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Wednesday Acts of violence—. MICHIGAN Co Id. Whether on a large or a . ■ . and cloudy with a small s«*ate> Crt»WU«r parsivx: ». • « 7 A T I />f ^ r'jvth- MEWS chance of light snow flurries. and me meaninglessness of S f A T E ' ^*7 S-----.S.. - * • —* j O W*».- • ’¿V killing. UNIVERSITY night from 21 to 26. Thursday, -Dag Hammarskjöld cloudy with snow flurries. December 4, 1968 10c East Lansing, Michigan Vol. 61 Number 96 Faculty com m ittee O K open house policy By MARILYN PATTERSON by individual residence hall government open houses are to be held, proper attire, vice-president for student affairs, for final State News Staff Writer and their advisers. open door policy, and supervision of open approval. The faculty Committee on Student Af­ The policy change, which was proposed houses. “The proposal could be implemented fairs approved Monday night a proposal by Men's Halls Association (MHA), de­ by the beginning of winter term, which These policies are now to be deter­ that open house policies be determined letes University rules on length and times is half a term ahead of our schedule. mined by the hall government, the man­ Hawkins said. ager and the head adviser. The policy, if approved, will apply to The Faculty Committee made one men's and women's rf^dence halls, he change in the MHA proposal. said. MHA offered that procedures for "This policy was passed with the as­ Visitation policies vary scheduling of open houses be determined sumption that it will not be misused. by the hall governing council under the Hawkins said. "The success of this policy Marines in Dodge City advisement of, rather than with the agree­ and the possibility of passage of other ment of, the manager and head adviser. policies giving students more responsi­ Marines involved in Operotion Mead River watch napalm strikes for Big Ten living units bility depends on how the halls use their on North Vietnamese and Viet Cong positions. About 4,000 Marines The Faculty Committee amended the new power. This does prove that the pro­ versity. the policy has been subject to are Involved In the cordon operation in an area known as Dodge proposal to read: ‘‘Procedures and pol­ vided channels are an effective way of By RICH BERNARD scrutiny bv different publics, which has City, 13 miles south of Da Nang. UPI Telephoto icies for open houses shall be agreed upon changing policy." State News Staff Writer included some high-fidelity flack." Hen­ by the governing council manager and Policies ranging from closed doors and nessey said. head adviser. living unit self-determination at the Uni- 'But the argument for students having .versity of Michigan to occasional lounge a greater voice in defining the way they “This tri-partite arrangement has open houses at Purdue University color the live has supported the right of student worked in the past. A.L. Thurman, P E A C E P L A N spectrum of visitation among the Big Ten self-determination in this area." Hennes­ chairman of the Faculty Committee, schools. sey concluded. said, “and we could see no justification MSU has furthered the liberal trend in The State University of Iowa, while re­ for changing it.” open house policies with the recent move quiring that doors be ajar, allows resi­ Brian Hawkins, president of MHA. said to allow the individual residence halls to dence hall floors to determine lengths that the change does affect the intent of VC spokesman denies decide their own open house policies. and frequency of visitation in the rooms. the original proposal in that the policy­ U-M last January, adopted a policy al- , Hours of visitation are limited by the making is a three-part responsibility, not lowing each individual student housing unit university to 4:30 to 8 p.m. Monday through the duty of the students alone. to make its own decisions concerning vis­ Thursday. 3 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. on Friday. However, MHA approved the commit­ itation. This policy change came after an 10 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. on Saturday and tee amendment in a m eeting Tuesday. plan to support Saigon intensive year and a half-long study of the 10 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. on Sundays. The proposal was considered by the problem. The university s Code of Student Life ASMSU Student Board Tuesday night. PARIS I A P i - A Viet Cong spokesman in Paris. Presumably, the allies went over Almost all of the men's units have elec­ requires that planned visitations be regis- If passed by the ASMSU board, it will the South Vietnamese people . I find rejected Tuesday as "ridiculous" a re­ proposals Vance passed on to the North ted to implement 24-hour visitation