THREAT TO STUDENT RIGHTS See Editorial Page Lwligx ~!IaitM MOODY High-65 Low-40 Mostly cloudy, showers likely Vol. LXXXI, No. 157 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, April 13, 1971 Ten Cents esidential ollee: Four ears of innov By HESTER PULLING 25 55# ssisN %%225 55%##s5tion, has tested the educational into a community academically. evaluation by the teacher of each makin and CARLA RAPOPORT value of the planners' experi- However, only the college's sen- student's capabilities and perform- the co First of a series mental programs. ior and junior classes have gone ance in class. non-a Y Much of that program has been through every part of the original Enthusiastically greeted by fac- Top innocently enough when you see ". found by the RC community to core. Last fall, the college dis- ulty members and students alike, from theang anoachin You re college:be a worthwhile enhancement of carded it amid student and faculty RC's grading system is based on demic the gang approaching. You recog- their educations. But they have sentiment that by requiring all the premise that letter grades put ing pr hyfound the opposite to be true of students to take the same pro- students in boxes and categories in the wide lapel suits, and broad-brim- certain key elements of the col- gram, the RC was being too in- while written assessments of the Thi med hats. As they approach, you Af ylege's program, which have con- flexible-and not taking into ac- student more accurately portray a by lit notice machine guns casually sequently been discarded. count the needs of the individual student's potential. Alfred slung over their shoulders. . ...................................In one of the most heated student. Another basic element of the month But others pay no attention debates in the college's history, college revolved around the foun- RC's f to the sinister group. Several cats graduate education - The Resi- In the summer of 1967, part of the core program - perhaps the Freshman seminar-the English ders' concept of education in the be ch walk by with ardent indifference- dential College. the dorm was swiftly converted to cornerstone of the founders' con- composition course-and the for- classroom. With the belief that of the The 24-hour bridge game con- A division of the literary col- college as trunk rooms changed ception of the Residential College eign language program tillere- education cannot be imposed on sarily, tinues with hardly a glance, and lege, the RC was conceived in to classrooms and lounges to of- -was thus disbanded. students, RC's planners set up will f students pass without concern, the mid-1960's by a group of fices, making way for the Univer- The c o r e curriculum required of the core program has been small and unstructured classes to results Only a visitor to East Quad would University faculty members who sity's first living-learning student every student in the college to discontinued, allow greater participation of each Mos be startled by the cast of another envisioned the new college as an community. take a sequence of specially-de- O t h e r experimental programs student, and to encourage rela- the co student-run movie. answer to the growing size and Now, four years after opening signed liberal arts courses, cover- started at Residential College, tionships to develop and continue theirc Four years ago, however, there impersonality of the University. its doors, some 100 liberal arts ing English composition, foreign however, have met with more suc- outside the classroom. family were neither cats nor movie They also planned the college students will be the first class to language, social science and the cess. In a bold departure from Essential to the college commu- For cameras at the quad. In the fall to serve as a sounding board for graduate- from the Residential humanities. traditional grading methods, RC nity has been RC's governing body the R of 1967, engineering students were innovative experiments in under- College. The college's founders believed set up a special pass-fail grading - the Representative Assembly. this p bumped out of the dorm to make graduate education, which, if suc- Over the four years, the col- that by taking a unified academic system. Composed half of students and know ropm for the University's most cessful, could then be exported lege's pioneer class, along with program for the first two years in The unique factor of this grad- half of faculty and administrators, ing th ambitious experiment in under- back to the parent college., the RC faculty and administra- the college, students would develop ing method is an extensive prose the assembly is the chief decision- Twelve Pages rition g body for all issues facing llege - both academic and cademic. ics of concern have ranged heated disputes over aca- requirements to the grow- oblem of animal excrement quad. s week, a committee selected erary college acting Dean Sussman, will begin several s of intensive study of the irst four-year cycle, and will arged with evaluating each college's programs. Neces- student