BHT mICITGN AnXiLy TnUSDAY, DECEMBER 15, Ven s Councils lhosen on Merit (EDITOW'S NOTE-This is the second In a series of articles to acquaint stu- dents with some of the influential organizations on campus and how membersand officers are chosen.) By PETER HOTTON Interfraternity Council repre- sents some 2,500 affiliated men on campus, and is the executive, leg- islative, judicial and all-around helpful organization for frater- nity members. The Association of Independent Men is the unaffiliated men's counterpart of IFC, representing approximately 5,000 independents. I'" WC V mad" un rf tw branches: House Presidents' Counc;, composed or presiuents of the 46 fraternities on campus acting as the legislative branch, and the Executive Committee act- ing as administrative and judicial body. The House Presidents' Coun- cil has charge of the entire IFC staff, which includes all com- mittees, on which any fraternity man may work. Starting out as a volunteer "tryout," he serves on a commit- tee and in the I'C office until he wishes to go before the cabinet for appointment to chairman of a committee. * * * AFTER THE aspirant serves a hitch as committee chairman in his search for fame in IFC circles, he petitions the Executive Com- mittee for one of the three execu- tive offices: president, vice-presi- dent and secretary-treasurer. This Committee screens all petitioners down to one above the number of offices open, after which the nominees go before the House Presidents' Council for election. To become president, a man must have a majority on the first ballot. If he doesn't, the person with the lowest number of votes is eliminated, and voting starts all over, until one man gets a majority. Theseythree officers are auto- mnatically on the Executive Com- mittee, which consists also of two, alumni, a faculty member, the Dean of Students and five fra- ternity members elected from each of five geographical house areas on campus. The alumni and faculty mem- ber, who also must be an alumnus, are appointed by the President of the University, and the Dean is ai ex-officio member. * * * Independents.. . AIM, alphabetical code name for the Association of Indepen- dent Men, is open to anyone who will work for an appointment or vie for an elected post in the or- ganization. Actual working members are chosen from each of 19 dormi- tory housing units, such as Hins- dale House of East Quad and Victor Vaughan House. Only unit not represented is Strauss House. THREE OTHER representatives come from the three rooming house districts set up in Ann Ar- bor, and are known as "indepen- dent independents" because they are connected to no organized house. Selection of unit representa- tives is by election by unit mem- bers or by appointment by the unit's elected council. Repre- sentatives from the three out- side areas are appointed by AIM's president, according to their ability and work done on the council. The president is elected twice a year by the Association's mem- bers. After his election, he has the privilege of appointing his cabinet, which includes vice-presi- dent, secretary and treasurer. Three standing committees make up the innards of the Asso- ciation. Each committee chair- man is appointed by the cabinet, subject to AIM approval. A fledg- ling independent has his best chance of working up from the ranks to great heights through these committees. Quad Councils . . . "Affiliated" independents, or those from the East or West Quads, have their own councils, each set up according to the Quad constitution. The West Quad Council, repre- senting the 1,326 men living in that dorm, is made up of the presidents of each of the eight houses. Presidents are elected every semester and serve a semes- ter as president and a semester as past president, which insures continual integrity in the organi- zation. EAST QUAD Council, represent- ing 1,500 men: has a slightly dif- ferent set-up, for which mebers are the president and one elected representative from each house. East Quad Council cabinet serves a year. Officers are elect- ed at the first meeting of the council after elections at the end of the spring semester. The East Quad Council has a special activities committee for coordinating quad events, headed by a council member and manned by one non-council member from each house. -Daily-Burt Sapowitch METER MASTER-Walter Schmid, head of Ann Arbor's park- ing meter repairs, adjusts the clock-like mechanism of one of the instruments with the aid of a pair of tweezers. He uses this tool to work on the delicate parts of the machine. Schmid is kept busy running between his workshop in the City Hall and broken meters. *~ * * * * * Motorcyclist Keeps Up With Meter Breakdown s By VERNON EMERSON Keeping up with the breakdowns of some 700 parking meters is a task that makes Walter Schmid, of the Ann Arbor police depart- ment, jump eight hours a day. "I imagine that at least three or four of the meters need re- pairs every day," Schmid relat- ed. * * IN EXTREME heat or cold the' main spring of the meter, which is built on the principle of a clock, can be thrown out of order, Schmid explained. Or someone can upset the bal- ance inside theamechanism by backing into it and bending it. At times Schmid receives reports from citizens, merchants or po- licemen that a bad coin has ac- cidentally jammed a machine. Then Schmid boards his three wheeled motorcycle, races to the Cook Choir Airs littlest An gel' A special Christmas program TOMORROW: Union, League featuring the Martha Cook Choir and Men's and Women's Judi- will be presented at 4:00 p.m. to- ciaries. day over station WPAG. Jointly sponsored by the Union Fighting To The End and the League, the choir will present the "Story of the Littlest' Between 17 and 20 thousand Angel," a tale popular with guerrillas, many of them women, adults about a little boy in heaven *are still fighting in Greece. who does everything wrong. broken meter, replaces it with a good one and returns to his City Hall workshop to begin repairs. * * * "MY FAVORITE tools are a pair of tweezers and an old crochet hook," he remarked. "They are just the thing to handle the deli- cate parts inside the meters." Schmid has cribs full of new parts, as well as 25 new meters, so that he can keep all of the coin collectors in tip-top shape. George Kaercher, Schmid's only helper, is kept busy collecting the cash and totaling it up. HE DOES THE sorting of the coins with the aid of a sifting ma- chine that Schmid designed. The money is counted into rolls on another machine, and is on its way to finance a car port or neighborhood parking lot. "When the meters were install- ed in 1946 to relieve Ann Arbor's parking problem, there wasn't any- one on the force that knew how to keep the things going if they broke down," Schmid said. SCHMID MENTIONED that the city attempted to obtain the serv- ices of the local jewelers for the repair work. 