Student Affairs: Progress of Lewis, Prospects for Cutler By LAURENCE KIRSHBAUM and GAIL BLUMBERG After ten years in the post he calls "a great burden and yet a great source of satisfaction and joy," James A. Lewis is stepping down this week as the University's first vice-president for student affairs. To his successor, Prof. Richard Cutler of the psychology department, Lewis leaves a heritage of controversy and progress in the guidance of student affairs. Since his appointment in 1954 "to coordinate and develop nonacademic aspects of student life," he has played what is described as a conflicting role: the friend and disciplinarian of students. Lewis, who is returning to teaching in the education school, yesterday took a brief look at his 10 years in the Office of Student Affairs, pointing "to the progress I feel we have made." Summed up in two phrases, Lewis describes this progress as the "development of functional management of student affairs" and the "liberalization of student regulations." Functionalization The concept of administering student affairs along functional rather than sexual lines was expressed in a 1962 faculty-student- administration report presenting recommendations for the re- structuring of the OSA. The committee's report, named for its chairman Prof. John W. Reed of the law school, called for the abolition of the Dean of Men and Dean of Women system, the sexual division, and a regrouping of student concerns under specific areas such as housing, financial aids and student organizations. In August of 1962, the -Offices of Dean of Women and Dean of Men were officially abandoned, and the OSA restructured along functional lines. Lewis was given complete charge of student affairs. Three functional directorships-housing, financial aids and student organizations-discipline-were created to help him. In addition, four assistants were assigned to Lewis for counselling services and special projects. The functional set-up was a cue for other organizations to become co-educational. In ,the same year, the Women's judiciary was integrated with Joint Judiciary Council. This became the official student judiciary for cases involving either sex. In 1963, co-educational housing made its debut in Mary Markley Hall and South Quadrangle. Currently, the Union and League are pondering a proposal to merge their student organiza- tions into one student activities center. Liberalization The liberalization in student policies, which has also come mainly in the latter half of the Lewis administration, began in the year of his inauguration, 1954. The Regents, for the first time in history here, sanctioned a student government. SGC was designated to replace the existing Student Legislature and a student-faculty student affairs com- mittee which had not been recognized by the Regents. For the first time, student control over student affairs was officially defined. With OSA encouragement, students quickly moved into new fields. Lewis noted some of the efforts yesterday. The move toward ending discrimination in mercantile and student organizations was launched jointly by the OSA and SGC committees. "I have to give students a great deal of the credit for a careful approach in trying to make themselves part of the solution rather than part of the problem, Lewis says.. The fight against discrimination has had its ups and downs. In 1958, SGC voted to throw a sorority off campus for violation of a 1949 rule that no group could be recognized by SGC if its membership selection was based on race, color or religion. A faculty-administrator review board overturned the SGC decision, but by 1959 the Regents had adopted a stronger antidiscrimination bylaw. It pledged to work for the elimination of discrimination in University-recognized organizations. Student Regulations In the area of student regulations, the OSA has continually liberalized and is coming closer to the possible abolishment of a dual standard for men and women. In revamping the campus judiciary system, "we achieved a more legalistic definition of student judiciaries," Lewis says. The new joint judiciary council constitution adopted in 1963 provided due process rights and clear paths of appeals for students, clearing the confusion over who should hear cases and prescribe penalties. Lewis, who does not want to bind his successor, declines to gaze into the future at the prospects facing Cutler. Other OSA officials, however, pose a number of problems left for the Cutler administration to untangle. Among them: * University Housing. Moving full circle in student housing philosophy, the University has discarded its 19th ,century attitude, typified by University President Henry Phillip Tappan (1852-63) who abolished student dormitories. In the 1930's it evolved the Michigan House Plan based on the premise that residence halls "should contribute to education in the broadest sense of the term." But housing officials feel that the fulfillment of this ideal is yet to come, a failure which is currently compounded by over- crowding. Some 3600 new housing units will be constructed by 1968. While preliminary plans for the units, including the experimental residential college, indicate a greater concern for the relationship between living environment and education, some officials claim financial expediency continues