PREVIEW
EDITION
Seventieth Year of Editorial Freedom
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PREVIEW
EDITION
TY-FOUR PAGES
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1959
TWENTY-FOUR
tudents See Cuban Revolution
INCLUDES 'U':
Bill Lists
Building-
Outlays
a ..
i
'U' Officials Exp
Record Enrollme:
Literary College Total Swells,
Numbers Drop in Engineering
)uring Week as Havana
Guests
legation
eludes
I
U Students
group from America
Disagrees with Most
On Insight Gained
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Daily Editor
Thomas Turner, '60, and Student
Government Council Treasurer
Iohn Feldkamp, '61, were among
L90 National Student Congress par-
tieipants given free trips to Cuba.)
By THOMAS TURNER
Daily Editor
American students participating
"Operation Friendship" disagree
rongly both on the morality and
tances for success of the Cuban
evolution.
But they agree that they, unlike
ost Americans, have gained some
the insight evaluation of the
volution requires.
For a week, the visitors lived in
avana's finest hotels and were
ternately "partied" and educated.
'ey saw beaches, cooperative
,rms, night clubs and a swamp
clamation project.
Land Reform Stressed
More program time was devoted
r the agrarian reform than to any
her aspect of revolutionary Cuba.
A university reform plan, under
hich a board in each college,
ade up of three professors and
wo students, would "try" faculty
embers accused of anti-student
>llaboration with the Batista gov-
-nment also attracted consider-
ble attention.
Havana Group Hosts
Hosts for the program were
embers of the Federation of Uni-
ersity Students (FEU), of the
rilversity of Havana. Their orgi'
al Optraton Friendship brought
25 Americans to Cuba for a week
t a cost of less than $200 per
erson.;
FEU supplemented this original
rogram by inviting 190 partici-
ants in the National Student
ongress to visit Cuba free.
One group of 95 left for Cuba
amediately after the Champaign
ongress,. the other waited several
ays to leave.
Voice Dissatisfaction
The original Operation Friend-
lip participants complained the
EU ignored them as soon as the
rst group from the congress ar-
ved.
And some members of the second
roup from the congress said their1
osts never got around to pro-
ramming adequately for them.
One student claimed to have
assed the major portion of his
ay in Cuba sitting in parked
uses.
Said 'Worthwhile'
But dissatisfaction with the phy-
cal arrangements was balanced,
lany said, by a conviction the trip
,ad been very worthwhile.
A specific source of both com-
laint and interest was the sched-
led speech by Fidel Castro.
The young premier apparently
as forced to cancel a luncheon
ngagement with the American
sitors, but decided to speak to
hem that evening.
Assemble Early
The students assembled at a
oolside terrace at 8:30 and began
o wait. By 11 p.m. the punch
ad run out and there was still
o sign of Castro. Students who
ied to leave were met at the door
y bearded soldiers and told polite-
' but firmly the doors were closed.
Too many Cubans would come
, they explained.
Castro arrived at 1:30 a.m., wear-
ig an olive drab uniform and
noking a cigar. He was immedi-
tely surrounded by a jostling
See U. S. STUDENTS, Page 12
Dail Seeks
dew Tryouts
.or Sta ffs
AGRARIAN REFORM - Exhibits of shiny new tractors cover the lawn of the Capitol in Havana,
collection canisters stand in airport corridors, hotel lobbies and stores, and posters cover fences
and walls. The agrarian reform is the heart of Castro's Cuban revolution} and on its success the
revolution stands or falls.
ADD DEAN:
A nnounce
New Posts
John M. Hale, formerly senior
director of men's residence halls,
has been appointed sixth assistant
dean of men.
In announcing the appointment
last month, Dean of Men Walter
B. Rea said the new position will
involve the "area of residence
halls programming and policy-
making."
Mark G. Noffsinger, resident di-
rector of South Quadrangle for
the past three years, has taken
the post formerly held by Hale as
senior director of the quadrangle.
