Sunday, April 12, 1970 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five Sunday, April 1 2., 1970 THE MICHIGAN DAiLY Page FiVe DISCUSSION SERIES: Letters to the Editor Hard drugs: Tool of the Mafia Pos tpone decision on votingag Hill-Onondaga To the Editor: ALTHOUGH I FELT that the story carried earlier this week in the Daily on the controversy sur- rounding the Hill-Onondaga pro- perty presented both sides clearly and fairly, I believe that I have no hoice but to respond to Prof. Shain's letter that appeared on April 10. Prof. Shain's statement con- tains several half-truths, untruths, malicious inuendoes, and, finally, a rather thinly-veiled threat. I should, first of all, like to make ' y objectives in the matter per- fectly clear. I view the Hill-Onon- daga site as an opportunity for de- monstrating that public housing can be well planned, that is need not be unattractive or ugly, and that citizen participation of a pro- ductive sort can be conducive to *the attainmeunt of essential pub- lic goals. It is my hope that the site can be developed in such a way as to provide a model of what public housing can and should be. Anyone who is at all acquainted with the constraints under which the local Housing Commission *Must operate will recognize that this objective -simply does not lie within the powers of the Housing Commission. ALLOW ME TO SET the record straight on some facts. Prof. Shain asserts that "a group of residents ,f the neighborhood" acted on the "onday following the Friday, Mar. 13, on which the Housing Com- mission presented its offer to pur- chase the property. In fact I had no knowledge whatsoever of the City Housing Commission's inter- est in the property until March 21. *On that date I was informed by the Chairman of the Housing Commission that an offer to pur- chase the property had indeed been made and that a counter-of- fer which was in a form unaccept- able to the Commisison had been received. Nor was it a matter sim- DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the Univer- sity of Michigan. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN f o r m to Room 3528 L. S. A B l d g ., before 2 p.m.. of the day preceding pub- lication and by .2 p.m. Friday for Saturday and Sunday. Items ap- pear once only. Student organiza- tion notices a r e not accepted for ;+ publication. Fo0r more informa- tion, phone 764-4270, SUNDAY, APRIL 12 Day Calendar Pilot Program Piano Iecital: Prof. Anatol Rapoport, Red Carpet Lounge, Alice Lloyd Hall, 2:00 p.m. Degree Recital: Fred Betzner, cello, Sch. of Music Recital Hall, 2:30 p.m. Degree Recital: Joanne Roeder, piano, Sch. of Music Recital Hail, 4:30 p.m. international Center Film Series: "Brazil: The Gatherine Millions" and "India, Writings on the Sand," Inter- -national Center, 7:30 p.m. Degree Recital: Alan Freeborn, vio- lin, Sch. of Music Recital Hail, 8:001 p.m. ply of having "to revise the paper to meet proper legal form." In factE the seller had omitted from his s counter-offer certain condition es-I sential to the Commisison's being able to accept it. Prof. Shain did, indeed, discuss the matter with Mr. Sallade and with my wife, but at no time has he made the slightest effort to contact me. Nor has he had the' simple good grace to send me a copy of the statement read before1 the City Council last Tuesday eve-l ning and subsequently printed in) the Daily. I have full confidence1 that he was not informed either by Mr. Sallade or Mrs. Brazer that) they were worried about "possi-i ble effects on property values" or that they knew "that poor people | couldn't be happy on their end of Hill Street," or that "some (oth- 1 er) neighbors would make the newcomers' lives miserable, t h e schools would become overcrowd-1 ed and lose their high academici standards," etc. I happen to be ) strongly of the belief that school integration is an essential goal of our. community and that only through neighborhood integration can school integration be ade- quately attained. Among the val- ues I hold dear property value lies very low on the list. NEITHER M. SALLADE nor I, nor, for that matter, our group as a whole, is in need of Mr. Shain's request that we make a "generous i gesture." Certainly this request was never, in any case, relayed to me, directly or indirectly. I do+ not view our efforts, including those that involve the raising of private funds for the purpose of 1 subsidizing public housing as a "gene'rous gesture," The activities that we have been involved in | with regard to the Hill-Onondaga property are activities which I be- lieve will serve an important pub- lic purpose. My