STUDENT LEADERSHIP? See Editorial Page Y Liltr~ga 47E aiti MILD High--50 Low-38 Mostly fair warming tomorrow Seventy-Two Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXIIM, No. 52 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1962 SEVEN CENTS SIX PAGES An Editorial.0. WE BELIEVE that Student Government Council should ad- vocate greater responsibility, assure student rights and seek to participate in University policy formation in both academic and student affairs. We believe that Student Government Council should be an active rather than passive organization and that candidates should have the ability to implement their programs. The only candidate who can meet these principles is Robert Ross. Candidates who share an expanding concept of student government and who should be elected are Gary Gilbar and Michael Kass. OF THOSE who advocate a slower, more cautious approach to issues, one which doubts the competence and maturity of students and shies away from increasing the decision mak- ing power of students, Steven Stockmeyer is clearly the best candidate. Others of this belief who would make adaquate Council members are Russell Epker and Thomas Brown. THE UNITED STATES National Student Association is the best organization best able to present the student per- spective on higher education, to bolster student government and to work for the improvement of the education of univer- sity students. Those who leave the association forfeit access to the democratic apparatus available to make USNSA the great organization it has shown the potential to become. We address those who endorse the ideals or practices of the United States National Student Association and those who are sincere and serious in their attempts to reform it. We urge a strong YES vote in today's referendum. -THE SENIOR EDITORS SGC CAMPAIGN: Violate Quad Regulations In Literature Distribution By EDWARD HERSTEIN Several pieces of campaign literature were passed out within the quadrangles last night in violation of quadrangle regulations. At least three pieces of campaign literature were placed under the doors of residents of West and South Quads. During dinner hours in West Quad, copies of Michigan Union Reports, a sheet published intermittently by the Michigan Union, were distributed. The publica- tion contained an editorial by Union President Robert Finke, '63, op- -posing continued University par- ticipation in the United States CITT National Student Association and an article entitled "Facts About 11~ USNSA." Red( Russians Seeky End Of Base GENEVA 41)-The International Red Cross Committee has decided not to participate at present in any control of ships sailing to Cuba, it was authoritatively learn- ed yesterday. Later at the UN, it was learned that the Soviet Union and Cuba had presented new demands in- cluding abandonment of the Guan- tanamo Naval base. Reliable sources said the com- mittee withdrew from the control project because two of its basic conditions were not met: -The Red Cross intervention, far removed from the committee's traditional tasks, was no longer vitally necessary for the main- tenance of world peace. No Castro Consent -Cuban Premier Fidel Castro failed to give his explicit and un- conditional approval to the scheme. Later, at the UN, Soviet and United States representatives held another long meeting on the Cub- an crisis which Ambassador Adai E. Stevenson described as "con- structive." A United States spokesman said there was a feeling "some slight progress was made." Thesconference, lasting three hours and forty minutes, took place after the Soviet Union and Cuba had presented their new proposals to Acting Secretary-General U Thant. No Confirmation The United States spokesman would not confirm or deny that the new Soviet-Cuban formula was taken up in the meeting with Unit- ed States officials. Stevenson of- fered the comment that the talks "served to identify and clarify the positions of both countries on the unresolved issues.'' These presumably included only United States demands that the Soviet Union withdraw its IL-28 bombers from Cuba. Editors Keep Posts, Council Drops Motion The proposal of the student council of George Washington Un- iversity asking that the Student Publications Committee dismiss two top editors of the student newspaper, the University Hatchet, from their, positions has come to nothing. In a council meeting last week, council president Donald B. Ardell charged the paper with yellow journalism, editorial calumny, scandalous headlines and bad taste in relation to the paper's cover- age of council and homecoming. A motion was passed asking the dismissal of the editors. On Sunday, a special session of the council permitted the charges to be specified, and allowed the editors, Stanley Remsberg and John Day, to reply. Subsequently the council went into executive session and passed a motion stating that 'withdraws its request