Daniel R. Van Eyck has become
resident director of West Quad-
rangle. He was resident advisor
of Michigan House for one and
one-half years.
John H. Taylor, formerly direc-
tor of admissions and counselor
of men at Kendall College, Evans-
ton, Ill., has been appointed to
the position of resident director
of East Quadrangle.
Louis C. Rice has become assist-'
ant to the dean of men and ad-
visor to fraternities on a half-
time basis.
William G. Cross, assistant dean
of men, has been transferred to
the off-campus housing depart-
ment, replacing Alvin M. Elders-
veld, who resigned.
Cross will continue to deal with
some areas concerning fraternities
and will aid in handling Univer-
sity automobile regulations.
A new assistant dean position
dealing with the establishment of
policies and programs for men's
residence halls was created, Rea
said, because the system "is such
an important and demanding por-
tion of our area of responsibility
that it was felt someone should
coordinate such a program.
NSA Adopts
Nuclear Test
Resolution
Congress Also Asks
Free Student Press
After nine hours of debate, the
National Student Congress adopt-
ed a resolution encouraging its
members to inform themselves on
the issue of nuclear weapons test-
ing.
The major point of contention
was whether or not nuclear wea-
pons testing concerned students
"in their role as students," as the
National Student Association con-
stitution says all issues considered
must.
The congress was held on the
campus of the University of fl-
nois from Aug. 24 to Sept. 3.
Twelve hundied students partici-
pated.
Amend Press Resolution
The body amended its Freedom
of the Student Press resolution to
declare for student editors the
right to discuss any subject within
"the legal restrictions of civil or
criminal laws against libel, por-
nography, or indecency, and with-
in the limits of the consciences of
the editors."
A qualification excepting re-
ligious matters in "those institu-
tions which have previously and
legally affirmed their control over
such matters in the college" had
formerly been included.
Loyalty oaths and disclaimer
affidavits, required of students
under section 1001 (f) of the Na-
tional Defense Education Act, were
condemned by the congress.
The House Un-American Acti-
vities Committee was urged to
take "every possible precaution"
to avoid further violations of aca-
demic and constitutional free-
doms."
NSA adopted its first general
statement of the Aims of Educa-
tion, but without the two-thirds
vote necessary to its becoming a
Basic Policy Declaration.
Charge Individual Forgotten
"In the haste to bring more
education to more people, and .as
a result of the change in the em-
phasis of education from academ-
ie. achievement -to social adjust-
ment, the individual - the cen-
ter of the educational process -
has been forgotten," the resolu-
tion said in part. (The complete
text appears on page two).
In other action, the. congress
adopted a resolution condemning
Communism's interference with
higher education.
Many supporters of the resolu-
tion admitted it was designed to
meet charges of Communist influ-
ence in NSA, charges particular-
ly prevalent in the South.
A motion to also condemn
"Fascism, murder, slavery, rob-
bery and incest, and support God,
the American flag, sunshine and
Motherhood" was ruled out of
order.
An attempt to eliminate NSA's
stand supporting action against
fraternity bias clauses was sound-
ly defeated.
A bill including a prospective
outlay of $1,850,000 for construc-
tion and capital improvements at
the University now faces a House-
Senate conference committee.
It is part of an overall capital
outlay bill for the state which will
appropriate between $12 and $15
million, most of it to schools and
hospitals.
Funds projected for the Univer-
sity include:
1) An important $800,000 to
finance plans and the start of3
consrtuction of the Institute of
Science and Technology. , Esti-
mated cost for the first unit of
the Institute is $1.9 million. It
will house mostly wet and dry
laboratories.
Medical Repairs
2) $850,000 will go for remodel-
ing the West Medical Building, a
building cited by the Board of
Regents' capital outlay request as
one of the "older facilities whose
usefulness and efficiency. are se-
verely handicapped due to age and
obsolescence." When renovated, it
will house natural resources for
the literary college.
