, I THE CASE OF . PROF. NICKERSON See Page 4 :YI e '6F 3Kr it u Latest Deadline in the State -A, :43 a t t FAIR AND WARMER VOL. LXV, No. 4 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1954 SIX PAGES Special Faculty Report Released On Nickerson H-b Ash Causes Death Of Japanese Tense Relations Follow Incident Record The social fraternity rushing registration totals soared past the record mark yesterday with the day-end tabulation reach- ing 896. This surpasses last fall's peak 885. Prospective rushees still have until Wednesday to sign in the Office of Student Affairs for this semester's rushing ses- sion. SL Members Condemn Reg)ent's SGC I naetion o.m4millll .&i ee onI Lil And Integrity Ex (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the fou evidence presented to University offici The Daily in the case of Prof. Mark N Sub-Committee on Un-American Acti He was suspended by University Presi ther investigation of his case by Univer authorized dismissal of Prof. Nickerson (Today's article presents excerpts Faculty Senate, the Committee on Inte By PAT R Associate C Prof. Mark Nickerson made an Intellectual Freedom and Integrity in his case when President Hatche r° tion for his dismissal would be sent Between July 31, when Prof. Ni Prof. Angus Campbell, chairman( Integrity group, and August 11, wi sent to President Hatcher, the five charges against Prof. Nickerson. Members of the appeal commit Prof. Raymond Garner. biological4 chemistry department; Prof. Karl Litzenberg, English department;; Prof. Gilbert Ross of the music school; and Prof. Allan Smith of canines Charges ; urth in a series of articles discussingt as, faculty appeal committees and to1 'ickerson. He appeared before a House vities at a Lansing hearing in May. dent Harlan H. Hatcher pending fur- sity committees. August 26 the Regents ] n. from an appeal committee of the 1 llectual Freedom and Integrity.) WOELOFS - ity Editort n appeal to the Subcommittee on to reexamine evidence presented pr advised him that recommenda-t to the Regents. ckerson sent his letter of appeal to of the Intellectual Freedom andI hen the group's final decision was] e members analyzed in detail the' tee, in addition to Prof. Campbell, the Communist Party. One natur- ally feels suspicious of anyone who t has been revealed to be a past member of the Party; but in the TOKYO, Friday (R)-A Japa- nese fisherman who was dusted by radioactive ash from a U.S. hyd- rogen bomb-and became the fo- cal point of tension between Ja-. pan and the United States-diedRo n u Thursday night. Japanese doctors listed Aikichi By the Associated Press Kyboyama, 40, as probably the world's first hydrogen bomb cas- TOKYO, Friday-Premier Chou ualty. They said he died of jaun- En-lai of Red China was quoted. dice brought on by radiation sick- by the Peiping radio yesterday as ness and a generally weakened saying the U.S. 7th Fleet must condition. withdraw from Formosa Strait in order to relieve international ten- Radiation Causes Death {son Dr. Shigenobu Kuriyama, vice He reiterated that Formosa director of Tokyo Nationalist Hos- must be "liberated." pital, said flatly "radiation sick- An English language broadcast ness was the cause of death." gave only a paraphrase of Chou's U.S doctors have said Kuboya-! remarks before the People's Con- ma and other fishermen from the gress in Peiping. But the para- Lucky Dragon, accidentally dust- phrase was far tamer than a Chi- ed by an H-bomb blast off Bikini nese language version as trans- March 1, could be suffering from lated in Tokyo earlier. jaundice resulting from blood * , transfusions. Japanese dctors chal- lenged this view and refused to al- Jet Tank Explodes .. . low the Americans to make thor - BI URGrayA un ough examinations of the victims. BITBURG, Germany-An un- U.S. Ambassador John M. Alli- derground American military jet .S issuedastatemeJn.A fuel storage tank blew up near speak on behalf f the goveinment here yesterday with a mighty roar. and the people of the United States At least 28 persons are believed andthepepleoftheUniedStaesdead. Upwards of 40 others were in expressing extreme sorrow and repd injrd. regret at this most unhappy: The dead were all believed to event"a be Frenchmen and Germans. Ger- St Eman police said no American vic- In Washington, a spokesman for tims have been reported. the Japanese Embassy said Kubo- The tank-built into a former yama's death would bring a high- bunker of German Siegfried line- ly emotional and sharp reaction exploded as it was being filled from