Jan 4, 1955 - The Board of 

Regents for the first time in 
University history has sanctioned a 
student government.

Taking cognizance of strong 

campus support for the Student

Government Council proposal, 

the Regents approved the new form 
of University student government at 
their Dec. 17 meeting.

SGC, composed of 11 elected 

and seven ex-officio members, 
replaces 
Student 
Legislature 

and 
the 
15-member 
Student 

Affairs Committee, the student 
government of the last six years. 
SL, although recognized by SAC, 
has never been recognized by the 
Regents.

Earlier in December, an all-

campus student poll conducted at 
request of the Regents gave SGC 
a favorable 5,102 to 1,451 vote. 
Election To Be Discussed 

Vice-President 
for 
Student 

Affairs James A. Lewis will meet 
today with the seven ex-officio 
members of SGC and the Dean 
of Men and the Dean of Women 
to initiate procedure for bringing 
the new student government into 
existence.

The group will consider the 

election of SGC representatives 
and other matters pertaining to 
transition to the new government. 
Vice - President Lewis said he 
expects 
the 
election 
of 
SGC 

members will take place between 
March 15 and 30 but added the 
“sooner the better.”

He would like the election 

as early as possible so that the 
experience of this year’s student 
leaders. may be utilized as much as 
possible in getting SGC organized 
and underway.

Election Dates Suggested
A motion to hold the elections 

March 29 and 30 will be introduced 
to the still functioning SL at its 
meeting tomorrow night. David 
Levy, ‘57, SL elections chairman 
for the elections held Dec. 8 and 
9, thinks it will take at least eight 
weeks to organize a smooth 
running election.

Elections for SGC couldn’t be 

held until after the start of the spring 
semester-because of interference 
with final examinations. Although 
Vice-President Lewis said yesterday 
his group will make final decisions, 
comment indicated yesterday there 
would 
be 
general 
cooperation 

among campus groups in holding 

the election. One SL member 
suggested a plan by which all 
groups represented by an ex-officio 
member on SGC would assist with 
the election.

Groups Represented on SGC
Groups 
represented 
by 

ex-officio members are the Union, 
League, Pan-Hellenic, Assembly, 
Interfraternity 
Council, 
Inter-

House Council and The Daily.

SGC, approved for a two-year 

trial period, has various functions 
including 
recognition 
of 
new 

campus organizations, approval or 
disapproval of student-sponsored 
activities, coordinating student 
activities and originating student 
projects among others.

Subject To Review
SGC action will be subject to 

review by a seven member Board 
of Review consisting of the Dean 
of Men, Dean of Women, three 
faculty members and two student 
members. Student members will be 
the President of SGC and one other 
member appointed by the Council. 

The Board must declare its 

intention to review a decision 
of SGC within 96 hours of its 
appearance in the Daily Official 
Bulletin or the decision becomes 
final.

Bicentennial
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
Friday, September 15, 2017 — 3

Students’ Explosion Termed ‘Spring 
Madness’ by Dean

Children To Get Bettered Version, Discoverer Says 
New Vaccine Now Potentially 100 Per Cent Effective

Trainees To Live in West, Quad Group Will Include Students in NROTC, 
Engineers, Pre-Meds, Men in Basic Training

March 22, 1952 - University 

officials are not planning to take 
disciplinary action against those 
who participated in the seven 
hours of hectic student “rioting” 
Thursday night.

As 
reports 
of 
the 
mob’s 

impulsive 
exploits 
continued 

to trickle in yesterday, Dean 
of Students Erich A. Walter 
released a statement clarifying 
the University’s position on the 
unexpected spring blow-up:

“The student demonstration 

was a form of spring madness,” 
Dean 
Walter 
said. 
“The 

term 
‘madness’ 
has 
the 

implication of being something 
uncontrollable.”

“We were fortunate in not 

having serious accidents, in not 
having a mob spirit develop. I 
am glad that there had to be no 
arrests and that the property 
damage was of an insignificant 
character. “I am sorry that a 
few of our students showed 
some 
pretty 
bad 
manners,” 

he continued. “Most of them, 
considering 
that 
they 
were 

out of order, showed marks of 
self-control which, in general, 
are the characteristics of our 
student body.

