MSU FUNDS AND LEGISLATORS See Editorial Page C I 4c 5kA :43 tiiy MILD High-50 Low--1i Increasing cloudiness with southerly winds Seventy-Two Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXIII, No. 59 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1962 SEVEN CENTS EIGHT PAGES SRC Sets Withdrawal From SGC Group Reviews Faculty Role on Council; May Seek End of Representation By DENISE WACKER The Student Relations Committee has decided, after a preliminary examination into the role of the faculty on student committees, to refrain from nominating staff members to fill a vacant faculty seat on the Student Government Council Committee on Membership. The SRC is also considering whether it should continue faculty participation in the recently-established SGC Judiciary Study Com- mittee, Professors Richard Cutler of the psychology department, SRC chairman, and Charles Lehman of the education school, an SRC tmember, said yesterday. India Rejects Red Demand, Hints at Renewed Fighting * * * * * * * * * lllikoyan Fears No Letup RALPH .A. SAWYER ... leads fight CHARLES LEHMAN . . . SRC action PICKETING: Four Quit In Protest At Lincoln By DAVID MARCUS Four faculty members have re- signed from Lincoln College (Lin- coln, Ill.) because of the dismissal of Prof. Joseph Leston for his anti-Cuban blockade picketing. In addition to the four faculty members--out of a total faculty of approximately 26-who resign- ed, two others also threatened to leave their posts at the school if Prof. Leston is not reinstated. Prof. Leston was informed re- cently in a letter from Harold F. Trapp, chairman of the trustees of the pricate college, that his contract would not be renewed next June because he had not exercised "appropriate restraint" in expressing his opinions. One Standard "Appropriate restraint" is one of the three standards set by the American Association of Univer- sity Professors as guidelines for academic freedom, Prof. Leston noted. However, he interpreted it as meaning "staying within the law" when he picketed the Lincoln post office in October carrying placards saying "Stop United States Ag- fression" and "Do Not Let Cuba Be Our Hungrary." Protests have been lodged by the AAUP and the American Civil Liberties Union asking the trustees to revoke its dismissal of Prof. Leston. No Grounds However, Prof. Leston says he contemplates no legal action. "There are no grounds for a suit. The action of the college was not to offer renewal of my contract." Prof. Leston has not been a member of the Lincoln faculty for the two years required for him to be covered by tenure provisions. Trapp, who refused to go into any detail on the case, would only say that "appropriate restraint" was interpreted by the trustees as meaning that a faculty member "takes into account the effects of his conduct on the reputation of the institution." Placard Slogans He also claimed that the slogans on Prof. Leston's placards were in violation of the "appropriate re- straint" standard. The dismissal took place only after the trustees held an inter- view with Leston at which several faculty members were present. Prof. Leston contended that "orderly peaceful demonstrations are exercises of 'appropriate re- straint'." He also claimed that he had not violated either of the other two AAUP academic freedom guidelines: he did not identify himself as a member of the in- This is not an indication that faculty members are withdrawing support, or expressing disapproval over the actions taken to date by the membership committee or by the Council. No Right Rather, it is being done to em. phasize a feeling evidently pre- valent among faculty members that Council does not have the right to establish a "University- wide committee"-one in which the faculty, holding only one or two seats,rmust takeresponsibil- ity for a report or recommenda- tion with which they might not agree. The Committee on Membership's charter calls for four student and up.to three non-student members; either one or two faculty mem- bers and an administrator. "For three years, the SRC has been asked to choose a panel of faculty members, from which group the Council selected several to serve. Thus, the SRC has been associated with SGC in only a loose consultative relation - the majority of these mutual areasof concern were centered around dis- crimination in student organiza- tions," Prof. Cutler said. Not Unwillingness "It is in no sense an unwilling- ness on the part of the SRC to work with SGC; the faculty would be happy to consult with the Council at any time on any issue in an advisory position, but are re- luctant to be voting members of a. committee," Prof. Lehman said. He added that when former Council President John Feld- kamp, '61, initially came to the SRC two years ago, proposing that the Committee on Membership in- clude faculty members, the SRC was rather skeptical of the idea, but, despite reservations, went along with it. Prof. Cutler noted that "by the Regents' action, htis (elimination of bias in student organizations) is completely SGC's responsibil- ity." Lacks Knowledge SGC President Steven Stock- meyer, '63, felt that "the SRC lacks real knowledge of the work- ings of the Committee on Mem- bership; it has a misconception of the spirit in which the group was founded. "The membership committee was set up to work with the affil- iated groups, and only as a last resort to bring a case