THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, March 16, 1973-13

WSU President Gullen Repudiates
ACLU Charge; Erwin Ullmann Brief
Also Rejected 'nights' Accusation

Israel Foreign Debt Now at $4 Billion
JERUSALEM (ZINS)—Is- 000,000, up $27,000,000 over
rael's foreign currency re- January 1973, according to a
serves now stand at $1,096,- Bank of Israel spokesman.
At the same time, a high-
ranking official of Israel's
WiiEN YOU c° ..Pic A COCKTAIL finance ministry, Ephraim
President George E. Gullen
Dovrat, disclosed that Is- Jr. of Wayne State Univer-
rael's foreign currency debt sity last Friday rejected the
charges formulated by the
is now $4,000,000,000.
Detroit section of American
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clared:
"The action of the De-
troit Branch of the Amer-
ican Civil Liberties Union
YOUR
on the South End is not
consistent with the facts or
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the traditions of the ACLU.
"At no time has the
b o a r d of governors of
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ACLU's action, taken at a
meeting March 6, threatened
a law suit against the uni-
versity unless the decisions
involving the South End,
campus newspaper, and its
editor, Gene Cunningham,
were reversed.
The ACLU decision was
reached by a close vote — 12
to 7. It took into considera-
tion during the debate the
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that ACLU should not become'
involved in a matter th at
showed "violation of the law"
by the newspaper and editors
involved.
Ellmann, whose views were
rejected in the ACLU vote,
stated at the outset in his
brief:
"ACLU, both nationally
and locally, does not feel it-
self required to strike a blow
for or against Jewish nation-
alism or black nationalism,
wisdom or stupidity among
Wayne administrators, fac-
ulty members or students.
Adherence to El Fatah, Zion-
ism, black militancy, anti-
Semitism, racism or anti-
authoritarianism is not what
claims ACLU support or op-
position. That the principals
in the controversy may be
bad spellers, hasty admin-
istrators, or generally mind-
less does not seem to me to
have anything to do with
whether they deserve our
support or condemnation."
Ellmann's elaborate brief
thereupon pointed to the fail-
ure of South End editors to
conduct its duties in a
publicly-financed organ with-
out prejudice and he charged
"violation of the law" by the
paper's editors, contending
that ACLU should not be a
party to defending a paper
that abuses privileges. Ell-
man's brief stated in part:
"If the South End has not
welcomed all varieties of
opinion in its pages, but has
articulated the positions of
only certain groups, it mani-
festly is not being properly
conducted as a medium of
communication financed by
public funds. The equal pro-
tection clause controls gov-
ernmental action and pro-
hibits invidious discrimination
in its exercise. Accordingly,
the point is not at all whether
articles it publishes create a
`clear and present danger' of
violence or revolution. (That,
from a casual inspection, is
a far too flattering appraisal
of its impact). It is that its
special b r and of selective
journalism may be perfectly
acceptable for a William Ran-
dolph Hearst or Elijah Mu-
hammed or the American
Jewish Congress; it is not
acceptable for a public uni-
versity operating on tax dol-
lars.
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iously concerned with the
right to equal education in
circumstances which do not
demean the student because
of his race, creed or color.
If every student must pay
an activities fee as part of
his tuition in order to take
classes at Wayne, and if
such fee is used to subsi-
dize the publication of dog-
mas or editorials or car-
toons or selective news
stories and policies which
are personally obnoxious to
him, his right to public edu-
cation is being invidiously
and oppressively c o n d i
tioned. (To exact from him
extra moneys to support
political theories which are
abhorrent to him, strikes
me as a much more serious
invasion of his liberty than
to charge him extra be-
cause he comes from out-
side the state). If the board
of governors knowingly
permits student activities
fees to be utilized for pub-
lication of views inimical to
the views of registering stu-
dents, without providing a
reasonable mechanism for
rebate of such fees or di-
version to other •activities,
it is not making that ac-
commodation to the relig-
ious or political conscience
Of the individual which the
courts have held the First
Amendment requires even
unions to make in conduct-
ing political activities, em-
ployers to make in requir-
ing Sabbath work perform-
ance, and the state to make
in enforcing school attend-
ance laws against the
Amish.

