NEW ADMINISTmATION: CHANGING {PITES See editorial page Ii i431Wa ~IAt33v tilgh--3A Low--I3 Chilly winds anid fair skies Vol. LXXIX, No 114 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, February 14, 1969 Ten Cents Ten"Poges Ten Cents Ten y--e Rent strike Student emonstrators, to egin police Duke ,I 1 clash at U of Wisconsin, Imme iately By JUDY SARASOIIN The Ann Arbor Tenants' Union last night announced the immediate start of the rent strike with some 1500 tenants. A poll of 642 tenants pledged to withhold rent showed 95 per cent willing to strike before the original goal of 2000 pledges was reached. Of the 40 voting against an immediate strike, 37 tenants reportedly said they would join the strike once there were' 2000 pledges. Three said they were dropping out of the strike but didn't give reasons. "We are very enthusiastic about the poll returns," said David Shapiro, Grad, a member of the rent strike steering committee. "The random selection of tenants that have (recorded their opinion with' By SAM DAMYREN. At a Senate budget hearing yes- terday in Lansing, University of- ficials stressed that if the Un- their organizers indicates that the vast majority favors start- ing the strike now." The rent strike steering com- nittee says it will have 2000 pledges to strike by this Saturday. Barry Cohen, '70, a member of the steering committee, said that in the last two days "easily 200" pledges have been turned in. This brings the total number ofs pledges to over 1500, Cohen said, Although the rent strike began officially last night,. the rent strike steering committee has al- Campus disruptions go into fourt 'daV By the College Press Service Student protests all over the country escalated into tense and sometimes bloody confrontations with police yesterday as widesp'ead student unrest went into its fourth day. At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, 900 National guardsmen and police used tear gas and bayonets to try to control' protesting students, with only moderate success. The National Guard was moved onto campus Wednesday when Madison police said they could no longer handle the demonstrations. During the day about 5,000 students used "hit and run" tactics against guardsment and police. Using walkie-talkies; the student protesters kept law enforcement officers on the run by disbanding whenever police attempted to break up - disruptive demonstrations and j # then regrouping a few blocks away. l h- Later last night, some 7000 stu- dents marched in a torchlightda parade from the campus to the state capitol and then back to the univesity library. Police and guardsmen were in - tentionally absent from the torch- light parade. They had previous- ly located themselves within the Student Government Council locked capitol building. last night debated a motion to Following the return to the cam- rescind their ban on disruptive sit- pus library, one protest leader ins. called for a rally at 8:15 this Three weeks ago, SGC declined morning. Calling the march a vie- to suspend their bylaws and sup- tort, the student added,. "We were port a disruptive sit-in over lan- together, and we gave the cops a guage and distribution require- lot of hell. Tomorrow we'll give nents. them more." versity does not receive more state 1ready received funds from appropriations it will be put into esc be unable to maintain high levels David Goldst of quality and productivity in the ber of the steer coming years. that over $1,000 Vice President for State Rela- escrow and ap tions and Planning Arthur .oss was turned in 1 said, "a strong University can Every month take one or two years of a dry ant will give hi spell, but you can't do that for the Tenants' U many years withou't showing it." in escrow in a Yesterday concluded the second Ten per ce day. of hearings by the S e n a t e month's rent is Appropriations Committee con- strike fund to cerning the University's budget other expenses. request. The Tenants During the hearing, representa- the members o tives of the engineering college Property Manag and the Medical School present- ed detailed explanations of their over the housir present status and future plans. The landlords Chairman of the committee elude Ann Arbt Sen. Charles Zollar R-Benton Realty, Wilson- Harbor) said the Legislature was deg. Manageme planning to bolster engineering ciates. Campus funds in the state either by en- bor Managemer riching present schools or build- Inc., Dahlmann ing new ones in response to a Post Realty, Ap statewide demand for enin'eers. Misco Managen He added that no decision will The tw ma be reached on the University bud- strike are to ga ; ;et 'request until nine other state tion of the Tena universities have been interview- landlords and t ed. bargaining righ Ross told the committee t h a t issues. Gov. William Milliken's recon- Ann Arbor P mendation of $67.2 million, which ;Association has cut the University's budget re- the Tenants' Ur quest by $8.7 million, is "riot the head of P * fair," said last night * He contended the University recognize the Te produces 31 per cent of the high- "t's ridiculou est education degrees in the state, any manageme but would receive only 15 pei' cent country that w of state higher education funds "tenants' union," under the governor's recommen- However, tha dation. key to the rent University officials said at the "Recognition hearing that the federal govern- Union is non-n ment allocates twice as much we're concerned money to the University as it Grad, member o does to any other universit in ing committee. the state. not end until the They said those additional recognized." funds have been attracted by the In addition t chigh caliber of the University . rent strike is al faculty. ----significant President Robben Fleming --elimination claimed the University was in posits, which danger of losing these faculty been returned, members if state funds