into the open. We had tried to bring a case into the open prematurely with Sigma Kappa, and it got us nowhere," he said. He added that in light of the SRC's decision, Council is faced with three possible means of solv- ing the dilemma of the commit- tee's vacant seats: first, it could eliminate the faculty member com- pletely from the committee's charter. All-Student Second, it could make the com- mittee an all-student body; or last, a faculty member, -obviously not recommended by the SRC, could be appointed to the com- mittee. Stockmeyer also indicated that the issue will be discussed during tomorrow's Council meeting.' He hopes to arrange an SRC-SGC meeting, at which some settle- ment will be reached. U' Advances In Struggle Over Costs By PHILIP SUTIN The University has gained in its battle with Congress over indirect costs limitations despite being forced to cease seeking research grants from the defense depart- ment, Director of Research Ad- ministration Robert E. Burroughs noted yesterday. As Congress placed a 20 per cent limit on the amount of in- direct costs the federal govern- ment will cover in defensedepart- ment research grants, the Uni- versity has stopped applying for them, Burroughs announced. Only grants covering projects now underway or for proposals submitted before the limitation went into effect will be continued, he added. Grants Continue These grants will continue, he explained, because the University does not wish to "pull the rug out" from under professors now working on grant-supported pro- jects. This decision effects only ap- proximately $600,000 out of $14 million worth of defense work the University does. Burroughs explained that indi- rect costs include administrative, building and maintenance, pur- chasing and records costs that cannot be charged to any specific project. Charge Costs These costs can be charged on the basis of the percentage of salaries and wages required in each project or on the basis of the percentage of the total direct cost of the project, he added. The University's indirect costs amount to 50 per cent of the former figure or 33 per cent of the latter. As the federal government is determining indirect costs by the percentage of direct costs, the University is failing to recover its total cost by 13 per cent of the total direct c o s t, Burroughs asserted. Hernoted that the fight waged by American colleges and univer- sities and the American Council on Education caused Congress to losen its demands for indirect cost limitations and raising limitations five per cent in health, education and welfare department and Na- tional Science Foundation grants. Cost Limit The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was stuck with a 25 per cent indirect cost limit by Congress, he noted, and the University is attempting to change grants to contracts which have negotiated indirect cost limits. Vice-president f o r Research Ralph A. Sawyer, the president of the Council, said that his organi- zation was preparing to continue its fight against the indirect cost limitation, but has made no spe- cific plans pending the new Congress. Sawyer had spoken before Con- gressional committees and lobbied extensively against the limit in the last session of Congress. By The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS-Top Unit- ed States negotiators met with So- viet trouble shooter Anastas I. Mi- koyan last night but apparently received little evidence that Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro is ready to adopt a softer line toward the United States. The discussions took place at a dinner arranged by Acting Secre- tary-General U Thant a few hours after the first deputy premier re- turned from a visit to Havana. Both United States and Soviet officials said the talks were friend- ly and cordial, but Mikoyan ac- knowledged that there were sharp differences. Before the meeting there were widespread reports that the Soviet leader would be invited to Wash- ington for discussions with Presi- dent John F. Kennedy. He said, however, this was not discussed. bnited States Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson said the United States negotiators would meet tomorrow for further discussions with Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily V. Kuznetsov. President John F. Kennedy flew to within 90 miles of Havana yes- terday and saw on-the-spot evi- dence of how quickly the United States mustered a Cuban emer- gency force. The President got secret brief- ings from the American fighting men who stood closest to Cuba during the crisis over Russian rockets. He expressed deep appre- ciation to the men who "made it possible for the United States to defend its security. As he voiced a personal thank you to the men who created a bastion on the southeast coast, Kennedy also cautioned the com- bat-ready troops that days of dan- ger have not vanished. - Lewis Speaks To Committee On Activities Vice-president for Student Af- fairs James A. Lewis told the Michigan Union-Women's League Study Committee yesterday that his office felt that the whole program of student activities would "be enhanced" if a start could be made towards coordinat- ing the activities sponsored by existing student organizations. He also favored a better defini- tion of the relationship between Student Government Council and the presentation and calendaring of student activities. Lewis appeared before the com- mittee along with John Bingley, director of student activities and organizations; Walter B. Rea, di- rector of financial aids, and Eliz- abeth Davenport, special assistant to the vice-president. James H. Robertson, associate dean of the literary college and chairman of the committee, sum- med up the attitude at the table by saying that "there seems to be a consensus that the Union and the League provide vital and use- ful functions on the campus and since we don't want to lose their values we must keep in mind these contributions in any changes we make." 