1931 — Huge crackdown on 

drinking at U-M, five frats are 

raided, Michigan Daily editors and 

football team captain arrested

November 30, 1966 - Charging 

that the University administration 
refused to neet their demands, 
1,500 students packed three floors 
of the campus Administration 
Bldg. yesterday in the largest sit-in 
in the school’s history.

The 
students 
demonstrated 

in response to President Harlan 
Hatcher’s refusal to acede to their 
demands that the school cease 
compilation of class rankings for 
the Selective Service and rescind 
a controversial new sit-in ban. At 
a noon rally on the diag students 
rejected 
Hatcher’s 
conciliatory 

offer Monday to resolve the 
dispute by establishing three new 
committees as “sweet talk.”

The 
students 
at 
the 
rally 

marched on the Administration 
Bldg. after Student Government 
Council President Ed Robinson 
told them, “Last Monday’s teach-in 
asked for a yes-or no answer from 
the administration on our demands. 
I 
would 
interpret 
President 

Hatcher’s statements yesterday as 
not meeting that ultimatum,” As 
the students marched off to the 
sit-in, SGC members Robert Smith, 
‘67, and Jay Zulaff, ‘67, pleaded with 
them not to go.

About 
200 
students 
stayed 

on to hear Zulaff say, “The 
administration has started to work 
with us... We must continue to 
work with the administration.”

The students filled the lobbies, 

foyers, and some corridors of the 

first, second and third floors start- 
ing at about 12:20. Access to offices 
was largely blocked for University 
employes.

Technically the protest did not 

violate the controversial new sit-in 
ban which has been the focal point 
of the two week old dispute here.

Robinson spoke to a wide cross-

section of students in short talks 
on all three floors. He thanked 
the students’ for attending and 
said their numbers showed “a real 
committment to student decision- 
making.”

He later said that “it should be 

clear that this is just a beginning. I 
would anticipate another meeting 
Thursday night with complete 
debate and an open agenda to 
decide on further actions.”

Robinson 
received 
frequent 

applause as he told the students 
they were doing “the best thing that 
has ever been done for education 
anywhere. “He predicted that 
actions by interested students 
would continue into next semester 
“I would like to thank everyone 
who came in spite of ‘the vacation 
and the weather and Hatcher’s 
statement. 
This 
show 
a 
real 

commitment to student decision 
making,” said Robinson.

“It should be clear that this is just 

a beginning,” he added. Voicing a 
more militant stance was Students 
for a Democratic Society President 
Mike Zweig, Grad: “Next time I 
think we’ll have to have a site-in of 
indefinite duration.”

June 23, 1964 - President 

Lyndon B. Johnson collected an 
honorary Doctor of Civil Law 
degree from the University, a 
presidential endorsement from 
Henry Ford II and thunderous 
applause from 80,000 spectators 
during his morning in Michigan 
May 22.

He was here on a supposedly 

non-political mission — to deliver 
the University’s Commencement 
address — but his appearance was 
never free of political overtones 
and the peculiar mystique which 
always surrounds the President 
of the United States.

Johnson was in Ann Arbor 

barely over an hour and in 
the state only a few hours, 
but the practical and political 
preparations had begun well in 
advance.

Protecting a President
University and local officials 

worked 
with 
Secret 
Service 

personnel on security measures 
— including such tricks as 
welding shut manhole covers 
in the Michigan Stadium area, 
closing off the, Stadium almost 
a day in advance of the visit, 
scouring the Stadium with a 
“bomb squad” on the morning 

of the 22nd and even banning 
aircraft over the area during the 
President’s stay here.

Political 
jockeying 
also 

preceded the event. A protocol 
debate 
flared 
over 
whether 

Republican Gov. George Romney, 
Democratic 
Detroit 
Mayor 

Jerome Cavanagh or University 
Executive 
Vice-President 

Marvin L. Niehuss should be the 
first to greet the Chief Executive 
as he landed in Detroit (Romiley 
shook 
his 
hand 
first, 
but 

Cavanagh introduced him to the 
crowd). Other state Democrats 
scrambled to join Johnson in the 
limelight at various moments of 
his visit.