were not Tenants' Union.: See 'U' OFFICIALS, Page 10 See TENAN rent payments to row. ein, Grad, a mein- ing committee, said O has been put into proximately $3,000 ast night. each striking ten- is rent payment to nion to be placed Canadian bank. ent of the first s being put into a cover legal and Union is striking of the Ann Arbor gement Association, "have tight con rol ng market." s being struck in- or Trust. Charter -White, Inc., Wal- nt, Summit Asso- Management, Ar- nt, Patrick Pulte, Brothers Realty, partments Limited, nent, and B M R. ajor goals of the in formal recogni- Cants' Union by the to secure collective ts overtall housing roperty Managers' s not recognized nion. Patrick Pulte, atrick Pulte, Inc., he would never enants' Union. s. I don't know of nt company in the would recognize a Pulte said. t recognition is a strike. of the Tenants' egotiable as far as ." said Stu Katz. f the strike steer- "The strike will e union is formally o recognition, the so demanding: reductions in -ent: of damage de- usually have not according to the NTS, Page 10 -Associated Press National (;uar'dsmnhold.1back detnonstrators at the 1 niversity of Ifiscottlsit yesterdIay PRELUDE To PEACE. UNITED NATIONS /Pj --- The United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France have been meeting since Tuesday to discuss how to promote a settlement in the continuing Arab-Israeli dis- pute, a well-placed source said today. Intended as a prelude to later four-power meetings, the present talks are designed to reach some agreement that will help Swedish Ambassador Gunnar V. Jarring, U.N. special representative in the gur discuss The disturbances yesterday also + included the impeding of inter- sections and throughfares. One major intersection on campus was blocked by demonstrators for a time, and police had to use tear gas to clear pickets from a major roadcutting through the sprawl- ing campus. Mideast Middle. East, in his efforts to bring about a settlement. The talks reportedly began Tuesday morning, the day after the U.S. delegation received in- structions on Washington's of-E ticial position. The source revealed that only the United States had decided its official position., U.S. Ambassador Charles W. Yost said that since Tuesday morning, he had met separately with delegates of the Soviet Un- ion, France, Britain, Israel, Jor- France and UN Secretary-Gen- ago over a list of 13 demands made dan and Egypt. eral U Thant have consistently by black students. One diplomat explained that the position allowed for a phased im- plementation of the UN Security Council's resolution of Nov. 22, 1967. That resolution outlined steps for settling the Arab-Israeli six- day war of June, 1967, and set up Jarring's mission to aid the war- ring parties on how to act on the UN recommendations. advocated Big Four involvement At Duke University in Durham, in reducing the tension in t h e N.C., a protest by blacks escalated Middle East, but Russia and the into clashes between white stu- United States have generally dents and police yesterday as at adopted a cool, "hands-off" policy least 12 were injured, including and avoided direct bilateral talks two policemen. on-the issue. A sit-in by blacks that began Meanwhile, Israel has warned early in the morning ended Egypt it will not tolerate continu- around 6 p.m. when university of- HF ends financial assistane to segregfated (I sehools in Southl ation of sniping incidents on the ! ficials informed them they would Suez Canal, informed sources said be suspended from school and ar- yesterday. rested as trespassers unless they This appeared to underline fears vacated the. occupied administra- by UN observers of yet another tion building. outbreak of hostilities between The blacks left, but they and Egypt and Israel along the canal, many more white students, who The chief observer in the area, were outside the building prepar- Lt. Gen. Odd Bull of Norway, "has ing to shield the protesteres from expressed his concern and believes the police, remained around the the situation to be serious," said a budn. sotda plc h report to the UN Security Council. Students shouted at police who The sources believed the Israelis stood guard around them. dispatched a message to Cairo A smoke bomb thrown by a po- through Bull. The gist of it was liceman was thrown back by a said to be: "Stop the harassment student and the police then began or there will be trouble."susing tear gas on thestudents. "When you have a rule, you don't suspend it for a particular case, such as the sit-in," at-large member Mark Rosenbaum ex- plained. "The present motion is over the validity of the rule it- self, and is being dealt with sepa- rately." Rosenbaum, who initiated the motion, felt that the rule put SOC "in the untenable position of being policeman. However, the limited opposition to the motion was concerned with SGC's appearing to sanction dis- ruptive tactics. "Obstructing the use of one's properties or those deeded for one's use is illegal off the Uni- versity campus," said at-large member Roger Keats, "Since the University is not a sanctuary--as President Fleming has said-then obstruction should be illegal on the campus as well." According to SGC President Michael Koeneke, the most im- portant issue in the debate con- cerns Council's tenuous hold on the power to regulate student conduct. SGC President Michael Koeneke expressed concern that such de- partures from the traditional norms of student behavior-such as rescinding the rule against disruption-would be "an invita- tion for the faculty and. the ad- ministration to take charge of student conduct regulations," "Right now We have powers which enable the student Judiciary to determine the extend of any reprisal against students for dis- ruption," oeneke explained. "If these powers fall into the hands of non-students, the result may be a confrontation similar to those which have occurred at so many other schools." 