THE LSA INCIDENT: EVERYONE BLUNDERED See editorial page L 3kL I!Jau Dait6j SNEEZE s igh-s28 Lobe-2 1 Mostly sunny, with only slight chance of snow Vol. LXXiX, No. 87 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, January 14, 1969 Ten Cents Ten Pages Rent strikers ask 'U' support By JUDY SARASOHN The rent strike steering committee of the Ann Arbor Tenants' Union yesterday asked the University for de facto recognition of the rent strike. However, Mrs. Barbara Newell, vice president for student services, delayed a decision, pending advice from her student operating committee and the Student Housing Association. She will meet with her operating committee today and ex- pects to have a decision by Friday. "All of us are in sympathy with anyone trying to lower their housing costs," Mrs. Newell said. However, she added she could not take any action until she knew all the details of the strike. - - The committee presented two de- mands to Mrs. Newell. The first C it pr'obe asked the University to instruct the Bureau of Off Campus Hous- ing to give details of the rent j strike to anyone asking general in- defends formation on housing. Ten Cents Ten Pages LSA faculty ends meeting students" followinlg entrance POlicemn1en The Ann Arbor city attorney's office yesterday issued a report clearing the police department of charges of "illegal entry, illegal search and harassment." The. charges were leveled by several citizens following a series of incidents last November at 1531 '. University.I The second demand asks the; University to give the steering! committee a list of holdings of all realtors registered with the Uni- versity. Such a list would help the tenants' union make their strike! against the Ann Arbor Property Managers Association more effi- cient, committee members say. Mrs. Newell said yesterday if the University does provide the* steering committee with the list- ing of the realtors' holdings here. this action does not mean the, University approves of the strike. -Daily-Larry Robbins Kosinski: On mai's inhuniane indifference At last, it's a Writer! By DAVID SPURR The monthly closed meeting of the literary college faculty was abruptly adjourned yesterday when over 25 students refused to leave the room. The students, chiefly repre- senting the Radical Caucus, had intended to participate in the scheduled discussion of required courses. They had seated them- selves in Aud. A,,Angell Hall be- fore most of the 150 professors present arrived. Without calling the meeting to order, Dean William L. Hays of the literary college asked the stu- dents to leave. "The Regents' bylaws restrict this meeting 'to members of the faculty," he announced. "Those who are not members of the fac- ulty are asked to excuse them- selves." When most of the students made no motion to leave, Prof. Martin Gold of the psychology de- partment moved adjournment, citing the prerogative) of the fac- ulty "to control who attends its meetings." The motion, which by parlia- mentiary rules cannot be debated, passed by a two to one margin. The meeting, which had ' been called for the specific purpose of discussing the college's language and other distribution require- ments, lasted only two minutes. Martin McLaughlin, '71, a mem- ber of the Radical Caucaus, said, "We were going to ask permission for anyone in the room to speak, provided the speaker was recog- nized by the chair. We thought it was possible for the faculty to realize students are not monsters. Instead, the faculty made them- selves look ridiculous." McLaughlin maintains the is- sue is not whether the language requirement is a good thing, but Chester Dean Hays "The union could win a legal The police officers involved in battle in the courts," Peter Den- the incidents, however, are still ton, Grad says. "But in order for under investigation by the Fed- the strike to be effective," he adds, eral Bureau of Investigation on a "we have to act quickly and we request from Asst. U.S. Atty. Ken- need University help now." By DANIEL OKRENT Feature Editor Jerzy Kosinski gave his opening lecture as Writer-in-Residence last night (and my Glod? He's a 4 neth McIntyre. McIntyre is in Denton said the University Writer, not a critic or an Old charge of civil rights cases in should be representing the inte- Leftist or anything like that), and eastern Michigan. rests of thestudents in the rent brought to the stage of the Lydia The two investigations were, strike. To do otherwise, Denton Mendelssohn Theatre an insight- initiated after a complaint was contended, would mean the Uni- ful view of his own widely-praised issued through the Washtenaw versity is "in