!t3ripatta Da ij Seventy-nine years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mich. News Phone: 764-0552 JAMES WECHSLER- Silence Spoke at the Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted irn all reprints. -URSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1970 NIGHT EDITOR: NADINE COHODAS Regents strike again 'HE RECENTLY released regental draft of proposed bylaws on University de- sion-making constitutes a direct threat the rights of students, and an insult to" 1 concerned members of the University >mmunity. In an extensive blue-pencilling. of the rlaw draft approved by Student Gov- nment Council and Senate Assembly st summer, the Regents .have elimi- ated, or distorted a number of key pro- sions. The chief change involved a section hich provided that only student legis- tive bodies could make non-academic >nduct rules for other students, and oat only student judiciaries could try ses which arise under those rules. tiese sections were simply deleted. The omission of this section is a dou- e-cross by President Rolbben Fleming, nd an encroachment on, the rights of udents: JUNTIL SUMMER 1968, some academic units did not have rules governing on-academic conduct, and. several at- mpts to discipline students in their hools and colleges had been dismissed' r that reason. But that summer, one and one-half ears ago, Fleming directed the various cans to make certain they had such dis-= plFnary rules. At the time, he said they ould be used only until the question of >n-academic discipline was resolved by ie adoption of new bylaws. Explaining the exclusion of this section, ie president said yesterday it would be p to the schools and colleges to delegate is disciplinary authority to students. Now it becomes clear why Fleming was eager for the schools and colleges to nplement the so-called "interim rules" vo summers ago. With the Regents cquiescing, the interim rules have be- >me permanent rules, with minimal op- )rtunity for student objection. HERE IS NOTHING traditional about faculty control over student non- cademic discipline - and for good rea- ns. Certainly professors have no spec- lcompetence to judge the non-academic ctivities of students. And since conflict the University may often pit students gainst faculty members, it is inppro- iate to have any professors - to say othing of boards composed solely of rofessors - judging students' non-aca- emic offenses. The institution and maintenanee of on-academic rules ,in the schools and >lleges seems only to reflect the insen- tivity of the president and the Regents the rights of students. Other changes in the proposed bylaws commended by the Regents further de- onstrate that, even when faced by a coalition of students and professors, the Regents and administration will not al- low the present distribution of power to be altered. In the sections dealing with control of the Office of Student Services (OSS), the Regents have made it clear they will not give students the influence to which they have a right. According to the recommendations of the President's Commission on the Role of Students in University Decision-Mak- ing and the student faculty bylaw draft, policy for OSS would have been made by a student dominated board. But under the regental proposal, such policy 'would be made "jointly" by the vice president for student services and the policy board. Fleming explains that in case of an irreconcilable disagreement, the unresolved issues would be sent to the executive .officers for .adjudication. THIS CHANGE is unacceptable. Students have a right to control the kind of services they will receive. It must be the role of the new vice president to help im- plepment student policy, not force its re- view by the administration.. Although the present candidates for the vice presidency say they would all resign if they came into 'conflict with their policy board, permanent guarantees of this power must be written into the by- laws to institutionalize this student right, and to hold the candidates to their prom- ises. In another section on OSS, the regental draft says the vice president will appoint directors for the OSS units (like hous- ing and student-community relations) with the advice of the policy board. Form- erly, the bylaw draft had made the con- sent, as well as the advice of the policy board the required procedure. THIS PROVISION must be restored. Only by giving the students the power to control the OSS directorships, can the University avoid the insensitivity and mismanagement like that perpetrated by Director of University Housing John Feldkamp. And, in another change, the Regents eliminated the proposed power of stu- dents, in referendum, to mandate an in- crease in SGC dues. This move is clearly designed to maintain the administration's financial control over Council and should be revoked. On the whole, the regental bylaw pro- posal is an abomination. Students and faculty members must continue the co- operation that produced the student- faculty bylaw draft, and demand its acceptance by the Regents. -MARTIN HIRSCHMAN IN MANY PLACES throughout the nation last week there were moving observances of the birthday of Rev. Martin Luther Kfing Jr. But not around the White House or the Presidential refuge at Camp David. Amid a long account of the numerous services that marked what would have been the 41st birthday of the slain civil rights leader (and Nobel