roots are firmly imbedded in this community, as are those of other members of our1 group. Certainly Mr. Sallade'si MONDAY, APRIL 13 School of Natural Resources Dis - tinguished Speaker Program: Dr. Ar- thur Cooper, Ecologist, Uinversity of North Carolina at Raleigh, "N o r t h Carolina Coastal Research Program: A Lesson in Resource Ecology": 1040 School of I'htural Resources, 3:30 p.m. Department of Engineering Mechan- ics Seminar: T. H. H. Plan, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology, "Formulation of Finite Element Meth- ods for Solid Continua": 311 West En- gineering, 4:00 p.m. Physics Colloquium: M. Kreisler, Princeton, "Neutral Decays of the n," P&A Colioq. Rm., 4:00 p.m. Botany Seminar: Dr. B'ruce L. Hanes, Duke University will speak on "Plant Growth Responses to Nutrient Accumu- lation in Refuse Dumps of Leaf-cutting Ants", 3082 Nat. Sci. Bldg., 4:15 p.m. Science & Technology Lect: Prof. John Imbrie, Brown U., "Pleistocene Caribbean Climates - A Test of the Milankovitch Theory," 3082 Nat. S. Bldg., 8:00 p.m. General Notices STUDENT IDENTIFICATION CARDS Any student ID card marked "Valid Winter 1970 Only" must be replaced be- fore student may register for Fall term, 1970. Window 'A' in the lobby of the LSA bldg. will be open during the hours 3:00 am, to 12:00 noon, and 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day. Students should insure that they have with them proper notice of their (Continued on Page 8) credentials in this respect need no elaboration here. We simply be- lieve that the kind of public hous- ing we hope to achieve, with the cooperation of the Housing Com- mission, will be in the best inter- ests of the community as a whole, including those who will occupy the units once built. I do not deny that some resi- dents of the area in question are opposed to public housing. They have circulated petitions opposing public housing on the site in ques- tion and were determined to fight the use of the site for public hous- ing with every means available to them. In fact I have been attack- ed at least as vehemently by these elements in the community as I have been attacked by Max Shain and his accomplices. I conclude, therefore, by noting that when one is subject to strong attack from those who hold extreme views at both ends of the spectrum on any issue there is a high probability that he is attempting to do the right thing. -Harvey E. Brazer Chairman, Department --of Economics April 10 the community: The University provides the job, but the people keep the University running. Yet these people who are so essential to the functioning of the Univer- sity are forced to live great dis- tances from Ann Arbor due to the University's insensitivity to their needs. This increases the economic burden these people mustI carry, since there is no low cost public transportation from the outskirts to Ann Arbor. It is the University's responsi- bility to provide housing for those who need it. As students we must not segregate ourselves from the rest of the Ann Arbor community. -Nancy Wechsler --Lynn Hallen March 27 To the Editor: YESTERDAY our Ann Arbor Neighborhood Action Center re- ceived a large quantity of food from supporters of the Black Ac-{ tion Movement for distribution to the poor in Washtenaw County.' We wish to publically thank those persons, whose names are un- known to us, who collected andf delivered the food for their gem,-' erous show of support for this By BRUCE DAY Why are drugs condemned as harmful in our society? This was the key question in Thurs- day's "Rap About Drugs" dis- cussion - one of a series of discussions on drugs and sex being run by the Student Af- fairs Counseling Office. Pharmacology instructor Jul- ian Villarreal, keynote speaker for the evening, gave his opin- ion on the question by point- ing out the -dependence of the drug addict on his supplier. "These people, by becoming addicted to heroin, are giving up their freedom. The agency t h a t controls the heroin, controls the people who are addicted." Because the Mafia is t h e major supplier of drugs in the United States, the speaker went on, it is also the major controller of the nation's drug addicts. Several other people had dif- ferent opinions about the detri- mental effects of drug addic- tion. One girl expressed the view that addiction was harmful to the society because of the ad- dicts' necessity to support h i s habit through various criminal acts. Another members of the dis- cussion felt that the harm done to the individual addict by con- tinuation of his habit is the major detrimental effect of drug use. Before the discussion