Seventy-Seven Years of Editorial Freedom EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Under the Influence From Whence Cometh the Funds of Meredith Eiker 4 here Opinions Are Free, 420 MAYNARD ST., ANN ARBOR, MICH. Truth Will Prevail NEWS PHONE: 764-0552 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1967 NIGHT EDITOR: WALLACE IMMEN Reuther Lacks Foresight In Supporting Johnson LAST NIGHT MARK LANE opened the University Activities Center's fall speaker series, Controversy '67. In successive weeks Barry Goldwater, F. Lee Bailey, and Bishop Pike will grace the stage of Hill Auditorium. The whole program will cost UAC over $8,500, funding for which will come in part from admission sales. Next spring UAC will sponsor the University's annual Creative Arts Festival and probably a topical symposium as they have done in the past. Again UAC will foot most of the bill. UAC is also responsible for Labor Day Weekend, Homecoming, Soph Show, Musket, a winter weekend, and other college-type festivities. These, however, will more or less produce their own revenue. From whence cometh UAC's money? From the same place 'as SGC's-student fees. But UAC fares a little better than SGC, which receives twenty-five cents per student each semester. UAC receives fifty cents per stu- dent from tuition money originally allocated to the Union and the League. FEW STUDENTS ARE AWARE that $7.50 out of every male student's tuition goes to the Union while $4.00 out of every female's tuition is given to the League each semester.'This kind of appropriation is a substantial source of income and where it is spent has never been made clear. Aside from the cultural and intellectual advantages of UAC programs, the money does not seem to be yielding much in the way of added student benefits. Food prices at both the Union and the League remain high, and recent remodeling at the Union brought seldom-used vending machines and an alumni center built in an area which might have gone for additional study facilities or rooms for poverty-stricken student organizations such as the International Center. Further, the average female on campus rarely enters the League. As a matter of fact, for the $32.00 which will have been taken out of my tuition and handed over the League I may as well have been charged a dollar admis- sion fee every time I entered. VHILE UAC IS GENERALLY wise in its expenditures, it is run by a group of students who are not elected by the student body at large. Why UAC should receive tuition funds while other similarly run and more worthy student organizations are near bankrupty is beyond compre- hension. Take, for example, the tutorial project. Lacking any consistent financial support, students in the project are attempting to serve both the University and the greater Ann Arbor communities. Theirs is a strictly educational endeavor and can be more rationally classed as academ- ically oriented than UAC. This year the tutorial project has set up a film program as part of its tutoring cur- riculum. As of yesterday they had one projector and 250 tutees .... The International Center is another disgraceful ex- ample of University neglect. Student funds could used to drastically remedy cramped quarters and make foreign students feel less like aliens in the University com- munity. UAC on occasion receives grants from outside sources interested in a particular program. Why haven't other student organizations on campus been given similar funds? Probably because they can't afford the publicity to make their projects known. THE TIME HAS COME for a complete investigation and re-evaluation of the non-academic distribution of student tuition. It is not feasible for students to choose which organization they want to support, but certainly some kind of review board should be set up for deciding which groups will be given this money. Every student organization on campus should have the right to petition for these funds. And the worthiest ones, chosen on the basis of plans for the coming year, should be awarded the prizes. 4 UNITED AUTO WORKERS President Walter Reuther in endorsing Presi- dent Johnson for the 1968 elections may have achieved short run gains in his struggle with the Ford Motor Company, but has sacrificed what influence he might have in changing administration policies on Vietnam. In a radio and TV interview Sunday, Reuther said that' he had no choice but to endorse Johnson because of the Re- publican stand on domestic issues, specif- ically citing Republican opposition to rat control measures and civil rights. However, at the same time, Reuther voiced opposition to the bombing of North Vietnam explaining, "If I were the President I believe I would be willing to cease the bombing in the north until we have done everything possible to exhaust the possibility of getting negotiations un- der way." Reuther further conceded that there were no military solutions to the prob- lems of Southeast Asia. "Freedom must win the battle in the rice fields, not on the battle fields." WHAT REUTHER fails to realize (or what his statements fail to acknowl- edge) is that domestic and foreign policy, are inseparable at this junction in the war. Ending the costly conflict, which currently has no end in sight, is the only way that effective domestic policies can ever be instituted. The