'U' Considers Degree Study By GERALD STORCH As a result of increasing concern over the almost overwhelming demand looming ahead for professionally-trained college graduates, '" the University is beginning to exercise both formal and informal means of speeding up doctoral degree programs.; The easiest way to do this, educators and administrators say, would be to obtain more scholarships for humanities students, who possess about one half the support given to students in the sciences...... However, in spite of aid from agencies such as the' health, edu- " cation and welfare department and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation,< financial assistance in non-technical fields still falls far short and is unevenly distributed among the various fields. Humanities students, most of whom have to hold down outside } jobs such as teaching fellowships in order to put themselves throuth school, usually need from 35 to 100 per cent more time to earn their doctorates than do science students. The University is therefore turning to other methods besides' soliciting outside financial support. Professors are encouraged, and, in some cases, prodding graduate students under their tutelage to complete their thesis and other degree requirements as soon as possible. Extensions of the graduate school's time limit-which specifies that doctoral degree work must be finished within seven consecutive WILLIAM L. HAYS See 'U,' Page 2.. 'hurdles system' LITERARY FREEDOM: Liberal Soviet Writers Gain .License MOSCOW-The liberal wing of Soviet literature has apparently achieved a significant break- through in the struggle for the right of freer expression. Soviet and Western observers here point to recent developments that have dealt conservatives and particularly neo-Stalinists their sharpest setback in the literary debate. The liberal wing, headed by Aleksandr T. Tvardovsky, a poet who is chief editor of the literary magazine Novy Mir, has clearly gained the ascendancy over the conservatives led by Vsevolod A. Kochetov, chief editor of the lit- erary journal Okyabr. Not Loyalty The issue between the two camps is not loyalty to the Communist party or political questions, which are dictated without challenge by the party propaganda apparatus. Tvardovsky, a candidate mem- ber of the Central Committee of the party, is considered no less a loyal Communist than Koche- tov. The debate takes on historic im- portance, in the view of observers here, in its relation to the direc- tion of the development of Soviet society. Propaganda? Since the death of Stalin the liberals have battled, despite re- peated setbacks, against the Koch- etov view that literature essen- tially should be propaganda devot- ed solely to serving the party. The liberals have also defied the Stalinist concept that there should be a monolithic aim and style that rule out detailed and sympathetic treatment of personal human problems such as love, material wants and individual freedom. Within both camps of writers there are differences. Among the liberals, Tvardovsky, a poet influenced by 19th-century styles, is not always in agreement with the young avant-garde poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko. But they unite as liberals in their opposition to bureaucratic strictures on ar- tistic expression. There is evidence that the lib- eralization of literature is going forward with the blessing of Pre- mier Nikita Khrushchev. However, this trend in literature is not nec- essarily symptomatic of evolve- ment of Soviet society as a whole. At the current plenary session of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, Khrush- chev has pressed his attack on Stalinism but at the same time enormously broadened the party's control over every phase of indus- try and agriculture. Daily Discontinued Soviet writers say that one of the most dramatic indications of lib- eralization was the decision to dis- continue as of Jan. 1 publication of the daily literary newspaper Lit- eraturna I Zhizm. This organ of the Union Writers of Russian Fed- eration has been a stronghold of conservatism and the voice of the Kochetov faction. Literaturna I Zhizm is to be transformed into a weekly, to be named Litreaturnaya Rossiya. Aside from ideological consider- ations, it was understood that a drop in the readership of Litera- turna I Zhizm was a factor in the decision. Liberal Influence A newspaper under the liberal influence, Literaturnaya Gazeta, the organ of the Union of Writers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, will now be dominant in the daily literary field. Pravda, the newspaper of the Communist party, in an article yesterday, praised the liberal lit- erary magazines Novy Mir and Znamya for'de-Stalinization works in their current issues.. Pravda said these contributed