LANGUAGE DECISION: FAILURE AGAIN See editorial patre L ilk~ga Iaitli ESOTERIC lhlgh-ne60a Low-37 Cooler, chance of raid Vol. LXXIX, No. 156 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, April 10, 1969 Ten Cents Ten Pages The Democratic victory: How they By JIM BEATTIE and BOB FUSFELD When Ann Arbor last elected a Democratic mayor 12 years ago, the election followed a major scandal involving the Republican candidate. S a m u e 1 Eldersfeld, elected then, ended A 24-year Re- publican hold on the city's top post. On April 16, Democrat Robert J. Harris \will #assume leadership of the city with a Democratic City Council behind him. But the Dem- ocrats' biggest victory in 36 years did not require any scandal this time. Rather, a superb organiza- tional effort among both students and the rest of the community, felled the Republican dynasty. To be sure, the constituency has changed since. 1967 when Wendell Hulcher carried the city by 1800 votes. The city has gained 9000 new voters since then. And the new constituency voted in force last Monday, raising the total vote by over 4000 in just two years. The new voters, which include approximately 3000 students, had a profound effect on the results of the election, and have been given much credit for it. But everyone involved with city politics is quick to point out that the stu- dents did not win the election by themselves. "The voters apparently felt -it was time for a change in city gov- ernment," says Richard Balzhiser.- the losing Republican candidate for mayor. "There was widespread dissat- isfaction which stemmed from ris- ing propefty tax assessments, fail- ure of the St. Johns Transporta- tion Company, and severe flooding last summer," he says. To explain the generally in- creased Democratic turnout in other than student precincts, how- ever, officials of both parties em- phasized the Democratic party or- ganization. "The whole thing, from the re- gistration drive, through the can- vass, through getting out the vote was just done superbly," Harris says. In the Fourth Ward, which is a Republican stronghold and not heavily populated with students. for example, the Democratic or- ganization doubled its 1967 vote. and also cut the Republican's longstanding plurality in half. The Republicans also increased their turnout by 35 percent. but against the Democratic results, their progress appeared meager. Balzhiser, who had concentrat- ed most of his effort during t h e last few days of the campai'gn in the Fourth Ward, says he was "disappointed in the Fourth Ward turnout." In the Third Ward also, t h e Democrats clearly outdistanced their opponents in the area of political organization. E v e n though there were 1150 newly registered voters in the ward, the Republicans received about 100 less votes than they ,ydid in the last mayoral election. In 1967, the Republicans carried the ward by 450 votes. However, on Monday, Harris received a plurality of about 200 votes. The spectacular gains in the Third and Fourth Wards clearly were major factors in the Harris upset victory. In addition, it is apparent that the Democrats gained a large per- centage of the independent voters who normally vote Republican. Even though Balzhiser lives in the Fifth Ward, and despite the' fact that the ward's voters elected him to City Council by a two-thirds majority in 1967, Harris carried the area on Monday by 21 votes. All over the city, however, the student turnout was heavy and decidedly Democratic. In the six most heavily student precincts, the vote ranged from 20 to 70 per cent higher than two years ago. Harris carried the sik pre- cincts by a plurality of 1600 from the 3600 votes cast. "Without the stugents. we would not have won the' mayoral race," siys Walter Scheider, Democratic city chairman. "The students play- ed a heavy role both in the voting pattern and in the organizational wek.p However, B_ hiser won by ap- ra -won t proximately 90 votes in the Sec- ond Ward which has the highest concentration , of student voters anywhere in the city. Nevertheless, the Democrats cut the 1967 Re- publican plurality in the ward by two-thirds. Furthermore, Robert Faber, the Democratic candidate for City Council from that ward won his race with a plurality of 54 votes. The Democratic organization in. traditionally Democratic areas al- so managed to increase the turn- ' out in those areas. In the First Ward, which' is a Democratic stronghold, for instance, the Dem- ocrats managed to double their 1967 plurality. Harris : carried the First Ward' by 608 votes. Richard Remington, a Demo- cratic councilman from the First Ward, speculates further that the he Republicans' door-to-door have had an turnout. war increased reliance on campaigning might adverse effect on the "Usually the Republicans run a more antiseptic campaign, and stay away from the people," he says. But both parties summed up the Democratic