MORE VIOLENCE IN PEACE MOVEMENT See editorial page Y Ink&i px Daiti FAIR, WARM Low-43 Mostly sunny with slight chance of rain tonight Seventy-Seven Years of Editorial Freedom R . . . .................. . ..... . ....... VOL. LXXVIII, No.47 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1967 SEVEN (CENTS TEN PAGES A Editorial In universities across the country the relationship between aca- demic communities and secret government military research has been undergoing rexamination. It is time for this University to begin this same reappraisal and make the inevitable changes that should accompany it. This University is one of the key military research centers in the country. Last year the school took $21.5 million in defense department contracts - third in the nation. About X9.7 million went for secret war research. These classified activities are now being conducted in a moral vacuum. There are no explicit guidelines describing the V1niver- sity's position on such work, only vague restrictions which can be easily circumvented. The University is a far cry from institutions like Harvard which refuses to accept any classified contracts or the University' of Minnesota whose president recommended to the board of regents that the schobl stop taking classified work. At Cornell the university faculty has voted to sever rela- tions with the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory which is handling a $1.5 million defense department counterinsurgency project in Thailand. The faculty there believes the project may "inflict irreparable damage on the university's teaching and research throughout the world." This University's 1 million counter-insurgency project in Thailand demonstrates the product of a poorly-defined, research policy and seriously compromises the academic integrity of this institution. Normally the university assumes research activities because they can make an academic contribution to the school. Research should be undertaken to advance the frontiers of knowledge, to provide a meaningful educational experience for faculty and stu- dents, and to find new and better ways of promoting human welfare. The Thailand project accomplishs none of these. Much like the ill-famed Michigan State University work. in Vietnam it is a service contract. It will aid Thailand in developing a "fair-sized reconnaissance program" to help the Roya9l Thai military "find clandestine Communist guerilla activity." Under University supervision the Royal Thai military has purchased and equipped a C-47 airplane for surveillance wrk. The work started last year and continues through 1969. The Thai reconaissance technicians were trained by the University both here and in Thailand. The photos will be inter- preted in a new Bangkok laboratory the University helped build. Aside from the fact, that University researchers may get a closer look at "clandestine Communists," the school is not learning anything from the contract. University scientists have pioneered aerial surveillance techniques with their own fleet of airplanes at Willow Run. The school continues to do reconnaisance throughout the world and does not need additional practice in Thailand. Moreover, the project has no academic value to the University. And most important, the project is only helping escalate the Thai situation into another Vietnam-style conflict. University officials working on the project say "The Thai government"' is using surveillance to "locate a group of Com- munists who have come in with military equipment. Then the{ Thai military will send in forces to capture the Communist ring- leaders." Future implications of this kind of project are also ominous.f The American government is involved in counter-insurgency work around the world - Bolivia and Guatemala being two prominent examples. Is the University of Michigan going to undertake re- connaisance projects to aid counter-insurgency work in countries around the globe? Is the University going to go hand in hand with the U.S. government as it sticks its militaristic nose into revolutionary nations everywhere? We believe the University has no right reason, or respon- sibility to get involved in secret counter-insurgency work, The school should withdraw immediately from the secret Thailand project. And because this matter raises such seriousj questions about secret research, we believe the University should stop accepting all new classified contracts, pending establishment of clear guidelines that prevent University involvement in such projects. THE SENIOR EDITORS HOUSING COMPLAINTS: .