Erwin Effmane Refutes Statemenigly Wineman on WSU Publication; Protests. Sounded ..t Erwin ElLmann, an active member of the Detroit chap- ter of American Civil Liber- ties Union, who has opposed the recent resolution defend- ing the South End editors and whose views were chal- lenged jR, last week's Jewish Wews by Prof. David Wind- man, this week replied, in the following statement to The Jewish News: "1. My original memor- • ndum was prepared before the ACLU board meeting of March 6 when the facts were more fully established. At that meeting, Mr. Glen n Cunningham, editor in chief of the South End, candidly acknowledged that his edi- torial position had been set forth in the paper as follows: 'Journalistic o b j e ctivity which argues that both sides or all sides be represented !.s not a desired goal in it- self. We will refuse to print any material that works to subjugate oppressed and ex- ploited peoples whom we are pledged to support. We will not compromise our princi- pals (sic.) or dilute and twist the truth to be socially acceptable.' "Mr. Cunningham refused to repudiate this statement of editorial policy despite prompting from some who supported him. "He reaffirmed this phil- osophy of public campus journalism. "The ACLU heard other evidence that student groups taking positions contrary to .Mr. Cunningham's views have been identified with the oppressors a n d excluded from the paper, even to the point of denial of mere Feb. 24—To Mr. and MFS. Mark Morganroth (Nancy Schriedell), 6715 Alderley Way, West Bloomfield, a daughter, Melissa Jody. • * March 10—To Dr. and Mrs. Harvey 0. Golden (Joan Zer- ry), 18500 Midway, South- field, a daughter, Helene Danielle. * '5 * March 21 — To Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Rosenberg, 16209 Templar Cir., South- field, a son, Darren Matthew. • * To Mr. and Mrs. Michael Serling (Elaine St on e), 29215 Franklin Hills, South- field, a daughter, Alizah Michelle. REV. SIDNEY RUBE Mohel 358-1426 or 357-5544 RABBI S. ZACHARIASH Specialized MOHEL In Home or Hospital 557-9666 Rev. HERSHl ROTH Certified Mohel 557-0888 Office 557-8210 RABBI LEO GOLDMAN Expor/ Ser. ing I LI 2-4444 and 1411111••• • LI 1-9769 notice of student organiza- tional meetings. "Dr. Ernest Benjamin, a Wayne faculty member who serves on the student publi- cations, board as a repre- sentative of the University, explained to the meeting that although there were numer- ous candidates for editor, Mr. Cunningham was select- ed with full knowledge of his political views as well as his conception of the func- tion of a student publication. "2. Wayne State Univer- sity has appropriated some $70,000 to the South End in addition to providing, without charge, office space, equip- ment, light and heat, and the services of a faculty member to serve as adviser or assistant. This substantial support is from taxes levied on the public and tuition levied on Wayne State Uni- versity students. "3. I do not suggest that student editors should be censored or curbed for anti- Semitism, tastelessness, in- coherence or shoddy journal- ism in their columns. "I do not contend, as your March 116 report seems to imply, that the students writing or publishing the South End have themselves "violated the •aw", however wrongheaded or unpalatable their views may be. "Nly quarrel is with the board of governors which has supported with public funds a publication whose editor forthrightly 'acknow- ledges that it serves the needs and airs the views of those with whom he agrees and refuses to print any ma- terial which he identifies with those he opposes, though they also are stu- dents in good standing or re- cognized campus organiza tions. "The use of public funds to proclaim or oppose an idio- syncratic political or credal position, and to exclude dis- sent is as abhorrent to me as Mayor Hubbard's use of the Dearborn City Hall bul- letin board a few years ago to disseminate anti-black propaganda. "The then board of the ACLU's Detroit branch was not concerned with the dif- ficulties of accommodating every conceivable point of view on the limited bulletin board space; it was clear to us then that it was not the business of government to run a propaganda mill to de- mean black citizens. I think today the issue is the same, regardless of the color of the victims. "4. In your March 23 issue, Prof. David Wineman pur- ports to raise constitutional obections to my position at the request of the chairper- son of the Detroit ACLU branch, Ms. Adrienne James. Though I understand his let- ter was written on the letter- head of the organization, I am not aware that the some 30 members of the board have endorsed his views, or ap- proved them as an official utterance. "Prof. Wineman is quite right, however, in emphasiz- ing that my own position was rejected by the preponder- ance of board members pres- ent and voting at a meeting some weeks ago. In fact it was characterized as utter nonsense by one of the South End's most vocal and influ- ential apologists. "In these circumstances, I am accordingly flattered by Prof. Winem'an's public at- tention to views which the organization so emphatically discredited, especially in a manner unprecedented dur- ing my more than 20 years' association with the ACLU in Michigan. "5. Available space does not permit review of the con- stitutional issues. They are both complex and subtle and do not yield to the easy for- mulary generalizations which have constellated the debate. Phases of the problem could have implications for aca- demic freedom, due process and student rights. "Up to now, however, no one has denied, so far as I am aware, any faculty mem- ber or student any academic privilege because of his views or expressions in or about the South End. At the present time the basic issue for 'me is whether a public university can expend moneys collected from taxpayers and students to foster a self-declared ex- clusionary publication, which deliberately and invidiously discriminates against some student activities and in fa- vor of others. "If Wayne State University had appropriated $75,000 to operate a publication which four times a year features Der Sturmer-like cartoons and hate-materials, I suspect that Prof. Wineman would find this a shocking misuse of public power and public funds. I am just as shocked when the board of governors knowingly delegates the task to Mr. Cunningham." Detroit's chapter of the ACLU is pursuing the South End issue with a proposal for an "open forum" agreement in the continuing controversy. A statement by Ms. James