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M, ..1{ ...{. r..~ . , . .:.W~ * w.~v..... ,..*t:".vv....-.......~. .. Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. t WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1968 NIGHT EDITOR: DANIEL OKRENTI 1 A Chance to Vote Against Johnson's Wartime Economy PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S budget pro- posals mark a regrettable although not-too surprising trend in administra- tion priorities. Defense expenditures, amounting to $76.7 billion, make up over 40 per cent of the total budget, and out of this over one-third of it is earmarked for the war in Vietnam. In light of the increases over the pre- vious year, the rise in defense outlay was $3 billion of which $1.3 billion is in the Vietnam cost. Thus, the increase alone in spending on Vietnam amounts to more than the outlays for aid to model cities, job training for the poor, aid to Appalachia, educational aid for poor children, and food stamps for the poor. Furthermore, the administration is will- ing to spend more for the development of the new SST than it is for the last three programs combined. All of Johnson's educational and social programs comprise only 11 per cent of the total budget, while direct expendi- tures for Vietnam account for 14 per cent of the budget-this is not to mention the incremental increases in domestic mili- tary spending. The President's tempered message re- garding the administration's ability to wage "a costly war aboard and (meet) urgent requirements at home'' demon- strates that he has resigned himself to the fact that the present budget is so obviously "war oriented" that the public will no longer gullibly accept his plea that increased taxes are solely the conse- quence of the Vietnam war. He apolo- getically discusses the fact that priorities are being set that call for "delays and deferments in existing programs." THE TEN PER CENT income tax sur- charge, therefore, which might be economically sound to fight inflation, as well as the prescribed "users" charges on trucks, buses, and airlines, is being called for to balance a budget that is geared for the Vietnam War. Thus, Con- gress by opposing the tax bill and the budget can put pressure on the Presi- dent's war policy and political future. If they do fail to enact the increased tax bill, Johnson will have three recourses left open: decrease military spending, thus de-escalating our involvement in Vietnam; decrease spending on domestic prdgrams; or borrow $20 billion, which will send interest rates skyrocketing and dampen our current economic expansion. It is unlikely that Johnson will decrease domestic spending, since to do so would mean the abandonment of many of his social programs which are currently cut to the bone. If the government were to borrow the money, it would result in a loss of support for Johnson among the business community, and the economic slowdown could cost him considerable political strength. Politically, the most expedient meas- are woula oe to aecrease mitary spena- ing-it wouia taike inniationary pressure Dff the economy, ana neutralize tne in- creasing proportion or the population calling for a re-evaluation or our soutn- east Asian commitments. we can't expect Johnson to immediately cut military spending, but it would demonstrate the mood of the populace, and be the clarion call for Johnson to bring an urgently needed negotiated settlement to the Viet- nam conflict. --RONALD KLEMPNER . Associate Editorial Director ALL RIGHT now. Let's be honest about the whole thing. You know the real reason why you cheered when the Regents decided January 19 to exempt freshman women from curfew and let students living in dorms and Greek units set their own visitation hours. You were getting sick and tired of trying to sandwich everything into those old-fashioned three hour open- opens required under the old policy. No more of that "I really do love you but I don't want to get any late minutes," jazz. No more resident advisor stopping you to ask why that girl you said was only your "sister" tripped the fire alarm at 5 a.m. Sunday morning while trying to sneak out of the building. Just plenty of that good old-fashioned Joe College life. WELL, DON'T be naive. Housing Director John Feldkamp has got your number. The cherubic looking former President of Student Gov- ernment has his ear to the ground. And so on January 25 Feldkamp sent the University housing staff plus all dormitory and Greek house officers a blunt memo that you should heed: "It should be clear to all University Housing residents and staff that the action of the Board of Regents on January 19, 1968 (new dorm policies) does not modify other University Regulations on Univer- sity Housing policies. The policy that the University finds unacceptable pre-marital sexual intercourse continues in effect. Further, the new policy sanctions only visitation, meaning the periodic visiting of guests. Specifically cohabitation and over night visitation will subject students to University dis- cipline. Discipline will be appropriate for violations of these standards as well as violations of the visit- ation rules adopted by the individual housing units." For amplification we went over to Mr. Feldkamp's attractive third floor office in