SEASON'S GREETINGS i i 14C 1Mw 43UU A6F :43 att]q GOOD LUCK ON EXAMS Seventy-Four Years of Editorial Freedom VOL LXXV, No. 85 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1964 SEVEN CENTS TWELVE PAGES Federal Commissioner Releases 19 Suspects In Civil Ri hts Murder THE MAN ON THE LEFT, Roy Wilkins, reacted with "deep shock" yesterday as charges against the man on the right, Lawrence Rainey, were dismissed. Wilkins, who is the executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People condemned a U.S. Commissioner's release of Rainey, a sheriff, along with 18 other men charged with slaying three civil rights workers. $750,000 REQUEST: 'U'o Delay fund Bid For New .LSA Building By LEONARD PRATT The University probably will postpone its ; request for $750,000 in feeral funds until later this spring, according to Richard Schwarz, University planning analyst. Previous plans had called for submission of the application by Dec. 1. Schwartz said that the lengthy application procedures required by the state's Higher Education Facilities Commission, whose ap- * proval is necessary for granting of the funds, will make it nearly im- Ai- possible t meet this deadline. Schwarz also confirmed that the funds are being requested to begin RWs Bconstruction of a 135,000 square sh f o o t combined undergraduate classroom, library and office The Frate ty Presidents' Asso- building on the lot north of Hill the Fraternit predtAs- Aud. Total cost of this building ciation last night approved three has been estimated at $4 million. which were submitted by the In- If this grant is approved for the terfraternity Council rush com- maximum amount, the state and mitte. federal governments will each con- Ttee. . . tribute $750,000 toward the cost The group of fraternity presi- °f the building-enough to begin dents and IFC executive officers planning and early construction defeated a fourth proposal, n- stages. itiated at the meeting, which The money is being provided would have removed current bid- to the state under the federal ding restrictions. Higher Education Facilities Act. Laying the ground rules for The act has four "titles" or ad- their spring rush, the FPA ac- ministrative divisions; the Uni- cepted these three proposals which versity is making this application will be incorporated into the IFC under Title I of the act, that sec- bylaws: tion dealing with undergraduate -They restricted the first Sun- facilities. $10.2 million has been day and Monday of rush to non- allocated to Michigan under Title invitation "open houses," replac- I, of which some $7.9 million is ing the current rule which per- reserved to the public colleges and mits smokers to be conducted on universities. these dates whereby houses may By law, each state participating invite rushees to return; in Title I of the plan is required -They required each fraternity to appoint a state commission to to provide three rush counselors, determine the relative priorities unless special exemption is grant- of projects. ed, instead of the current one counselor so that the counselor- Re ents To 111( rushee ratio may be reduced; and -They made it mandatory that Monthly Meeting pledge registration cards be sub- mitted one week after the pledge The Regents will hold their signs up with the fraternity, thus monthly meeting at 2 p.m. next speeding up statistical complica- Friday in the Regents room of the tions of the rush. Administration Bldg. FBI Upset By Surprise Dismissals Justice Department Taking Evidence To Federal Grand Jury MERIDIAN, Miss. (')-A U.S. Commissioner dismissed charges yesterday against 19 white men arrested last week in connection with the midsummer slaying of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County. Surprised by an abrupt turn in a preliminary hearing for 19 of the 21 men, the Justice Depart- ment announced it would take its case directly to a federal grand Jury as soon as possible. Miss Esther Carter, the Federal Commissioner, blocked govern- ment efforts to give testimony about an alleged confession from one of the men the FBI charges with helping to conceive and carry out a Klan-inspired plot to murder the trio. Indirect Implication FBI agent Henry Rask of At- lanta was permitted only to testify that he had obtained "a signed confession" from Horace Barnette, who was charged in a federal com- plaint with conspiring to violate the civil rights of two white New Yorkers and a Meridian Negro. Last Issue With this issue The Daily completes. its publication for this term. Next term's Daily will begin with two free pre- view editions Jan. 7 and 8; the first regular issue will be out Jan. 9. "We will simply not produce any more evidence," said Robert Owen, a Justice Department attorney, after Miss Carter's ruling. The commissioner then dismiss- ed the charges and ordered the bonds-which ranged from $3500 to $5000-refunded. The 19 men walked out free men just six days after their arrests. They included Neshoba County Sheriff Lawrence Rainey and his deputy Cecil Price. Joint