SGC ELECTIONS: DIRTY POOL See Editorial Page C, je 5k igtau &titii MOSTLY CLOUDY High--5O Low-35 Considerable cloudiness, not much change Seventy-Two Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXIII, No. 53 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1962 SEVEN CENTS Stockmeyer, Ross Outdistance Field in SG 4E44REN44M4 SIX PAGES C Vote "NSA C+j Brown, Epker Place After Seventh Ballot Barnell, Gilbar, Kass Wage Duel For Remaining Council Positions By GAIL EVANS A record vote of 7,193 was cast at the polls in yesterday's Student Government Council election, which saw SGC President Steven Stock- meyer, '63, emerge the first place winner with an unprecedented 1,711 votes on the first ballot. Incumbent Robert Ross, '63, was also elected on the first ballot with 1,370 votes. SGC Treasurer Thomas Brown, '63BAd, and Russell Epker, '64, were not elected until the seventh ballot, when Brown received 808 votes to put him in third place and Epker 798 votes, making him fourth place winner. Charles Bar- Affirmative Vote Maintains 'U Ties Ross Cites Effective Speakers; BOO To Continue Reform Efforts By RICHARD KRAUT Students voted in a referendum yesterday to continue Stu- dent Government Council's membership in the United States National Student Association. According to an 11 p.m. count, 3,667 voted to remain in USNSA and 3,483 voted to withdraw. The referendum was clearly valid, for more than 75 per cent of those voting in the SGC election voted on USNSA. In fact, the total number of votes in the referendum sur- passed the number of valid ballots cast in the SGC election. The referendum is binding ont4~ STEVEN STOCKMEYER .. . places first ROBERT ROSS THOMAS BROWN ... places second . . . places third RUSSELL EPKER . . places fourth OFFICIAL SANCTION: WSU HearsEx-Communist By MICHAEL ZWEIG The administration of Wayne State University agreed to allow a former Communist to speak at WSU yesterday. Wendell Phillips, who claims to have fired from a teaching post in California because he refused to divulge his acquaintances in the Community Party, spoke to about 60 students in State Hall on the subject of academic free- dom. He was sponsored by the Wayne State Students Civil Liber- ties Union. A spokesman for WSU said that Phillips was allowed to speak be- cause he is no longer a Commun- ist and because he would not vio- late the university speaker-ban by advocating the violent overthrow of the government. Appoint Editor at C olorado; Editor To Use Better Taste' The University of Colorado board of publications last Monday appointed Tom Parmeter editor of the Colorado Daily. Parmeter succeeds interim-editor Jon Kolomitz, who was ap- pointed by the board after university president Quigg Newton fired editor Gary Althen last month. "The Colorado Daily will continue to take strong stands on con- troversial issues," Parmeter said last night, "but we will do it in - better taste than before." He was But there were two restrictions placed on Phillip's remarks, the spokesman added. Phillips was not allowed to solicit funds for any cause, and he could not make any plea for personal support. Phillips said he wants to "win the privilege, to teach in the pub- lic tax-supported schools." He is presently appealing to a higher California court a . county court decision against reinstatement, and he is trying to raise 16,000 for legal fees. Phillips visited Detroit as part of a national speaking tour he is making under the auspices of the Wendell Phillips Academic Free- dom Committee. Party Member In a press conference yesterday Phillips said that he was active in the Communist Party from 1940-1951. He denied advocating the violent overthrow of the gov- ernment or trying to influence the students' political thinking. Phillips was prosecuted under California's Dilworth Act, which permits California school author- ities to question teachers about Communist connections. Phillips said he answered all questions about himself, but refused "to in- form on my friends." "It's my personal opinions that they object to," Phillips said. "They conceded that I'd done no- thing wrong in my classes." Phil- lips was a welding instructor at a junior college before being fired. Won't Speak Phillips was originally slated to speak at the University, but Voice Political Party, which was to have sponsored him, announced that it had no opportunity to plan and schedule any talk because of its work on the USNSA referendum. Philips, who might be in Ann Arbor today, will not speak here. His original invitation, however, was in no way connected with any attempt to test the University's controversial speaker bylaws. nell, '63, was elected on the ninth ballot as the fifth place candidate. At 2 a.m. the sixth and seventh place winners had not been deter- mined. Michael Kass, '64, and Gary Gilbar, '64A&D, were still fighting for the needed votes to be elect- ed. The seventh place candidate will _have only a half-year term instead of the full-year terms to be served by the other six. Sure Victory Kass and Gilbar were secure in their claim to a Council position but the order of their election had not been determined. In order to be elected on the first ballot the quota of 833 had to be reached. When Brown and Epker were elected the quota had dropped to 788. The quota is determined by di- viding the total number of votes cast in the SGC election, which was 6,654--a full 539 votes under the referendum total-by one more than the number of seats open. Hare System By the seventh ballot 641 votes had been declared invalid. The seven candidates were elected un- der the Hare system as the ballots were