education, the teacher is in- creasingly only an employe of the university and cannot hope to exert real influence on" "manage- ment." With their real strength lying in their advisory capacity, Prof. Charles Sawyer of the architec- ture and design college said, fac- ulty naturally shy away from ad- ministrative tasks-as members of advisory "groups, they can more easily represent an ideal positionf without having to bear final re- sponsibility. There is still no reason for not seeking a representative faculty body composed of those men who do have some expertise in admin- istrative affairs and can express general faculty opinions, Prof. Wil- liam Frankena of the philosophy department, chairman of the free- dom and responsibility group, countered. He said he was not as. willing as Rice to "give up democ- racy." Yet the functioning of the As- sembly would subvert the advis- ory groups' activities, Prof. Rich- ard Wellman of the Law School, chairman of SACUA, said. Unlike the committees, the Assembly could not have enough interesting work to keep its members' en- grossed-or even enough interested members. For as in order to become in- volved in interesting tasks, the Assembly would have to call on the committees to inform it of their work: This would discour- age the committees from inde- pendent investigation, Wellman ex- plained. Prof. William LeVeque of the mathematics department d i s- agreed, saying that was not nee- essarily the case. He saw no rea- son why many of the meaning- maintained that this "poverty" was gul topics presently considered by a function of the impossibility of SACUA would not be transferred carrying on a meaningful dia- to the Assembly or why the com- logue at the meetings and of for- mittees would necessarily lose their mulating a decisive, representative effectivenesss statement of faculty opinion. Internal Functions The Assembly, they contended, Interspersed with their debate would be better able to engage in on how faculty should relate to vital debate and reach a consen- the administration and how they sus because of its size and the would be able to under the pro- deeper involvement. of its mem- posed restructuring, the professors bers which would hopefully exist. debated the more general issue of Kerr agreed that Senate meet- how the new system would affect ings were sometimes felt to be the internal workings of the facul- meaningless but attributed this to ty body. the difficulty of attending the Their considerations were based meetings and the amount of time on the fact that attendance at allowed for discussion. He pro- Senate meetings has steadily de- posed setting aside a special day clined from around 16 per cent of each semester just for the sessions. the faculty in the 1940's to around Wellman agreed that Senate seven per cent last year. In ab- meetings were too large for dis- solute numbers, last year's meet- cussion but said the Assembly ings averaged about 150 men. would be too small to be represen- Proponents of the restructuring tative. Smithson Tops SGC Vote, Manning Write -In the millions of gallant Negroes be allowed to speak at Assembly and white persons of good will who sessions. have followed a nonviolent course The Senate's executive arm - in seeking to establish a reign of the Senate Advisory Committee on justice and a rule of love across University Affairs-would be par- this nation of ours. ed from 19 to nine and meet week- King said every dollar of the ly instead of monthly. prize moneywould be spent on the The numerous subcommittees civil rights movement, which do the real work of the Sen- King is the 12th American and ate and have the closest, most the third Negro to be awarded the continuous contact with the ad- Peace Prize. Dr. Ralph J. Bunchemintionoldcarryh onea Unitd NaionsUndersecretary' ministration would carry on as United Nations Udrertr they do now. for Special Political Affairs, was Consultative Capacity the first American Negro so These subcommittees act Iarge-, awarded winning the prize in 1950. ly in a consultative capacity when He sent King a letter of congratu- y n a mi aity w -e lations immediately after the 'they deal with administrators - award was announced. and this is the only really viable "This announcement . . . is a procedure, Prof. Warner Rice, striking international recognition chairman of the English depart- for the cause and str~uggle of the ;went, said. American Negro for full equality Furthermore, he added, this in the American society and for functioning is all faculty are will- full participation in the main- ing to take on. Under what Rice stream of, American life," Bunche' wrote. G T H The other Negro NobelfPeace SGC To Hear Prize winner was South African leader Albert Luthuli, in 1960.n9 This year King was made an Voters' Views honorary doctor at Yale Univer- sity and was awarded the John F. Student Government Council Kennedy Prize by the Catholic will hold its first Constituent's Council for cooperation between Assembly tonight at 7:30 in the the races, in Chicago. multipurpose room of the UGLI. King, 35, had been rumored as The assembly is being held to an award candidate for months. give students the opportunity to He will receive the Nobel gold express their grievances and have medal and diploma and the cash them taken formally to the Coun- prize, which this year is $53,123, cil table. in Oslo Dec. 10. SGC President Tom Smithson, King began his civil rights cru- '65, will open the assembly with sade from the pulpit of Dexter a few remarks. Then it will break Avenue Baptist Church in Mont- into groups to discuss various gomery, Ala., in 1955, after earn- issues. The groups will be led by ing his Ph.D. in systematic theol- Scott Crooks, '65; Sherry Miller, ogy at Boston University. '65, SGC treasurer; Gary Cunning- The stocky Negro cleric pattern- ham, '65; and League President ed his campaign after the nonvio- Nancy Frietag, '65. lent methods of India's Gandhi, Crooks said that SGC hopes to preaching peaceful demonstrations recruit m e m b e r s for their and passive resistance. committees. SUSPENSIONS: ACLU Promises Aid T'oBerke ley Stucdents By BRUCE WASSERSTEIN The American Civil Liberties Union has decided to intervene on behalf of the eight students recently suspended from the University of California at Berkeley for violating the ban on direct political action, Ernest Besig, Executive Director of Northern California Branch of the ACLU, told the Daily over the phone yesterday. He