GRADING THE TEACHER See Editorial Page Ci r Seventy-Three Years of Editorial Freedom 43Iaii4 WINDY High-43 Low--25 Cloudy with showers, changing to snow LXXIV, No. 80 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1963 SEVEN CENTS SIX PAFE OAA% JI MXrJO 31 PREUCA UTION: 'U' May Undergo Public Audit Applications to °U' Rise 26 Per Cent * * 7* * * * * * * By LAURENCE KIRSHBAUM The University may undergo its first public audit in history simply as a precautionary measure being considered by Auditor General 1Billie' S. Farnum to insure the use of proper accounting procedures by every state-supported educa- tional institution. The Legislature may also write more stringent accounting require- ments forthe state-supported col- leges and universities into the higherxeducation appropriation bill next year, Senate Education Chairman William G. Milliken (R- Traverse City) said yesterday. These reactions have come in the aftermath of Farnum's report Wednesday that his audit of six CARROLL C. NEWTON ...'rider' amendment small colleges had uncovered ex- amples of fund misuses attribut- able to inadequate accounting pro- cedures. Considers Formal Audit Since the University was not involved in this investigation, Far- num revealed yesterday that he is "strongly considering the possibil- ity" of conducting formal audits on the University and the other two constitutionally - autonomous institutions-Wayne State Univer- sity and Michigan State Universi- ty. He has no specific suspicions of fund misuses or inaccurate ac- counting procedures at the three institutions, he said. The audit would be made as a part of series of examinations "to account for the use of state funds by all state- supported agencies and institu- tions," Farnum explained. "We have nothing to hide," Executive Vice-President Marvin L. Niehuss emphasized in noting his reaction to the. auditor gen- eral's statement. Annual Audit Currently, the University re- ceives an annual audit by a pri- vate firm and this report is re- viewed by many of the public officials evaluating education ap- propriation requests. But even before the appropria- tion bill is taken up in legislative committees early next year, Rep. Carroll C. Newton (R-Delton) not- ed that he had placed a "rider" amendment on a constitutional implementation bill which would permit the auditor general to set up procedures for a uniform sys- tem. of accounting. Milliken, the Senate floor leader, said that this amendment was not contained within the bill listing the auditor general's powers which his education committee reported out in a meeting Fri- day. It could be inserted in floor sessions next week, he said. Probably Not Act He indicated that Senate mem- bers will probably not act during the implementation period to take drastic measures against the high- er education institutions to insure their accounting methods are ac- ceptable. "We are interested first in see- ing whether the schools won't voluntarily take steps toward ar- riving at uniform accounting methods." If they seem unwilling to move in this area, "then the Legislature may have to prod. them through restrictive measures," Milliken added. Standard Procedures The Council of State Presidents is currently conducting studies Student Group To Voice Views The "blue ribbon" Students Committee on Higher EducationI began charting its areas of in- vestigation at a sparsely attended conference here yesterday.1 The committee, organized along] similar lines to the Citizen's Com-; mittee on Higher Education, aims at giving a detailed student's view late next year of the state's edu- cational needs before the citizen's1 group, which is currently working on a long-range blueprint of the1 state's higher education needs. i The student's group establishedc seven subcommittees that will in- quire into such areas as the goalsc of education, issues of financingl and the roles of community .andE private education. aimed at achieving standard ac- counting procedures. Questioning Farnum's author- ity to carry out such an audit was University Attorney E d m u n d Cummiskey, who indicated that the University is currently ex- empt from the jurisdictional au- thority of the auditor general in financial affairs. However, he could not say for sure whether the new constitution, effective Jan. 1, might not grant the auditing privilege to the aud- itor general. Predicts No Authority Farnum predicted that he does have the authority in this area now, but declined to comment on what basis he backed this con- tention. He would also not say how he interpreted his powers under the new constitution. Noting that his concern wa 4ot only for educational misuses of funds through accounting, he also accused Mackinac Island officials of running the public portion "in unbusinesslike fashion." He explained that among other financial violations, they nilled the state for the light and water bills of Mackinac Island Park Com- mission members. Rights .Bill Progresses WASHINGTON (A)-The House held a somewhat stormy two- minute session yesterday, the first Saturday meeting of the year, to tick off another legislative day vital in a parliamentary maneu- ver to by-pass its Rules Commit- tee. It was the seventh legislative, or business, day of the House since a routine resolution was filed last week to start the ball rolling for a vote on civil rights. The reso- lution amounts to a formal re- quest to the rules committee to act on a civil rights bill approved by the House Judiciary Committee. The Rules Committee headed by Rep. Howard W. Smith (D-Va) had seven