to fuel a "barrack living philosophy." * Off-Ccampus Housing. In what is termed a "recent phe- nomenon" an increasing student demand for independence complicated by the enrollment surge has created a large market for non-University housing. One housing official observes that the ,growing number of students in substandard dwellings raises the issue of whether the University's loose off-campus supervision should be tightened. * Student Activities. Lewis terms the concept of a Student Government Council as "excellent,". but admits "it is a long way from perfect." Many student and administrative quarters are much harsher on the 18-man representative body of students which replaced a faculty-student Committee on Student Affairs in 1955. Last spring, SGC set up a student-faculty-administration committee to evaluate the Council. It has moved beyond its mandate and taken up the broader question, what authority should students have? Administrators say they would rather see SGC exercise the authority it already possesses. Towards that end, they want to see the OSA take over more of the administrative work bogging down the Council and leave SGC to formulate general policy in its major area of concern, the controlling of student groups. " Institutional Schizophrenia. This term used in the Reed Report, referred to the :University's inability to bring extra- curricular actions in line with academic goals. The problem still persists, officials say, although they doubt that any one "policy" can clarify these relationships. Since the Reed Report, the i'mplementation of a trimester schedule has increased pressures on student activities and there is talk of letting leaders take reduced academic loads, then make up the credit later. * Miscellaneous. An international student body which isn't integrated into the student life; a counselling system which isn't keeping pace with the student surge; a need to delineate respon- sibilities in the OSA even more precisely. These are some of the other open-ended issues which the office will have to come to grips with, its staff observes. CURRICULUM IN THE RESIDENCE COLLEGE? See Editorial Page Seventy-Four Years of Editorial Freedom Iaiti COLD Hig4--27 Lowx-20 Snow expected towards evening VOL. LXXV, No.'77 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1964 SEVEN CENTS SIX PAGES ALUMNI REQUEST: IFC Postpones Trigon Hearing 'aigon Saysl 5 Russia Cambodia - -,USSIR i By DONALD FLIPPO The Interfraternity C o u n c i 1 executive committee last night postponed the hearing with Trigon f r a t e r n i t y on discrimination charges from December 7 until January 12. However, it did es- tablish the general procedures to be used in the hearing, pending formal approval next Tuesday. Executive Vice-President Steven Idema, '65, gave two reasons for the postponement. First, the need for some clarification of Student Government Council by-laws con- cerning the IFC executive com- mittee's access to confidential membership statements of fra- ternities. The SGC did not spe- cifically delegate the authority to examine these records to the executive committee, Idema said. The committee feels that this power is implied, but cannot pro- ceed with the hearing until SGC CT Construct Medical Unit Construction of the $9.4 million addition to the Medical Science Building will start this spring,'Dr. Alexander Barry of the Medical School said yesterday. Appropria- tions for the building will be avail- able by then he said. "We have been assurred by the Legislature that there will be an appropriation to the University specifically to finance this build- ing." It was understood by other Medical School officials when they raised the freshman enrollment to 200 in 1960 that they would receive the funds for the building. However, they have expressed dissatisfaction with the slow pro- gress of obtaining funds for the building. They have held that such needed expansion must be completed before money can be diverted to set up a third medical school. "The completion of the building will allow all the Medical School departments to move into the Medical Center and leave the East Medical Bldg. available for other University uses by late 1967," Barry said. "It will also provide the departments with more mod- ern quarters." SGC To Open Petitioning for New Member S t u d e n t Government Council will not meet tonight as previously scheduled. However, interview forms are now available for the Student Government Council seat vacated by the resignation of Carl J. Cohen, '66. The forms, available in Rm. 15 S9 EAl mst he turned in by makes a formal clarification, he said. Second, the Trigon alumni re- quested a postponement on the basis that they did not receive formal notification of the date set for the hearing. They stated that although the chapter president had been contacted, they received no formal notification and feel that they cannot be prepared in time. Willing David Miller, '65, chairman of the IFC membership committee, said that it did not appear that the alumni were trying to avoid the hearing or delay it, but that they were willing to accept any date the executive committee. might set if they were given suf- ficient formal notification of the date. Idema said that he had been in contact with Trigon and had believed that the IFC was dealing with