SU PORT NATIONAL STUDENT STRIKE See editorial page I- 43ZUI 4 CLOUDY High-45 Low-32 Turning cooler toward evening Vol. LXXIX No. 52 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, October 29, 1968 Ten Cents Ten Pages City suedf or illeoal tax levy Five officials accuse( of f raud ill circuit Court By PHILIP BLOCK A suit charging Ann Arbor and five city officials with "construe- ' tive fraud" in the levying of over $2 million in illegal taxes will be heard today in Washtenaw Count Circuit Court. The suit charges the officials, including City Administrator Guyj Larcom, Jr. and City Controller Lauren J. Jedele, with levying j three different taxes which exceed the tax limitations laid down in the citycharter. On October 14 Circuit C o u r ts Judge William Ager Jr. dismissed a similar case on the grounds thatj plaintiffs did not file a protest at the time they paid their taxes. The case is being brought against the city by Arthur Car- penter, a local attorney, who is pleading the case himself. Car-i penter represented the plaintiffs in the earlier case. CLASS ACTION Carpenter is bringing the case before the court on behalf of him- self and all other tax payers of' the City of Ann Arbor, in what is Be termed a "class action". Under Michigan Court Rule No. 208.1(3) a plaintiff may plead the e case this way if the plaintiffs con- stitute a class so large as to makeO it impractical to bring them all before the court. All five officials and assistant By URBAN LEHN city attorney .Fred Steingold have and GREG ZIER been subpoened to appear in court Daily News Analys tomorrow. Carpenter charges that Steingold had informed Jedele of Tired leftist slogans the illegality of the taxes before worn liberal rhetoric., the 1968 city budget was approv- That was the debate ed. between five Second Di Carpenter is asking the court to gressional candidates order a refund of $1,326,556 in bored audience of 100 taxes collected between 1965 and ion ballroom.t 1967 and the refund of any pro- Speaking in alphabet perty taxes collected so far under John Belisle (Socialist the 1968-69-budget under the lev- Party) advocated tie les he is contesting. tion of professional rev, History faculty accepts student reform proposal. By CHARLES SILKOWITZ The history department faculty yesterday accepted major provisions of a student proposal for restructuring rela- tions between the faculty and history students. They voted, however, to maintain their executive committee as it .now functions. The proposed restructuring had been drawn up by a steering committee chosen at a general meeting of the History Student Assembly earlier this month. The proposals were approved by the assembly last week and then presented to the executive committee and the faculty. In a terse five motion statement, the faculty recognized the steering committee elected by the History Student Assembly as representative ofW - --... history students and accepted v the student-faculty curricu- lum committee and monthly forums of students and facul- ty. They also suggested thar, the executive committee and f" the steering committee meet to "clarify the present docu- ment presented to the faculty , by the Student Assembly." A forum of the faculty and the student assembly - including all undergraduate majors in history and history graduate students -. ..z is scheduled for 1-3 p.m. today in Aud. C to discuss the student pro- posal and the faculty motions. The only difference between the student and the faculty positions lies in the executive committee. The students had asked that the committee be abolished and re- placed by a Faculty Affairs Com- mittee, which would have dealt only with matters of personnel - s a 1 a r i e s, promotions, appoint- ments, granting of tenure, hiring and firing. SEMANTIC ISSUE The faculty vote to maintain the FraIcois Mitterand executive committee, however, may be no more tlhan a semantic issue. Some faculty members, see per- sonnel and budgetary matters as almost the entire function of the committee. All other issues have tended to be decided by the facultyci as a whole. X1J~ i z f art Garskof rressiona 1 -Daily-Eric Pergeaux Weston Vivian Marvin Esch debate:.,ul ffi NER EN is and time- last night strict Con- before a n the Un- None of the candidates had an opportunity to present more than' a shell of his platform. But the platforms weren't as important as they would have been in a traditional, establishment, Re- publican-Democrat debate. The' affair was marked by a perverse individualism, with Esch and Viv- ian and Garskoff and Belisle car- tical order' rying on their own little internal t Workers organiza- volutionary Carpenter contends the cit hcadrie; uRpu nibc- illegally collected taxes under e lManlsc Republican)back three