legislative days in which to consider the request. Adjourns Session Fewer than 100 members were on hand when Speaker John W. McCormack (D-Mass) called the session to order. The House chap- lain had just ended the invoca- tion when Rep. William K. Van- pelt (R-Wis) demanded the pres- ence of a quorum, or 218 mem- bers. Rather than rout out the ab- sentees, with no business on tap, acting Democratic leader John E. Moss of California moved to ad- journment. McCormack declared the motion carried and gaveled the House to adjournment. The next step in the move to circumvent Smith's group will be taken Monday when a petition is filed to strip the committee of jurisdiction over the bill. If signed by 218 members, a majority, the petition would line up the bill for a House vote. May Slow Pace Smith's announcement that he would hold hearings on civil rights legislation in January may slow down the pace of the discharge petition. But, if he stalls too long, there is no doubt that the re- quired signatures will be obtained. Should the discharge petition obtain 218 signatures before next Friday, the civil rights bill would be in a position to be considered starting Dec. 23.. See Larger Class Size For 1964 Out-of-State Ratio To Decline Slightly By JUDITH BARCUS The number of applicants seek- ing admission to the University has jumped 26 per cent over com- parable figures of last year. Assuming admissions officers follow past trends of selectivity, this increase means that the 1965 freshman class will be slightly larger in total numbers and slight- ly smaller in percentage of out- of-state students, Byron Groes- beck, assistant director of admis- sions, predicted recently. Groesbeck attributes the total increase in applications to both the general population growth and the trend toward applyng early to college. Account for Half Applications from out-of-state students probably account for half the increase, he said. "And since we must limit the number of out-of-state students to last year's number, we will have to be more selective in accepting these students than in the past." In order to help out-of-state students plan realistically, the of- fice has started a policy of report- ing their actions on applications immediately. These reports place the applicant in the categories of "accepted, "on waiting list," "qualified but rejected," or "re- jected." "At least we now have fewer applicants sitting on pins and needles until spring," Groesbeck said. Little Effect Groesbeck stressed that the growth of the freshman class would have little effect on the in- crease in the University's totalen- rollment. This increase is largely because of the greater number of students who return after their freshman, sophomore and junior years. In the last three years, the drop-out rate has decreased from nine per cent of the freshman class to seven per cent. 'U' To Receive Building Grant The United States Public Health Service recently granted the Uni- versity $392,000 to aid in con- struction of a new Institute for Social Research building. Prof. Rensis Likert, director of the institute, said additional grants will be received from the National Science Foundation, Mc- Gregor Fund, Kresge Foundation and a number of other business funds. The total construction is expected to cost between $1.9 mil- lion and $2 million with most of the cost financed by the grants.3 The six-story building will be+ constructed in the 400 block of Thompson St. on University land now used for parking.1 The architect, Alden Dow of1 Midland, expects to have working drawings and bids processed to begin construction by March. The grant was announced by Senators Philip A. Hart and Pa- trick V. McNamara in Washington. Johnson REVIEW: GNP Lags In Alliane WASHINGTON (A)-Statistical- ly speaking, the Alliance for Pro- gress has been making mighty, little progress over-all despite notable gains in some countries. The avowed goal of the 10-year program of social and economic development for Latin America is a yearly growth, measured in out- put per person, of 2.5 per cent. But recent figures indicate the 1962 per capita national product of Latin Americans remained about the same as in 1961, com- pared with a United States growth of five per cent. Program Review One set of statistics supplied at the second annual review of the alliance program at Sao Paulo last month listed Latin America's per capita product in 1962 up only .6 to 1.0 per cent over the pre- vious year. Another table, currently used by Washington officials, reports Latin American per capita gross national product last year was down a frac- tion from 1961. The United States statistics list average output per person in Latin America in 1962 at $267-down $1 from 1961. Sao Paulo Figures On the brighter side, the Alli- ance for Progress record shows up this way in the figures used at San Paulo: Ten of the 16 countries listed scored higher than the 2.5 per cent target in 1962. Little Nicara- gua registered a 7.2 per cent gain per person. Panama went up 5.2 per cent. But pulling the average way down was Latin America's tre- mendous population growth - 2.9 per cent in 1962-and poor scores by the biggest nations. Financially troubled Argentina, with a population of 21 million, recorded a per capita product in 1962 5.1 per cent below that of 1961. Brazil, with 75 million, ad- vanced only 1.3 per cent. Mexico, with 37 million, went up 1.8 per cent. Senate, House Stall over Bill WASHINGTON (R) - Senate- House conferees failed to make any progress Friday on vocational education legislation. Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore), the conference chairman, said that he now believes that "the odds are For A House Meets For Session To File List Adjournment Desire Rises on Capitol Hill WASHINGTON OP)-Adjourn- ment sentiment mounted yester- day while Senate and House lead- ers mapped action for the coming week on some controversial mat- ters. - House members met for an un- usual Saturday session as part of an effort to force action on the omnibus civil rights bill, already months behind the timetable urged by its backers. The Saturday meeting will per- mit leaders to file a discharge petition Monday. If 218 members sign this, the bill can be taken from the House Rules Committee for floor debate and action about mid-January. Congress To Continue Democratic Congressional lead- ers plan to keep both House and Senate grinding away two more weeks until Dec. 20. But Sen. Barry Goldwater (R- Ariz) joined in protests against this, saying, "We ought to com- plete action on the appropriation bills and forget the rest of this stuff." Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (D-Mont) disagreed, saying "we will be here until the 20th." Appropriation Bills Biggest logjam facing the ad- journment-minded Congress in- volves thermore than a dozen an- nual appropriation bills. These supply operating funds for all gov- ermnent activities for the fiscal year which began last July 1. Only four of these have cleared Congress and been signed into law. The House, which always acts first on the money bills, has passed on all except the annual foreign-aid funds. Mansfield plans Senate floor action on three of these money bills this week, and a compromise agreement on another. Stalemates Four other money bills still are stalemated in efforts at Senate- House compromises and these also are listed for completion this week. On Wednesday the Senate will put aside other matters for eulogies to the late President and Senator, John F. Kennedy. One of the hottest fights is ex- pected over the compromise on the foreign - aid authorization, first in the House tomorrow and later in the Senate. As it now stands it would put a ceiling of $3.59 billion on the program, or nearly $1 billion below the request of the late President. rms, Military I'Q LSA To Employ New Evaluations By KENNETH WINTER and BARBARA SEYFRIED The questionnaires on which literary college students evaluate their teachers and courses will not be passed out this semester. Instead, a new form-designed to eliminate some of the objections to these questionnaires-will be tried experimentally in selected classes throughout the college. "We hope to distribute them in every type of class in every major field," Prof. Louis I. Briggs of the geology department said yesterday. If the new forms prove successful, they will replace the old ones and will be passed out in all classes next semester, he explained. Prof. Briggs chairs the Committee on College Teaching, a faculty group which is attempting to im- prove these questionnaires, which T are a major "feedback" device by M N., - M which an instructor and his de- partment evaluate his teaching ability and practices. "The present dissatisfaction with the forms is due to the poor response they elicit from stu- dents," Prof. Briggs explained. First, there is, the problem of getting students to fill them out conscientiously. "In order to cover the course completely, these evaluations have to be made to- ward the end of the semester- but not so close that they would conflict with final exams," he said. Thus during a few days near the semester's end a student must fill out four or five evaluations. Second, there's the problem of getting meaningful responses on the questionnaire. The question- naire presently used was develop- ed a few years ago to replace an- other form used since World War II. The older form had attempted to be tightly objective, reducing an instructor's performance to a single number rating. The present questionnaire tends toward the other extreme : its questions are quite general and call for written answers from the student. The new experimental question- naire, Prof. Briggs said, is a step back toward piecision and objec- tivity. For example, the present form asks students to outline the purpose of the course, as they see it, and then to evaluate it in terms of these goals. The new form instead defines the purpose for the student. Also, the new questionnaire replaces some writ- ten-answer questions with more specific multiple-choice items. Third, "the terms used in the present form are sometimes con- fusing to the student. Many of them refer to concepts which, from the student's point of view, are not understood. The revised form attempts to clarify this," Prof. Briggs said. What becomes of the evaluation forms once they are filled out? This depends on the teacher and on departmental policy, Prof. Briggs explained. "The forms are See LSA, Page 2 PROF. LOUIS L BRIGGS ... questionnaires To Lower Funds Staff RESOLUTION: Africans Ask UN Pressure On Portugal' UNITED NATIONS (P) - Afri- cans, with Asian support, were re- ported yesterday working on reso- lutions to put United Nations pressure on Portuguese colonial- ism and on South African racism. Informed diplomats said Ghana had drawn up a resolution to have the 11-nation Security Council suggest that Portugal show will- ingness to grant independence to her African teritories by freeing political prisoners t h e r e and granting amnesty to political exiles. They said Guinea was preparing proposals that the 111-nation