with (please turn to page 13) be presented to Milton B. Dickerson, these proposals scarcely realistic." ported South Vietnamese plan calling for Vietnamese at a secret session Monday. closed doors. Policies vary in women s The front has said it will refuse to nego­ the guerrillas to rally to the side of the U.S. sources said further secret meet­ living units. tiate with the South Vietnamese delega­ Saigon government. ings with Hanoi's diplomats were expected The University upholds policies against tion when the expanded talks get under In the middle of the verbal jockeying, (please turn to page 13) cohabitation and pre-marital intercourse. way. South Vietnam has said it will talk an advance party of the South Vietnam­ Student responsibility in exercise of the only to North Vietnam, not the front. The ese delegation arrived and U.S. sources right to privacy is stressed. North Vietnamese say they do not recog­ said it was hoped the enlarged peace talks A policV of closed doors and self-deter­ nize the Saigon government. could begin next week. The Viet Cong statement underscored Council refers mination aV«i sub-living unit level within Government sources in Saigon said the a 2 p.m. toJp]ra.m. time limit marks In­ the wide gap between the North Vietnam­ plan to be submitted to the first iour- diana ynifyersf&as second in liberaliza­ ese and the front on one side and South party talks would provide for scale-down tion of visitation. > Vietnamese on the other as they approach of the fighting, supervised withdrawal of what may be months of tough bargaining stack closing Living unit areas of approximately 50 North Vietnamese troops from the South people, corresponding to precincts in MSU while the fighting pages on in South Viet­ along with a cutback of I'.S. forces and a residence halls, may decide the frequency nam . "rallying" of the Viet Cong to the gov­ and length of in-room visiting within the Vice President Nguyen Cao Kv. a hard­ to committee time limits .’et by the university's Inter- ernment. "That's ridiculous, very ridiculous." said liner who will not be a delegate but will Residence Hall Assn. By MARILYN PATTERSON a spokesman for the National Liberation have a supervisory role, is expected over Floor governors, similar to MSU resi­ State News Staff Writer Front, the Viet Cong's political arm. the weekend. South Vietnamese sources dent assistants, serve in a supervisory The Academic Council Tuesday referred "The puppet administration ot Saigon said. authority during the visitations. Signing in to the Faculty Library Committee a pro­ represents no one. It is the creation of the U.S. Ambassador Cyrus R. Vance ad­ and out of guests is required. posal that the Library stacks not be clos­ United States. The National Liberation vanced preliminary arrangements by con­ The policy was tried on a small, exper­ ed to undergraduates until summer term Front is the legitimate representative of ferring with Nguyen Van An. Lam ’s deputy imental scale last spring before it was 1970. expanded to the entire university this fall. The proposal, presented by Jeff Zeig. • The policy has caused some disloca­ ASMSU senior member-at-large and stu­ tion in the student community with regard dent representative to the Council, re­ to decisions concerning who is to use the San Francisco protest quested that the stacks remain open for a room by roommates, but the problem is Hopes for med school year, that the stacks then be closed for a not insurmountable." Tom Hennessey, San Francisco State College students raise clenched fists in de­ year and that the two systems be com­ asst. asst, director of counseling and ac­ fiance of Acting President S. I, Hayakawa's reopening of classes on pared by an ad hoc committee appointed by President A. Hannah. tivities in Indiana University’s residence Dec. 2. At least four demonstrators, one a non-student, were arrest­ Zeig's motion came after considerable halls, said. ed earlier. yP| Telephoto • Because Indiana is a major state uni­ climax 12-year struggle discussion by the Council about the li­ brary's closing stacks to undergraduates upport the new medical school, the By WES THOR! in January for reasons of efficiency and State News Staff Writer K ellogg Foundation granted $1.25 m illio n to MSU. Half would be for initiating the better service. Rising hopes at MSI’ that the state Charles C. Hughes professor of anthro­ 29 ARRESTED legislature might approve a four-year de­ new medical program and the other halt pology and chairman of the Faculty Li­ gree-granting program for the College ot for construction over a five-year period. brary Committee, stated six considerations Human Medicine by the end ot this Dr.

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