well-intentioned Democratic measures have been castrat- ed by drastically slashed budget appro- priations to meet the rising cost of the war. The cities will continue to rot and its inho' itants riot until large-scale, well-financed programs can be mobilized to meet urban problems. Reuther should not foreclose the pos- sibility of supporting a Republican can- didate who is committed to ending the war. It may be the only way that the so- cial welfare programs he is seeking will ever be realized. Reuther's endorsement will of course definitely influence White House deci- sions concerning the now three-week old auto strike. Johnson will probably think very carefully before evoking the 80-day cooling off period provided for in the Taft-Hartley law, no matter what the effect of the strike on the economy may be. WHAT SERIOUS EFFORTS might be made to dump Johnson in the 1968 Democratic National Convention have been seriously undermined. Reuther; in his dual role as leader of the liberal bloc of the Democratic Party and head of the UAW, has dealt his most important card too early. The immediate interests of his union have transcended his concern over the future of the nation. The hopes for an effective campaign against the war within the Democratic Party are dimmed by Reuther's hasty ac- tion. -MARK LEVIN 4 I Letters: Reintroducing Irresponsible, Unacceptable' To the Editor: APPEARING in The Michigan Daily dated Sept. 20, 1967, was the article, "Where the Draft Dodgers Lodge." This article is one of the most irresponsible pieces of reporting I have read in my 20 years of experience in corrections. Many members of the staff vis- ited my office on September 21 calling my attention to the many outright errors which are too many to enumerate. Perhaps the greatest complaint is that the article, rather than being factual and objective, is slanted toward your obvious personal feelings. Although many agree that in the course of a discussion, a state- ment was made similar to the quotes attributed to them in this article, those quotes are slanted and presented out of context. To me the greatest violation is that of "trust." We permitted you to talk to two Selective Serv- ice violators after you had as- sured us that there would be nothing personal in the article about the inmates. You were told that your reporting of conversa- tion with inmates would be lim- ited to "the discussion of institu- tional facilities, programs and ac- tivities." The purpose of the in- terview was to give you "general" background of the inmate treat- ment program and you were not to categorize, i.e., Selective Serv- ice violators. You violated this "trust" by using the inmate's first name, going into the man's background and even a personal description. The harm has been done. Nat- urally I object to an article such as this, which is twisted to re- flect justification for your own personal beliefs. But the most Hatcher and Hannah Do Right STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL Frank Kelley's ruling that an officer or member of a governing board of a state institution of higher education may not serve as an officer or director of a pri- vate corporation doing business with that institution is to be commended as one of those "better late than never" decisions. The opinion, which sets down conflict of interest guidelines for officers and members of the state universities, comes after four years of uncertainty over pro- visions in the 1963 Michigan State Con- stitution. University President Harlan Hatcher and Michigan State University President John A. Hannah are to be congratulated for their prompt resignations from their bank directorships following Kelley's rul- ing. Hatcher resigned his position as a di- rector of the Ann Arbor Bank, which he held since 1952, "when news of the at- torney general's decision reached him," according to Michael Raddock, vice-pres- ident for University relations. Hannah gave up his posts as a mem- ber of the board of directors for both the Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit and the American Bank and Trust Co. of Lansing. He described his action as an "immediate response" to the attorney general's ruling. DO NOT WANT to be in a position of knowingly violating any law regard- less of its merits or objectives," Hannah had said earlier. The ruling came in re- sponse to queries from Hannah, Rep. Wil- liam P. Hampton (R-Bloomfield Hills) and Rep. Jack Faxon (D-Detroit). A Lansing source indicated Monday night that another opinion will be forth- coming on the application of the con- flict of interest legislation to members of the State Board of Education. It is to be hoped that a similar ruling will be issued by the attorney general and that board members who might be in- volved in potential conflict of interest situations would follow the example of Presidents Hatcher and Hannah. -PAT O'DONOHUE harm is done to the readers of The Michigan Daily - the great majority of which will never get the true picture. --Paul P. Sartwell, Warden EDITOR'S NOTE: Warden Sartwell agreed to let The Daily interview two Selective Service violators on the promise that their full names would not be used in the paper. There were no other conditions for the interview. We regret the mis- understanding. -R. Rent Strike To the Editor: MR. ZIEREN has missed