J Endorsements.. For council president EXCELLENT MARTY McLAUGILIN and Mark Van Der Hout are re- freshing and articulate advocates of greater student involvement on the vital issues facing the University and the community. Members of the Radical Caucus they have been leaders in the movement to abolish the language requirement.. Their understanding and political awareness of how the University operates ranks them far above any of the other candidates. As president and vice president they will provide dynamic leadership for SGC, but their main virtue lies in their ability to bring new ideas and new people into the stagnant, elitist clique of student government. QUALIFIED BOB NELSON and Mary Livingston have distinguished themselves as two of the more competent members of SGC, but they lack the leadership ability to successfully revitalize student government. While Nelson's knowledge of the University is impressive, he is characterized by an indecisiveness that could lead SGC into another year of the same ineffective activity on vital, press- ing campus issues. Although their stands on impoi'tant issues closely parallel those of McLaughlin and Van Der Hout, Nelson and Miss.Living- ston are more likely to manifest their concerns in paper motions rather than practical programs. They would fill the role of president and vice president in a competent traditional manner, but SGC at this juncture requires something more UNACCEPTABLE BILL SCOTT and Michael Kane are, quite commendably, running on an anti-racism ticket. However, Scott, who relies on his charismatic power to get students to follow him, is totally unable to articulate a program of action Both Scott and Kane lack experience in University affairs and havelittle understanding of the complexity of most campus issues. HOWARD MILLER and Mark Rosenbaum are, serious can- didates who are running on a deceptively progressive platform for leadership of SGC. But neither Miller nor Rosenbaum have the leadership ability or the understanding of the University to implement their platform. Both have alienated many of their fellow coun- cilmen by coming through as conservatives in the clutch. Milled's view of how the University operates and how to get things done as president is simplistic and naive. His experience on SGC is limited to a single issue, University relations with the State Legislature. Furthermore, Miller is a medical student whose academic program for his first three months in office would by his own admission prevent him from devoting the necessary time to the duties of president. ROGER KEATS and Kay Stansbury have nothing to offer SGC. Both candidates promise "moderation" which amounts to a policy of conservatism. For example, Keats,a Young Repub- lican, favors abolition of the language requirement but feels SGC's power lies in discussion with the faculty. He is despised by his fellow council members as a demogogue and they would find it impossible to work with him as president. He and Miss Stansbury are incredibly naive about the realities of this campus. Miss Stansbury is a former council member who quit SGC because she couldn't cope with its "radical" stances. Neither Keats nor Miss Stansbury can be expected to pro- duce any action on council, but they would be an effective mouth piece of the University administration. CRAIG ROSS and Peter Jacobson are running for office for fun. They are pretty funny. For council seats EXCELLENT SHELLY KROLL is an intelligent, concerned freshman who can offer SGC three years of consistent, constructive effort. Through her membership in Radical Caucus she has developed an exceptionally strong degree of political awareness during her first semester at the University. She is running with McLaughlin and Van Der Hout, and together with them, she will hopefully provide SGC with effective leadership. CAROL HOLLENSHEAD, a sophomore incumbent, can be counted on to do the hard work in organizing which is necessary for SGC to lobby for needed reforms in the University. She can be counted on as a strong supporter of SGC efforts in the area of consumer protection and deserves to be re-elected. JOAN SHEMEL is an incumbent who was one of the five council members who voted to abolish SGC's ridiculous ban on sit-ins. Her record has been consistently good and her imagin- ative ability to raise new issues or come up with clever solutions to old ones adds significantly to SGC. Her ability to transcend the petty politics of student government make her a worthwhile asset to SGC. QUALIFIED MICHAEL KANE as a senior has suddenly become interested in working on SGC. Mainly a one-issue candidate, he is com- mitted to working against racism on campus. But he has an good understanding of the tenure question and would be ef- fective in organizing students. While his reputed dogmatism has apparently alienated many of co-workers, Kane possess the con- viction to operate within the Council structure-if he controls his tendency to domineer. BOB HIRSHON, who has only recently become actively interested in SGC, displays an adequate ability to analyze situations and come to logical conclusions. His inexperience leads him to vacillate, but Hirshon will probably acquire the political savvy to workieffectively in his area of chief concern, academic reform. PANTHER WHITE is a colorful SGC incumbent whose concern for humanizing the University and society is highly admirable. But his lack of commitment to SGC limits his ability to be effective in that organization.