the Student -Activities Building that affords a good view of West Quadrangle and a glimpse at South Quad-two centers of student social activity. Mr. Feldkamp proved modest about his stand. "I don't pretend to be an expert on pre-marital sex," he said. For counsel he generally relies on a husband and wife medical team Dr. Marshall L. Shearer, a psychiatrist at Chil- dren's Hospital and Dr. Marguerite Shearer, a physician at Health Service (both give frequent talks on sex to campus groups). Feldkamp said "the reason why the statement was issued was that some people had the misimpression that the new policy means that you can have a woman sleep overnight. That was not our intention. Visitation does not mean cohabitation." "Personally I can't imagine that any mature women could have intercourse in a dormitory. Usually when it occurs there are accompanying psychological problems." Feldkamp concedes that intercourse won't necessarily hurt the boy since "their attitude is different." But in general he feels that the entire business of sex in the dorms "is sordid." FELDKAMP SAYS he is generally pleased with re- sponse to the new policy. We've had very good luck, most of the kids are handling themselves well. In fact we have discouraged resident advisors from patrolling the halls. I really don't think this new policy will promote any more promiscuity that now exists." He says there have been only a few incidents that have caused concern such as a boy in "Baits who was taking a shower in the wrong bath facility. And some residents complain about their roommates having guests over for the entire night." Feldkamp says he has his doubtsabout applying his policy University-wide. "We might have some problems with that. Kids who live in apartments can have more privacy and more mature relationships." But as for the new dormitory policy he is "confident it will work out." Some may find his stand stiff but he insists it's sound "Like the Shearer's point out, sex isn't the same as picking your nose." .......... .......... .......... ... :.:w :.:x : v ;..................... . .. n.. L.. . . . ... .r'. . . . ... . Letters: A 'U' 8-Month Lease Suggestion To the Editor: IN VIEW OF current discussion surrounding the revised Univer- sity Student Rental Agreement, the Office ofsStudent Community Relations issues the following statement to students and the community: The Office of Student Com- munity Relations has issued a re- vised Student Rental Agreement form for off-campus housing. This new lease carries over many pro- visions from the lease in use dur- ing the past several years, but the revision attempts to clarify the rightsiand obligations of stu- dent tenants and landlords and to make the format easier to use. Among the provisions in the new lease are an option to con- tract for an eight or twelve month term, a clause. providing for University mediation of dis- putes, and provisions covering such contingencies as forfeiture and refund of deposits, untenant- able conditions, and termination of occupancy. THE UNIVERSITY makes this new lease available to students and to the community on the same basis as in previous years. Its use is not required but strongly encouraged as a reasonably bal- anced instrument to govern what the University views as essentially a private contractual housing ar- rangement between landlord and tenant. The University will con- tinue to extend its good offices in mediating complaints and dis- putes in off-campus housing. Private rental property regis- tered and listed with the Univer- sity Off-Campus Housing Bureau is required to be certified for oc- cupancy by the City of Ann Arbor, to be available to any student on an open occupancy basis, to be subject to University mediation of student-landlord disputes, and to be covered by the new Student Rental Agreement or by an ac- ceptable alternative, if a written lease is used. Junior women under the age of 21 who have parental consent are permitted to live in private housing which meets the above University requirements. Other students who are eligible to live off-campus are free to live where they please and are encour- aged to utilize the services of the University's off-campus housing program, including the listing services and the new lease. Rental housing which is registered and listed with the University does meet thetabove requirementsdof certification, non - discrimination and mediation. STUDENTS, landlords and rental prolierty managers are free also to make their own lease ar- rangements and to consult with the staff members of Student Community Relations about any revisions in the r new Student Rental Agreement or about the use of any alternative written lease form. The n e w I y revised Student Rental Agreement was developed by the Office of Student Com- munity Relations with substantial legal and student consultation with the objective of providing an optional form in which both parties could have reasonable con- fidence that their respective obli- gations would be recognized and mutually respected. The provisions do permit modi- fications by mutual written agree- ment by all parties to suit indi- vidual circumstances. There would seem to be no objection to such minor modifications as may be regarded desirable by either party to clarify the intent