Statement In a joint statement, the 14 defense attorneys claimed the commissioner's ruling showed in effect their clients were innocent. The statement charged that the government is "playing politics with the lives of these people." The statement claimed Negro leader Dr. Martin Luther King had put "pressure" on President Johnson and FBI crief J. Edgar Hoover to get arrests. Justice Department attorneys said they would put their evidence before a federal grand jury "as promptly as possible." It will be up to U.S. Dist. Judge Harold Cox at Jackson to convene a grand jury. In New York, Roy Wilkins, ex- ecutive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, expressed shock over dismissal of the charges. Russians Criticize Planning MOSCOW ()-Deputies of the Supreme Soviet, Russia's parlia- ment, unleashed a cascade of cri- ticism yesterday, blaming poor living conditions on bad economic planning. Attacks on bureaucratic bung- ling and local problems were the most severe heard here in several Speakers followed the line hand- ed down yesterday by Premier Alexei I. Kosygin in his address opening the session and setting its tone. Consumer Goods In this speech, Kosygin had continued the Khrushchev em- phasis on providing more and better consumer goods and a ris- ing standard of living. He promised economic liberalism and less rigid centralized plan- ning, greater material incentives for good work and more things like refrigerators and television sets for the masses. Deputies made no further corn- ment on Kosygin's announced plan to cut Soviet military spend- ing next year by 500 million rubles ($555 million). Theynseem- ed more interested in his pledge to improve living conditions. Virtually all criticized local con- ditions and expressed confidence that next year's budget would imi- prove living standards. Criticize Planning N. N. Kachalov, a deputy pre- mier of the Russian Federation, largest of the Soviet republics, criticized centralized planning systems. He cited a plant that was supposed to be built by the middle of next year but supplies to build the plant, he said, will not arrive until the middle of next year. He also criticized the 1965 bud- get. The new budget will provide for sharp increases in housing appro- priations. It calls for wage in- creases,-more consumer goods of better quality and other steps to improve living standards. Wrangling over proposals to scrap Khrushchev's controversial 1957 economic reforms also broke out. Georgy I. Popov, First Secretary of the Leningrad Party Organiza- tion, staunchly opposed a pro- Don't Forget If you're still living by a University calendar which was mailed out last year, you're probably expecting to stay away from Ann Arbor until the middle of January. Don't try it. That calendar is wrong. Since it was distributed, the Regents have revised the calendar in order to implement trimester plans. Registration now begins on Monday, Jan. 4; classes start Thursday, Jan. 7. A full calendar for the com- ing term, along with exam and library hours, this term's exam schedule and a partial regis- tration schedule for next term, can be found inside this morn- ing's Daily. posal to put heavy industrial plants back under the direction of central administrative organs. Khrushchev in 1957 wrecked the system of administration by in- dustrial industries he inherited from Stalin's day despite vigorous opposition. He split the country into terri- torial economic regions. -Daily-Jerry Stoetzer FREEDOM SPEECH MOVEMENT LEADER MARIO SAVIO (standing) told a throng on the Diag yesterday that Berkeley students struggled to show that "the First Amendment doesn't limit freedom of speech-it limits the limits you can impose on that freedom." Later, Savio and Steve Weissman (right photo) blasted California President Clark Kerr's idea of a "Multiversity," pointing out how it fomented student action there. Protestors Blast Berkeley Officials -Daily-Thomas R. Copi In Diag Speech Savio Criticizes Kerr's Concept of Education Factory By LAURENCE KIRSHBAUM The leaders of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement yesterday asked Ann Arbor support for their fight "to wrangle first amendment freedoms from an unresponsive bureaucracy." In a series of speeches before 2000 students thronged on the Diag, Mario Savio, Steve Weissman, Suzanne Goldberg and Bettina Ape- theker of the FSM asked for financial and "warm body" support for their protest. It began nearly three months ago when the Berkeley administration invoked an old but dormant restriction against political activity on the campus. The students, assembled on the Diag to witness the first of a series of college campus appearances, provided nearly $150 In Informal Talk Later, Weissman Condemns 'Multiversity,' Sees Reform By KENNETH WINTER Managing Editor What now for Berkeley-and Ann Arbor? Wearing casually the apparent success of their recent protest against political regulations on the University of California's Berkeley campus, the leaders of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement yesterday looked to the future. In an informal discussion at the Michigan Union, they outlined their plans for action on broader issues and urged local students to press for a more "human" Univer- 'U' Issuing No Reprisal The University plans no dis- ciplinary action against the stu- dents who brought Free Speech Movement leaders here yesterday for unauthorized appearances on the Diag and in the Michigan Union. "Our.attitude is that they came, they spoke and they left, and that's the end of it," Vice- President for Student Affairs Richard L. Cutler said last night. Under University regulations, all campus events are to be sponsored by recognized student organiza- tions and calendared in advance. Yesterday's appearances were not calendared, and an official said yesterday afternoon that so far as he knew "no local organization officially sponsored them." Many of the students who ar- ranged the appearance are mem- bers of Voice Political Party, but the event was not an official Voice function. Savio was en rmute to New York for a nationwide tele- vision appearance. While his trip there was financed by the tele- vision network, his side trip here was paid for by Students for a Democratic Society, of which Voice is the local affiliate. Despite reports that over 100 plainclothesmen from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other agencies were among the Diag crowd, Cutler said the University had not called in, and was un- aware of the presence of, any out- side authorities. Detroit FBI head- quarters denied having any agents here. in a hat which Miss Apetheker passed around. It was Weissman who appealed for students here to demonstrate and urge Univer- sity President Harlan Hatcher to support the FSM cause. The specific demonstration he advocated would come just before the California Regents, governing body of Berkeley, meet to re- solve the controversy on Dec. 18. They will be viewing a proposal submitted by the institution's fac- ulty senate which supports student demands, including the right to .advocate illegal activities on cam- pus without fear of administra- tive retribution. "Our struggle has been to con- vince (California President) Clark Kerr that the First Amendment doesn't limit freedom of speech- it limits the limits you can im- pose on that freedom," Savio blasted Kerr for being a "political compromiser" and "la- bor-management negotiator" in the student dispute. "He is hardly an intellectual," Savio said, "but he is well-skilled in the techniques of balancing off the Regents against the state leg- islature, the faculty against the students and the students against themselves." Savio also accused Kerr of be-, ing the "ideologist of a new form of tyranny-the 'multiversity'." This concept takes a factory view of education, Savio said. It holds that the institution is a knowl- edge factory which has a presi- dent (Kerr), a board of direc- tors (regents), employes (faculty) and raw materials (undergradu- ates) to be made into a product., What has developed in an across the board service factory for Cali- fornia industry, "but some of us- like me-have no place,",he ob- served. sity here. The discussion followed the noon speeches on the Diag. On either campus, they argued, independent student groups must get 'together with concerned fac- ulty members to discuss what is wrong with their university and to draft specific proposals to correct the defects. In seeking broad uni- versity refornis, protests such as Berkeley's should not be the first step, FSM leader Mario Savio said. "We need dialogue and commit- tee meetings as much as the ad- ministration does. If the admin- istration refuses to endorse re- sponsible proposals, then we can use demonstrations and civil dis- obedience. But I don't think we'd be wise to use .them now," Savio said. But when there is a specific is- sue needing protest, that action must be. bold and decisive, the organizer of several massive sit- ins, pickets and rallies continued. "We were told that our dem- onstrations would alienate faculty members and people in the 'lib- eral community.' It Just wasn't the case.a Decisive action is so rare in our society that whenever we took some decisive action we gal- vanized the faculty," Savio assert- ed. He claimed students' action turned the faculty's passive intel- lectual sympathy for the "free speech" position into a "real emo- tional commitment." Former University student Steve Weissman, head of the new Grad- uate Coordinating Committee, which organized a teaching as- sistants' strike at Berkeley, il- lustrated this point by recalling an incident which occurred when 1100 students sat in at the Berke- ley administration building. "The dean of the graduate school walked out of his office, and there was his chief research assistant lying on the floor. There was someone for whom the dean See FSM, Page 9 SAL Shifts Focal Point By MERLE JACOB The Student Action League hay shifted its major emphasis from pressuring the University on stu- dent problems here