the Japanese. during dedication ceremonies. The death unleashed another The explosion sent a column of great wave of bitterness in Japan thick, black smoke 10.000 feet into toward the United States. Radios the air. and television stations carried a * * * heavy flow of news on the death, isnorable Discharge and many commentators blamed the United States. FT. SHERIDAN, Ill. - Lt. Cal. Newspapers, which have made Harry Fleming, a veteran of two much of the Lucky Dragon case, wars, yesterday was ordered dis- did not publish Thursday, a holi- missed from the Army for col- day, but their reaction also is ex- laborating with his Communist pected to be sharp. captors in Korea. Kuboyama's death lowered the The 11-officer court-martial spirits of the other 22 members of that convicted him Wednesday the Lucky Dragon crew still under- i ordered also that he forfeit all going treatment in Tokyo hospi- pay and allowances. tals. Fleming, white-haired at 46. vowed to "do everything I can to Profiteering In FHA Says, Ex-Ernploye. Senate Group Hears Of New Windfalls' DETROIT WP-A one-time $2,600- a-year Federal Housing Adminis- tration employee conceded before the Senate Banking Committee yes- terday that on two of three rental housing projects he built with FHA- insured loans he reaped a "wind- fall" profit of $772,000. The former FHA employe is Saul Silberman, of Baltimore, Md., who was questioned closely about as- sociations with Clyde Powell, for- mer deputy FHA commissioner in charge of rental property loans. Denies Close Association Disapproval Vote To Be Considered "SIGN HERE"-Buck Dawson, Grad. draws a head on Dottie b F the Law School. absence of any proof of guilt we The following is a condensation must accept his statement of in- of the Report and Recommenda- nocence. tion of the Subcommittee on In- " tellectual Freedom and Integrity C3.) Dr. Nickeron remains a - of the Senate Advisory Commit- Comusn spartanCmmeps- tee on University Affairs, sent to diatesnpart the Communist the Pesidet on ugustprog"ra m orobjectives. the President on August 11.". Nickerson has made it clear "Prior to analyzing the charges, to this Committee and to the Spe- the Subcommittee decided that it cial Advisory Committee that he was unanimously of the opi-on still holds the basic views on ma- that dismissal from the Univer- jor economic and political issues sity faculty, particularly in the that he held during the period he case of a faculty member with was a member of the Communist tenur'e, is consistent with the party. In these respects he is an ideals of intellectual freedom on- uncompromising Marxist and he ly when there is substantial evi- stubbornly refuses to retreat from dence of grave misconduct on the this obviously doctrinaire posi- part of 'the individual concerned. tion b We have earnestly sought, there- tkonr fore, (1) to determine, as precise- the fact that Dr. Nickerson speci- ly as possible, the nature of e t .fa ct aypat on tha i charges brought against Dr. Nick- hea rejects any implication that erson; (2) to analyze the available he approves, has ever approved evidence concerning such charges of, any illegal activities of the in order to determine the weight Party, such as sabotage, espionage,I of the evidence with respect tohor vvlent overthow of thsov- thei sustatiaion an (3 toement. He states that he saw no teirubteraitoany(3)itevidence of such illegal activity, evaluate the gravity of any mis- 'during the time he was a Party conduct which seems supported by member. The evidence seems clear substantial evidence." ebr h vdec em la Eubstantialeidnce." Cthat he does repudiate those as- Evaluation of Charges ac pects of the Communist Party pro- "In our evaluation of the facts' gram and objectives which lie out- in this case, we have tried to avoid side the legal framework of the being bound by the narrow inter- American political system. One° est of the faculty. We recognize may questionithe credibility of that our frame of reference can these disavowals but there is no never be quite the same as that doubt that he hasmade them. of administrative officials. But, , This Committee's views to the extent that we understand with deep misgiving the implica- such problems, we have tried to tion that a faculty member's "spir- keep in mind the relations of this ,, sjt t University to its alumni and stu- ticiss. We believe that a man's dents, and to the citizens of the iii euiyahaiaea Stat of ichian.We ae kenlyspirit is peculiarly a private area state of Michigan. We are keenly