FACULTY EVALUATION See Page' 4 Y Latest Deadline in the State *1p PARTLY CLOUDY OL. LIX, No. 65 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1948 PRICE FIVE CENTS I I / I C I 4.) dditional Light romsedfor 'U' Statement Follows Disclosure of Poor Illumination in Classrooms By LEON JAROFF Relief is on the way for University students who suffer eyestrain ttempting to pierce the gloom of poorly-lighted classrooms. Following quickly on the heels of a Daily article Sunday which evealed pitifully inadequate lighting facilities in many classrooms nd study halls Walter Roth, University plant superintendent, dis- losed that material for $27,000 worth of lighting improvement has bready been ordered. ROTH ADDED that this did "4 erin Split idened by est's Will BERLIN - (A) -- The smash- ng municipal election triumph of he bitterly anti-Russian Social mocratic Party intensified the ast-West struggle over Berlin. Completed now was the politi- al division of this German me- ropolis 100 miles behind the Iron rtain. * * * IN DEFIANCE of Communist hreats the Germans of Western erlin turned out a near record 'ote of 86.2 per cent of the elec- orate by giving a majority to the ial ' Democrats, a militantly nti-Communist organization. The Christian Democrats and the Liberal Democrats, also are anti-Communist. The final results: Social Democrats (Socialist) - 58,100 (64.5 per cent). Christian Democrats (Conser- atives)-258,496 (19.4 per cent). Liberal Democrats (Conserva- ive) - 214,224 (16,1 per cent). THE SOCIAL Democrats showed i gain of 13 per cent from the first ost-war election of 1946. It pos- ibly was the greatest victory the arty has scored in its 80-year istory. Although the Communists boycotted the election, persons who analyzed the returns said the size of the turnout gave di- rect evidence that Communist strength in Western Berlin had been cut in half in two years. Ernst Reutter, Social Demo- ratic leader, will become mayor For a picture of the new mayor f Berlin, see Page 2. if the new Municipal Government. ie was barred from office by they tussians last year. NOW THE RUSSIANS can not eep him from his post, but he ill govern only the two-thirds of rlin occupied by the Americans, ritish and French. In the Soviet ector, where the election was anned, a Communist puppet gov- nment rules. It was hand- icked last week. Each govern- nent calls the other illegal. The Social Democratic vic- tory may increase pressure for an economic as well as a politi- cal split between Eastern and Western Berlin. Paty lead- ers long have urged the outlaw- ing of the' Russian mark in the Western sectors. Such an ac- tion would leave the two parts of the city as divided as two nations. Allied officials said the events >f the last week have dimmed the >rospects for settling the whole East-West argument over Ber- n. That dispute hinges in large easure aroundatheuRussian lockade imposed last June. Two thousand electric power ffice workers followed the voters oday in choosing the West over he East. not include the lighting improve- ments to be made when the class- rooms and offices vacated by the occupation of the new Adminis- tration and Business Administra- tion buildings are remodeled. Emphasizing the difficulties encountered in improving light- ing facilities, Roth explained that it would take at least $60,- GOO just to improve the primary electrical services in Angell Hall. This would be exclusive of the purchase and installation of new fixtures. Present primary facilities in An- gell Hall are already handling twice the load that was intended when the building was first con- structed and the addition of any more incandescent lamps might severely overtax them. IF, HOWEVER, all the incan- descent lights were replaced by flourescent lights, roughly twice as much light would be available with the same load. But Roth pointed out that fluorescent lights are more ex- pensive to maintain. Incandescent light bulbs cost the University from 8 to 10 cents apiece in contrast to the fluores- cent type which costs 72 cents and has less than one-third the life of the ordinary light bulb. This has limited the quantity of flourescent lighting used.. MORE THAN $22,000 has al- ready been spent on lighting im- provement since the end of the war, according to Roth, despite the difficulty until recently, of securing adequate amounts of the necessary equipment. Improvements already made in lighting facilities were list- ed by Roth as follows: Complete installation of flour- escent lighting in the Architec- ture Building. Additional lighting service and circuits in East Engineering Building. Flourescent fixtures in the West Engineering library and in Rms. 401, 402, 403, 421, 424, 448, 201 and 206. Fluorescent fixtures in East En- gineering laboratories 4214, 4223 and 4227. Flourescent lights on the main reading-room tables in the General Library. Flourescent lighting on the main reading room tables,and two study halls in the Legal Research Library, Work is now under way on similar lighting in the carrells. Lighting improvements in two ROTC classrooms. Flourescent lighting in the journalism department offices and classrooms. ALREADY on order are lighting improvements in the Alumni Cat- alog Office, the University High School library, two pathology lab- oratories in West Medical Build- ing and two lecture rooms and two classrooms in East Medical Building. 