the en- tire point of Northwood Ter- race Association's existence. His editorial shows that he wishes the representative of the tenants to immediately establish lines of communication with the landlord, while throwing down the gauntlet to him at the same time. NTA was born of a rent strike. A strike is the final admission that communication has broken down and pressure is needed to restore it. It is a last resort, since the great pressures which it cre- ates in both parties are inappro- priate in normal bargaining. The rent strike was almost a reflex ac- tion to the fact that there was no communication at all between the parties to the lease. The tenants have formed a body to give it a voice in a dialogue, not to continue a course of sulking belligerency. Also, by repeatedly printing the minority views of one member, Mr. Zieren has succeeded in cre- ating a false impression. The NTA did agree to support the con- cept of a rent strike as a possible weapon; it rejected the conten- tion that such actions would be futile. Mr. Zieren istaware of some of the factors in the voting, but he does not bother to analyze them. He notes that no rent-strike lead- ers were elected, but does not rec- ognize this as a clear mandate that less precipitous actions be taken if possible. His recognition that only 20 per cent of the resi- dents voted is apt,but this is unaccompanied by a conclusion that the NTA must then work carefully to build up added sup- port before organizing any tests of strength in the University. THE EDITORIAL then ridi- cules NTA's attempt to find a meeting night which would al- low Mr. Feldkamp to attend. This is ludicrous. Far from indicating "the extent to which the new group plans to cater to the whims of the administration," it shows the association's desire to solve the basic cause of the rent strike: a lack of effective communication. How may one negotiate on be- half of his constituents if he makes it impossible to meet with the other party? The NTA's approach is that of joint-problem-solving with the University, with confrontation to occur only if the resident's in- terests become compromised by University fiat; the approach is not to be a dialogue of one, which replaces an apathetic lack of com- munication with a belligerent lack of communication. The results of such an approach have become evident. The residents have be- gun to call the Executive Board members when they want some- thing done; they realize that their specific desires will not become buried in a "holy war." The Hous- ing Office has already agreed to waive the late-payment penalty fee for the strikers, and to re- negotiate the lease with the NTA. It has also given to the NTA ma- jor tasks concerning the half-fin- ished Northwood 4 complex: to decide what the rent structure will be, what per cent of the apart- ments will be unfurnished, and how the furnished apartments will be decorated. If this is betrayal, was any man yet loyal? -Larry Kallen, Executive Board, NTA II 4 IMPS RIALIST ' $'lN 4 Something's Missg .. ..."... .. .. ... . f. . A .n f. . . .... ... ....... ... " : rm >a v v"r"w v : J ..; "...,. *..*a".v} : ;4w".: }JJ. The Insi~de Dope on South Vietnam 7s Army DID YOU SEE a draft counseling serv- ice? I -didn't see a draft counseling service. Student Government Council said three weeks ago that it would happen in two weeks. Then it was postponed a week. By simple arithmetic, that means it should be happening now. So either SGC's Executive Vice-Presi- dent Ruth Baumann has hidden it some- where other than the Student Activities Building -which would have been ex- tremely inconsiderate of her-or it has been lost. The Daily is a member of the Associated Press and Collegiate Press Service. tall and winter subscription rate: $4.50 per term by carrier ($5 by mail); $8.00 for regular academic school s7ear ($9 by mail). 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, 48104. Editorial Staff ROGER RAPOPORT, Editor MEREDITH EIKER, Managing Editor MICHAEL HEFFER ROBERT KLIVANS City Editor Editorial Director SUSAN ELAN ............Associate Managing Editor STEPHEN FIRSHEIN ...... Associate Managing Editor LAURENCE MEDOW ...... Associate Managing Editor JOHN LOTTIER....Associate Editorial Director RONlAT~L T.WMPNER ....Assite ERaldtorwial fDirector That would be too bad. The draft counseling service is one of the best ideas SGC has had in a long time. A large number of male seniors and graduate students are in the unenviable position right now of having to reconcile their idea of what they will be doing for the next two years with General Hershey's. The provisions of the existing statutes are confusing. Furthermore, the laws may allow a number of options that very few of the people concerned are aware of. There is a clear need, then, for just such a service as Council has been talk- ing about. The problem is that all we seem to be getting is talk. -URBAN LEHNER Let's Evaluate "STUDENT POWER" has been thrown around a lot lately, but the liberali- zations sought in the dorms and in the lives of students still leave a great area of student concern neglected: the aca- demic life. It is a sad commentary on this Uni- versity that there is no thorough course evaluation system, no perceptive guide- lines available for entering freshmen and curious seniors to judge course