complicity with the first novel, The Painted Bird. Coutybbranchof the American landlords." Abandoning the use of notes of Civii Liberties Union. ;any kind (and of a lectern as Members of the steering com- well), Kosinski addressed the full The complaint charged that an mittee have stressed that their house in simple, direct terms as he apartment occupied by several own power is actually limited. All attempted to relate his concept of persons was allegedly broken into important decisions will be made men and their reactions to brutal and searched by about twelve po- by the organizers - the people society. lice officers without a search war- who will do the actual door-to- . The 35-year-old Polish emigre, rant or "probable cause" to be- door recruitment of students to whose most recent work, Steps, lieve a felony was being committed join the strike, was as much an event of this past on the premises. The rent strike is scheduled to literary season as was his first' He cited the infamous K i t t y Genovese murder in Q u e e n s the case in which 37 people watch- ed impassively for over 30 minutes as a women was stabbed to death outside their-'windows). "All those people no doubt believed either in the goodness of human nature or tha evilness of human nature-but they were indifferent. "Indifference is relying alto- gether on a belief in social pro- gress or evil forces." He further argued his case by pointing to how most individuals he has talked to reacted- to an episode from his first book. In The Painted Bird, whlich is the chronicle of a young boy's journey through the gothic maze of wartime Europe, Kosinski de- scribes a gruesome rape in a lone ience. There is contact between two people, at least one of whom desires the other. They touch each other, they smell each other, they 'know' each other. With the gas chamber, there was none of this." Thus were the European Jews able to go on not believing the horror of the concentration camps. They could not comprehend how the Germans could burn people- k' anyone with a diploma. who knows a foreign language.'" Kosinski, who will be in Ann, Arbor through Sunday, also stress- ed the desirability of a man's free- dom, even at the cost of enduring agonies-"as long as one is able' to run away." But, in the question and answer period, he scored a member of the audience's plea for anarchy. SAME POLICY: Curriculum grou to open meetngs By RON LANDSMAN The curriculum committee of the literary college yester- day opened up all future meetings to the public, although it reserved the right to go into closed executive session at the discretion of the chairman. Prof. James Gindin of the English department, 'chairman of the committee, said the policy shift will make little dif- ference in practice. "Most of our meetings have been opened this year any- way," he said. "This won't bring any noticeable change in our The city attorney claims, how- ever, the police received a call that there was a knife or gun' fight going on in the building. The report says the police rushed to the scene and entered the building to search for the fighters or wea- pons. The city attorney's report con- cedes that the number of patrol cars and officers who went to thej scene was excessive. Remedial action in the form of/ an "admin- istrative directive" has been taken, the report states. *Draft cent( advicfor By DAVE CHUDWIN A 1-A classification isn't always a direct route to Saigon, advises. the Draft Counseling Center. And in the past 10 months al- most 1300 men have visited the free counseling service to find viable alternatives to Vietnam. The Center, located at 502 E.1 *Huron, is not a Resistance-type operation, draft counselors say. Instead, it offers students various legal possibilities for dealing with HUAC sets begin when 2,000 students sign a' novel in 1965, titled his address 7y ''ansuradersantab w asaver -, "whether the faculty has the procedure. It is a change in pledge promising to withhold rent "The Painted Bird: A Metaphor Jewish congregation in Connecti- a d"The trouble wi anarchy,thes right to impose it on us" He de-; theway the COmmttee views and refusing to sign leases with of the Twentieth Century." In his cut where Kosinski first met his oi is you neeana stso nded that students be o the pyet members of the Ann Arbor Prop- 20-minute opening remarks and Amerian audience have con- ized as "equal members of the erty Managers Association, The the half-hour question period that stantly expressed t'en revulsion literary college's governing body," pm/ steering committee says the stu- followed, he sketched a defense of to the description of the event. AATT