victory as one stem- ming from the Democrats' hard work. "The principal factor was t'hat we didn't do the job of getting out the people like the Democrats aid, concludes Balzhiser. "There were no new ginmnicks, but we all worked very hard, Scheider says, "There was a fabulous investment of time and enthusiasm invested in this elec- tion. We worked incredibly hard not really expecting to win." SOME TO PICKET: Local ends walkout CSJ reopens case against at Chrysler plant By JIM FORRESTER The decision was made by a At least 69 workers have been and HAROLD ROSENTHAL hand vote with approximately 20 fired by Chrysler by telegram and Special To The Daily per cent of the workers voting to this was quickly made the focal S'ERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. - return to their jobs this morning. point of the meeting by local pre- Members of Local 1264 of the Douglas Fraser, UAW vice-presi- sident Jim Sexton. United Auto Workers, in a stormy dent for Chrysler, who chaired the "Let's get to the real issue-the UnitdArutWmrkerinystordmymeeting, declared the workers vot- 69 discharges. These men are' the voted toend their walkout against ed to return to their jobs with- cream of the crop and the inter- Chrysler Corporation's Sterling out asking for a "no" vote on the national union should be thankful Heights stamping plant. question. for them," Sexton said. Many workers voiced their dis- The opening of the meeting was bHowever, he then told the men-' pleasure with the decision and the marked by virulent and f a i r 1 y bership that no negotiations con- \conduct of the meeting and vowed wide spread opposition to UAW cerning rehiring the fired men to man picket lines again this management both on the local could be held with Chrysler until morning. and international levels.wh he termed "the illegal and SDS 0l Remission for sin By AL ARMSTRONG While inflation worsens and costs everywhere spiral, the price of holiness iemains relatively low. Guild House, that paragon of virtue in the city of Ann Arbor, was recently authorized to, sell indulgences to repentant sinners for the sale price of 50 cents. Guild House was so authorized 'by their own Resident Vicar, St. Hereticus, to sell these indulgences for a wide .variety of sins common in this town. Indulgences are available: -For th6 sin of rent striking; -For the sin of managing a building (for landlords and businessmen); -For the sin of attending a production of the decadent theatre or cinema, in which the obscene human body is exbited; -For the sin of giving dull lectures (for professors); -For the sin of smoking pot and other sinful drugs. There's more though. Like the literary college's recently opened option where students can devise their own major, so the saint has authorized "fill-in-the-blank" indulgences good for any sin the imagination can devise. St. Hereticus was unavailable for comment, but Rev. Ron Tipton was more than willing to report what the good saint hed to say. "The saints, throughout all the ages, have accumulated a treasure of merit,' he said, "and whereas the Church has author- ity to dispense merit from this treasury, and whereas the Church has not granted merit from this treasury for centuries, and the treasury is now overflowing, then let it be known to one and all that the Saint now claims the authority to dispense merit to sinners, and has bestowed that authority upon Guild House." In Medieval times, Rev. Tipton went on to say, the saints did more good than was necessary, and these good deeds were saved and could be transferred to people lacking "merit." He admits, somewhat sheepishly, that the route of holy indulgences was much like that of punishment under the Roman criminal code. Roman punishments were slowly commuted from whippings and other unpleasant repentances to pecuniary compensation. So was it with indulgences. Fasting and prayers required by the See INDULGENCES, Page 7 unauthorized" walkout was end- ed. Speakers from the floor coun- tered the argument by saying- that since their officers had been fired, we don't belong in t h a t plant." The mood of the meeting, which began strongly in favor of the strike, changed when one of the first speakers in favor of the walkout changed his view in the face of the arguments presented to him by Fraser. Fraser told him the only way to get the discharg- ed men back on the job was for the plant to go back to work. The other major factor in the change in the meeting was when one of the 69 fired men, Peter Speils, rose and pleaded for an end to the walkout. The walkout was the result of poor safetyuconditions in the plant. Picketing members claim- ed they were ordered to work at a dangerous job. One worker said that because of dripping oil, used to lubricate the metal processed by the presses, the floor is extremely slippery. T h'e scrubber which is suppos edto be continually in operation