separate levies - a Special e.Ber aRek Plcan: ee Purpose levy, a Pension and So- Bert Garskof (Peace and Free- yand dom-New Politics) called for tak- cial Security levyan a Garbage igpwrnw Collection Levy. iag power now;( He bases his charges on two Ralph Muncy (Socialist Labor separate grounds. He alleges the Party) described Socialist Indus- city "has not determined t h e trial Unions, a la De Leon, and;' amount necessary to be raised by Weston Vivian Democrat) stood taxes . . . as is required by Sec- up for liberal Democracy. tion 8.6 of the City Charter." His The moderator (and the atten- second charge states that the three tion span of the audience) de-, eond care sttes tht the te manded strict time limits, which taxes are "in excess of the Cityrededipsblan atmt tax limit set forth in Section rendered impassible any attempt 8.7(a) of the City Charter and no tconduaontea gful political di- *statutory or other authority exists lgeaogfvcndats for the levy of such taxes in ex- cess of said limitation." 0 DUAL CHARGES Heart patient Carpenter's case puts 'greater emphasis on the second grounds. " He charges that although Act 283 riins , el of Michigan Public Acts of 1909 formerly authorized the city to levy up to five mills to cover the There has been "no change int cost" of street repairs--and other the condition of heart transplant public works, the act was repealed patient Phillip T. Barnum, Uni- by Act 170 of Public Acts of 1964. versity Hospital sources said yes-- Since 1964 the city has levied terday. Barnum is now in his sixth $100,000 in Special Purpose taxes .week of unmarred recovery from Carpenter also alleges that the the dramatic operation. Social Security portion of the i Despite Barnum's satisfactory Scia'sSecurfty potion onf thi progress, doctors refrain' from city's tax for Pension and Social speculating on a possible date of Security is illegal and not author- release for Barnum. ized by any State Law or city Hospital officials have said they charter provision, would not hesitate to perform a The city, as an employer, must second transplant when conditions pay a certain portion of its em- are right.. However, they say they ployees' social security tax. The have no potential recipients at' See TAXPAYER, page 7 this time. feuds and Muncy off in a corner by himself. The effect was like grapeshot. Said an Esch aide after the de- bate: "They would have gotten a better response if they had gone 'to a bowling alley. It was a waste of the candidates' time. All that can be said for it was that Garskof was entertaining." The audience teetered between apathy and hostility. Ann Arbor Human Relations Commission staffer Bob Hunter asked the only pertinent question of the candi- dates, demanding that Esch ex- plain his vote for the Omnibus Crime Control Bill. (Eseh's answer: "There is a fine line between dissent and disrup- tion. This administration has not allowed dissent, forcing dissenters to turn to disruption. We must en- courage dissent. I voted for giv- ing money to local police forces because we need police forces on the local level thatare properly educated and trained so that they won't overreact.") Otherwise, the mood of the au- dience was difficult to pinpoint. Garskof's followers were vocal, more vocal than their numbers. Vivian's supporters taunted Esch with intermittent cries of "Strom' Thurmond!" Esch's -supporters were the good citizens from the suburbs, all politeness and Nixon: buttons and dedication to the weighty responsibilities of democ- racy. Garskof stole the show. Handle- bar mustache and motorcycle boots, he descended from the plat- form during his remarks and sauntered up and down before the "Quite simply." he said. "What1 audience. Esch and Vivian were we need in this country is a rev-t "hawks two years ago who are olution." now chickenhawks." Black capi- Muncy said elections would con- talism (as proposed by Esch) tinue to be a hoax as long as "the means corporate exploitation of decisions are made in the board the ghetto with tax incentives to rooms of the great corporations."' boot. Reciprocal deescalation of He attempted to summarize thet the bombing? A deliberate lie, Socialist Labor Party's complex empty rhetoric ("They aren't Marxist analysis of American pol-1 bombing anyone.".) itics and then suggested that the Garskof reserved his wittiest audience might learn more by demagogic scorn for Vivian's pro- reading the party's literature. posal that we "slowly but unilat- erally withdraw from Vietnam." Vivian admitted he was propos- e When you're caught in a ra'e ing some "old-fashioned solutions" said Garskof, "which is what we're for the -problems of the cities. caught in in Vietnam, and you Some of them, he further admit- talk about gradual