opinion of the RC igure prominently in their t students talk proudly of llege's programs-- assessing college as they might a close member. instance, one senior says of tesidential College, "I love lace, I guess it's because I nearly everyonehere includ- e dean. But quite simply, I See RC, Page 7 SPRING PEACE OFFENSIVE r ofs Local groups set war protest oppose By CHUCK WILBUR As the term's end approaches, campus anti-war groups are mobilizing students for the spring offensive against the war in Indochina. Organizing efforts center on the massive anti-war dem- onstrations scheduled April 24 in Washington, sponsored by the National Peace Action Coalition (NPAC), and co-spon- sored by the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice (PCPJ), which is also sponsoring Mayday actions. student-faculty Another campus group,, ,St Poindexter acquitted in Davis case NEW YORK (P)-A federal court jury acquitted David Poindexter yesterday of harboring black mili- tant Angela Davis while she was sought by the FBI on murder-kid- rpp charges. The jury took two hours and 10 minutes to reach its verdict. There were cries of joy and relief among courtroom spectators. Poindexter, 36, later told news- men, "This is a minor skirmish in a big war. The major battle s in California over Angela." One of the issues at the trial was whether Poindexter knew, from news media, that Davis was a fugitive. As he left the courthouse Poin- dexter, "deeply relieved to be a ~ree man again," was asked what e would do next. He quipped: "I'm going to do what I've done all my life-go home and watch TV and read a newspaper." Summations to the U.S. District Court jury of seven men and five women were made by defense coun- sel Stanley Arkin and Asst. U.S. *tty. John Doyle III on the fifth day of the trial. Judge John Cannella instructed the jury it would have to acquit Poindexter if it believed he had no knowledge of the federal warrant against Davis in connection with a fatal courthouse shootout in Cali- 4ornia last summer. Poindexter later was arrested with Davis at a New York City motel. The shootings took the lives of a judge and three other persons. Davis is accused of buying the guns used in the killing, but not actually being at the scene. tudent Mobilization Committee C (SMC) is concentrating . on sending students to the April 24 demonstration, according to SMC member Sue Faurot. Sales of $25 round-trip bus tickets to Washington have been small, Faurot said. "Many stu- dents have finals that prevent them from going for the 24th so they are going to the Mayday actions instead," she said. Faurot added that ticket sales in area high schools have been more suc- cessful than campus sales. In addition to ticket sales, SMC is conducting a publicity campaign for the demonstration, including leafleting and information tables. SMC has no specific plans for activity beyond the April 24 dem- onstration, according to SMC member Peter Stein. Students for the Peace Treaty, a campus group supporting the Peo- ple's Peace Treaty negotiated by members of the national Student Association with anti-war forces in Indochina, is mobilizing stu- dents for the series of demon- strations. LSA. By SARA FITZGERALD and JOHN MITCHELL The LSA faculty yesterday rejected by a straw vote a pro- posal to establish a legislative assembly of students and fa- culty members to govern the literary college. Decisions on three other propos- als, which would all create various student-faculty policy committees, were postponed as Acting LSA Dean Alfred Sussman adjourned the heated meeting "to allow time for further discussion." Sussman said he would convene a faculty meeting specifically to consider the governance propos- als. In other action, the faculty ap- proved a pass/fail gfading system for the Course Mart program. The approval came as an amendment to a report made by the Course Mart Committee. By unofficially rejecting the legislative council proposal, the faculty turned down a plan for a representative body of 40 faculty members and 40 students which would have assumed the legislative functions of the LSA faculty, with the assembly's actions subject to faculty review. The LSA student government last night passed a resolution which condemned the governing faculty for "its failure to enact any proposal providing for stu- dent involvement and decision- making." The statement went on to say, "Judging from their own disord- erly meeting, it is the faculty, not the students, who proved them- selves incapable of self-govern- ment. They consistently and sys- tematically moved away from the proposals of the Student-Fa- culty governance committee, in- dicating that student input, when channelled into committees, is not See LSA, Page 12 legislature -Daily-Jim Wallace PUBLICITY for spring anti-war activities includes the graffiti slogans on walls and sidewalks which have recently appeared. The bottom slogan refers to the Mayday actions in Washington, which aim to shut down government operations. Dean Sussman James Bridges "While we are emphasizing