THE RATING OF UNIVERSITIES See Page 4 Y L Seventieth Year of Editorial Freedom 4br :43 a t I PARTLY CLOUDY High-32 Low-1$ Continued cold with chance of snow flurries this afternoon. VOL. LXX, No. 98 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1960 FIVE CENTS SIX PA( Con-Con Proposal Williams Advocates College T -/f 'I haI'rwtoor 1 LANSING -) - The constitu- tional convention issue began to move today toward a showdown C E . j+ j in the Senate, possibly next week. CEEB PLACEMEN Two legislative devices for put- ting the proposition before voters E xsn InNoemerwee:ice ouEnrxams T o e b r w r ki k d o tothe floor by the Senate judiciary committee, which endorsed nei- he.Catn.MorsR-aa The advanced placement pro- Segn. Carlton H. Morris (R-Kala- mof the College Entrance Ex- mazoo), chairman, said the corn- amination Board "will cause a mittee acted merely to serve notice revolution inrAmerican educa- it is about time to get the problem tion," Samuel A. Kendrick of the out of the way and concentrate on Board said yesterday. other business. Kendrick, who is vice-president Morris Not Pleased in charge of examinations and re- Morris did not conceal his own search, was in Ann Arbor for the lack of enthusiasm for sweeping two-day third 'annual Regional constitutional reform. Conference of the Board members. Piecemeal changes, as they may Program Described be needed, to the 1908 basic char- He described the advanced' ter would suit him much better, he placement program as "12 exams said. on the college level for students He wasn't advocating any spec- doing honors work in high fic changes. school." These exams, adminis- Some Republican leaders feel tered and processed by the CEB, that GOP division on constitu- are sent to the colleges "who do tional reform has been a running What they want with them." sore for the party for several What they want with theexams weeks, and that the biggest mis- depends on the individual school. take possible now is-to leave the Some institutions give advanced problem in or on the edge of the credit, some place the students in legislative spotlight indefinitely. a special section, some give them Bagwell Asks Convention sophomore standing. Although many senators areN lukeworm, a special convention in Number Increased 1961 has been endorsed by Paul "In the past few years the num- D. Bagwell, GOP titular leader ber of high school seniors taking and by the Republican State Cen- these exams has gone up 60 to tral Committee. 70 per cent. If this continues, it Both favor the approach of the will genuinely change the Amer- League of Women Voters and the ican educational system. state Chamber of Commerce. "You see, if the mathematics A resolution reported to the exam, for example, requires a floor by the judiciary committee: command of calculus and solid could be used to put the League- geometry, these subjects have to Jaycee proposal on the ballot, or be incorporated into the senior some modification of it. math class." Alternate Proposal This pushes the trigonometry The second legislative vehicle, course back a year, the curriculum bill, would put the question to begins to be rearranged, and the votes o th sae exct erm aschain reaction of s t i f f e n i n g votrs on th -me xat -termsbe asg in 1958-with Republicans in all courses, once begun, goes back as likelihood coming out with a top- far as the late elementary school heavy majority in a rewrite con- years, hesuggensted. vention. This change in secondary edu- Full dress poor debate on what cation, he indicated, is a signif- tack to take will begin Monday cant example of the increasing night, just before Republican law- influence of the Board. makers gather for a huddle with hundreds Participate Bagwell and GOP State Chairman "We bad 80 member colleges in Lawrence B. Lindemer. 1950 and examined 75,000 stu- The conference to improve liai- dents. This year we have over 300 son between GOP legislators and member colleges, with 200 more top Republicans outside the Legis- who use our services, and expect lature was the third in a series to test 850,000 h i g h s c h o 0 1 arranged by Sen. Frank D. Beadle, seniors." GOP majority leader. Within this rapidly growing Western Section of Stat T PROGRAM: o Cause Revolution' -Associated Press wirephoto OFF TO BRAZIL-President Eisenhower saluted as he boarded the plan, at Ramey Air Force Base in Puerto Rico en route to Brazil. Brazilians Give Ike I Rusn Welcome BRASILIA, Brazil (A)-President Dwight D. Eisenhower received. a rousing reception yesterday from Brazil's President Juscelino Kubits- chek and the men building the new capital city of Brasilia. The President began a three-day tour of Brazil which associates expect will turn into a personal triumph rivaling his reception in Asia two months ago. Here in Brasilia, where only about 70,000 were available to greet plete accuracy for the exams. "We know they are flexible and econ- omical, and they have a high cor- relation co-efficient (.60) as tests go. "When they are added to the secondary school record, which is the primary admissions consider- ation in any college with good sense, they give fairly accurate in- dication of future success." Adequacy Variable The adequacy of the tests de- pends on the philosophy