- T T T i/' Police Jail 208 As Protests End UAW Skilled Tradesmen WASHINGTON(A)-- 1 States marshals hauled a stand group of Vietnam wa testers from Pentagon g early yesterday, ending a timei-violent weekend rail march on the troop-surr military nerve center of t tion. Sponsors hailed the demo tion as the birth of a new movement. Over 100,000 persons p pated in the two-day affa began Saturday morning Lincoln Memorial. A total Young Dei Want LBJ Off Ticket United people were arrested by specially- t last- deputized U.S. marshals. ar pro- Dave Dellinger, chief organizer rounds of the march, declared those who some- oppose the war now have shifted{ ly and "from simple dissent to resist- ounded ance." he na- On a plaza-like area just out- side the Pentagon's north en- tpeace trance, a hard-corelband of dis- peace senters--mostly college age---re- sisted to the last. partici- ir that 208 Held at the At midnight S u n d a y. when of 680 their permit to stage a "non-t violent" demonstration expired, marshals armed with night sticks nis and pistols and aided by military ll police carried the protesters to Army vans. The Defense Depart-E ment said 208 were hauled to a* federal detention center atOc- coquan, Va., where most of the 4391 persons arrested earlier had been! taken. Charge Reuther Sold Out As the midnight deadline ap- The State Central Committee of proached, an Army colonel seated the Young Democratic Clubs of in a jeep repeatedly broadcasted Michigan approved Sunday by an to the demonstrators a warning almos# 75 per cent majority a res- that those "who do not leave vol- olution opposing renomination of untarily by midnight will be ar- President Lyndon 'B. Johnson. rested." Representatives of the 47 state Officials estimated there were Young Democratic clubs voted 56- 2,000 troops on hand for the 20 in favor of the resolution, which cleanup arrests. s ated that Johnson "by his ac- After the last demonstrator de- quately reflected the platform parted, there was a moment of and principles of the Democratic silence and then a wave of cheer- Party by prosecuting an unjust ing from the troops. The marshals t Paty y prsectin an njut 3then applauded the soldiers. war in Vietnam and neglecting the problems of poverty, education, Peace, Mixed with Violence racial hatred, disease and urban In a sort of war of attrition, decay." marshals quietly arrested over- The resolution originally also zealous protesters one-by-one most called for opposition to Johnson's of Sunday morning, with brief in- re-election as well as his renom- cidents of violence interrupting ination. An amendment by Gene the passive sit-in. Arrests were Farber, '68,, a member of the Uni- spaced several minutes apart in versity group, removed the op- an effort to avoid trouble. Most position to re-election. demonstrators offered virtually no The University Young Dem- resistance as they were carried ocrat Club, with 19 votes at the from their sit-in area 200 or 300 central committee, is the state's feet from the tall oak doors of the largest and hence most powerful. Pentagon's main entrance. The central committee also voted 54-53inspotoZotnFrny, By midafternoon, the demon- emi support of ZoltonFerency, strators ruled out an attempt to Democratic state c an, o dcrash the ranks of armed MPs but has called for an open Democratic !decided to conduct a ''teach-in'" convention next year and accused the President of attempting to for their captive audience-the close off opposition.M Another resolution passed by one by one, they arose, includ- the YDCM committee called for ing a girl with a flower in her "de-escalation and/or total with- hair; Gary Rader of Chicago, a drawal of troops from Vietnam former Green Beret; a militarily- with resources channeled to meet dressed man who called himself domestic crises and the revamping Gen. Hershey Bar, all to broadcast and extension of the poverty pro- their philosophies at the rigid gram." MPs. W ork1ngGroup Asks --Associated Press t AND SOME DIDN'T DISSENT Almost weighed down by his 5x12 foot flag, a ma n in Newark showed his desire to "Back Our Men in Vietnam." He was one of almost 55,000 who m arched in this city, while countless thousands drove all over the country yesterday with the ir headlights on to demonstrate approval for the United States' commitment to the war in Vietn am. SCHEDULES 200 UNITS: City Plans LandPurchase~s For Housing Devlpet Union Chiefs, Pickets Clash At Meeting Guaranteed Wage, 50-Cent Hourly Hike In Proposed Contract DETROIT (A') - Fighting in which at least three persons were knocked down and several noses were bloodied erupted last night as dissident skilled tradesmen at- tempted to force their way into a meeting of the National Ford Council of the United Auto Work- ers Union. The council was meeting to ap- prove or reject a newly-negotiated contract with Ford Motor Co. where a strike by 160,000 UAW members now is in its seventh week. Flying Wedge The pickets were protesting terms of the new pact to be sub- mitted to the UAW Ford member- ship for ratification today or to- morrow if the council approves it. Policeman Gene Brestle esti- mated the number of pickets at 200 to 250. Shouting "No! No!" and fol- lowing television cameramen, the pickets invaded a lobby outside the downtown auditorium where the council was meeting. A flying wedge of council delegates and UAW international represent- tives, moved out to force