to clean up the oil is usually broken, he claimed. The worker also said that when the conveyor which carries t h e, scrap metal to the baler broke' down last week the men refused to pick-up the sharp metal. Sexton confirmed the unsafe conditions. He said the walkout started when "the men who ori- ginally refused to pick the metal up had been fired." This was be- fore Sexton and the rest of the' local leadership arrived, he said. "We looked at that place and saw it in no way safe, and back- ed the men," Sexton said. "We were then temporarily suspend- ed. See LOCAL, Page 7 MODIFIED PLAN. By JIM NEUBACRER The Central Student Judiciary last night reopened proceedings in the case of Engineering Placement Office v. Students for a Democratic Society, and reasserted their sole authority to hear cases concerning student violation of stu- dent rules. A preliminary hearing will be held Monday, April 14. The CSJ listened as Marc Wohl, chairman, read a letter from President Robben W. Fleming, reaffirming the Univer- sity's intention not to put the student defendants in double jeopardy, not to undermine "'- facts established in the pro- aN ceedings; and not to deny the authority of the CSJ.U. Fleming's letter was a response to a series of six questions on ju- dicial authority put to him last IL week by CSJ. "We feel our worries and con-, cerns have been satisfied by Flem- ing's responses," said Wohl. However, the CSJ took excep- -Associated Press IHaiard stu dentis escort. deian froin Ad(ministrationtwil itildin g Harvard student Lion with one statement made by 1 E WASHINGTON 0P)-The Justice' buil1ding in 1ROT From Wire Service Reports Society from an upstairs window, Several. hundred chanting stu- and called through bullhorns and dents chained themselves inside a hastily installed public address the main administration building system for support from those at Harvard University yesterday. outside. demanding an end to the school's Below in historic Harvard Yard, Reserve Officer Training Corps an estimated, 1,000 persons milled program. about. Some paraded back and Only about 100 students began forth with signs supporting the the sit-in in early afternoon but seizure. Many more stood quietly they were joined later by others and watched. who swelled the ranks to at least Harvard refrained from making 500 by midnight. any immediate comment on the School officials sealed off the seizure. It could not be deter- Harvard Yard to prevent others mined immediately what action, if from joining the protest inside any, the university would take in while warning the demonstrators regard to the takeover. they may face criminal trespass The seizure followed by a few charges. hours a predawn march by about Police were reported mobilizing ',:500 students on the home of nearby as rumors of impending Harvard President Nathan M. arrests swept the campus. Pusey. Those inside unfurled the flag Chanting "Smash ROTC," and of the Students, for a Democratic "ROTC must go." the students Fleming. Department has filed its first suit S o c c u n Although he said the University charging a Southern textile firm - .3recognized the authority of CSJ with violating federal job discrim- to handletthetcurrent case, Flem- ination regulations as several Nix- ing asserted that a case of this on administration officials them- nature "could, in the alternative, selves were accused of failure to have been brought before the civil enforce the same rules. authorities or before college aju- Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell filed dicative bodies." the administration's suit Tuesday swept past campus police and "We don't recognize the author- against Cannon Mills Co., operator surged through the gates in front ity of the University to bring a of 16 factories in North and South of Pusey's home. They disbanded case like this one before a college Carolina. a short time later, but then re- ajudicative body,' said Bill Bleich, But as the Justice Department grouped to march on the admin- CSJ member. brought that action in Greens- istration building, University Halli The CSJ drafted a letter, to be boro, N.C., the NAACP Legal De- After the takeover, the students sent to Fleming and Acting Vice fense Fund filed charges against issued a list of six demands, President for Student Affairs Bar- Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird, among them the one for abolition bara Newell; stating that the CSJ Secretary of Labor George P. of the ROTC program. "cannot acquiesce to attempts by Shultz and Deputy Secretary of The others dealt with lesser non-student boards to ajudicate Defense David R. Packard. issues tied to the months-long de- matters of non-academic disci- The NAACP suit in Washington bate over whether to maintain pline." charged that $9.4 million In de- ROTC at Harvard and with the "If such an attempt is made," fense contracts were let to three