that the editors be removed at this time." (ross Ref uses To Inspect Ships * * * * * * * Students To Decide On Continued U SNSA Levin Sees Big Turnout In Election Allow Only One Day For Campus Balloting The polls open at 8 a.m. today for the Student Government Coun- cil election. The election will be today only instead of the two-day election of past years. Polls will close at 5 p.m. Elections director Michael Le- yin, '64, said last night that due to fair weather predicted and the USNSA issue he would predict a turnout of 6,000-7,000 students. The 13 candidates running for the seven SGC positions are Charles Barnell, '63; Thomasl Brown, '63BAd; Russell Epker, '64 BAd; Donald Filip, '64E; Gary Gil- bar, '64A&D; Bruce Hopkins, '64; Michael Kass, '65; David Nelson, '64; Regina Rosenfeld. '64; Robert Ross. '63; Steven Stockmneyer, '63; Frank Strother, '64; and Thomas Swaney, '64. Write-In Runner Ron Haskins, '65, was announc- ed as a write-in candidate yester- day by the West Quadrangle Quad- rants. Candidates will be elected under the Hare system with the modifi- cation adopted by Council last month to limit the randomness of ballot redistribution. Organizations have endorsed various candidates for office. In- ter-Quadrangle Council supports Brown, Epker. Filip, Ross, Stock- meyer and Strother. Interfrater- nity Council has endorsed Barnell, Brown, Epker, Stockmeyer, and Strother. YR, YD Backing The Young Republicans Club has backed Barnell, Brown, Ep- ker, Hopkins, Stockmeyer, and Strother. Young Democrats have endorsed Gilbar, Rosenfeld, Ross, and Stockmeyer. Voice Political Party supports Gilbar, Kass, Ros- enfeld, and Ross. The South Quadrangle Quad- rants back Brown, Filip, Stock- meyer and Strothre. The campaign has centered around continued participation in the United States National Stu- dent Association, off-campus is- sues' question, SGC power in dis- crimination and membership se- lection practices, the Office of Stu- dent Affairs Advisory Committee, judicial reform and student power. Other issues have been the Uni- versity speaker bylaw, faculty-stu- dent government and student par- ticipation in curriculum planning and academic policy formation. There are 13 polling places. COUNT NIGHT-Tonight, the Union Ballroom will look something like this, as Student Government Council election ballots are counted and seven new Council members named. Possibly a bigger issue this year, the referendum on the University's membership in the United States National Student Association, will also be settled at count night. The count is expected to start about 7:30 p.m. Criticize IQC for Endorsement Hacks I oicy Special To The Daily EAST LANSING-The Michigan State University chapter of the American Association of Univer- sity Professors passed a resolu- tion last night approving the principles stated by the Speaker Screening Committee in the pre- amble to its suggested amend- ment to the present MSU speaker by-law. These principles were summed up at the AAUP fall meeting by Paul A. Varg, member of -the screening committee and dean of the college of arts and sciences. They included the conviction that "all ideas must be allowed to be freely tested in the academic com- munity." The screening committee's sug- gested policy would dissolve the committee and substitute for it a student-faculty speaker forum to act in an advisory capacity. It would not have the power to 'veto any speaker's appearance. The AAUP passed another mo- tion asking that the committee reconsider its proposed implemen- tation. It particularly felt that the provisions for banning speak- ers who advocate obscenity, break- ing of university, state or federal laws or who advocate violent over- throw of the government should be liberalized. Had Not Known Finke denied knowledge of the distribution of the sheet to indi- vidual rooms of the quads and said that he had not known the con- tents of the "Facts on USNSA" ar- ticle. He said that, had he known, he would have permitted neither the distribution of the sheet in the quadrangles nor the article to have run in its present form. In addition, two pieces of litera- ture, one signed by the- South Quadrangle Quadrants, the other unsigned, were distributed through, South and West Quadrangles re- spectivelyshortly after midnight. Several house presidents report- ed that they had not given their permission to distribute any liter- ature in either their lounges or residents' rooms as is required. No Permission West Quadrangle president Cur- tis E. Huntington, '65, said that he had not given his permission to anyone to pass materials out in the quad, although later he was cited as distributing one of the pieces of literature through West Quad himself. Student Government Council elections director Michael Levin, '64, said that permission of quad- rangle authorities was required to pass out campaign materials in the quadrangles, and the costs incured