which the 'University should res- aware of the very real pressures pect as such. We feel that a man which exist today which tend to reveals himself in his words and force conformity " in political and actions and that he should be economic thought, which are a judged on the basis of these tang- continuing threat to institutions 'ible facts." of higher learning, and which can "4.) Dr. Nickerson has given be resisted only by a steadfast conflicting testimony concerning' adherence to the principle that .the time of his withdrawal from universities function best when See SPECIAL Page 6) they encoura'ge the widest range _ ____ of ideas. We believe that we speak; for faculty and administration ZBT Deletes alike when we assert that so long+ as ideas do not extend beyond the , e pale of legality, or accepted con- M em e sh p cepts of morality, the great tra- dition of academic freedom re- quires their protection." Restrictions; The following is a list of the charges made against Prof. Nick- Zeta Beta Tau became the third erson. social fraternity with a chapter "1.) Dr. Nickerson was in the at the University to remove its' past a member of the Commun- bias clause in recent weeks, when ist Party, its Supreme Council voted to up- "We believe that a protracted hold a previous resolution by the period of membership in a clan- undergraduate body. destine, rigidly doctrinaire organ- Undergraduate chapter dele- ization (such as the Communist gates voted to delete the member- Part undoubtedly is) cannot fail ship restrictions at its National to leave its mark. While this ef- Convention in Miami last month. feet may have little long-term However the Zeta Beta Tau con- importance in individual cases, stitution states that the Supreme it must be recognized that a per- Council must approve the constiu- iod of indoctrination in the Com- tutional changes. munist Party is a prejudicial pre- The decision lowers the number paration for life and work in the of University fraternities with bias academic world. clauses to ten. "We approve what we take to Lambda Chi Alpha and Delta be the University's policy-that Chi had removed their clauses dur-! past membership in the Commun= ing the summer, ist Party shall not in itself con- Zeta Beta Tau was founded in stitute sufficient cause for dis- New York City in 1898 as a college missal from the faculty. fraternity limited to men of the "The significant ouestion in the Jewish faith. It was thought at Silberman denied that his associ- Fink, '55Ed, while 'Ensian Business Manager Paul Geiger signs aton was unusually close orthat Dottie up for a picture appointment for the 1955 Michiganensian. paid any gamblingdebts for him "Seniors and others receiving degrees this year may make ap- or bought any pari-mutuel tickets pointments from 1 to 5 p.m. today at the Student Publications for him at race tracks. He con- Bldg. on Maynard St., and during the same time Monday through ceded, however, there had been Friday next week," said Geiger. "Shooting-pictures, that is- home-to-home telephone calls be- starts Monday," said Dawson, 1948 Editor of the 'Ensian. Dottie tween them. signed and said nothing. . Silberman insisted that $15.600 a year which he and his partner, Ralph DeChario also of Baltimore, inlp cts ro Ulns Ap alimoe egents Gran t Con tract s paid each other should be counted and Uplands Apartment B in or Union Construction Maryland. To He also argued a profit of $211,- 000 on land which one Silberman- Financing of the new Union addition was approved by the Re- DeChario corporation sold to an- gents at their meeting Wednesday, with the contract for construction other which built the two apart- being awarded to Steinle-Wolfe, Inc. of Fremont, O. went projects should be counted. The Ohio company's bid of $2,227,352 was the lowest, although Got $272,000S h-, n ,tfin.l hp ,,4-a a1 .,. a i ffa.lc urill-na 4-,if.awit th i~ i~5L . fi l bZ. t.U iLV±i, U±±±. IV1 ±lnlJ1ti, W ith I With land profit and salaries taken out, he conceded on question- ing by Chairman Homer Capehart (R-Ind) he got $772,000 more in FHA-guaranteed loans than the two housing projects costs, and that with credit for salaries and land profits "thrown in" the excess was te fgure rs noL ina Decause unversi y oriciais wi nego ia e wi the company for alterations not included in the original plan. Franklin C. Kuenzel, General Manager of the Union, estimated Lecture Set s ! the final cost will exceed original estimates by approximately $400,- AT C -7000. Arts Magazine Holds Meeting For Tryouts