not as "token representatives" at The committee also arranged a dents taking part in the strikeI raw humanism and "perverse" in- temeigseis} ekyopnmeig will start withholding their rent terpersonalism that characterizes Yet, he pointed out last night, Gold voted against his own mo- the next three Mondays to .hear in February. both of his novels, readers have not complained to A panel discussion on the con- tion to adjourn. "If the students from members of the language Indifference characterizes man's him about the presence in the cerns of the assistant professor had agreed to leave while we de- departments on the requirements This first month's rent, less 10 response to the environment (both book of trains heading for the per cent for' the strike's operating humnad atrlKssi Gei'man gscabrs otiwll be held at 8 pm tonight in bated whether or not to let them; and language instruction. co tslnt the rent fort suc- inaind t indifference, he greater hormer, they remain the West Conference Room at in," he explained, "then I would Gindin said the committee ex- ceeding months of the strike will said, may even grow from an in- indifferent. Rackham. This is part of the have moved to nvited them in.. pects to issue a recommendation be held in escrow at an undis- dividual's total commitment to This phenomena he attributed regular meeting of the American But anye d ae en e t ond h the einBy closed bank not in Ann Arbor. goodness or evil. to the ability of modern man to Association of University Pro- pmate because of the college's iadjournment of yesterday's facul- and S accept a gas chamber. "The con- fessors rules." ty meeting, which was called spe- Mrs. Jose acpa schme."hco-icentraton scamp was a modern,.ssrs imesona insttution ofwtheasu- The maneldofrproessors will Eric Chester, Grad, another cifically to discuss the require- of the Ann tui'e:ef highlye t2" e chno"" a lthihly 'discs alaspectsrofe rela member of the Radical Caucus, ment, would not affect their time- mission, wh or t s ful¢ yet legal ipsanai tithighyorgnizdsc h omte loslce hrdy tionship of the assistant professor said, We will be here in the fu- te a stormy a pacebegedfo a omute," to the University, and in parti-tue. ^ .And the terror of the German cula' the controversial topics of- uAsked what would happen if fu- subcommittee to look into ROTC moring, " m i i a r - o n n l xemnto porm eadd tenure , publication, and advance- ture meetings continued to be dis- .M extermiynatM 1R al- io poamhehe addennd, oriM eav gi al recommndation of fou aet s1 wa rsl mesnlvcii-met. rupted, Hays quipped, "We'll haveorgnlecm ndtnofou have toget i was grossly impersonal-victimiz- rdw . the most efficient faculty meet- hours credit for the entire four- Mrs. Mho the draft, and urges those coming sponse than we anticipated," Tip- mot involved nearly so much as a of Social Work will be moderator ings ever." year program was returned to vinced to ret notinolvd eary o mchas o Soia Wok illbemodraor The cleefcly scretythembcolleeecruteromstdy. for help to make their own deci- ton says. He believes the draft German desire to fulfill a "high- Hof the meeting, The panel in- The college faculty is currently of the by the eor further stdy. phone calls sions. "will continue as before." Until ly idealistic goal." cludes Profs. Julian Gendel of the considering a proposal to open its Dean William Hays indicated publi, and b Rev. Ronald Tipton, a spokes- there are changes, Tipton says Thus, the concentration camp chemistry department, ,Chester mengs to the publc. However, earlier that the executive commit- mission Cha man for the counselors, says the the center will continue its serv- becomes so much more reprehen- Leach of the Engineering School, progress on the course require- tee felt the report did not have Mrs. Mho center provides information con- ices to allow men "to participate;sible than, say, the rape-which Arthur iSchwartz of the mathe- ment question has been so slow enough evidence to justify the nized as an cerning possible appeals, defer- .. is violence, but of a personal, more matics department, and William that the proposal hardly has been choice of four hours. ROTC stu- cient directo ments, and conscientious objec- in their own lives and make their' applicable sort. In the rape, he Cressy of the romance language discussed. dents currently receive 12 hours she has bee tion. own decisions." said, "there is a human exper- department. See LSA, Page 2 credit. public housin Rev. Tipton says the purpose - forement of of the counseling center is two- ulationsand fold. "First, we provide information, UA inEht was which is often difficult to get