; .. i t 3rrAfiritan Dun Seventy-nine years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan BAM statement on discipline and reprisals 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mich, News Phone: 764-0552 Editorials printed in The Michigan Doily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 1970 NIGHT EDITOR: ROB BIER By DARRYL GORMAN, ED FABRE and JACKSON COLE SINCE MUCH confusion and doubt surrounds the reprisal proviso of the agreement between the AM and the Administration -Regents, we feel we must clar- ify the situation. The actual agreement reads: In the event that an individ- ual has been charged with vio- lations of University, School, or College rules, by strike-re- lated conduct during the per- iod March 19 through April 1, 1970, or earlier if it can be demonstrated to be related to the strike to the satisfaction of the hearing officer, then in- dividual has his option to (1) utilize the normal school or col- lege disciplinary channels, or (2) request the President to assume jurisdiction. Such op- tion shall be exercised within five days after receiv- ing notice of the charges. All charges must be filed not later than seven days after the con- clusion of the strike. The President will refer the matter to an outside impartial hearing officer(s) whom he will appoint. Once appointed, t h e hearing officer shall hear and decide the case. In the event an individual alleges that he has been penal- ized without hearing for taking part in the events of March 19 through April 1, 1970 of the strike or earlier, he shall first pursue the matter within t h e School or College or other unit where the alleged penalty has been incurred. If an earlier act can be demonstrated to be re- lated to the strike to the satis- faction of the hearing officer, he shall follow the same pro- cedure. If the matter is not resolved to the satisfaction of an individual, he may appeal to the President, who shall re- fer the matter to an impartial hearing officer(s) appointed in the fashion mentioned in item 1 above. The hearing officer(s) shall hear and decide the case. As BAM interprets the settle- ment, all accusations or charges must be made within seven days of the strike's end, all cases must be heard within nine days of the strike's end and the option must be exercised within five days of the individual's receiving the charges. It was further under- stood that the hearing officer(s) would only be appointed after the President consulted with BAM representatives. Furthermore, it is our (BAM) interpretation that since -there will be hearing officers, a person may, if dissatisfied with the officer or officers hearing h i s case, elect to appear before ano- ther hearing officer. Also, our understanding during the settle- ment negotiations was that a party could appeal from an ad- verse decision of a hearing of- ficer. This appeal would be to the President who would assign it to a new hearing officer who would then hear and decide the Democrats try harder VOTERS WILL BE going to the polls tomorrow to elect five city council- men. It is important that the new City Council be controlled by the Democrats. The last year has demonstrated that a City Council controlled by the Democrats is clearly preferable to one controlled by the Republicans. This is not to say that the Democrats have used their 8-3 major- ity to its best advantage, but rather that they have initiated some worthwhile programs--almost all of which the Re- publicans opposed. The most impressive part of the Demo- cratic program is their stand on trans- portation. Not only have they recognized that public transportation is a service the city must provide, but they have also recognized that the entire concept of transportation in Ann Arbor must be fundamentally overhauled. ALSO, THEY HAVE come to the realiza- tion that Ann Arbor cannot continue to forever build new roads and widen; the old ones through the center of town. And over the objections of City Admin- Land rab VOTERS IN Monday's City Council election should reject both of the annexation pro- posals on the ballot. The proposals for annexation of the Wag- ner property totaling 131 acres at Liberty and I-94 and the Smokler property totaling 227 acres so)theast of US-23 and M-14 inter- change have only been made public for a week. However, Council's argument in a reso- lution urging a "no" vote on these annexations seems valid. The council resolution states, that the city has not had enough time to bargain with the developers or to consider the effects which development of those lands will have on the growth of the city. --S. W. istrator Guy Larcom they continue to investigate the possibility of a badly needed mass transit system. To their credit, the Democrats have also also established, and consistently sup- ported the Model Neighborhoods pro- gram. One of the most important steps they took was the freezing of the zoning