3) $200,000 will enable workers
to start general renovations for
the University Hospital. Moderni-
zation here may eventually run to
$3 or $3.5 million, Vice-President
in charge of Business and Finance
Wilbur K. Pierpont predicted.
The bill has already passed both
the Senate and the House, but in
different forms.
Differences Discussed
The conference committee is
currently attempting to iron out
the differences, which University
Vice-President William E. Stirton
suggested "are exclusive of the
University's Interest."
In its capital outlay request,
the University lays down a con-
struction program which reflects
two major influences: expected
higher enrollments and natural
obsolescence.
The report mentions, "With the
current restriction on state sup-
port for planning and construction
at the University, we have lost
valuable time in our efforts to
keep our educational plant facili-
ties in balance with expanding
teaching and research building re-
quirements."
Top Priority
Immediate emphasis is placed
on music, medicine and dentistry,
engineering, nuclear physics and
the other physical sciences, and
education and architecture.
Number one on the University's
list was a new music school to be
built on the North Campus. Other
requests for new construction in-
cluded a fluids engineering build-
ing, physics and astronomy build-
ing, a heating plant and services
building, and education school and
architecture school building.'
The University's new construc-
tion request listed 25 new build-
ings which would cost $13,853,000
for the 1959-60 fiscal year.
Remodeling and additions re-
quests totalled $1,415,000 for work
on eight buildings.
In addition, special maintenance
funds were asked.
Four hundred thousand dollars
would cover renovation for teach-
ing laboratories and elevators, re-
placement of outworn flooring and
other surface repairs, and electri-
cal power distribution and lighting
facilities, the University said.
By NAN MARKEL
An "unusually heavy" literary school enrollment, with registry
in engineering lighter than usual, is expected to bring University
rollment to a record total of 24,000 by tomorrow.
Enrollment last semester totalled 23,891.
The trend toward liberal arts is nation-wide, since the sput
sparked run to engineering has worn off, Vice-President in chars
Student Affairs James A. Lewis noted. Registration in the Univers
other schools seem to be remain-
ing constant, Lewis said.
Freshmen Increase
Of this fall's 24,000, 3,236 will be
first semester freshmen, he said.
This marks an approximate 150
person increase in the freshman
class.;
The big variable, Lewis said, will
be the number of returning stu-
dents. He noted that there are
about three or four hundred stu-
dents' who may or may not return.
Some of these will be students who
dropped out during last year's re-
cession for financial reasons.
About a third of the 24,000 will
be graduate students, Edward G.
Grbesbeck, director of the Office
of Records and Registration, ex-
plained. Therenwill be half as many
women as men.
Registration Smooth
"On the whole," Groesbeck re-
marked, "registration is running
smooth as silk" Lines which built
up in the early morning Wednes-
day rush have been eliminated,
he said.
Andwhile most of the 24,000
pick up where they left off, the
largest number of freshmen and
transfer students ever to take part
in the University's orientation pro-
grams have been indoctrinated.
Monday 1,536 freshmen came to
campus, and they were joined
Tuesday evening by the 1,700 who
had been summer-oriented.
The summer orientation groups
came to the University for two-
and-one-half day periods, when
they received counseling, took a
battery of tests, had identification
pictures and chest x-rays taken.
The non-summer oriented groups,
went through this procedure Mon-
day and Tuesday.
Two Students
From Russia
May Attend 'U'
Two exchange students from
Russia may attend, the University
this semester.
One from Russia will arrive at
the University sometime this
month, according to a recent arti-
cle in the New York Times.
The student, P. I. Chalenko, is
interested in the solutions of inte-
gral equations, which he will study
at the University.
Prof. Deming B. Brown of the
Slavic languages and liter'atures
department has also received word
that another exchange student, G.
Kh. Korogluyev will attend the
University this year to study lin-
guistics.
Lyle M.. Nelson, director of Uni-
versity relations, said no official
information has been received
from either student. Both were
scheduled to arrive at the Univer-
sity for the beginning of the se-1
mester.
