F 1 3 r t an Bail Seventy-nine years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan Phantom funding for black enrollment anartl, luirschinan 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mich. News Phone: 764-055 Editorials printed in The Michigan Doily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. FRIDAY, APRIL17, 1970 NIGHT EDITOR: RICK PERLOF 2 F --I ;;.. O5: Strike five HE WITHDRAWAL from consideration by all candidates for the post of Vice President for the Office of Student Ser- vices poses a serious problem in the at- tempt to construct that office. It also casts doubt on the sincerity and motives of President Robben Fleming, w h o through delay and opposition h.a s un- doubtedly been the primary cause of the withdrawals. Roadblocks and delays are nothing new after nearly three years of efforts on this campus to restructure the Office of Stu- dent Affairs into an office that reflects student concerns and serves student needs. But it's getting to the point where We must ask why the University admin- istration has taken the actions it has. THERE WAS A TIME when the picture was rosy. A student-faculty commit- tee considered the question for more than a year, and finally emerged with a pro- posl for restructuring the office. It was to be called the Office for Student Ser- Aces and the change in name was to be indicative of a change in spirit. A student-faculty committee would be appointed to make policy on matters of importance in this office. utmost importance. This proposal was approved by Senate 'Assembly, and by Student Government COureiL, and sent with those endorse- ments to the Regents.' J T{E MEANTIME, another committee; appointed by Fleming himself and composed of 4 students a n d 4 faculty members, spent eight months searching tit and interviewing brilliant and dy- namic young men and women to head the 0SS. The committee did an excellent job. Their standards were high - the candidate would have to be able to com- municate with students, to work closely with the policy board and use his influ- e'ce yet accept the decisions of the pol- icy board and carry them to the Regents. There, he would have to uce his skill and influence to persuade the Regents and bther executive off'cers to implement the programs: that he,. and the policy board believed would beat serve the students. The five candidates eventually endors- ed by the committee were all excellent candidates. Two of the candidates, Wal- ter Shervington and Alan Guskin, were dream candidates. They understood the need for change in the University, for making the educational system more rel- evant, for opening up admissions, for im- proving the firnancial aids program and the quality of counseling. Most of. all, they were willing to work with students and commit themselves to giving student input an official place via the policy board. THE DREAMS were shattered however, when Fleming announced that he and the Regents were opposed to a student- Iaculity policy board. T h e board could function, they said, but only in an advis- ory capacity. The vice president must be his own man, said Fleming. Then, Fleming transferred the Office of Financial Aids to the jurisdiction of Vice President and D e a n of Graduate Studies, Stephen Spurr, whose major function had been to supervise the ex- pansion of the Flint and Dearborn of- fices. And when Fleming thought it neces- sary to take the work load off Vice Presi- dent Allan Smith, and transferred the admissions office out of Smith's jurisdic- tion, it was again to the authority of Spurr, not to the OSS. Now these offices, which are concern- ed with functions of vital importance to every student, would not be subject even to the influence of an advisory board in the OSS, let alone a policy making board. More substantiation for the Machiavel- lian theory of President Fleming. And after receiving the names of the OSS vice presidential candidates, Flem- ing has postponed the appointment until every other question about the OSS is settled. He thus forces prominent men and women with other busy careers to re- main in limbo for nearly four months, without as much as a word or letter from him. IT IS LITTLE WONDER that the candi- dates have dropped out. Viewing the situation as a whole, it is very hard not to suspect Fleming of try- ing to subvert the movement for student power in decision-making on this cam- pus. However, a number of persons close to the President have said, in the past few weeks that Fleming did not realize the significance involved when he transfer- red admissions and financial aids out of reach of potential student influence. Oth- ers have assured me that he is not really against student decision-making power on matters that affect them. WELL. I FOR ONE am willing to wait and see. Fleming can still prove his sincerity by acting in good faith. He could put admissions and financial aids back in the Office of Student Serv- ices where they belong. He could accept (and persuade the Re- gents to do likewise) t h e SGC-SACUA compromise proposal which creates the policy board but leaves it up to the board and the vice president to determine their own respective roles and relationships. He could make a show of concern, and attempt to persuade the best of the with- drawn candidates, Alan Guskin, to re- consider and take the post of OSS vice president, instead of just accepting five resignations with a shrug of the should- ers. Meanwhile, the student community can wait sadly as another dreary semester nears an end with the establishment of the OSS a dream, rather than a reality. -JIM NEUBACHER News Editor A