for the materials must be recorded on the candidate's fiiancial state- ments. Sharply criticizing Inter-Quad- rangle' Council for the manner in which it endorsed six candidates for Student Government Council, and for the "partisan" and un- objective use of IQC resources, East Quadrangle Council last night unanimously proposed an amendment to the IQC constitu- tion to prevent similar actions from recurring. IQC had based its endorsement, on five criteria, three of which' considered the forcefulness and articulation displayed by the can- didates on residence halls issues. The other two considered their potential value for SGC and their knowledge of and rationale for their stand on the United States National Student Association. However, the EQC members felt that since none of the can- didates had taken stands on issues concerning residence halls, the IQC endorsements were made on an invalid basis. IQC Supporters Hence, the proposed amendment provides that "endorsement of candidates for outside political office shall be done by IQC only when those candidates are pledged to support policies that have pre- viously been made policy goals of the IQC and which IQC's consti- tuency is known to support. "The individual members of IQC are not free to use the name and resources of IQC and endorse can- didates on any other basis." Strauss House President Jeffrey Fortune, '65, and the house's EQC representative, John Koza, '64, explained that the IQC newsletter, by giving information about the endorsed candidates, but not the other seven, by presenting "only the negative side",of the USNSA issue, and by using IQC resourcesN for partisan purposes for which there is no quadrangle consensus, had "overstepped its bounds.' Undistributed Strauss House had passed the amendment in the same form Sunday night. It also planned to distribute publicity about the pro- posal, but was prevented from do- ing so in South and West Quad- rangles. IQC President Robert Geary, '64E, said that rules barring soli- citation in residence halls prohib- it one quad council from distribut- ing its publicity in another, un- less permission is obtained-which it was not-from IQC. oda y L -Ties Groups Urge Remainig, Disaffiliation Referendum Sparks Campus Controversy As Candidates Debate By GAIL EVANS Shall the University remain a member of the United States Na- tional Student Association? This question will appear on the ballot for an all-student referen- dum in today's election. In order for the referendum to be valid 3,000 students or 75 per cent of those voting in the elec- tion, whichever is greater, must participate in it. Union Changes University men will also vote on a second referendum on amend- ments to the Michigan Union con- stitution. The question of continued affili- ation in USNSA was placed upon the ballot after an initiative peti- tion signed by over 1,200 students 'was submitted to Student Govern- ment Council by the Young Re- publicans Club. The organizations which sup- port continued participation in the association are Assembly House Council, Voice Political Party, The Daily Senior Editors and Friends of USNSA. Opposing USNSA Urging withdrawal are Inter Quadrangle. Council, South Quad' Quadrants, Young Republicans Club, WCBN Radio, Interfrater- nity Council, and Better Off Out. Candidates have split on the question of continued participa- tion. Gary GBilbar, '64A&D; Mi- chael Kass, '65; Regina Rosenfeld, '64, and Robert Ross, '63, have urged continued participation in the association. The othericandidates have all campaigned against continued membership in USNSA. They are Charles Barnell, '63; Thomas Brown, '63BAd.; Russell Epker, '64 BAd.; Donald Filip,'65E; Bruce Hopkins, '64; David Nelson, '64; Steven Stockmeyer, '63; Frank Strother, '64, and Thomas Swaney, '64. Subversion The debate on USNSA has cen- tered around charges that the or- ganization has subverted its ori- ginal purpose and does nothing for the University. Others argue that USNSA still plays a vital role in international, national and cam- pus affairs and can be reformed from within. Opponents also note that sev- eral schools, including Northwest- ern, Iowa and Ohio State Univer- sity have withdrawn from the or- ganization in protest of USNSA stands on such questions as nu- clear testing. One of the proposed amend- ments to the Union constitution would create a By-Laws Commit- tee to deal with all matters relat- ing to the constitution and by- laws of the Union. Another amendment slightly alters the composition of the Union House Committee. MERGER CONSIDERED: Study Group Evaluates Union, League Structure By BARBARA IAZARUS The last. four meetings of the Union-League Study Committee have been spent discussing basic reports on the structures and func- tioning of both organizations, Michigan League President Margaret. Skiles, '63, said last night. Speaking at an Internal Relations Study meeting at the