actively toward "purging our lives of the influences and consequences of the cult of personality." The party organ gave particular attention to a short novel pub- lished in Novy Mir, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," writ- ten by Aleksandr Solzhenitsin, a teacher of mathematics who lives east of Moscow. Copyright 1962, The New York Times Afro-Asians To Propose UN Mission Government Refuses To Abandon Ladakh To Chinese Control By The Associated Press NEW DELHI-An Indian gov- ernment spokesman rejected yes- terday a key provision Red China pinned to its cease-fire and offer of troop withdrawal. And two top Indian leaders hinted the fighting lull on the Himalayan battlefield is only tem- porary. Signs of a stiffening Indian stand against Peiping terms for a continued border truce came as American planes rushed more than 1,000 fresh Indian troops to posi- tions in the northeast. The head of the United States military mis- sion to India returned from a trip to the northeast command area and reported Indian troops in control and their morale good. Alex Qualson-Sackey, Ghana's permanent representative to the United Nations, said yesterday the Afro-Asian group will meet to- morrow to consider the possibility of sending a peace mission to New Delhi and Peiping. Smooth Differences Quaison-Sackey did not elabor- ate on what the specific aims of the mission would be, but said gen- erally it was hoped that such a mission could smooth over differ- ences regarding a cease-fire ,and border boundaries. He said India "had no objec- tion to such a meeting." Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's atti- tude toward such a mission was not immediately determined, but previously India has been cool to the idea of the United Nations taking up the dispute. Communist China is not represented in the United Nations. The Indian spokesman said Neh- ru's government is still consider- ing the Red Chinese offer to with- draw from the present battle lines. But the spokesman rejected a Pei- ping condition that would, he said, leave the Chinese in control of 2,- 000 square miles of Indian terri- tory in Ladakh that they did not hold before the recent heavy fight- ing began. Close to Fighting Indian President Sarvepalli Rad- hakrishnan also suggested that the two nations were closer to a re- sumption of the fighting. Speaking at a state banquet for visiting West German President Heinrich Luebke, Radhakrishnan declared: "China used force to change her frontier to her advan- tage. We shall not allow this to happen again. We wish to demon- strate to the world that aggression does not pay." Home Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri :told a mass rally that "whatever may be the Chinese mo- tive in declaring a unilateral cease-fire, we have decided to get the aggressor vacated and if China does not vacate peacefully, our forces shall have to fight it out." The shuttle of more than 1,000 Indian troops to the Northeast yesterday was the first big mission assigned to the Americans man- ning a dozen United States C-130 Hercules transports since their ar- rival last week, Secrecy shrouded the operation, but it was learned that the trans- ports carried an undisclosed num- ber of wounded on their return flights. It was also learned that one C130 flew to Leh in Ladakh, the northwest battle sector, Sat- urday and brought back 23 wound- ed and sick Indian soldiers. STo Consider rPolicy Status T h e Michigan Coordinating Council for Public Higher Educa- tion will hear a report on the Stanford, Sigma Nu Chapter Chooses To Leave National By MICHAEL ZWEIG The Stanford University chapter of Sigma Nu fraternity unan- imously voted on Nov. 19 to go local. The action came because last summer's national convention failed to respond to the Stanford chapter's pressure to eliminate the national bias clause against Negroes and orientals, Thomas Grey, president of the house, reported. The chapter is now called Beta Chi, and retains its old house. "We do not have any particular person in mind for pledging," Grey said. He said that neither the university nor the student govern- ment had put any pressure on C the fraternity because of the bias f essiah Supports Decision Choral Union Announces Performances o The University Choral Union, conducted by Lester McCoy, and featured soloists will give the annual performance of Handel's "Messiah" at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 1, and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, in Hill Aud. This year the University Symphony Orchestra of the music school will accompany the 340 voice Choral Union of the Musical Society. Second Appearance The soloists will be soprano Sara Endich, contralto Louise Parker, tenor Rolf Bjoerling and bass Norman Farrow. Miss Endich has made numerous appearances with the Boston Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra. This is her second Ann Stanford president J.E. Wallace Sterling issued a statement ex- pressing support for the decision, citing a resolution passed by the board of trustees commiting the university to "work actively" with student groups opposing racial and r e I i g i o u s discriminatory clauses and practices. Grey said that the university policy does not set any deadline for the end of fraternity discrim- ination. "We brought the matter to the university ourselves and :}: Fem . r? a m... mammen