in the neighborhoods which prevented the commercial interests from purchasing the area property for speculation. A f t e r that step, they solicited and received a federal grant That made money avail- able-in the form of grants and loans- for homeowners to bring their houses up to the specifications of the City Housing Code. But the fundamental contribution the Democrats have made in this area is to allow the residents of the area to de- cide what is necessary, and to support their wishes. BUT DESPITE their progress in these areas, the Democrats have failed to make any significant changes in the ac- tions of the police department. If they do win the election, one of the first things they must do is to see that major changes are instituted in the police department force. There are those who would argue that because the Democrats have not done all they could have, they should not be supported. However, in light of the cali- ber of their opposition-which is wag- ing nothing more than a fear campaign -and in light of some of the positive changes that the Democrats have insti- tuted, it is important that a Democratic majority on the City Council be maintain- ed, --ALEXA CANADY Editorial Page Editor Letters to the Editor Ecology To the Editor: THE BALLOT tomorrow con- tains an annexation proposal con- cerning the Arabelle Wagner {pro- perty which borders Lakewood subdivision on the western side of Ann Arbor. Also bordering Lake- wood are two of the Three Sister Lakes. These lakes and the swamp around them support a great var- iety of plant and animal life in- cluding possum, muskrat, fringed gentian, red-winged blackbird, and Great Blue 'heron. All of Dolph Lake and part of Killins L a k e are owned by the city of Ann Arbor as part of its park land. The Wagner property which is up for annexation lies south of Lakewood and straddles Liberty Road. It includes Lakewood Woods, a natural area already owned by the city. However, most of the 131 acres to be annexed consists of farm land which has not been cultivated in several years and is now heavily overgrown. The natural drainage of this land is through, Lakewood Woods into Killins Lake. THE DRAINAGE of this area, now and after development, will profoundly affect the quality of the water in the lakes. At pre- sent the city plans to run storm water from the Wagner area di- rectly into Killins Lake. A large amount of additional acreage fur- ther south would also use the same storm drain path when an- nexed. The city also plans to drain the land between I-94 and Dex- ter Road directly into Dolph Lake. Present plans are for these drains to be 7% feet and 6 feet in diameter, respectively, at their lake openings. The volume of runoff from the Wagner property will be great- ly increased after development because roofs and paving don't absorb water hnd because storm sewers speed its passage. Storm sewers draining developed land carry large amounts of phosphates and .nitrates from fertilizers, oil and salt from roads, and sedi- ment. The general effect of these pollutants on lakes and ponds has become familiar to ENACT participants. Phosphates and ni- trates increase the growth of algae. Salt water inhibits the na- tural internal circulation of the lake. Storm sewer water is it- self low in oxygen. The chm- bined effect will be to greatly re- duce the amount of oxygen in the water of the lakes and to acceler- ate the destruction of a natural semi-wilderness area. Mr. Agnew and the disadvantaged SACUA statement on strike ICE PRESIDENT Agnew seized on a partisan occasion - a Lincoln's birthday speech to Illinois Republicans - to go smashing around the china shop of university policies on the ,admission of students from disadvantaged minori- ties. He was attacking favoritism to minori- -ties. Mr. Agnew asked "those who think there should be ethnic quotas or race quotas or socioeconomic quotas in the admissions, to colleges or universities" if they would care to be served by doc- tors, airplane pilots and architects who had gone to college to fill a quota or because of their aptitude. THAT IS AN ABC sort of question. It answers itself. Nobody, including mem- bers of racial and other minorities,;wants to be served by an incompetent doctor, pilot, or architect. But the aim of colleges and universities in relaxing admissions standards for dis- advantaged students is not to produce in- competents. The aim is to help them become com- petent, to take the special pains, make the extra effort, work to overcome the deficiencies that stand in the way of. their advance. Mr. Agnew says that the same pres- sure that gets them into college-operates to see that they successfully complete their studies. He uses "success" in the same sense of passing them whether they deserve to be passed or not. And that of course would be as he calls it, a "pernicious result" if it works that way. It is among the dangers that have to