i Y p RImt TO sms Latest Deadlinoe inthe ,State Da3 itl -, § > 7 - SNOW FLURRIES VOL. LXIV, NO. 124 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, MARCH 28, 1954 TEN PAGES Freedom Limits 1U.S. Eastern Here Analyzed Policy Soon To Be Stated "Redbook" writer Andre Fontaine visited the University on his tour of the nation's educational institutions and reported "Fear on j ulles eels V the Campus" after talking to student leaders and administrators. A survey of 50 Illinois colleges and universities turned up six areas i o U Preslent of infringement on academic freedom. These two studies are the latest in an ever growing series of in- By The Associated Press vestigations which reveal a startling picture of the nation's campuses. Secretary of State John Fosterf They raise the question of how this University looks against the Dulles was reported in Washing- background of infringement of student freedom. ton to have obtained President This interpretive article has been prepared to analyze University i Dwight D.Eisenhowefjs endorse- regulations and authorities having the power from which alleged statement he will make tomorrow infringements could arise. It is not all-inclusive in its scope but night on the Indochina crisis and primarily covers those powers over student sponsored lectures and the question of recognizing Red formation of student groups which were attacked in the Illinois survey. China.- GOP Heads Spur Senatorial Action Speeded Legislalive P rograml Ainus A t Reclaiming McCa riy S potlight WASHINGTON- i-PRepublican leaders yesterda ,purred the Senate toward action on President Dwight D. Eisenhower's legisla- tive program in an apparent effort to reclaim the spotlight fiom Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.). Sen. William Knowland of California, the GOP, floor leader, said he is trying to expedite committee action so the Senate can speed up work on major Administration bills. * * * "IT'S OBVIOUS that if we are to hit our July 31 adjournment deadline, we can't wait until July to get these bills before the Senate," he said. Sen. Homer Ferguson of Mich- igan. also calling for a speed- Ajm y Feud up, said he will ask the Senate next Tuesday to outline a long repian Plc omte range schedule of Eisenhower priority bills. -u Neither Ferguson, who heads r-I the Senate Policy Committee. nor Knowland would concede that the furore over McCarthy's clash with By The Associated Vres Army officials had delayed action In Washington Sen. Mundt (R- on the legislative program. Eisen- SD) said yesterday that as of now By HARRY LUNN The Daily Managing Editor tion of Two University groups, the Lecture Committee and the Student East w Affairs Committee, are in a unique position of control over the aoseeie political life of the campus and have been charged with placing eign A undue limits on student activity in this area. House3 Deriving their power from Regents' by-laws the two groups mile F work within a broad framework of authority which has been imple- the Un mented by a series of policy statements and interpretations, to oppc In ontrast to these groups, the Board in Control of Student Reds a Publications has been free from charges of abridgment of student attemp freedom arising from its power over the student press. china equival THE STUDENT Aflairs Committee, which dates back to 1904 in nich'." ine form or another, has the potential authority to severely curtail all student activity including political life and expression.THE A ped up A series of SAC requirements embodied in the handbook Red fo "University Regulations Concerning Student Affairs, Conduct and One Discipline" regulate all aspects of student organizations including staten recognition, approval of activities and denial of recognition, be tor The handbook's introduction declares "It is the ideal of the ogniti University that virtually every aspect of life in the University com- any di munity should contribute to the education and development of the April student. The participation by students outside the classroom and far as laboratory in organizing, joining and administering student organi- cerne nations, and through them their society, is an important element in I Dulle the general educational process. tomorr "Vigorous extracurricular student activity along social, study, seas P political action, or governmental lines, regulated where necessary but not restricted, is a healthy sign of an over-all atmosphere of free IN IN inquiry and academic freedom . ." . lasd And later it adds "Each proposed rule is evaluated by two stan- yesterd dards-will it promote the general welfare? and will it promote the ed for d educational process?" of thea * * * * Te SOME STUDENTS, studying the handbook and the record of Th SAC decisions believe that the general objective stated at the outset 4Fren has been perverted by interpretation of how each rule should be Frenc applied.,trenc Comments of "How will this look in the press, are not un. led re common in SAC meetings when a program such as the SL- for an sponsored Academic Freedom Week is up for discussion.