the undergraduate fraternity. In all future communication with Trigon the alumni will also be given formal announcement of pertinent information, Idema said. Outline The general outline of the new procedures is divided into four phases. First, the IFC member- ship committee will present an indictment containing the charges and explaining why the commit- tee decided that these charges were violations of IFC by-laws. Then Trigon can present its defense and explain why it thinks that these charges are not viola- tions of the by-laws. Miller said that Trigon will con- cern itself with the intent of the by-laws because the basic facts have already been agreed upon by Trigon's president. Questioning The third phase consists of questioning by the IFC executive committee of Trigon and the membership committee. IFC Presi- dent Lawrence Lossing, '65, said that there should be a one-way flow of information-"from the membership committee and Trigon to us, the executive committee. We should not argue the case with either party." The last phase contains two closing statements. The first will be presented by, the membership committee and will be concerned with re-establishing the basic facts in the case. The second statement will come from Trigon, and will presumably summarize its case and refute the committee's closing statements. Deliberation! Helps Reds SAIGON (P-Cambodian fron- tier forces have joined the Com- munist Viet Cong again in attacks on South Vietnamese troops, the defense ministry charged yester-?U day. A The shooting developed in Chau A r cans Doc province, 110 miles west of Saigon, a week in advance of the scheduled opening of U.S.-Cam- By The Associated Pr pone Temporarily vShowdown ur-- Protest Congo Crisis Action ~Crisis Delay Opens'Way ess make requests to Belgium and the During deliberation the execu- bodian talks in New Delhi about tive committee will be able to re- frontier hostilities. call either party for clarification According to the defense min- or further questioning. These gen- istry Communist guerrillas sup- eral procedures are not to bind ported by 100 Cambodian soldiers us so that we are unable to exert hit a Vietnamese patrol moving some flexibility, Idema said.-a about 100 yards from the border. There will also be a tape re- Mortar fire from the Cambodian cording made, available for im- side killed three of the Vietnamese mediate reference, and will finally and wounded one. The guerrillas become the exclusive property of and the Cambodians withdrew the membership committee, Idema when Vietnamese reinforcements said. arrived 20 minutes later. Idema explained the rights of Boat Attack Trigon if it decided to appeal the In the same area, four Cambo- case. The proceedings could come dian patrol boats moved up a before the Fraternity Presidents' canal and blasted a Vietnamese Assembly, which has the power to outpost, killing one of its garrison. review decisions of the executive At the same time Red China, committee, only if no new facts aware that President Lyndon B. or arguments are entered into the Johnson was discussing war policy appeal. Lossing said that there with U.S. Ambassador Maxwell D. were no other student organiza- Taylor and key advisers in Wash- tions on campus that could review ington, warned it would fight in the executive committee's decision the event of "U.S. imperialist concerning IVC by-laws. aggression" against Communist Registered North Viet Nam. The intent of Trigon to appeal Elsewhere, the Viet Cong de- to the FPA would have to be reg- stroyed two American aircraft istered with the IFC president Tuesday. within ten days after the decision Shot Down is delivered, he said. An appeal U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Kemp P. would be accepted by the execu- Roedema parachuted to safety tive committee at any time in the when Communist groundfire shot future provided that there was down the AlE single engine fight- new information pertinent to the er he had flown on a strafing case. mission 33 miles northeast of Sai- The official opinion of the com- gon. Helicopters rescued him. The mittee is to be written by three Vietnamese observer with Roe- members: the executive vice presi- dema is believed to have gone dent, the highest ranking senior down with the plane. officer who had voted with the A U.S. Army helicopter was also prevailing decision and an ap- lost on an operation 30 miles north pointee of the executive vice-pres- of Saigon. Guerrilla gunners hit ident who also voted with the pre- the helicopter's rocket pod, setting vailing decision. off a series of explosions. United States that all foreign The Congo situation continued troops and mercenaries be pulled to bobble on several fronts yes- out of the Congo. terday as the parties involvedouofteCn. contemplated their next moves in The ambassadors of Algeria, the crisis spurred last week by Kenya and the Sudan met with the landing of Belgian paratroop- Thant and reliable sources said ers in rebel-held Stanleyville. they had asked, Thant's coopera- At the United Nations the Afri- tion at the request of the African can group of 33 nations asked groupetter e t nr TT Thn tLette creiary-ueue'ai U o lLG Intensify Loan Collection Plan University accountants h a v e intensified their collection pro- cedures for some student