of the Agree- ment. -William L. Steude, Director Student Community Relations McBride and Co. To the Editor: 1 OUILD like to express my sincere praise to Jorin Lottier for his fine analytical indictment of Bob McBride, TV 2's objection- able editorialmonger. Indeed, Lot- tier's appraisal could hardly have been more erudite. However, whether consciously or unconsciously, Lottier failed to make mention of McBride's equal- ly distasteful comrade-in-arms, Larry Carino, who should at least merit equal time. This is not to detract from the column as writ- ten, but merely to point out that Carino is just as worthy of the condemnation accorded McBride as they operate hand-in-hand in their attempt to maintain the status quo and prevent social pro- gress at all costs. Carino's particular vendetta is his repeated attacks on the recent constitutional guarantees for the. "criminal element" and on the sociological analysis of the crime problem. He repeatedly exhorts the "bleeding hearts" in America to ".take off the kid gloves" and stop "coddling criminals." Criminals must be retributively "taught a lesson," not cured of a social ill. AT A CRUCIAL time'in our his- tory, when the basic rights of the individual are undergoing serious re-examination and explication by the Supreme Court and civil liber- ties groups of all kinds, such ir- responsible activity under the guise of responsible, objective journal- ism can only retard true and meaningful social progress in the interests of all. Lottier's direct and forceful rep- resentation of the complacent self-righteousness of such men is a laudable and long overdue state- ment. -G. P. Jarpe,"70 Law Irrationality To the Editor: SOME PEOPLE make asses of themselves in public because what they say is patently ridicu- lous. Some people make asses of themselves in public because no matter how worthy what they have to say may be, they come off sounding like hysterical children. Bob McBride certainly falls in the first category, and Lottier, equally certainly, falls in the second. V. ' r d' 4 ,rkS', " tA 11FEE(E~ ~i 'RoAI tOT OE I. V The Suppression to Come THE INDICTMENT last week of seven leaders of the Berkeley anti-war move- ment can be seen as a parallel-by local governments-to the repressive measures used by the federal government to stifle dissent in the case of Dr. Spock. While this is the first attempt by a local court to create a "conspiracy" surrounding anti-draft activity, it is unlikely that it will be the last. The seven-all of whom took part in the disruptive demonstrations at the Oakland Induction Center during "Stop- the-Draft Week" last October - were charged with conspiracy to violate state law. Ten "overt acts" of trespassing, dis- turbing the peace and obstructing the police were named in the indictment. AS IN THE CASE of the indictment of Dr. Spock, the strategy of the Ala- meda County Grand Jury seems to have been to attack on the local anti-draft movement by hitting at its most promi- nent leaders. However, the grand jury failed to realize, the charismatic charac- t r of the seven defendants, and the ex- tent to which the Berkeley campus was prepared to mobilize in support of them. Already, thousands of students have turned out at support rallies. Even more important, tjhe indictment is being tied in by student leaders to the controversy that has been raging on the Berkeley campus over the suspension of two students for their activities during "Stop-the-Draft Week." Further fuel is being added to the fire by the fact that the grand jury is the same one that issued an injunction against holding a teach-in connected with the protests at the Oakland Induc- tion Center. The injunction resulted in the university administration rescinding C7. . . c The Daily is a member of the Associated Press and Collegiate Press service. Fall and winter subscription rate: $4.50 per term by carrier ($5 by mail); $8.00 for regular academic school rear ($9 by mall), Daily except Monday during regular academic school year. Daily except Sunday and Monday during regular summer session. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan, 420 Maynard St Ann Arbor. Michigan, 48704. Editorial Staff ROGER RAPOPORT. Editor MEREDITH EM~ER. Managing Editor MICHAEL HMER ROBERT KLIVANS City Editor Editorial Director the permission it had earlier given for the student government-sponsored teach- in on campus. THERE CAN BE NO doubt that the in- - vestigations were undertaken largely because the grand Jury was annoyed at the students' refusal to comply with the injunction. Students have continued to violate the injunction through a series of "mill-ins" protesting the suspension of the two students. More recent demon- strations have occurred in protest over the citation for possible suspension of six students who took part in demonstra- tions against on-campus recruiting by Dow Chemical Co. and the Central Intel- ligence Agency. Several of the seven named in the indictment were instru- mental in the formation of the Movement Against Political Suspensions (MAPS), which initiated the concept of the "mill- in." The formation two weeks ago of a new student-faculty resistance group, Cam- pus Draft Opposition, is a further indi- cation that students are not about to capitulate in the face of academic sanc- tions