university's plans for physical ex- the letter continues, "we 'rshall Southern textile companies with- pansion of the 333-year-old school, rely on the student body to . . out first getting proper assurance Several deans were ejected by obstruct such other panel's pro- that the firms would comply with the students including Franklin ceedings while we conduct our laws requiring fair job treatment L. Ford, dean of the Faculty of own to a conclusion binding on of blacks. Arts and Sciences, and Fred L. all concerned." The companies under attack are Glimdean ofrHarvard CoWohl criticized Fleming for Dan River Mills Inc., J. P. Stevens seizure took place at Boston Uni- pressuring the CSJ. & Co., and Burlington Industries. , "If we know beforehand that Shultz was named in the NAACP vem'sity's financial aid building, Fleming might, in the future, take suit because, the Labor Depart- but it lasted only three hours. teecsst nte oy ol About 100 youths entered the these cases to another body, would ment is responsible for seeing that hall. Their primary demand was See CSJ, Page 7 regulations applying to job dis- an end to Boston University's crimination are enforced. ROTC program. sue' f Officials denied there is any in- -They left at about noon, how- iediation o f consistency in the Justice Depart- ever. after university officials ment's move against Cannon ':hile warned that they would be arrest- the Pentagon is still doing business, ed unless they departed volui- with Dan River, Stevens and Bur- tarily. LunIrest Lurged-' lington. The students had forced their 'The difference, a spokesman ex- way into the building, smashing WASHINGTON UPt-Rep. Edith plained, is that Cannon has no through a set of locked doors. Green (D-Oregon), chairman of a major government contracts and They retreated just as police House subcommittee -investigating cannot be regulated under an exe- were preparing to move in oni student unrest, said yesterday she cutive order issued in 1965 by them, is drafting legislation to create a former President Lyndon B. John- Harvard has an enrollment of federal mediation service for set- son. about 15,000 including graduate tling campus disputes.- That order barred government students, while Boston UniversityMrs. Green said her proposal, contracts with firms that fail to has an enrollment of about 22,000. if approved, would maker a fed- comply with federal non-discrimi- Meanwhile in other college pro- eral mediator available at request nation standards in employment test activity, university officials at to school administrators, .faculty practices. the Southern University branch and students. In the NAACP's suit, the Pen- campus in New Orleans closed the - "This service will not dissolve tagon was accused of acting ille- campus down following a series of all problems on campus," -she gally by awarding the contracts i 'r: M F l y, . R M t.>... .. ,. RC certifies student-run course frfall By BARD MONTGOMERY A joint conference of the Residential College's Representative Assembly and curriculum committee last night con- firmed ah earlier decision to establish a student-run course in the fall of 1969. However, they also modified the de- cision by limiting to 30 the number of students who could take the course in place of either of two required "core" courses. The earlier decision would have allowed 100 students to take the course as a requirement option. An unlirrted number of students may dent-run requirement alternative avail- able to 100 students. The decision fin- ally approved, allowing 30 students to take the student-run course as an al- ternative to the requirement, won 24 per cent of the 364 votes cast. Eighty-one per cent of the eligible voters-RC students, faculty and ad- ministrators-voted in the referendum. RC Resident Fellow Jim Lang, who proposed the motion that was approv- ed, said," "It is clear that there is an unwillingness on the part of the com- minity to crnmmit ourselves to n.larae- Lang believes that the adoption of his proposal, which creates a committee to plan for a faculty-advised, student taught course, "confirms the right of students 'to participate in the decisions that affect their lives." "I want to offer not an attack on the 'core' curriculum," Lang contend- ed." but an alternative way in which students. may be members of the RC's (academic) community." Lang's motion was opposed by Pro- fessors Carl Cohen of the philosophy denrntment and Charles Maurero f the "could let in all sorts of things on some basis other than a revision of the 'core:' philosophy." He asked that final disposition of the issue await a report by a committee re- cently established to evaluate the core' concept. In commenting on tonight's decision. LSA Associate Dean James Robertson, director of the Residential College. cautioned, "We have to plan this course carefully and competently." "The rest of the University," con-