CLASSIFIED RESEARCH: THE NECESSARY EVIL See editorial page C, r fAlt I A6F 4)att]Y SNOW?! High -- 38 Low - 33 snow turning to rain in the afternoon Seventy-Seven Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVIII, No. 50 ANN ARBOR, M\IICHIGAN FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1967 SEVEN CENTS TEN PAGES Student Advisory Boar ds Ponder Vgue Duties By EEN KELLEY system. "The whole idea of an advisory around committee is weak," complains ings we John Bishop, grad., chairman of esting a the student advisory panel cre- sight in ated last spring to work with says. Vice-President for Student Af- But w' fairs Richard Cutler. tee had "The real danger," Bishop con- cisions, tinues, "is in becoming just a has not charming guest and having a mechan University vice-president feel There that he has established some in opera vague student relationship. Our commiti board has certainly prevented enough that from happening." ministrw However, Vice President and provide Chief Financial Officer Wilbur K. can be Pierpont praises the committee dents a "Our board hasn't been Last spring the committees "But Cutler feels that we "We've had atrocious attend- very long but the meet- held several organizational meet- should not try to change current ance at the meetings by the mem- body. "Last year we were waiting for students to give us ideas of 've had have been inter- and have given me an in- nto student opinions," he when asked if the commit- changed any of his de- Pierpont replies, "No, it . It is strictly an advisory ism." are currently four boards ation. The purposes of the tees are to give students power to influence ad- ative decisions, and to forums in which issues discussed between stu- nd administrators. ,. { t. , ; i ; ings and made plans to meet dur- ! relationships," he adds, "and that bers of the committee," Grove what they wanted brought up.E ing the summer. But many of we should wait for the outcome says. "Pierpont would schedule We even publicized our meetings, these meetings never occurred. of the Presidential Commission meetings at the convenience of but most students still weren't This fall the committees did meet on Decision-Making - we should the members, and then half of aware that these relatively un- with the vice-presidents several be a committee waiting for a them wouldn't show up." used lines of communication ex- times, and planning sessions committee. He also told us our However, Grove finds no isted - or they just didn't care." among student members have oc- approach was peremptory and trouble in dealing with Pierpont. he says, curred on a regular basis. innuendoish and that we asked "He has done everything in his However. Grove feels that the Communication and committee questions with implied answers. power to try and cooperate with committee should be continued structuring are two problems He was sort of disappointed that us," says Grove. "He has sched- and can be improved. "I'm try- which have plagued the commit- we didn't listen to him and go uled meetings at any time we ing to reorganize the committee, tees from the start. along completely with his ideas." suggest and has very meticulously and it's doing some good," he "We were concerned with prob- Hugh Grove, '67 BAd, chairman prepared charts and complete1 says. iems like the tuition increase, in- of the panel advising Pierpont, lists on any information we could "The few students who did tramural recreation facilities and has also encountered communi- possibly want." ',show up at our meetings lastl budget appropriations." s a y s cations problems, though of a dif- Grove also complains of the year went away very satisfied Bishop. ferent nature. apathy of the rest of the student thanks to Pierpont." Grove blames Student Govern- problems from the grass roots ment Council for many of the level - they're only interested in shortcomings of the advisory swinging axes," he says. panels: "Last year they started However, SGC President Bruce much too late and were con- Kahn calls the charges "really cerned about things like signing ridiculous." petitions. We wanted to submit "We had a meeting three weeks reports but they told us to forget ago at which we invited everyone it. Now this year they decide they on all the committees to come want reports and we hardly have and discuss their problems," a committee." Kahn emphasizes. "Four people William Sheehy, '69 L, who showed up." chairs the advisory board to the "We are now asking for bi- Vice-President for Academic Af- weekly reports so that we can get fairs Allan F. Smith, voices simi- to the root of the problems," he lar criticism, continues. "SGC has let my committee die "Their problems are an obvious as much as anyone else. They're manifestation of some internal not concerned with attacking See FOUR, page 10 AWAIT FURTHER STUDY: Policy Committee. Favors SGC Sets End Structure Poll, 'U' Classified Research Asks to Thai By LUCY KENNEDY contribution to the educational ob- jectives of the University," the The Senate Assembly Research report explained, "through partici- Policies Committee released yes- pation by students and by pro- terday a statement favoring con- duction of new knowledge which tinuation of the University's