Russian students coming to the
United States various universities.
last year under the same program
did not arrive until October, Nel-
son explained.
COSMOPOLITAN HAVANA-The capital city contains an over-
whelming percentage of Cuba's wealth. The rest of the island,
while potentially very rich, is still quite backward.
DEBATE NEW PROGRAM:
State TaxStruggle
Continues in Lansing
By JUDITH DONER
Out of state students cannot be indifferent to Michigan's tax
problems, for they will be subject to the one penny increase in the
state sales tax effected Sept. 1.
Termed a "use" tax, the levy was passed after seven and a half
months of legislative wrangling as part of a tax package expected to
net $128.5 million for the state. Also included in the new program is aj
higher business activities tax re-<
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV
. . on U. S. tour
Professors
view Visit
'Of Red Boss
By ROBERT GREENES
"The speeches of Nikita Khrus
chev before the National Pre
Club indicate that he is still
fanatical communist with blinde
on his eyes about the world an
the United States," Prof. Willia
B.-Ballis of the political scien
department, said.
"He seems more human thi
Stalin and perhaps not so rut
less, but by no means does he b
lieve in the give-and-take of pa
liamentary government in' t
free enterprise economy," Pro
Ballis explained. 4
"He does definitely want mc
trade with the United States," t
professor commented. "That
probably the most important re
son he is here."
No Other Choice
"We had no other choice but
accept his visit," Prof. Ballis co
tinued, "because he wanted
much to come. He certainly wot
have made political capital of 1
refusal.
"The fact that the exchange
taking place is a healthy sign
Prof. J. David Singer of the pc
tical science department said.
"It indicates an awareness
both governments that tradition
techniques of diplomacy are rat
er inadequate for the resolution
certain forms of conflict," he sa
"In a sense," he pointed o
"the exchange is a reflection
the new diplomacy and of the n
balance of power."
New Balance
When one state has a huge i
balance of power on its side,]
explained, neither state wants
risk negotiations; but when I
disparity becomes lessened, neg
tiations become advantageous
both states.
"It seems likely," Prof. Sini
speculated, "that the exchang
will lead to a breakthrough in d
armament negotiations, and t
is the most crucial aspect of wo
politics today," since the milita
capability of each side in lts
represents the major obstacle
political settlements or to tens:
reduction."
Discrimn1atioi
Report Given
The Interfraternity Coun
Selectivity Study Committee's fi
report will be submitted to
troactive to July 1 and a tax on
bank deposits.
Call Constitutional Question
But a question of constitution-
ality has been called on the useI
tax and Senate Republicans are'
now advocating repeal of the new
business taxes.
Democrats waited only a day
after Governor G. Mennen Wil-
liams had affixed his signature to
the new tax program before they
charged that the use tax was il-
legal. They say it violates the three
cent ceiling which the state con-
stitution places on the sales tax.
A decision from the State Su-
preme Court is expected by late
October.
Republicans, pointing to the re-
cently released Upjohn Institute
Report citing Michigan's loss of
.130,000 jobs since 1953, say the
business taxes will keep new in-
dustry from the state.
Introduce Bill
HIDDEN FOUR YEARS IN CHURCH:
Student Attic-Dweller Returning to Classes
Chheng Guan Lim, the former engineering student who spent
four years in the attic of a local church, will begin classes Monday.
He will be a junior in the literary college.
Lim, a native of Singapore, transferred to the University from
Albion College in 1952. He was sponsored by the First Methodist'
Church and received financial assistance from various friends.I
By 1954 his academic record in mathematics and physics had
started to slip and in 1955 he failed two courses. At the same time his
funds ran out and he decided not to request more money from his
friends.
He did not enroll for the fall semester, threw his identification
into the Huron River and began living under the rafters of the
Methodist Church where he had been a janitor. He stayed there until
Aug. 31 when a night watchman heard footsteps.
Ann Arbor police were called and Lim's hiding place was dis-
covered when they searched the building. When found he was wearing
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