-White's most important con- tributions will be made outside council, but his presence on SGC is a healthy influence. UNACCEPTABLE MARK HODAX comes across as a straight-forward, level- headed, candidate but his politics are that of a chameleon. Al- though he would probably be one of SGC's most vocal members, Hodax is likely to vacillate unpredictably on critical issues. His understanding of the University and campus issues is not great enough to warrant his election. DARRYL GORMAN could serve as the black students' voice on SGC, but his lack of understanding of University structure- and operation would make his service totally ineffectual. Gor- man emphasizes black studies, a program already in the works. instead of striking at the heart of the issue, admission of black students. His stands on other issues are equally uninformed and behind the times. Y -4Ink igan ~IaitW Vol. LXXIX, No. 136 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday, March 16, 1969 Ten Cents Twelve Pages Senate Assembly to discuss proposed by- laws By JIM NEUBACHER The Senate Assembly may give preliminary en- dorsement to sections of proposel Regents' by- laws on University rule- and decision-making powers at its meeting tomorrow afternoon. Prof. Robert Knauss of the Law School will present the assembly a draft of proposed Regent's bylaws which would establish new University- wide judicial and legislative procedures. The current draft, which Knauss says was written from the faculty point of view, would give extensive rule-making autonomy to the faculties of the individual schools and colleges. Knauss discussed the draft with members of the Ad Hoc Committee on Bylaws at their meeting last Wednesday. Student members of the com- mittee were extremely unhappy with provisions which removed much power from the student- controlled Cantral Student Judiciaryh CST)they had proposed earlier. "The proposed draft prepared by Prof. Knauss is unacceptable", Tom Westerdale and Michael Davis, Grads stated Friday. Students detailed their objections to the "Knauss draft" Wednesday and asked that more faculty members begin to go to ad hoc commit- tee meetings to discuss the issues. Knauss explained that the document was not really a "Knauss draft". "The report does not ne- cessarily adhere to my ideas," he said. "It is primarily a result of faculty opinion expressed at our last meeting.". All committee members agreed Knauss should introduce the controversial version to' the as- sembly so student committee members c o u 1 d judge faculty reaction and solicit comments. "We really need more faculty input into this thing," said Westerdale, a member of the com- mittee from its formation. The discussion tomorrow will come miore than two years after the first commission was appoint- ed to consider the problems. Former University President Harlan Hatcher appointed the Presidential Commission on the Role of Students in Decision Making following student demands for more power in November, 1966. The report of that commission was released more than a year later in February, 1967, Students and faculty members began meeting informally as the ad hoc committee soon after- wards to discuss specific implementation of the plan outlined by the Hatcher Commission, which called for: -A University Council (UC) to replace the office of student affairs as the University rule- making body for students. -A student controlled judiciary body to have original jurisdiction on all cases arising under UC rules, and appelate jurisdiction for cases arising in minor student judiciaries, such as in dormi- tories. Knauss and the rest of the ad hoc committee have struggled for nearly a year to put the Hatcher Commission outline into a workable plan acceptable to students and faculty alike. Students have maintained from the start that no regulations governing donduct should have force without the consent of those to whom it applies. In addition, they insist that no judicial body should be maintained except with the "con- tinuing consent" of those who might be brought before it. Starting from this premise; a plan was worked out whereby students and faculty in the individual schools and colleges would make their own rules and create their own judicial bodies in a manner to be worked out by themselves. A student charged with breaking a rule of a college, under the system originally proposed last December, would be tried by the judicial body established by his college. Appeals under this plan allowed only in cases of disputed judicial fairness would be taken to the Central Student Judiciary (CSI), which cor- responds to the University-wide, student control- led judicial body proposed by the Hatcher Com- mission. See BY-LAWS, Page 6 SGC ELECTION: Studepnts to v( lang uage, bocz By ROBERT KRAFTOWITZ McLaughlin, '71 and Marc Van el The dispute over the literary Der Hout, '71; Howard Miller, v The dsput overthe Iery Med, and Marc