said the ACLU believes, "that the regulations which the students were alleged to have broken violate their political rights as guaranteed by the first amend- - ment." Berkeley's ban on student poll- l, tical activity is based upon Kerr'sJ interpretation of the state con- stitutional provisions for the es- tablishment of the university. PI, j j eV e State Constitution The California state constitu-j tion states that the University Ciof vi 1 an R 1 e California must be kept free ofl political influence. Although the ACLU says that SAIGON ()-Prospects for the this law applies only to the ad- pledged quick switch of South Viet ministration, University President Nam from military to civilian gov- Clark Kerr believes that the law.ernment went glimmering yester- refers to both the administration day. This development followed a and the student body. week of unusually heavy casual- The ACLU will test the con- ties in the United States-backed stitutionality of Kerr's interpreta- war against the Communist Viet tion in court if the Regents of the Cong. University of California do not Reliable sources disclosed that, reverse his stand at their meeting through a complicated deal work- today at Davis. ed out with the 17-man High Na- 'Bad Faith' tional Council, the military trium- Furthermore, Besig stipulated verate which was supposed to step Kerr has been acting in "bad down Oct. 27 will continue to wield faith" on the terms of the tenta- executive power until some time tive . agreement reached betweer next year. the Berkeley administration and Under revised arrangements it' student demonstrators October 2. is reported Maj. Gen. Nguyen Claiming that Kerr has been Khanh, who has said he wanted "using his power in an arbitrary to return to duty in the armed manner, Besig pointed to the com- forces, will resign the premiership mittee charged with reviewing the but join the figurehead chief of cases of the eight suspended stu- state, Maj. Gen. Duong Van Minh, dents as an example of the admin- in some unspecified job of the istration's "unfair procedures." executive branch. Nominally sharing authority with Khanh and Minh in the txi- umverate is Lt. Gen. Tran Thien 1Kheim, a widely criticized former * Win ' Lowerst Vote fin History Brook, Cunningham, Bodkin, Amado Also Gain Seats on Body By DAVID BLOCK Sharon Manning, '65Ed, won a surprising victory yesterday as a write-in candidate in the Student Government Council e 1 e c t io n while current SGC President Thomas Smithson, '65, paced the victors in winning reelection. Incumbents Douglas Brook; '65. the present executive vice-presi- dent of Council, and Gary Cun- ningham, '66, current treasurer, were reelected. Robert Eodkin, '67E, and Rachel Amado, '67; were also elected. Miss Manning reqeived 781 votes among the 2,569 valid ballots cast in the election. It was the lowest voter turnout in the history of SGC. GOING TO THE DOGS? Victorious Student Government Council candidates are Thomas Smithson, '65 (upper left); Douglas Brook, '65 (upper right); Gary Cunningham, '66 (center left); Robert Bodkin, '67 (center right); Rachel Amado, '67 (lower left) and Sharon Manning, '65Ed. HR C To Seek Citizen-Police Ulnderstanding By JULIE FITZGERALD The Community .Relations Coin- mittee of the Ann Arbor Human Relations Commission has set up meetings between citizens and members of the police force in answer to charges of police bru- tality. Assistant Human Relations Di- rector Richard Simmons said that the purpose of these meetings is to clear the air between the citi- zens and the police so that the police can understand the peoples' complaints and the people can un- derstand the problems of law en- forcement on in informal basis. The meetings are held in private homes of interested persons. Sim- mrons said each meeting will be held in a different neighborhood so that the entire city can be con- tacted on matters that concern them. Simmons .said. the the first meeting, at which Deputy Chief Walter Krasny spoke, proved suc- __ _ _r . __ _ _ t * .. t _ t .. .. Smithson Smithson accumulated a vote total. Brook received; Cunningham 1,153, Bodkin and Amado 921. 1,309 1,156, 1,102 otleb, Guns Top igrite-InFel By MIChAEL DEAN -'. . " Student Government Council----- elections'" traditionally attract a . large number of write-in candi-' dates, and yesterday's balloting was no exception. Gret Gunns, local fraternity "wonder dog," led the field by an overwhelming m a r g i n, soundly .::: ; trouncing his closest opponent,: South Quad turtle Walter Gottlieb. : President Lyndon B. Johnson. and Cynthia Maddox attracted the: next largest - block of votes. Miss : Maddox's strength reportedly was derived from the extensive cov- i _ defense minister who left with apparent reluctance recently for a three-month diplomatic mission abroad. Khanh apparently will continue " to hold key powers. The 37-year-old soldier-politi- : clan, who wrested the government from Minh in a bloodless coup Jan. 4# 30, may become premier of a pro- . visional regime pending general elections in 1965 to choose a con- gress and ratify a new constitu- tion. James Boughey, '66, an official candidate whose name appeared on the ballot, received 699 votes in a losing cause. Roger Leib, '65, and Gregory Napoleon, '68, were defeated as validated write-in can- didates. 373 votes were cast for Leib and 60 for Napoleon. Miss Manning's victory appar- ently came as a surprise to many people. Before election day there was widespread criticism that SGC was not offering a choice of candi- dates to the student body, with only six candidates listed on the ballot in contention for the six vacant positions. Petitioner Miss Manning had filed a peti- tion three weeks ago to run in the campaign as an official can- didate. However, her petition was invalidated by SGC's Credentials and Rules Committee for being circulated illegally. Miss Manning attributed her victory in part to "campus dis- satisfaction with the fact that SGC was not offering a choice to the student body on the official bal- lot. Perhaps many students feel that I received unfair treatment by having my petition invalidat- ed," she added. A total of 2,632 sstudents voted in the election. Sixty-three of these ballots were declared invalid. Ac- cording to elections director Charles Cooper, '66, there were no formal protests of infractions at thQ Bolling stations on campus. The lowest previous voter turn- JenRKins Quits J ohnson Post NEW YORK ('P)-Walter Jenk- flU