FLEMING MUST TACKLE 'U'PROBLEMS' See editorial page PrY Seventy-Seven Years of Editorial Freedom ~I~adF WFARMER High--70 Low--40 Sunny and clear VOL. LXXVIII,No. 3 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1967 SEVEN CENTS TEN PAGES STATE BOARDS BALK: VISTA Accepts Four C.O.'s For Alternative Service Duty By STEVE NISSEN At lease four conscientious ob- jectors have been allowed in the past few months to serve with Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) as an alternative to two years military service, a VISTA spokesman told The Daily yester- day. Although the National Head- quarters of the Selectve Service, also contacted yesterday, con- firmed that CO's were serving in the domestic peace corps, a spokesman for the Michigan Selective Service Headquarters re- ported that to his knowledge "it is not being allowed in this state." Officials of the Selective Ser- vice System, while opposed to the placement of CO's in VISTA, ad- mit that they are powerless to stop it. A spokesman for the Washington headquarters said "the national office is not recom- mending" the assgnment of CO's " Park Director Sproull Gives Go-Ahead to Band Concerts 9 By SUE REDFERN being used as a , blanket by one The Sunday afternoon band of the 500 spectators was thrown concerts which were presented at at one of the members of the West Park throughout the summer band. He had requested a blanket will be allowed to continue this to protect him from shocks caused fall despite an alleged flag-dese- by shorting wires from amplifying cration incident. equipment running along the The concerts were halted two floor of the bandshell. weeks ago when it was reported The superintendent of the city that an American flag which was Parks and Recreation Department said yesterday -that the concerts could be continued if a sponsor would come to his office and sub- mit a request for the use of the facility. ;The request form, developed af- Successor ter the incident, requires theap- plicant to state, in addition to the date and time of the event, the presented. "We would like to know By DANIEL OKRENT the size of the performing group, Vice-President for Academic the style of the music, and wheth- Affairs Allen F. Smith has ap- er or not the group is professional pointed a five-man faculty com- or amateur," Sproull said. mittee to recommend a successor The Sunday concerts, featuring to Literary College Dean William local and nationally known rock Haber who will retire next June and roll bands, were quite pop- 30 ular. Physics department chairman Sproull said that he had re- H. R. Crane will serve as chair- ceived reports of the incident from man, of the committee that will concertgoers and from the band- advise Smith and President Des- shell attendant. "The request form ignate Robben Fleming in the for the shell had been very open- selection process. Formal an- ended before this incident," he nouncement of the new dean will said, "but we decided afterwards be made by the Regents on the that we would have to obtain more recommendation of the President. specific knowledge in the future Crane said that his committee about the nature of events held in has asked the leaders of four the park." student organizations, Student{ He reported that no one had re- Government , Council, Graduate quested the bandshell for Sunday Assembly- the Honors Steering afternoons since the concerts were Committee and the Literary Col- stopped. lege Assembly, the Honors Steer- Some regualr concertgoers had ing Committee and the Literary suspected that the flag incident College Steering Committee to was only an excuse for stopping submit suggestions. Crane com- the concerts, which usually drew mittee is also open to recommen- enthusiastic and noisy crowds. But, dations in writing from individ- Sproull denied receiving com- uals in the University community. plaints of noise from people who He has asked that recommenda- live near West Park. "If people tions and reference material be complained about the concert be- sent to his office at 1049 Randall fore, it was not to my office," he Laboratory. said. to VISTA; but explained that such placement "is at the discretion of the local boards." The assignment of CO's to VISTA by their local draft boards, although not a widespread practice, represents another in a series of significant developments toward more liberal treatment of those who oppose war on moral grounds. Judicial decisions in recent years have also favored the con- scientious objector. In 1965 the United States Supreme Court rul- ed that applicants for a conscien- tious objector classification (1-0 or 1-A-O) do not necessairly have to believe in a "supreme being" to receive a CO classification. All that is now necessary ,under the Supreme Court ruling is that they have a belief which takes the place of belief in a supreme being. However the selective service act passed by Congress this sum- mer says that conscientious ob- jectors must base their claims f o r deferments on religious grounds. Atheists Ineligible Atheists are still not eligible for CO classification, but persons not from a religious background who can show that their personal credo which involves a sense of obligation not to participate in war Rreable to obtain CO clas- sification. The question of "selective" con- scientious objection is currently being considered in the lower courts. It has been argued that one can be morally and religiously opposed to the war in Vietnam without necessarily being opposed to all wars. The legitimacy of this argument is expected to be settled in the Supreme Court in the near future. The difficulty in obtaining a CO classification has prevented many persons from . requesting them. In some instances draft boards go to great lengths to make sure the applicant lives in a manner which they determine to be consistant with his pur- ported beliefs. 