League, Miss Skiles said that "in the future the committee hopes to have an open meeting for the campus in' USNSA PRESIDENT: Shaul Urges 'Yes' A "yes" vote on the United States National Student Association referendum is the only meaningful way to accomplish needed reforms in the association, USNSA President Dennis Shaul said last night. It is a myth that by getting out of the association and forming a coalition with other non-member schools, reforms can be effectively implemented, Shaul maintained. He emphasized that those interested in disaffiliation are not the only students interested in reform of the association, but that by pulling out of the association a strong reform leadership was being removed from the congress, leaving only those schools who are satis- fied with the present structure. Improper Use If USNSA has not been effective on this campus it indicates that the association has not been used properly at the University. "There are programs for any school, he said. "USNSA is doing its half by providing programs, but student governments must also do their part in implementing the projects," VoteTo Bring Reform order to assess student opinion on a possible merger." The purpose of the Committee is to study the present range of effectiveness of present Union and League activities, to consider the relative strengths and limitations of present administrative struc- tures and the possibility of a fu- ture merger. Separate Buildings "The University is in a unique position since it has separate buildings and organizations for men and women. Actually there are many areas where each organ- ization handles overlapping pro- grams," she noted. There are many rumors that various pressures are being placed on the Committee not to merge the two organizations. In reality there is no pressure one way or the other on the Committee which is a strictly autonomous body, Miss Skiles said. The League members split into discussion groups to consider the question of what kind of an or- ganization would best serve the University. Total Services The groups raised the question of whether a combined student union would be able to handle all the services required on a large campus. The groups expressed a firm de- sire to maintain an active and responsible place for women with- in a possible joint organization. Another concern of League per- sonnel was what method to use in I Bminafninr mti'rnnanciPe in the Heyns, Power. View :Future Of New College Regent Eugene B. Power and Roger W. Heyns, vice-president for academic affairs spoke on the future of Delta Community Col- lege before a House interim com- mittee. The committee, headed by Rep. Lester O. Begick, (R-Bay City) is studying the future of the college. Also heard were Durward Varner, Chancellor of Michigan State Uni- versity's Oakland branch and James Miller, president of Western Michigan University. Heyns said that the University is receptive to a proposal put forth by Delta officials that it assume jurisdiction over the community college as a third branch. He added that he personally believed that whether Delta becomes part of a larger institution or not it should kxpand its curriculum to four years. He cited evidence that indicates students are more likely to com- plete college if they enroll at a four-year institution rather than starting in a community or junior college and then transferring for their last two years as support for his belief. Power said that a community college such as Delta could bene- fit from becoming part of a larger 2i.a: - in I+ ar-,atl tha cnv Commenting on the history of the association, Shaul pointed out that USNSA was founded because of student concern in international issues immediately after World War II and that emphasis on student governments arose several years later. In 1957 the association tended to move away from primary concern with student governments. He did not believe that USNSA has subverted its original purpose. Shaul contended that the basic issue should not be what the asso- ciation has done at the University, but that it must be viewed in a larger national and international context.- The main question should be whether there is a need for a student organization interested in education nationally and internationally, Shaul said. Varied Grants He commented that USNSA has received grants for 'academic freedom studies, freshmen orientation programs, and travel plans from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Carnegie interests and other educa- tional funds. Shaul said that the association is financing American education All, Students Eligible All registered University stu- dents, graduate or undergradu- ate, full or part-time, are eli- gible to vote in the Student Government Council election and on the United States Na- tional Student Association ref- erendum. All men students can vote on the amendments in the Michigan Union constitution. j I I (I I