VOTE TOMORROW IN CITY PRIMARY See Editorial Page Y L Si r iAan 4IAitu CONTEMPTIBLE High--24 Low--8 Generally a cloudy and black day, especially in Chicago Vol .LXXX, No. 1 14Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday, February 15, 1970 Ten Cents Eight Page Minority admissions issues: Priorities, By JANE BARTMAN "In my generation a liberal com- pletely ignored race, made no men- tion of it," says Vice President and Dean of Graduate Studies Stephen ' Spurr, "That would Dave been dis- criminatory. Now everyone mentions The concern is no longer a matter of courtesy but of necessity-adrniin- istrators and students have found they have to talk about race if minor- ity group students are to be given an equal chance at the University. But administrators are talking about funds while students are talk- ing about priorities. President Robben Fleming present- ly is studying the Black Action Move- ment (BAM) demands for increase in the number of minority students and has said finding funds to implement them will be "difficult." Spurr is unwilling to make an es- timate on how big an increase the Univesity will be able to afford. "It all adds up to big money, most of which will have to come out of the University's own funds," he says. "It all depends on what the legislature does and what tuition will be." "I feel skeptical when I hear that the University doesn't have enough money," says Henry Clay, a BSU member. "I feel that the University has to rearrange its priorities. It has enough money to admit more stu- dents and properly fulfill its re- sponsibilities to minority groups." The University has no way of de- termining how many minority group students are presently enrolled-it is prohibited by law to require infor- mation on applications which would indicate race. The most accurate figures avail- able are those compiled in the fall of 1968, when the University asked regiestering students to volunteer minority group information. Out of a total of, 38,021 students, 797 identi- fied themselves as black, 312 Oriental, 43 American Indian, and 30 with Spanish surnames. About 7,000 stu- dents either did not formally reg- ister or did not respond to the ques- tion. Pointing out the significance of the figures, obtained, from the University Office of Human Relations Affairs, is now passe among an increasing num- ber of administrators, students, and faculty members. It is common enough to say that the number of minority group stu- dents is small-the University ad- ministrators have been. saying that for years. "I believe we were one of the first universities to start dealing with the problem before the pressure from the black communityistarted," says Spurr, "before Birmingham and Selma." The University is spending this year about $856,000 on minority group students. This reaches about 580 stu- dents-$670,000 of it is spent for 472 Opportunity Award students. The Opportunity Award program began with 70 students in 1962 and was designed to handle financial aid. recruiting, and supportive services for minority students. The program provides for one re- cruiter and a supportive services office, which offers counselling and tutoring, staffed by three full-time workers and two students. According to Director of Financial Aid Ronald Brown, those receiving financial aid have a financial "pack- age" worked out for them, consisting of family contributions, summer and winter part-time earnings and grants or loans from the university, de- pending upon need, In addition, some of the individual schools and colleges have their own recruiting programs or have changed admissions policies to better provide for minority students. Engineering College Associate Dean Joseph Eisley, for example, has been visiting high schools explaining the engineering program and8 requirements, The departme to expand the efforts, and i plans for contacting the stt a younger age and followi through high school, offer seling and academic aids. T also has hired a special cour its opportunity award stude The literary college has n recruiting plans, according missions committee secretai Whaley, but it has decide mit 100 so-called "high ri dents next year, including t ber within its regular er quota, if the funds are aval "High risk" students are t are admitted on the basis recruiter's evaluation of t tential and don't have the; fun ding admission qualifications for success here--the ent hopes Scholastic Aptitude test and grade s making point average, which are believed udents at discriminatory by a number of pro- ing them fessors. ng coun- When discussing the proposal, ad- 'he school mission committee members express nselor for concern for the need for effective nts. supportiveservices-counseling and io special academic assistance, and contingent to ad- to the admission of the student are ry Glenn the funds for these needed services. !k to ad- "To just bring them in an6 leave sk" stu- them alone is a cruel thing," says ,he num- Whaley. "It may mean just another nrollment failure." ilable. The committee members are also hose who concerned about segregatory effects of the special aid programs might have, "A heir po- special curriculum is understand- standard See LACK, Page 8 ---- 1 -Daily-Dave Schindell Students form group to save environment Hoffman contempt SDS plans for