the pickets back from the auditorium door. Fighting quickly broke out, but the flying wedge was effective and emptied the lobby shortly. Guards were placed on doors lead- ing to the outside, where UAW President Walter P. Reuther had. been loudly heckled and accused of "selling out" skilled tradesmen in the new Ford contract. Inside, the 200 - member Ford National Council, which includes local union presidents from across the -country, voted over-whelm- ingly to recommend ratification of the new contract to Ford workers. Guaranteed Income The new contract carries an immediate 50-cent hourly increase for skilled tradesmen, plus a three per cent boost in the second and third year of its three-year span. It also inludes a guaranteed annual income of approximately 95 per cent of a worker's straight time wage when'he is laid off. Meanwhile, the guaranteed an- nual income which the United Auto Workers won in a new con- tract at Ford Motor. Co. does not become effective until December of 1968, union spokesman said last night. By ANN MUNSTER options, selection of sites, andI Ann Arbor's Housing Commis- selection of architects. sion is currently considering pur- "We are waiting for the archi- chasing eight sites in seven ele- tect's preliminary cost estimates mentary school attendance dis- which will probably be ready late tricts for distribution of 200 pub- this week in order to determine lie housing units. whether we will need additional The city has a grant of $3.6 federal financing," Housing Com- million from the federal govern- mission chairman H e n r y V. ment to build these 200 units un- Aquinto said yesterday. der a program under which the "It is quite conceivable that government must approve all the architect's estimates will be phases of constructon, including within the $3.6 million grant we I i i C' ' I parcels of one and two acres that might not be needed for school construction. He suggested that it might be possible for the Board to trade land or options with the Housing Commission. Acting Superintendent W. Scot Westerman Jr. said the Board of Education will bring up some of its "marginal" land holdings for informal discussion at the com- mission's next regular meeting, Oct. 26. Trustees at Friday night's meet- ing gave the Housing Commis- have already received from the! government," he added. Creation Of Tri-Partite Judiciary Panel By JAN MALINOWSKI sions could only be appealed to the executive secretary without a vote. A "Joint University Committee" Regents if the plan were accepted. The Working Group on the Uni- (JUC) which would act as a final JUC, as suggested by the group, versity Judiciary was established court for cases involving individ- would be comprised of seven stu- by the President's Commission on ual and organizational student dents, three faculty members and Decision-Making in April, "to stu- xmisconduct in the University last? a representative of the vice presi- dy existing ways of handling non- week was suggested in a plan by dent for student affairs. Students academic discipline . . . and to the Working Group on the Uni- would vote on decisions in all propose changes in current proce- versity Judiciary. cases, faculty would vote only in dures if changes, seemed neces-; A system containing the JUC cases involving possible suspen- sary. could replace the current Joint sion, probation or expulsion, and "The most important new feat- Judiciar Committee. JUC deci- the representative would act as ure in the system is the establish- ment of a central judicial body dominated by students responsible to and only to the Regents," says David Baad, assistant to the vice - president for student affairs an4i Last Friday night, at a joint sion data prepared by Ivan Bare, meeting of commissioners and coordinator of grant programs for Board of Education trustees, the schools, listing concentrations Aquinto said the commission holds of low-income families by census 15 options for possible site pur- tracts and enrollments of Negro chase. He said the city council! students from 1963 to 1968, in and Federal Housing Assistance E Ann Arbor area schools. Administration will be asked The trustees passed a resolution within two weeks to approve at Oct. 11, stating their desire that least eight. "disadvantaged children" should Trustee William C. Godfrey said1be "dispersed as widely as pos- that in reading a list of land sible among the school neighbor- owned or under option by the hoods rather than concentrated Board of Education, he sees 10 j in only a few." MEDICINE FEA T URED: Exhibit Chinese Artifacts SIH RAirs Student Grievances chairman of the Working Group. Individual schools, under the plan, can choose to handle ruler infraction cases of their own stu- By BILL DE JONG The medical practices of ancient China, generally unrecognized ine the West, are the object of an un- usual exhibit currently on display _ ____ ___ f_ ___ YL ___ it_ _ _ ; -.-..I-A 4.. 1 ,..v ... 