3-Month Ordeal One conscientious objector des- cribes a three-month ordeal fol- lowing his request for 1-0 classif- ication during which he was thoroughly investigated. He claims that numerous people as- sociated with him were question- ed, including his friends, neigh- bors, and employer. Applicants who succeed in re- ceiving a 1-0 classification are still subject to the draft, but when their name comes up are assigned to )ork in civilian projects judged by their local boards to be in the national interest. I I t i s E %: c ?: r v: l ', t ; e- ; ' fi i i t (r U of Rejec I t .Y 1 l i i fi S _ E tip.. i y Sacks i California t Reagan's Regents Fee Plan Rleagan Says Student Aid Inadequate Accepts 'Fee' Label For Increases In Student Cost Share LOS ANGELES (RP)-The Uni- versity of California Board of Re- gents rejected again yesterday a proposal by Gov. Ronald Reagan to impose tuition on students but authorized a new student fee. The regents, climaxing a heat- ed two-day meeting, accepted "in principle" a fee increase that would finance student aid and fac- ulty enrichment programs or oth- er uses the regents might deter- mine later. After two hours of debate, Rea- gan agreed to leave the amount of such fees up to the regents. He earlier moved it to be set at $250 annually, then lowered the request to $200 in order to bring his motion to a vote.. Asks Study of Needs Finally, it became apparent he could not otherwise muster enough votes for passage. Several regents objected to his second proposal until a regents' committee could determine the exact uses and amount of money needed. The stu- dent charge motion passed on a voice vote. The vote rejecting Reagan's tu- ition plan was 14-7 with two ab- stentions. Early this year, they voted against tuition for the 1967- 68 year, Student Aid Weak Reagan said studies had shown that present financial aid pro- grams for students attending the university were inadequate. He said the studies also showed that fees paid by students attend- . ing the university were lower. than at any other of '58 public univer- sitie4 studied. There has never been a tuition at the California state-supported schools. Reagan called the vote "a re- buff to the people of California, who have so well supported the university. And I feel that they deserve better." Regent Edwin W. Pauley said he believed Reagan's original propos- al would have won more favorable votes had it been called something other than tuition. Pauley voted against Reagan's motion, but said he would have voted for it had the charge been called something else. -Dally-Andy FILES ADD TO CON-FUSE-ION YESTERDAY the Automatic Remington Rand Filing Machine (left) in the Freshman-Sophomore counseling office broke, and created another line on campus. The malfunction occured when the records of the incoming freshman were removed from the shelves, and the remaining sophomore records left the machines shelves in a st ate of physical unbalance. This blew a fuse, and broke a relay al- ; lowing the machine to run through the alphabet in only one direction, from A-Z. The secretaries now must run the filer all the way through the alphabet to get a letter they just passed. A spokesm an from the office said that although "there was a long line yester- day, it is impossible to avoid lines at this time of year." 'FLAMING CREATURES:' CortToTry Cine-ma Guild ase; Judge Labels Film Pornography' Three University students and The case arose from the showing ually excite and arouse, trans- "Under the standards set forth an instructor were ordered yester- of "Flaming Creatures" at Cinema vestites and homosexuals." in Roth v. U.S.," Warren said, "the day to stand trial on charges of Guild last January. The film was Elden said the police acted prop- film is not within the protection displaying an obscene motion pic- seized by Police Lt. Eugene Stau- erly in seizing the film without of the First Amendment. ture. denmeier after 14 minutes of it a search warrant. If Stauden- "The criteria for a determina- The four, all members or offi- had been shown. meier had waited for a warrant tion is based on the material be- cials of Cinema Guild, were bound Ordered to stand trial were to be issued, he said, "justice ing utterly without social, value, over to Washtenaw County Circuit Hubert Cohen, an engineering would have - been totally frus- whether it went substantially be- Court for trial Sept. 15 following English instructor, Mary Barkey, trated." yond customary limits, of candor completion of a preliminary ex- '68, Elliott Barden, '68, and Ellen Elden quoted a decision on in representing sexual manners amnination yesterday. Frank, '68. "Flaming Creatures" handed down and whether, to the average per- VIE TNAM DILEMMal Anti-War Rally Calls for Student Action Municipal Judge Samuel J. El- June 12 by U.S. Supreme Court den, in handing down his ruling, 'Chief Justice Earl Warren in a said "Not only is the film out- case involving a showing of the rageous, but it tends to be a smut- film in New York. ty purveyance of filth and borders on the razor's edge of hard-core pornography." F l l a l He termed the film '"a trans-k a son applying contemporar munity standards, the fil as a whole appeals to the r interest. y corn- n taken prurient Refuses Compromise By NEAL BRUSS and RON LANDSMAN "We may shape our system and choose our history-or we may let them shape us." That was the choice posed in "Vietnam Dilemma" to 500 per- sons who rallied on the Diag last M night and later met in classrooms to discuss programs to end the Vietnam war. Speakers stressed the urgency of the Vietnam problem and call- ed for immediate and powerful ac- tion on all levels to end the war and reshape the American sys- tem. "The social consciousness of the people of the third world dwarfs ours by comparison," according to George White, Michigan field rep- resentative for the Vietnam Sum- mer organization. He added "we've got to start doing things - any way you look at it the war is the threat of force for national tions continue-and there is no vestite orgy at its best." wrong." interests unless the country is at- reason