PETITIONING FOR MEMBERShIP CALL 761-1294 or 769-0437 before Mon., March 30, for Appointment "If you don't work, you don't eat" page three im4c Sitiigian 3atly NEWS PHONE: 764-0552 BUSINESS PHONE: 764-0554 Wednesday, March 25, 1970. Ann Arbor, Michigan Page Three r I GRADUATE ASSEMBLY MEETING TONIGHT 7:30 WEST CONFERENCE ROOM RAG KHAM MEMBERS, VISITORS, OTHERS ARE WELCOME The SGi By RICK PERLOFF The candidates for president of Student Government Council main- tain that SGC is relatively impotent, but believe Council can enhance its power and influence with the admin- istration by amplifying its efforts to educate students. While the three candidates differ on the extent they favor working with the administration, they generally agree that SGC provides an import- ant forum for promoting their views. The candidates agree that this "sounding board" function has been filled by other ad hoc groups, but they still see it as an important part of their job. And they admit that ex- panding SGC's r o 1 e - building a broader base of student support - is difficult to accomplish. "We see SGC as a platform from which we can speak to the campus on important issues," explains Joe Gold- enson. Goldenson admits that other groups may be pressing the adminis- tration for the same changes as SGC and adds that this may detract from his role as president. But "the more groups you have pushing for change the more effective it is." In addition, he believes that SGC has a different - less radical - con- stituency than a group like SS. He says that by virtue of its institutional position as representative of student government, it has a built-in author- ity which other groups don't have. He recognizes that groups o t h e r than SGC organized many of the ac- tions on campus - such as the LSA Bldg. take-over and the drive to in- crease black admissions. But SGC can help, he says. "It's another group of people who have a lot of funds and resources." More skeptical about the effective- ness of SGC, Bruce Wilson believes Council's main function is to lend its support to other campus groups or- ganizing political actions. "I don't think Council can add any inspiration at all. SGC can add a lit- tle stability and permanence in terms of being able to continually help press things." Wilson adds that if president, C president: Glory and no he would substantially increase SGC's efforts to seek out students. While Wilson stresses SGC's sup- portive role, he says 'it must be am- plified by education campaigns - he suggests Council sponsor more talks individually with students to increase their awareness. Marty Scott has the most optimistic view of SGC. "If SGC can become a group that is continually working to- ward student-related demands and continually working toward campus issues, it can generate a lot of re- spect," he says. Scott seems more willing to work with the administration through es- tablished committees than Golden- son. ipower? "I don't see why by definition the president of Student Government Council and the president of the Uni- versity have to be enemies. I don't mean bowing down to him; I think you can set up a relationship that's not hostile." Believing SGC has a duty to make students more aware of the campus problems, Scott suggests creating committees through which non-SOC members can work. But he has lingering doubts about SGC's effectiveness too. "It may very well be true," he says, "that there is nothing that can be done to make Council an effective force. We're trying to explore the pos. sibility that this isn't so." IL 11 HELD . i~u I~oil OVER! *aW!1 8-641 NOMINATED FOR 5 ACADEMY AWARDS INCLUDING Best Picture [16 the Ixon n e ws to da by The Associated Press and College Press Service on E to it government against. segregation Tues. at 6:45 and 9,05 Wed. at 1:15-3:45 6:15-8:45 "THE LAST WORD IN THRILLERS, TERRIFIC!" -GENE SHALIT, Look Magazine BACH CLUB PRESENTS ANOTHER FANTASTIC PROGRAM!! Live Performance of Randolph Smith's SONATA MOVEMENT IN B MINOR GINA ERDREICH, Flute RUTH BURTON, Violin PHIL ZARET, Cello with short, ILLUMINATING remarks (with musical illustration) by Randolph Smith (Bach Club Pres. and Founder) on: 0 What Makes a Piece a Piece 0 How to Write Music 0 How to Plagiarize Music * Bach's Musical Offering ABSOLUTELY NO MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE IS NEEDED TO UNDERSTAND THE REMARKS WEDNESDAY, MAR. 25-8 P.M. 1236 Washtenaw at Forest (near S. Univ.) EVERYBODY WELCOME! Refreshments and Fun afterwards. 