Ann Arborites Arise
Local people stepped in, too. 

Thirteen pickets from the Direct 
Action Committee, a militant 
local Negro organization, used 
the occasion to protest alleged 
police brutality; 107 other Ann 
Arborites petitioned Johnson to 
speak out on peace, poverty and 
civil rights — which the President 
indeed did, though he made no 
new policy statements. But the 
President could’ve quoted from 
the telephone book, for all most 
of the spectators cared. To them, 
the important thing was that 
the President had come to Ann 
Arbor.

November 
6, 
1962 
- 

Speaking on moral issues of 
discrimination and the future 
hopes of the American Negro 
in the civil rights struggle, the 
Rev. Martin Luther King stated 
yesterday that “the American 
dream is as yet Unfulfilled.”

He declared the basic rights 

of man are neither derived 
from nor confirmed by the 
state, but ordained by God. 
and therefore every man “is 
heir to a legacy of dignity and 
worthiness.”

King emphasized the point 

that integration is necessary 
“not only to appeal to Asia 
and Africa and to defend 
ourselves against the charges 

of Communism, but because 
racial 
discrimination 
is 

morally wrong. It substitutes 
an I-it relationship for the 
I-thou relationship.”

Develop Topic
He then developed his topic 

by explaining first that men 
must realize that the American 
dream 
involves 
the 
world 

dream of brotherhood. “We 
must learn to live together 
as brothers or we will die 
together as fools.”

Secondly, 
men 
must 

eliminate the lingering notion 
that 
there 
are 
inherently 

superior or inferior races.

Third, the United States 

must rid itself of the system of 
racial segregation. Agreeing 
that legislation cannot change 
men’s hearts, King maintained 
that law can control external 

actions.

Integration Future
Discussing the future of 

integration, 
King 
predicted 

that although the Negro has 
come a long way in reevaluating 
his intrinsic worth he still has 
a long way to go.

“The 
federal 
government 

has a great role to play if the 
problem is to be solved,” King 
said. He noted that the “only 
forthright leadership in the 
past 10 years has been from 
the judicial branch” and that 
“legislative 
and 
executive 

branches have been silent and 
sometimes hypocritical.”

He suggested that it was 

time for the President to sign 
an executive order declaring all 
segregation 
unconstitutional 

on the basis of the Fourteenth 
Amendment.

Church ‘Shame’
King was also dissatisfied 

with the role of the clergy in 
implementing 
integration, 

saying that “it is the shameful 
fact that the church is still the 
most segregated institution in 
America today.”

Discussing 
University 

President 
Harlan 
Hatcher’s 

State of the University address 
in October in which Hatcher 
said 
students 
should 
limit 

activities 
in 
the 
student 

movement, restricting them to 
the campus, King disagreed, 
saying that “students have a 
responsibility to participate 
in the movement.” He stressed 
that education is “being true 
to studies yet devoting oneself 
to a significant cause like 
integration.”

AARON BAKER/Daily

Members of the Graduate Employees Organization host a sit-in in the Union 
on April 10, 2017.

KENNETH WINTER

Co-Editor

September 20, 1968 - A 

22-man 
University 
surgical 

team began a heart transplant 
late last night in University 
Hospital. The recipient is a 
49-year old Kalamazoo man, 
Phillip T. Barnum, who has 
been prepared for such an 
operation since Aug. 8. The 
donor for the operation was a 
37 year old male, who died of 
a stroke, according to hospital 
officials. 
His 
family 
has 

requested his name remain 
anonymous. 
Barnum 
had 

been slowly dying of cardio-
myopthy, a degeneration of the 
heart muscle.

Although 
the 
hospital 

refused to officially give out the 
names of those on the 22-man 
operating 
team, 
unofficial 

sources believe the surgeon 
heading the team is Dr. Donald 
Kahn, a specialist in thoracic 
surgery.

Of the 22-man team, 10 

will work on the donor side of 
the operation, and 12 on the 
recipient Side. The operation 
began at mid-night last night, 
and no word was to be available 
on the outcome of the long and 
complicated operation until 4 
or 5 a.m. this morning.