T ONE POINT during the recent Black Action Movement strike did the Uni- versity administration really become com- mitted to funding 10 per cent black en- rollment? And now that they have agreed to the enrollment goal, from where will admin- istrators really take the money to pay for the multi-million-dollar program? To be sure, the administration's answer to these two questions has 'been known for weeks. But recent statements by top officials have lent an aura of ambiguity to the funding assurance made by the ad- ministration and have raised once more the question of whether the administra- tion acted in good faith during the strike. .ACCORDING to the view that has been promoted by President Robben Fleming the actual commitment of the University came on the Friday eight days following the Regents meeting which spurred the strike. Until that day, the official University position was simply that the Regents had set a "goal" of 10 per cent black enroll- ment, but that adequate financial resources were not internally available. ON FRIDAY, March 27, however, college faculty made a firm financial commit- ment to fund 10 per cent black enroll- ment. It was only as a result of this action, and of similar actions by the other schools and colleges, that Fleming was then able to say that attainment of the enrollment goal was now "assured." Or at least that is what the President has been saying all along. A NUMBER of things have since called this analysis into question, however. Pri- mary among these is a recent statement by Vice President for State Relations and Planning Arthur Ross, in a letter to The Daily: "The recently announced program with respect to the funding of black student enrollment does not have any substantial effect upon tuition plans for 1970-71. The reason is that the additional costs of this program will not be very geat until 1971-72." While Ross' statement is undoubtedly accurate, it contains, by implication, a rather startling revelation: That in the long run, the b 1 a c k enrollment program may well have an effect on the size of tuition. IF THIS is the case, it would be strik- ing for a number of reasons. For one thing, none of the discussion on any side during the strike involved raising tuition as a possible source of money for fund- ing black enrollment. Rather, it was generally believed that - barring a massive influx of outside funds for black enrollment - the money that would be used would be generated by reordering priorities within the schools and colleges, using the revenues which the schools and colleges committed for that purpose during the strike. Finding money in this way would have the dual effect of forcing departments to initiate much-needed reviews of their pro- grams and avoiding or minimizing tuition hikes. THE IDEA that tuition will be a source of funds for increased black enrollment also raises questions about the whole course of the administration position dur- ing the strike. If, in fact, the administrators never had fund black enrollment, there was no rea- son why, on the day of the first March Regents meeting, they could not have announced immediately that sufficient funds would be available. Instead, Fleming waited until he had guarantees that the schools and colleges would underwrite the program - a strange course of action if the schools and col- leges are not, in fact, now going to provide the bulk of the funds at all. I ASKED VICE PRESIDENT Ross about all this in a discussion I had with hi- the other day. Not surprisingly, our dis- cussion of where the funds would come frm went around in circles. Ross contended that the action of the various faculties was significant because it constituted "underwriting" the enroll- ment program. He would not say, however, that tuition would be unaffected by the black enrollment program. . Instead, Ross espoused the usual ad- ministration view of budget-making - that no expenditure from the general fund budget can be directly attributed to a specific source in the budget. I COUNTERED that one could compare the expected budget of the schools and colleges in 1973-74 to the one which ace- tually occurs and see if cuts had been made. Ross replied that it was impossible to say what "expected" expenditures would be. I told him.they were the present bud- gets plus the usual, annual increment of seven per cent per year in average facul- ty salaries. Ross responded that there was no reason to believe this was the case. And so on I FIND Ross remarks both amusing and revealing. On one side he argues that no source can be singled out as providing funds for a program. At the same time, he insists that the commitment of the facul- ties of the schools and colleges was the significant factor in "assuring' 10 per cent black enrollment. And then he adds another inconsistency by declining to rule out the possibility that tuition will be affected by black en- rollment WHAT WE HAVE here, I believe, is a smokescreen thrown up around the bud- get by the administration. President Flem- ing made some pertinent remarks on the same subject a few days ago, and I am told they were equally ambiguous. The administration seems to be doing a number of things. First, they understand- ably are attempting to avoid "white backlash" by playing down the idea that tuition might be increased to support black admissions. At the same time, they are attempting to gain some flexibility for funding black admissions, to take the responsibility away from the schools and colleges. AND FINALLY, they are continuing to promote the idea that budget-making is some kind of mysterious art that only tried-and-true