'They just laugh- ed." "I'd always been an amatuer gunsmith and clock repairman, so the Chief gave me the task," Schmid explained. "After 23 years with the force, I'm about ready to retire. We're looking for a man to take my place," he noted. But it's a big job. Schmid learns something new every day. Garg Sells Out Again A shout of joy burst out of the Gargoyle office late yesterday af- ternoon when Brian Duff, '50, managing editor, learned the Garg had sold out for the second straight issue. "We ordered a 100 more this time and still got rid of - that is, found purchasers for them," Duff exulted. Duff went on to say that the magazine's ad offering to buy back copies of their last issue for 30 cents was definitely not a joke. "We need them badly," Duff said, "to get tear heets for na- tional advertising out of them." Legislators isagree n V' easure Debate Value of Mecigan lan'U By BOB KEITH Two Student Legislators, Gor- don McDougall and Tom Walshi strongly disagreed over the value of SL's "Michigan Plan" to elim-I inate discrimination yesterday in an informal debate at Helen New- berry residence. MacDougall contended that the plan "fails to meet the need" and' must be augmented by a Univer-I ity time limit for fraternities to id themselves of discriminatory clauses. ** * "THE MICHIGAN PLAN bars new organizations with discrim- inatory clauses from campus, buti does not eliminate discrimination from groups which already exist," he said. But Walsh countered that theI Plan puts the problem of dis- crimination before the publicI eye, thus creating so much pres- sure against fraternities at the national level that they will be forced to strike out clauses pro- hibiting membership because of race, religion or color." Commenting on MacDougall's proposal for a time limit, at the expiration of which fraternities with discriminatory clauses would be barred from campus, Walsh said it would only antagonize fra- ternity men. * * HOWEVER, MacDougall said a time limit is necessary, adding that any social change is bound to an- tagonize people. But Walsh felt the antagonism would disrupt the efforts of SL's human relations committee to change the attitudes of any per- sons who still practice discrim- ination. He pointed out that the com- mittee is attempting to bring to- gether members of different cam- pus groups so that, through in- formal social contact, prejudicial attitudes will be broken down. BOTH WALSH and MacDougall agreed that there will be no elim- ination of discriminatory practices until these attitudes cease to exist. But MacDougall claimed that most fraternity men are in favor of bringing a halt to discrimina- tion, but are hampered by claus- es in their national constitutions. "A time limit would level pres- sure against southern chapters and alumni groups which refuse to al- low these clauses to be stricken out," he said. These groups would be forced to realize that bias clauses must be removed in order to keep mem- ber chapters from dropping out of the national organization, Mac- Daugall asserted. Patients To Be Feted atParty Cookies, candy, balloons, dolls and secret treasure boxes will be distributed at the University Hos- pital's annual children's Christmas party tomorrow. Christmas party for adult pa- tients will be held December 19 and 20 according to Dorothy Ket- cham, director of Social Service at the hospital. - Planning proper gifts for the more than 1,000 patients at the hospital is a difficult task, Miss Ketcham said. "Extreme care must be taken to avoid the use of hazardous or in- flammable materials, sharp point- ed objects, defective lights, small or loose articles which can be in- haled or swallowed and anything which will jeopardize the patient in any way." i Other considerations are the patient's illness, allergies, diet, and individual needs, Miss Ket- cham added. * * 4'. By RICH THOMAS!. Freedom of the press is a' con- cept generally accepted as desir- able by all countries, but the Rus- sian meaning of this freedom dif- fers greatly from ours, Benjamin M. McKelway, editor of the Wash- ington Star, told journalism stu- dents yesterday. "The Aussian constitution." Mc- Kelway said, "guarantees freedom from private control. The Soviet Government acknowledges that the people should know the truth, but it reserves the right to determine what the truth actually is." * * * "THE AMERICAN constitution, -'n the contrary, guarantees news- papers freedom from government control," McKelway continued. This puts a tremendous re- sponsibility on the individual newsman, McKelway asserted. "It places our press in the hands of men of all political, economic and religious beliefs," McKelway commented. * * * IT ALSO EXPOSES the news- papers to a great deal of public criticism - much of it valid, Mc- Kelway said. It is aimed princi- pally at irresponsibility in news reporting and subservience to busi- ness interest. "But," McKelway added, "there is a new concept growing among newsmen that the news is ac- M. McKELWAY * * BENJAMIN * tually 'public property, and, as such, it is getting better treat- ment.', Any reforms which are forth- coming within the press, should be instigated by the newspapers themselves, according to McKel- way. * * * "THE ONE THING newsmen don't want," he stated, "is outside policing. For such policing would necessarily come from the govern- ment." "Giving the government any sort of control whatever," Mc- Kelway remarked, "would grave- ly endanger the present freedom of expression which newspapers enjoy." "The best and most successful control exercised over the press is that of public opinion," McKelwa~y concluded. "As long as an alert and well-informed public keeps a careful eye on its newspapers, the press will continue its improve- ment, as it has in the past." Laves To Give Lecture Here Walter H. C. 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