General Assembly demand once more that South Africa drop apartheid (race segregation) and call for relief contributions for families of persons imprisoned for opposing that policy. The informants predicted that the resolutions would be intro- duced tomorrow. They said Morocco and perhaps the Philippines would join Ghana in submitting the resolution on Portuguese territories. These sources expressed belief that Guinea would have many African and Asian co-sponsors in putting the resolutions on South Africa before the assembly's spe- cial political committee. The Guinean proposal against South Africa's racial policy was expected to follow the lines of a resolution the Security Council adopted unanimously Wednesday. The council urged South Africa to end discrimination and called on all countries to stop shipping materials for the manufacture of arms and ammunition in South Africa. The Ghanaian draft, as priv- ately circulated, would have the council confirm the assembly's 1960 definition of self-determina- tion as the right of all peoples "freely to determine their political status." The intended resolution regrets that, in talks with African delega- tions here in October, Portugal did not accept this definition, and Cites Tasks Oif Keeping Budget Low McNaInara Schedules Trip to Viet Nam After NATO Council WASHINGTON (P) -President Lyndon B. Johnson announced yesterday that the defense budget and the Pentagon payroll will be cut in the next fiscal year. But he indicated it will be diffi- cult to keep the total budget be- low $102 billion. The President also disclosed that he will address the United Nations General Assembly on Dec. 17 and is sending Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara to Saigon next week to "look over the situation" in South Viet Nam. These and a series of other an- nouncements were sprung by Johnson at an unprecedented, un- announced news conference in his office. Highlights of Talk These were some of the high- lights of Johnson's pronounce- ments: -Next year's defense budget, going to Congress in January, will be several hundred million dollars below the current level. -The number of civilian em- ployes on the Defense Department payroll will be cut below one mil- lion for the first time since 1950. By June 30, 1965, the end of the forthcoming fiscal year, the civil- ian payroll will be slashed by 25,000 from its authorized level to 997,000. Additional paro1re- ductions will be made overseas. * Starting Point -Johnson regards $102.3 billion as the starting point for calculat- ing the upcoming budget. The current budget totals $98.9 billion. The President said he hopes to be able to cut below $102.3 billion, but he left no doubt that he re- gards it as a difficult task. -McNamara will go to Saigon after attending the Dec. 16 Paris meeting of the NATO council to "make a few checks out there- not anything to be concerned about, but just to be sure that we are getting maximum efficiency" in the anti-Communist guerrilla war being waged with the help of 18,000 Americans and millions of tax dollars. -Johnsonwill go to the Penta- gon next Wednesday to talk to top officials there about his aim of promoting efficiency and elimina- ting waste in military programs. In that same connection, he said the status of all military installations is being reviewed to see if facilities can be consolidated. Money-Saving Steps In addition to detailing the pro- posed cutback in civilian employes, McNamara later outlined three other money-saving steps John- son . had approved at a morning conference which lasted more than one hour: 1) Military and civilian person- nel in defense headquarters over- seas will be cut by 15 per cent by the end of next June. 2) During the same period, there will be a 10 per cent reduction in personnel of military missions and military assistance groups abroad. 3) The number of foreign na- tionals employed by the military abroad will be cut by 15 per cent. No Estimate McNamara said he could not es- timatethe dollar savings to be achieved in these ways. But he said the contemplated measures were' part of a long-standing pro- gram to save $1.5 billion this year and $4 billion a year by fiscal 1967. The secretary said everything possible would be done to soften the blow of any firings necessary to achieve the reduction of 25,000 in the civilian payroll. ag __ T _y _- M' Beats Penn State in Mat Debut k l> By TOM ROWLAND Chris Stowell, 177-pound Michigan junior, drove Penn State's Mike Gill back for a pin and pulled a hot one out of the fire in Michigan's 1963-64 wrestling debut here last night. The Wolverines went on to nose out the Nittany Lions, 16-11, but not before Stowell's pin and a clinching decision by heavyweight Bob Spaly pulled Coach Cliff Keen's men from behind an 11-8 deficit late in the meet. It was a vengeance win for the Wolverines, who suffered their only loss last season to the Nittany Lions. Keen's crew travels to the Wilkes Tournament on Dec. 30-31 for the next mat action. Exciting Meet Pre-picked as a tough battle between two of the country's best wrestling teams, the meet last night was nothing but two straight hours of mat fireworks. A 6-6 draw at the 167-pound match between Michigan's Dave. Post and Martin Strayer sent Penn State into an 11-8 lead before Stowell took to the mats against Gill. The Michigan star gained a quick takedown and predicament to jump into a 4-0 advantage, but a penalty point and reversal by Gill closed the gap to 4-3. Stowell gained another point on a hand-locking penalty and :4,.'95 '{. . . .