of the college involved, Kendrick said, and on the reason they are re- quired. The large "mid-Western schools, f or example, like to give every- one with the possibility of success access to college, and let the To1 Consider Bias PolicyT At Meetiig Student Government Council will devote two hours to debate on dis- criminatory membership policies in student organizations tonight. Ruring this time the tabled mo- tions on restrictive practices will be brought off the table. A motion by Phil Zook, '60, to make organi- zations that descriminate in se- lecting members subject to disci- plinary action effective in fall 1960, will be discussed. A motion calling for implemen- tation of the November 1959 Re- gents' Bylaw with action in the area of discriminatory practices, introduced by Babs Miller, '60, and Al Haber, '60, will also be debated. Also during the meeting, the Political Issues Club will ask per- mission to affiliate with Students for Democratic Society. SDS is not recognized by the University, and the affiliation would provide SDS with an official campus representation if and when the PIC is recognized. Also on the agenda is a motion to consider . SGC replacement of the "M" Handbook for new students. Rationale for this motion is that although the Union has discontinued the project, incoming students still need the orientation the booklet provides. freshman year do the rest of the selecting -- Michigan does this less than some others." For these schools, he indicated, the CEEB scores are not used as much. "But some of the private insti- tutions, with rigid acceptance rates, prefer to select from a great number of applicants" and tend to depend more on the test scores. Revise Exams Because of their wide and con- stantly changing use, the CEEB exams have to be revised continu- ally, Kendrick said. "In the past few years we have been changing them by adding rather than in basic structure." The additions include the Pre- liminary Scholastic Aptitude Test, a new and less expensive exam for high school juniors who for- merly had to take the regular SAT's for any advance prepara- tion. The Board has also devised "a new listening-comprehension test in languages, to go along with the new emphasis on aural-oral train- ing." An achievement test in Rus- sian will be instituted within the next two years. Essay Required "The most controversial new measure "is the writing sample- an English essay required as a part of the SAT, to be used for the first time this year. "This writing sample is a ter- ribly attractive prospect to most teachers, because it is in essay form. But it is equally difficult to process, and there is a question as to its reliability." A "good deal of research" has indicated that an essay written in a short space of time and under the stress of a testing situation, without any other indication of the student's writing ability, "is not too valuable." No ETS Comment The short essays will be passed on to the colleges without com- ment from ETS. "The real ques- tion" is can the University, or any other school, "get enough ad- ditional information out of 13,000 pieces of paper in student hand- writing" to justify use of the test. Again pointing out the dual role the CEEB plays, Kendrick added that the essay would at any rate indicate the quality of secondary school English programs, perhaps making evident the need for more emphasis on writing. him, crowds cheered and waved Group Plan Minority Aid The Ann Arbor-Washtenaw Council of Churches has developed a program to aid minority group families in finding housing. Because "many families, despite adequate incomes, cannot buy or rent housing freely on the open market in certain residential areas of Ann Arbor because of their race, color, religion or ancestry,' the service HOME (Housing Op- -portunities Made Equal) was un- dertaken at the request of the city's Human Relations Commis- sion. HOME's function is to introduce the buyer and seller or tenant and landlord by maintaining a register of property available and prospec- tive buyers or renters. After being brought together the parties negotiate their trans- actions independent of HOME. The non-commercial service is carried on by volunteers repre- senting many of the Ann Arbor Churches. "Discriminatory practices in housing violate the basic right of all people for equal opportunity to obtain housing. Such practises are harmful not only to minority groups but to the entire commu- nity and to our nation inthe world community," a pamphlet published by the Church Council reads. "Because this community iss o limited through normal chan- nels," HOME was established. In connection with this project, the Council of Churches is send- ing a letter to Ann Arbor residents who have previously signed "the statement of welcome" or one of the "covenants of open oocu- pancy." Ir T .3' ' 3.P Submit Bill To Establish New School Citizens' Committee To Continue Search For Capital Funds LANSING (A) - Gov. G. Men nen Williams yesterday expresse sympathy toward the idea of ' new state-supported Grand Valle College in the western Michiga United States and Brazilian flags. Some spilled through airport po- lice lines. Joint Declaration As the visit to Brazil began Ei- senhower joined Kubitschek in