Hundreds close bank accounts By CARLA RAPOPORT Thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of dollars, flowed out of the Ann Arbor Bank yesterday as over 600 students closed their accounts in a mass action sponsored by the Ann Arbor Tenants Union. The union organized the demonstration to protest the bank's practices in dealing with garnishment of strikers' accounts. Garnishment in this case is a legal procedure by which a court order may be obtained by a landlord to freeze 125 per cent of the disputed rent in the strikers account. The Tenants Union major claim is that the bank, which manages approxi- mately 42,000 accounts, has garnished students' accounts without notification and then bounced their subsequent checks. In, a statement made last Tuesday, The Ann Arbor Bank denied the Tenants Union's charges. The bank said it "noti- fies its customers that their accounts have been garnished as soon as possible after the garnishments." The Tenants Union also charged the bank with "slovenly" service to students and general mishandling of their ac- counts. One bank official apologized for any mistakes but explained the bank handles many accounts and mishaps sometimes occur. Approximately 40 Tenants Union mem- bers marched to the South University branch of the Ann Arbor Bank at 2:30 p.m. yesterday to begin the protest. Some began account closings while others pick- eted outside. Account withdrawals and picketing continued until the bank closed its doors at 6:00 p.m. Although the, demonstration was spon- sored by the Tenants Union, many stu- dents withdrawing their accounts were not involved with the rent strike. Some said their friends had been garn- ished, but many claimed they had just received poor service from the bank. Many students at the bank only to transact nor- mal business discussed the issue with TU members and closed their accounts. The bank's normal Friday check-cash- ing crowd swelled as protesting students joined the lines. While awaiting in the long lines students discussed their griev- ances with the Ann Arbor Bank. "Even though I had a account here. they wouldn't cash my out-of-town check," complained one girl. A boy near her said, "I deposited $1800 last August and they credited me with $180. I had to spent hours hassling bounced checks and other difficulties" A bank vice president, commenting on the protest said, "We hate to lose. the accounts, of course. However, these withdrawals will not really affect t h e stability of the bank at all." When students directly confronted the bank officials with their grievances, he replied, "You will probably see service to students improve in -the future." Burning bankbooks flickered briefly in front of the bank, for a while. "This is exciting because we don't have draft cards," exclaimed one girl. The Tenants Union members were Ju- bilant over the success of yesterday's "check-out." The union claimed over 600 persons signed petitions stating they closed their accounts. "The whole thing is snowballing," said Lynn Hallen, union steering committee member. "People have been pulling ac- counts all week and many more told us they will be doing the same today and on Monday." -Daily-Thomas R. Copi Students crowd Ann Arbor Bank MILLIKEN AND THE 'U' BUDGET See Editorial Page Sira1 ~Iaitj WISHY-WASHY High-36 Low-30 Cloudy and mild, rain or snow , Vol. LXXX, No. 107 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, February 7, 1970 Ten Cents Eight Pages Sit-i names dene to HEW Fleiiing may submiit list f f to Michigan aid agenciesByJMcFRN President Robben Fleming yesterday said he will not submit a list of students involved in last fall's LSA Bldg. sit-in to the health, education, and welfare department but will instead send a letter describing the circumstances and reasons for not listing students. < Thus, students will probably not have federal scholar- , ' ships and loans cut, Fleming told a group of over 40 students who gathered in his conference room yesterday afternoon. He will, however, submit names to the state if University: lawyers advise him that the state law which cuts off state aid to demonstrators is con- stitutional. The meeting took place after students who had picketed Flem- ing's home nearly two hours pro- x testing his previously announced .. crttcuzd intention to submit names decided : to ask Fleming personally what his plans were. A federal law states that any students found guilty of disturb- ing the teaching process or inter- : . By DEBBIE THAL fering with university officials will have their funds cut. It does not r hrequire the school's president to Relations