pres- can be incorporated into teaching ent policy on classified research programs." tion with Vice President for Re- search A. Geoffrey Norman. Nor- man's explanations of the amount of classified research being done at the University and the way- projects are chosen is included in the report. Research Project "As of June 30, 1967." the re- port says, "Fifty-one projects in- volving classified research were in operation at the University. This _I until the committee can conduct further investigations. "It is the committee's hope," the statement says, "that no pre- cipitous modification of the pres- ent University policy on classified research will be made until the committee has the opportunity to explore fully all the issue in- volved." The report, prepared for pre- sentation to the November meet- ings of the University Senate and Senate Assembly explains why it reaffirms last year's policy on classified research.! Issue ReportI "Questions raised recently on classified research," committee: Chairman Prof. Robert Elderfield1 New Technology Research at the University in the development of multi-special sen- sing, holography, and special laser techniques, the committee as- Senate Unit Sets Probe { 2 A 1 li ii _ serted, may result in new tech- represents less than 3 per cent nology that can be applied to the of the total of about 1,700 active O w L f solution of "problems relating to supported projects on the same v the general welfare of the coun- date." The Senate Subcommittee on try and the world." "Intterms of dollars," the repo Internal Security has revealed The report was made after a plans for an extensive investiga- few months of study and consulta- See FACULTY, page 6 tion of New Left political organi-; zations including the National Mo- T , bilization Committee to End the! Jn' ; War in Vietnam and Students for nc a Democratic Society. According to a New York Times article published yesterday, the Mutnat / upp or tract subcommittee's peaain a ul t~G C he investigation were revealed be- cause lawyers of two groups to be Projecet Constitutioin Convention. Up for Vote Calls for Tripartite Body To Formulate 'U' Research Criteria By URBAN LEHNER and MARTIN HIRSCHMAN . Student Government Council last night asked the student body to decide what the future of SGC Will be. By a 6-2 vote, Council put the issue of a Constitutional Conven- tion"to reorganize student govern- ment up for University-wide refer- endum. The referendum will be attached to the November 14 and 15 election of SGC candidates. If students vote to hold. the Constitutional Convention, it will be empowered to decide whether .hael Feldberg a student government will con- tinue to exist, under what form and for what purposes. in the Are- Growing Conviction on Theatr- Momentum for restructuring has ory Theater been building up over the past several months because of the growing conviction of many Coun- cil members that SGC is "unrep- resentative." The Knauss Report, released last fall by a University Senate 'subcommittee which included stu- dents, faculty and administrators, called for changes in the structure of SOC. IL University Activities Center Pres- ident Donald Tucker, '68, who drafted a report providing the or review and groundwork for the Constitution- engineering al Convention idea said the de- w research to cision finally allows "the student te industry. It body to express their feelings as nt involvement to not only if, but how, SGC s and sees that should exist." { r 1 I A I of the chemistry department ex- By RON LANDSMAN gaining agent for the University's investigated charged that agents plained, "have caused us to issue Two of the unions seeking to skilled tradesmen. In return, the had stolen letters, files and docu- Two ofthe uions sbuilding' a report at this time that is sub- 'epresent University employes for uilding trades council has prom- ments on which the inquiry was to stantially in agreement with the collective bargaining have signed tohelp the AFSCME, "by en- be based. stand taken by last year's com- a "mutual support pact . . . to couraging other employes to join According to the New York mittee. assist and . with them and by supplying aid Times, the Internal Security Sub- assst ndsupport each other in!. "Since last year," he continued, 'winning the fruits of collective if they need it," according to WS- committee plans to concentrate its: "there have been many changes in bargaining for all." BTC attorney Don Prebenda. The investigation of the New Left on1 the membership of the committee. OL3result of this move is that in- i the National Conference for New The present committee issued this One union, Local 1583 of the Istead of choosing between two Politics which held its first con- reprt o pr ev n prmatreFederation of State, County and !unions and no union at all, thevetninCcao vrLbr changes before wecouldrconduct :Municipal Employes (AFSCME), workers will now choose between ay weekend g further investigations has agreed not to challenge the only one union and no union at Washtenaw C o u n t y Building all. The subcommittee's resolutionI "A reasonable program on class- Trades Council (WSBTC) in the authorizes the investigators to ified projects makes a