"The heavy handedrie'Ss of
the board of governors and
its agents rehearsed in the
policy statement, may well
show disregard for the nice-
ties of fair and courteous ad-
ministration. The governors
also appear to me to have
been muddled, indecisive and
unduly responsive to pres-
sures a n d counterpressures
which have apparently dis-
torted their handling of the
South End for some years. In
permitting the South End to
continue, the board of •ov-
ernors rather than the news-
paper has "violated the law"
in the wards of the policy
statement. That "law" is at
the heart of the ACLU's con-
cerns. We do ourselves no
credit to blink the conclusions
to which our tradition and
logic should lead us."
Dr. Gullen, responding to
questions regarding the South
End situation, a f t e r his
speech at the Economic Club
meeting, said the WSU board
of governors policy has been
that as long as the student
editors were "fair" in their
treatment of news they could
"say all the revolutionary
stuff they want."
He charged that the pres-
ent editors were "not repre-
sentative of a great univer
sity" because students "want
a diet of campus news" be-
sides' the copy not printed.
"We need objective, fair
campus news and a relevant
paper," he. said. He charged
that this is lacking now and
he expressed the hope that
"in the future South End will
be a good paper."

"For these reasons, the is-
sues raised in the 24 page
position paper sent to . the
board seem to me wide of
the mark in terms of formu-
lating an ACLU response. If
public funds are ,being im-
properly spent on this publi-
cation, we should not be
tender of the alleged "rights"
of those having a vested or
asserted interest in perpetu-
ating this course of conduct.
Whether the university ad:
ministration h a s deprived
any affected persons of their
rights as students — not as
proprietors or agents of an
illegal a n d unconstitutional
enterprise — raises a whole
different set of questions on
which no information has
been furnished. If the rights
of students are being improp-
erly curtailed by compelled
support of uncongenial polit-
ical views as a condition to
attending a public university,
we should not be concerned
with whether such unconsti-
tutional action was taken in
the light of a customary
policy, a hasty improvisation,
deliberately, or out of sheer
caprice. It is wrong in any
event, and no amount of "due
process" procedures w i 11
make it right.

Plan to Rehabilitate
Managua Refugees
TEL AVIV (JTA)—A plan
advanced by an Israeli team
of experts for the rehabili-
tation of refugees from the
earthquake that devastated
Managua, Nicaragua last De-
cember has been accepted in
principle by the Inter-Ameri-
can Bank, it was reported
here.
Arye Eliav, a Knesset
member who was on the
team studying the situation
in Nicaragua, reported that
the Israeli plan calls for the
permanent resettlement of
the refugees in the rural
towns to which they fled.
The towns would be con-
verted from asylums to re-
development towns where
most of the refugees could

find homes and jobs, he said.

The plan would take sev-
eral years to complete and
would cost an estimated
$500,000,000, Eliav said. An
Israeli team would go to
Nicaragua to supervise the
project.
The Israeli group was the
only one of several teams of
foreign experts in Managua
to present any plan-

E. Germany Nixes Reparations

BONN (JTA)—East Ger-
many has again ruled out
any reparation to Israel for
Nazi war crimes, it was re-
ported in the March 8 issue
of "Junge Welt," the East
Berlin Communist youth
journal.
The magazine stated that
East Germany regards nego-
tiations on reparations as
possible only with states

which have diplomatic rela-
tions with her. Israel is not
one of those.
According to the journal,
East Germany iso insists
that Israel has no
' claim
was
to reparations sip
founded in 1948

fore did not belon
states covered b:

Potsdam agree me
to make claims.