the HEARING TOMORROW: Mayday actions, we are also urg-_ ing people to go to the April 24 demonstration and to stay in- Washington throughout the May- day actions," says Joel Siverstein,ss a peace treaty organizerEistis cas the presentation to the govern- The basic scenario for the May-, ent of PCPJ's three demands: guaranteed annual income of $6,500 for families of four; re- By ZACHARY SCHILLER Marshall R lease of all political prisoners; ing that E and seting a date for the with- Tomorrow's hearing of John Student E drawal of all U.S. forces from Eustis, '73, on charges stemming'ued all Indochina-the major point of the from a Feb. 19 demonstration, will urg . People's Peace. mark the first use of the controver- hearing. Tha dnl e challenges aterim rules Ei-ht-term poicy draws criticism from students The LSA Administrative Board's policy of limiting literary college enrollment to eight terms has met with sharp criticism from students, student governments and counselors in the Office of Student Services (OSS). While most persons questioned agreed that such a policy might be necessitated by the tight enrollment squeeze in the literary college, they objected to the way the policy was pass- ed and its being implemented. "It's a touchy question whether the policy should exist," James Bridges, '72, president of the LSA student government Russell Downing, charg- ustis assaulted Downing. Government Council has students to attend the ides that a hearing le coae prvle 1d iai If te gvernentdoesnotsial Regents Interim Rules and " U IW~. If the government does not Disciplinary Procedures formulated officer be appointed by the Univer- meet the demands, organizers have Du asity president to hear each report- said, demonstrators plan to en- in April, 1970. ed instance of alleged infraction. gage in nonviolent civil disobed- Eustis's hearing, scheduled for President Robben Fleming has ap- ience. on May 3 and 4, with the 9:30 a.m. at the North Campus pointed Detroit attorney Theodore goal of stopping all Washington- Commons, stems from a complaint Souris, a former justice of the based government operations. ,filed last month by University Fire Michigan Supreme Court, to hear Eustis's case. ued, "said that in all the years she had been on the Board, "this docu- ment (of the interim rules) was one of the 'most significant' she had seen," according to the min- utes of the meeting" (at which they were passed). "Further, these rules, in the words of Regent Robert Nederland- er, (D-Birmingham), were, "for the political trials," Hayes added. See EUSTIS, Page 12 UN. 7-ton bombs, pound VitsFire Base 6 SAIGON (P) - U.S. planes are dropping 7.5-ton blockbusters on North Vietnamese troops laying siege to Fire Base 6 near the Laotian border, Amer- ican military sources said yesterday. It is the first time in the war that the huge bombs have been used against Communist soldiers. They previously were employed to make instant helicop- ter landing zones by blasting away jungle growth. Now they have been adapted as anti-personnel Souris has sent Fleming a letter explaining his objections to the rules, particularly since they allow the University to delegate respon- sibility for student "to one outside the University." Since their inception, the code has been criticized by both stu- dents and faculty members. Oppon- ents have charged that the rules violate the defendant's "basic rights" in judicial proceedings. These rights include trial by one's peers and the guarantee that the defendant be present at his trial. The regular code allows the hear- ing officer both to bar the defend- ant from the trial if he becomes "disruptive" and to hold the trial without him if he fails to appear. Male-only rule could keep Berstein off board By TED STEIN A 1964 Regents bylaw stipu- lating that only male students may be elected to the Board-in- Control of Intercollegiate Ath- letics has cast serious doubt on the eligibility of representative- elect Rose Sue Berstein, '73, to serve on that body. Berstein, the first female eleted to the Board, received a Donald Lund, Assistant Ath- letic Director, said that although he couldn't see any reason for the bylaw stipulation: "Accord- ing to rules and regulations, Tom (Kettinger) should be the guy" to be the representative on the Board. Tom Kettinger, runner-up in the election for the Board seat said last night that he believes >said, "because people should be able to pace themselves, yet enrollment is very tight at the University." "However," Bridges maintained, "I think the Ad Board sh6uld have held open hearings like those held on the LSA governance proposal. The board should also have noti- fied students earlier than now that they couldn't enroll in the fall." George Chu, '71, was mistakenly sent notice that he could not re- enroll because the Board said he had accumulated only 95 cred- its when he really had 104. "Be- fore the board sends out a letter," Chu said, "they should call the student in and arrive at a mu- tual decision. However, one Ad board member told me there .... ~C*XO".".