be' guarded against. HERE ARE defects and dangers and elements of unfairness, educationally and otherwise, in quotas and in the "open admissions" policy that particularly drew the Vice President's fire. But the worst danger of all is to pander to resentments at specal help for the disadvantaged. Do the reasons for that special break need to be elaborated? Minority students are starting from behind for a variety of reasons that are not their fault. It takes some equalizing to make equal opportunity. THE SPECIAL HELP is in the nation's interest. Racial divisiveness is not going to be cured without an extra effort to undo the effects of past inequality. America is not going to profit from the contribu- tion that all its citizens can make unless educational institutions try to develop ability that has been throttled. Mr. Agnew gives this problem the ABC treatment. There are other letters in the alphabet. --PHILADELPHIA EVENING BULLETIN To the Editor: The following ik an open letter to the University community. AFTER THE EVENTS of the past two weeks, it is easy to lose sight of the widespread and deeply felt personal commitment of the members of the University com- munity to achieve at least 10 per cent black enrollment by 1973-74. This commitment grows from firm beliefs that the University has an opportunity to use its personnel and financial resources to work on a major problem of our social or- der. The University can provide leadership through a soundly con- ceived education program. The Regents at their March 19 meeting decided to expand the Opportunity Awards Program and set a goal of 10 per cent enroll- ment. They set it from projections of existing resources for 7 per cent enrollment with the hope that other resources could be found. Subsequently, actions supporting a commitment to funding of a 10 per cent enrollment were endorsed by SACUA on March 19 and then by the Senate Assembly and the faculty and deans of school and colleges. After these positive ,ac- tions, the administration an- nounced a firm pledge for the funding which was then confirm- ed by the Regents on April 1. While the Black Action Move- ment brought a sense of imme- diacy to the decision making, the wide support of a large segment of the University community for greatly increased black enroll- ment has been obvious for months, To characterize the action of the University as a response to in- timidation is a tragic misconcep- tion of what is clearly the Univer- sity's new commitment to increas- ed black enrollment. It is true, however, that disruptive activities which ocurred cannot be condoned and have generated a resentment which blinds many people to the purposes of the Black Action Movement. We must insure that the Uni- versity remains a center of free inquiry. We must preserve the quality of the University in teach- ing, research and service. We must move promptly beyond the differences that seem to divide us. We must mobilize the energies of black and white faculty, stu- dents, administration and Regents to achieve the new commitment for black enrollmhent. We pledge ourselves as faculty to devote our energies to the suc- cess of the mission. Senate Advisory Committee on University affairs -John Bardach -William Coon -C. Merle Crawford- -James Hayward -Robert Knauss -Warren Norman -Maurice Sinnott -Gerhard Weinberg -Ben Yablonky (Sen. Sec'y) -Joseph Payne, Chairman The city must find a way to drain the land near Dolph and Killins wthout turning them in- to dead lakes. The problem is complicated and the solution will require imagination and ingen- uity, qualities that often appear from nowhere under the stress of necessity., The solution may also be expensive and the question of whether the cost of storm w a t e r treatment or rerouting should be paid by the developer or by the city must be explored. We believe that defeat of the Wagner annexation in this elec- tion will provide both the motiva- tion and the time with which to produce an adequate solution to the drainage problem. We urge you to vote no on Annexation Pro- posal 1. -John and Jean King April 2. Carswell To the Editor: THE VOTE on whether to re- commit the Carswell nomination to the Senate Judiciary Commit- tee will come at 1:00 p.m, Mon- day, April 6. The vote may be very close and the following senators are on the fence. Yarborough of Texas, Burdick of North Dakota, Gore of Tennessee, Bible of Nevada, Boggs of Delaware, Ran- dolph of West Virginia. Packwood of Oregon, Schweichert of Penn- sylvania Work done on the week- end may make the difference. We ' urge you to phone friends in these states and ask them to wire their senators. A 15-word political telegram costs only $1.00 from any point in the United States. Women all over the nation should wire Margaret Chase Smith of Maine. Her vote is in doubt, too. The next great moment in the history of the Supreme Court may be when it decides whether or