Committee (SRC) submit names, however. yesterday condemned Presi- The state law a part of the dent Robben Fleming for his Higher Education Appropriations '/ planned compliance with state Act of 1969 requires Fleming to ABOI T 45 STUDENTS picketed and federal laws which would send a list of names of convicted ing his planned compliance with cut off aid to students con- students to the state agency that participants in the LSA sit-in. F awards the scholarship monies. +--- - victed of disrupting the Uni- The letter to HEW, currently versity. being drafted, will express the TF REDUCTION F Later yesterday, Fleming said University's opinion that students he would not send a list of names did not disrupt the teaching pro- to the federal authorities. Instead, cess nor did they interfere with 1 he said he would send a letter ex- University officials, said Fleming. plaining the reason for his action When students , asked Fleming s e and describing the disturbance. why he would coniply in any way Fleming also said legal consul- with a law he has publicly op- tants would consider whether a posed, the president replied that legal challenge of the constitu- although he felt both laws "in tionality of a similar state law terms of punishment for the in- would have a good chance of suc- dividual were unfair, but if a law-! cess d yer tells me the law is constitu- If it did, he said, the Regents tional, we will comply." By HARVARD VALLANCE may ifnitiate such a court fight. If He added the letter would also B not, the president said he would establish the University's inter- An ad hoc committee of poli- comply with the law and submit' pretation of the law. "If we are tical science graduate students yes- the names of convicted students not going to cut aid off, we should terday called for a "moratorium" to the agency which awards their have a record of why we took that on all teaching sections beginning scholarships, action," he said. next week. They are protesting "Using dollars to determine a This would prevent an auditor the departmental executive com- persons's politics is the most from regarding the continuation mittee's decision to reduce the ap- heinous kind of action," said his- of federal funds as "improperly propriations for teaching fellow- tory Prof. Arthur Mendel. a mem- authorized," Fleming said. Such a ships for the coming year. ber of SRC. decision might jeopardize other Over 40 of the 52 teaching fel- "We are a conspiracy. We're federal funds, he added. lows in the department have said See SRC, Page 8 See FLEMING, Page 8 they would support a moratorium, SDS faces forc YROCK member charges otention d i ?l 15y W. E. SuCl'n SDS member Richard Feld- man, '71, will be charged with S creating a contention, a mis- k t demeanor, in "the recent dis- ruptive events at the Univer- .".}.sity," University News Service i reported yesterday. Ann Arbor police Lt. Kenneth Klinge said at least one warrant upkhas been issued, but he declined to disclose the charges or the . Inames of the individuals involved. No arrests have been made un- der the warrant, he said. > The maximum penalty under off ' the state contention statute is 90 days in jail and/or $100 fine. ~Daily-Thomas R. Copi In a letter to President Robben d President Robben Fleming's home yesterday. They were protest- Fleming yesterday, Richard W. federal and state laws which would cut off financial aid from Ryan, a local attorney retained by leming met with the demonstrators later in the afternoon. t h e University, recommended - - - -- ---prosecuting Feldman in the civil courts and taking action against IGHT: 12 other students under internal University regulations. "There is, in my judgment, suf- ficient evidence against 13 stu- dents to proceed in one forum or the other," Ryan wrote to Fleming. Ryan did not cite particular evi-, dence in the letter . Fleming and Ryan could not be, reached for further comment last night. Neither the names of the other 12 students nor the exact nature a spokesman for the group said. cision-making process envisioned of the charges to be brought A mass meeting of the graduate in the Stokes Report features a against them or Feldman have students and teaching fellows will dialogue between graduate stu- been released. be held at noon on Monday in the dents and faculty when their mu- Assistant County Prosecutor Rackham amphitheater to discuss tual interests are at stake." Richard Pierce said Feldman may the issues and to decide on future However, the students maintain- be charged with making or creat- courses of action. ed that most of the nearly 200 un- ing a disturbance