protest after verdict By W. E. SCHROCK Students for a Democratic Society has planned militant action in response to the verdict in the Chicago conspiracy trial, in- cluding possible trashing of businesses and courtrooms, sources said yesterday. In a me g of all local SDS collectives Thursday n'ght, members discussed possible courses of action in response to the Chicago 7 trial and possible disruptions that may follow the Huey Newton benefit for Sunday night in the Union, the sources said. SDS member Richard Feldman last night denied tha4 any explicit action has been. planned. He said that when the jury gives its verdict, there are planned demonstra- tions by local groups including marches and possible packing of courtrooms, Feldman added, however, that "when the verdict comes in there are going to be plenty of angry people" and that they "may want to tear up Ann Arbor." He said that although he does not see SDS or himself initiating such action, he would not find it unwelcome. Although sources said SDS planned to Defend meet with black radical leaders concerning possible "trashings" following the Huey Newton benefit, Feldman said that if such 1T meeting took place, no plans for trashings New were made., Feldman did, however, say that if the 5,000 or so people who attended the benefit d ra, decide to go outside and take to the streets, members of SDS would not get up and By CA argue them out of doing so. and SDS is having an all-collective meeting spe tonight to finalize goals and tactics for the CLEVELAND rest of this term. They will discuss racism activists from a] and the Ann Arbor 6, environment pollu- yesterday in an; tion, women's liberation, University policy ous political fa on recruitment, ROTC, war research, minor- the Student Mol ity admissions and "oppression of the youth on one main is and their culture." the war in Vietn In the meeting members of local collec- A main goal o tives will probably decide on whether such offensive, schedu tactics as recruiter harassment and trash- Addressing las ings will continue. politician Dick sentences f in Chicago our 7 t By DAVE CHUDWIN Representatives from 24 universities and colleges in Michigan and surounding states last night established a committee to plan a regional coalition of students to help in the fight against environmental problems. The committee, asked to investigate how such a coalition might be organized and what functions it could perform, will make a report to another meeting of the student representatives during the University's teach-in on the environment March 11-14. "This central coordinatingagrouphas a tremendous potential for action and for zeroing in on the activism of students on environmental issues," said Bill Manning of Environmental Action for Survival (EN- ACT), the group organizing the University effort. The proposal for a- coalition came at the end of a day-long ENACT conference in which students and teachers from as far away as New Hampshire learned some of the fine points of planning environmental teach-ins. Over 150 participants listened to speakers, rapped with ENACT committee chairman. attended workshops and learned from each on rial other the best approaches to problems in- volved in organizing environmental action programs.. About 150 colleges and universities across the country are planning teach-ins for April 22. Because this coincides with the Uni- versity's final exam period, the local pro- gram is in March. "We hope that we can learn from you and you can learn from us," Natural Re- sources Prof. Spencer Havlick said in open- ing the afternoon session of the conference. President Robben Fleming welcomed those attending the meeting, saying he believes that significant breakthroughs can. be made in solving environmental problems if they are faced realistically. "But the present enthusiasm can be a very temporary, ephemeral thing," Fleming added. "You cannot cure these problems without an organized, sustained drive." ENACT co-chairman Doug Scott gave the main speech of the afternoon, describing how ENACT was founded and what students and faculty at other campuses can do to pre- serve the quality of life. Scott said that the envirohmental move- See ECOLOGY, Page 8 -Associated Press Wants Abbie Hoffman, Rennie Davis, Jerry Rubin student anti-war group ws 3,000 to Cleveland, Jury begins to deliberate By JENNY STILLER Special To The Daily CHICAGO - As the 'Chicago 7' trial jury retired to begin its deliberations yesterday, Judge Julius J. Hoffman handed down sent- ences of summary contempt for four of the defendants. The remaining three, plus both defense lawyers, will also be sent to prison today. The jury ended its deliberations at 10 p.m. last night without a verdict and re- turned to their hotel. The 10 women and two men are scheduled to resume delibera- tions again at 9:30 this morning. The sentenced were Dave Dellinger, Ren- nie Davis, Tom Hayden and Abbie Hoff- man. All were cited for summary con- tempt on a number of counts, the sentenc- es for those counts to run consecutively. Dellinger was sentenced to a total of two years, four months and 16 days, for 32 counts of contempt. Davis received a sentence of 25 months, 19 days for 23 charges. Hayden's sentence for 11 counts will be 14 months and 14 days. Hoffman was sentenc- ed