tabulated in the Michigan Union Ballroom. David Nelson, '64, was the first candidate to be dropped because his 103 first place vote total was the lowest. By the seventh ballot' when Brown and Epker were elected Thomas Swaney, '64; Ron T. Haskins, '65, the write-in candi- date, and Regina Rosenfeld, '64, had also been dropped and their votes redistributed to the remain- ing candidates. Bruce Hopkins, '64, was elimi- nated on the eighth ballot, leav- ing Frank Strother, '64, as the only remaining candidate to op- pose Gilbar and Kass. However, he trailed the two by sufficient margin to preclude his election. Conservatives Ahead The election of the three Voice candidates and the other four will make the Council's liberal-conser- vative split now eight liberals to 10 conservatives. Stockmeyer's total vote was the highest first place vote in SGC history, topping his last election total of 1,186. The total vote was the highest since the March, 1955 Student Legislature vote of 6,070. MSU Chapter Of AAUP ,Hits Speaker Rule The- Michigan State University chapter of the American Associa- tion of University Professors over- whelmingly passed a motion rec- ommending the reversal of ad- ministration-imposed discipline of Robert Howard and other students who last month refused to "clear" a speaker under the-,university's speaker by-law. Prof. Paul Adams commended the students for being "far ahead of us in the fight for academic freedom," and several other AAUP members praised "the courage of these students in standing for their principles in the face of great loss." The AAUP chapter also voted to request that the faculty senate establish a committee to "expose any procedural injustices" that' might occur in the administrative prosecution of alleged by-law vio- lations. The AAUP particularly discussed due process and the right to appeal. The open meeting heard a panel discussion on a substitute speaker by-law proposed by' the speaker screening committee. Larry Baril, a graduate student, spoke against the provisions prohibiting obscen-i ity or advocacy of violation of uni- versity, state or federal law, term- ing them "against the right of free injuiry." Prof. Robert Repas joined Baril in opposing the proposed by-law, saying "it is time for the univer- sity to take a stand in support of a free society and the right to know." Red China Hits referring to the labeling of Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz) as "a mounteback, a murderer .. .," and Dwight Eisenhower as "an old futzer" in the Colorado Daily articles which led to Althen's firing. Before his appointment by the publications board, Parmeter had been a member of that board. "When the board opened peti- tioning for editor to the campus, I resigned from the board and tried for the editorship," Par- meter said. In the Colorado state election on Nov. 6 University of Colorado Republican regent Charles Brom- ley was re-elected, while Republi- can challenger Dale Atkins defeat- ed a Democratic incumbent. "Bromley has promised to work for the dismissal of Newton for his action against Althen, but there will probably be no move until after January," Parmeter said. RDubin Vows To Battle Speech Batn By PHILIP SIJIN Daniel Rubin. self-styled Com- munist youth leader and editor of the newly formed "Communist Viewpoint" magazine, said during a brief visit here yesterday that he had no plans to speak in Mich- Igan in the immediate future, but was willing to help fight speaker bans. He declared that it was up to student organizations to invite Communist speakers, and urged them to do so. "It is a pity that Michigan is behind most states. The list of col- leges and universities who have in- vited Communist speakers reads like a who's who of institutions," Rubin noted.j Emphasizes Effect of Ban I The more important issue is not whether Communists should have the right to speak, but what the effect of a speaker ban is on stu- dents and faculty, Rubin said. He "expressed confidence hie could make his audience more fav- orable to Communist beliefs. Although he did not expect to gain converts to Communism, Ru- bin asserted he and similar speak- ers could dispel the illusion that Communists are monsters carry- ing bombs while working in the interest of the Soviet Union. Improve Position "After h e a r i n g Communist speakers, people would be more willing to defend the constitution- al rights of Communists, as well as everybody else," he asserted. Rubin asserted that attdacks on civil liberties have been disguised in a cloak of anti-Communism. They are really directed against a large segment of opinion that is not Communist. He refused to identify his exact role in the Communist Party be- cause of the McCarran and Smith Acts. Still Unproven Denouncing these laws asrviola- tions of the First and Fifth Amendments, Rubin charged that the federal government had never proved in any court that Commu- nists violated sabotage and espion-I age laws. Communist leaders have always been tried on conspiracy, in violation of their civil rights, he added. Despite these difficulties, Rubin claimed "there is now growth in the Communist movement-espe- cially among young people." He disputed Federal Bureau of Investigation director J. Edgar Hoover's report that the Commu- nists had recruited 10,000 young people into the party, saying "I would be happy if this were true." w in Bans Tapping By Quadrants CHARLES BARNELL . . . places fifth KELLEY: ITeaching Reviewed By JEAN TENANDER "Teaching is the greatest pro- fession of them all," Prof. Earl C. Kelley of Wayne State University said last night as he discussed "New Fontiers