The success of the transplant 

will hinge on the willingness 
of Barnum’s body to accept 
the new organ. The natural 
processes of the body which 
cause it to fight off simple 
infection and form protective 
pockets 
around 
embedded 

objects in the skin, will also 
cause it to attempt to reject the 
foreign heart.

In 
order 
to 
fight 
his 

phenomenon, 
doctors 
will 

administer drugs to Barnum 
which will diminish the ability 
of the body to reject the heart. 
However, these drugs also 
lower the natural barriers to 
infection. A large number of 
the patients in previous heart 
transplants 
have 
died 
not 

because of failure of the heart, 
but of complications resulting 
from later infection.

Doctors 
have 
found 
one 

drug 
which 
helps 
prevent 

the rejection of the heart to a 
large degree, while reducing 
the possibility of infection to a 
minimum. This drug, call anti-
lymphocyte globulin, (ALG), 
has been used in transplants 
in Texas with great success. 
Dr. Denton A. Cooley of Baylor 
University, who has performed 
at least nine transplants, said 
recently he would not try 

such an operation without 
ALG. However, until recently, 
ALG had been banned from 
interstate shipment by the 
Federal 
Food 
and 
Drug 

Administration. Thus doctors 
here faced the problem of 
developing their own supply, 
a long and tedious process 
according to hospital sources.

Recently, 
the 
Clinical 

Research Unit (CRU), of the 
University Hospital, in which 
Barnum was a patient, was 
closed down for lack of federal 
funds to support it. The CRU 
accepts 
only 
patients 
with 

unusual 
medical 
problems. 

The federal grant paid for the 
care of these patients, and 
the doctors were given an 
opportunity to study new and 
better treatments.

As of last night, the Barnum 

family 
was 
still 
legally 

responsible for the finances of 
the operation. However, it was 
all but assured by University 
Hospital that private sources of 
funds, and a federal allocation 
would cover the costs. The 
operating 
team 
has 
been 

prepared for such an operation 
since April. Their schedule 
called for removal of the heart 
of the donor within ten minutes 
of death.

Bicentennial
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
Friday, September 15, 2017 — 5

Protest Is Largest In ‘U’ History, Demonstration Shows Student Response To Hatcher Statement

Gowns, Grads and ‘Great Society’

SUSAN ELAN

JIM NEUBACHER

MARJORIE BRAHMS

AND MARTHA MACNEAL

Johnson Comes to Ann Arbor

1,500 students stage sit-in 
at administration building

King Speaks on Morality

FE ATURE D PEOPLE
‘U’ surgical team attempts 
heart transplant operation

Begin surgery near midnight

“This is actually the 
bicentennial anniversary of the 
College Republican chapter 
at the University of Michigan, 
the oldest College Republican 
chapter in the U.S. To me, 
celebrating the University’s 
Bicentennial anniversary has a 
special significance as I do my 
part in continuing the tradition 
of representing College 
Republicans on campus.”
LSA senior Enrique Zalamea, 
president of College 
Republicans

“I think that it has definitely 
changed since I became chair of 
Dems. The University of Michigan 
has been one of the leaders in 
promoting public education, public 
good, working toward a more 
just society. And I think that’s so 
important; we all know that this 
campus is liberal, but I think that 
they have also done a good job 
promoting freedom of speech, but 
also working to make sure that 
students feel safe. And there’s 
obviously so much more that needs 
to be done especially with this 
administration students have felt 
threatened, but I think that these 
200 years — and obviously it didn’t 
start out great, but U of M along 
with the country has helped society 
move in the right direction.”
Public Policy senior Rowan 
Conybeare, president of College 
Democrats

MAX KUANG/Daily

AMELIA CACCHIONE/Daily

1923 — William Clements Library 

opens
1933 — Law Quad is built

1932 — The “Michigan 

Socialist House” is created, 

the first cooperative house in 

Ann Arbor

1932 — U-M surgeon Cameron Haight 

performes one of the world’s first surgical 

removal of/part of a lung

1934 — George Maceo 

Jones is the first Black man 

in the United States to earn 

a Ph.D. in civil engineering, 

at U-M

1927 — The Big House 

opens

1924 — Business School is created

TODAY