considerable Nov. 7 election to choose a bar- Prebenda pointed out that "we're "undertake immediately a full and ________________________- ------------ pretty confident of our position,copeeivsgaonftha- but you never know in an electiontomplete investigation of the ac- a- e oesfrtemcudbe s tivities of the National Conference Students Continue A i-W r swing votes that would change the ifor New Politis and any ffit zao associated therewith, with respect The AFSCME hal also decided ! to all areas and spheres of activity Protests at O bel , n i l not to challenge the International where the basic authority of the Union of Operating Engineers subcommittee or any facet thereof Protests against the Vietnam The Record, Antioch's student (IUOE, who will seek to repre- is applicable." War iand miifn~r rc A.rr V1 nesent heating plant employes. The - ,- -Daly-Mic NAME YOUR POISON George Bernard Shaw's play "Poison, Passion and Petrifaction" was presented yesterday tia Theater of the Frieze Building as part of the Department of Speech Student Laborat Program. AT ENGINEERING COUNCIL: Van Wylen Opp, On Classified Wi OSes Limitt ar Resean( II War ana m lary researcn iarea . ai~u yesterday at Oberlin and Antioch In Washington, 54 Pentagon Colleges as the last of over 6,000 demonstrators, 23 of whom are persons arrested in last Satur- refusing food, were transferred day's demonstrations in Washing- }yesterday to the District of Colum- ton, D.C. were arraigned. bia jails and the Women's House At Oberlin College in Oberlin, of Correction as the last of 6,667 Ohio, more than 100 students pin- persons were arraigned before U.S. ned a Navy recruiter in his car commissioners. for about four hours yesterday in Of the 54 persons now held, 22 protest of the Vietnam war and are either unable or unwilling to military recruiting on campus. post bond, 16 are serving sen- The Oberlin students plan to tences, and 10 refused arraignment continue their protest today with by responding as John Does or a boycott of classes which ap- refusing to stand before the com- pears to have widespread sup- misioner. Officials said yesterday port. The strike will serve as a they were not forcing the fasters protest to the war as well as an to eat. Many of them have been appeal to the college administra- fasting since they were jailed Sat- tion to revise the policy which per- urday. mits military recruiters to use col- workers will vote Nov. 6 on whether they want the IUOE or no union at all. There is a fourth union, however. which will compete with the AFS-' CME. Local 378 of the Building Service Employes International Union (BSEIU) has petitioned the, State Labor Mediation Board for three employes of small units which it seeks to represent: Uni- versity housing, the Law Club, and the Dearborn Center. The AFS- CME wants these areas to be in- cluded in one large unit which would cover all non-academic em- ployes except the engineers and the tradesmen. Since more than 200 organiza- tions were represented at the CNP convention, this resolution gives the Senate a sweeping mandate to investigate practically any left- wing group it so chooses. The Con- gress for Racial Equality (CORE), Women's Strike for Peace, and SStudentNonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) were all rep- resented at the CNP convention. Staff director for the invesitga- tion, J. G. Sourwine, acknowledgedj that the resolution was "prettyI broad" but that preliminary in- dications were that not every or- ganization represented in the Chi- cago meeting would be investi- gated. By LEE WEITZENKORN Any move in favor of a central decision-making committee for classified research will be a step away from a legitimate aspect of academic freedom, according to Gordon Van Wylen, Dean of the College of Engineering. "This will only be harmful to the Univer- sity in the long run," he said. In his address to the Engineer- ing Council last night, Van WylenI said that the recent focus on war research, which he preferred to call Department of Defense (DOD) research, is one of many techni- ques being used for protesting the Vietnam war. However, he stressed the need for distinguishing the is- ment, for example, what they can to administrators f do research on." Such decisions should be made by those who are in' the best position to decide; in this case- the engineering faculty with the appropriate influence of the University community, he stated. During the question and answer period following his address, Van Wylen discussed the general re- search policies of the Engineering College. He said research proposals start with the faculty and move up authorization. The school does not allo compete with privat makes sure of studen in research activities adequate space and equipment can be provided. He said that research projects must be within the scope of the University and consist of broad studies. The engineering school does not carry on research for immediate uses, such as de- signing weapons, he said. GA Finds Sesqui Planning lege facilities. WTTAT ET ? sues of academic freedom, DOD eedsstudentInvovement Block Road WHA~T COMES NEXT research, and the Vietnamese war As the students yesterday block- "While the war is unfortunate ed