Prize winner) there appeared this cold, cryptic note: "In Washington the White House was noncommittal about the observances. Press Secretary Ron- old L. Ziegler said: "There is nothing official from the White House standpoint.'" There was, one gathered, noth- ing either official or unofficial. There was deadly silence, which could only be construed as an os- tentatious form of non-recogni- tion. There was no intimation that words might be inadequate; t h e quiet seemed almost querulous. Was the aloofness a calculated dismissal of the multitudes who were participating in the tribute -and a gesture of identification with those who did not? Or is this Administration so in- sensitive to the emotions of the world in which Dr. King moved that it never even pondered some word or sign of communication? Was the omission an exercise in the *"Southern strategy" or in human apathy? It is hard to de- cide which conclusion would be less tolerable. NOT TOO LONG ago Attorney General Mitchell boasted trucu- letly that "many" Negro leaders were privately fans of the Nixon Administration but felt obliged to remain publicly critical to ap- pease their predominately Demo- cratic constituencies. In an inter- view he was quoted as saying that, in closed sessions with Negro spokesmen, he found them well- satisfied with the Administration's programs but that they persisted in issuing public denunciations. Mitchell named no names, and the response of the chieftains of a wide variety of organizations was one of mingled anger and bewilderment. From the moment that the signal was given for emasculation of the voting rights bill (and the nomination of Cle- ment Haynsworth), the gap be- tween Mr. Nixon's government and the civil rights movement - black and white-steadily widen- ed. In fact there has been generous acknowledgement of the Admin- istration's initiation and support of the "Philadelphia plan" to break down restrictive union bar- riers in the construction indus- try. But this single step hardly es- tablished a unity of spirit-a n d there were cynics who observed that the plan found special Re- publican favor in that locale be- cause it tended to disrupt t h e traditional Democratic labor-civil rights alliance. WHETHER MITCHELL really believed he had heard what he claims to have heard in t h o s e private audiences with N e g r o emissaries must remain a matter of mystery and speculation. It is a matter of record (tm o s t recently documented this week in a four-city survey conducted by The aWll Street Journal) that a major result of the Mitchell-spon- sored massive assault on the Black Panthers has been to stir sym- pathy for that group in m a n y White B areas where the Panthers were heretofore a fringe group. Leaders of historically moder- ate Negro units have joined in challenging what appears to be a federally-coordinated drive to smash the organization, with min- imum regard for due process. In short it is difficult to detect any evidence that the Admin- istration .has gained - rather than lost - ground in seeking that ;reconciliation by the President in his campaign rhetoric. SYMBOLIC OCCASIONS often have large impact: last Thursday was one which had especially in- tense overtones. For Dr. Kig was a martyr to the cause of non-violence: he refused to abandon that credo despite many rebuffs and discourage- ments. Yet even many whose faith in those principles' has wavered since his death paused in rever- ence to him. Surely it will not go unnoticed that the President of the United States took no cognizance of the day in any way - a day on which even the Georgia House of Re- presetatives passed a resolution commemorating the date of Dr. King's birth. ouse There occurred the fleeting thought last night that Mr. Nixon might have sent a private mes- sage to Dr. King's widow and children. But inquiry confirmed that not even so minimal an ex- pression had been transmitted. IT IS TRUE that J. Edgar Hoover, in one of his dreariest mo- ments, frenziedly assailed Martin Luther King, and Mr. Nixon's hero-worship for the FBI direct- or has been often manifested. But one hesitates to believe that a dread of Mr. Hoover's displeasure could have dictated the lament- able silence that enveloped the Administration. Nor can it even be said that any televised football game was taking place to distract and di- vert the Chief Executive, as one did on the day of the peace march in the capital. And so we were left with Mr. Ziegler's hollow pronouncenient that there was nothing to be said "from a White House standpoint." Rarely have so few words said so much, and seemed destined to be remembered for so long. T2 New York Post LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Alumni Association as ticket scalper To the Editor: THE FOLLOWING letter was sent to 'Mr. George J. Slykhouse, national chairman of the Univer- sity's Alumni Fund. It describes another of the dou- ble standards of thetUniversity administration, i.e., that it is wrong for students to scalp tick- ets, especially Rose Bowl tickets, but it is perfectly proper for the the Big Mother University to do so. Perhaps it is also anslight in- dication of what you can look for- ward to as an honorable and dis- tinguished alumnus. Dear Mr. Slykhouse: I HAVE RECEIVED your letter requesting donations to the Michi- gan Alumni Fund and am writing this letter to explain exactly why I am not now and will not at any