not women are persons under the Constitutioin. Carswell is most unlikely to make auseful contrib- ution to those deliberations. -Mary Dabbs FOCUS on Equal Employment for Women- April 3 Intimidating To the Editor: The following letter was sent to Senator Bursley and Representa- tive Smit of the Michigan Legis- lature. YOU HAVE threatened to re- duce our appropriation because we wish to solve our problems with- out the help of riot police and be- cause we are tightening our own belts to help provide the unques- tioned desserts of black people in this state. Our real incomes are going down each year rather than up and our departmental operating budgets are so small that professional travel is out of the question and we must restrict our use of petty supplies and business mail. These conditions are intolerable in a ma- jor university; we cannot do our jobs properly with so little su' port. We have now committed ourselves to even further misery in order to provide what ideo- logically we know we must and what you, although you have tried to sound like liberals, have not had the guts to defend. In taxing itself further wlen al- ready overtaxed, the University steers a dangerous course; even ideologically committed faculty can be attracted away by com- petitive salaries, adequate secre- tarial help, and the respectable availability of supplies and equip- ment. Your response, then, is that since we can find ~a way to sup- port additional black students, our a nn,.nnri.t inn i!ยข nrnhl~nby tn rhIc1 case. This was clearly designed to remove from the 'schools, col- leges and departments, if an' ac- cused so elected, the machinery and tools for reprisals. Theregmay also be two or more hearing of- ficers deciding on a given case. Let it be clear that in our consultations it was understood that the persons to be suggested would meet our (BAM) criteria for objectivity and impartiality, i.e., no biases against white stu- dents' long hair, Afro hair styles, etc. We state now, as we did be- fore, that recriminations against BAM and its supporters will not be tolerated. WE HAVE CONTINUALLY em- phasized that the University strike-from its inception to its conclusion-was' totbe conducted according to the tenets 'of non- violent resistance and limited di- rect action. Our endorsement of non-violence as a moral weapon to be used toward our goal of achieving more educational op- portunities for black people w a s both a decision of principle and a strategy dictated by necessity. It should be clear that our endorse- ment did not include complete abstention from "physical con- frontation" - that is to say, for example, that if a non-striker had attempted to "walk-over" a striker in an attempt to, enter a building, we never expected or in- structed the striker to allow him- self to become a "door-mat." At the same time, we never condoned the willful destruction of proper- ty, nor did we ever suggest, on any occasion, that we would seek am- nesty for persons committing such willful acts of violence. It was always clear that- to be' a participant in "the Movement" required of the individual strong internal discipline and resolute committment to the principles of non-violence-this meant' that there was never to be the mani- festation of violence ORIGINALLY, BAM negotiat- ors proposed as a presidential op- tion that an impartial committee be selected by BAM and President Fleming. We proposed that there be two BAM appointees, 'two ad- ministration appointees, and, one SGC appointee on the committee. This committee was to hear and decide all cases connected w i t h strike-related activity. We recog- nize the need for an all-student body to hear and decide the cases arising from the strike. It is odd that the administration. backed by the Regents, did not admit there was a need for an all-student body to hear these cases when, at the same time, they purported to see nothing wrong with all-faculty or mixed faculty-administrator bod- ies deciding cases. In suggesting that there be an outside impartial hearing officer, the administration and the Re- gents were, in fact, admitting that it would be difficult, if not im- possible to get a completely un- biased hearing from faculty and school and college administra- tors. BAM negotiators realized that much of the progress made in creating more humane relation- ships between people during the strike could be lost by allowing a few crude, cruel and vindictive faculty members and administra- tors to penalize students who were determined to get all of the BAM demands met. In very real terms, it is not possible to com- pare the verbal "disruption" of a computer sicence class-the loss of a special privilege often hid- den behind the, smokescreen of academic freedom-with o n e year or even one days loss of basic freedoms by black peoplehand other "ethnic groups. These charg- es are based on a ludicrous at- tempt to reinforce the s