withdrawal, ted, were supported by Esch as you're talking about prolonging well. "The difference between my your pleasure at.someone else's ex- opponent and me is that I would pense." tend to be more willing to spend Belisle, who looks more like some money on these programs." John Feldkamp than a political He proposed making the govern- revolutionary, called for an end ment the employer of last resort. to the Democratic Party because' more money of education and, it "hoodwinks" workers and stu- training programs, a draft lottery,' dents. and a national series of run-off ROTC commandants defend curriculum By DAVID SPURR The three commandants of the Naval, Army, and Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps at the University ap- peared before the literary college curriculum committee yes-z terday to defend their programs. "The commandants were asked questions about what ROTC courses cover," Prof. James Gindin of the Englisht primaries in Presidential elec- tions. Esch attacked Vietnam as "but the horrible symbol of the pa- ternalistic, unilateral foreign pol- icy of the Johnson administra- tion." He claimed that the deescal- ation proposed by Johnson on March 31 had been his Vietnam B ULLETIN NEW'YORK (A)-Jerry Eller, administrative assistant to Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy,,'said last night that McCarthy would is- sue a statement today endors- ing Hubert H. Humphrey for president. Eller told newsmen the state- ment would be issued at a Washington news conference, and asked if the Minnesota senator would support the vice president, Eller replied: "Of course. It's just a matter of degree and extent." Eller made the statement in an interview following a Mc- Carthy speech at Madison Square Garden. The curriculum committee is to consist of three students and three faculty members. It is delegated to consider all matters relating to the department's curriculum, includ- De. aulle ' 4 1 (( } i, ' 1 ( I C' E proposal, but that Johnson had scuttled the tactic by "inflexibil- ity at the bargaining table." "There are signs," Esch said, "that they have deescalated recip- rocally and we have not respond- ed." . Television, oddly enough, got in- volved in the debate. Vivian ob- department, committee chairman, explained, " . . . fully served that a television-telephone aware that the faculty would be skeptical about credit for ,system by which the electorate courses in drilling or military saluting." could vote instantaneously on? Gi n sd tevery public issue is a technical Gindin said that after the military officers had run - posibility. "The people who would through their prepared material, they were asked questions stand in the way of it," Vivian about policies on dropping ROTC courses and student visitors ' argued, "are the students and pro- to ROTC classrooms. fessors who know they are right." "On these other kinds of questions their answers satisfied "Someone said that with tele- us entirely," said Gindin. vision politics would be contested - *The ofcr pern eeCl by the uglies and the handsornes," H. K. officers appearing were Col. ' quipped Garskof. "1968 is the year Reynolds, Air Force Col. An- of the uglies." 1 thony Criscuolo, and Navy Capt. -- I ing degree requirements, course By RICIIARID WINTER offerings, class size and structure, "W of the French left feel that and the balance of offerings with- De Gaulle's nationalist policies in the department. are intelligent, but just a bit re- Its proposals will go either to Larded." the faculty or a joint meeting of Francois Mitterand leader of itself, the steering committee and Fra's Mittrnd, le f the executive committee. If. an France's Coalition of the Left. early agreement cannot be reach- spoke mildly Sunday in condemn- ed, the proposals will be consider- in DeGale's poii and ed at a meeting of the j o i n t of government as unoriginal and student-faculty forum. "too narrow for the needs of the The forum is expected to be twenty-first century." the major source of communica- His speech, delivered in French tion between the faculty and stu- and then translated, was part of dents. ,the Controversy '68 series. The proposal which the faculty Mitterand charged that ' De accepted, did not provide for a raulle's nationalist policies are final arbiter in the case of major unoriginal and "don't correspond disagreements. However, it en- to the givens of this century." visions a co-operative effort where The times, he said, call for an "a reasonable agreement can be internationalist,' no a nationalist, worked out through discussion outlook. "The most important and persuasion." problem facing Europe is whether Prof. William Willcox, history to build a united Europe, or to department chairman, and five lay Europe to rest." France under other faculty members met with De Gaulle is now apparently the steering committee yesterday choosing the latter, he added. evening following the faculty The Fifth Republic, formed in meeting. 