Page Eight Wednesday, October 11, 19T2 THE MICHIGAN DAILY POSSIBLE GRADING SYSTEM' Law School may start pass-fail Dems split; over rep , TV SPEECH: McGovern promises to send Slides, golf used in class (Continued from Page 1) By CHARLES STEIN worked out, the plan would prob- The University's Law School is ably be similar to one used at currently studying possible changes Yale, where a student can receive in the school's traditional grading grades of "pass," "high pass" and system, including the institution "honors." If such a system were of a pass-fail policy for the fresh- implemented, the entire grade man year. point system would naturally be Now before the Law School fac- eliminated. ulty, the set of proposals were According to Cooperrider, the drawn up by the Academic Stan- recommendations evolved over dards and Incentives Committee, a several years and were based in student-faculty body, headed by part upon results of student sur- Prof. Luke Cooperrider. veys which indicated student sup- Besides the pass-fail recommen- Commenting on the pass-fail pro- dation, other proposals involve re- posal Cooperrider said, "The forml ofthethes-school'sooenine-tiered"Th form of the school's nine-tiered thought behind it was that students letter grading policy. To replace in their first year of Law School the present structure, the com- are facing a new kind of study ex- mittee has suggested substituting perience and a new kind of pres- verbal categories for letters and sure. reducing the number of possible "They are up against much stif- grades. fer competition than they are; ac- Although no specifics have been customed to, and as a result, they are somewhat uncertain as where they stand." to At least one more faculty meet-i (al a Ute ing will be held on the proposals, and Cooperrider hinted that theyf would almost certainly be modi- (Continued from Page 1) fied if they are indeed approved comment on his refusal to do su. at all. He added, however, that if Faber said, "I'm not withholding the reforms are endorsed they support. It's just that I don't know might be ready for implementation Perry (Bullard) all that well. I by the end of the semester. can't give my name to everybody A much less optimistic view of -I would lose all credibility," he the possibilities for reform was said. offered by Tom Koernke, a second While acknowledging some diffi- year law student and a member culty in pulling disaffected Demo- heS S-fa eh b crats behind his campaign effort, "The pass-fail issue has been Bullard denied there was any real supported by students for a long party split. time," Koernke said, "but the " bureaucracy has been dragging itsI "Certainly there were a lot of heels on the matter." g I people in the leadership (of the Koernke pointed to a referendum party) who opposed me in the pri- last spring which he said showed mary. I think most of them are 85 per cent of the student body to backing me at this point. There are be in favor of some form of pass- a lot of hard feelings, however," fail grading. he said. "It's really somewhat absurd to "They (the defecting Democrats) ask law professors to act on these are not people who have been ac- reforms," Koernke added. "After tive.ntpeopetwhoThe been ac- all, these are people for whom the system has worked very well. They basically composed of unimportant have no real reason to change it." people," he added. k}I1 .1. V GU.. SAPXII(LII VL, L11. (Continued from Page 1) cease-fire, as called for by Presi- dent Nixon as a condition for U.S. withdrawal, and it would pledge the United States to stay out of "the internal politics of Vietnam." Nixon's terms also have speci- fied release of U.S. prisoners as a pre-requisite for a U.S. pullout. He has repeatedly stressed he is against imposition of a communist government on South Vietnam by force. McGovern said he would "oppose any so-called war crimes trial to fix the blame for the past of any citizen or group of citizens. This is not the time for recrimination. It is a time for reconciliation.. He said also young Americans who chose jail or exile because of the Vietnam war would be given an unqualified "opportunity to come home" once the war were ended, all troops and prisoners were returned and veterans had been provided with "either a good job or a fully funded education.' McGovern depicted V i e t n a m policy as representing "the sharp- est and most important differ- ence" between himself and Nixon in the 1972 campaign. "Mr. Nixon described the Viet- nam war as our finest hour. I re- gard it as the saddest chapter in our national history," he said. He said Nixon broke a 1968 cam- paign promise to end the war. Another feature of the campaign talk was a denunciation of the Saigon government headed by President Nguyen Van Thieu. Saying that it is Nixon's position "that the Thieu regime represents self-determination for the people of f outh Vietnam," McGovern said, ''I think our support for Gen. Thieu actually denies the people of South Vietnam the right to choose their own government. The Saigon law- yer, a former president of Rotary International, who had the cour- age to run against Gen. Thieu four I'' .1'U l,'IL UHistory Prof. John Bowditch's class on European history from years ago, was sent to jail for five 1850-1870, for example, reportedly yeafs: spent its first session last term "Last year, Gen. Thieu issued discussing the high cost of plumb- a decree to force all other candi- ing and the ten most important dates out of the race. This year, persons in the 20th century.x he abolished all local elections, so he could extend his dictatorship Bowditch said yesterday he had to every village in South Vietnam," no objections to making associa- McGovern added. tions between the subject matter of After accusing Thieu of closing newspapers "simply for printing the truth," McGovern alleged that the head of the Saigon government "has presided over the execution of 40,000 people without trial on more suspicion that they did not support his policies." McGovern aides said the 40,000 figure came from a South Vietna- mese report on the numbers of victims of controversial "Opera- tion Phoenix"-an attempt to de- stroy