'U'Foreign Study Plan Past Hurdle Literary College Group Favorable A credit-approved Foreign Sum- mtr Study Plan received a go- ,ahead signal yesterday. The Executive Committee of the Literary College reported favor- ably on the plan which would fa- cilitate University students study- ing abroad during summer va- cation periods and present plans call for another faculty commit- tee to study putting the program into immediate action. * * * MEANWHILE, students moved forward with plans to organize the programs, Don Queller, '49, and George Shepherd, '49, origi- nators of the study plan, and Dick Hooker, named chairman of the group by the NSA committee of the Student Legislature, will meet at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, in the League, with students interested in working on the foreign studies committee or studying abroad. The plan is novel in that the students would not be enrolled at foreign universities, but would study individually "in the field" on a selected subject as directed by a travelling supervisor. Present drafts calls for a fac- ulty-administration committee to coordinate the activity and se- lect students and faculty advis- ors. The Committee would also be responsible for certifying credit earned on the basis of reports or theses submitted by the students on completion of their summer study. THOSE APPLYING for the pro- gram must have completed 90 credits and possess a knowledge of the language of the country they will study to the satisfaction of the faculty committee. The foreign study program will carry eight hours of credit and students will be nominally enrolled in the Summer Ses- sion. A member of the faculty would accompany each group of stu- dents to supervise the work and brief them on the country in which they are to study. THE GROUP WILL be financed by a fund raising campaign and regular Summer Session tuition. Scholarships may be provided at the outset. The traveling supervisors would be members of the Summer Session faculty and draw a regu- lar salary. Their minimum travel expenses would be defrayed by the student-raised fund. 'Ensian Sale Being Pushed Part-payment subscriptions to the 1949 'Ensian will be sold on campus this week. Booths have been set up in the Union, Engine Arch and the Diag. Salesmen will also contact afiili- ated houses and dorms during the week. Terms of the pay-as-you-go plan provide for a $2 down pay- ment, with the balance due be- fore Feb. 15. The 'Ensian devised the install- ment system so that financially- harassed students could be sure of getting a yearbook. 400 How! MICHIGAN 252 Coaches Vote Bennie Tops In GridPoll 'M' Coach Wins By Wide Margin By BEV BUSSEY (Sports Feature Editor) Bennie Oosterbaan received his second national honor within two weeks when he was named today 1948 "Coach of the Year," after steering the Wolverines to the top ranking position in the final A~P football poll. The Michigan coach rated 61 first place votes-almost twice the number of his closest rival, Lynn Waldorf of California. * * * THUS, FOR THE second straight year, the nation's coaches, sending more than 260 ballots to the sponsoring New York World- Telegram, voted the title to a Michigan man. Oosterbaan succeeds "Fritz" Crisler as top mentor of the year, just as he replaced him as chief football coach for the Maize and Blue this year. Behind Oosterbaan and Wal- dorf came Bob Voigts of North- western, Frank Howard of Clem- son College, Matty Bell of South- ern Methodist, and Tuss Mc- Laughry of Dartmouth. In seventh place, Notre Dame's Frank Leahy received 11 first place votes. * * * THE CHOICE of Oosterbaan as coach of the Year was based on the Wolverines 9-0 ,record, running their victory skein to 23 games and achieving specta~cular records both on offense and de- fense. But, as the alumni at the an- nual Michigan Bust in Detroit said last week, "Oosterbaan is our nomination for coach of the year anytime." He IS Michigan -right down to the core. As a three-sport athlete and as a coach, Oosterbaan has devoted himself to the University for the past twenty-four years. It is an integral part of him. This strong attachment seems to have pene- trated every player on the team. EVERYONE WORKED hard at practice. They never griped about staying late. There were no signs of dissension that are bound to creep up on "star" teams. They played their hearts out for Bennie, because each one knew how much Michigan's rep- utation meant to him. After Ohio State kicked a field goal to take the lead in the last game, they realized the signifi- cance of Bennie's feelings. They fought for Michigan tradition the same way spiritually that their coach fought for it. At the beginning of the season, a lot of people wondered how Oosterbaan would succeed as a head coach. HE KNEW the sport inside out, and had worked with the two- team, single-wing system under Crisler. But he was noted for being an easy-going guy-maybe it wouldn't pay off to be like that ... There were two groups, how- ever, who never doubted his abil- ity-the football players whom he directed and joked with, and the old-time M men who felt that anytihng Oosterbaan did was okay -for Oosterbaan IS Michigan. Chinese Reds ClaimVictory NANKING-(P)-The Chinese Communists announced they had trapped and were rapidly destroy- ing three Government a r m y groups which abandoned Suchow to try to aid another encircled group 60 mile southwest. This was the force which had been the Government's main reli- .," - ^M _. 