Rosenbaum. '70; college language requirement goes Bobe n,'M a n auyL'70;g-a to the students this week.;Bo Nelson, '71 and Mary Living- w+ hlsston, '70; Craig Ross, '70 aid re The highly-contested issue mill Peter Jacobson, 72; and William be the subject of a referendum in Scott, '71 and Michael Kane, '69. th the campus-wide election Tuesday Voters will be asked to indicate H and Wednesday. both a first and second choice for bs Students will also vote for'the two positions. The second re president and executive vice pres- choice becomes important only in he ident of Student Government the case where no candidate re- ci Council and five at-large Council ceives a majority of first choice seats. votes. co A second referendum proposes Should that occur, the candi- pr that SGC expand its discount store date with the least votes would be to include a discount book store, initially funded by a special assess- ment of $1.75 per student for the Fall, 1969 semester only. tephan Students will also elect three students to the Board for Student Publications, two students to the, Board in Control of Intercollegiate' Athletics, and two students to the Ie Advisory Committee for Intra- mural Club Sports and tRecrea- mural C o MARTYV )ote on Iks tore iminated, and the second choice otes of the students who indi- ated him as their first choice ould be added to the votes of the emaining candidates. If there were still no majority, his procedure would continue, owever, if no majority is reached y the time only two candidates emain, a run-off election to be eld within two weeks would de- de the victor. The ballots will be counted by a omputer - scanning process. This rocedure was used for the first See ELECTION, Page 6 revokes offer %inrTT Jopliii aii (cottoni BORDER DISPUTi SOviet, MOSCOW (AP--Soviet and Com- munist Chinese troops clashed yesterday for the second time in two weeks. The fighting which erupted was an outgrowth of the current dis- pute over a small island claimed by both countries. The dispute was also the cause of the March 2 border clash. The island is situated in the Ussuri River. The river is the boundary betweent Manchuria and the Soviet far east maritime province. Each side charged the other with starting the "armed provo- ~cation," and warned that the latest skirmish could have grave consequences. Mqscow charged that Chinese -troops invaded a Soviet frontier post on the island Friday, - and claimed they inflicted several' casualties. "A big detachment of Chinese .soldiers, supported by artillery and mortar fire, attacked Soviet Guards. who were protecting the island," reported Tass, the Soviet news agency. "All responsibility for possible severe consequences from a sim- lar type ofnadventuristic action of the Chinese authorities lies wholly on the Chinese side," the Soviet protest said. Tass claimed the Chinese "pro- vocateurs" were repulsed. and warned that any further attempts "made to violate the inviolability of Soviet territory," will force Moscow to "resolutely give a crushing blow to such violations."' Endorseieits _, , ,, Literary college juniors will choose their senior class presi- dent, and engineering students will elect the president of Engineering Council. The language referendum, spon- --Daily-Peter Dreyfuss sored by Student Government Janis Joplin and James Cotton sing for a huge audience at the Council, asks: "Should the lan- guage requirement be abolished?" University's Events Bldg. last night. A review appears on Page 3 Although all students will be able- to vote on the referendum, the 'ballots of students in the lit- erary college will be counted sepa- rately in order to provide the lit- erary college faculty with a man- date from their own students. 11i1eSe troops;as; However, it is unlikely that the faculty will see the .vote as an indicator for their own action on The Russians are known to tilities. However, according to the the requirement. The faculty has have heavy rocket installations Soviets, the negotiations broke been debating the issue for a few on the far eastern border, and down, months now, and few professors , hey have said the Chinese should "An officer of the Chinese would be inclined to change their S)ear in mind the combat readiness Hutow frontier post threatened votes because of a student refer- if the rocket force. to use force against Soviet fron- endum, one college administrator Chinse epored hatRussian tier guards protecting the island," says. Chinese reported that Moscow explained. The faculty is also being polled "oldiers, supported by a big con- I on the requirement this week. As, ,voy of armored cars and tanks, In the wake of the first mci- the recent special faculty meeting intruded yesterday into Chinese dent early this month, Moscow developed into confusion, it was, territory near the'disputed island. has launched a diplomatic offen- agreed the dean should have a -They attacked Chinese border sive against Red China. So complete mail poll of all faculty -patrols, Peking said, and the abassadors last ee preset members conducted. It will be sent 'patrls wee "cmpelld to hoottheir view of the clash in special out early thiswek -patrols were "compelled to shoott meetings with leaders of West ou alyti