administrators can: per- form. Of course, this kind of diversionary activity goes on all the time, but it is especially interesting now, when interest in budget-making is running high on campus. .4 Ed 4 ' 'I '-. .like any other policeman ... f ju~y 4earabo'Ah p "I'M A POLICE officer just the same as the other police of- ficers and when there's a need for man power . . ." Lt. Kenneth Klinge certainly is a police officer just like his col- leagues in the Ann Arbor Police Department. When they dressed up in their riot gear and prepared to "protect" the University from students protesting the Regents meeting in March, Klinge joined his fellow officers. And Lt. Klinge was not station- ed merely as an observer last February. He stood-riot stick in hand-in the second line of police- men. The only difference between Lt Klinge and the other policemen is that he is in charge of the po- lice community relations office to the police department. KLINGE'S OFFICE was design- ed to facilitate communication be- tween the community and the po- lice department. It is his office w h i c h investigates complaints from the community against po- licem en. Many times it has taken public campaigns after some incident or confrontation to convince people to brinQ complaints of harassment or brutality to the police depart- ment-to Lt. Klinge. The feeling is often that the police will either harass the complainant further or the complaint will be lost in the channels of investigation until public indignation dies down. The sequence of events usually leading for formalizing a com- plaint against the police goes like this: First, some people begin to talk about alleged beatings or har- assing. Then Police Chief Walter Krasny indignantly decries the "rumors" and says if anyone be- lieves he was treated unfairly he should make a formal complaint with the department and it will then be investigated. People who trust the police and believe in going through proper channels then form legal committees or act individually to persuade the ag- grieved persons to come foreward. Then the investigation begins. AFTER THE police were called out last March to clear the pro- testers away from the Administra- tioin Bldg. (when the Regents com- mitted themselves to a "goal" of 10 per cent increased black en- rollment) the complaints of brut- ality came out. And many of the complaints appeared believable to me since I only narrowly escaped from being hit with one of those riot sticks myself-the person in front of me got it instead. Although I saw many hostile policemen out on ThompsonhSt.. I did not see Klinge hitting, push- ing, or harassing anyone. And there is probably no reason to dis- believe the "spirit" of his state- ment when he says, "There wasn't any action on my part to cause dissention." because he means that he did not take part in the har- assment. However, his very pres- ence among these policemen was cause for dissention. COMPLAINTS from blacks who claimed the police discriminated against them that day have been brought to the city tribunal con- sisting of representatives from the offices of the city attorney, city administrator, and human rights department. Human Rights Act- ing-Director Bob Hunter said the students brought the complaints before the tribunal-which is the last city appeal board before tak- ing court action-lbecause they did not believe the police department would do an adequate job. They have every reason to dis- trust a police department which orders the man who investigates brutality complaints to actively participate inta situation which usually is the cause for such charges. Even Chief Krasny ad- mits that calling up Klinge was "not a good move" and was "in bad taste." "WE RAISED some questions before." says Krasny, but the po- lice chief weakly admits that in the end "we didn't take it into consideration." The overriding call for manpower to "protect" the University-and that extra man was thought to be essential- throws another obstacle between the police department and the community it is supposed to serve. Klinge's claim that while he was participating he "would be able to see if anything was wrong" is not enough to hide the fact that it was an; act of extremely bad faith for him to be "in on the action." .l Letters: Once more on Israel.. . The bylaws: Fleming's shell game d PRESIDENT FLEMING is at it again. He is trying to dodge the students, which is nothing new, but this time he is playing games with the faculty, too. What Mr. Fleming has done is to throw out the judiciary section of a bylaw draft approved last summer by Student Gov- ernment Council and Senate Assembly. Of course, he was not as blatant as that. First came the golden opportunity of disruption, cases arising out of the BAM strike. With legislators, faculty, and the public at large expressing vast amounts of concern over what had happened, Mr. Fleming obviously felt he had a sizable body of public opinion behind him for a move on student discipline.. Second, he began to decry the present student judiciary system for excluding faculty members. Finally, he made the Big Move and issued a statement setting up a committee to study a new judicial system and estab- lishing an interim hearing officer proced- ure. THE JUDICIAL sections of the bylaws which Mr. Fleming is throwing out were the result of three long years of rk. First -fhe so-called "H-atcher om- tions set down by the new University Council. If Mr. Fleming really believed his criticism of student judiciaries - that they exclude faculty members "who have an interest too' - then he could have voiced his objection last