began, Villarreal also criticized pre- sent methods of treating d r u g addiction - prohibitory legisla- tion. "This doesn't make any sense; you don't treat lack of freedom by putting them in jail!" he said. Several students with drug experience also became involv- ed in the discussion. One stu- dent said he had been on a one-and-a-half year high, b u t had still managed to behave normally throughout the entire period. His grades had not drop- ped, he said, and he felt he was in no danger of becoming a drug 1ddict even though heroin was one of the drugs he used. Villarreal countered this sug- gestion that heroin and o t h e r hard drugs could be used in moderation by estimating t h a t 99 percent of all heroin users were three, four, or five-times-a- day mainliners. The weekend user of hard drugs was a rarity if not an impossibility, he said. The discussion often shifted to the success and failures of drug addiction treatment methods, such as those in Great Britain and New York City. The Eng- lish method of making drugs freely available to addicts was generally thought to be a suc- cessful attack on some of the evils of drug addiction, although the other method of treatment used by New York, was thought better- h,'ttei A proposal which would amend The method used in New York Michigan's constitution to allow City employs the drug metha- 18-year-olds to vote will be done, which is given the addicts brought before t 1i e Michigan instead of the heroin-type drugs House early next week. they have been on. The use of A vote on the bill had been sch- methadone is considered ad- eduled for 1 a s t Friday, but a vantageous since the high it quorum was not present and the causes lasts longer and is eas- proposal vote was rescheduled. ier to control than heroin's, and Hearings on the proposal were the user thus needs a fix only held on Friday however. H i g h occasionally, school and college age students With heroin, the addict was packed the galleries supporting constantly in need of a fix, con- student leaders who spoke out in stantly looking for money, and favor of lowering the voting age. constantly under the influence Earlier last week the lower of the drug supplier, chamber gave the proposal pre- Methadone however, is avail- liminary approval after defeating able only through legal cannels attempts to raise the proposed -usually a clinic - which gives new franchise age to 19. the government, rather than the The measure, introduced by Mafia, influence over the addict. Rep. Jackie Vaughn (D-Detrott), would need approval by the vot- ers next November if it passes Law Prof. Arthur R. Miller has both houses, peen appointed to a special De- Support for the 18-year-old vote cennial Census Review Committee is widespread. President Nixon, by Secretary of Commerce Mau- Gov. William Milliken and Atty. rice H. Stans. General Frank Kelly h a V e all The committee, w h i c h will supported the idea. evaluate and review the federal N o t everyone is sympathetic, government's census, grew out of however. Rep. Bill Huffman (D- the widespread debate over the Madison Heights) contends that activities of the Census Bureau students at Michigan State Uni- and the dissatisfaction with some versity and the University would of t he questions on the 1970 "kick out the establishment" if census. given the right to vote. Housing To the Editor: WHILE THE overwhelmingly a g e n c y 's work throughout th favorable response to the first county. three points on the housing ref- In the past few weeks, we have erendum points to a rising con- called for more extensive involve- sciousness, on the part of students, mrt of the Univerty commnity of the state of economic situation in Ann Arbor, the defeat of the fourth point demonstrates a de- plorable lack in this consciousness. The fourth point deals with open- ing up low rent housing to all low- income families in Ann Arbor, whether or not connected with the University. The University can no longer remain indifferent to the needs of the community of which it is a part. A symbiotic relationship ex- ists between the University and 111l u VI 4k ULL '41i1±V 1 b V 1± 1 .J '4'4 1AA L y in the larger communities sur- rounding it. This action demon- strates a positive step in fulfill- ment of this proposed commitment which we wish to enthusiastically recognize. -Beverly M. Poindexter Executive Director, Washtenaw Office of Economic Opportunity April 3 Golig to Europe Need a car but don't think you can afford it? Try our unbelievably LOW PRICE BUY or LEASE Europeaui Motor Service STALLED a 3 31 S. 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