1a P"m- vi.- -- fa Elder To Talk On Education For Workers Arthur Elder, former director of the Workers' Educational Service will speak on "The Scope of Workers' Education" at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Union. His appearance will be spon- sored by the campus chapter of Americans for Democratic Ac- tion. Elder is president of the Mich- igan Federation of Teachers (AFL) vice-president of the Na- tional Federation of Teachers, member of the board of directors of the American Labor Education- al Service and the executive board of the Workers' Educational Bu- reau. He was relieved of his position as director of the WES several weeks ago when the Regents voted to reorganize the program. More than 200,000 workers have availed themselves of the Uni- versity Workers' Education Serv- ice since its inception four years ago. Workers' Education has been expanding with 75 colleges throughout the nation now having such programs. IS NOTHING SACRED?, Fire Fighters Quell Blaze In Historic 'Deke' Chapel The Inner Sanctum of Delta Kappa Epsilon was rudely defiled yesterday when firemen struggled to extinguish a blaze that swept under the roof of the 70 year fra- ternity chapel causing an esti- mated $3,000 damages. More than 300 students watched as firemen equipped with smoke- masks broke into the structure and fired smog guns and conven- tional water sprays into the smok- ing second floor. Portions of the building's roof and front, stained- glass window were hacked away as firemen sought the origin of the fire. AFTER FIGHTING for almost Traffic Deaths Two persons were killed and four others injured in traffic acci- dents in the Ann Arbor area over the weekend as the state-wide death toll reached 15. No University students were in- volved in the mishaps. two hours, the blaze was brought under control and Deke men en- tered their traditional gathering place to survey the wreckage. Their last chapter meeting had been held there Saturday. Today they expect to complete' the job of inventorying water-' soaked books, furniture and "sen- timental treasures" of Deke-dom. Chapter members were unable to estimate the loss in personal be- longing in the fire. They said the building was insured. THE BLAZE only added an- other page to the illustrious his- tory of the old building, which was erected in 1870 for the mod- est sum of,$3,000 with funds con- tributed by the classes of 1855-80. At that time, the organizationI had no chapter house and they met behind the high brick wall at half-past Midnight on al- ternate Saturdays. And the tale goes that a quer- ulous rookie cop once loitered in the alley behind the chapel hop- ing to*figure out its apparent mystery. His vigil was disruptde when a flying beer can bounced off his head. In the tiny court-yard, before the entrance, are small tombstones -each one marking the grave of a long-since passed away mascot of the fraternity. O'Brien Appointed Miinial iud±ae Experts Differ On Religious, Training Plan The literary college curriculum may include more courses in re- ligious training next semester, but faculty and religious men disagree on how to provide the training. Faculty and administration members like increasing courses in established departments as drawn up by a faculty committee last year.< Religious leaders want a sep- arate religious department similar to the one at the University of Iowa. DEAN LLOYD S. Woodburne,, of the literary college, said he pre- ferred the recommendation of the faculty committee which would provide for the non-sectarian, non-theological courses. Objective courses could provide students with an intellectual foundation for their beliefs," he said. Father Frank McPhillips, of St. Mary's Chapel commented that courses about religion are of interest, but that they are of "little practical value in train- ing an individual for a moral life." "It's like training a soldier for war by teaching him the history of warfare," he said. * * * DR. WILLIAM LEMON, of the Presbyterian church, who spent several years in the University of Iowa religion department, also fa- vored a separate department. "After all, we've had the other system here all along," he said. "A man may know the history of PROFS H OLD BREATH AS 'D' DAY ARRIVES: Faculty Grading Begins Today The first faculty evaluation pro-' gram in University history will get underway today when stu- dents in 2,200 Literary Colleg classrooms begin a two-day rating 6> mous, and professors have been asked to leave the classrooms while students are grading them. Student evaluations are part of a lone-ranee- namnrehensivP no.t- omy, oriental languages and Russian classes. Monitors for German, Scandi- navian, French, Spanish, Italian, PArtnan1e. fine arts .nnnmics. the department to which the individual instructor belongs. Monitors for evening classes should pick up forms before 5:15 n m of the day the class meets.