1958 under Gen. De Gaulle, estab- Willcox said the faculty was lished immediate political insti- "enthusiastic" about the student tutions aimed at solving the two proposal. Other faculty members major failings of the Fourth Re- termed the proposal and the facul- public: governmental instability ty's decision "a good first step" and inability to deal effectively toward academic reform, with the colonial problems. - ---- --- - Despite his objections to the Gaullist government, Mitterand " " agreed that in two areas at least, lAYrite-i 'the Fifth Republic h ad acted v wisely. De Gaulle has provided govern- mental stability "which France 4 1en 8hadn't seen in 75 years," and a strong franc, which is. now "as solid as the dollar," Mitterand lawyers," Ross commented, "and said. at this date no one wants to take Leftists also agree with De this case on a volunteer basis." Gaulle's decision to withdraw "There just aren't enough cam- from the NorthnAtlantic Treaty petent election lawyers available Organization, and to seek ties with at this late juncture who can han- the East, he said. die the case," Ross continued. However, he pointed to De "Most of the lawyers are good Gaulle's failures, saying they have Democrats. While they may sym- been much more far-reaching, es- pathize with us from a legal stand- pecially in the areas of social point, we're asking them to do justice, industrial expansion, uni- sornmhing with political ramifi- versity policies and construction cations for less than the usual and housing. fe'. "One-third of the French wxork- Ernest Mazey of the ACLU told ers earn less than $120 a month," Ross he felt Kelley's opinion was Matterand complained. De Gaulle i f.:. -A lt Kley n iornwashas failed to attack this problem, INCREASED ED UCATION AID Romney revises budget guidelines By JIM NEUBACHER Governor George Romney has revised two key budget policy guidelines, a move which could be worth $10 million to state colleges and univer- sities. "I think we were able to convince the state that. the original guidelines were unrealistic," said Arthur Ross, Vice President for State Rela- tions and Planning. Due to the revisions, Ross has estimated the state will appropriate $22-23 million for higher education above and beyond the existing level of support. Under the old guidelines, the maximum amount the state was prepared to appropriate was an additional $13.7 million. Most significantly, Romney has committed the state to paying for 80 per cent of the costs of increased enrollment in state colleges and uni- Ross said yesterday he believes the University's presentation at the recent Lansing hearings was instrumental in helping to obtain the guideline revisions. "The University took a very strong stand on two basic points," he said. "We told them educa- tion was not like industry." Increased technology and more efficient machinery may increase pro- duction of cars, he said, but the same thing can't be done with students. "We also pointed out the state has not been keeping up with other midwestern states in in- creasing its support for public higher education," he continued. University administrators maintain it is im- possible to absorb an enrollment increase without extra funds unless the quality of the institution is reduced., They claimed increased class sizes, a William Sisler. Under the present arrangement with the University, an ROTC commanant is not legally bound to permit a student to drop a course, even if the drop has been recommended by the literary col- lege dean. The committee will vote on any changes that might be made con-: cerning this arrangement, and ROTCin general, at their Novem- ber 25 meeting. In other business, committee3 members discussed a questionnaire they intend to circulate among{ students to determine attitudes toward the present language re- quirement. "We hope to have the question- naire prepared at our meeting on November 11," Gindin said. Although the language depart- ments have not taken a stand on the proposed change in the re- quirement. Gindin aid the com Ruling on to go unci By RICK PERLOFF Supporters of the McCarthy Write-in campaign have decidedl not to challenge Atty. Gen. Frank Kelley's ruling invalidating write- in ballots. They have been unable to obtain a satisfactory lawyer to try the case. Kelley ruled on Oct. 16 that the write-in was invalid, and said such votes would not be counted. The ruling was based on the fact that the McCarthy electors listed on write-in stickers had not been filed with the state before the Sept. 3 deadline. 'f .. ':