at the West En- The moratorium could be called dergraduate students in political gineering Bldg. Jan. 29. off, a spokesman said, if the exe- science were not aware a decision In his letter to Fleming, Ryan cutive committee agrees to retract had been made until a depart- did not indicate which of three the decision and to reopen the is- mental meeting of both faculty recent SDS-sponsored "disruptive sue for discussion. and students was held in Decem- events" would be involved in the The executive committee of the ber. charge. department decided on the bud- The ad hoc group adds that the On Jan. 29, demonstrators led by get change last October. Accord- fact that one graduate student SDS blocked a DuPont recruiter ing to department chairman Sam- sat on the executive committee in the West Engineering Place- ual Eldersveld, the reallocation of when the decision was made does ment Offices and barred appli- funds would bring a reduction in not constitute the significant dia- cants from entering. teaching fellowships and lecture- logue between students and facul- Ryan recommended that prose- ships by approximately 30 per cent ty called for in the Stokes Re- cution of the other 12 students in the 1970-71 academic year to port. should proceed under Student permit the hiring of additional fa- Eversveld protested yesterday Government Council rules or sim- culty. that graduate student representa- ilar rules administered by the col- He indicated that the executive tion on the executive committee leges. committee, consisting of seven fa- was adequate and that it was the Ryan's letter claimed "the case culty members, one graduate and student's responsibilityto keep his' is clearer" under these rules be- one undergraduate representative, constituancy informed. See SDS, Page 8 has adopted the decision unani- mously and had considered it to be' final.e committee "would be willing SAB ices: usm es to talk," Eldersveld said, "but it would be very difficult to say" whether or not the decision could asS S 1o ds 'eariiv The graduate student who sat on the executive committee last By ANITA WETTERSTROEM Office staff of West Engineer- semester. John Stucker, expressed To p la c e m e n t office per- ing Bldg., which experienced sim- "some disagreement" with Elders- sonnel, Thursday's SDS demon- ilar activities due to the presence veld's views and with a memoran- stration was iore of a carnival of a Texaco recruiter, declined dum concerning the controversy than a disruption, or as Vonnegut comment. ioc,-lq - nr,,,Vai.nrlpr znr hpm rr- - -trnof - im - - on hrmi,.. t+ e nln.rtm~t.nf- -Associated Press Playing judge Chicago 7 defendants Abbie Hoffman and 'Jerry Rubin niock Judge Julius Hoffman by entering the court wearing judicial robes. FEE HIKE: !I 4 } t t SEA formulates admissions plan By LARRY LEMPERT WEEKEND FUN DEPT. -------------------------------- TGIFTGIFTGIFTGIF Students for Effective Action (SEA), yesterday released a proposal for increasing black and minority admissions by making more financial assistance available to members of minority groups. Representatives of SEA will meet with President Robben Fleming early next week to discuss the plan. "We are proposing," said Andy Weissman, '71, "that students vote in a referendum to tax themselves $15 a year, in the form of an ear-marked increase in tuition, or as _.... rsrl ~ rCMOQafa 01( By NADINE COHODAS "Thank God It's Friday," they, sigh on their way out of class. For' it's time to take in a TG-the age old institution designed to undo what the last six days have done.! Traditionally TG's are held at sororities or fraternities though any ad hoc group can organize one on its own. Lots of music, live or! recorded, plenty -of free beer and! some good co-education are the only prerequisites. Yesterday was no different. At one fraternity the festivities began around 4:15 p.m. when the host fraternity men lined the windows to peruse the invited sorority women and any other interested i 'V 1 s as usual al' lock-in a completely separate iee, anu that the faculty vote to assess themselves $25 a year." With these funds, SEA claims the proposal along with appro- priate university action w o u Id roughly double the number of minority students on campus in four years. Walter Lewis of the Black Stu- dents Union (BSU) yesterday re- sponded favorably to the plan. "I think it's really fine," he said. "This is what we were hoping for, "He did not seem to be at all apprehensive when told of the pending lock-in" said Ardis. "He was a seasoned recruiter who had been in similar situations before." 'Tha ha n-a -m-+fnffi ,.rnn mema