The ten-year tenure of Fleming

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..dream:
The operating budget of the
University, which stood at $211 million
an 1968 has jumped to $515 million
today. The amount of financial aid to
Sstudents, volume of research, and total
plant value of the University more than
'doubled.
= Only enrollment seems unchanged
sinee Fleming's arrival. The Ann Arbor
campus enrollment of 35,099 is just
three per cent greater than what it was
11 years ago.
Only because of rapid expansion on
the Flint and Dearborn campuses
during those years has the number of
University students jumped about 18
per cent.
- FLEMING WAS a big hit with
students on his first visit here, just
three days after his selection. Stopping
in Ann Arbor in the midst of an anti-war
demonstration, Fleming rallied support
when he declared: "You cannot have a
great University without dissent."
=xOnly a few days after Fleming
officially took office, the last outpost of
hale power fell as the poolroom in the
Michigan Union opened to female
students. The action marked the final
step in a process of a gradual
integration of Union facilities since
World War II.
1But the changes in student dress and
imiorals and the loosening of University
fegulations during Fleming's tenure
Were only second in lasting importance
to a few events that rocked the Ann
Arbor campus.
IN 1968 AND 1969 bombs were to
explode at the Institute of Science and
technology building on North Campus
and at North Hall, the campus:
headquarters for ROTC.
University students' dissatisfaction
with the war mingled with the
frustration they felt over attempts o
bl'ing a student bookstore to the
eampus.
4.The Student Government Council
attempted to design proposals for the
funding of the bookstore and present
them to the Regents. At the time the
University was the only school in the
Big Ten without a student bookstore.
BUT THE REGENTS refused several
proposals offered by the SGC and other
student groups.
Less than a week after Martin Luther
King was slain in Memphis, more than
00O. black students locked the-
Administration Building from inside,
barring entry for nearly five hours. The
lockout ended when Fleming agreed to
rheet with the students and discuss
their grievances.
'As more and more students
abandoned typical collegiate activities,
the eapifpu- ftbtternity systerm faced
near eitifttion by the early seventies.,
Greeks blamed new social attitudes for
sharply declining memberships.
"THE NEW kids are all love and
peace and do your own thing. They are
a world apart from most fraternity
upperclassmen," complained one
Greek.
'A nation-wide survey by the

University's Institute of Social
Research in 1970 found intermingling of
the races on the upswing over a four-
year period. ISR's conclusions
contradicted the findings of the 1968
Kerner Commission Report which state
that the nation was heading for
separate black and white societies.
The war came home in February,
1979, when a group of students broke
into North Hall. The headquarters for
University ROTC programs was
ransacked, windows were smashed,
and trophy cases and picture frames
were destroyed. The culprits were
never identified.
ANOTHER prominent clash involved
the naming of a square. Officially
called Regent's Plaza, the cement area
in front of the Administration Building
became the sight of late night battles
not long after it was named.
A group of students called the Blue
Panthers attacked the plaza's signpost
several times - repainting Regent's
Plaza to say "People's Plaza." It was
hailed as a great day when University
maintenance crews finally let the
revised sign stand.
As late as 1970, the issue of free
speech came into play when the
Washtenaw County prosecutor charged
that the film I Am Curious (Yellow) not
be shown at the Fifth Forum theater,
calling it "obscene."
In September, Ann Arbor tenant's
right advocates pushed for recognition
by setting up a Tent City on the Diag to
oppose how the city and University
were reacting to the local housing
crunch. The effort was one of the first
public demonstrations concerning the
local housing situation.
A new culture - pinball mania -
entered dorm life in 1971. Markley,
Bursley, South Quad and the Law Quad
led the movement by installing the bell-
ringing machines in lounges. Pinballs
were soon to become big money-
making sources for dorm governments.
BUT PINBALL wasn't the only new
University craze: waterbeds began to
swamp the student body.
In March, 1971, City Council passed
the $5 pot law - bringing Ann Arbor
fame and glory among dope smokers.
August was a sad month because of the
death of Pizza Bob - Ann Arbor's
foremost pizza king.
On January 23, 1973 radio
broadcasting at the University passed
into a new era.
UNTIL THEN the only way one could
hear the student broadcasts was over
carrier currents in University dorms.
Then WCBN appeared at 89.5
megahertz on the FM dial. Station
spokesman Stuart Goldberg promised a
"free-form style" format between 9
am. and 1 a.m.
Also in that month, 18- to 20-year-olds
began drinking legally in the city's bars
and voting at the polling places.
The cafe proprietors benefitted from
the change in the age of majority.
Liberal politicians, who had hoped to
reap the benefits of the broadened
constituency, wondered why so few of

the new voters exercised their newly-
granted right.
SIX HUNDRED University students
showed that not all young people were
turning apathetic in the face of the
continuing conflict in Vietnam and
festering problems on the home front.
They began a petition campaign
aimed at obtaining 20,000 signatures
supporting the establishment of a
student-funded and controlled
consumer interest group on campus.
The petition drive was a success. The
Public Interest Research Group in
Michigan (PIRGIM) is still a major
influence on University activities.
When the state's new marijuana law
went into effect on April 1, 1972,
University students went public with

the smoking herb that had long been
kept in the closet. At the first annual
Hash Bash city police stood by and
watched as 500 hardy souls stood in the
snow and sleet smoking pot.
With most of the social changes over
with, the University's emphasis on
research has become more evident in
past years. Faculty members are now
conducting recombinant DNA
experiments which involve
transplanting the DNA of one organism
into that of another to better study the
functions of specific genes.
Several University labs have been
remodeled under federal safety
guidelines and are being used for "high
risk" DNA experiments.

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