why they should not-they "It far exceeds the customary Prof. Tom Mayer of the sociol- tacked. will force a greater troop commit- limits of candor," he added. "This T Logy department concurred point- "When the pinch is really felt," ment here." court cannot and will not believe! ing out that the student today is Rapoport said, "perhaps we will At the conclusion of the speak- that 'contemporary community in a key position to choose be- be able to mobilize great amounts ing program many of the partici- standards' will accept showing of tween the revolutionary struggle of support. Slowly but surely the pants moved into Mason Hall for a film vividly portraying . . acts of .I or the side of the vested inter- opposition is growing," he noted, small discussions on the war-its perversion and sexual deviance." rent ests." '"slowly because the war has little origins, the state of revolution in Rejecting a defense contention John As to what exactly one should effect on the American population the third world, and what role that the film was shown to a lim- versil do. Prof. Anatol Rapoport. of the -compared for example to the students could play. The groups ited University community, Elden of st Center for Research on Conflict Vietnamese population-and grow- were led by Rapoport, Barry Blue- said, "The question is not the marr: Resolution, said that each must ing because the truth is bemn stone. Grad. Stephen Berkowitz, film's effect on a cultured univer- Cam choose his own path. "Some will told'" Grad, Sam Friedman of the Cen- sity group, but rather on the na- race work within the old political "Black people by their insur- ter for Research on Conflict Re- a tion as a whole. This film does Fel fi mework, soe w ilh o cm recis ip videduhestro ges thri sum- solution and Prof. Nicholas Kaza- not even have a minimal social thatt direct violent or non-violent ac- 'against the war during the Viet- rinoff of the math department. value and cannot be called a work get a ,, a , The beginning of the discussion of art. mone Raopon. . alnem shmmaranml-gntoMayd-.period was delayed by an apparent "The film would arouse young rent Rapoport called the war an i - ing T oayer. sd"b administrative mix-up. Arrange- and impressionable members of for t legal act of the American govern- he disorders e said. ty riv- ments for having rooms in Haven the national community. The film tenin United vatins charter hi fo ing domestic prolea ig awy froHall fell through and they were certainly, in any event, would sex- $10 a bid a nation "to use force or even the Vietnam War. If the insui'rec- uriteguad afodSe ioI n t h e nsho n c a m p u s o r - ganjzagainst ~~the war, stu-I(Yuanli dents discussed various strategies Sconsideration by a broad "n-Tojoin The that will be set up in the near fu- . _ . _ _ 'o Avert Proposed Rent Strike By LUCY KENNEDY muents told Feldkamp in a meet- can't justify putting off a ing yesterday that they would increase until October 1," pay the full amount if the rent Feldkamp, director of Uni- increase could be put off until ty housing office told a group October 1.j udents from the Northwood However, Feldkamp agreed with ied student units on North the students that more commun- pus and the University Ter- ication is needed between the apartments yesterday. housing office and residents of dkamp again told students Northwood and University Ter- the housing office could not race. along without the additional Ashmall sent a letter to mar- ey from the $10 per month ried student apartment residents increase. Respresentatives yesterday to encourage them to he students, who are threa-f withhold the additional $10 a g to withhold the additional month rent and endorse a letter month from their rent, pay- sent out by a group of other North eathe You Qualify )aily, See the World Campus residents requesting stu- dents withhold any rental pay- ment for September until a ne- gotiating session with the Dir- ector of University housing are completed and the results Lre transmitted to the students. The letter also states, "Direc- tor's John Feldkamp admits that an increase of $93.08 per unit is the amount he considers essential, yet he intends to collect $100.00 per unit ncrease. In other words, despite the late date, sixty days notice could be given without im- pairing the financial operation of the apartments." iFeldkamp, however reasserted ihis meeting yesterday that no part of the increase could be put off and that he had been under heavy pressure to increase rent by $15 a month. The students' principal com- plaint had been that they were not given sufficient notice of the rent hike to break their contract with the University or find other housing. Married students also felt they had not been adequately represented on the student ad- visory committee on housing that approved the rent hike in mid- July. There is now one married graduate (appointed by Roy Ash- tore. Back in the depressing 30's a Which brings us to our message do such complicated stories with Among the pioposals for actions young student from Brooklyn who for today. so little experience. Don't worry. in the near future were "we won't didn't have a typewriter to call his The Michigan Daily needs Look at how well Ronald Reagan go pledges, draft resistance and own used to trudge over to The staffers. is doing without any. counseling, support for a peace Michigan Daily on snowy winter Oui requirements are minimal There are many other good rea- candidate in '68, dorm study nights to do a little typing. 'tsons why you should join the groups and referenda on the war. To get in you only have to pass Daily. For example, it gives you a Rapoport discussed the history Today that student doesn't come our physical exam which consist place to vent your outrage over a of the Vietnam war in another to the Daily anymore. He has his of being able to blow steam on a three hour wait in the registration workshop. He remarked that he o typewriter. 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