IN DEFENSE OF LIBRARY BOOKS See Editorial Page Ci r Lw 43riau :4Iat I CLOUDY High' 42 Low-25 Variable winds with rain and snow Seventy-Four Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXV, No. 70 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1964 SEVEN CENTS EIGHT PAGES Union and League May Merge Student Activities Wings EDITOR'S NOTE: Tonight the Michigan League Board of Directors will meet to give final consideration to a plan for merging the activities wing of the League and the activities wing- of the M9ichigan Union. The board meet- ing climaxes a series of meetings of the various Union and League groups who must approve the merger. If the League board approves the plan, it will need only the Regents' approval to become reality. The following article tells the story of the two organizations and of the attempts to unite them. By ELLIOT BARDEN "No Smoking, Briefcases, Coats, Beverages, Ladies." This sign in front of the Michigan Union's Pendleton Library is one of the last vestiges of a tradition that is slowly fading. As late as the early fifties, a man nemed George Johnson sat at the front door of the Union to make sure no female entered. When University President Harlan Hatcher arrived here in 1954, he first went to the Union. He 'was told he could enter but his wife and young daughter would have to stand outside in the rain. Union Origins , The Union was founded around the turn of the century as a club for male students. It was the counterpart of the parlors of Barbour Gymnasium, the social center for women, which later gave way to the Michigan League. Both the Union and the League are divided into two sections: a service wing which oversees the business operations and an activities wing which sponsors student functions such as MUSKET and Soph Show. Until recently both wings of each organization functioned separately from the corresponding wings of the other organization; few people questioned the logic of this setup. But lately this division along sexual lines has come to be seen as highly artificial. Suggestions for the merger of the Union and League have been tossed about since the end of World War II. Reed Report No one was motivated to do anything about the situation until the publication of the Reed Report, a study of the University's phi- losophy of student affairs, in February 1962. The purpose of a university, the report said, is to "stimulate in each student the maximum intellectual growth of which he is capable and to enable him ..,. to make maximum contribution to his society." Extracurricular life is as important as the classroom in achiev- ing these goals, the report added. It went on to spotlight, "the cleav- age in philosophy and policy ... symbolized by the geographic separa- tion of men's and women's residence halls and by the existence of the Union primarily for men and the League primarily for women, rather than a student union for all students. Youth Role "The committee believes that the young people who enroll in the University are primarily students seeking to learn, seeking to develop not in isolation as men or women but together as equals and col- laborators." On the basis of the Reed Report, the Union Board of Directors decided to create a merger study committee, and appointed associate Dean James H. Robertson of the literary college to head it. In May of 1963 the committee recommended that both wings of the Union be joined to their counterparts in the League. Specifically, this meant: -The merging of the business wings to form a "University Cen- ter" under a single governing board, which would replace the separate Union and League governing boards, and -The merging of the activities wings into a co-educational stu- dents activities organization, responsible to the new governing board. Partial Rejection At their October 1963 meeting the Regents rejected the Robertson report-in part. They went along with the merger of the student- activities wings but vetoed its plan to merge the business wings. The Regents rejected the Robertson plan for a business-wing merger because it called for students participating in the managerial and financial operations of the proposed University Center. This par- ticipation they termed "inappropriate" and "ineffective." Elaborating on this point at a press conference after the Regents meeting, President Hatcher said that the Regents simply questioned whether student involvement in operations and policy outside the "student activities" aspect was a "legitimate expenditure of their time and energy." Since that time, the past and present senior officers of both the Union and the League have been working on plans for uniting the activities wings. The merged organization would be known as the University Activi- ties Center (UAC). It would be solely responsible to the Union Board of Directors. If approved, the merger of the two activities organiza- tions would become effective next spring. The Final Report of the 1964-1965 Union-League Senior Officer Merger Committee states that although the proposed merger is "ostensibly an amalgamation of the existing structures, the scope of its activities should be broadened beyond the current range of en- deavor of the Union and League." The committee expects the proposed UAC to play a "lively role in the continuing development of the total university." For