eek' back in self-defense. Getiny, eae, of West The faculty poll includes many Gem'many, France, Italy, Japan,I of the refinements between abso- "Should the Soviet revisionists Canada, and Austria. lutehabolition and absolute reten- dare to keep on intruding into According to Moscow the March tion, including separate voting on China," the New China News 2 clash was not the first incident. whether a second degree, the Agency (NCNA) warned, "we revo- The Soviets claim that Chinese bachelor of general studies, is es- lutionary fighters, armed withlr Red Guards were involved in tablished or not. Ma Tse-tung's thought, will crush, provocations" at various points In voting for president and vice along the Sino-Soviet border. president, students will, choose them escape.' However, the March 2 incident from six slates of candidates. Soviet and Chinese officials met was the first clash which was of- The slates are: Roger Keats, '70 last Wednesday to discuss the hos- ficially reported. and Kay Stansbury, '71; Marty ed it withdrawn. "We are looking into the pos- sibility of legal action against Stephan for backing down on his offer," Koeneke added. Koeneke said students would go ahead with the protest endorsed last week by all four of groups. Koeneke said that the plans for the picket line' have been cleared with the city attorney and are perfectly legal. He added "parti- cipants will stay on public proper- ty and not interfere with people entering or leaving Stephan's.' Stephan claimed he is ', Ptng singled out for attack and that unreasonable demands are being made of him. Koeneke denied the charge that Stephan's is being singled out. He called the action a part of a "con- sumer awareness" campaign that could include other merchants in the future. Stephan's was selected as a starting point because prices there were the highest oa the SCU survey. opponents of probe organize The Michigan Coalition for Political Freedom met ,tin Detroit yesterday to continue their plans to oppose the State Senate com- mittee investigation into campus disorders. The group heard State Sen. Roger Craig (D-Dearborn) and Ernest Mazey, executive director of the Michigan branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, chastise the committee and dis- cuss forms of possible opposition. Following the speakers in the morning, the committee met in the afternoon to work on their organization. Members report that the com- mittee has set up a loose state structure which includes contacts in Ann Arbor, Lansing, Ypsilanti, Detroit and Monroe. "They will feed back informa- tion to us on what they are do- ing," said Prof. Larry Hochman of Eastern Michigan University. The coalition has an Ann Arbor post office box to serve as the base for them. The group decided in principle that it would stage some kind of action in Lansing to dramatize their opposition to the committee, which is chaired by State Sen. Robert Huber (R-Troy). Hochman said they were considering a dem- onstration teach-in or satirical play. He also indicated that the group ny IVI'MAWx x 0%./a Hailkaz Stephan, owner and manager of Stephan's on South University, yesterday withdrew his offer, made Friday, to sell toiletries and patent medicines for ten per cent less than the average price. Representatives of SGC, the Student Consumer Union (SCU), IFC, and Pan Hellenic Association had accept- ed the proposal and promised to ask students to patronize the store. Stephan claimed he'had withdrawn the offer previously, but SGC President Michael Koeneke, a member of the delega- tion, said neither he nor anyone else had been contacted and therefore he did not consider- _ t s , SENATE DOVES VS. NIXON Critics hit Vietnam, ABMpolicites WASHINGTON (A') - Battle lines between President Nixon and top Senate Democrats a r e forming over Vietnam and his decision to deploy the, revised Sentinel antiballistic missile de- fense system. Eight weeks after Nixon took office, Senate war critics have brought renewed criticism of the lack of progress towards a settlement in the Vietnam con- flict. This is virtually certain to iation, Nixon said. "Any escala- tion of the war in Vietnam has been the responsibility of t h e enemy." But Fulbright and others say that what really happened is that U.S. escalation on the ground after last October's bombing halt forced the enemy offensive. Nixon said intelligence in- formation shows the Commun- ists have been planning the cur- rpnf 4'nffonv, 4 ,.fro- --iv nn 44-' cost, Senate Democratic leaders were uncertain he could win ap- proval for the system. Before Nixon's speech Friday announcing his decision, the Senate opponents of the Sen- tinel system estimated 54 votes against ABM. Some votes were lost as a result of Nixon's changes but the Senate vote is still likely to be close. One Senator who criticized Nixon's move was Eugene Mc- believe as well the ABM sys- tem could endanger possible dis- armament talks. The arguments the admin- istration will use next week in its fight for funds for the sys- tem will concern the defensive nature of the system and its lowered cost. - "The system is truly a safe- guard system, a defensive sys- tem only," Nixon said at his press conference. "It safeguards