forseeable time in the future contribute to this fund. As Big Ten Co-Champions, the University of Michigan Football Team was awarded the honor of playing in the Rose Bowl. Having been an avid fan while a student, I immediately contacted the Golden Gate Alumni Club (on Nov. 26) to inquire as to how to get alumni tickets. I was told by the people oper- ating our club that only those alumni who had made some mini- mum donation to your Alumni Fund, and of whom there was a mailing list (since the donation entitled one to an alumni maga- zine of some sort), would be the only ones to whom tickets would be made available. These donors were the only alumni who would have an op- portunity to obtain tickets as the applications were being sent auto- matically only to those on the aforementioned mailing list. I was advised to contact one of the donor-alumni in the hope of finding one who was not using his ticket application form. (This "donor-alumni only") policy had been set, according to G.G. Alumni Club President Leith, by an in- dividual in the Athletic Depart- ment of the University.)' MY INITIAL reaction to this polite form extortion was one of anger, since I had just made my first payment on my extensive NEDA loans balance and also given a token gift to the Bus. Ad. gift solicitation which did not qualify me as an alumni-donor_ and the opportunity of applying for alumni tickets for the Rose Bowl. My reaction quickly turned to disgust, as I realized that this policy was nothing short of a crass commercialization of school spirit. This policy of distributing the precious commodity - the Rose Bowl ticket - is nothing more than a gross exploitation of the goodwill that alumni might bear toward the University. I can rea- sonably accept the fact that the best tickets should be saved for the members of the President's Club, but to deny me the chance of obtaining a ticket because I have not contributed to your Fund is an unfair economic discrimina- tion, one that I shan't forget too quickly. TO CONCLUDE, Mr. Slykhouse, you and your Fund can go jump. -Terry M. Saigh LSA '66, Bus Ad '68 Jan. 15 Debtor's prison To the Editor: NCJRA GOODEYNE went yes- terday to debtors prison for forty- five days. The judge who sent her there feels that forty-five days in a jail cell is appropriate punish- ment for not having enough money to pay $240.00. The judge is not doing anything particularly unusual or nasty. The legal system supports him in his judgment. Did you think 'debtors prison went out of style in the last century? You're wrong.. Nora was one of us who sat in the LSA building last September, asking for a student controlled bookstore. We were arrested and our trials have been slowly pro- ceeding. Nora and eight others of us were tried together. Why? The reason given the jury was that each of us had participated in an activity which we knew might involve someone's violating the law. Therefore, if even a single protester broke the law, all of us were guilty. AT THE TRIAL, witnesses claimed that somebody in the LSA building had made trouble-scat- tering garbage, beating i up a photographer, and keeping the janitor from his appointed rounds. (Aside from the garbage, which we did our best to clean up, I didn't see any of those things in all the time I was in the building.) None of us was asked if we'd. done the evil deeds; nobody tried to identify us as the culprits 'who did them. The prosecutor simply showed that we'd been nearby, sometime that night. Did you think that personal guilt needed to be proved before you could be convicted? Did you think that guilt by association washnot ac- cepted in our courts? You're wrong again. WE WERE CONVICTED. If we're to judge from the two peo- ple who have already been sen- tenced, the standard punishment is seven days in jail, forty dollar fine, two hundred dollars in court costs, and fifteen months proba- tion. Since nine of us were tried to- gether (as in most of the cases), the cost of the trial must have been $1800.00 (It lasted only a day.) Or else, the cost is meant r h "BTell me again how the different things are gonna' be with Warren off the Supreme Court .. ." Justifiable' murder YESTERDAY'S VERDICT that t h e murder of Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark was jus- tifiable homicide stands as a monument to the gross indecency which is Daley's Chicago and which is gradually pervading the remainder of the country. The cir- cumstances surrounding the fatal police raid still require extensive investigation before the truth can be determined - as it certainly was not in the just-com- pleted coroner's inquest. Everyone agrees th'at on the morning of Dec. 4, a special unit of 14 plainclothes- men from the Cook County State's At- torney's office raided the Chicago office of the Black Panther Party. But, the official police version of the incident, as presented exclusively to the Chicago Tribune and as re-enacted for CBS, claims that the officers were greet- ed with a 12-gauge shotgun shell through the closed front door. Unfortunately for their credibility, newsmen and members of the A f r o - American Patrolmen's League who re- visited the apartment could find no sign of a shotgun shell in the front door. A further examination of the apartment led many people to conclude that many other parts of the police explanation of the incident were not substantiated by the physical evidence. BUT EVEN the