1B URBAN LERNER Special to the Daily WASHINGTON - Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Robert Finch yesterday announced the termination of federal assist- ance to three southern school dis- tricts for failure to comply with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Another southern district, Finch said, presented an acceptable de- segregation proposal. The last' three of the seven districts for- warded to the secretary last month for termination decisions are still under consideration. Finch said two of the three dis- past guidelines are becoming ob-" tricts cut off did not seek a re- solete. view. He emphasized that the decision to deny funds was made only after! extensive efforts to reach other solutions. "We're trying to give as detailed a consideration as we possibly can," Finch said. Full administra- tive reviews-including efforts toj obtain voluntary compliance and technical assistance to school dis-' stricts-are necessary, he argued, because the situation in some dis- tricts is changing so rapidly thatl He cited guidelines requiring at set percentage of Negro faculty f mmh~~q What if v tvpv o rv memersn,'. 'ITa you4 were, sayn \ O irnem s. haL YOU e U) The0SuezCCanal has taken a to this district 'We would like to The Sez nalhasMtae a see you have 20 per cent Negro back seat in the Middle East faculty?' Well, this is an area arena since Oct. 30, when an is- where there was no Negro faculty raeli commando force plunged because of segregation. All thesta deep into andEgypt to strike a'power bright Negro faculty members have River Nile between the Aswan long since gone either west or High Dlmbtnd C eAra north where they can get some High Dam and Cairo. deenrthhmoeney.Israel said the raid was in re-, dAnd sonifyou siprisal for repeated Egyptian "ag- "And so if you simply haul gressive acts" along the canal. the first five people who come 1____.. At the University of Massachu- setts in Amherst, Pres. John Le- derle ordered state police to clear a campus building of some 34 protesters sitting-in against DowI Chemical Company recruiters on campus. Lederle, a former director of the University's Institute for Public Administration, said,' "We were See WIDESPREAD, Page 10 ~ many other schools." - - ---along because that was an arbi- 1 trary percentage that was li d Hi Schrade efsd'McCarthys ir, tit."ciihtory department Under the decision, Greenwood By FRANK CARTER that "we did achieve two imnpor- dependent basis minority groups Carolina, Emmet School District torltil on eollege wm( Paul Schrade, national co-chair- tant committees at the con'en- such as the poor, blacks, and stu- V 13 Arkn~ and Ches..ter Cont schedules le issues man of the New Democratic Coali- tion, told a Trueblood Auditorium audience last night the NDC would carry on the spirit of the Kennedy and McCarthy campaigns, to "generate the spirit of radical change in this country." He described the NDC National Steering Committee as "picking up the ball from the Chicago conven- tion in an effort to pull together key people" in a movement for "social change, peace and pro- gI-ess." lie noted emphatically the need tion," one to consider reform of the delegate selection process and another to reform the rules and procedures for the next DeNio- cratic convention. In a question session that fol- lowed, Schrade admitted that there were very few McCarthy sup- porters on the delegate selection committee which is headed by George McGovern (D-S.D.) Schrade noted that the "ney issues to be grasped by the NDC are the cold war and the armis race" dents." Short speeches -were also given by Marvin Brown, vice-chairmanI of the Michigan NDC; Robert Harris, Democratic candidate for mayor of Ann Arbor; and Prof.! Arnold Kaufmann of the philoso-' phy department, NDC national, steering committee member. Brown spoke confidently, notingr that "the NDC repi'esents the fu- ture Democratic party. I don't, think there is any question about this." Harris gave a few comments on F3, Lir a sa s'ci, aLĀ±JA.A l'..,O IAiy Tennessee, will stop receiving fed- eral assistance March 16. Clover School District 2, South Carolina, which forwarded an acceptable} desegregation proposal, will con- tinue to receive federal moneys. Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act bars federal funds to any program or activity that discrim-t inates on the basis of race, color, creed or national origin. Finch said the funds involvedE would not be held in escrow for the districts. He said the districtst could become eliaible for federal! By CHRIS STEELE p.m. in the fourth floor assembly The history department will hall of the RackhamBuilding. hold a forum today to discuss the Dan Feld, '69, a member ,of the language requirement and other HSA steering committee, s a i d college and departnental issuesr last night there were "specifically Theform s oen o ll istrydepartmental problems". which The forum is open to all history must be dealt with, department faculty members, un- m dergraduate history majors and "But, there are only so many graduate students in history. things you can do as a depart- Prof. John Bowditch, acting de- ment," he said, "We'll have to Prof.mJnt Bodirmc, satin d- stalk about college-wide issues as partment chairman, said it is ~ el. "quite possible" the forum will, well. take a stand on the language re- Feld said the question of lan- uirem nt. guage requirements will come up. ment, especially course accredi- tation. The course credit proposals in- clude one from Prof. Bradford Perkins, who recommended to the department that all h i s t o r y courses be given for four hours credit instead of the usual three for upper level courses. The suggestion has been ap- proved by the student steering committee, but it will eventually have to go through the literary c o 11e g e curriculum committee, where it may be modified. :x ? -