to working on state-wide educational problems by pressuring the state Legisla- ture, Barry Bluestone, chairman of SAL, said yesterday. Since its conception two months ago, SAL has worked on alleged student grievances stemming from low student wages, overcrowded housing, off-campus housing and high living costs. Bluestone explained that SAL has shifted its goals since the ad- ministration has become more willing 'to consider student griev- ances. He cited the University's proposal to raise student wages to $1.15 in 1966 and $1.25 in 1967, and President Harlan Hatcher's appointment of a "blue ribbon" committee to consider off-campus housing. "We feel that many of the uni- versities' problems stem from in- adequate allocations from the state Legislature," he explained. Bluestone said that in talks with President Hatcher, Vice- President for Student Affairs Richard Cutler, and other admin- istrators, the men approved the goal of SAL. The group hopes to have defi- nite plans set by the end of Janu- ary. At the present, members of SAL are working on separate pro- posals of action. A number of the plans now un- der consideration include: -Setting up organizations at all other state universities, or having just Michigan State Uni- versity, Wayne State University, See SAL, Page 9 y<° : <. e^ s;pfarr ': S:? . io tA. $".! . 33.: .. .. .. .. .. G .. .. v. :.a<::.n. n!. .-.. .Y.2 . :'.".5 GYi". , :. < .:2A:::: : _ .. _:: .. :.. . .:._ii:.._d ... t:R:: s.:..! u : :F:.! ..<:.x0.\Wd:G::. u: V.:..:. :..:: 2 ...::vu.:< . o : :: .: :..::u:. :. .: : h.%A J> ^w v. aps u:_wC n vs'°Sn ..w_::::ka.>.. a::F: A:T _2sRS :oR:w' ... <..k vY .. «........5........ >.......<>......... 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Specifically, the state Legislature approved a r operating budget for the University's 1964-65 host of important appointments were made in the University made preparations for its 150th b in 1967, University President Harlan Hatcher r convocation, final steps were taken toward an of the Michigan Union and Women's League a ..... .:....... .......................... ....... .. ..... .......................... .....................I.M1S :................................................................a... ........ ... .... ..... ... ............... ................ ..:..............:................ ......... ...--......7.. ...... w..........r......" Convocation, Mer s reviewing the year The University this year is seeking a $55.7 million operating budget and $14 million for capital outlay for next year. The operating budget request is geared to an expected student enrollment of 30,900. Significantly, both Wayne State and Michigan State universities expansion at the are seeking extra funds from the Legislature to handle increased related to growth enrollment anticipated for the 1965-66 operating year. The University raised its enrollment expectations but has requested no extra funds. record $44 million Meanwhile, the University is joining the other nine state- academic year, a supported Michigan schools in a cooperative effort to submit a the administration, total state education budget to the Legislature in succeeding years. irthday celebration If finalized, the plan will enable these 10 schools to help eliminate evived the student squabbles over state funds and place unified pressure on the activities merger Lansing representatives to heed fund requests. nd a small flurry A 2 - . ger Are Year's dean of the graduate school, following the retirement of Dean Ralph A. Sawyer. Spurr, formerly dean of the natural resources school, had worked part-time with Vice-President for Academic Affairs Roger Heyns since October, 1962. He was responsible for coordinating the. shift to trimester operations. In July, the Regents named Prof. A. Geoffrey Norman of the botany department as the new vice-president for research, a second post left vacant by the retirement of Sawyer. Norman is a nationally known scientist and director of the University's Botanical Gardens. The Regents also voted to make Director of University Relations Michael Radock a full vice-president. In November, the Regents named Prof. Richard L. Cutler of the nvrhnrv denartment a the new vice-nresident for student Sidelights of Kersting, Brown, Inc., a New York firm specializing in university fund-raising activities. Under the direction of the Central Sesquicentennial Committee formed in June, 1963, the 150th-year celebration will take place in four campus-wide celebration periods and conferences, involving alumni, educators, government representatives and guests. In addition, each of the schools and colleges will sponsor their own commemorative activities throughout the year. Convocation Held President Hatcher attempted to increase communication between the administration and students by holding the first student con- vocation since 1920. Meeting with less than 200 students in Rackham Lecture Hall in November, President Hatcher read from a brief prepared text, and then answered questions from students for I