to a total of five months for 23 counts of contempt. The judge cited the men for summary contempt, choosing to let the sentences of one day to six months per count run con- secutively. Since the charge is summary and not felonious contempt, no jury trial is required. Judge Hoffman denied bail pending ap- peal of the contempt citation. He also overruled defense objections to the use of summary contempt after the trial had ended - which action defense Attys. Wil- liam Kunstler and Leonard Weinglass charg- ed was improper and illegal. After spending most of the day listening to the charges -against four of the de- fendants, the judge announced he would deal with the remaining three - J e r r y Rubin, Lee Weiner and John Froines - as well as with Kunstler and Weinglass, this morning. Before charging the defendants with con- tempt, Hoffman explained his actions. He said the defendants' and lawyers' behavior in the courtroom was disorderly and "must be punished if our judicial system is to sur- vive." See JURY, Page 8 City primiary on Monday Candidates for the April City Council election will be chosen tomorrow as three.of Ann Arbor's five wards hold primary elec- tions. Polls will be opened from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. In the First Ward, LaVerne Hill and Tom Dennis Hilbert are battling for the Repub- lican nomination. The winner will face in- eumbent Democratic Councilman John Kirscht. Lois Owens is running against James ARLA RAPOPORT JIM McFERSON ecial To The Daily - Over 3,000 anti-war .1 over the country met here attempt to unite their vari- ctions under the banner of bilization Committee (SMC) ssue-an immediate end to am. of the conference is a springj uled for the week of April 13. t night's meeting, comedian- Gregory called on the stu- By ANITA WETTERSTROEM Most people are keenly interested in any informa- tion or opinions pertaining to themselves. Very few people like to have such information recorded and filed for others to see. 'Likes' are not 'rights', however, and like it or not, much information about students is recorded and filed in numerous campus offices for "others" to see. The exact whereabouts of many of those files, the contents therein and the persons who have access to them are, to a very large extent, unknown except to the person(s) maintaining the individual files. But things may be changing. The University Civil Liberties Board Tuesday night berties dent organizations to the tivities Committee. Board sets. policy dents "to leave with unity equal to the dedication you show now. "You have the power and the strength to bring this country to its knees." Dan Gurewitz; SMC national staff mem- bei',spoke ondthe goals of theconference, saying "no demonstration will end this war. The one we plan will only be a part of a continuous mobilization to organize all facts of the anti-war movement into an effective force. "Those of us here today," he continued, "are merely the surface of an iceberg which will force our country out of Viet- nam," The conference began Friday night with a' meeting of the SMC national steering com- mittee, which planned the agenda and rules for the meeting. The recommendations of the steering com- mittee were adopted at the introductory session of the conference without much of the haggling that has characterized mass conventions of radical student groups in the past, noted Gurewitz. After the introductory meeting students split into many special interest workshops discussing such topics as GI rights, high school organizing, the rights of homosexuals and tax resistance. Workshop groups were encouraged to for- mulate specific proposals related to their topics and present these proposals to the conference, and several of the proposals' were in fact adopted by the conference.t Workshops, however, tended to slide into House Un-American Ac- A campus-wide controversy ensued in regard not only to the administration's handling of the sub- poena, but in its very holding of such information as organizational membership lists. The question that surfaced at the time was, does the University have the right to file such information? Since that time a host of other questions have emerged. What type of information is held? Who has access to the information? Are the rights of stu- dents being observed in the retaining and main- taining of the information? It was a result of these issues that the Civil Liberties Board came into being. Proposed by the Senate Assembly, the Board was -conceived as a stu- The policy is intended to cover those files which are assembled by the normal execution of official University functions'and which are available to peo- ple other than those initially assembling the records. The main offices involved include the Office of Student Affairs, placement offices, the LSA Counsel- ing Office, the Registration Records office and the Rackham Graduate Records Office. But the complete list is as long as that of collages, departments and sub-divisions in the University. A conservative estimate by one of the board members places the number of such permanent files at 200. "Potentially, of course," says board member zool- ogy Prof. Tom Moore, "every faculty member and teaching fellow would hold records of a transitory na- ture for their own personal reference."