Generation, campus Ii t e r a r y magazine is holding an organiza- tional meeting at 3 p.m. in the Generation office, Student Pub- lications Building, No previous experience is, need- ed to work on any of these staffs; new members are trained and aft- er apprenticeship may seek promo- tions to editorial and managerial positions through the Board in Control of Student Publications. Staff members need not neces- sarily be contributors, though their work is welcome at all times. The job of the editorial staff consists in choosing the manuscripts which are to be printed; the business staff solicits advertising, manages circulation and plans the sales campaigns; the art staff is re- sponsible for designing advertise- ments, covers, layout, and for choosing the student art which appear's in Generation's pages. clear my name." "above $400,000." Fleming is the first American '_ _ _ Army officer to be court-martial- ed on specific charges ofacollab- Med School Dean some officers were tried for aiding Named to New Post the enemy in the Civil War. The finding of involuntary dis- Succeeding Dr. Algernon B.a charge for a commissioned officer: Reese of New York, Dean of the is comparable to a dishonorable Medical School Albert C. Fursten-j discharge for enlisted personnel. berg was named president-elect of the American Academy of Opthal-3 { mology and Otolaryngology last I ETicket Resales ;night. , esHe will take office in January,] Begin' 11956. Begin M onday Associated with the University since 1918, Furstenberg teaches Michigan Union football ticket otolaryngology, diseases of the ear, resale service will be open from 3 nose and throat. He is past pres- to 5 p.m. Monday at the Union ident of the Association of Amer- student offices, according to Mark ican Medical Colleges and a mem- Gallon, student services committee her of the American Board of Ot- chairman. olaryngology. Persons having tickets to sell _®__ iNow on ;ate Season tickets at reserved seat prices and with a special student rate are now 'on sale for the Uni- versity Lecture series which will present seven programs this year. Highlighting the season will be Herman Wouk's "The Caine Mu- tiny Court-Martial" on Oct. 22. The two act play, adapted by Wouk from the trial sequence of his best selling novel "The Caine Mutiny," has received the Outer Critics Circle. award as the best play of the year. The series will open on Oct. 12 with a talk by Gen. Mark Clark on "Struggle in Asia." Novelist John Dos Passos will discuss "Jef- ferson's Times" on Nev. 18, and on Dec. 7, Harry Schwartz, the New York Times' expert on Rus- sia, will speak on "The Men Who! Rule Communism." Initial groundbreaking for the building will begin in approxi- mately three weeks. Completion of the project will take a year to -a year and a half, Kuenzel said. The Union's dining facilities, however, will operat, normally until after commencement next June. The contract for kitchen equip- ment was awarded to the Illinois Range Co. of Chicago on its bid of $329,993. University Vice-President Wilbur K. Pierpont explained thatj minor adjustments would also be made in this contract. Work on the project during the summer was confined to instal- ling a new steam tunnel to make room for additions to the base- ment cafeteria. Kuenzel indicated that this part of the project was 95 per cent completed. A Union addition was approved by the Regents last Spring aft- er several years of planning. Reorganization Thoughts Voiced By MURRY FRYMER Student Legislature began plans yesterday to "revitalize" its or- ganization, at the same time hit- ting out at what they called the "bad faith" of the Board of Re- gents for failing to consider the. proposed reorganization of student government at its meeting Wednes- day., The Laing plan for a Student Government Council was not giv- en any action by the Regents, aft- er a last-minute vote by SL mem- bers endorsed the plan with stated reservations. "Lack of Concern" At a SL cabinet meeting yester- day, Vice-President Ned Simon, '55, announced plans for a motion "expressing disappointment in the Regents, President Harlan Hatch- er, and Student Affairs Vice-Presi- dent James A. Lewis for ".lack of proper concern" toward the inter- ests of student government. The motion will be considered by the Legislature cabinet at their meeting Monday. Ruth Rossner, '56, SL First Mem- ber at Large, charged that'the Re- gents are hot interested in studying the SGC plan any longer, but in re- ality are "afraid of a strong stu- dent