se- lections. The recent establishment of I By TRAN VAN DINH Collegiate Press Service ON SUNDAY, Sept. 17, the major dailies in Washington, D.C., carried a full page article about the ARVN (Army Repub- lic of Vietnam, South Vietnam) written by Peter Arnett, the Pulitizer Prize winning war cor- respondent for the Associated Press in South Vietnam. The Washington Post head- lined the story: "South Vietna- mese Army fight 5/2 Day Week;" the Star: "South Vietnam's Army Found Increasingly Ineffective." The Star apologetically wrote in an editorial that "in view of the fact that Arnett is a respected newsman and since AP carried the story, we feel an obligation to present it to our readers." The article, which reveals nothing new or sensational, should have been titled: "The Story of an Army That Failed." The failure of the ARVN is an old story. It has been both recognized by the people in the U.S. and the Vietnamese people. The steady in- crease of the U.S. land forces committed to the fighting in South Vietnam (23,000 in 1964, 450,000 in 1967) is a clear admis- sion of that failure. dent and vice president "elected," is: corruption and inefficiency, mainly corruption. This presumes that General Thieu and Marshall Ky are above c o r r u p t i o n. Administratively speaking, if there is such a large scale corruption (and there is), the responsible are those who are commanding that Army in the last two years at the very top: General Thieu and Marshall Ky. Time, no leftist magazine, in the Sept. 15 cover story on Gen- eral Nguyen Van Thieu, wrote mildly and nicely: "There is little doubt that he (Thieu) has occasionally accepted the shad- owy prerequisities that go with high office throughout most of Asia (why Asia and which Asia?). Oni his lieutenant general's salary of $509 a month, he has report- edly managed to accumulate con- siderable acreage and can afford to send Mme. Thieu to Paris now and then for a shopping spree." MADAME KY, on a Tokyo shopping spree and nose-straight- ening operation was careless: she lost a handbag containing $1,500 U.S. dollars in cash last year. Ky's salary, of course, is smaller than Thieu's. The Atlantic Monthly of Sep- ing. Instead, Saigon dismissed the ambassador. Later when Saigon wanted to nominate a friend of General Ky. and General Loan as ambassador, the decent Laotian government politely said no. The Atlantic wrote: "It is im- possible to estimate police profits from the opium and gold rackets and other extracurricular activi- ties. A former Cabinet minister gave as his informed opinion that secret funds available to Ky's supporters from these and other sources ran to three billion pias- ters, or more than $25 million." Last spring, news dispatches (Washington Post, March 24) carried the story of Ngo Van Dieu, a major in the South Viet- nam Air Force who had flown in his military plane to avoid charge of "embezzling $19,000." Major Dieu was known in Saigon as an important member in the opium smuggling ring. Saigon informa- tion available to me at the time were that the major was "hot" with General Thieu's rival secret police who was beginning to ex- pose his case. Ky had to let him go. GENERAL DUONG Van Minh (Big Minh, exiled in Bangkok trolled by General Loan, the closest friend of General Ky. With this large scale corrup- tion at the top; what good is it to punish small fry-the majors and the colonels? Several fundamental questions have to be asked in the case of the failure of the ARVN. * WHO TRAIN the ARVI, equip it, pay it, and support it since 1954? The answer is ob- vious: The U.S., and the Ameri- can taxpayers. For the U.S. to blame the failure of the ARVN is just like a father who blames his delinquent son, accusing him of being his son and a young man. I am not defending the ARVN and certainly not its leadership. I know more about its corrup- tion than Mr. Arnett, having ob- served it for several years both inside and outside. It is no use to expose here all the cases: the list is too long. Often I conversed with junior officers and simple soldiers and I am aware of their inner tragedy. They are insulted by faults not of their own by the people who pay them. 0 WHY IS IT THAT the Viet Cong soldiers-the North Vietna- Why should they fight under the present circumstances?" Perhaps this is a brutal reply to the 'problem but I have no doubt that my compatriot is not expressing a lone opinion. Cases of conflicts between Vietnamese and U.S. officers increase with the degree of control of the U.S. Army over the ARVN. I under- stand the U.S. Army dilemma which actually is the basic weak point in the whole U.S. military intervention in South Vietnam. * IN MANY conversations with the American man in the street, I am given the impression that now is the first time Vietnam has an army and a government (if one can call the Saigon regime a government) and that Vietnam has never been a nation. The question then is: Who defeated the all powerful Mongolian arm- ies in the 13th century? Who con- stantly repulsed foreign invasion before the U.S. was a nation and before the U.S. came to Vietnam? The war in Vietnam is a trag- edy of great magnitude and in any tragedy there are only vic- tims. This is no time for recrimi- nation or anger or frustration. The source of all tragedy is ig- norance, ignorance of the envir- I