in the Profession of Teaching." "What the world really needs is better people and if we are going to have better people they will be made in schools," Prof. Kelley said. "This is why I believe the teach- ing profession to be the best in the world." Prof. Kelley pointed out three things he feels are essential for a teacher to be aware of, if that teacher is going to "teach the student rather than the subject." Humanize Education "We simply must humanize the educational process," he said. "The concept of knowledge which says that somewhere outside there is knowledge and you want to get that knowledge is as materialistic as wanting an oil well. "I am in favor of people learn- ing a great deal but what ever the main objective of this learn- ing turns out to be is the thing of most value. Some of the world's most damaging people have been extremely well informed," he said. Next, Prof. Kelley, a vigorous exponent of John Dewey's ideas on education, discussed the change. that he feels has taken place in our culture. "The machine will get us if we don't watchnout," he com- mented. People have gone test crazy. "Pretty soon they will start testing students for uranium.' Views Machines Education is supposed to be the encouragement of responses rather than the conditioning of them, he said in discussing the recent ad- vent of the "teaching machine." His final point dealt with the problem of indifference. "We have been talking about individuality for 30 years but we would not be teaching school -the way we do! at present if we really believed in the uniqueness of the individual," he said. SGC and the Council therefore cannot vote to withdraw from USNSA until after the spring election. The referendum served as a fo- cal point for debate in the SGC campaign. Controversy revolved around charges that USNSA has subverted its original purpose and does little for the campus directly. Reaction to and interpretation of the referendum was diverse. SGC member and Voice political party chairman, Robert Ross, '63, said the results "show that people on this campus will vote for in- volvement in world affairs." Good Speakers Ross attributed the "yes" vote in the referendum to "the fact that we effectively reached people with good speakers." Looking to the future months, Ross said that' the SGC Committee on USNSA "will work towards incorporating a peace course or a course on in- ternational relations in the Uni- versity curriculum." Michigan Union President Rob- ert Finke, '63, said that the "great- est benefit of the referendum, was that it greatly increased student concern and awareness. No such interest was shown in any other campaign I have seen in the last four years." Also thinking of the months ahead, Finke suggested that the Committee on USNSA "reexamines its programs to see which could be implemented in a positive way." Interpretation SGC President Steven Stock- meyer, '63, said the results of the referendum "indicates that the campus favors a national union of students." However, Stockmeyer thought that the referendum "was also a mandate to work for the re- form of the association." Stockmeyer said that he was "proud to have helped bring the issue of USNSA out into the open." According to a statement issued by "Better Off Out," an organiza- tion formed to advocate withdraw- al from USNSA, "the narrow mar- gin of the referendum indicates that the victory was only a tech- nical one." Speaking for BOO, Fred Batlle, '63A&D, claimed that the referen- dum was "not a victory for USNSA, but a defeat of the proposed meth- od of action on the association." Batlle said that "BOO will continue to function as an organization ded- icated to reforming USNSA." Ross could make no statement about whether or not "Friends of USNSA" will continue to function as an organization. "This is a de- cision the people in the organiza- tion will have to make," he said. Ross also said that he thought a necessary reform in USNSA is the selection of delegates and al- ternates. BULLETIN WASHINGTON (A) - Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev has sent President John F. Ken- ...ew . ..F e _ - _ _ 4' A am Cnoi GARY GILBAR . .. sixth or seventh? MICHAEL KASS ... seat assured WRITE-IN LEwIS: Excitement Fills Count Night The decor of the Michigan " Union Ballroom is a pale blue, but it hardly matched the mood of the spectators at the Student Govern- ment Council count night last night. As each total was announced, scattered cheers and applause rang up in the crowd. The height of the demonstrating was reached when the unofficial count of the United States National Student Association was announced. After' the initial cheering died down, a chorus of "We Shall Not Be Moved" was struck up by some of the more moved individuals in' the gathering. As usual, an interesting variety of write-in candidates spiced the Male Voters Back Changes In Constitution Five proposed amendments to the constitution of the Michigan Union were passed by the male students of the University yester- day. a vote of 2,909 to 429, well over the needed two-thirds of the votes cast, the following changes were approved: 1) The Union's financial secre- tary will now be recommended by the President of the University in- stead of the University Senate, will serve for three years and will only be able to serve two consecutive terms. 2) The office of the financial secretary will no longer need to co-sign Union checks. 3) The words "Vice-President for Student Affairs or his representa- tive" replaces "Dean of Men" wherever it appears, so that the constitution will be in line with the new Office of Student Affairs struture