government." - SL Just as Good "SL is just as good a means of strengthening student government as SGC is," Miss Rossner stated. "I think we should reconsider our approval of the plan and work with renewed vigor to improve our own organization internally." David Levy, '57, said that he would begin action on a plan to bring the SL-SGC issue before the student body in the form of an open meeting. "SL will go on, attempt recon- struction, and forget about SGC." he said. "Stalling Action". Joan Bryan, '56, charged that the Regents' failure to act on the plan was "typical of the kind of stalling action we. always get." "They don't want us to have any power," she said. "They want to cut us down. What I resent most about this administration is that they never lay their cards on the table." Cabinet meetings were planned today and Monday to consider- what new action SL might take. There was talk that the organization might adopt some of the proposed ideas for SGC to strengthen SL. This would include, according to Miss Rossner, adding organization- al representatives to SL, or reduc- ing the number of elected mem- bers. SL President Steve Jelin '55 stressed the need for squashing any defeatism. ROTC Groups Show Decline In Enrollment A decrease in enrollment in the ROTC program was reported by both the Air Force and Military Science offices yesterday. The enrollment in Air Forc ROTC according to Colonel Wil- liam Todd has decreased from 800 men to 600. A similar decline has taken place in enrollment in Mili- tary Science ROTC where Colonel Land reports an enrollment of 350, The final figures on Naval Sci- ence enrollment were not complete yesterday. Must Sign Loyalty Oath A new feature of all the ROTC programs is the requirement that all students have to sign a loyalty oath at the beginning of each aca- AOismie -na-.. ' ;';: t! " may leave them at the office any- time during the week, and those wishing to purchase tickets may call at the office beginning Tues- day. Student tickets may not be re- sold, and all tickets will be sold at the regular price. 700 at Rushing Meeting STUDENT PROBLEM: Jobs Scar'c By JOEL BERGER ty une Out of approximately 50 students The sit who have come into the student same employment office in the admin- branch istration building daily seeking Proba jobs, 20 to 30 claim that they need ment th jobs in order to stay in school. Nottin According to office interviewer that a Ronald Roberts, during the past ers rep week only 50 per cent of the stu-eas-oef dents applied for part-time and lay-offs full-time employment have been continu placed in jobs by the employment this ar service. However, he said that un- Very til this week about 95 per cent oft be a s the applicants have found jobs. the ar But with. approximately 400 stu- and m dents applying weekly since Sept. are cu 1, "the end of the barrel foi- stu- pany s dent jobs has about been reached., carsy Now, about 20 to 30 students mobile daily have been unable to get pick up work. From now on, Roberts said, Howe jobs will be hard to find. With his many office handling both full-time and pointed part-time placements, about 90 eir lanti w( rpnvo- a i f a ndf nr.er In, f,r n employment is about 5,000. uation has been about the for several months, the office manager said. ably the highest unemploy- is year occurred in August, ,ham commented, adding trend of many local work- porting back to work after is beginning. However, he ed, many local workers left ea when jobs were scarce. shortly, he said, there will ;hortage of skilled labor in ea. Electricians, plumbers asons, among other trades, rently in demand, Notting- aid. With automobile com- change-overs for -the 1955 1st about completed, auto- "worker employment will soon, Nottingham said. ver, this will not affect Ann Arbor workers, he out, although more Ypsi- orkers will soon be back on e n Ann Arbor Commenting on the employment of carpenters,. financial secretary William Bowling of the American Federation of Carpenters local here said that 35 of the 700 union mem- bers in Ann Arbor are currently unemployed. Although individual union mem- bers have varied on the list of un- employed, the carpenters' local has not had full employment during the year, Bowling said. About the same number of men were also unemployed during the summer. Business agent Charles L. Click- ner of Laborers Local 959 said that 70 or 80 of the union's 800 mem- bers are currently unemployed, al- though the number dropped last month. 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