contends that all previous as- sertions and regulations do not conclude the debate over the WSU publication. Students and faculty mean- while have also expressed their concern over occur- rences on the WSU campus. In behalf of a growing stu- dent body activated against the prejudicial position of South End editors, Leonard Winogora, Monte Schloss, Carolyn Tujaka and Gilbert Sniderman issued this state- ment: "Whether the public rea- lizes it or not, the South End is still publishing its anti- Semitic diatribes. A small group of Jewish and non- Jewish students have contin- ued to fight this hate sheet with little financial or moral support. "This is to inform the en- tire Jewish community that we have NO intention of let- ting this issue die until Gene Cunningham is removed as editor of the South End. We have no intention of allowing a state-funded publication to continue to spread anti-Semi- tism. "It is our intent to evoke moral outrage on the part of all those who read or hear about this and to press the Wayne State University ad- ministration into action on this matter. If we are to fight and defeat anti-Semitism, we can do so only with the sup- port of the community." statement to The Jewish News by Prof. Abe Citron, professor of educational so- ciology: "How does a small group capture and maintain control of the student newspaper? "Wayne students are busy and hurried with cares of jobs, homes and upward so- cial mobility. Very few stu- dents read the South End. It has not been difficult for members of a determined minority who come to meet- ings/ early and stay late and get their members on key committees to capture the editorship in a vacuum of student attention turned else- where. "The second answer is that the Detroit metropolitan area is one of the centers of the black-white power struggle. The South End purports to be, above all else, the de- fender and protector of black interests against the racism of the establishment. (For example, it recently present- ed James Boyd and Mark Bethune as heroes of the black struggle for liberation.) "In this context any attack on the paper is represented by its staff and defenders as an attack on black students and on the black community. Since the South End has been the captive of this clique it has usually had a black edi- tor, and if anyone criticizes the paper he or she is ac- cused of racism. "There is still a third an- swer. For if the university administration attempts to move in any way to utilize its constitutional responsibility to improve or guide 'the pa- per, the hue and cry is raised of students' rights and freedom of the press. This facade is q u it e effective with many students and fac- ulty. "The inescapable fact is that repeated use of anti- Semitic symbols and mater- ials in the South End is out- rageous and completely out of bounds for a paper sup- ported by taxpayers' funds and officially representing a university of this state. Pub- lication of such material con- stitutes racism just as clear- ly as anti-black stereotypes, language or •cartoons. Student freedom to print is not with- out limits; freedom of the press is not absolute. Were the offending editor white, the issue would not be ob- scured. "Students and faculty at Wayne State University have no idea of the emotional threat to Jews or the political danger to the country repre- sented by anti-Semitic expres- sions in the student newspa- per of the university. The vast majority of blacks have no conception of the horror, felt at the bone's marrow, ex- perienced by Jews contem- porary to the Holocaust, when they are confronted with symbols of anti-Semitism in places of quasi-govern. mental power. "Most Jews have no idea of the feelings and fears of blacks, fears, for example, of insensitive and trigger- quick police; anxieties of making one's way in a huge, white, racist majority, re- sen•ment of being held in because of color of How Problem contempt skin. "Some blacks have told me Originated that they feel it is only when Faculty opinion expressed the South End has a black on the issue included this editor that the administra- • .1,-*V. ' r "1"N lion clamps down. This is not the case, but they feel that way. As usual, perception of groups is situationally based; many blacks fear a takeover of the South End by a mili- tant, black hating, right wing group of which there are members on campus. "Jews and blacks are nar- row-visioned indeed to allow left or right wing revolution- aries to drive them apart. Jews and blacks are natural allies and should get together in more groups around more tables more often 'and talk turkey. It won't be easy, since there are many tough, emo- tional issues. It is high time for serious rapproachment of blacks and Jews all across the nation." In a statement to President George Gullen and the WSU board of governors, Robert Broner, associate professor of humanistic studies at WSY's Monteith College, urged that the editor be di- rectly elected by the student body "on the basis of pub- lished editorial policies by each candidate. "The candidates should first be screened by a recon- stituted SNPB for some of the basic qualities and skills necessary to an editor. But he or she should be elected at large so that it is clear for whom the paper is being written." He explained that: "The system for the selec- tion of an editor of the South End is undemocratic in the best sense of that word. What is the constituency of the editor? To whom is he re- sponsible? The editor has been appointed by a half doz- en members of the Student Newspaper Publication Board, who are in turn ap- pointed by the Student Facul- ty Council. Only some of these S-FC members are elected at large by the stu- dent body. "The system, therefore, makes the editor an appointee - • JOE MILLER and HIS ORCHESTRA of appointees of a partially elected and partially appoin- ed body. Actually students are thus prevented from- hay- ing a clear voice in the selec- tion of an editor of the stu- dent newspaper. The editor owes his oppointment to 2. handful of people who are not directly responsible 'to the administration or the board of governors nor are they directly accountable to the S-FC. "The board Imust set up en- forcement procedures t o guarantee fair treatment to all by a university paper." THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 36—Friday, March 30, 1973 FURNITUR SALES IN YOUR HOME. WE SELL COMPLETE NISHINGS FROM BASEMENT TO AT- TIC. TOP PRICES, QUICK REMOVAL. ESTATES LIQUI- DATED. 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