dercuttingwhat from local draft boards. Second, Noeffort. plors the alternatives, theirni-qoreH oeco days? last night be plications, and consequences" He praisedh The Draft Counseling Center is H rie ising lctor tis TOBE LEV EVE KOPPMAN ph D. Mhoon, director Arbor Housing Coni- o angrily resigned at commissioh meeting turned to her job this te have a job to do," Ihoon "and we just It done." on said she was con- urn by the number of she received from the y the urgings of com- 1rman Lyndon Welch, on is generally recog- experienced and effi- or. However, recently n under fire by some ng tenants for her en- federal housing reg- for her attempts to e a tenant association alleged to be an un- f a similar NAACP fended Mrs. Mhoon ,fore the City Council, her dedication to the ng tenants of the city, hat her work be kept cal pressure. so reported to the imminent completion negotiations with .the ruction Co. to build ousing units at scat- n Ann Arbor. Welch tract should be signed two weeks and that should begin by the 1. ction the city council a vote of 7-4 the rec- n of the Ann Arbor hority to retain public in the city., However, affirmative vote was pprove further appro- he St. John Bus Line. mmendation includes - sponsored by several organizations including Student Government I/ Council, Association of Religious; The prime target of the House- Counselors, Washtenaw County Un-American Affairs Committee Council of Churches, and the this year will be the Students for American Friends Service Com- Democratic Society. mittee. Although SGC provided Rep. Richard H. Ichord (D-Mo), the initial grant to start the cen- the new chairman of the commit- ter, the Association of Religious tee, said that the student organi- Counselors and many individuals zation will be the first matter in- have also contributed. vestigated by the committee this About 20 volunteer counselors year. have been trained in workshops SDS would be looked at "in view which analyze draft regulations. f the information that has been Ten of the counselors are related made public of the increasingly to church groups while the re- militant nature of the SDS-its mainder are mainly students. conducting classes in sabotage, "Virtually all the people that how to make molotov cocktails and come, come before they receive its teaching yiolent guerrilla tac- induction notices," says counselor tics," said Ichord. Robert Roth. "The people who Ichord said he would try to have come for helo are mainly frm th By ROBERT KRAFTOWITZ ")aily News Analysis The University may h a v e crowned its last Homecoming Queen. Last October's dispute between black groups on campus and University Activities Cent- er has resulted in reconsidera- tion of the entire Homecoming Queen contest. "We may either modify the contest to prevent any further disputes or we may drop it en- tirely," explains UAC president Dan McCreath. The conflict between the homecoming committee and black organizations began when a black fraternity, Kappa Alpha Psi, protested against what it termed "discriminatory judg- ceedings and for the "perform- ance of the judges." . The committee declined to comment further until it had ascertained whether or not the insult actually was a result of discriminatory action on the part of any judges. The dispute reached its climax when the Black Student Union refused to recognize the selected queen, Nancy Seabold, and re- cognized instead last year's queen, Opal Bailey. Although no investigation of the alleged discrimination h a s started yet, there are several conflicting versions of what actually happened at the judg- ing session prior to Miss Park- er's withdrawal. 'Aic Parlo i ccaxrch . ed that this question resemb- led one she had asked M i s s Parker. "I did not say 'as a member of a minority,' " Miss Haroff says, "and the s a m e question was put to other con- testants in her group." Miss Seabold, '68 Homecom- ing Queen, believes questions Miss Parker contends were dis- criminatory were primarily just a test of her poise. "I think con- testants should be put on the spot to test their reactions to questions on prominent or pressing issues," she adds. Whether tactlessness or dis- crimination was responsible for the insult to Miss Parker, UAC's chief concern is to find a way to prevent the incident from re- curring, or be forced to end the public housin and urged tk free of politi Welch al council thea of contractz Sharp Const 151 public h tered sites i said the cont in the next construction end of April In other a adopted by a 'ommendation Transit Auth bus service i one more a needed to ap priations to t The recon ........ r::: .t..... .. ..