summer. It would have been just as valid then as now. WHAT DID NOT exist then,but does now, is an artificial "crisis" in the judiciary system, created by Mr. Fleming's deliberate attempts to avoid using CSJ. His obvious need for a crisis to back up his action casts some doubt on his stated motives. By his actions, Mr. Fleming has shown he will choose to ignore any student and/ or faculty proposal he does not like. Pre- sumably, if his new study committee re- commends all-student judiciaries for stu- dent cases, he will give them to boot and tr' again. What must be done therefore, is for all students and faculty (and, yes, even administrators) to refuse to serve on Mr. Fleming's new committee. The work on a new judiciary system has already been done. A new study would only repudiate he hard work of many people and would To the Editor: BECAUSE I fought (1946-47) British policy towards Jewish Palestine. I spent several months in British prisons and concentra- tion camps. Now the insightful Mr. Hochman informs me (Mich- igan Daily, April 15) that I was all the time serving British colon- ial interests. Mr. Hochman has all the infallibility of a Marxist pope, and he will easily refute an argu- menthas sentimental and asaper- sonal as mine, so I will not dis- pute his interpretation of Israel's colonialist origins. It is. in any case, irrelevant. Re- gardless of how Israel came into being, it now exists as one of the most vital states in the emerging world: not unlike the North Viet- namese. the Israelis are beating the satellite forces and the arma- ments of a huge imperialistic pow- er, while at the same time main- taining a vigorous democracy, an aid program to African nations and a flourishing socialist sector whose experiments in communal living suggest a viable alternative to mass society in our time. THE CHARGE of colonial be- ginniings will not hurt the Is- raelis. who know damn well what Arab capacity-now abetted by the New Left-for self-delusion, for blaming their indigenous trou- bles on others. As long as the Arabs can claim that Israel is a colonial power, they can avoid recognition of their own reactionary tendencies, and of their surrendertodRussia, the new colonialism that has come to the Middle East under Socialist banners. And they can blame their fourth military defeat in twenty- two years on the massed power of the West, instead of facing the excruciating fact that they were beaten by their own ineptness; and by a small, determined, non-Mus- lim but Semitic minority that fights like hell for its national autonomy. -David Gutmann Associate Professor of Psychology April 16 Gay Liberation To the Editor: AS A MEMBER of the Legal and Political Committee of the Ann Arbor Gay Liberation Front, I would like to clear up several mis- conceptions in your article of April 12. First, the Legal Aid Clinic rnf Ann Arhnr heinr cnneerned Front intends to be politically ac- tive in aiding all minority groups, 'like ourselves, that have been con- tinually oppressed and rejected. We gave strong support to the Black Action Movement (and con- tinue to extend that support) and we are participating as a group in activities voicing opposition to the South East Asia conflict, in- cluding the March in Detroit to- day. We feel deeply that govern- ment has no authority to interfere. in or regulate the personal lives of its citizens, and we will actively oppose any extension of govern- ment power in that direction. FINALLY, the Gay Liberation Front does not wish to be por- trayed as a "closed' organization. We both need and welcome the support of the entire community- in our struggle toresist oppression. We invite all interested persons to our meeting Friday at 8:00 p.m. in the Multi-Purpose Room of the UGLL -Jeanne Lenzer April 14 Reflections on leaving By MICHAEL THORYN NOW IS THE time of the coming . apart. The center cannot hold. My last final at the University of Michigan is April 25. I will leave a week later. I've learned a lot, and I'm tired. There are other kinds of life besides the under- graduate life and there are other schools beside Michigan. I HAVE presented myself with a summer in Europe, and the journalism school at Northwestern has awarded me a scholarship. So I will not dribble into the world until early in May. Some graduates face immediate personal problems. The question nh-agc~aj in man wavs is "What They broke up four times and came back together. Now it seems they will go to different graduate schools. In a year they will see what will happen. OF COURSE, graduate school is an option for many. It's just like high school. Deciding what kind of school you like, the part of the country that appeals, the price. Gathering recommendations, talk- ing to the man who lectured far away, finally racing to your mail- box to read THE WORD. We held a rejection party to celebrate our thin envelopes. Graduate school means a dedi- cation to the academic life. Years of work in a semi-pleasant at- mosphere. Instead, why not just nick un that teachers' certificate He can teach, he can join Vista, he can enlist. His draft number is about 6. "What are you doing in the fall, Mark?" "I don't know," he chuckles. SEVERAL PERSONS have told me they want to travel, bum around, learn about the world. I met a fellow in November who droped out of his school in Florida. The dean told him classes were bull . . . His girlfriend did not love him. So he took off, crashed. a month later in Ann Arbor on the way to California. Lots of people go to California. Each decision changes your life a little. Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life. -41- : ;