“If any students are reported 

to us who have violated specific 
University 
regulations, 
these 

students 
will 
be 
heard 
by 

the 
regularly 
constituted 

disciplinary authorities.”

In 
reviewing 
the 

demonstration, 
we 
obviously 

shall try to establish some 
controls of a moral character 
that may operate in a crisis. 
Obviously, this is difficult to 
accomplish. No human being 
has ever attempted to shift the 
vernal equinox,” he added.

Despite 
the 
avalanche 
of 

mob hysteria, damage and theft 
were reported at a minimum. 
Martha Cook suffered the most 
costly vandalism. An estimated 

$200 in damages was inflicted 
at the women’s residence. The 
window panes of two front 
doors were smashed, the handle 
of a side door ripped off, two $35 
ash trays and various “items” 
purloined, the screen ripped 
off the front office window, 
and several basement windows 
broken.

Though 
beseiged 
by 
two 

frontal attacks, one by women, 
another by East Quadders, plush 
South Quad was marred only by 
two broken windows, reportedly 
smashed by stones. In the last 
attack, the front doors were 
showered with a barrage of mud.

At 
Alice 
Lloyd 
Hall, 

unmentionables 
as 
well 
as 

mentionables were carried off 
by the men, while Stockwell 
coeds yesterday were proudly 
displaying “souvenirs” pilfered 
from East Quad. At Victor 
Vaughan, one coed claimed she 
had to grapple with one of the 
men to prevent him from leaving 
her room with her watch.

Early 
yesterday 
morning, 

janitors at Betsy Barbour and 
Helen Newberry were solemnly 
sweeping mud, brought in on the 
men’s shoes, from the corridor 
floors. Later, it was reported that 
several students are planning 
to urge Student Legislature to 
sponsor a fund-raising campaign 
to make restitution for damages 
and theft. 

Fortunately, 
there 
were 

no serious accidents during 
the demonstrations. But Sura 
Rotenberg, ‘55, reported she 
received burns on her forearm 
when some of the men, storming 
into Vaughan House, tossed her 
into a Shower and turned on 
the hot water. Miss Rotenberg 
received first aid at Health 
Service.

And another woman student, 

Denise Buffington, ‘52, was 
bruised as she attempted to 
block the rambunctious mob 
from entering a Liberty St. 
theater, where she works as a 
cashier.

April 
13, 
1955 
- 
Final 

obstacle blocking distribution 
of Salk vaccine was removed 
late yesterday when Secretary 
of Welfare Oveta Culp Hobby 
formally licensed the vaccine for 
general use Licensing followed 
Dr. Francis’ historic report by 
only a few Hours.

Vaccine which the public will 

start receiving within a few 
days is a new, improved model 
— far better than the vaccine 
Dr. Francis said was between 80 
and 90 per cent effective. The 
1955 version of Salk vaccine can 
theoretically prevent paralytic 
polio 100 per cent, its inventor 

claimed.

Both Dr. Francis and Dr. Salk 

received long ovations following 
their reports yesterday.

State Health Commissioner 

Albert E. Heustis has ordered 
enough vaccine to accommodate 
430,000 first, second and third 
graders. 
Washtenaw 
County 

has already set up a vaccination 
program calling for cooperation 
between 
County 
Medical 

Society, 
Health 
Department, 

St. 
Joseph’s 
and 
University 

Hospitals, 
physicians 
and 

volunteer workers from the 
National Foundation.

Announcement 
of 
the 

effectiveness of Salk Vaccine 
was 
termed 
“one 
of 
the 

greatest events in the history 
of medicine” by Dr. Wright H. 
Murray, chairman of the Board 
of Trustees of the American 
Medical Association.

Give Children Priority
“Give the children priority,” 

Dr. Murray urged, cautioning 
adults against rushing to doctors’ 
offices 
immediately. 
Reports 

from pharmaceutical companies 
indicated probably 30 million 
three-shot sets of inoculations 
will be available before summer.

If Dr. Salk’s suggestion to 

give only two shots instead of 
three is followed there might 
conceivably be enough vaccine 
to handle as many as 45 million 
sets of inocuations.

Dr. 
Francis’ 
evaluation 

included 
a 
study 
of 
two 

programs included in the field 
trials. In one, half the children 
participating were given vaccine 
while the other half received 
placebo, a harmless substitute. 
In the other, second graders 
received vaccine and first and 
third graders were observed as a 
control group.