a state highway to keep the !enrsand unpopular, that doesn't neces- By MARCY ABRAMSON Fourteen professors are listed recruter'scar fom mving.P0- E I' -u-~ ~h'I~I~' fst~ft" rQ NI .1kI dl P .17 DM7) I l N') ariadmakeassocationlwit(the)raduae Assmbly(GA)resol-asomebersof cth mcommttee lice had firemen spray them with .LY I OTLA I II2 I OI Department of Defense wrong," he ved Wednesday to press for at- i There are three student members, a high-powered hose. When this said. "We must also differentiate er student influence on a literary representing GA, Student Govern- failed to break up the demonstra- By GAIL SMILEY them." Leonard Scalia added, and use violent tactics aren't wel- between the defense of our country college committee which is plan- ment Council and the LSA Steer- tion, police threw several tear gas The other side may now have "Let's relate to even police as come. The Ann Arbor Selective and the war in Vietnam." ing a Sesquicentennial conference ing Committee. grenades at the students.!its answer to the Veterans of For- people." Service will not be functioning Van Wylen opened his address on "What Does Youth Want?" for Ashmall said the art school re- eign Wars. Some of those present expressed next year." by commenting on the nature of the end of November. solution represents the first en- a sit-in in front of Oberlin City:g Hal a-ncalle for a yo ttof Iny The first reunion of anti-war dismay over the violence that took Students for a Democratic So- engineering and its relations to the According to the GA resolution, trance of GA into departmental Hall and called for a boycott of demonstration "veterans" sponsor- place. Harvey Gould, of the Phy- ciety spokesman, Ted Steege, add- university. "Engineering is inher- "student attempts at meaningful politics. "GA is only involved be- classrrested, although several received by Canterbury House and held sics department said, "More mar- ed, "We need to move forward ently involved with the real world," input into the committee (the Lit- cause we were asked," he explain- minor injuries and were treated at !at the First Baptist Church last ches like that will be the end of against war research, to end it by he said. erary C o 11 e g e Sesquicentennial ed. "Otherwise we would limit our- a local hospital. night, brought together over a the peace movement. Storming the the first of January. The sit-in at Van Wylen expressed his belief Program Planning Committee) selves to more critical, far-reach- Antioch Incident hundred people, most of whom Pentagon was like playing Don I Geoffrey Norman's (University that by a prohibition of DOD re- have been ignored." The resolution ing problems." participated at last week's Penta- Quixote." Vice-President for Research) of- search, the College of Engineering called for explanation and remedy At Antioch College in Yellow The graduate art students are Springs, Ohio, an estimated 30 gon march. Dennis Sinclair, of Vietnam Fall, fice Wednesday is only symbolic., would "lose the opportunity to of the situation. GA threatened to protesting lack of separate work- demonstrators against war re- Where to go from here was the pleaded for more anti-war organ- People should be prepared to move become involved in certain aspects discourage participation in the ing facilities, outdated equipment erchmertrseagonsteay re-central concern of those present izers. "Do more to stop the war," on Willow Run after the first." on the frontier of technology." conference if there is no satisfac- inadequate exhibition space and morning with an equal numberofy and congratulations on Ann Ar- lie urged. "Applying for 2-S de- Steege went on to say that peo- He defended classified research tory response from the committee. low teaching fellow salaries, which cotr-ng tators.numb bor's Pentagon effort went around. ferments is plugging yourself into ple should think seriously about by saying that some aspects of the GA also resolved to request the range from $250 to $500 per se- Seiounte-desthowever, were "I've never been more proud of the system." what they're doing: "A lot of peo- work of the Department of De- School to appoint a speial con-mester for six contact hours per .. .,._n~d~t. -- ,_.., .u. , £.,..a... f~ a , 41. fr rnn. f +.P.C- ,44-+1P n tre vmedy thep roble1m mstrforsi cntcthorspe i I !, I .) 3 . r!, y ', Classified Research Conference A UAC-sponsored Confer- ence on Classified Research has been scheduled for 7:30 tonight. The panel discussion will be held in the Natural Sci- ence Auditorium. The six panelists are Daily Editor Roger Rapoport; ex- chairman of Voice Political Party, Eric Chester; Prof. 'Richard Mann of the psychol- ogy department; University Vice-President for Research A. Geoffrey Norman; Dean Gor- don Van Wylen of the engi- neering school; and Engineer- ing Council president Walden Rhines. Norman, Van Wylen and Rhines will argue in favor of secret research, the others against it. Bruce Kahn, Stu- dent Government C o u n c il president, will moderate the discussion. The Tucker Report calls for the convention to begin the first week of January with its decisions to take effect next fall. Urge Cancellation In other action, SGC urged the University to cancel its participa-