a m e notions of justice which BAM has beep publicly attacking for the past two months. OBVIOUSLY, the Administra- tion and the Regents fell back on "political realities" when they denied the rights of students to be tried by their peers. Mr. Fleming, alone, is not objective enough to choose an impartial hearingofficer who will hear and decide cases involving the 13-day strike at the University 1 v e r which he presides. Furthermore, BAM will con- tinue to be a coalition of black students, staff, and faculty who are united to press for a gen- uine response to the needs of the black community and not to fur- ther challenge the Regents on chapter 7.07 of the proposed Re- gental Bylaws. We emphatically support all-student judiciaries. We understand the difficulty that will be involved in achieving student jurisdiction over student lives. Yet, we also recognize the, immed- iacy of the need for resolving pre- sent disputes over, alleged vio- lations of school and college rules and we pledge ourselves to every effort to make sure that the ac- tions which are taken by some in the aftermath of the strike are not merely a "normal administra- tive" substitute for the more vio- lent physical action which they wanted the police to take. BAM WILL utilize the follow- ing measures to assist participants of the strike who face, or have received, charges of alleged vio- lations by the University: (1) In- terview the alleged wrongdoer and provide him with representa- tion before whichever tribunal is involved; (2) raise money, to be used by a Legal Redress Fund, to be used for fines, penalties, coun- sel, etc.; (3) take other actions deemed appropriate where a oCl- leae, school or unit does not com- ply with the agreements made with BAM. 4 4 114 Ms pyrrhicvctr (EDITOR'S NOTE: The following article represents the position of the Ann Arbor International.Socialists.) BAM, CLAIMING VICTORY, has called off the ten day old class strike. But "victory" is a strange description for a regental decision which rejects or dodges several crucial, BAM demands. Amnesty was one demand that BAM repeatedly emphasized: sev- eral BAM leaders said at rallies that reprisals would not be tolerated. Amnesty refers here to the disruptive actions taken by both blacks and whites (econ building, LSA building, and assorted classrooms), the whites taking part only at the implied request of BAM. It also refers to those teaching fellows and-campus workers who responded to BAM's request not to cross picket lines, risking loss of pay and jobs. At least one such worker has already been fired. THE REGENTS HAVE SAID that amnesty is unwarranted. Dis- ciplinary measures will proceed through the same "normal channels" 'that prompted the disruptive actions in the first place. If the channels get clogged again, one may appeal to an "impartial" committee- ap- pointed by an "impartial" Robben Fleming. The original one-way coalition" structure was justified on the grounds that this was a "black issue" requiring discussion and input only by blacks. The prospect of administrative disciplining of white radicals for their strike-support activities and the tactical "about- faces" called by the BAM leadership testify to the poverty of that jus- tification. The white support group - never having operated indepen- dently - is now unsure of how to deal with the discipline threat. And instead of resulting in tactical unity and discipline, the one-way chain of command caused restlessness and confusion at the bottom and inde- cision at the top. In a white support-group meeting, attempts should have been made to work out a political approach to the demands and tactics of BAM. Instead, the white "leadership" backed away, viewing such dis- cussion not as a useful contribution to the struggle, but as a "racist" threat to BAM's integrity. This applies with particular force to the Women's Caucus of the Support Coalition. The politics of Women's Liberation were submerged or even negated in the interests of -a false unity. Women must join coalitions on the basis of an equal partnership that will aid our own struggle for liberation. Movements are strongest when they have a mass base which actively participates in decision- making rather than passively taking orders. IF REPRISALS AGAINST BAM and its supporters #re not stop- ped now, future movements will be discouraged in advance. Victory cannot be claimed unless reprisals do not take place. BAM's primary demand has been 10 per cent black admissions by 1973-74. Here the Regents have stated that "by the cooperation of the' various deans and the governing faculties, funding of the admissions goal has been assured." The various schools and colleges can be expect- ed to provide their share of the money at the expense of scholarships slated for low-income white students, graduate support, and teaching fellows' salaries. 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