the communistinfrastructure in that country - by assassination when necessary. a particular course and current events. He did not, however, dew fend Green's actions, saying he was unfamiliar with the exact cir cumstances of the case. Each year journalism Prof. John Stevens, in the midst of his course on the history of the media in America, devotes a class meeting to a film of the 30 best-rated TV commercials of the year. And psychology Prof. Robert Bjork teaches his students how to swing a golf club as part of class session on skill learning. today .. The speech was1 CBS affiliates. broadcast on 153 (Continued from Page 1) today through Friday from 3:30 to 6 p.m. at the Tribal Council warehouse on First Street between Liberty and William. Manson's new home FOLSOM-Convicted mass murderer Charles Manson has a new home: a maximum security cellblock at California's Folsom Prison. Manson had been living on death row in San Quentin. War news While American bombers. pounded targets throughout South- east Asia yesterday, Presidential Advisor Henry Kissinger con- tinued his secret talks with the Communists in Paris, and agreed to meet with them again today. The White House continued to squelch rumors of a possible peace agreement, and would not comment on the nature of the talks, which are now entering their fourth day. Blue law blues NASHVILLE-Judge Andrew Doyle has offered a solution to a debate over whether to enforce the blue law: Shut the town down, from preachers to picture shows. Doyle told Nashville police yesterday that, if the law is to be enforced, "bring me every preacher that preaches on Sunday, every bus that runs on Sunday, every picture show that opens on Sunday, any person caught driving a car on Sunday... . We are going to close this town down." The judge, apparently displeased with the city -council's failure to repeal the law despite passage of a special referendum, said the councilmen "have got their heads hid in a pile of hay." Prof's suspension stirs faculty, student protest 4 (Continued from Page 1) Green's performance of the teach- ing duties assigned to him in con- nection with Chemistry 227." Rhodes further explained this recommendation saying that "we (LSA) want to allow Prof. Green the opportunity to have his teach- ing as a whole reviewed, rather than just one isolated incident." When contacted about Green's charge, D u n n explained that "Rhodes is trying to give the com- mittee enough room to allow them to do what they want. But the hearing will focus on the slide shows." Dunn said that in light of Rhodes' memo, the review com- mittee will be elected by the entire chemistry department faculty and that committee members will be announced no later than tomorrow afternoon. Questions over Green's actions arose when he showed a half-hour anti-war slide show to each of his three classes last Thursday and Friday. The exhibition - distributed by the Interfaith Council for Peace- depicts how U. S. technology is used to conduct the air war in Vietnam. After viewing a 1:00 p.m. show- ing of the slide presentation on Thursday, Dunn sent a strongly- worded warning to Green regard- ing the 'Misuse of Chemistry 227 Class Time." The memo states: "I have al- ready pointed out to you in my last letter that you are forcingj things upon your students under the guise of conducting the Chem- istry 227 class and that this is ab- solutely inadmissable." Dunn added that Green's actions had put him "in the position where some administrative action will need to be taken" and also that the situation would "only be ex- acerbated by a repeat perform- ance of the material presented in your class time yesterday (and which I attended)." Nevertheless, Green showed the presentation at his 1:00 Friday section. Yesterday he defended the rele- vance of including the slide show saying "that any professor of sci- ence in this University who is im- parting technological knowledge to his students has the obligation to point out the relevancy of their potential skills - such as how scientifically - based corporations use them." Dunn informed Green Mon- day that he was relieved of his teaching duties pending a review of his actions. Yesterday, Dunn said "it was his decision" to suspend Green, al- though a body of chemistry pro- fessors who co-ordinate teaching assignments later concurred with him. He said that the cause for the suspension was "primarily" the slide show, although he added, "You (The Daily) don't know the substance of the thing." Dunn declined to discuss the suspension further adding that "it would not do any good to publicize these things prior to the inquiry." DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN r/.".'r:'f""' r +.;. r:-'. '.: ;: r ."o :' :r :?.f :E4:"?'?wf"': w y ?rn m.::.%y>, % . The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the Univer- sity of Michigan. Notices should be sent in TYPFWRITTEN FORM to 449 E. Jefferson, before 2 p.m. of the dy preceding publication and by 2 p.m. Friday for Saturday and Sunday. Items appear once only. Student organization notices are not accepted for publication. For more information, phone 764-9270. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11 DAY CALENDAR Commission for women: Homer Heath Lounge, Union, 11 am. Anatomy Seminar: D. S. Strachan, "Educational Resources at the U-M School of Dentistry," 4804 Med. Set. II, 1:10 pm. Physics Colloauium: R. Richardson, Musical Society: Beryozka Dance Co., Power Ctr., 8 pm. Grad Coffee Hour: E. Conf. Rm., Rackham, 8 pm. Rive Gauche: "Archeological Excava- tion in Syria," 1024 Hill St., 9 pm. CAREER PLANNING & PLACEMENT 3200 SAB Action/Peace Corps/Vista will be on campus on Oct. 17, 18, 19, Rm 3529 SAB to talk with interested students. Since 1961, the U. of M. has supplied fourth largest number of volunteers. They are definitely interested in Michigan stu- dents! Students Interested in Graduate & Professional Schools: A rep. wilt be in the Office from wayne State Univ. Law School, Oct. 10, The Univ. of Toledo- College of Bus. Ad., Oct. 11, and Duke Univ. Law School, Oct. 12. Career Minded Students. A re.n willI I ..~ - ~ - ___ -.------- U *WU'U~~~~ ___ I EEUU.~. . U - - i