1i Tn tays By DAVID SPURR offender. There are more com- a verbal agreement rather than startea to nappen.' In oher dents ratner tan aow JUjuris-in the loyo0teMeica ci- 1 Entering the Student Activities plaints on file at SRU for it than signing a lease are sometimes apartments owned by this firm diction over their students. ence Building.r Building, one mayencounter a for any other landlord. The firm evicted without advance notice. students complained of a backed- Several courts would be under The exhibit, brought to the Uni-t sign that reads, "Damage Deposits has allegedly withheld damage SRU tries to solve these prob- up sewer, clogged toilets and leaky JUC including a student traffic versity by the Center for Chinese Withheld? Poor Maintenance? No deposits without explanation and lems by talking to landlords. faucets-all with at best delayed court and judicial bodies for In- Studies, is part of a larger display has not done necessary cleaning Kelly says that "most landlords action from the agency. Accord- ter-Fraternity Council, Panhel- originally assembled in London Repairs? Call SRU. We Solve or repairs for several tenants. act as if they're willing to co- ing to this firm: "We haven't lenic Asociation and Inter-House and shown later in New York City. Your partment Complaints. Filthy Living moving! but the fact that they're had many problems. On every Assembly. Decisions from these Free!"One girl complained of moving et scase, work orders are issued im- courts could be appealed to JUC The tes of' disg tr rae One t us doesn't mean they are cae;orscudb in the West, according to Chineser The answer to all of these ques- into a "filthy" apartment thatI doing anything . . . some of them; mediately. On a situation like and ultimately to the Regents. studies gradute student Ron Se- tions seems t be yes for a large the agency would not clean. An-- spin us around in circles. Another that one, it may take a while for The working group recommend- portion of Ann Arbor's tight hous- other student phoned SRU after large agency doesn't seem to know the repair man to fix a dishwash- ed a revised system of penalties ei buseo more of u an i ing market. The Student Rental three weeks of plumbing prob- where their records are or what's er. We haven't withheld any dam- which would abolish fines. , is put on Chinese literature and Union, now receiving about ten lems and no action from the happened to their damage de- age deposits." The working group's report also "r t he " peid. apartment complaints a day, is agency. A student paying $300 a posits. And some of these little Little Privacy listed student "rights of due pro- We just remember he added, trying to solve idividual student month moved into a dirty apart- landlords are just invisible, with A fourth major rental firm re- cess" binding on JUC and the " tenants' problems caused by land- ment with bugs, a broken-down their unlisted phone numbers, ceived a complaint from one ten- lower courts. These would allow: n the exhibit are still being car- lords, dishwasher, and rugs that had etc." ant about a large living room win- -Advance notice to students of SRU's chairman Mark Schreib- not been cleaned as promised. Occasional Success dow which remained broken from charges against them: There has even been a renewal of er, '69, says, "The small land- The firm says, however, that the time he moved in in August - -A choice of open or public them in Communist China." Despite these difficulties, howx- utlDcme;atremnh'erns lords are responsible for the worst these are "generalizations about until December: a three-month hearings: The art of acupuncture, one of causes of irresponsibility, broken things that happened' a year ago.' ever, SRU is having a faim amount delay in painting the apartment; -A choice of making public or the creations most foreign to mod- leases, and lack of maintenance, A spokesman from that agency s and lack of privacy (the landlord confidential the records of the ern Western science. was featured but some of the larger manage- said, "I can't coniment on any of they get some sort of agreement would show the rooms to pros- hearings. on several large carved male fig- ment agencies, particularly one, your specific situations because r time commitmet on repair pective tenants without notifying The group also recommended ures. co. once widely practiced in China, is attested to by the long stemmed pipes on display. An extra "kick" was derived from tobacco smoking by flavoring it with opium, and it seems that the percentage of opium in the mixture may have increased as time went on. "Ancient Chinese medicine is (largely) superstition but we must bear in mind that parts of it did work," Prof. Munroe of the philosophy department said. He pointed to their eleventh century cure for small pox as an example of this. Among their other cures which were probably not fabulously suc- cessful are the use of liazrds to cure asthma and as a disinfect- ant, snakes to cure insanity and epilepsy, and horse's tails to help cure hemmorrages.