663-2827, 761-7356, 764-9887 PRINCE, NORDOM SIHANOUK called on his supporters in Cambodia to rise up and wage guerrilla warfare against the regime that overthrew him as chief of state, Radio Peking announced yesterday. The statement was coupled with his announcement that he was setting up a government in exile in Peking and organizing a "libera- tion army" to fight his way back to'power. A Laotian Communist envoy said yesterday his forces will sup- port Sihanouk if he continues his struggle "to topple the United States," Kyodo News Service 'reported from Vientiane. The Hanoi radio said yesterday that North Vietnam would also support Sihanouk against the new Cambodian government. In Cambodia newspapers called for an end to the Cambodian monarchy and the creation of a republic with a president as chief of state. SOME_ OF THE SOLDIERS alleged to have perpetuated the My Lai massacre smoked marijuana the night before their unit went into action, a former sergeant testified yesterday. Sergeant Charles West told a senate investigating panel that at least 60 per cent of the members of the infantry regiment whieh allegedly carried out the massacre, had smoked marijuana at least once and that many members ofAhe 800-man regiment were chronic users of marijuana. Sen. Thomas Dodd, (D-Conn), chairman of the juvenile delin- quency subcommittee has repeatedly said he feels there is a link be- tween the use of marijuana and the My Lai massacre. FOUR UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STUDENTS were ar- rested yesterday morning as they picketed during the eighth day of a strike over teaching assistant contracts. The students were charged with disorderly conduct after, they prevented a truck from moving in the campus area. A ,Madison court is expected today to rule on the university's request for an injunction to halt the strike which has cut class at- tendance by nearly 75 per cent. Although there has been no official statement, sources say the teaching assistants plan to violate the injunction if it is granted and continue the, strike. THE MICHIGAN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES h a s passed and sent to the Senate a bill proposing a two-stage, 35-cent increase in the state's present $1.25 hourly minimum wage. Under the bill, passed 88-15 yesterday afternoon, the minimum wage would rise to $1.45 on July 1, then to $1.60 on Jan. 1, 1971. House approval of the bill followed a more than 11/2 hour caucus by House Republicans. IDAHO FARMERS destroyed two million pounds of potatoes yesterday morning in the biggest demonstration during their month-long campaign for higher potato prices. This brings on an estimated 14 million pounds of the number of potatoes destroyed since the National Farmers Organization de- clared a holdout action Feb. 21 to raise the prices of potatoes. Protesters against pollution Oil pollution protesters demonstrate outside the company's offices in New Orleans Monday after- noon. The group was protesting pollution in the Gulf of Mexico from a Chevron rig that has been blowing wild for the past several weeks. PRISONER TREATMEl\TT: HAP dfd' h g arve a en s atrcouttin Asks funds to uplift' schoo' Is' WASHINGTON (M -- Presi- dent Nixon said yesterday he will sharply limit the types of { s c h o o l segregation he will act against. In a statement issued from the Nhite House, Nixon instead pro- posed spending $1.5 billion over two years for educational uplift.in black and other minority schools. Nixon also said -He will divert $500 million from other parts of his fiscal 1971 budget to help pay costs of court- ordered desegregation and of up- grading education in "racially irni- pacted areas." n; A sum of $1 billion will be bud- geted for that purpose in fiscal 1922. -The administration will not force school districts to adopt bus- ing plans to end racial segregation of schools unless it is ordered by the courts. -School systems in all regions of the country must move imme- diately to end segregation of teachers on the basis of race. -' The administration will In- sist on an end to de ,lure segrega- tion, (segregation as a result of discriminatory laws or practices), T without seeking an end to de facto segregation, or segregation result- ing from housing patterns. -Desegregation policies will be pursued with equal vigor in the North as well as the South. -The government will not at- tempt to establish an "arbitrary" racial balance in the nation's school systems. *In communities where racial Imbalance in schools is a result of housing patterns, the govern- ment will attempt to upgrade :the educational quality of predomi- nantly black schools. --School districts under court desegregation orders acting in good faith to end de Sure segrega- tion will be allowed latitude in considering cost, eapaeitf and con- venience for pupils and parents in drawing up desegregation plans.. -Schools will not be exepected to achieve "the kind of multiracial society which the adult commu- nity has failed for to achieve for itself." 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