a "declaration of Brasilia" pledging their determination to help de- velop the Western Hemisphere materially and morally with the goal of "greater prosperity and harmony for all." Issuance of that declaration helped set the tenor for the 10- day trip that is to take Eisen- hower on across Brazil to Argen- tine, Chile and Uruguay on a mis- sion that he hopes will strengthen hemispheric unity and stiffen de- fenses against potential .enemies. Stress Economies S The two Presidents expressed Yconfidence in the success of a hemispheric crusade for economic development. "Economic development cannot be disassociated from the preserva- tion of peacedand democratic ights," they said. They asserted their support of ,"the fight against racial discrimi- nation" and their belief in free- dom of thought and religion. Almost all the population of Brasilia - mostly construction workers and their families-turned out to hail Eisenhower. Senate Seeks Lower Tariff For Exchange WASHINGTON (P)-The Senate yesterday ratified by a 76-14 vote a . international agreement aimed at reducing tariff and trade ob- stacles to exchange of educational, scientific and cultural materials. The action makes the United:! States a party to an agreement adopted by the general conference of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organiza- tion (UNESCO) at Florence, Italy in 1950. The "Florence agreement," to which 31 nations including one from the Communist bloc already have adhered, covers imports of books and publications, visual and auditory materials, scientific in- struments and various publications or articles for the blind. sphere of influence, the CEEB has two main functions. First, its ex- aminations aid in the "sQrting out process which has been forced on colleges" by recent admissions pressures. Its other function is to apply pressure on the secondary schools through the member colleges to improve and standardize the high school requirements. The minimum scores required by the colleges "express to the high school the desires of the col- lege, as far as academic proficien- cy is concerned." Examinations Explained The CEEB, through the Educa- tional Testing Service, gives two basic types of examinations to high school seniors: the Scholas- tic Aptitude Test, designed to test quantitative and verbal ability, and the Scholasitc Achievement Tests, which examine actual com- prehension in a specified subject area. Both of these exams are re- quired by the 300 member schools for all or some of their applicants. Kendrick did not claim com- DEAN ROBERTSON ,bold and courageous' Robertson Diseussesj MSU-O 'Plan By FAITH WEINSTEIN "I am willing to be convinced"- of the success of Michigan State University's Oakland branch, James H. Robertson, associatea dean of the literary college said yesterday. "They are doing something bold and rather courageous. They are attempting to provide the best conceivable education to students in the Oakland area." The primary difficulty with MSU-O is the difference between1 what they are, and what they want to be, between "the dreama and the reality," he added. Dream and Reality "The dream is a school where they concentrate on the essentials of education," presenting them; well and insisting on very high standards. The reality lies in the fact that the school has had to "draw its students only from the immediate area, because it lacksI residential failities," a fact which tends to lower the average stu- dent level. "Sooner or later, they; will have to either modify the dream or change the clientel." Robertson approved heartily the MSU-O basic program. "It really sounds fine. The emphasis is put on the solid subjects, language, mathematics, science, and they have a continuing program of core+ work. From my prejudiced point of view, I think this is essentially+ sound." Philosophically, Robertson said, the theory behind the creation of MSU-O as a four-year college of- fering a liberal education to the Oakland area is valid. Background Provided "If somebody survives this pro- gram and does it exceedingly well he will be well fitted for a place in society," equally well-fitted as the more technically -oriented graduate of some of the other col- leges servicing community stu- dents. Concerning the number of fail- ures after the first semester,Ro- bertson noted that "apparently there were some errors of judge- ment between the expectations and the'reality." The number of failures may just be "growing pains," however. "I don't see that the problems of MSU-O give us any grounds for smugness." Petiti oning F 9 For Elections4 To End Today Petitioning for the March 15 and 16 elections closes at 6 p.m. today. Two students took out petitions yesterday for the Union board- Richard Seifman, '61, for a general njition anr naniel nodrnmith area. He said there was no question such a college would fill a great need. "I hope the legislature will not only set up a paper charter for this institution, but also provide the wherewithal tomake-it a reality" he said. Notes 'Tremendous' Task "But you have a tremendous job ahead of you in planning and raising funds," Williams warned a citizens planning committee headed by L. William Seidman of Grand Rapids. Rep. Thomas J. Whinery (R- Grand Rapids) and 13 other west- ern Michigan legislators submitted a measure proposing creation of the new, four-year institution. No appropriation is asked the first year. "How do you plan to get start- ed?" the Governor asked the citi- zens delegation visiting his office to ask for support. "All we want the first year is official status," Seidman said. "Then we would be at least able to accept gifts, The thought is eventually we' will ask for funds and will be supported as any state institution. 