this reason they named the organization the UAC. Expand Activities The present senior officers of the Union and League look to the proposed UAC to expand the activities committees and to undertake a thoughtful re-evaluation of current committee projects. The senior officers in their unanimous final report outlined their reasons for placing the UAC under the jurisdiction of only the See MERGER, Page 2 ASSOCIATE DEAN ROBERTSON SGC Move Supports UMSEU Establish Group To Study Parking By JUDITH WARREN Student Government C o u n c i 1 unanimously approved a motion last night which further encour- aged the work of the University of Michigan Student Employees' Un- ion in the area of student wages. The motion, proposed by Barry Bluestone, '66, recommends that the University c o n s ider the UMSEU the official bargaining agent for student employes. The proposal also asks that the University readjust its budget to insure an absolute minimum wage of $1.25 an hour this year. SGC asks that the University provide the UMSEU with sufficient data so that the UMSEU can continue to discuss the problem with Uni- versity officials. Welcomes Support "I, welcome SGC's unanimous backing of the union's position. I hope the University administration That Game The Michigan-Ohio State game on ,Saturday will be tele- vised by WWJ-TV, Detroit. For all details, including those about tonight's pep rally, see pages 6-7. will note this and take immediate action to effect our proposals," David Salmon, '66, vice-president of the UMSEU stated. In further action relating to the controversy o v e r student wages, SGC accepted the one por- tion of the grievance report of the Student Economic Welfare Com- mittee that was proposed. The motion further affirms the need of a $1.25 minimum wage for student employes. Parking Report The report from the Committee on the Parking Problem was ac- cepted by Council. By passing this report, SGC supports the joint effort of a committee composed of representatives from the Ann Ar- bor City Council, the University and the Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce, which has been formed to study the parking problems en- countered by students. As a result of this report, SGC will establish its own committee to study the parking problem. The committee will work with the Uni- versity in order to reach an ade- quate solution to the problem. The report was based on SGC's belief that it is the role, not only of the students, but of the entire University community to seek some solution to the parking problem. Class Cancellation As a result of the passage of a motion submitted by Eugene Won, '66, SGC will recommend to the University that classes be can- celled by individual professors Monday, Dec. 14, thus giving a two day study period before final exams. The executive committee of SGC, Ann Wickens, '65 and Thomas Smithson, '65, will hold Faculty In Sum:1 Group Seeks Changes mer Wage U' Conducts Traffic Survey By NANCY STEIN The University yesterday con- ducted a comprehensive survey on traffic patterns and traffic volume in the campus area. Over 70,000 vehicles were clocked as they passed 13 checking stations, John Telfer, assistant to the Uni- Roosevelt Head Pitehell Suspends Editors Of 'Torch' from Activities During Probe By MERLE JACOB The editorial board of Chicago's Roosevelt University's newspaper, the Torch, was suspended from all student activities by President Robert J. Pitchell yesterday morn- ing. This action followed the admin- istration's confiscation of the Torch's latest issue Saturday be- cause of an article stating Presi- dent Pitchell had been "unoffi- cially fired" and that the univer- sity was $700,000 in debt. The newspapers were released Tues- day after the Torch agreed to publish a supplement with let- ters from the administration an- swering the article. The six students on the edi- torial board were notified of their suspension yesterday morning in a memo from Pitchell, Judy Halprin, editor-in-chief of the Torch, said in a phone call to The Daily. The suspension is temporary until the investigating committee of the Student Activities Board turns in its final report on the situation. The story which set off the controversy was a bulletin on page three of the Torch which stated that Pitchell had been unofficially fired. The story added that the presi- dent's administrative power had been removed and given to the Ad- ministrative Council which is a board composed of the deans of the university and five other ad- ministrators. The reason behind the action of the Board of Trus- tees was that Pitchell had failed to bring funds to the university which is $700,000 in debt. Verifies Report Subsequently Pitchell has ver- ified to Chicago news media that the university is in debt and that his power had been removed, John Douard said. On the orders of the Adminis- The Torch has filed a protest trative Council the papers were with the Administrative Council confiscated Saturday afternoon. on the suspension. The newspaper In -a series of meetings over the feels that the president's action next five days with the Torch was an arbitrary one which did editors, thehadministration agreed not go through proper channels to return the papers if the Torch as the Torch is only responsible to would publish a supplement in- the SAB and can only be