- And the last meeting of SAC heard preliminary discussion on whether student groups intent on sponsoring political candidates in the state primary elections should. ------ - - be recognized. To this supporters of the rules Although Eisenhower and Taft would answer that all of them clubs gained the committee's nod are necessary to protect the Uni. in 1952, some members argue that versity and its students from recognition of groups involved in actions by a small group which WAS state politics might prove embar- would be detrimental to the seph M gassing to this state. institution. University or would be consid- Dwight THE CHIEF COURSE of SAC ered as University sanctioned. appoint * power over campus organizations SAC restrictions on last fall's of the rests with its authority to recog- Academic Freedom Week drew'tohsI nize groups, for no club can use criticism from some quarters for IDodhg University facilities or function as their supposed harshness. Some inntis a University student organigation provisions of the SAC regulation ticabli until it gains this recognition. on the Week were relaxed after camle Recognition, in turn, is based SL assured sponsorship, and the that pth on a series of exact requirements balance were defended as being which includes: necessary for proper conduct of In a 1) Minimum membership must the meetings . bower be 30 students (unless a lower Within the SAC rule book "only membership is consistent with the certain sections could be invok- tance" group's objectives). ed which would limit student miss I 2) The organization's program, I activity. A brief survey turns up sel. direction, offices and voting must rules which: secretary's public declara- U.S. principles in the Far 'ill be made in the wake of s of recommendations laid last night by a House For- Affairs subcommittee. The group, reporting on a 30,000 ar Eastern study trip, said ited States should continue ose recognizing the Chinese nd declared that any Allied t to seek. a truce in Ihdo- would mnean "appeasement ent to an Indochinese Mu- -Daily-Betsy Smith VARIED ACTIVITIES-Last night students -spent their time in many ways. For some all-campus * * , subcommittee urged step- elections loomed in the offing wile otners spent time stuuyng American aid to the anti- rces in Indochina. r - e effect of Dulles' policySa meat, officials said, should remove the question of rec- on of Red , China from ' t Suggested SEC Plan iplomatic bargaining at the 26 Geneva conference so the United States is con- By BECKY CONRAD d. oStudemn Legislature candidates are divided exactly half-way down es will speak in New York the line in their opinions on the proposed Student Executive Com- ow night before the Over- mittee, from their answers on a Daily questionnaire. ress Club. Fifteen of the 30 candidates running for 22 SL posts in the * all-campus balloting Tuesday and Wednesday replied "yes" to the NDO China the war continu- query. "Do you favor in theory the proposed Student Affairs Study tank-backed French troops - out from Dien Bien Phu 5 group plan of the SEC composed out fmien Biren Phs of seven organization representa- ay at Vietminh forces pos- LISo gh ives and electcd members sub- a new attack within 600 feet ldSeal I I ject to a faculty student-acminis- Red-circled fortress. tration reviewing board?" French command said y R o II ietminh were killed as illy arI' 'N QUALIFYING their answers, h foot soldiers destroyed * some of the 15 felt the SEC plan ring of fox holes and .F PADUCAH, Ky. - - Former was "a step in the right direction hes which the Communist- Vice-President Alben W. Barkley -toward a student government ebels have been building announced yesterday he will seek that is recognized and respected pother mass assault to regain his seat in the United by the administration," .. ......_..... _... ..__._._ - ~fnf Cnr.^ -x~.._._re..,.x ±.,, . ._ and dancing. U' Co r U Concert 2 k k k i S x hower has said this program willI be the principal issue in Novem- ber, when control of Congress will be at stake at the polls. THE California senator struck back at an assertion by Democrat- ic National Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell in Gary, nd., Friday night that because of the McCar- fthv~rt ri'ho iif i l "no high crime against the govern- ment" is involved in the charges exchanged by Sen. Joseph McCar- thy (R-Wis) and top Army affi- cials. Mundt temporarily has taken oyer from McCarthy as chairman of the Senate investigations sub- committee while it probes the row. Todaya-Hill 'wo arrangements for band prepared by Prof. Clifford P. Lil- lya of the music school will be among the selections played by the; Symphony Band in a concert at 4:15 p.m. today in Hill Auditorium. Conducted by Prof. William D. Revelli of the music school, the band will play Barat's "Andante &t Scherzo." originally written for piano and cornet. Emerson Head, '57SM, will be featured as cornet soloist in the number, * * * PROF. LILLYA and Harold: Bachman, University of Florida band director, made the transcrip- tion for band of Cherubini's "Over- I ture to Anacreon." Ileard locally for the first time, ".Cambodian Suite," by King Norodom Vanman of Cam- ebodia, will be played. A comn- poser by avocation, the king re- flects in his music the feelings tIIt'Ik~i IU ~1~ UUUI ~ "'~ THE subcommittee had hoped to ; y - A r m y r o w n e d o u b ms i t r J n t arh ee v s d p u l chr z g average citizen even recalls that i elsed pbic hoerng the President has a program." sta weevised pu ld ews "That is just a political state- next week, but Mundt told news- mnent made for political purpos- men he did not see how this would es." Knowland declared. be, possible since efforts to obtain They never have had to opler- a special counsel to handle the in- ate the senate when they lacked vestigation have been unsuccessful a majority and they never have undt in i h been in a position where the party , it-to p t s c responsible :for the program had phrased it-to put the con. respnsibe [o theprogam hd1froversy "in its proper perspec-" only a one-vote margin in com- mittees.'"htive," said that "no high crime mitt ee