Placebo Area
Because children used as 

control (those who received 
placebo) in placebo areas were 
more nearly identical to those 
receiving vaccine than in the 
observed areas, estimates were 
obtained largely from placebo 
areas, Dr. Francis said.

March 9, 1943 - More than 

1,300 Navy Enlisted Men will 
arrive on campus on or about 
July 1 to take up training 
in 
the 
Navy’s 
specialized 

war training program, Prof. 
Marvin Niehuss, campus war 
training 
director, 
revealed 

yesterday. 
The 
University’s 

tentative training quota under 
the new V-12 program will 
include 250 NROTC students, 
900 engineers, 67 pre-medical 
students, and 400 men in 
basic 
training. 
The 
orders 

propose that the men live in 
the 950-man West Quadrangle 
which at present is completely 

occupied, according to Francis 
C. 
Shielacting 
director 
of 

Residence Halls. 

Cassidy Gets Word 
This 
information 
was 

telegramed 
to 
Captain 

Richard Cassidy, head of the 
Naval Science and Tactics 
department, yesterday by the 
Bureau of Naval Personnel in 
Washington. Captain Cassidy 
was requested to organize 
housing and eating facilities 
in 
the 
West 
Quadrangle 

pending contract negotiations. 
Several 
high-ranking 
naval 

officers 
were 
on 
campus 

ten days ago inspecting the 

Quadrangle and other features 
of the University plant. Prof. 
Niehuss, who is the University 
representative in all contract 
negotiations of this type, said 
that he expects the Navy to 
return to Ann Arbor in the near 
future and initiate the contract 
discussions. All trainees will 
be apprentice seamen on active 
duty receiving regular pay for 
their rank. According to the 
present tentative plans they 
will use not only the entire 
West Quadrangle but other 
University facilities, inciding 
instructors and classrooms.

Complete Picture

When 
questioned 

concerning housing facilities 
for regular students in the 
Quadrangle 
during 
the 

summer session, Prof. Niehuss 
stated that “it is our opinion 
that all those men will be in 
uniform by that time.”

This Navy training program 

rounds out the picture of 
service training groups that 
will be stationed on campus. At 
present the Law Quadrangle, 
the Michigan Union, and the 
East Quadrangle are housing 
men in various units of the 
Army’s college war training 
program.

LEE MARKS

DAVE BAAD

CAL SAMRA AND

 SID KLAUS

‘U’, Campus Regard 
‘Riot’ Calmly

Salk vaccine licensed

1,300 Navy Men will 
Train Here in July

“To me, the Bicentennial means 
a new opportunity and a new 
era. It’s not only the chance 
to learn from past mistakes, 
but to also look towards the 
future to create new ideas and 
an opportunity to reinvent 
ourselves as a University and 
individually.” 
LSA senior Breanna Wyrick, 
Black Student Union president 

SGC passed by Regents;
all-campus poll heeded

Student Leaders To Meet Today, Lewis to Discuss SGC 
Transition With 7 Ex-Officio Representatives

FE ATURE D PEOPLE

EMMA RICHTER/Daily

“The U-M Bicentennial not only 
marks the 200th anniversary 
of this great university, it 
also marks 200 years of a 
long standing commitment 
to serving our communities, 
our state, and our world. 
Celebrating our Bicentennial 
reminds us of this commitment 
and challenges us to continue 
serving, learning, and fighting 
for what we believe in.”
LSA senior Teddy Gotfredson, 
Men’s Glee Club

AMELIA CACCHIONE/Daily

1869 — U-M becomes 

first university to own, 

operate its own hospital

1875 — Michigan 

legislature established the 

University’s College of 

Dental Surgery 

1887 — Fred Pelham becomes the 

first African American to graduate 

from U-M’s engineering department

1885 — June Rose Colby 

becomes the first women to 

earn a PhD at U-M

1892 — Grover Cleveland 

gives a speech on campus to 

celebrate president’s day

1890 — The Michigan 

Daily prints its first issue 

1871 — Amanda Sanford becomes 

the first woman to earn a MD from 

U-M and graduated with highest 

honors

1870 — Women are first admitted to the 

University