assumption that t h e police entered the building only after The Coroner's jury was not unaware of the lack of evidence supporting the mur- der of these two men. They knew they could not return a verdict of justifiable homicide on the grounds that the police were actually being threatened by the Panthers. Instead, they had to reach into the psychology of the situation to justify the police action. They returned their verdict on the grounds that the police believed that their actions "were neces- sary to prevent death or bodily harm to themselves." THE EXTENSION of this logic present overwhelming .problems in deter- mining when the police are responsible for their actions. This psychosis on the part of the police is not restricted to these 14 men. It has. surfaced before in Watts, Detroit, Cleve- land and Newark. But this psychosis and deadly fear of the Panthers is not caus- ed only by the Panthers'' fiery rhetoric - but also by statements by Atty. Gen. John Mitchell and FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover which label the Black Panther Party as a subversive threat to national security.. For once Hoover may be right. T h e Panther psychosis which seems to be pervading the police forces' throughout the country is undoubtedly a threat to internal security. It is this psychosis which causes the actions that form t h e basis of the charge that there is a na- to be part of the punishment too. And consider, reader, that if we'd been charged with trespass- ing-a more reasonable charge considering the circumstances- there might have been no trials at all. Consider that the charges could have been dropped entirely, and that police needn't have been call- ed. We all could have saved a lot of money in taxes and fines. But the county prosecutor has insisted on bringing the vague, perhaps unconstitutional, charge of con- tention, rather than trespassing. MOST OF US are too poor to raise $240.00 at a moment's notice. Nora felt that she was in even a worse position, since she needed a job to pay off her debts, and nobody would hire her before she served her sentence. So Nora sits in jail, while the rest of us hassle with appeals and other legalities. For myself, the lessons here are clear. These events tell me that the purpose of our courts is to protect those who can milk the system from those who cannot, to preserve our inequalities. We've been told that the pur- pose of jail is to rehabilitate, yet it's hard to see how a month and a half in jail will help Nora earn more money. For Nora, the extra forty-five days are clearly for the crime of being poor and power- less. -Fred Armstein, Grad Jan. 21 IS To the Editor: IT WAS UPSETTING to read about six American students being barred from Waterman Gym dur- each group will benefit mutually. IN PURSUIT of that goal, ISA must often remind American stu- dents that they, as well as for- eign students, are part of the in- ternational scene. Mr. Grabler and his American friends who were turned away from the gym should be happy to (earn that the teaching fellow in charge of activities that evening was misinformed. American students, both men and women, are cordially invited to join with foreign students in both informal and team sports at Waterman Gym every Friday eve- ning from 7 to 10 p.m. ' -Joe Winer ISA vice president Jan. 21 Quaddie china To the Editor: IT IS MOST unfortunate that the building director of West Quad, Leon West, has to resort to half- truths in order to express his ideas, i.e. the recent circular he sent around telling us why we are get- ting shit instead of food to eat. It seems that the "grabbing of everything in sight" by the resi- dents has led to two important effects. Thesfirst is that there has been a loss of about $9,000:00 worth of assorted china, glasses, and silver- ware. The breakdown, as was given to us, prices each unit at unusually high. prices. These are:' Glasses $ 84 Silverware $.93 China' $.68 These figures were worked out by an illustrious engineer. One further wonders, if he is to take these figures as accurate, why we have such high quality china and silverware and such low qual- ity food. It is our guess that Leon thinks that food naturally tastes better in high quality china. One also has to think of how much of the stolen booty will be returned or found in the rooms at the end of the year. However, since Leon thought that this fact wasn't worth consideration, we can overlook this aspect of the problem. THE SECOND PRQBLEM ap- pears tp be that the kitchen staff, bless their hearts, just can't seem to prepare food up to their full ability because the residents "gripe without thoughful criticism on the one hand, while the other paw is gra'_bing everything, in sight." First of all, it is difficult for me to see the correlation between the cooks' abilities to prepare food and the stealing of china by residents. But, if Leon says it's there it is (after all he is taller than any of us). This being the case, we think that all of the staff who feel this way should be asked to seek ems ployment elsewhere. This might avert the possible tragedy of a cook getting so worked up over the situation that he poisons the gravey or one of the many other quad-wide favorites. PLEASE REMEMBER Mr. West and staff, that you are being paid to do a job, not to ruin the food. We gave you too much money for that. -Bill Rippe '73 -Joel Winston, '73 Jan. 21 a ,4_ .