loans, Mrs. Mary J. Rutledge of the Uni- versity accounting office said yes- terday. This is in accordance with a report from the federal govern- ment issued in mid-November. The report stated that repayments of loans under the National Defense Education Act were lagging some- what behind. Former students who are behind in repayments of their loans will be sent letters informing them of the delinquency, Mrs. Rutledge said. She noted that the loans represent the same legal obliga- tion to the student as a bank loan might. This collection problem has burst suddenly on the nation's colleges. In November, 1962, there were 9,394 loans due and not col- lected. Six months later, the num- ber of due and uncollected loans has risen to 22,007. At least 14 African nations were reported yesterday to have signed a letter asking for a meeting of the UN Security Council on for- eign intervention in the Congo. Belgium has . announced the paratroopers it sent into the Con- go have been withdrawn. Congo- lese army forces, however, are spearheaded by several hundred white mercenaries, including Bel- gians. Meanwhile, Congolese rebels are trying to turn the Sudan into a major logistic and operational base in their fight against the Leopoldville government. Sudan The new Sudanese regime of Prime Minister Sir El Khatim El Khalifa is weighing a rebel de- mand for arms, amminition, vol- unteers and supplies for the rebel cause. Western diplomats in the capi- tal of this giant, parched East African nation said yesterday they! believe there are strong chances the demand will be granted. Since toppling the military dic- tatorship of President Ibrahim Abboud last month, the present revolutionary leaders have been turning left. Rebel emissaries have -crossed the border into Sudan from the SECRETARY-GENERAL THANT war-swept jungles of the north- eastern Congo. According to reports received here, a number of wounded rebels are being treated in the southern Sudanese outpost of Juba, where some sort of rebel military center has been set up. Sudanese authorities so far are denying reports of the presence in this country of rebel President Christophe Gbenye and his key -lieutenants. Sources close to the government claim Gbenye is "fighting in the Congo." Stiffening , However, several lesser emis- saries passed through this Su- danese capital in 'the past 48 hours. They issued statements in- dicating their fight against Ts- hombe's troops was stiffening. According to the latest rebel statement published in Khartoum, rebel "simbas" (lions) have recov- ered Stanleyville radio and the Sabena airline guesthouse across the street from the airport build- ing. These reports are confirmed by Leopoldville. The government con- cedes its forces hold only the air- port in Stanleyville. In addition, fears are felt for the safey of the base at Kindu, 250 miles south of Stanleyville, kickoff point for the main drive on Stanleyville. Creating a solid rebel base in southern Sudan is hampered by a raging guerrilla war in that part of the country. In Brussels Belgian paratroop- ers who dropped on Stanleyville came home to a mighty welcome yesterday just as a fresh accusa- tion cropped up that the United States had cut short the rescue mission. Criticism For Solution11 Plan Big Four'Talks To Resolve Question Of Unpaid Back Dues UNITED NATIONS (A') - The United Nations announced yester- day that agreement had been reached on a formula to avoid a U.S.-Soviet showdown in the Gen- eral Assembly on peace-keeping assessments. The announcement came a few minutes after the 112-nation as- sembly had been scheduled to open its 19th session. It was agreed that the assembly would transact only noncontrover- sial business at the initial meet- ing. This would include the elec- tion of a new president and admit three new members. This would conclude the business of the day. Negotiations The agreement paved the way for more U.S.-Soviet negotiations on basic issues involved in the UN financial crisis. The next round will take place today. when U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk meets again with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Representing the big four pow- ers in the talks with UN Secretary General U Thant in his 38th floor suite were U.S. Ambassador Adlei E. Stevenson, Soviet Ambassador Nikolai T. Fedorenko, British min- ister of the state Lord CaradQn and French Ambassador Roger Seydoux. They staved off a U.S.-Soviet confrontation over' application of Article 19 of the UN charter which says that any country two years in arrears on its assessments shall lose its assembly shall lose its assembly vote. Two Years The Soviet Union and six other Communist countries are two years behind on peacekeeping as- sessments, and the United States took the position that if a situa- tion arose demanding a vote the article must be applied. This evoked a threat from the Soviet Union to walk out of the assembly if it was deprived-",f its vote. Both the Soviet Union and France, which will be two years behind on Jan. 1, contend that peacekeeping assessments were il- legal because they were approved by the assembly instead of the Security Council. Luncheon Rusk and Gromyko will have a luncheon meeting at the head- quarters of the Soviet Mission to +h T-i-4Toinna!lnnr~ 10 . . . . . . ...... . I I