punish- cluding the statements of Presi- ed by them. dent Pitchell, Dean Ralph Weial, "If the original objection to the chairman of the Administrative story was that it brought unfav- Council, and Lyle Spencer, chair- orable publicity to the Univer- man of the Board of Trustees. sity then we feel that the con- fiscation of the papers by the Ad- Thespementtdburnh edinon mnistrative Council and the sus- odyTorch had added an italicized in-peso by President Pitchell sert over the letters that explain- brought the most unfavorable ed biefy wat ad hppeed.Thepublicity to the university which ed briefly what had happened. The has a life-long tradition of aca- papers were released on Tues- demic freedom," Miss Halprin day with the stipulation that the said. objectionable insert be replaced The United States Student Press by one written by the adminis- ThUntdSaeSuetPrs tration. Association has protested Pitch, ell's action and asked for a rein- Publish Explanation statement of the editors. In place of the page three in- sert the Torch published a four page supplement which explained u in detail what has happened and which included the letters of the administration. Freedom Fast Tuesday night the editorial board went before the Student President Lyndon B. Johnson Activities Board to explain their has given his endorsement to the actions. An inevstigating commit- Thanksgiving Fast for Freedom, tee of three students and three which students on over 150 Amer- faculty members was set up to ican college campuses will par- investigate the.situation. ticipate in today. Miss Halprin went before a The fast, which is sponsored closed-session of the committee by the United States National Stu- yesterday afternoon and refused dent Association, the Northern. to reveal the sources of her story. Student Movement, and the Unit- Under the canons of journalism ed States Youth Council, is de- at Roosevelt, the newspaper is not signed to raise money to aid un- required to reveal its sources un- der-privileged Negroes in the less it is before a closed session South. of the council. In campuses participating, stu- Moral Responsibility dents with pre-paid meal contracts "We are stressing that we have will refrain from one meal today, a responsibility to a higher ethi- the money thus saved being used cal code than the Roosevelt code," to buy food for impoverished Ne- Miss Halprin stated. gro families in Mississippi. versity architect, said. Over 40 people operated the sta- tions from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The license numbers of every car en- tering and leaving the station areas were taken, Telfer explain- ed. In previous surveys, mechani- cal counters made the amount of traffic volume in certain areasj available. However, the new man- ual method used yesterday releas- ed more valuable information, he added. The data includes points where cars entered areas, how long they stayed, where and for how long they parked, the volume of vew hicles in lots and how they left the area, Telfer explained. Traffic Count A new data sheet was used every 15 minutes to record the flow of traffic and no car could get through an area without first passing a station. With nearly 100 sheets of data collected, he said that it would take a while be- fore they could all be processed. The city cooperated in the traf- fic check and supplied four su- pervisors. The piolice also control- led traffic and blocked off the station areas, Telfer added. The actual purpose of the sur- vey and results that may follow are unknown, he said. The data is important because the University must know the volume of traffic flow before working at all on the north side of campus. However, there are no present plans to change streets or to control traf- fic volume, Telfer emphasized. Central Campus Plan The material will be used in accord with the central campus study on traffic developments and will follow up in more detail the report on traffic in the Ann Ar- bor area by Harold Bartholo- mew and Associates, Telfer said. The whole survey is a positive approach to find out what traffic demands exist at the University, and any other problems that might exist in this area. However, plans for developing or changing traffic patterns cannot be determined yet, Telfer concluded. The data will be used in devel- oping efficient pedestrian and ve- hicle traffic plans for the Mall and State Street areas. Steps taken against the con- gested traffic conditions in the campus area eventually may in- clude closing several streets near campus. UNIVERSITY PLANNER John D. Telfer checks volume of cam- pus traffic. Pentagon Head To Enumerate Base Closings WASHINGTON (MP-The Pen- tagon will disclose today 95 more military bases-some small and some quite large-which will be closed down. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara told a news conference yesterday the bases-Army and Air Force as well as Navy ship- yards-will be closed gradually over a period of years. McNamara said they can all be eliminated "without in any way reducing our military strength or combat readiness." McNamara provided figures, however, which indicate the clos- ings will include some of the larg- est bases shut down so far. He estimated the total savings at $500 million a year and said this would bring the figure for all bases closed since 1961 to over $1 billion saved annually. The secretary said 63,000 job po- sitions, both military and civil- ian, will be wiped out by the new closings. The defense chief prom- ised to guarantee a job oppor- tunity for every career employe whose job is eliminated and to protect individual workrs affect- ed. Scle Pol cy Asks Equalized Pay Levels For Third Trimester Term Request Rests upon Regental Definition Of 'Academic Year' Eight Months Long By ROBERT HIPPLER The University must revise its thinking on faculty pay scales if it is to treat its faculty fairly under the trimester system, a faculty subcommittee of the University Senate has declared. The Subcommittee on Economic Status of the Faculty has recommended in a report that professors working half the coming spring-summer trimester term be paid the same amount they would be paid for working half of a fall or wzinter term. The administration, in its latest report on faculty salaries- dated June 29-recommended that faculty working half the summer term be paid about 88 per cent of the amount they would be paid for half a fall or winter term. r* ~; The spring-summer faculty pay term will be composed of twort: overly apinghalves, one extending from May 23 through July 22x the other extending from June 21 to August 20. Most professors plan to work no more than one two-month period. Under the faculty proposal, a professor making a total of $9000 a}. during the fall and winter terms y would receive $2,250 for his work during half the spring-summer term. Under the administration proposal, he would receive $2000 during the same period-$250 less The University is now consider- ing the faculty recommendations and is revising its own recommen dations, but the administrators'>h< basic premises are likely to re- main the same, Associate Dean ASSOCIATE DEAN LEABO Dick Leabo of the business ad- ministration school and chairman of the committee commented in a Panhel Downs preface to the report. The key difference betweenIN w P a fo administration and faculty pro- posals is this: the administration " argues that fall-winter faculty pay Sp ing R should be spread, as it has been in the past, over nine months. By PHYLLIS KOCH The faculty argues that since tri- mester schedules have squeezed Panhellenic Presidents' Council vacation time out of the fall- yesterday rejected another pro- winter terms, the pay - while re- posal for open mixers inspring maining the same-should be rush. I spread over only eight months. The proposal was a modifie- Each group says that faculty tion of the original plan for un- working two months during the structured mixers which was de- summer should receive two full feated by Panhel last week. months' fall-winter pay. But The compromise measure reject- fall-winter pay is higher under ed yesterday would have follow- the faculty proposal. hed the original proposal, with the Traditionally, there has been addition of a provision for en- an assumption of a one-month forced attendace at all houses. vacation period during the aca- a eay llhs demic year," the committee said. Delay Plans But "as a result of the compress- Panhel decided to delay con- ed trimester calendar, terms have sideration of a modified mixer been compressed somewhat by the policy until next semester when curtailment of Christmas, Easter plans for fall rush would be dis- and between semester recesses." cussed. Thus, professors should be paid The time factor was expressed during the "academic year" of the by sorority presidents as the ma- fall and winter terms for eight jor objection to the proposal. months' work. To back up this Many of the presidents said they point, the faculty points to the felt pressured with only three Regents' bylaws, Chapter V, SEec. weeks left in the semester to work 5.01, par. (7), which defines the out a new system. "academic year" as a period ex- In other action, Panhel discuss- tending "from one week before ed and planned exchange activi- classes begin until commence- ties with Assembly House Coun- ment." Under the trimester, this cil. Exchange dinners and service is an eight-month period. It fol- projects involving women in sor- lows, the faculty report asserts, orities and dormitories are plan- that a. fac1tyv member working ned for the near futunre. i r r i. Summer Placement Service Grows with Trimester By BARBARA SEYFRIED The Bureau of Appointment's Summer Placement Service is accommodating itself to the problems caused by trimester. The bureau is considering expansion to a year-round place- ment service to accommodate students who will want jobs during the winter and spring semesters. It also is informing employers of the University's new aca- demic calender. Under the trimester schedule University students leave school earlier and are expected back earlier than students in mnc i tha ~wnthr nlp P-,nd uivmersites. mniovers have I have talked to many company recruiters about it-they will probably set up programs to hire students during the winter and spring semesters," Ardis predicted. "There has been both positive and negative feedback on the changed summer schedule from the employers who hire students," Ardis said. Employment Prospects He claimed, "The fact that students are available for a third of the year instead of just a few weeks in the summer makes them more attractive employment prospects in business and L