'Hard Way' "We're trying to do it the hard way," Seidman admitted. "The trouble is we have no millionaires around Grand Rapids to help us, Members of the citizens com- mittee suggested the college he in- cluded in future capital outlay building projects recommended by the Governor. "I can recommend them, but it doesn't mean the legislature will pass them," Williams commented. Rep. Arnell Engstrom (R-Tra- verse City), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, pre- dicted the measure would run into trouble. 'Slim' Passage Chance "I think it has a very slim chance of passing this year," Eng- strom said. "It would take a big capital outlay to start a new col- lege and we don't have enough money for buildings now at our present colleges." Need for a state college to serve the eight-county western MIchi- gan area was shown in a survey by Dr. John X Jamrich, author- ized by the Legislature last year, the citizens' group said. The survey recommended open- ing of a new institution by 195 with an estimated enrollment of 2,500. The enrollment was ex- pected to rise to 10,000 by 1975. Proposes Board The bill proposed creation of a, nine-member board oftrustees, to be nominated by the political parties at their state conventions and elected in November. Williams was told it was hoped the city of Grand Rapids would donate a 300-acre site for the pro- posed college. Seidman had earlier this year suggested, but dismissed as fi- practical, establishing the college as a temporary branch of one of the big universities. If it were understood there was to be no permanent arrangement he said, this would help by giving immediate accreditation to .the Grand Rapids college and expedite other kinds of aid. The committee did not think a four-year college would have an adverse effect on presently exist- ing institutions, including Grand Rapids Junior College, Muskegon community, and three other small church colleges. |D -- - L f ! 3 Eisenhower Vetoes Boost Of Pollution Control Funds WASHINGTON OP) - President Dwight D. Eisenhower, as ex- pected, yesterday vetoed a bill to boost from 500 million dollars to $900 million federal aid for the next 10 years in controlling pollution of the nation's rivers and streams. Eisenhower agreed that "polluted water is a threat to the health and well-being of all our citizens." But he said it is "a uniquely local blight" and the federal gov- ernment should provide only "modest financial assistance" in combat- ting it. The federal government's principal role as Eisenhower saw it is in research, technical assistance and dealing with interstate water -. T'pollution problems beyond the COULD AFFECT POLICIES: Wiener Warns Machines May Dominate By ROBERT FARRELL "As we make machines more and more intelligent, we may find them less and less subservient and ,perhaps even dominating the formation of our policies," Prof. Norbert Wiener of the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology said yesterday. Speaking on "The Construction and Problems of Learning Ma- chines," Prof. Wiener commented on te evnlutinn ,f le,,.rnfn _ t unwanted fashions, Prof. Wiener said. "Thus, when you ask for some- thing, you'd better be sure it's what you want." And, Prof. Wiener pointed out, one can no longer count on the machine being mastered by its maker, for scientists have already developed a checker-playing ma- chine that learns from experience and can beat the man that pro- grams it after a short period of Lain that victory in terms of the game and victory in terms of na- tional security are the same," he said. Learned During War Prof. Wiener, Institute Profes- sor of mathematics at MIT and author of many books on cyber- netics and mathematics, said that he had first become interested in learning machines through aim- ing devices for anti-aircraft guns in Word War II cate one of the fundamental prop- erties of life-they could produce another machine which would act in exactly the same manner as the original. Explaining that electrical me- chanisms could be made to dupli- cate themselves from the neces- sary components, Prof. Wiener said that this seemed very much like life, which "depends on or- ganized systems being able to build other organized systems out power of a single state to handle. The House, in which the bill originated, immediately made plans to vote tomorrow on over- riding the vet. House Democratic Leader John W. McCormack of Massachusetts conceded, however, that it will be an uphill fight to muster the two- thirds majority required to over- ride. McCormack said that if the bill's backers can get some Re- publican votes it cold be pretty close. Democrats are hopeful this will happen. Statistics on passage of the measure favor Eisenhower being sustained his first veto of this I .