taken by the university adminis- tration. Thus, it appears that this new tactic of attempting to stifle the anti-war movement at Berkeley by labelling it a conspiracy has failed largely for the same reasons that the indictment of Dr. Spock failed to "scare people away" from the national resistance movement. The government-on'every level-seems to have a unique ability to misunderstand the extent to which a community will rise in defense of one of its members when his rights are denied. THE LEGAL machinery grinds slowly. The Berkeley indictments came over three months after the violations were said to have occurred. Since people are usually unaware that they are being in- vestigated until after an indictment has been returned, we have no way of know- ing low many similar investigations are going on all over the country. In the past few months student pro- tests across the country have become in- creasingly militant. If the indictment trend continues, local action against draft protesters may prove to be commonplace. -DAVID DUBOFF t f 4 j1 'k f5q q4 ,,.1 1 k yY 7' 1 'f L f,." , ti {kV Y TT / . ,. r . t , " fir. i i' k v. " i ' 9 ' : y ,f' 2 kti l' > .7 , ! 1 o , 1- " ,t4 , . ,, , If " " js 1 7 T ; "'R t i ", d y 7, ,,'Sri1 . F3 : tt' ' £ ?- 4 ti Yj. . 14 c a ~ '. /5. ,,q , ; r thy. : +' s' n r ., .. . arw;. . i:,, -Y'.' ' ''' .... ..FA :. t i f % t C , i... ' , c. r ,+,r !' i 1. r, 11 ; ..t ' ' ,+ ' s ,: ..., t } . a ; r,,. , k r ri,};..3'y. w .l' y y ; ,. Ani t y r ..: ts r.i ^+Y 5..' I'd much prefer having someone with your basic sympathies media- ting between Jac LeGoff and Jerry Hodak, but I'd cry if you used your two minutes like you use your space in The Daily. Because people would laugh at you, and you don't deserve to be laughed at. -Adaline Huszczo LSA '68. Sororities To the Editor: THERE ARE a number of inac- curacies in Meredith Eiker's Sunday editorial called, "A First Step for Sororities," which reveal that she is not really fully in- formed about the ramifications be- hind the resolution which rejects the use of binding alumnae (by the way, alumni is the plural for male graduates) recommendations. As a journalism major and a mem- ber of the Greek system, I would like to correct the errors, as a courtesy to The Daily and to the sorority system. 1. You term the resolution as a "first step for sororities." The res- olution passed last Wednesday is merely the most recent in a series of footsteps which over the last two years have been geared to make the sorority system a racial- ly integrated unit. In January, 1965, Panhellenic Presidents' Council voted to rec- ognize Delta Sigma Theta and Alpha Kappa Alpha as chapters with full representation on the Council, rather than distinguishing them as "associate chapters." In January 1966, the Council or- ganized its own membership com- mittee under the auspices of Stu- dentgGovernment Council to in- vestigate discriminatory recom- mendation procedures. The focus of activity. has been on race. THE COMMITMENT to non- discriminatory politics received new impetus last February when 19 members of Presidents' Coun- cil individualy signed a resolution stating that local chapters should have the right of final decision in membership selection. The reso- lution was geared to allow locals to ignore their nationals if they want to pledge a Negro. hel edict. Sororities unwilling to confront their national organiza- tions over any issue may in fact find it more comfortable outside of Panhellenic and the Unversity's immediate auspices." . I DOUBT THAT any sorority would find it more comfortable outside the immediate auspices of the University. Without University housing approval, no sorority would have any occupants. And, as a non-participant in Panhellenic, a sorority would have to rely on its own resources for an indepen- dent rush. This would probably be disastrous in all' cases. If we are truly interested in re- vitalizing both our membership lists and our position on campus, then, as you query, why don't we simply tell our nationals to go to blazes over the issue of binding recommendations? It is because they control the purse strings. The question in our minds is how far down the road twoard autonomy in the selection process can we go before our national hierarchies disown us, thereby jerking the economic props from under us- the props which pay for mortgages, costly maintenance and repair bills, etc.? In that event, who is going to help us stay financially above the water? President Flem- ing and SGC say they are behind us, but will they assume our debts? IT IS THIS stark reality which explains the votes against the resolution last week. The five chapters who voted against it are now placed in conflict between the University and their nationals. They will be fighting for the fu- ture of their houses on this campus during contacts with nationals this summer. Finally, in spite of the inaccu- racies. I am glad you printed the editorial, for we need continual prodding in the long range effort to racially integrate the system. But it seems to me that the cul- prit in this morass of conflict and emotion is the national organiza- tion, not the local chapter. Each chapter that voted against the res- olution did so only out of fear of national sanction. What the locals i I